by Monica | Jul 7, 2021 | History, NEWS, Publications
Corduroy Road Over a Swamp in Orillia Township, Ontario Ware, Titus Hibbert, 1810-1890 Picture, 1844, English Pen & brown & blue inks, grey wash, over pencil. Toronto Public Library Digital Archive, in the Public Domain By Fred Blair Jacob Gill and his...
by Monica | Jun 23, 2021 | NEWS, Publications, Uncategorized
Community Difference-Maker: Erin Dixon and the Gojijing Roundtable Three thousand years ago, Orillia was populated by the Wendat or Huron people, whose settlement extended all around Lake Couchiching, which they called Gojijing. As colonizers arrived, the lives of...
by Monica | Jun 9, 2021 | History, NEWS, Publications
Andrew Borland, War of 1812 Veteran By Fred Blair On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on the British. Many recent American settlers in Upper Canada, like the Borlands, had to consider where their loyalties lay. By law, all the males between 16 and 60 in...
by Monica | May 26, 2021 | History, NEWS, Publications
By Trish Crowe-Grande, Chair OMAH History Committee The Thomsons, one of Orillia’s influential founding families, rose in prominence in the early days when lumbering was the big industry and dominated the commercial life of the community. Born in Scotland in 1831,...
by Monica | May 10, 2021 | Franklin Carmichael, History, NEWS, Publications
Introduction Happy 131st Birthday, Franklin Carmichael for May 4th, 2021. Fellow Orillians are on a quest to learn more about you. Carmichael was a Renaissance man: husband, father, teacher, philosopher, artist in oil, watercolour and graphite, designer of book...
by Monica | Dec 12, 2020 | History, NEWS, Publications, Uncategorized
The current Covid-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented changes in social interaction and commerce. With all the changes resulting from self-isolation, social distancing, travel restrictions, reduced shopping trips, increased on-line shopping, working at home and...
