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R. Tait McKenzie, the Last Voyage of the Karluk, Write Your Own Life History, and Historic North Gower Businesses
Presentations by RTHS members Dennis Osmond, Brandon Kasssis, Susan McKellar, Colin Wright. Article and Photos by Susan McKellar. May, 2014. The presentations at the May meeting covered a variety of subjects…
Read More Canada Cycle & Motor: the CCM Story 1899-1983
Presentation by John McKenty. Article and Pictures by Susan McKellar. April, 2014. John McKenty, a retired educator and author who lives in Perth, shared some of the fruits of his labours with the…
Read More Saint Patrick’s Day Celebration & Irish Heritage Month
Presentation by Coral Lindsay and Gail Brooks Article and Pictures by Lucy Martin. March, 2014. For our March meeting 27 members and guests gathered at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in…
Read More Tales of the One-Room School House
Presentation by: Joy Forbes. Article and Photos by Lucy Martin. February, 2014. Go back far enough and there’s probably a one-room school house in most family histories, particularly for those with rural…
Read More A History of Chocolate
Presentation by Coral Lindsay. Article and Photos by Lucy Martin. January, 2014. Our Society began the new year in fine form, as 30 members and guests filled St. Andrew’s Church in…
Read More Robbie Burns
Speaker: Coral Lindsay. Article and Pictures by Lucy Martin. January, 2013. Robert Burns still inspires marked public devotion centuries after his death. Every January 25th (more or less) in most corners…
Read More Richard Latham Garlick
Presentation by Brian Booth. Article and picture by Lucy Martin. February, 2013. Sometimes the past is viewed through rose-coloured glasses. Much respect is directed hereabouts to the Loyalists who settled…
Read More Donna Naughton on Canadian Mammals
Presentation by Donna Naughton. Article and Pictures by Lucy Martin. March, 2013. Donna Naughton’s “The Natural History of Canadian Mammals” was published in 2012 to broad acclaim as an important…
Read More Excursion to the Science Museum
April’s meeting was a new type of field trip: small behind-the-scenes group tours of part of the storage facilities of the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology. We owe that…
Read More RTHS Bring & Brag
Presentations by Our Own Society Members. Article and Pictures by Lucy Martin. May, 2013. 29 members and guests turned out for the annual “bring and brag” meeting held at Manotick’s…
Read More Excursion to the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum and the Domaine Perrault Winery
Article and Pictures by Susan McKellar. June, 2013. 19 members visited two excellent sites on June 22, the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum and the Domaine Perrault Winery, travelling by bus.…
Read More Six Servings of Yukon: RTHS Members Share Their Yukon Experiences
Presentations by RTHS Members with experience of the Yukon. Article and Pictures by Lucy Martin. September, 2013. You never know what might be on tap at the RTHS monthly meetings.…
Read More RTHS October Book Launch: “Cheese Factories of Rideau Township” (2nd edition)
Article and Pictures by Lucy Martin. October, 2013. It’s a good thing the October book launch was held at North Gower’s spacious Alfred Taylor Recreation Centre, because well over 70…
Read More “Local Heroes” – Rideau Township Archives Memorial Project
Presentation by Members from the Project.Article by Lucy Martin. Pictures by Lucy Martin and Susan McKellar. November, 2013. Remembrance Day. Bright red poppies on lapels, and sombre, familiar lines from classic…
Read More The RTHS Annual Bring & Brag for 2012
Presentations by Our Own RTHS Members. Article by Lucy Martin. January, 2012. The ever-popular “Bring and Brag” meeting drew an interested crowd to the cosy basement of Knox Presbyterian Church…
Read More Timothy Eaton and the T. Eaton Company
Presenters: Coral Lindsay, Brian Earl and Pat Grainger. Article by Lucy Martin. Februarly, 2012. Eaton’s. Founded by Timothy Eaton in 1869, the company went on to become an iconic success…
Read More Challenging the Myths Surrounding 1492
Presenters: Stuart and Marg Rogers Article and Pictures by Lucy Martin. March, 2012. North America was clearly found and settled by its aboriginal peoples. The topic of which other persons,…
Read More Behind the Scenes, “With Only a Suitcase”
Presentation by Ellen Adamsons. Article by Lucy Martin, pictures by Ellen Adamsons. April, 2012 Most families have a back-story: who they are, where they are from and how they arrived.…
Read More The War of 1812 on the Upper St. Lawrence River
Presentation by Robert Henderson. Article and Pictures by Lucy Martin. May, 2012 This is, of course, an important bicentennial year for an event that shaped Canadian history in general and…
Read More Excursion to Fort Wellington and the Grenville County Historical Society Archival Resource Centre
Article by Lucy Martin, pictures by Lucy Martin and Sandy Wilson. June, 2012. It was a very pleasant Saturday, June 16th, as we gathered at the Roger Stevens Drive client…
Read More “Duty, Family, Service” – The Wallace-Eastman Family
Presentation by Catherine Gallagher. Article and pictures by Lucy Martin. September, 2012. Catherine (White) Gallagher may be New England born and a resident of Arizona, but her connection to this…
Read More Burritts Rapids, An Historic Village on the Rideau
Burritt’s Rapids: An Historic Village on the Rideau Presentation by Brad Smith. Article and pictures by Lucy Martin. October, 2012. RTHS presentations cover many topics of regional interest…
Read More The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP)
Presentation by Robert (Rob) Fleck, President and CEO of Vintage Wings of Canada. Article and Pictures by Lucy Martin. November, 2012. November’s focus on remembrance is an appropriate month to…
Read More Our Trip to East Germany, 20 Years after Re-unification
Presentation by Bill Schaubs to RTHS. Article by Lucy Martin. January, 2011 Many of us grew up in places that felt rather remote. Thanks to freeways, discount airfares, an explosion…
Read More 400 Years of Log Fences
Presentation to RTHS by Eugene Fytche. Article by Lucy Martin. March, 2011 Many perfectly familiar things get overlooked and taken for granted. Fences may fall into that category. Noticed or…
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