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A brief history of William Jelly, Founding Father of Shelburne

William Jelly was born in 1835 to Irish Immigrant John Jelly near Elizabethtown in Upper Canada, in a place later referred to as Brockville. It is ...

Explore a river

I grew up in Toronto. When I was a kid, I remember walking down to the end of my street, hoping the guard rail that ...

3rd Annual Horning’s Mills Garden Tour: June 21st

The 3rd Annual Horning’s Mills Garden Tour will take place on Saturday, June 21st, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. Horning’s Mills ...

Bring the kids to ‘Farm Day’ at the Shelburne Farmers’ Market

It is Farm Day at the Shelburne Farmers’ Market this Thursday, June 12 – the first Special Event of the 2014 season. Everyone is invited ...

Dirty 30s Street Festival a blast from the past

The 1930’s are infamous world wide as the tough times era of the twentieth century that followed the stock market crash and extreme drought on ...

Shelburne craftsman preserving fiddle history

The soulful vibrato of the fiddle has resonated through this land for centuries, a musical echo of our ethnic mosaic, each unique bow blending to ...

Ottawa Journal: celebrating Canadian Multiculturalism Day

Canada is known around the world as a diverse and welcoming society that guarantees the fundamental rights of every individual. Indeed, Canada is one of ...