History

by David Shanahan It was in the church on St. Lawrence Street in Winchester, built by a former slave from the United States, that the...

Canadians know about the Underground Railway, the network by which escaped slaves in the U.S. could cross the border and find freedom in Canada....

Canadians, when they think about the Fathers of Confederation, which is rarely, probably imagine them as rather stern and colourless individuals. They see the...

What better way to commemorate Heritage Week than by exploring the rich history of one of North Dundas' historic buildings? North Dundas has many...

It would be easy to think of Valentine’s Day, February 14, as another Hallmark invention, designed to sell greeting cards and create annual anguish...

Although the North Dundas Times is only a recent addition to the history of newspapers in Dundas County, it follows a long and sometimes...

As Canada reaches the grand age of 155, it is a good time to look back and see how it all came to pass....

by Kateri Skaarup He was 15 years old. Too young to enlist, but yet he did anyway under a fake name. He did so alongside...

The Doctrine of Discovery provided the monarchs of Europe with a very questionable justification for claiming the territories inhabited by non-Europeans between the fifteenth...

Old Home Week  by Ashley Harper, Chesterville and District Historical Society In the midst of the Great Depression, hundreds of people travelled to Winchester from all...