Stories

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Custead’s Nursery Catalogue, 1827

If you went to a nursery 195 years ago, what kind of plants could you buy?

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Feral Pigs

In the mid nineteenth century, feral pigs could be a menace

Saturday, April 2, 2022

Spring in Canada by Katherine Wallis

A Poem by the Daughter of Maryboro Lodge's Founder

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Spearing Fish by Torchlight

An Exciting Summer Occupation

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Mildred Kerr and Steve Oliver Remember Burritt Kerr

Burritt and his father Clayton supplied material for roadwork on Highway 36 with a horse-drawn dump cart… Mildred could still drive a dump truck at the age of 80!

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Bobcaygeon Ti-Cats, 1966

OHA Junior D Champions

Monday, March 28, 2022

Hygiene in a Shanty

A look at the living conditions in local logging camps and a suspected typhoid fever outbreak

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Jameson’s Tavern

Fenelon Falls' First Retail Establishment

Friday, March 25, 2022

Making Maple Sugar with Catharine Parr Traill

An Except from the Female Emigrant’s Guide (1855)

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Fenelon Falls Public School

Operated from 1953 to 1990