Stories from our Past
Living History for 6 December 2023
1943: O.A. Burley Proves Santa’s Helper with Useful Toys Picton has a small toy making industry of which few are aware. True, it is only a one-man shop, but a…
Living History for 29 November 2023
1973: The Gazette keeping pace with progress Approaching its 150th year as Prince Edward County’s own newspaper, The Picton Gazette has not only recorded the progress and development of the…
Living History for 22 November 2023
1833: We omitted last week, to notice the extraordinary appearance of the heavens on Wednesday morning Nov. 13th, because not having seen it ourselves we could form no correct idea…
Living History for 15 November
1943: H.P.E.R. Strengthens Reputation As Sturdy Fighters, Tough Spots In the formidable hills to the north of the highway from Lucera to Campobasso, along which the Canadians have had their…
Living History for 8 November 2023
1983: Columnist Harry Evans reflects on the season Put the clocks back Oct. 30 and luxuriated in bed the extra hour. Next morning on rising found we’d had the first…
Living History for 1 November 2023
1863: an advertisement reads, in part: PHOTOGRAPHIC Terms of common occurrence, and Maxims, popularly explained, BY J. A. S. (The following article is not intended to be a piece of…
Living History for 25 October 2023
1913: McDonald and McCall Escape From Jail On Saturday afternoon last James McDonald and Russell McCall escaped from the County Jail. The prisoners were allowed the use of the jail…
Living History, 18 October 2023
1833 in the Hallowell Free Press VILLAGE LOTS FOR SALE, by the subscriber, in the thriving village of Wellington; where there is every necessary, and a good proportion of the…
Living History, 190th Anniversary of Bloomfield’s naming
October 3 marks the 190th anniversary of the naming of Bloomfield. In a long travelogue published in the Hallowell Free Press on 28 September 1833 (available in full by clicking…
Living History for 11 October 2023
1933: TWO ARRESTS MADE IN BANK HOLD-UP Two taken in custody in connection with the attempted robbery of the Wellington branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at 8.30 in…