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Spectacular is the best word to describe the floods in and around Creemore in the early days of the 20th Century. In those days no one was blaming global warming but the cause of the devastating [...]

Just a year ago The Creemore Echo had many pictures of the winners of various curling foursomes. What a difference a year makes. I am sure that with the long and proud history of curling in [...]

Hockey was a popular sport in Creemore  in the early 1900s although different from today’s game. Teams were made up of men, mainly in their twenties. No minor hockey leagues existed. The players [...]

Here we are another month into winter with no skating rink in sight. The arena is closed because of the pandemic, It doesn’t seem cold enough to make an outdoor rink and even the river is [...]

Every time I drive down Collingwood Street and pass the arena I feel very sad. Ice time in Creemore has always filled our winters with a great deal of fun. I have spent many happy hours skating [...]

Play hooky and crash a wedding? Surely pupils of the past did not stoop to that sort of bad behaviour. Playing hooky and crashing a wedding is exactly what one Grade 10 student did along with [...]

Today’s Creemore history story is taken from my book, Creemore Bids You Welcome. I have been working on this book for years, have rewritten it three times but never got around to publishing it. [...]

The first day of school in September 1917 may have been chaotic. You see, there was no school. The building where the Creemore students attended in the spring had been torn down. A new one was [...]

With so much bad news in the world I have been hesitating to send this story to the Echo but with the infection rate down in Ontario at the moment perhaps this won’t seem such a downer. I wrote [...]

The parade of Nottawasaga Creemore’s Grade 8 graduation, June 24, was the highlight of my week. Indeed, it was the highlight of my life since the virus hit. Watching the excited and happy young [...]