- 2026-10-08Ontario's eleventh prime minister was born in nearby Yarmouth Township and educated at St. Thomas Collegiate. After serving in World…
- 2026-10-08Boucher was born at Fort Frontenac (Kingston) where his father, an officer with the French colonial regular troops, was stationed.…
- 2026-10-08Founder of the Social Credit Party and premier of Alberta, 1935-43, Aberhart attended Seaforth Collegiate Institute, 1893-98, and later graduated…
- 2026-10-08A veteran parliamentarian who subsequently served as Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Rowe was born in Hull, Iowa and raised in Simcoe…
- 2026-10-08Father of Confederation, William McDougall was born on a farm in this vicinity. He became a solicitor and in 1850…
- 2026-10-08One of North America's pioneer ethnologists and linguists, Hale practised law in Clinton 1856-1896. Born in New Hampshire, he graduated…
- 2026-10-08In 1805 Thomas Mears and David Patee leased islands in the Ottawa where they built a sawmill and a grist-mill.…
- 2026-10-08This house, the oldest in the Bay of Quinte district, was built about 1785 by Captain Jeptha Hawley (1740-1813), a…
- 2026-10-08In 1791, William Losee, an itinerant preacher, organized in this district the first Methodist circuit in Upper Canada. This Meeting…
- 2026-10-08An important figure in early Upper Canada, Spencer was born in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. During the American Revolution he…