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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.

Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Thomas Connon first honoured for library, temperance work

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Connon struggled to earn living then left for Europe

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Thomas Connon had tough time surviving in early Elora

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Wightman one of last independent phone companies

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

News from the Mapleton Township area in 1901 and 1926

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Crime and punishment - and a second Morriston robbery

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Bank holdup created excitement in Morriston in 1931

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Potter building repurposed as Kiddie-Kar factory

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Elora’s Kiddie Kar factory started life as foundry

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Kinnettles history: Macdonald visit, ghosts, missing body

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Kinnettles founder too late to cash in on 1850s land boom

by Wellington Advertiser
Columns Opinion Thorning Revisited

Attempted murder and other stories of Kinnettles founder

by Wellington Advertiser