Pieces of the Past

This is week 40 of a series of articles celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stratford-Perth Archives and its treasures. This week’s treasure is an unpublished history of Perth County created by school teacher and poet, E. Lillian Morley (1891-1975).

This is the 39th week of a series of articles celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stratford-Perth Archives. This week’s featured treasures are letters written by two men considered to be Canada’s most renowned ornithologists, naturalists, and conservationists.

This is week 38 of a series of articles celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stratford-Perth Archives, and its treasures. This week’s treasure is a small selection of Thanksgiving postcards – all roughly 110 years old and featuring images of turkeys.

In September 1960, ALPHABET magazine announced itself as “A Semiannual Devoted to the Iconography of the Imagination.”

Many have paused recently to watch live television broadcasts of rituals and other observances of respect marking the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

After 50 years of operation, Stratford-Perth Archives continues to house an ever-growing collection of material that is carefully preserved and made accessible for researchers from Perth County and around the world.

As we celebrate Labour Day this year, we are looking back at an event and the ramifications that took place 89 years ago: The Stratford Strike of 1933.

After 50 years of operation, Stratford-Perth Archives houses an ever-growing collection of material that is carefully preserved and made accessible for researchers from Perth County and around the world.

In the 31st edition of our ongoing series ‘50 Treasures from Stratford-Perth Archives,’ this week we feature the photographs from the Campbell Collection.

The City of Stratford sold Oland J. Brooks a former threshing machine factory located at 500 Ontario St. for $55,000, with the City taking back a mortgage of $50,000 in October 1923. Stratford, an important railway junction with a labour pool used to working with steam-powered vehicles, was seen as

After 50 years of operation, Stratford-Perth Archives houses an ever-growing collection of material that is carefully preserved and made accessible for researchers from Perth County and around the world. One of the ways that we are celebrating the Archives’ golden anniversary is by highlighting 50 “

This is Week 28 of a continuing series of articles celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Stratford-Perth Archives and 50 of its treasures. This week’s treasure is a painting of a very famous horse, The Eel, and some of his trophies, seen here in a 1969 photograph, also from the Archives’ colle

One tends to think of Stratford’s history as a “railway town” as distinct from the city’s current fame as a cultural centre based around the Shakespearean Festival.

After 50 years of operation, Stratford-Perth Archives houses an ever-growing collection of historical materials that are carefully preserved and made accessible for researchers from Perth County and around the world. We are celebrating the Archives’ golden anniversary by highlighting 50 of our treas