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.
Step back in time and celebrate the season with us at the Manse, a classic example of Italianate architecture.
NEW Melbourne United Church, 592 John Street, Melbourne, Ontario
Saturday, December 7, 2024 | 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Sunday, December 8, 2024 | 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Doors open at 1:00 p.m. At 2:30 p.m. we’ll share stories about all the activities that have been going on. We’d like to learn about your projects too and how we can support your family history projects. The Society will formally thank our benefactors, the taxpayers of Southwest Middlesex. Everyone contributes a few cents towards caring for this important building and the grounds. This is your place! Please drop by.
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.