Building on 150 years of tradition
The Grahame family have been worthy inheritors of a long baking tradition on the site. It is hard to know exactly when the wood-fired...
Odd Fellows Hall, 119 Clothier St. East
Built in 1859 by Joseph Bower, a leading merchant in the community in the latter half of the century, it was run by Bowers...
Squire Bottum’s House
It could be said that the entire length of Clothier Street west was the Bottum estate, as it was part of the land originally...
Return to Vimy 2017
by Brian Reid
On April 9, 2017, as I gathered with thousands of other Canadians on Vimy Ridge, I reflected on the moment and the...
Clothier Bridge, 1890’s
This is the location of the bridge on Bridge Street in Kemptville. Taken around 1890, it shows the swing bridge built to allow boats...
Methodist Church and Cemetery, Clothier and James Streets
As so often in North Grenville, some of the more interesting and historic locations are now empty sites where once there stood the earliest...
The Advance Building 206 Prescott Street
Until around 1900, the lots on the west side of Prescott Street south of the Asa Street junction were part of the Anderson &...
Kemptville Business Directory:
This is, in fact, quite a selective list of businesses which were operating in the North Grenville area in the 1860's. A much fuller...
The Kemptville Legion Meeting Hall
Historical Significance
submitted by Roy Brown
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 212 Kemptville was granted a Charter, dated April 17, 1932, under the authority of what...
The founding of a town
There is a long historic truth of land occupation that pre-dates written historical records of the area. Archaeological information indicates that Algonquin people have...