“A Bridge Between the Past and the Future” – Dedication of the St. Andrews Convent Monument, Sunday, August 31, 2025.
Monument (seen in the header photo) and Plaques to St. Andrews Convent, and teaching sisters, 1909 – 2024, located in...
Finan “the Buffalo,” McDonald
Glengarry County’s history is populated with larger than life figures. No story is more fantastic, but true than that of...
FAITHFUL UNTIL DEATH …the SD& G HIGHLANDERS and the CORNWALL ARMOURY
A reader asked me to provide a history of Cornwall’s towered and crenellated Scottish Baronial style Armoury, home of the...
CHESTERVILLE’S ANSWER TO AMERICAN TARIFFS, ca. 1900
The weaponization of import tariffs by the American Republic party, to pressure Canadians into joining the United States, is an...
Elmer’s Saturday Morning Theatre Parties at the Palace.
For a mere 20 cents per child, Cornwall’s parents were once able to trundle their children off to the pandemonium...
Tour of Stormont County
If you were to follow the tourist guides put out by local government agencies, you might think that there is...
A tour of DUNDAS
Any tour of Dundas County has to include the St. Lawrence River, agriculture and the food it yields. Yes, Upper...
“THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH” COMES to CORNWALL
Phineas Taylor Barnum’s “Greatest Show on Earth,” dazzled Cornwallites on May 31, 1877. The circus was carried to Cornwall “on...
What’s in a Name
With spring well under way, I am sure that many of you take the opportunity to tour the United Counties....
A WALK THROUGH THE WOODS.
I don’t know about you, but now that spring is reputedly here, I can’t think of anything more enjoyable than...
A Tale of Two Lancasters
If you, like I did years ago, before I was sternly corrected by numerous proud residents of South Lancaster, believe...
LTE: Hudson Bay Company announced that they were going to auction off the Royal Charter of 1670
STOP TALKING AND DO SOMETHING! It's all well and fine that the leaders of all our Federal political parties pledge their...
THE GLENGARRY CAIRN RETURNED
After slightly more than a century, the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne announced late last year that, following more than "…15...
Sharing his growing wisdom, The Seed Farmer – Dan Brisebois releases his newest book.
On Saturday, February 1st, Organic seed farmer and author Dan Brisebois gave a concisely informative and animated presentation promoting his...
CORNWALL RESPECTS ITS ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
Most people are going to disagree with me about this, but if you take time to see that there are...
End of year Potpourri
To end the year I am going to offer you a variety of remarkable and interesting events that took place...
Cornwall 2024 Year in Review
Two hundred and seventy-five local business people, professionals, media representatives, and politicians attended the City of Cornwall’s 27th Annual Year...
Remarkable Cornwall: Local Men Who Made a Difference
Dr. Alfred John Lalonde was born in Renfrew County. He earned his medical degree at Queen’s in 1904 and then...
S.D. & G. REMEMBERS ITS HEROES
The men and women of SD&G rushed to the Flag with the declaration of the 20th century’s two World Wars,...
HONOUR, RESPECT, REMEMBER – REMEMBRANCE DAY 2024.
Remembrance Day Chair Mavis Williamson, on behalf of Branch 297 of the Royal Canadian Legion, spoke before more than 500...
MEN’S SUMMIT – MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS. “It’s okay not to be okay.”
Stephen Douris, co-founder of “MenTalk /K'hommeunique”,” along with his event partner Ivan Labelle, told 82 men and 18 women, how...
