Business partners Moss Kent Dickinson (1822-1897) and Joseph Merrill Currier (1820-1884) built and established Watson’s Mill in 1860, 7 years before Queen Victoria gave royal assent for Canada’s union on 1 July 1867. Dickinson and Currier also established and named the village of Manotick after an Ojibwe word meaning “island in the river.” A sawmill […]
The South Simcoe Theatre is located in the small village of Cookstown, Ontario within the township of Innisfil that had once been home to the Huron people. Innisfil and the village of Cookstown had many names over the years. In 1825 it was Perry’s Corner. But in the 1830s a man named Thomas Cooke […]
The term ley line was first coined by Alfred Watkins, an amateur archaeologist, in 1921. He noticed that places of religious or spiritual significance were aligned through the English country-side and had names that contained the syllable “ley” so he named them ley lines. These particular connections are called true ley lines. True ley […]
Your loved ones are not gone. They are there with you whether you notice them or not. Spirits are formed from energy and not all spirits have the energy to let you know they are with you. They will communicate with you in a way that will catch your attention but use the least energy. […]
The current Fort Henry, once referred to as the “Citadel of Upper Canada,” is the last of three forts built where the St. Lawrence River empties into Lake Ontario. The first fort was built during the War of 1812 to protect the dockyard on Point Frederick from a possible American attack and to monitor maritime […]
The Cockshutt Family figures prominently in the story of the City of Brantford. Frank Cockshutt (1857-1938) was the President of the Cockshutt Plow Company. William Foster Cockshutt was a Member of the Canadian Parliament for Brantford. Henry Cockshutt (1868-1944) was the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. The Cockshutt Family was always generous with their time […]
What attracts ghosts to you, your children, or your home? If you are unaware of or unprepared for the consequences of playing with a Ouija board you could be in for a mess of trouble. Playing with a Ouija board is one way of inviting unwanted spirits (good or bad) into your home or […]
The Longhouse or hodensote is long narrow house covered in rectangular slabs of birch or elm bark and built by the Iroquois, which included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people. They were called Iroquois but they called themselves Haudenosaunee, which meant “people who live in the longhouse.” The building of a longhouse […]
Peter Anthony Prince (1836-1925) was born in Trois-Rivières, Québec, the second of four children born to Enoch Prince (1802-1867) and Marie Angeline Trottier (1808-1901). Enoch and Angeline were married twice. The first in Trois-Rivières by a protestant minister in July 1831 and secondly in St-Stanislas-de-Champlain, Québec on the 25th of December 1833. According to church […]
Surely some of the places with the saddest spirits in Canada are the former residential schools, where approximately 150,000 First Nations and Métis children lost their cultures, identities, and even their lives at the hands of government and church employees whose aim was to “kill the Indian in the child.” The Other Side encountered […]