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SUMMARY:Memorial 2025: Battle of the Longwoods
DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 2rd\, 2025 to commemorate the Battle of Longwoods which was originally fought on March 4th 1814.   \nArrive at 1:45 p.m. and park carefully.  Battle Hill National Historic Site\, 2945 Longwoods Rd\, Glencoe\, ON N0L 1M0 \nRev. Richard Golden will officiate.   \nThe NEW Melbourne UC Church will serve a soup luncheon at the Wardsville Presbyterian Church. \n We will  remember those injured and killed at the Battle of the Longwoods in 1814. \n  \nWatch this beautiful short video of the MOURNING RING OF LIEUTENANT PATRICK GRAEME OF THE 89TH REGIMENT OF FOOT. KILLED ON MARCH 4\, 1814\, WHILE LEADING THE BRITISH ATTACK AT THE BATTLE OF LONGWOODS. \nOrganized by the Upper Thames Military Re-enactment Society  https://www.royal-scots.com/.  \nTheir facebook Page. \nLocal organizations and families are encouraged to place a wreath.  Call JoAnn Galbraith 5192895954 to put your name on the list.  Or arrive early and approach the organizers to add your name and organization to the list. \n  \nThe force consisted of two companies of regulars (the light company of the 1st Battalion\, the 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots)\, numbering 101 men\, and the light company of the 2nd Battalion\, 89th Regiment of Foot\, numbering 45 men)\, two full-time militia units (the Loyal Kent Volunteers and Caldwell’s Western Rangers\, numbering 50 men between them) and 44 Native American warriors (Wyandots and Potawatomis under Sauganash\, or Billy Caldwell as he was known to the British). In all\, this force numbered about 240 men. The British commander at Delaware\, Captain Stewart of the Royal Scots\, had not expected action and had gone to confer with Colonel Matthew Elliot of the Essex Militia\, so the force was commanded by Captain James Lewis Basden of the 89th.[1].    Source: Wikipedia entry \nCo-promoted by the Glencoe & District Historical Society
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/memorial-2025-battle-of-longwoods/
LOCATION:Battle Hill National Historic Site\, 2945 Longwoods Road\, Southwest Middlesex\, Ontario\, N0L 1M0\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250312T190000
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SUMMARY:March 12: Thomas Gardiner: The Ghost of Cashmere.
DESCRIPTION:Marie Williams:  A large crowd packed into the Glencoe and District Historical Society Archives on Wednesday evening\, March 12. Following announcements\, a brief membership report and some unfortunate technical difficulties\, Society president Mary Simpson introduced the evening’s guest speaker\, Glencoe native and author Daniel Perry. \nPerry spoke about his newest work\, a non-fiction memoir focussed on his own research into the life of Thomas Gardiner and Gardiner’s connection to the hamlet of Cashmere in the former Township of Mosa. \nBorn in 1774 in Ireland\, Singleton Gardiner sailed for New York State in 1804. He moved to the Talbot Settlement in 1816 and to Mosa Township in 1825. He built a mill in 1834 on the site of what became Cashmere. \nHis brother Thomas Gardiner\, born in Ireland in 1767\, sailed for New York in 1804 and arrived in Upper Canada in 1807. Perry outlined charges laid against Thomas Gardiner which were subsequently dismissed\, the connections between Thomas Gardiner and John Parker Jr.\, tales from the War of 1812\, his years serving as a teacher\, disputes over land\, family friction and his pleas for help as an aging man. \nSingleton Gardiner was the first person buried at the Cashmere Cemetery in 1834 but there is no stone marking what could be the grave of Thomas Gardiner. \n \nThomas Gardiner’s younger brother Singleton (1774-1834) is well documented in local history as the effective founder of the vanished village of Cashmere\, along the Thames in Mosa Township. But what of Thomas?  \nThomas Gardiner led a life both ordinary and extraordinary. Before his death in Mosa Township around 1840\, Thomas served in the Irish Volunteers during the Rebellion of 1798\, joined the Lincoln Militia in Canada\, feuded with the Anglican Church\, taught school\, and likely endured epidemic cholera. He documented much of his life in letters to the Executive Council of Upper Canada in the 1830s\, now preserved in Library and Archives Canada. But was he a reliable narrator? Missing from his account is\, for example\, his arrest for leaving Canada during the War of 1812. \nRead this post for more about this ambitious book project.   \n  \nDaniel Perry grew up in Glencoe\, Ontario\, and has lived in Toronto since 2006. His stories have been short-listed in the Vanderbilt/Exile Competition\, have twice earned Summer Literary Seminars Unified Literary Contest fellowships\, and have appeared in The Dalhousie Review\, Exile Literary Quarterly\, The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature\, The Nashwaak Review\, White Wall Review\, Little Fiction\, NoD\, In/Words\, Paragon\, Ottawa Arts Review\, Sterling\, the quint\, echolocation\, The Broken City\, Wooden Rocket Press\, Hart House Review\, Broken Pencil– Death Match IV\, and the Stone Skin Press anthology\, The Lion and the Aardvark. \nHe has a great website where you can find links to a lot of his short stories and check out his just published book: Modern Folklore. \nModern Folklore\, a horror novella has arrived on Planet Earth in both physical and electronic format. Published by Toronto’s Canada’s hottest new indie horror press and bookshop\, Little Ghosts Books\, it’s on the festival circuit\, gracing Toronto’s Word on the Street and the Mississauga Literary Festival. \n  \n 
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/thomas-gardiner/
LOCATION:The Archives\, 178 McKellar Street\, Glencoe (Southwest Middlesex)\, Ontario\, N0L 1M0\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250316T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250316T160000
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SUMMARY:Mar 16.  John Little In Conversation: Reimagining The Donnellys 
DESCRIPTION:A webinar hosted by Words Director Josh Lambier Sunday\, 16 March 2025.   A 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. \nA note afterwards from James Stewart Reaney\, President: London and Middlesex Historical Society.    londonhistory.org\nJust a quick note of appreciation\, Josh\, for the first-rate conversation with John Little.\nThe Donnellys tragedy was reimagined over the fascinating twists & turns & revelations of the Words event. The audience was engaged & many seemed to be personally involved through family & other connections.\nThanks\, Mary\, for bringing The Glencoe & District Historical Society family to the party.\nOn behalf of The London and Middlesex Historical Society\, thanks Josh & John & Mary for this excellence — & let’s see what other adventures we might find.\n \nJust in time for St. Patrick’s Day\, the London and Middlesex Historical Society is a co-presenter of this virtual event with Words artistic director Josh Lambier in conversation with John Little\, author of The Donnellys\, an acclaimed two-volume account of the Biddulph tragedy.  We will take a deep dive into Souwesto’s greatest folktale for St. Patrick’s Day. Our host will be Words Festival Director Josh Lambier in partnership with the London and Middlesex Historical Society.  \nA violent family living in violent times. \nIn the 1840s\, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter\, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own.  \nThe children are raised in an incredibly violent community and cultivate a devoted loyalty to their mother and siblings\, which often leads to problems with the law and those outside of the family.  \nThe tensions between the family and their community escalate as the family’s enemies begin to multiply. The brothers go into business running a stagecoach line and repay all acts of violence perpetrated against them\, which only worsens the situation. Refusing to take a backwards step\, the Donnellys stand alone against a growing power base that includes wealthy business interests in the town of Lucan\, the local diocese of the Roman Catholic Church\, law authorities and a number of their neighbours. \n 
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/mar-16-john-little-in-conversation-reimagining-the-donnellys/
LOCATION:Ontario
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SUMMARY:Joseph Dain - Caradoc farm boy - by Dave McEachran
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nJoin us for the historical journey of a young boy born in Caradoc Township\, who at the age of 12\, moved along with his family to Missouri.  This young man\, Joseph Dain would go on to mechanize the process of hay harvest.  His eventual partnership and employment with Deere & Co. would lead to a significant development in agriculture history.  Come follow along his journey and this local Middlesex County connection presented by local collector and private museum operator\, Dave McEachren.\n\n \nDave McEachren owns and operates The McEachren Collection @ Forty-87\, a private museum displaying a vast array of John Deere related artifacts and historical items including farm toys\, literature\, memorabilia\, and over 40 real tractors.\n \nWe hope to see you there\,\n \nSDHS Executive Board
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/joseph-dain-caradoc-farm-boy-by-dave-mceachran/
LOCATION:Multimedia Room in the Gemini Sportsplex (at 667 Adair Blvd\, Strathroy\, 667 Adair Blvd\, \, Strathroy\, Ontario\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Heritage Fair 2025
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis 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. \nThe Fair includes booths from local heritage and community groups\, book sale table\, displays and more.\n\n\n 
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/heritage-fair-2025/
LOCATION:Delaware Community Centre\, 2652 Gideon Drive\, Delaware\, Ontario\, Canada
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SUMMARY:A Stroll through Time - story telling
DESCRIPTION:Stories about the Kilmartin community who established Burns Presbyterian Church in the hills of North Mosa.  \nMarie Williams reported: A great crowd attended Sunday’s “Stroll Through Time” at Burns. The event had been postponed from February due to icy conditions. Morgan MacTavish served as narrator with cast members Sarah\, Sophie\, Anela and Audrey Faulds\, Andrew Johnson\, Courtney Bailey\, John David MacTavish\, Taylor Chalupka and Carol Leitch doing a great job in their roles. Scriptwriters and organizers were Flora Walker\, Louise Campbell and Mary Simpson.  \n  \nNarrator: Welcome to A Stroll through Time – Celebrating 190 years of Burns Presbyterian Church\, Mosa. Over the next hour and a half\, we want to take you back to some events which occurred in this congregation over our 190 years of existence. Although the events did happen\, we have taken some liberty with the minor details. Our characters will surround you with their tales of joy and sorrow. Please sit back and relax and we will let our story begin. \n\nThe Old Log Church was replaced with the first “Brick” church but it was eventually replaced by the existing church in 1891 when it encountered structural difficulties after a heavy slate roof was added.\n  \nThe history of Burns’ Presbyterian Church \nBurns Church  has deep roots in the traditions and values brought over by Scottish immigrants. Many of the pioneers who established the church originated from the Highlands of Scotland\, particularly from Argyleshire. Their strong sense of faith and resilience\, hallmarks of Highland character\, guided them through the challenges of settling in Canada West in the early 19th century. These Scottish settlers arrived in the townships of Mosa\, Metcalfe\, Ekfrid\, and Brooke\, at a time when the land was still largely an unbroken forest. Despite the physical hardships of pioneer life\, they carried with them a strong Presbyterian faith\, holding regular meetings for prayer and worship\, often in their homes or in the forests\, before the establishment of a formal church. \n  \nBy 1835-36\, the community had built its first log church on what is now Kilmartin Cemetery grounds in Metcalfe Township. Though the church was incomplete and lacked doors\, windows\, or a roof\, it became a place for gathering and worship. Despite the harsh conditions\, the congregation remained devoted\, listening to sermons on cold winter days while seated on rough wooden sleepers. As years passed\, clergy such as Rev. Alexander Ross and Rev. Donald McKenzie occasionally visited\, providing spiritual guidance and conducting services. These visits were cherished\, and many traveled long distances through forests and swamps to participate\, highlighting the central role religion played in the lives of the settlers. \n  \nIn 1842\, Rev. Duncan McMillan visited the area to perform baptisms and organize prayer meetings. It wasn’t until 1844 that the Mosa congregation was formally organized by the Presbytery of Hamilton. For several years\, the congregation shared clergy with nearby Knox Church in Ekfrid. Services were initially held in barns and homes\, notably the McLauchlin family barn\, before another log church\, known as “The Old Log Church\,” was built around 1844. \n  \nRev. Wm. R. Sutherland was ordained as the first permanent pastor in 1848\, and the church flourished. He frequently traveled throughout the region to communities like Wardsville and Euphemia\, to preach\, marry couples\, and baptize children. He travelled by horseback or on foot in all weather conditions.   \nThe fourth building – Burns Presbyterian Church Mosa. Opened in 1891.
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/storytelling-a-stroll-through-time-north-mosa/
LOCATION:Burns Presbyterian Church – Mosa\, 24493 Dundonald Rd\, Glencoe\, Ontario\, N0L 1M0\, Canada
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