Weekend Highlights – July 25 & 26
Posted on June 23, 2022
Hey you’ll, welcome back to another post of Weekend Highlights! We hope everyone had a great Father’s Day last weekend, and stayed cool in that blistering heat. This weekend we’ve […]
Tag: history
Podcast Episode 34-Food Preservation
Posted on June 15, 2022
In today’s episode we’ll be talking about the preservation of food throughout the ages! Canning is a process where food is placed in cans or jars and is heated to […]
Ontario Local Food Week
Posted on June 7, 2022
This week is Ontario Local Food Week! In celebration of this week, we’re going to be talking about the way our settlers stored their food! Before the invention of the […]
Podcast Episode 33 – The Hardware Business, West Lorne
Posted on May 18, 2022
West Lorne’s first hardware store seems to have been established during the 1870’s by William Potts. It was situated north of the railroads track (The Canada Southern Railway having been […]
Podcast Episode 32 – Ports & Shipwrecks of the Talbot Settlement
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Since man has used its waters, Lake Erie has claimed countless lives and been the cause of many shipwrecks. Lake Erie is the 11th largest freshwater lake in the world. […]
Podcast Episode 30 – Health & Medicine
Posted on April 20, 2022
In the life of an early settler, any illness, no matter the severity, could quickly become deadly. To combat this, settlers turned to their own remedies for a cure. Let’s […]
Podcast Episode 29-Titles & Class
Posted on April 13, 2022
Honorifics: [pre]fixed in hierarchy Throughout our podcasts you’ve probably heard numerous social honorifics in the form of titles and prefixes thrown around. Sir This, Mr. That, Colonel Talbot even, but […]
Podcast Episode 28 – Crime & Tragedies of the Talbot Settlement
Posted on March 30, 2022
Today is a rather intriguing episode. We’ll be talking about the crimes, scandals and tragedies that have occurred in the Talbot settlement. Before we begin, I’d like to acknowledge funding from the Department […]
Podcast Episode 23- A Grave Situation Cemeteries of Dutton Dunwich
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, […]