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History, Architecture & Genealogy in the Forest City and Beyond

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The End of Elgin Hall

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This is Elgin Hall - a 173-year-old pre-Confederation home in the village of Mount Elgin, Southwest Oxford, once the home of the first MP fo...
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Friday, April 14, 2023

The Forest City - Or Is It?

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The City of London says it needs to remove big trees in Old North and some folks in the neighbourhood aren't happy about it.  Much neede...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Those Nameless Ancestors

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Old photographs provide an interesting gateway to the past, showing us the fashions, hairstyles, homes, workplaces and communities of yester...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Adaptive Reuse in Carlisle, North Middlesex

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  The Presbyterian Church Heritage Centre (PCHC) is moving into Carlisle United Church, in the hamlet of Carlisle, near Ailsa Craig in Middl...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Day Trips: Port Burwell

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Not everyone thinks of Port Burwell when choosing an interesting day trip. But not only does this Lake Erie village have a nice, sandy stret...
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Sunday, October 2, 2022

The Most Haunting of Former Villages

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Southwold Earthworks, site of an Attawandaron village ca. AD 1450-1550. One of the eeriest places in Elgin County is the so-called Southwold...
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Military Site Returns to Nature

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In September a friend and I visited the site of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan's No. 4 Bombing & Gunnery School, near Fi...
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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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