- 2026-10-08In 1837, inhabitants of St. Vincent Township petitioned the government requesting that land at the mouth of the Bighead River…
- 2026-10-08In 1793, William Merrick (1760-1844), a Loyalist from Massachusetts, acquired from Roger Stevens a sawmill at the "Great Falls" on…
- 2026-10-08In 1871, a group of the principal shareholders of the Midland Railway, headed by Adolph Hugel, selected this location as…
- 2026-10-08By 1851, Andrew West, a New York native, had opened a hotel in the recently surveyed township of Mornington. This…
- 2026-10-08In 1836, the Canada Company, a large private land settlement agency, laid out a town plot (Mitchell) here on the…
- 2026-10-08During the survey of the Garafraxa Colonization Road, constructed from Arthur to Georgian Bay in 1840-48, land was reserved for…
- 2026-10-08A grist-mill built by Josiah Cushman about 1834 formed the nucleus around which a small community of Amish Mennonites and…
- 2026-10-08The Little Clay Belt, the rich agricultural belt extending north from New Liskeard, was originally inhabited by the Algonquin First…
- 2026-10-08The settlement of this area was begun during the building of the Rideau Canal in 1826-32, when a major construction…
- 2026-10-08The opening of a railway station near here in 1854 on the recently completed Great Western main line from Niagara…