The thriving Alderville First Nation is located on the south shore of Rice Lake and is home to the largest intact tract of native grassland in Central Ontario, the Alderville Black Oak Savanna. MCHS is honoured to have as keynote speaker for our public Annual General Meeting on Thursday, May… Continue reading
Have you ever wondered why our township roads are (mostly) so straight? Wouldn’t it have been easier to build them following the contours of the land? Why are they called Lines? Why do some townships call them Concession roads? And what about these Quarter lines? Isn’t that just a short… Continue reading
After a great Trivia Night held in late March, the Millbrook and Cavan Historical Society will be digging a little deeper into our history with guest speaker Tom Mohr on Friday, April 19. As an archeologist and professor at the University of Toronto, Tom will be hitting fertile ground. Not… Continue reading
Like community newspapers, our phones connect us with one another. So do our stories. As we have been developing the June 15 Blocks and Blooms tour, we have been enjoying some stories, making some surprising connections, all about phones. One of the stops on our self-guided tour we’re planning is… Continue reading
Drum roll please! On the red carpet March 28 will be the glitterati of Cavan Monaghan and beyond, dressed to the nines for A Night at the Movies-themed Trivia Night! Dressing as your screen idol is optional, but definitely adds to the fun. And fun it will be, with the… Continue reading
Maintaining a record of our local history and encouraging people to be interested in various aspects of the past is a lot of what we do as MCHS, but now and then we just have to make a little history ourselves. Our Blocks & Blooms event in June 2018 did… Continue reading
One thing that never changes is our instinct for fun. We need it. A version of one very familiar proverb, attributed to Felix Sabates, says that all work and no play is just not good for the soul. Dull? We are not. Generations before us knew when to knock off… Continue reading
A lot of the time MCHS, your Historical Society, is the “go-to” resource when people want answers to questions like “who built my house?” or “where can I find my great-great grandfather’s headstone?” “Where do I find a photo of my shop on King Street when it was a saddlery?”… Continue reading
A little like Santa’s elves, our Historical Society gets things done out of the spotlight with the help of dedicated volunteers. Each has a particular interest or skill that finds expression in the variety of tasks that we take on to promote and preserve our local history. Like the Christmas… Continue reading
