Tag: Discover SD&G

Special Contribution to the Seeker Eastern Ontario’s citizen-soldier settlers, as former members of the British Army where they were authorized ...

Martintown historian Rhodes Grant said it best when he wrote, in 19th century Glengarry a person would be considered ignorant ...

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the ever present threat of nuclear war evoked fear that permeated every level of ...

Glengarry County’s history is populated with larger than life figures. No story is more fantastic, but true than that of ...

A reader asked me to provide a history of Cornwall’s towered and crenellated Scottish Baronial style Armoury, home of the ...

The weaponization of import tariffs by the American Republic party, to pressure Canadians into joining the United States, is an ...

For a mere 20 cents per child, Cornwall’s parents were once able to trundle their children off to the pandemonium ...

If you were to follow the tourist guides put out by local government agencies, you might think that there is ...

Any tour of Dundas County has to include the St. Lawrence River, agriculture and the food it yields. Yes, Upper ...

Phineas Taylor Barnum’s “Greatest Show on Earth,” dazzled Cornwallites on May 31, 1877. The circus was carried to Cornwall “on ...

With spring well under way, I am sure that many of you take the opportunity to tour the United Counties. ...

I don’t know about you, but now that spring is reputedly here, I can’t think of anything more enjoyable than ...

If you, like I did years ago, before I was sternly corrected by numerous proud residents of South Lancaster, believe ...

After slightly more than a century, the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne announced late last year that, following more than "…15 ...

Most people are going to disagree with me about this, but if you take time to see that there are ...

To end the year I am going to offer you a variety of remarkable and interesting events that took place ...

Dr. Alfred John Lalonde was born in Renfrew County. He earned his medical degree at Queen’s in 1904 and then ...

The men and women of SD&G rushed to the Flag with the declaration of the 20th century’s two World Wars, ...

SD & G is not only the home of such world famous authors as Charles Gordon, better known as Ralph ...

Symbols, such as a coat of arms, representing sports teams, countries, provinces, and cities are important. At their best they ...

In researching the story of the regions’ media, I came across nearly a century of French language print, radio and ...