The Gazette is itself a piece of Prince Edward County’s history. In this collection we draw attention to stories the pertain to the history of the County and its heritage. Pieces from the Gazette’s own history can be found in Living History and From the Archives.
June 6 is the 80th anniversary of D Day, the turning point of World War II
Architectural Conservancy of Ontario Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Landmark Volume
“What if heritage came first?” asks Peter Lockyer. “Not as an afterthought, not after the roads. But if it was the first thing we did, because it's the most important thing we have.”
0Two recent books are entries in a special genre. Neither quite history nor entirely fiction, they imagine the past in intriguing ways.
More than 100 years after it sank, “the holy grail of Ontario shipwrecks” will be opened to divers
The past couple of weeks have seen a conjunction of events one step away from connecting. It’s as though the planets are aligning.
David and Barbara Sweet of Books & Company celebrate 30th anniversary on Main Street
This March 16 and 17, Friendship United Church in Demorestville celebrates the 150th anniversary of its rebuilt church
Flashback February celebrated all across the County in events large and small
My favourite editorial this past year was about the history of tourism in the County. We called it, fancifully, “This Pleasured Isle, this Green and Storied Place,” (Aug. 10, 2023). We were trying to give a sense of summers long past. I asked Chris if we could do a Part II — more steamboats, more stories of picknicking in the grass, maybe some parasols. “There isn’t any more,” he said. “After the steamboats, it’s all about the cars.”
The mystery of the window at Consecon Public Library, unsolved for over a hundred years
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