The wonderfully candid photo at right has a date of 1949 on it, but no list of names associated. The photo below features the Grade 3 class at the Red Brick School in the 1947/48 school year. The names include: front row, Ambros Murphy, Allen Mustard, Stan Haskins, Barbara Lake, Irene Singleton. Back row: Wilfred […]
Last fall, EAHS was approached by Marie White, Economic Development and Cultural Heritage Coordinator for Rideau Lakes Township, to contribute to the Agrarian Magazine, an on-line Canadian family publication that was running a series of articles on rural school experiences. Two members of the EAHS Board responded to the request. Printed here are articles by […]
By Neil Patterson (This article appeared in the Elgin and Area Heritage Society Summer 2026 Newsletter) The 1904 Ontario Report of the Bureau of Mines states that, “the Sand Lake Mica Mine was the largest mica mine in the region”; a formidable claim indeed! Located in South Crosby Township, Concession 7, Lot 14, about 4 […]
The Elgin and Area Heritage Society Summer Newsletter is hot off the presses! Pour yourself a lemonade and sit a spell to read all about our summer display, life in a one-room school circa 1950, a special Christmas concert, the Sand Lake Mica Mine and much more!
Written and submitted by Neil A. Patterson. This article describes the history of the South Crosby Rural Telephone Company envisioned at Elgin, Ontario the 7th day of November 1907. Read the article at: https://eahs.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-07-Elgin-Telephone.pdf. The article also appeaars in the EAHS 2025 Summer Newsletter found under the Newsletter tab.
Read Grade 12 Rideau District High School student Kate Coleman’s article highlighting the EAHS involvement with the Upper Canada Schoolboard’s mobile digital lab initiative. Kate’s article can be found at the following link: https://eahs.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-07-Kate-Coleman.pdf and also in our 2025 Summer Newsletter at the Newsletter tab.
Members of the EAHS Board of Directors were pleased to meet Rideau District High School student Arden Lowry, along with local historian/researcher Kim Proud, at the Red Brick School on October 3, 2024, to hear of Arden’s WW1 research and upcoming trip.
This intriguing article detailing the life of members of the 156th Platoon from recruitment to transport overseas to engage in the war will both entertain and educate you. . Researched and written by Kim Proud, you will be transported to the life and times at the Barriefield Camp.
This article is a glimpse into local WW 1 veteran Henry Augustus Coon, as told by his daughter Libby Henson (Coon) and edited by Kim Proud.
This brief article introduces the personal footlocker of Henry Augustus Coon with roots to the 156th Platoon.