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 (w
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Eight Years of Amazing Research: Heritage Fair at Grey Roots
Since 2008 when the Heritage Fairs program, then Histor!ca Fair, started at Grey Roots over 2000 local Grey-Bruce students have participated in the program.
Archives Awareness Week
There is hardly a topic for conversation that can arouse greater division than politics. So it is, so it will be, and, apparently, so it has always been.
1851 Correspondence to George Snider, Crown Land Agent: Petition from Artemesia Township Black Settlers
The Archives are fortunate to hold an extensive collection of letters, donated by Bill Henry, PF502.
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.
The F.T. Hill & Co. Store
The F.T. Hill & Co.
Moreston by Candlelight
As an adult, sometimes it’s hard to remember the feelings of joy and wonder you experienced as a child at Christmas time, when everything was magical and anything was possible.
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 righ
A Story of Dedication and Love – Mrs. Eaton and Her Volunteers at the Canadian Greys’ Rooms
There is an interesting story that must not be forgotten, and it is the one of Mrs.
Douglas Letters – The Sequel
In February of this year, the Archives posted a blog about the oldest item in our Collecti
Growing up at Grey Roots – My Top Ten Favourite Things
My name is Aaron Sirota, and I’m here today at Grey Roots for the annual Take Your Kids to Work Day.
Haunted Schoolhouses and Halloween Treats
A photograph in the archival collection, hand-labeled “Haunted School” seems like a fitting image for this time of year. The school in the photograph is U.S.S. No.
