Heritage

In the final instalment from our archives, we’ve selected a number of stories that embody the kindness and the neighbourly compassion that has helped our small towns grow and flourish.

Almost 18 feet of snow fell in February 1904, bringing train travel to a halt and stranding hundreds of passengers north of Shelburne in the cold.

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 textbooks for farmers’ tools to support the war efforts.

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.