Pieces of the Past

On Wednesday Dec. 4, 1946, the Perth County Kennel Club held its first ever dog show in Stratford.…

The mail must go through, they say—through snow and rain and gloom of night. Even if it means walking 45 miles, and back. 

Now is the time for fresh corn! Margaret Visser’s 1986 book, Much Depends on Dinner, a classic on…

- Blue boxes arrive here;

There was what we would now call a federal election in Canada in the summer of 1863. The campaign literature from one of the candidates who ran in Stratford rivals social media posts in modern times with comments about court cases and accusations of “unprincipled behavior.”

2014 - Charges pending after violent collision south of Millbank resulted in seven injured and transported to the hospital after a gravel truck struck a minivan. 

From Aug. 2, 1989.

Mitchell is hosting a 150th anniversary homecoming this summer and the “welcome home for fun…

1924 - “Scottie” Ross brought a bunch of about as nice looking speckled trout as we have even seen, into our office on Thursday morning. He went out good and early and just where he went is his own business evidently for he is not telling anyone. He caught nineteen beauties, but we can’t vouch for h

2014 - Candice De Weerd was crowned the 2014 Listowel Fair Ambassador

1974 - Both the Town of Listowel and the Village of Brussels, according to a report by the Ministry of Environment, were polluting the waters of the Middle Maitland River with “untreated municipal-industrial wastes” entering the river through “uncontrolled municipal and industrial sewers”.

- CN will abandon railway line;

The idea for a public swimming pool and a local chapter of the Lions Club to create it came from a heartbreaking event.