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2026-10-08

This road was constructed to facilitate the transportation of mail between Thunder Bay and Duluth during the winter months when…

2026-10-08

A strategic location for the defence of the loyalist settlement at Cataraqui (Kingston), this point was reserved in 1788 and…

2026-10-08

In the 1920s, Professor Etienne Gilson, a noted French mediaevalist, and Henry Carr, C.S.B., of St Michael's College, conceived a…

2026-10-08

In the summer of 1911, when the Porcupine gold rush was at its height, the weather was hot and dry.…

2026-10-08

From the 1880s onwards, as railways opened up northern Ontario, prospecting activity in this region intensified. The Porcupine gold rush…

2026-10-08

The railway, which once ran nearby, was originally incorporated in 1883 as the Thunder Bay Colonization Railway Company. Promoted during…

2026-10-08

The foremost historical organization in the province, The Ontario Historical Society, originally called the Pioneer Association of Ontario, was established…

2026-10-08

The Ontario Human Rights Code came into effect on June 15, 1962 and established equal rights and freedom from discrimination…

2026-10-08

Opened in 1874 by the Governor-General, Lord Dufferin, the Ontario Ladies' College was established in "Trafalgar Castle", former residence of…

2026-10-08

In 1912, the Ontario Paper Company was incorporated as a subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune newspaper under the direction of…