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2026-10-08

Following the discovery of oil at Oil Springs in 1857, prospectors extended their search to the entire township of Enniskillen.…

2026-10-08

Between 1801 and 1807, a settlement developed here in Pickering Township where the Danforth Road crossed Duffin's Creek. Among the…

2026-10-08

In 1838, John Slocum, a native of New York, established a commercial fishery on the site of a former military…

2026-10-08

In 1831, the Welland Canal Company selected Gravelly Bay as the southern terminus of their waterway connecting Lakes Ontario and…

2026-10-08

By 1794, Peter Walker, the first settler in this area, had located at the mouth of Patterson's Creek, but a…

2026-10-08

Port Elgin's development began when, in 1854, Benjamin Shantz, one of Saugeen Township's early settlers, acquired from George Butchart a…

2026-10-08

Peter Smith, a fur trader, occupied a house here at "Smith's Creek" by 1788. The first permanent settlers were Loyalists…

2026-10-08

Port Robinson, the southern terminus of the original Welland Canal, opened in 1829, was named for John Beverley Robinson, chief…

2026-10-08

Following the loss, after the American Revolution, of the Niagara River's east bank, a new portage around Niagara Falls was…

2026-10-08

In 1924, two years after a discovery of gold by Gus McManus, the Ontario Department of Mines published a geological…