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A Foreign Affair: Upcoming Book Launch and Theatre Presentation at the Oil Museum of Canada

Posted on Friday, September 16, 2011 12:00 AM

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Foreign Driller Fever is upon us! One of Lambton County's most interesting chapters will be coming to life at the Oil Museum of Canada at the end of the month.


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Author Gary May (who wrote one of the definitive works on foreign drillers, Hard Oiler) is launching his newest book, The Scent of Oil. He chose the Oil Museum of Canada as the location for his book launch, which will occur from 2:00 to 4:00pm on Friday, September 30. The Oil Museum of Canada is proud to sponsor the event...

The History of Lambton's Fall Fairs

Posted on Wednesday, September 07, 2011 12:00 AM

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Fall Fairs are a time-honoured rural tradition throughout Ontario. The earliest agricultural society was formed at Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1792. Other societies followed, and they would hold fairs with butter, cheese and maple sugar. In 1834, a prize was offered for "Best Servant!"


While there used to be as many as eight fairs active in Lambton County, that number has decreased to the remaining five: Plympton and Wyoming; Petrolia and Enniskillen; Brigden; Forest; and Brooke and Alvinston....

New History Website! The Township of Warwick: A Story Through Time

Posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:00 AM

In partnership with the Warwick Township History Committee, the Township of Warwick and the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture's Museums and Technology Fund, the Lambton Room is proud to present a new history website! The Township of Warwick: A Story Through Time is a brand new website that brings together fascinating information about the township's history into one convenient location.


The website has its roots in the publication The Township of Warwick: A Story Through Time, which was...

Keeping Up With The Joneses: The Maxwell Settlement Part 2

Posted on Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:00 AM

I received some great feedback about my last blog, Lambton's Communal Experiment: The Maxwell Settlement. A lot of people are unaware of and fascinated by this pocket of Lambton County's history! I have been working closely with the Jones Diaries over the last few weeks, and I wanted to share some additional information about this amazing collection to flesh out the Maxwell story. So here is Keeping Up With The Joneses: The Maxwell Settlement Part 2!


I mentioned at the end of my last blog that the...

Ontario Vital Statistics: New Years Are Here!

Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:00 AM

This morning the Lambton Room received an exciting package in the mail. It contained the latest round of Ontario Vital Statistics. We now have a new year's worth of records pertaining to births, marriages and deaths in the province of Ontario. We have birth registrations up to and including 1914; marriage registrations up to and including 1929; and death registrations up to and including 1939.


About fifteen minutes before the package arrived, I had just been discussing with one of my co-workers about...

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