Jones Building, Clothier and Sanders Streets, Kemptville
This building has a long and varied history. It was built by Francis Jones, a teacher and land surveyor whose family had moved here...
Leahurst House, Kemptville Campus
Here is a building that predates most buildings in North Grenville, but is almost unknown, except to children! Today, it is the home of...
The Bell Telephone exchange, Kemptville, 1939
This picture of the Bell telephone staff was taken in the summer of 1939. Reading left to right is Mrs. Doug Sommerville (Bowen), Miss...
Larry and Anstace Esmonde-White
Long before the current interest in local food initiatives, two residents of North Grenville were spreading the word on television across North America and...
The White House Hotel
North Grenville is full of empty spaces, if that isn’t a confusing concept. One of them is at the corner of Clothier and Prescott...
Remembering 1917
As we near the end of Canada 150, it seems a good time to look back in this special Remembrance Day issue at the...
Kemptville District Hospital
KDH has been a valued and vital part of North Grenville since 1960, when it was officially opened on June 29 of that year....
Kemptville’s Cold War secret
At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian Government took steps to ensure the Continuity of Government in the event of a nuclear...
Burritt’s Rapids
The photograph dates from around 1905 and shows the rapids which gave the village its name, along with the mills which gave it its...
The Settlement that passed us by: Part 3
The plan to bring in settlers to farm the lands around the Rideau, and so provide a barrier to any future American invasion, ran...