Middlesex Centre Archives Heritage Fair

Delaware Community Centre 2652 Gideon Drive, Delaware, Ontario

Learn about Middlesex County heritage with local historians, historical societies, museums, archives and other organizations. G&DHS plans to attend and have a display. Please join us for this Free Event.

Free

March for Everleigh

Details about fifth annual march from Delaware to Battle Hill Monument, a 20 mile distance, in honour of Everleigh Pierce and her continuing battle with Pulmonary Hypertension.

Memorial Service 1814

Battle Hill National Historic Site 2945 Longwoods Road, Southwest Middlesex, Ontario

Memorial Service to remember those injured and killed at the Battle of the Longwoods in 1814

Free

Harold’s Photos

The Archives 178 McKellar Street, Glencoe (Southwest Middlesex), Ontario

Annual General Meeting of the Glencoe & District Historical Society at the new Archives location, 178 McKellar Street, Glencoe, ON. Harold Carruthers will present a selection of historical photos from his collection.

Free

Find a Grave Workshop

Glencoe Public Library 123 McKellar St., Glencoe, Ontario

If you enjoy exploring local cemeteries, then come to learn about “Find a Grave”, the world’s largest grave site collection.

Free

Gough Cemetery

July 28, 2019. Community Memorial Service. Gough Cemetery, 5018 Scotchmere Drive, Glencoe, Metcalfe Township, ON. 2:00 p.m. Bring a lawn chair. No rain date.

Free

The Lands and The Lucas’s

The Archives 178 McKellar Street, Glencoe (Southwest Middlesex), Ontario

JoAnn will tell of the family's voyage from the British Isles to America, their achievements, their similarities and the talents of her United Empire Loyalists families.

Free

Weekend Warriors – the film

St. John's Anglican Church 186 Main Street, Glencoe, Ontario

Film by Barbara Urbach of Crocodile Productions.

Free

The Fenians are coming!

The Archives 178 McKellar Street, Glencoe (Southwest Middlesex), Ontario

Ken Willis will talk about the Wardsville Volunteer Infantry Company.

Underground Railroad Code

The Archives 178 McKellar Street, Glencoe (Southwest Middlesex), Ontario

Underground Railroad quilt code: fact or fiction.   Presented by quilter, Micki Angyal. 7:00 p.m. The Archives, 178 McKellar Street. Glencoe.     After the U.S. Congress passed the Compromise of 1850, the law forced free northern states to return escaped slaves.  Conductors like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass led many escapees to Canada. The journey […]