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History, Architecture & Genealogy in the Forest City and Beyond

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Wright Lithographing in the "Good Old Days"

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London Life employees pose before company headquarters ca. 1920. The building became Wright Lithographing. (From the writer's collection...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Why bother with rules anyway?

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Here it is: the proposed site of Auburn Developments' 17-storey "luxury" highrise. A development Auburn and some city councilo...
Sunday, November 7, 2021

The Lost Art of Letter Writing

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How wonderful it is to live in the technologically-advanced twenty-first century, with email, texting, and instant digital communication. It...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Tombstone Tourism: Denfield (Welsh) Cemetery

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There's lots of reasons for visiting cemeteries. Some people visit the graves of loved ones to honour their memories. Others find hallow...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

A Walk Through Walkerville

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If you're looking for an interesting day trip from London, Windsor might not be your first thought. But a recent excursion to Canada...
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Monday, August 2, 2021

Sign up for a tour of Labatt Park, the World's Oldest Baseball Grounds

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  Labatt Park, the world's oldest continuously used baseball grounds, is finally receiving the promotion it deserves. I say "finall...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Dundas by any other name would still have problems

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London's main street has been Dundas for a long time. Since the beginning, in fact, when Surveyor-General Thomas Ridout instructed Mahlo...
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Jenny Grainger
Author of: Vanished Villages of Middlesex; Vanished Villages of Elgin; Early London 1826-1914; From The Vault: A Photo History of London to 1950; From The Vault II 1950-1975. A past president of ACO London and London & Middlesex Historical Society. My opinions, of course, are my own.
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