Today we are thankful for the truck drivers who bring mail to Creemore and for the rural mail deliverers who brave storms, snowbanks and muddy roads to leave mail in our mailboxes. In the early [...]
In this area we are very fortunate to have the Bruce Trail not very far away. Many local people enjoy these trails regularly. But none, I suspect, would be interested in walking from Barrie to [...]
It’s Saturday! It’s January! There’s free skating at the rink! Time to make our way to Creemore’s rink on Elizabeth Street East. Riding into town in a horse drawn sleigh was young Dorothy Timmons [...]
Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick, And she called for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick. The doctor came with his bag and his hat And he knocked on the door with a [...]
When November comes it is time to reflect on World War I and World War II and what our lives were like when our country was at war. I was only three when the Second World War was declared in [...]
You may find it difficult to imagine the days when there were only enough students in Creemore to fill a one-room school. But those days did exist. Sometime before 1854, the first school was [...]
The big yellow buses are passing by again this week on their way to Nottawasaga and Creemore Public School. We are used to seeing them, but years ago things were different. All children attended [...]
When settlers in this area had chopped down a few trees and built a shelter their thoughts turned to building a church and a school. At first they were frame structures but as time went on they [...]
The school year is over. For the grade eights their elementary school days are over. In Creemore they are honoured and celebrated with a parade and a ceremony in the gym at the school. My grade [...]
With the summer sports season opening up it seems to be a good time to look back at Creemore’s sport scene in days of yore. This account was written by Joe Leonard, son of Elias Leonard, owner [...]