Last November, Glenn Fallis regaled an audience at an historical society event where he showed a film he created describing his experience as a member of the Ontario crew in the Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant that was held as part of the nation’s 1967 Centennial celebrations. Last week he began… Continue reading
By Dan Bourgeois In the last Now and Then column, the military history of our corner of Ontario was described. After the First World War, the Millbrook Armoury continued to house a local militia unit, now part of the Midland Regiment. For a time, the regiment commander was Lt Colonel… Continue reading
By Dan Bourgeois Most people in this part of the world know the local Legion Hallon King St in Millbrook. Many have attended various events in this venerable building. However, not that many know that the building was originally an armoury, built by the federal Department of the Militia (now… Continue reading
David is perhaps best known as a professional Indigenous artist who is a member of the Mississauga Anishinaabe Curve Lake First Nations. He is also a geographer, historian and instructor at the Continuing Education Program at Trent University. Last week came to the Millbrook Legion to provide an entertaining and… Continue reading
Last week a small group joined Millbrook and Cavan Historical Society President Celia Hunter in the garden beside the Old Millbrook School to dedicate a Hackberry Tree planted in honour of long-time Historical Society member Peter Ramsay. The tree was carefully selected: it is a large, deciduous native tree producing… Continue reading
The Millbrook and Cavan Historical Society is excited to present “A Dynamic Talk about Indigenous Peoples Then and Now; Here and Beyond” on Thursday, October 23rd, 7 pm at the Millbrook Royal Canadian Legion Branch 402 Hall, 9 King St East, Millbrook. Our speaker is David Beaucage Johnson, artist, geographer,… Continue reading
William Henry Sowden was bornin 1823, the eighth of 16 children of Willaim Sowden and Maria Louisa Varley. The elder Sowden was a corn miller in Yorkshire, England before migrating to Upper Canada in 1818. He must have been successful a she purchased 600 acres of land outside of Port… Continue reading
More light summer reading – By Dan Bourgeois The last column looked at voting and other rights of those who lived in Ontario in the1800s and how it was a slow and gradual process to grant property and other rights to anyone who was not a white man who already owned… Continue reading
By Celia Hunter Termed ‘A Jewel in Peterborough County’, Millbrook and Cavan Monaghan Township have earned pride of place in a just released coffee table book commemorating the bicentennial of the Peter Robinson Settlers project. Peterborough, Spirit of Place features photo-graphs by John McQuarrie, who spearheaded this publication in partnership… Continue reading
