Heritage

From the archives: Our first issue in 1994 profiled the driving forces behind two exceptional new cultural institutions: Wayne Townsend, curator of Dufferin County Museum and Archives (as it was then known) and Jim Betts, artistic director of Theatre Orangeville.

A rural route by any other name? Where to put the blue bins? A memoir from Caledon’s first public works architect.

A new exhibition at the Museum of Dufferin honours the history of service by veterans from Orangeville, Mono, Mulmur and more.

As World War II raged in 1943, dozens of Shelburne High School students traded in their text books for farmer’s tools to support the war efforts, becoming ‘farmerettes’.

A snapshot from August 1938 captures the joy of cooling down in the Nottawasaga River on a hot summer’s day.

In our first installment of Back Story, we zoom in on the paving of Orangeville’s main street, Broadway, more than 100 years ago.

Before rural mail delivery was established in the early 1900s, nearly every village and hamlet in these hills had a post office.

A booming mecca of down-home entertainment once brought thousands of happy visitors to the heart of Mulmur Township.

Collecting calendars was once a seasonal ritual on main street.

Murder, Hollywood intrigue and heroic deaths are among the tales that lurk on tombstones in cemeteries from Bolton to Horning’s Mills.

This devoted Relessey Cemetery Board volunteer helps the group manages the graveyard next to the Mono church, which dates back to the 1870s.

In 1930, a series of strange physical disturbances led a family to abandon their farm in Mulmur Township. Was a spirit at work? A poltergeist? Was it real?