heritage week 2023

This week is Heritage Week in Ontario, so it is time to take our annual look back at some of the places and events which form part of our common history. 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of North Grenville, since Oxford-on-Rideau, South Gower, and the Town of Kemptville were amalgamated. This year is also the centenary of local boymade-good, G. Howard Ferguson, becoming Premier of Ontario in July, 1923. In future issues of the Times, we’ll be pub- lishing a series on the life and times of Ferguson, the man who gave us the Kemptville College, and, perhaps most notably, the LCBO! We mark the past in the photographs and the memories we share. We mark the present in the stories and reports of the week, and we look to the future too. Our thanks go out to the North Grenville Historical Society for the use of some of the photographs that form part of their archives, maintained in our name and for our inheritance to the future.