Ranking high among the businessmen of the early twentieth century in Wellington County was Joseph…
Valuing Our History
James A. Beatty is a largely forgotten Fergus native
Over the years the Beatty Brothers firm of Fergus has been the subject of several of these columns.…
Elora Furniture Company received financial aid from municipality
Back in the early 1990s, when this column appeared in the now-defunct Elora Sentinel, I did a brief…
Work was abandoned on new Elora factory in 1930
(Note: this is the conclusion of the story of the 1929 request by the Elora Furniture Company and…
Elora-born Robert Watson became a senator
Wellington County has, in the decades since Confederation, had less than its share of Canadian…
Glen Allan native A.B. Stewart achieved fame and fortune in Seattle
This column in recent months has outlined the lives of several Wellington County natives who did…
Colonel J.J. Craig was public school inspector for 48 years
During his lifetime in Fergus, James J. Craig of Fergus ranked as one of the best known men in…
Highlights of the week in Wellington County in July 1929
The weekly newspaper business has never been an easy path to quick riches. The newspaper business…
Arrow Bus Lines operated a substantial transportation network
Railway specialists are perhaps the most numerous and fanatical of transportation historians. Even…
Drought of 1929 anticipated problems of 1930s along Grand River
Spring floods and summer droughts have been subjects addressed in this column over the years. There…
Gruesome accidents in county claimed two lives in fall of 1929
Farming and industrial accidents claimed lives in the early decades of the 20th century. Safety…
Beatty Brothers firm of Fergus reached its apex in 1929
A couple of weeks ago this column described some of the fire fighting measures taken by the Beatty…
A glimpse into the family of railway baron J.J. Hill of Rockwood
Back about five years this column outlined the early life of James J. Hill, the American railway…
Lewis Ernst of Mount Forest killed in aviation crash in 1929
The first decades of aviation produced a handful of aficionados with something of a daredevil…
County firefighters prevented several conflagrations in summer of 1929
The increasing skills and training of Wellington County’s volunteer firefighters in the early…