Pieces of the Past

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. 

Some local students doing their first day back to school walk in 1976 made front page news.

In anticipation of this month’s release of the Stratford-Perth Archives’ free, local newspaper database, we are showcasing histories of Perth County newspapers. Today, we take a look at the Stratford Mirror and its interesting founder. The Mirror will be just one of the newspapers available via the

2014 - North Perth council supported a recommendation from Coun. Warren Howard to step back from the Multi-Municipal Wind Turbine Working Group. 

Since moving to Listowel when I was eight, I have always loved driving or walking by this beautiful home, and dreamed of going inside it.  I was thrilled when, a few years ago, before it was sold, I had the opportunity to do just that.  I had a lovely tour of the former Hardwood Haven Bed and Breakf

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