Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives Genealogists know information retrieved from gravestones has a practical application to identify the deceased. However, gravestones, as a research tool, can offer up more information about your ancestors when interpreted correctly. Besides functioning as a memorial to the deceased, gravestones provide insight into nineteenth and twentieth...

Join us on Zoom for our 2021 Virtual Lecture Series! On Wednesday April 7 at 10:30 a.m. Robert J. Lake presents, "'A Front Seat Among the Playgrounds of Two Nations': Lawn Tennis in Niagara-on-the-Lake, c.1880s-1920s." Registration is required. Please visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N27s3yU5TuCYiqzMpCx5dQ.

Presented by Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives We often think of farming as a traditional occupation—something that hasn’t really changed much. But that is not and was never the case. Farmers had to react and adapt to changing conditions like climate, technology, economics, new markets and new competitors. Some farmers did more than...

A free virtual film screening hosted by the Archives of Ontario Calling All Film Buffs! As part of Archives Awareness Week, the Archives of Ontario is hosting a virtual film screening on April 8 at 8pm of staff favourites from our Sound and Moving Images vaults. We’ll be featuring documentaries, home movies, government films and...

For hundreds of years historians have glossed over how First Peoples and the earliest European explorers communicated with one another during their first meetings. How did they convey information back and forth? How effective was this process? This talk returns to seminal episodes of “first encounter” to closely examine how people in reality communicated and...