Party political papers
There is a rather unfortunate idea around these days that newspapers have to be “objective, balanced, not opinionated”, an idea that we assume is...
Home Hardware store, Prescott Street
This is an older building in Kemptville that may be hard to recognise, but it stands today in a part of town that was...
The Sons of Temperance
For many decades, especially between the 1870's and the 1920's, the Temperance Movement was a strong and influential one in Ontario, and throughout the...
How the Ferguson Forest Centre was saved
The announcement, when it came, was like a bolt from the blue, bringing shock and dismay to the residents of North Grenville. Of course,...
The Mysterious Mr. Henderson
Part 3: Secrets and lie
For a few years in the 1830s, it looked as if the momentum for change lay with the Reformers. They...
London – the final conference
There had been so many highs and lows in the story of Confederation since 1864. What with the Fenian raid, the resignation of George...
A Kemptville Miscellany
Did you know that.... when Lyman Clothier first set foot in what was to become Kemptville, the entire population of Oxford Township was just...
33 years later: The “almost” Smiths Falls train collision of 1991
Have you ever heard of the near-collision of two trains in Smiths Falls in 1991? The incident may not have a well-known name (like...
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...
It was 20 years ago today…
Societies have always seen natural phenomena as portents, signs of good or ill, marking some major historic event. If that’s the case, then the...