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Posted on February 23, 2022
Welcome to the 26th episode of the Life in the Talbot Settlement Podcast, today we will be talking about the production of textiles Flax/linen and wool processing. Weaving, sewing, Spinning, […]
Posted on February 9, 2022
We’re back with part 2 in the 3 part series of A Grave Situation from our podcast Life in the Talbot Settlement! In October 2021, the Dutton Dunwich Municipal Heritage Committee hosted […]
Posted on January 25, 2022
Today’s episode is about the Selkirk Settlers -A group of Scottish Highlanders who arrived at the fork of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in Manitoba, led by Lord Selkirk and […]
Posted on January 11, 2022
In October 2021, the Dutton Dunwich Municipal Heritage Committee hosted an outdoor Doors Open inviting people to visit 10 of our local cemeteries. We were mostly interested in showing unique grave marker designs, […]
Posted on December 29, 2021
I thought it would be interesting to follow the Leslie Patterson family and the Andrew Backus family through the census records to watch a developing farm from the earliest records through to the 1871 census. Information […]
Posted on December 22, 2021
In the 1850’s, the majority of people living in our area were of Irish, Scottish, English origins or had come here after living in the United States first. Their Christmas traditions would […]
Posted on December 15, 2021
The cultivation of tobacco has been in Canada for over 1000 years and was likely the earliest form of agriculture in North America, long before crops such as corn, beans, and […]
Posted on December 8, 2021
The information in this podcast is compiled from old documents, letters, and telegrams kept and labelled by Ruth Gilbert, foster sister of George Henry Backus. George Henry Backus, also known as […]
Posted on December 1, 2021
In 1796 James Fleming and his wife Barbara Windecker settled on Lot 6 1st Concession, broken front of what would become Aldborough Township, Elgin County. Land on both sides of the Thames River were owned by Fleming descendants until 1871. […]
