Hooliganism and property damage at Halloween seem to rise and fall in cycles that are neither…
Valuing Our History
Railways struggled to open lines after March storm
Last week’s column offered the first part of the story of the winter of 1908, and the storms…
Knox Church in Ospringe marking 150th anniversary
Several churches in Wellington County are marking a century and a half of service this year.…
Raid on a Puslinch still caused a barnyard furor
One of the curiosities of the history of alcohol consumption is that illegal distilleries…
Massive ship railway was planned in 1890
The building of a shortcut for lake shipping from Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron was a…
1905 accidental electrical death was costly for Palmerston
Electrical generating plants began operation in most of Wellington County’s towns during the…
Harriston hosted huge political rally in 1874
An important part of 19th century political life was the big rally. Those events were something of…
Looking back at the Christmas season of 100 years ago
This is the 20th Christmas column I have written since Valuing Our History began in the old Elora…
Two English airmen killed in 1941 crash near Monck
Several years ago this column carried an account of an air crash in Eramosa Township during…
Squabbling among Irishmen escalated to a murder in 1847
Unlike some parts of Ontario, Wellington County was largely spared the violence that came to Canada…
Donkey baseball was popular attraction in mid-20th century
Donkey baseball was a popular attraction at civic gatherings a half century and more ago in the…
Corpse found near Harriston was tagged The Minto Mystery
In the late afternoon of Saturday, April 22, 1899, Peter McEachern was returning to his farm in…
Competitive speed skating became a local fad in 1899
Ice skating and hockey became popular winter pastimes in Wellington County during the 1880s and…
16-year-old youth assisted cattle thief in 1902 spree
Back in 1901, a man named John O’Donnell rented a farm in Minto at Lot 5, Concession 12, in…
Parisian Steam Laundry offered service to Wellington County
Laundry is a mundane subject, but it has an interesting history over the past century and a half.…