John J. Savigny documented the history of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 328, Northbrook over a 40 year period in a 14-page document. Officers of the Branch and their military postings were recorded in this interesting history.
General Meeting Minutes 2024 of the Cloyne and District Historical Society.
During the 1930s all that remained of the first Festubert seasonal post office on a tiny Ontario island in Loon Lake, now known as Skootamatta Lake, was the building’s granite fireplace and foundation. The post office has been located in Mike Schwaeger’s frame house
A National Film Board documentary entitled ‘Log Driver’ by Raymond Garceau will be shown at our next General Meeting on January 15, 2024, at 1 pm. Everyone is welcome!
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This document outlines the progression of COVID-19 in Ontario and locally. The detailed timeline is by Kevin Nielsen of Global News. Local photos are included in the document.
The Flickr Cemetery website is a photograph archive of every gravestone within the cemeteries of the Cloyne and District Historical Society catchment area. High definition photos display the graves with an attempt to transcribe all details from each grave. This database of graves is easily searchable by entering the family name. You can search all […]
This document, written by Iain C. Taylor in 1969, was digitized by the Internet Archives in 2022. It portrays our area in 1969 and studies the impact of Bon Echo to the local economy.
Before the 1970s, there were basically no medical facilities here. Volunteers were trained through an emergency organization to do first response treatments at accident sites, for example.
Margaret Axford will be the guest speaker at the next Cloyne and District Historical Society general meeting on Monday, November 20th 1 pm at the Barrie Community Hall.