Originally Published in Heritage Happenings, March 2009These articles are reprinted as they were originally published. No attempt has been made to correct or update the content. If the topic interests you, we encourage you to do further research Read more

On the map

Flamborough was the last of the original 13 townships Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe ordered Augustus Jones to survey. Only a small section of what would become East and West Flamborough was surveyed during the first Read more

Originally Published in Heritage Happenings, February 2009These articles are reprinted as they were originally published. No attempt has been made to correct or update the content. If the topic interests you, we encourage you to do further research Read more

Originally Published in Heritage Happenings, January 2009These articles are reprinted as they were originally published. No attempt has been made to correct or update the content. If the topic interests you, we encourage you to do further research Read more

Over the next few months, ‘From the Vault’ will present a series of articles about tracing the ownership of a piece of property and how a little research can produce a picture of previous owners.

This will not be Read more

Originally Published in Heritage Happenings, November 2008These articles are reprinted as they were originally published. No attempt has been made to correct or update the content. If the topic interests you, we encourage you to do further research Read more

Originally Published in Heritage Happenings, October 2008These articles are reprinted as they were originally published. No attempt has been made to correct or update the content. If the topic interests you, we encourage you to do further research Read more

The death of General Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights on 13 October 1812 was among the reasons that the northern parts of East and West Flamborough Townships were so late to see the arrival of Read more

Originally Published in Heritage Happenings, April 2008These articles are reprinted as they were originally published. No attempt has been made to correct or update the content. If the topic interests you, we encourage you to do further research Read more

Pierre Desjardins was born in 1775 in Nesle, Picary in France before the eve of the French Revolution.

As a Royalist, he fled to England in the spring of 1792 before leaving for Upper Canada in the fall of Read more