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Thorning Revisited

Historical columns by the late Patrick Thorning. A retrospective on his extensive and beloved writings about Wellington County history and politics.

New health unit building in Fergus opened in 1960

Editor took long trip by horse and buggy in 1876

Ratepayers supported scheme for electric railways in 1920

Gruesome accidents claimed two lives in fall of 1929

Entrepreneurs tried to make lignite a Luther industry

John Connon remembered for photography, history book

Thomas Connon first honoured for library, temperance work

Connon struggled to earn living then left for Europe

Thomas Connon had tough time surviving in early Elora

Wightman one of last independent phone companies

News from the Mapleton Township area in 1901 and 1926

Crime and punishment - and a second Morriston robbery