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SUMMARY:May 2:  Jane's Walk in Glencoe
DESCRIPTION:Glencoe \nfacilitated by Harold Carruthers.  Meet at the corner of Main Street and Symes Street at 10:00 am. \nA walk through Glencoe looking at: \n\nHistoric gathering places\n\n\nOpportunities for neighbourhood and citizen care\n\n  \nWhat to Expect\n\n60–90 minute neighbourhood walk\n\n\nInformal\, participatory format (not a traditional guided tour)\n\n\nStories\, memories\, and local knowledge shared along the way\n\n\nExploration of parks\, halls\, churches\, sidewalks\, and gathering places\n\n\nConversation about strengths\, gaps\, and opportunities for care\n\nMore details (meeting locations and route specifics) will be added as they become available. \n  \nWhat is a Jane’s Walk?\nJane’s Walks are simple\, powerful\, and proven. They invite people to walk together\, share stories\, and talk about what makes a place liveable\, welcoming\, and worth caring for. \nNo lectures.\nNo formal presentations.\nJust walking\, listening\, and conversation. \nLearn more: https://janeswalk.org/
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/janeswalk/
LOCATION:The Archives\, 178 McKellar Street\, Glencoe (Southwest Middlesex)\, Ontario\, N0L 1M0\, Canada
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SUMMARY:May 2.  Ken's Walk - Wardsville
DESCRIPTION:Click here for larger image\nJoin local historian Ken Willis for a guided walk through Wardsville. This walking tour highlights the history of  Main Street\, sharing stores of the buildings\, people and events that have shaped the village.   Link to fb Event:  Ken’s Walk \nMeet at 10 a.m. at the Wardsville Museum.  Rain date is May 9\, 2026 \nWhat is Jane’s Walk? \nThis walk is part of the global Jane’s Walk festival (https://www.janeswalk.org)\, a weekend of community-led walking tours held around the world. \n 
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/kenswalk/
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SUMMARY:May 2 - Appin Jane's Walk
DESCRIPTION:A walk exploring the Appin community and surrounding landscape.  Facilitated by Dunc Hodgson & Heather Jacobs \nMeet at.   The Ekfrid Museum behind the community centre \nThis walk will invite conversation about: \n\nThe story of Appin as a rural crossroads community\n\n\nKey places of gathering\, past and present\n\n\nConnections between land\, history\, and community life\n\n  \n \nAppin Community walk
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/appinwalk/
LOCATION:Appin Museum\, 48 Wellington Ave\, Appin\, Ontario\, N0L 1A0\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260509T100000
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SUMMARY:Clean up at Simpson Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:Come join us to care for our ancestors’ resting place.  Bring your own tools.  10 am \n 
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/simpson_cemetery/
LOCATION:21563 Pratt Siding Rd\, Glencoe\, ON N0L 1M0\, 21563 Pratt Siding Rd\, Glencoe\, Ontario\, N0L 1M0\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Kendra Coulter — The Tortoise’s Tale
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Kendra Coulter: The Tortoise’s Tale Comes to the Glencoe Library May 14\, 2025 \nRoss and I both have read the book.  A few months ago.  Then we got to hear the author talk about the book.  When we got home after the author talk\, we looked at each and said\, “Now I want to read the book again!”  \nKendra Coulter\, a professor at Huron University College at Western University\, came to talk to us about her debut novel\, The Tortoise’s Tale. \nBy day\, Kendra is a leading academic in the field of animal ethics. She helped establish the world’s first four-year arts degree program in animal ethics and sustainability leadership\, launched in 2024 at Huron. She is also a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She  has spent her career thinking rigorously about sentient beings — creatures who feel\, who experience the world\, who matter. \nThe story of how The Tortoise’s Tale came to be:  in December 2022\, Kendra received the green light from Simon & Schuster to write a novel built around the idea of a giant tortoise as narrator. What followed was a careful\, loving act of creation — one in which the historical details were taken seriously and the emotional truth of her subject was honoured. \nThe novel follows Magic\, a giant tortoise snatched from her ancestral lands and brought to a Southern California estate\, where she becomes a century-long witness to human life in all its beauty and complexity. She watches the estate transform\, owners change\, Hollywood arrive and depart — and through it all\, she remains honest\, endearing\, and a deeply perceptive narrator. \nKendra shared with us some of the real-world inspirations woven into the book. The novel is dedicated to two living tortoises: Jonathan\, aged 193 on Saint Helena Island — the same remote island where Napoleon spent his final years — and Fernanda\, believed to be the last surviving Fernandina tortoise in the world.  \nThe thing about an author event: it deepens the book rather than explains it away. It was so much fun meeting  Kendra Coulter\, hearing her speak  — and feeling her care for sentient life\, her belief in the interconnectedness of all beings\, her delight in the opportunity that landed in her inbox in December 2022 —  Ross and I are definitely going to read her book again.  And she says she has three more completed manuscripts!   \n  \nKendra Coulter tells crowd about Jonathan\, a giant turtle still living today who is 193 years old. That is the same turtle in both photos.\n🐢 Extraordinary Lifespans\nTortoises are among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth\, with documented individuals reaching well over 100 years — and in rare cases closer to 200+. \n\nJonathan\, a Seychelles giant tortoise\, is still alive as of 2026 and is 193 years old. \nTu’i Malila\, a radiated tortoise given to the Tongan royal family in the 18th century\, lived roughly 188 years.\nAdwaita\, an Aldabra giant tortoise kept in a zoo for most of its life\, was reputed to have lived up to 255 years (though this older estimate isn’t fully confirmed).\nTimothy\, a Mediterranean tortoise living in a castle garden in England\, reached about 160 years old.\n\nThese examples show tortoises can outlive multiple human generations\, which is rare in the animal world and contributes to the sense that they “linger” in human environments. \n🧬 Why Tortoises Live So Long\nBiologically\, tortoises have traits that help them age slowly and survive for centuries: \n\nSlow metabolism — their bodies burn energy very slowly\, which reduces cellular stress over time.\nProtective shell — a strong physical defense that reduces predation once they’re adults.\nLow predation in adulthood — once fully grown\, most tortoises have few natural enemies.\nSome species may even age more slowly than expected under good environmental conditions\, according to recent research.\n\nThese biological factors make long lives not just possible\, but common among many tortoise species.
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/tortoise/
LOCATION:Glencoe Public Library\, 123 McKellar St.\, Glencoe\, Ontario\, N0L 1M0\, Canada
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SUMMARY:May 20:   Kae Elgie Author Talk — This Land
DESCRIPTION:Glencoe Public Library | G&DHS Author Series \nTwenty-five members and guests gathered at the Glencoe Library for Kae Elgie’s presentation on her book\, This Land: the Story of Two Hundred Acres in Kent County\, Ontario. \nDrawing from extensive research preserved by her ancestors and combined with her own deep dive into census and land records\, archaeological findings\, and historical texts\, Elgie told the remarkable story of 10\,000 years of food gathering and agricultural production on the 200-acre farm in Chatham-Kent where she grew up. Her narrative began with the melting of the ice at the end of the last Ice Age and moved through several eras of Indigenous occupation before arriving at the story of her own family’s place on the land. \nWhat began as an exploration of family history evolved into a broader account of agricultural\, social\, and economic change over millennia — from Indigenous food systems through the colonial era and into modern times. The talk was compelling and inspiring for anyone with an interest in agricultural history\, genealogy\, and the legacy of Southwestern Ontario’s farmland. \nG&DGS thanks the Glencoe Library for their ongoing partnership in support of the author series. \nBio:\n Kae Elgie brings to her research a wealth of experience from her pre-retirement career as Manager of Information Technology for the Region of Waterloo Library. Her passion for organizing information continues to guide her family history and genealogy work. \nKae is a member of several historical organizations\, including the Kent County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society\, the Ontario Historical Society\, and Architectural Conservancy Ontario. She is the author of This Land: the story of two hundred acres in Kent County\, Ontario (Fountain Street Press\, 2019). \nBook Information:\n Elgie’s book\, This Land: the story of two hundred acres in Kent County\, Ontario (Fountain Street Press\, 2019\, ISBN 978-0-9812776-3-9)\, is available for purchase.\n Contact: info@fountainstreetpress.ca | 519-635-8951 \nWebsite:\n Visit Kae Elgie’s author page at https://www.facebook.com/FountainStreetPress/ \nThis event was originally scheduled for Jan 21\, 2026 but rescheduled due to a snow storm.
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/farmhistory/
LOCATION:Glencoe Public Library\, 123 McKellar St.\, Glencoe\, Ontario\, N0L 1M0\, Canada
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SUMMARY:May 23 & 24:  Stories & Tales From the Front
DESCRIPTION:Event by Backus-Page House Museum\nDetails at their website : https://www.backuspagehouse.ca/events.\nAdmission by donation.\n\n\nFrom the muddy trenches of Europe to the resilient “Home Front” efforts right here in our own backyard\, join us as guest speakers and acclaimed authors breathe life into the letters\, diaries\, and records of the Great Wars.\n\n  \nSaturday May 23 rd 2026\n10 a.m. “A Silver Cross Mother”\nThe Memorial cross\, also known as the Silver Cross\, was first created\nin 1919 for all the mothers and widows of Canadian military personnel\nwho died in service. The story of one Silver Cross mother\, re-enactor\nTracy Gordon \n11 a.m. “Boys to Men”\nFrom 1951 to 1965 those who volunteered to be soldiers who were\nunder age participated in regular training and upgrading their\nscholastic knowledge became part of the regular armed forces after\ntwo years and saw active service. Dough Heil \n1 p.m. “Marching Orders”\nThe creation and continued operation of a successful mobile First World\nWar education day program of History Matters. A photo rich presentation\noutlining this program’s outreach and development with Jeff Brown\n2 p.m. “Canadian Military Medicine in the Great War” \nDuring the Great War the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC)\nexpanded rapidly to treat massive casualties\, with over half of all Canadian\nphysicians serving overseas. It was the worlds largest medical conference\nin the world’s worst hotel re-enactor and researcher Peter Monahan \n3 p.m. “Rush to Danger”\nA front-line recounting of the experiences of stretcher-bearers\, medical\ncorpsmen\, nurses\, surgeons\, orderlies\, dentists\, and ambulance drivers\nfrom the American Civil War to Afghanistan with military historian\nTed Barris \n7 p.m. “Valor Remembered – A Dream to Reality”\nResearching the men and women of Dutton-Dunwich who served in\nthe Canadian Military and who are now memorialized in the recently\ndedicated cenotaph local historian Blair Furguson \nSunday May 24 th 2026 \n1 p.m. “Bluebirds in the Poppy Field”\nOn the night of May 19-20 in 1918 a German air raid targeted a cluster\nof Canadian and British field hospitals along the railways of Etapls France\nsix Canadian Nursing Siters were killed. Nancy Iron-Murray \n2 p.m. “The Liberation Trail”\nA film made in 2017 to mark the 70 th anniversary of the liberation\nof Holland\, which follows two former 1 st Hussars who took part in the\nthis theater of war by Lt. Colonel Joe Murray \nAdmission both days by donation \nProgram for 2026 Stories from the Front THS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/share/18hCedLwfw/.  Facebook Event\n\n\n\n\n\nStep back in time with the Backus-Page House Museum in partnership with St. Peter’s Anglican Church for a weekend of remembrance and discovery. “Stories & Tales From the Front” is a unique conference dedicated to the personal histories of WWI and WWII\, specifically focusing on the brave individuals and hardworking families of Southwestern Ontario.\n\n\nWhat to expect:\n\n\n\n\nExpert Guest Speakers: Deep dives into regional military history.\nAuthor Spotlights: Discussions on the literature of war and local impact.\nLocal Lore: Specific stories from the Talbot Settlement and surrounding area.\nWhether you are a history buff\, a descendant of a veteran\, or simply curious about our local heritage\, this event offers a profound look at the resilience of the human spirit.\n\n\n\n\nThis event is being held at St. Peter’s church just down the road from Backus-Page House Museum. http://www.stpeterschurchtyrconnell.org/. Lakeview Line\, Tyrconnell across from John E. Pearce Provincial Park.\n\nAdmission by Donation: (Suggested $20/person).All proceeds help offset the costs of our guest authors\, speakers\, and event promotion. Thank you for supporting local heritage! \nSee less
URL:https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/stories/
LOCATION:St. Peter’s Anglican Church\, Tyronnell\, ON\, Lakeview Line\, Wallacetown\, Ontario\, N0L 2M0\, Canada
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