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  • 2026-10-08
    A meteorite travelling 55,000 kilometres per hour smashed into the earth here eons ago, blasting a hole 244 metres deep…
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    In 1881 Michael Cook, who operated a prosperous 80 ha farm here, imported the first Holstein Friesian cattle into Ontario.…
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    Beginning in 1869, British charitable societies removed children from slums and orphanages in congested industrial cities and brought them to…
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    Across the Grand River at this point lies Bow Park, once the farm of George Brown, a leading architect of…
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    Ontario's thirteenth prime minister was born on this farm and in l9l3 graduated from Ontario Agricultural College. A supporter of…
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    Born on a farm which included this site, Kennedy was educated locally and in Toronto, and became active in local…
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    On July 29, 1916, fires which had been burning for some weeks around settlers' clearings along the Temiskaming & Northern…
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    On October 4, 1922, scattered bush fires which had been burning for some days north of Haileybury were united by…
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    Part of an ancient network of Indian paths, the Great Sauk Trail, as it came to be known, extended from…
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    In a storm that struck Lake Huron on November 9, 1913, 10 lake freighters were lost. Seven of them vanished,…