Heritage

The Toronto Grey & Bruce and the Toronto & Nipissing Railways were the first of their kind on the continent.

“We did not see a drunken man on the grounds,” observed the Advocate (although the paper did wonder who rang the park bell at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning).

After the ox cart driver bid farewell and left us, and I began to clear away the snow where we were to lay our bed.

For a lot of members, it’s more than just a hobby. There’s a connection to some memory.

If there is one elemental resource we can count on in this region, it is rocks. Our practical forebears cleared them laboriously from the land, by hand and with horse…

Railroads brought a giant step in technology to the people of these fair hills, a step that took some getting used to. Although the new technology promised commercial progress and an easier lifestyle, it came at a price.

Children were expected to work, often in the cruellest of conditions. Destitute, abandoned or orphaned, many children survived by their wits on the street.

Black settlers were among the first homesteaders in the hills, but little of their legacy remains.