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38th Annual Canal Days, Port Colborne
Join us this coming weekend (Sat. July 30 & Sun. July 31) for the 38th annual Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival in downtown Port Colborne – right at the junction o’ the Welland Canal & Lake Erie! We have a very special spot at the The Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum (280 King St., at Princess St.) next…
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1812 Reenactment At Backus Mills
Sat. & Sun., September 10/11, 2016 / 10am – 8pm Join us in Norfolk County at the wonderfully green Backus Heritage Village where hundreds of soldiers set up camp for this popular event! Historic merchants and demonstrations, Marine Museum (authentic Lake Erie artifacts!), Military Encampment and Battle re-enactment at 2:00 pm. Children can take part in mini…
Corktown, Ceol Cara & Crustaceans
Join us this Sunday night (7pm-11pm) for a land-locked Nite O’ Jolly Rogerin’™ at Hamilton’s historic pub, The Corktown (corner o’ Young St. & Ferguson Ave. S.)! The fine lads o’ Ceol Cara will be joinin’ us to serenade ye with chanteys, reels and other musical offerings – feel free to drink & sing along…
Last Walk For September!
This Thursday (28 Sept.) is our last walk this month – there is NO WALK NEXT WEEK, we resume on 12 October. We’ve been enjoying the visitors we’ve had this season; good questions, some good stories and a few who knew more than they let on! The local stories are great, of course; adding colour…
History & Integrity
A brief introduction…my matrilineal Great Uncle, Joseph Cyprien Béchard, was a very smart man – for someone who never went to school past 8th grade. Born in Québec, Canada in 1889 he moved to Massachusetts at about the age o’ 16. In those days, crossing that particular border was a small thing – if ye…

