Valuing Our History

The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…

The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…

The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…

The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…

By 1860 seven dams had been constructed across the Grand in the Fergus and Elora area.

Hooliganism and property damage at Halloween seem to rise and fall in cycles that are neither…

Last week’s column offered the first part of the story of the winter of 1908, and the storms…

Several churches in Well­ington County are marking a century and a half of service this year.…

One of the curiosities of the history of alcohol consumption is that illegal distilleries…

The building of a shortcut for lake shipping from Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron was a…

Electrical generating plants began operation in most of Wellington County’s towns during the…

An important part of 19th century political life was the big rally. Those events were something of…

This is the 20th Christmas column I have written since Valuing Our History began in the old Elora…

Several years ago this col­umn carried an account of an air crash in Eramosa Township during…

Unlike some parts of Ontario, Wellington County was largely spared the violence that came to Canada…