Norm McGill invites members to come for tea, coffee, and cookies.  Check out the new displays. Bring your grand kids to play with the old toys. (Kids can touch stuff in this museum!) 

Do some research. We’ll help. If you have some old papers or donations that your kids are urging you to sort and purge, bring it down to The Archives.  Check out the new contributions.  Norm is always looking for new ideas.  This is your place and we want our members to enjoy the space.

Everyone invited to drop by The Archives in Glencoe on Saturday, Feb 1, 2025 to have a coffee, cup of tea, and check out the old postcard collection.  All collectors urged to attend. Bring your collection.  Norm McGill is organizing a display and a postcard swap.  Open from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.  Everyone welcome. […]

We’ll be open as part of the activities planned for Family Day in the district.  There will be games and displays.  Why not talk to the historians about the history of your house?  Or do some research about your family?   This is your Archives.  The historical society is committed to helping everyone learn about our past.  Honour your ancestors.  Come in and have some fun.  

Join us on March 2rd, 2025 to comtmemorate the Battle of Longwoods which was originally fought on March 4th 1814.  Arrive at 1:45 p.m. and park carefully.  Battle Hill National Historic Site, 2945 Longwoods Rd, Glencoe, ON N0L 1M0

Rev. Richard Golden will officiate. 

The NEW Melbourne UC Church will serve a soup luncheon at the Wardsville Presbyterian Church.

We will  remember those injured and killed at the Battle of the Longwoods in 1814.

John Little In Conversation: Reimagining The Donnellys . A webinar hosted by Words Director Josh Lambier Sunday, 16 March 2025, 2:00 PM 

Join us for a webinar visit with award-winning author and filmmaker John Little to talk about The Donnellys, his two-volume tour-de-force history of Southwestern Ontario's most famous true crime story! 

Strathroy and District March Regular Meeting will be Monday, March 17th at 7:00 PM. We meet in the Multimedia Room in the Gemini Sportsplex (at 667 Adair Blvd, Strathroy - located right behind the SDCI/Holy Cross highschool). Enter through the main entrance of the arena and turn to the right.

Saturday, March 29, 2025.  Everyone is invited to attend the annual Heritage Fair, hosted by the Middlesex Centre Archives at the Delaware Community Centre at 2652 Gideon Drive, DELAWARE.

This is a great networking event.  All the museums and heritage groups attend.   So many projects, books, stories and great people.  And there is pie!!  But you have to get there early.  Lunch too.  Bring cash.

Join the adventure of capturing oral histories before the opportunity to do so has passed. Carrie Jeffery is going to inspire us to write down our stories or the stories of our parents.  She will show us how she used a software program, Storyworth, to take the time consuming labour away from the beautiful task of recording her Dad’s life.