This event contributes to our local history. This church has been standing straight, fine and true for over one hundred and eighty years. It stands as a testament to the faith of those who built it, those who came to regular services, and to those who worked over the years to keep their church alive and active.
Volunteers and members will be hosting you at the cool air-conditioned Archives at 178 McKellar Street.
We will also have a booth out where the action is.
Come for a cupcake in the backyard.
Talk to our historians Ken Willis, Harold Carruthers, Norm McGill, Ken Beecroft, Jo-Ann Galbraith, Marilyn McCallum about your research: property, deeds, ancestors, local history, architecture, family stories. We can help.
This year we remembered the people in The Appin Cemetery. Time: 2:00 p.m. on July 28, 2024 Location: The Appin Cemetery, 22886 Thames Road (Concession 2, Lot 12) Link to interactive G&DHS Cemetery Map.
7:00 p.m. Arrive at 4087 Olde Drive, Glencoe, ON. Bring your lawn chairs. Stroll around the half-acre tractor collection.
7:30 p.m. Dave McEachren will tell us about local dealer history.
8:00 p.m. Explore the new museum.
Upcoming Executive Meeting.
Glencoe & District Historical Society will be there! For more information: https://glencoefair.ca/
Here are the details for the Truth & Reconciliation event to be held at the London Agriplex September 29, 29, 30. Link Organized by Chippewa of the Thames and many partners and sponsors.
Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice – a 7 year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, community engaged project, this exhibit explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of one racially marginalized community. The story unfolds by following seven narrators. Learn about life for Japanese Canadians in Canada before war, the administration of their lives during and after war ends, and how legacies of dispossession continue to this day.
Come meet local novelist CJ Frederick as she describes the experience of digging around to find out the meaning behind a simple memorial plaque on a unique buttonwood tree near Carruthers Corners.
Peter McArthur died October 28, 1924 and we will plant a tree in his honour at the Eddie Cemetery October 27, 2024.
2:00 p.m.
Please park across the road in Mark McGill's farm laneway. We have his permission. Do not park along the highway. It's a dangerous knoll.
Trevor Aitken returns for another Gaelic language lesson at the historic St. Peter's Anglican Church at 29596 Lakeview Line, Wallacetown, Ontario near the Backus Page Museum. November 2nd at 2:00 p.m. A free event.
November 22, 2024
7:00pm EST
Woodland Cultural Centre, 184 Mohawk St., Brantford, Ontario, N3S 2X2.
Join Mary Jane Logan McCallum for the Woodland Cultural Centre launch of Brown Tom’s Schooldays by Enos Montour. Mary Jane will be joined by Enos's granddaughters Mary I. Anderson and Margaret McKenzie as well as the book's original editor Elizabeth Graham. Refreshments and book signing will follow the discussion.