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Unique buildings, unique stories
Like many of my friends who travel far and wide, I am fascinated by unique places, structures or buildings, but my interest is focused on Whitchurch-Stouffville. Read More Read More
White buildings remembered
I suggest that most of us have a prominent white building etched somewhere in our memory. It could be a school house, a town hall in a southern community, a church or perhaps a lighthouse photographed in our travels. Read More Read More
A famous connection
If you asked me 25 years ago to name one world famous person who was born, raised or lived in Stouffville I would have had to think long and hard. This is why I am amazed each time I note in a historical document that a certain prominent person had a connection to our community. Read More Read More
A lake – not your mother’s tea kettle
History records that tens of thousands of years ago, what we now know as Canada was covered by glaciers. When these glaciers receded they left behind many of the lakes we are blessed with in York Region. Read More Read More
The evolution of the local library
Each day millions of people around the world drop into their local library. Libraries in Ontario alone host more than 70 million patrons each year. Some drop in to do research, others to read a periodical or book. Students of all ages do homework or partake in the myriad of programs offered. Read More Read More
A hamlet divided
By Maurice Smith Whitchurch–Stouffville was inaugurated in 1971, when the provincial government combined all the villages and hamlets in our area into one community as part of a larger project which created the Regional Municipality of York. Read More Read More
After the lumbermen left
Until the mid 1800s forest areas surrounding Whitchurch-Stouffville, and many other communities in Ontario, were home to abundant forests of majestic white pine. When the European settlers arrived, they hired lumbermen with their sawyers to assist with clearing their land of these trees which they considered obstacles to farming. The lumbermen soon realized there was a significant... Read More
Logging in Whitchurch-Stouffville
The areas surrounding Whitchurch Township and the northern parts of Stouffville were once synonymous with a booming lumber industry in Ontario. Read More Read More
Citizen Outreach
There is ample evidence that generations of Whitchurch-Stouffville residents have been generous and caring toward their fellow man throughout the world. There are many records of young men and woman leaving the comfort of home to fight in foreign wars, and many paid the supreme sacrifice. Their names are listed in library archives, the local legion and town records. Numerous athletes... Read More
