Kent Farrow will be our guest speaker at the next CDHS General Meeting, held on Monday, September 16th, at 1 p.m., at the Barrie Community Hall in Cloyne. Kent has traced his family history back to Ireland and learned that during the famine in the late 1800s, Canada opened its doors to Irish immigrants, including […]
Bon Echo Park and the Friends of Bon Echo celebrated the Park’s 25th anniversary in 2013. The Echos From The Rock publication outlined the activities.
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.
On Monday October 16th at 1PM in the Barrie Community Hall, the Cloyne & District Historical Society will host historian Chris Anstead. In his presentation “The colonization roads of Eastern Ontario, and the villages they produced”. One of those roads, of course, runs right by our Pioneer Museum. Come out and bring your friends.