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A number of years ago I was browsing in a Toronto library and came upon a book titled Department of Education Report 1926. In it I found a comment that the Glen Huron school (officially S.S. # 16 [...]

As promised earlier I plan to continue writing about life on the Eighth Line south of the village of Glen Huron in earlier days. Schools were very important to the earlier settlers. In many cases [...]

Last month I asked you if you knew where the Port Hope settlement was. I didn’t know then and probably you didn’t know either. Now you will find out. The information is taken from an old Creemore [...]

The gathering of the descendants of the farm families on the 8th Concession was a happy occasion. I was happy be invited to gather stories. (Move marks last of original 8th Concession [...]

Stories abound coming down from our early settlers about the craving for an education, at least the ability to read and write and do a little arithmetic. They had been denied access to it [...]

Last month this local history column told the story of the Roman Catholic Church just past Sideroad 12/13 on what is now called Fairgrounds Road. Of course, if you look for it today, you won’t [...]

This month’s contribution to our local history continues describing the events at the Methodist church up until 1930 and also about “Church Union” which had a devastating effect on many [...]

The Baptist Church has had a place in Creemore from its earliest history. In the earliest days of Nottawasaga Township theological students spent summers preaching and gathering together [...]

The first Anglican Church in Creemore was an attractive building erected at the top of the hill south of what is now the Collingwood Street Bridge. The graceful spire and the columns at the front [...]

This concludes the story of the life of C.B. (Bert) Smith that has been told over the course of a year. In 1948 he was finally able to sell the farm and was able to discharge the mortgage on [...]