Pieces of the Past

While on a trip to Sault St. Marie in the 1920s, local newspaper publisher Charles O.J. Dingman…

Witches, ghosts, carved pumpkins, and scary black cats are what we think of this time of the year as Halloween approaches. Maybe you are going to get dressed up to go trick-or-treating or to host a party. 

Frozen turkeys $0.89/lb;

A recent donation to Stratford-Perth Archives from the Gordon family included this invitation from August 1942.

It’s October.  A season of falling leaves, cooler temps, cozying up with a good book and warm drink, and the Healthcare Heroes Radiothon.  Now entering it’s 23rd year, I thought this would be a fitting time to delve into a little bit of the history of healthcare and hospitals in North Perth.

One of the local newspapers that you can now access from home via the Stratford-Perth Archives Digital Newspaper Database at vitacollections.ca/s-pacollections/search is the Milverton Sun from 1891 to 1919. Later issues are available on microfilm in the Archives’ Reading Room.

Bruce County has been described as a unique region of Ontario, a combination of human, natural and physical resources, to 24 British investors during a $23 million investment tour of South Bruce last week;

Stratford-Perth Archives is excited to announce a new way to access local historic newspapers. You…

Few realize that Bruce County women served in key roles during wartime.

2014 - Avon Maitland District School Board approved the $14.5 million tender for the construction of a new school, which was later named Westfield Elementary School.