J.C. Forster, Architect
J. C. [Julian Charles] Forster (1860-1934) was an architect whose body of work included several projects in Owen Sound, Grey County, and beyond – spanning commercial, institutional, and residential design.
Innovation
The Luxurious Past of Balmy Beach – The King’s Royal Hotel
Accommodation for the travelling public has always been the basic premise of a hotel. One local hotel, however, the King’s Royal Hotel, was much more than simply a place to spend the night.
Owen Sound Street Numbers and Standardized Address Numbering, Introduced 1909
Numbered streets and avenues have been in place in Owen Sound for well over 100 years, even before Owen Sound became a City. At the same time as street names were changed to numbers, the standardizing of street addresses also took place.
The Kennedy Empire
A very important collection, which chronicles the growth of a manufacturer in Canada over a 140-year period, is preserved, catalogued and available to the public for research and viewing at the Grey County Archives.
Rural Telephone Companies in Grey
In the early years of the telephone industry, there were many small local companies that sprang up to accommodate the desire of rural residents to be connected by telephone.
John Frost and the Frost Family Story
This is the story of an extraordinary Canadian family, the John Frost Family, who in the early 1840s, discarded their comfortable, upper-middle class life in Bytown – now Ottawa – for the insecurity and uncertainty of life in the wilderness on western Georgian Bay. 
1854 Railroad Petition: The Start of a Long and Arduous Journey
On June 27, 2015 an exhibit entitled Arrivals and Departures: The CPR in Grey County opens at Grey Roots Museum & Archives.
Millions of Cigars Left Owen Sound Prior to 1931
When I am walking home from downtown in Owen Sound, I often pass a building that once produced a product I would never want to use, and yet I sometimes wish that I could hop into my time machine (with a camera) to see how the work was done there. The H. E. Cooke & Co.
War-Time Memories of the Owen Sound Area – Circa 1915
The year “1915” is on my mind today. A researcher enquired last week about what life was like locally for families sending their boys off to war during that year of the First World War. At that time, it was the “European War”.
A Marking Sampler by Anna Gray 1853
Something new to Grey Roots is a cross-stitch embroidery marking sampler, signed “Anna Gray 1853”. The natural linen ground has a basted and whipstitched hem, while the right edge is somewhat closer to the margin, and finished with a tight line of dark pink whipstitching.