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Please note that I am no way affiliated with this band, just a huge fan!- Linda I was born and raised in Québec, and even after all these years, I still miss the rolling hills, the mountains, and the particular smell of pine trees that insists on following you home in your socks. There are moments when homesickness arrives unexpectedly, usually while eating terrible supermarket cheese or…

Episode 1- Linda Seccaspina– Les Aventures de Angine de Poitrine – Never Applaud the Encore.. ( Fiction) No one in Saguenay could remember precisely when the two figures first appeared. They seemed to emerge one November evening from a fog thick enough to have intentions of its own. Some insisted they had always been there, lurking behind abandoned mills and forgotten railway stations. Others…

Neighbors of Mississippi Mills – Best Version Media The June edition of Neighbours of Mississippi Mills will be delivered to your residence shortly, featuring comprehensive content showcasing Mississippi Mills. This issue highlights Robert Pauly, detailing his remarkable contributions to the community. We acknowledge the invaluable support of our sponsors, without whom this publication would not…

Since the Almonte town hall  was erected in 1885, it has housed a variety of different operations including municipality offices, the fire station, police station and jail house, and the municipal library. The building also once housed a fire bell which was removed in 1968 upon completion of the new fire hall. One of the few jailbreaks ever recorded in Almonte’s history was discovered last in…

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The nightlife of 1899 apparently came with no cover charge and even less dignity. Once the arc lights winked out on Bridge Street, a flock of self-appointed “night birds” swooped in—not to sing sweet melodies, but to redecorate the town with tobacco juice, toppled fences, broken awnings, and enough bad behaviour to make even the horses roll their eyes. Plate glass windows became spit targets, the…

August, 1901, Middleville Jean (Jane) McEwen Birth 3 Aug 1811 • Killin, Perthshire, Scotland Death 6 Feb 1902 • Middleville, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada There are birthdays, and then there are birthdays that make everyone else in the room feel like they should probably sit down and listen. When Mrs. Crawford Dodds of Middleville celebrated her 90th birthday, she wasn’t simply marking…

Before GPS politely announced every turn and highways hurried us from one place to another, the journey to Lanark was part of the adventure. A newspaper article written by Fred Inglis for the Evening Citizen in 1952 captured that feeling perfectly, inviting readers to slow down, roll down the car windows, and enjoy a drive into one of Ontario’s most timeless villages. Leaving Highway 15 just…

By the summer of 1919, Beckwith Township had reached a milestone worth celebrating. One hundred years earlier, the first permanent settlers had arrived with little more than determination, a few possessions, and perhaps an unhealthy optimism about Canadian winters. They found no roads, no cozy inns, no grocery stores, and certainly no one waiting with a welcoming committee holding butter tarts.…

The following story was sent to me by Kenneth on Dec 14, 2006, so yesterday I put it to story form to be documented. I have no firm proof so that it happened for now it is fiction. We have no idea if this story is true, but we must remember him for giving up his life for our country.. see historical items Smiths Falls has a way of holding onto its past. The Rideau Canal glides through the town…

The Lanark Era Lanark, Ontario, Canada • Wed, Nov 11, 1914Page 5 The social pages this week I chose remind us that rural life in Lanark County was never dull. If you weren’t visiting relatives, you were hunting something, attending a party, skating, or accidentally setting yourself on fire. Before Facebook posts, Instagram stories, and neighborhood gossip pages, there were the social columns.…

The Legend of Thousand Island Dressing: When Lunch Changed History Some inventions change the world forever. The light bulb. The telephone. Indoor plumbing. And then there is Thousand Island Dressing, proof that occasionally civilization advances because someone forgot to pack the right ingredients. The story begins in the spectacular Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River, where…

CLICK ARROW To LISTEN to podcast Remembering Mr. Norm’s French Fries ( Blog is Remembering Mr Norm’s French Fries –French Fry Truck Series) There are some foods that satisfy your hunger, and then there are foods that feed your memory. Mr. Norm’s French fries belonged firmly in the second category. If you ever travelled Highway 7 through Innisville, you probably remember the little roadside stop…

“Then came July like three o’clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable.” There are hot summer days, and then there are the kind of days that even the mosquitoes are way too exhausted to bite you. Last week’s heatwave was exactly one of those. By breakfast, on Canada Day; the weather app on Alexa had already given up and simply displayed a picture of the sun laughing. I never did…

Summer – Linda Knight Seccaspina Summer in the 1950s didn’t arrive with a notification on your phone. It arrived when somebody’s mother hollered, “Go outside!” and nobody expected to see you again until supper. It was a glorious era when children were raised on sunshine, scraped knees, and the vague instruction to “be home before dark.” Across Lanark County, summer wasn’t scheduled. It simply…

Dear Local History Team, I am researching a major historical event that took place in Carleton Place in the summer of 1898 and am looking to see if your archives contain any localized scrapbooks, vertical files, or family folders on the matter. My research concerns my great great grandfather Peter Blair (aged 74), who died under highly publicized, suspicious circumstances in Carleton Place on…