- 2026-10-08The Upper Canada Gazette or American Oracle, the first newspaper in what is now Ontario was published in the town…
- 2026-10-08On September 17, 1792, John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, opened in this community, then the capital, the first…
- 2026-10-08The First Baptist Church of Dawn established by former slaves and free African Americans in the 1840s held its meetings…
- 2026-10-08On May 16, 1853, the Ontario Simcoe and Huron Union Railroad Company operated the first steam train in Canada West…
- 2026-10-08The Holland Marsh consists of 7,000 acres of reclaimed land in the Schomberg River Valley. Named after an early provincial…
- 2026-10-08A passionate advocate for social reform, Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks was born in London, England. Following her marriage in 1877 to…
- 2026-10-08In this house "Chiefswood", erected about 1853, was born the Mohawk poetess Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Her father, Chief G.H.M.…
- 2026-10-08Erin Township was formed from land purchased by the Crown from the Mississauga Indians in 1818. It was surveyed in…
- 2026-10-08Born in New Jersey, Allan joined the Loyalist forces in 1777 and served with Butler's Rangers and the Indian Department…
- 2026-10-08On this site stood the home of Samuel Edison, a Loyalist from New Jersey who had moved to Nova Scotia…