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On Easter Monday, Jim suggested that we take a drive and his suggested destination was a place we have been to a few times before.
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The province created the Ontario Water Resources Commission, which began to regulate and provide financial help to develop things like water treatment...
In August I wrote about the Rondeau Pavilions, in advance of a plaque unveiling on Labour Day weekend.
February in Ontario (and many other places) is generally considered to be the month to focus on our heritage.
We are here to talk about merchant John McGregor, who owned the mill at the Forks (Chatham)
A bust in the front hall at John McGregor secondary school portrays him as a military man.
One of the things mentioned in the Dec. 5, 1888 issue of the Chatham Tri-Weekly Planet was the latest movement in the U.S. to annex Canada.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that we talked about the U.S. wanting to annex Canada!
We continue our sleigh ride back in time with a visit to Chatham-Kent in November 1925
When I read other things written about Chatham in the latter 19th century, they often mention Soutar, the book's author.
We are picking up our series detailing and discussing the various chapters in the Kent Historical Society’s publication called Kentiana.
Recently, I told you about historical plaques being unveiled in the municipality. Three more are being unveiled this week
This week I’d like to shed a little light on an intriguing story about trees.
A couple of plaque unveilings are happening in Chatham-Kent on Labour Day weekend.
For almost a century, Chatham citizens have been treated to free weekly summer concert in Tecumseh Park.
Perhaps the best-known book about the Baldoon settlement was published in 1978, called Baldoon: Lord Selkirk’s Settlement in Upper Canada.
So far in our discussion, we have spoken only about how the Scottish Highlanders got to the land along the Chenail Ecarte.
This year, two Chatham-Kent communities, Ridgetown and Wallaceburg, mark their sesquicentennials. Both were incorporated as towns in 1875 and both...
This week I decided to do something a little different.
Summer – when hot days mean swimming in a lake or pool, outdoor sports and backyard barbecues and nights mean ghost walks!
This week, we’ll focus on one chapter of Neal Ferris’s book, Native-Lived Colonialism: Challenging History in the Great Lakes.
Last week, we began a series of articles based on papers collected as part of Kentiana, a 1939 Kent Historical Society (KHS) publication.