Forgotten Battle of Ortona

Historic Glencoe Railway Station 151 McRae Street, Glencoe, Ontario

January 16, 2019. Red Noble tells about the Battle of Ortona in Italy. “75 years since the Forgotten Battle of Ortona: House to House Combat and how the Canadians Adapted”

Free

No Guns, Just God’s Glory: Tom Wilson. Nov 8

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

The role of Allied military chaplains and the stories of those who died in the Battle of Normandy from June 6, 1944 to August 25, 1944.

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Lecture: What does Sacrifice look like?

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

Master Corporal Patterson's will tell us about his career in the military from Army Cadets until his Medical release: 34+ years.  

Farmer, writer, radical, sage: Re-introducing Peter McArthur

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

In 1908, at the age of 42, Peter McArthur returned to his family farm in Ekfrid Township with his wife and five children after living and working in Toronto, New York and London, England. For the next 16 years he wrote weekly columns in The Globe, amusing and enlightening his readers about life on a rural Ontario farm. 

March 6 2024: Battle of Longwoods Memorial

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

Join us on March 3rd, 2024 to commemorate the Battle of Longwoods which was originally fought on March 4th 1814.  Arrive at 1:45 p.m. and park carefully.