Okay, I admit it, I jumped more than once and my heartbeat was accelerated by the time I finished this…
Author: Ian Bowering
Historian, author and beer aficionado Ian Bowering has curated at eight museums, and is in the process of working on his 28th publication.
BOOK LAUNCH SUCCESS AT THE CLINE HOUSE
Dozens of people attended the very successful launch of Ginette Guy Mayer’s new book, The Women of SDG & Akwesasne,…
Readers Take Cornwall
Hundreds of avid readers swarmed the 30 plus vendors at the first Readers Take Cornwall book and craft sale held…
WORLD CLASS AUTHORS, GROUND BREAKING HISTORIANS, a very few REMARKABLE WRITERS OF SDG
SD & G is not only the home of such world famous authors as Charles Gordon, better known as Ralph…
CORNWALL’S HERALDIC SYMBOLS.
Symbols, such as a coat of arms, representing sports teams, countries, provinces, and cities are important. At their best they…
Eastern Ontario Writers’ Festival, at the Cornwall Public Library.
A huge shout out to the facilitators of this weekend’s Writers’ Festival held at the Cornwall Public Library is in…
FRANCOPHONE MEDIA
In researching the story of the regions’ media, I came across nearly a century of French language print, radio and…
There was something for every taste – at the SDG & Area Book Fair.
Twenty-seven veteran and first-time authors and book groups led readers on a literary voyage of discovery, at the Lost Villages…
OFF THE BEATEN PATH – GLENGARRY COUNTY
No history buff can resist the lure of Williamstown, and St. Raphael’s or the skirl of bagpipes at the Maxville…
The World came to Lamoureux Park this past Weekend, July 12-14.
by Ian Bowering Quick! Please! Someone pinch me and tell me that I am still in Cornwall and not Montreal…
Cornwall’s Interim Control Bylaw needs Clearer Messaging
Last November, the City Council of Cornwall passed an Interim Control Bylaw to address the issue of homelessness. With estimates…
REMARKABLE CORNWALL – Explorers, Adventurers and One Astronaut
As we are fast approaching THE SEEKER’S local discovery month, this issue’s REMARKABLE series will look SD & G ‘s…
REMARKABLE CORNWALL & SDG – FARMING
THE “MAC,” the APPLE DUNDAS GAVE THE WORLD. Martha Stewart may rank the “Mac” fourth in her rating of the…
REMARKABLE CORNWALL & SDG – RELIGIOUS MILESTONES
Given the emphasis on Scottish traditions in SD & G, it is easy to forget that the United Empire Loyalists,…
REMARKABLE CORNWALL & SDG – SPORTS’ TRIUMPHS
It is hard to know where to start with this topic, as there are so many highlights and I am…
CORNWALL WOMEN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE
ALDA (ARBUTHNOT) MACKINNON – CURATOR. The local heritage community owes a deep debt of gratitude to Alda MacKinnon for preserving…
Remarkable Cornwall – Society and Politics
As Cornwall and SDG can rightfully claim to be where modern Ontario began with the arrival of the United Empire…
VICTORY HOMES the Answer to Canada’s First Housing Crisis
Inflation, a focus on luxury homes that are out of reach for the average Canadian, and uncoordinated but necessary immigration…
Remarkable Cornwall and SD&G. Part 2
It is not unusual to hear people say that politically, Ontario stops at Kingston; Cornwall and SDG are forgotten. The…
REMARKABLE CORNWALL and SD & G. Part 1
Ian Bowering Cornwall and SD & G can proudly claim to be “Where (Modern) Ontario started.”Founded by refugee United Empire…
A Spirited Presentation at the Library by author Stuart Lyall Manson
Naming Lake St. Francis, just off of South Lancaster, Canada’s “Bermuda Triangle,” due to the number of “accidental” deaths throughout…