We may not live in the past; but the past lives in us…Samuel Pisar

History of Centre Wellington and the townships of Nichol, Pilkington, West Garafraxa

  • Between the Lakes

    Between the Lakes 1784 Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Metis) lived on this land for millennia before European settlers came for means of exploration and colonization. Before Europeans traveled to North America, first nations people inhabited the Ontario region, including the Iroquoian-speaking, Huron, Tionontati, and Erie peoples of the south and the Algonquian-speaking, Ojibwa,…

  • This new land of Quebec West

    The Seven Years’ War The Seven Years’ War (1756-63) was the first global war, fought in America, Europe, India and at sea. In North America, imperial rivals Britain and France struggled for supremacy. With the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France formally ceded Canada to the British. This was a crucial turning point in Canadian…

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