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Jim And Lisa GilbertSarnia Observer |
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.
Recently, among our collection of local history publications, I came across a small green volume, of which we have a few copies, entitled Kentiana,...
Today I’d like to talk a bit about a woman prominent in Canada's federal government in the 1960s: Judy LaMarsh.
I do not have the same flair for writing that Jim does, but I know there is no shortage of topics to write about.
The Essential Handbook of Victorian Entertaining promised to introduce me to “all of the strange rules of Victorian entertaining.”
Almost everyone has had a special toy as a child, and tucked away in a corner of the memory is a heartfelt feeling for that toy. Almost everyone...
All too often, our lives allow no time for reflection. Intent on getting and spending, we rarely spend quality moments in thoughtful contemplation....
Mistletoe was forbidden inside Christian churches. The pagan custom of decorating with winter greenery was readily absorbed into early Christian...
Hamlet reflects on how quickly all the good deeds his deceased father had performed throughout his life were so quickly forgotten. In Shakespeare’s...
Taking a boat ride from downtown Chatham to downtown Detroit was a popular thing to do 100 years ago. Although taking a boat ride from downtown...
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