A storm that will go down in the record books traveled a diagonal line from Michigan to Ottawa and beyond on Saturday, May 21st. In its path were the townships of North Frontenac and Addington Highlands. Enough damage was caused so a state of emergency was called in...
Familiar to most Bon Echo visitors is the ‘Cabin-on-the Hill’ – a rental log cabin situated near the Denison complex within the provincial park. The 1870s cabin was once called the Manager’s House and was occasionally used as accommodation when Merrill Denison...
David Albert Trumble, born December 15th, 1867 (or 1882) was a famous Canadian supercentenarian and resident of Northbrook. Always a storyteller, character, and often an entertainer, Dave Trumble visited North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne to answer questions...
Dick MacDonald first met Merrill Denison when there were both on the payroll of the Bank of Montreal. They became quite good friends and in 1970, Merrill suggested Dick write about his life. A story was written and formed the basis of an hour-long documentary for CBC...
The Cloyne & District Historical Society is meeting at the Barrie Community Hall on Monday April 25th at 1PM. Membership is free for 2022, so bring along your friends. This will be our first in-person general meeting since the start of the pandemic. Masks are not...
Susannah: A Little Girl With The Mounties is a children's novel by Canadian author Muriel Denison (nee Jessie Muriel Goggin 1886-1954), first published in 1936. In the book 9-year-old Susannah is sent to Regina, Saskatchewan to spend the summer with her Uncle Dennis...
Three Voter's Lists are available to view, two of those contributed by Debbie Neale. The Denbigh, Abinger and Ashby 1932 Voter's List includes a Schedule Of Post Offices (11 in total; Denbigh, Vennachar, Slate Falls, Wensley, Hartsmere, Cloyne, Plevna, Griffith,...
Welcome to our new website! Our previous website was over a decade old and needed to be updated to attract visitors to the Museum and better display our digital collections of photos and documents. Plus, it is a super project to celebrate our 50th Anniversary! In...
Sadly, Don Wannamaker passed away on February 13, 2022. Don will be remembered as a Northbrook community supporter and founding (charter) member of the Land O’ Lakes Lions Club. Chartered in 1969 with a group of 38 members, only three Lions Charter members are alive...
The year 1903 is remembered by the Old Timers of Vennachar as the year of "THE BIG FIRE". About fifty years earlier, the first settlers followed the Addington Road and the trails of the lumber companies into the northern part of Lennox & Addington County, and...
Anyone tracing their family history will find this new Flickr website handy. So far, all the graves in these cemeteries have been photographed with high-definition photos and grave descriptions: Vennachar, Denbigh St. Luke’s United, Denbigh St. Paul’s Lutheran,...
Hillier 'Jake' Thompson (on right, unknown man on left) was the son of Casber and Lulu Thompson who owned Thompson's store in Northbrook. He was a flyer most of his life and would land his plane at the air strip east of Northbrook at the Lloyd farm. Before the War he...