- 2026-10-08Born in Milton, Nova Scotia, Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) taught school briefly before starting her career as a novelist. Her…
- 2026-10-08Early in the 1790s, a group of settlers in this area had been converted to Methodism and formed a Class…
- 2026-10-08In 1831 Benjamin Tett (1798-1878), later an important merchant at Newboro, anticipating the completion of the Rideau Canal, acquired a…
- 2026-10-08By 1790, the mill, tavern and stores established here near the Bay of Quinte had stimulated the growth of a…
- 2026-10-08A World War I flying "ace", McKeever was born and raised in Elma Township. He enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary…
- 2026-10-08This distinguished historian and archaeologist was born in Innisfil Township, graduated from the University of Toronto in 1889 and was…
- 2026-10-08A water-based people, the Anishinaabeg — the original people of this region — were a hunter-gatherer society that often travelled…
- 2026-10-08Born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in London, this famous 19th century author, illustrator and social reformer joined her husband,…
- 2026-10-08In 1950, archaeological investigations in this area uncovered a site which had been used as a workshop camp by a…
- 2026-10-08In 1903, responding to public demands for an historical records repository, the Ontario government established a provincial archives under Alexander…