- 2026-10-08The oldest continuously operating curling club in Ontario, the Fergus Curling Club was formed in 1834 by Scottish immigrants. At…
- 2026-10-08In 1925 the Ontario government began construction of this 200-mile trunk-road between Cochrane and North Bay. The road was intended…
- 2026-10-08One of the oldest brick houses in Ontario, this handsome Georgian structure was built about 1800. Originally a farm house,…
- 2026-10-08On the night of February 23-24, 1838, a small force of "Patriots" was ferried from Detroit to Fighting Island, opposite…
- 2026-10-08In 1822, Christian Nafziger, an Amish Mennonite from Munich, Germany, came to Upper Canada to find land on which to…
- 2026-10-08The origins of First Baptist Church go back to the 1840s, when black settlers from the United States began to…
- 2026-10-08The first cotton goods produced in this province were being manufactured in Thorold in 1847. The mill, a joint stock…
- 2026-10-08Here, on 100 acres of wind-eroded sandy land, the Ontario government established Canada's first provincial forestry station. That father of…
- 2026-10-08In 1849 the Trustees of the Toronto Hebrew Congregation purchased a site in Toronto from the Hon. John Beverley Robinson…
- 2026-10-08Following the American Revolution, Mennonites living in Pennsylvania began to come to the Niagara Peninsula in search of good farmland.…