- 2026-10-08In 1793, Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe authorized a townplot in this vicinity at the then eastern terminus of Dundas Street. It original…
- 2026-10-08The construction of a dam and canal designed to feed water from the Grand River to the new Welland Canal…
- 2026-10-08In 1842, Archibald Hunter, a Scottish immigrant, led a party northward on the Garafraxa "colonization road" to the banks of…
- 2026-10-08Englehart owes its beginnings to the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (T. & N.O.), a colonization line designed by the…
- 2026-10-08Peter White, born in Edinburgh, was a merchant seaman when he was impressed into the Royal Navy in 1813 and…
- 2026-10-08Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, John Erb (1764-1832) was a Mennonite of Swiss ancestry. He came to Upper Canada in…
- 2026-10-08In 1831, two Scottish-born brothers, Lt. Col. Robert Campbell and Major David Campbell, were granted 2,200 acres of land in…
- 2026-10-08Adam Fergusson (1782-1862) first visited Canada in 1831 to investigate emigration for the Highland Society of Scotland. In 1833, in…
- 2026-10-08In 1853, Billa Flint (1805-94), a lumberman, member of the legislative assembly and later of the senate, built sawmills here…
- 2026-10-08In 1941, the Canadian Government established here a shell-filling plant operated by Defence Industries Limited. At peak production, over 9,000…