Meet at the Archives in Glencoe at 10 a.m. These free, community-led walks invite people to explore their surroundings through history, shared spaces, and everyday lived experience. Together, we’ll walk, talk, and reflect on what makes our villages liveable, welcoming, and worth caring for.
Join local historian Ken Willis for a guided walk through Wardsville. This walking tour highlights the history of Main Street, sharing stores of the buildings, people and events that have shaped the village. Meet at 10 a.m. at the Wardsville Museum
Meet at 1030 a.m. – facilitated by Dunc Hodgson & Heather Jacobs. A walk exploring the Appin community and surrounding landscape: Meet at The Ekfrid Museum behind the community centre. This walk will invite conversation about: The story of Appin as a rural crossroads community. Key places of gathering, past and present. Connections between land, history, and community life.
Cheated: The LaurierLiberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land (2023) tells the surrender story from inside the Indian Affairs department. What happened, how, and most importantly why, is […]
Come join us to care for our ancestors' resting place. Bring your own tools. 10 am
In this engaging talk, Kendra Coulter will discuss her book The Tortoise’s Tale, a unique and moving story told in an autobiographical style from the perspective of a tortoise. Through this unconventional voice, the book invites readers to reflect on time, care, resilience, and human–animal relationships.
Kae Elgie brings to her research a wealth of experience from her pre-retirement career as Manager of Information Technology for the Region of Waterloo Library. Her passion for organizing information continues to guide her family history and genealogy work. Drawing from extensive research saved by her ancestors and combined with her in-depth research into census and land records, archaeological findings, and historical texts, Kae Elgie tells the remarkable story of 10,000 years of food gathering and agricultural production on the 200-acre farm in Chatham-Kent where she grew up.
Step back in time with the Backus-Page House Museum in partnership with St. Peter's Anglican Church for a weekend of remembrance and discovery. "Stories & Tales From the Front" is a unique conference dedicated to the personal histories of WWI and WWII, specifically focusing on the brave individuals and hardworking families of Southwestern Ontario.
Join acclaimed musical artist Denise Pelley, accompanied by Stephen Holowitz, for a powerful lecture-and-listen experience inside the historic AME Church at Fanshawe Pioneer Village.
This fifth edition of the Fanshawe Village series highlights the lives and contributions of two remarkable Black Canadians:
Salome Bey – pioneering singer, songwriter, and “Canada’s First Lady of Blues”
Lawrence Hill – celebrated author of The Book of Negroes
June 12 - Mark your calendar, call up your friends and fill up your car(s). Registration is recommended but not required - https://www.ailsacraigmuseum.ca/event-details/a-heritage-day-in-north-middlesex Exploring history, land, memory, and community Instructions - […]
🔎 Why do some places vanish while others endure? Join us to explore how geography, transportation, industry, and timing shaped the fate of Middlesex County’s lost communities—and what their stories still tell us today. In this illustrated and engaging talk, local historian Jennifer Grainger explores the rise and fall of these vanished villages. Drawing on maps, photographs, land records, and archaeological clues, she traces where these communities were located, how historians and genealogists research them today, and what—if anything—remains on the landscape.
Join us for our Annual St. Mary’s Service at one of Middlesex County’s most treasured historic landmarks, lovingly preserved since the 1840s.
Built of local walnut—generously donated by Captain Christopher Beer, who even postponed building his own home to support the church—St. Mary’s stands as a testament to dedication, sacrifice, and community vision. Although regular services ended in 1920, the tradition of gathering here has continued for over a century.