Rideau Canal saga Burritts Rapids: made by the Canal
But,The Rideau Canal began as a military project which, fortunately, never had to meet a military purpose in its 190 years since Col. John...
A piece of Polar History in North Grenville
by John Wright
It’s often said that The North is part of the Canadian identity, but, perhaps the country’s links to the far South aren’t...
Amateur dramatics in North Grenville
In October, 1932, the Governor General of Canada, Viscount Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, announced to a gathering of theatre representatives in...
Sir John A.
There has always been an ambivalence among historians regarding the place of Sir John A. Macdonald in the Confederation story. While it is true...
The earliest library: Merrickville Mechanics Institute
Some things don’t seem to change very much over time. With the recent controversy over the cutbacks to Inter Library Loans, and the stagnation...
Wolford in 1818
For the first decades of the Nineteenth century, the four townships of Wolford, Oxford, Montague and Marlborough were administered as a unit, with a...
We are all Treaty people…
For thousands of years before Europeans arrived in this area, the forests, rivers and lakes knew other people: people who lived with the land,...
Ku Klux Klan in Smith’s Falls
Racism and bigotry is not unknown in Canada, although we often like to think that we’re in a better place in that regard. Sometimes...
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...
The Wild Man of Oxford
There is no doubt that, over the decades that North Grenville and its predecessors have been in existence, many fascinating and colourful figures have...