- 2026-10-08Born at Brockville, Canada West, Chaffey became a shipbuilder on the Great Lakes and the inventor of a new type…
- 2026-10-08Born at Queenston, George Hamilton was the son of a prosperous merchant, the Hon. Robert Hamilton. He followed his father's…
- 2026-10-08An energetic railway promoter and builder, Laidlaw was born in Scotland and emigrated to Toronto in 1855. He soon prospered…
- 2026-10-08Private Richardson won the Victoria Cross while fighting with the Border Regiment of the British Army in northern India during…
- 2026-10-08Settlement began here after the opening of Yonge Street in the mid-1790s and, by 1802, a grist mill and sawmill…
- 2026-10-08During the construction of the original Welland Canal, 1824-1829, a number of communities sprang up along its length. Here, on…
- 2026-10-08During the 1830s, a settlement, initially called Munroe's Mills and later Hungerford Mills, developed here on the Moira River. In…
- 2026-10-08The settlement of this area was stimulated by the arrival about 1806 of approximately twelve Quaker families from Pennsylvania. About…
- 2026-10-08In 1850, Joseph Walker came here to the Durham Road where it crosses the Saugeen River. He built an inn…
- 2026-10-08The Chippewa surrendered their lands in this area by treaty in 1796. The first European presence in this area was…