- 2026-10-08In 1814, the Hudson's Bay Company set up a trading post on Long Lake about two miles southwest of here,…
- 2026-10-08This portage, which crossed the isthmus joining Long Point to the mainland, was used by travelers in small craft following…
- 2026-10-08Long Point was known to traders and travellers before the area was purchased from the Mississauga Indians in 1784. In…
- 2026-10-08One of the Commonwealth's best-known publishers, politicians and philanthropists, William Maxwell Aitken, was born in Maple. The son of the…
- 2026-10-08This board-and-batten building, originally the schoolhouse for Christ Church, Deer Park, was acquired in 1920 by Frances Loring and Florence…
- 2026-10-08The "Jane Miller", a wooden-hulled freight and passenger vessel, was built in 1879 at Little Current. A screw-propelled, 210-ton ship…
- 2026-10-08In 1804 an Indian, Ogetonicut, arrested near York, was accused of murdering a trader, John Sharp, at Lake Scugog. The…
- 2026-10-08Construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway required the flooding of 8000 ha along the Canadian shoreline between Iroquois and Cornwall.…
- 2026-10-08One of the most influential and controversial figures in Canadian history, Frontenac was born at St-Germain-en-Laye, France. As a member…
- 2026-10-08Born and educated in Belgium, Hennepin was ordained a Recollet (Franciscan) friar in France. He was an adventurer at heart…