Ontario is located in central eastern Canada and one of the ten provinces of Canada. Almost 40 percent of Canada’s population lives in Ontario. Land wise it is the second largest province.
If you are out and about in this great country of ours, you will always be close to history.I was camping the other weekend with the family, at a place called Murphy's Point, near Perth, Ontario. On the drive into this special place, I happened to notice a sign that
In Prince Edward County there is a ferry which connects two parts of highway 33. The Glenora Ferry runs every 15 minutes or so between a flat peninsula at the eastern end to the side of a cliff on the west. What most ferry passengers do not realize is that
Back in November of 1961, 13 year old Raymond Ricketts received a letter from the Department of Lands and Forest of Ontario. This letter was in reply to a letter young Raymond had sent to them to enquire about Sandbanks Provincial Park.Sandbanks Park is a jewel in the crown of
Benjamin Drew was an American Abolitionist from the Boston, Mass., area. He traveled through eastern Canada meeting with Blacks, former slaves in the Union, who had come north on the Underground Railway. In 1856 he had published a book of his interviews, entitled,
The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
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Watson's Mill is a beautiful old building on the Rideau River in Manotick, a suburb of Ottawa. Built by Moss Kent Dickinson and his business partner Joseph Merrill Currier in 1860, the mill used big water turbines to run large millstones to grind wheat into flour. Vermont-born Joseph Currier, was
A couple of years ago I passed by Wawa in Northern Ontario on my way to Thunder Bay. It is always interesting to see what a town will do to get itself noticed. Wawa is known for its big goose statue right on the side of the TransCanada highway. When
What does an axe handle have to do with General Motors of Canada? General Motors of Canada builds cars, don't they? They have always built cars, haven't they?General Motors Corporation, a US entity based in Detroit, traces its history back to 1897 when Olds Motor Company was set up by Ransom
The poem, On The Opeongo Line, was written by Tom Devine who came from Renfrew. Set around the turn of the last century, Devine's "story teller", "from up-the-line", was a delivery person who made his rounds on a horse-drawn cart. The quality of his poem is in the story it
The HMS Nancy was built as a private cargo vessel in 1789 near Windsor, Ontario. During the War of 1812, she was contracted into service and played an important role as a British supply ship. Commanded by a British Naval Officer Lieutenant Commander Worsley for a brief period in 1814,
If I told you I was going for a cup at Tim Hortons you would probable ask, "Which one?". Tim Hortons are as common as weeds in an untended garden. But do you know who Tim Horton was?Miles Gilbert Legen "Tim" Horton born on January 12, 1930 in Cochrane, Ontario. He
