I showed you this photo several years ago accompanied by a promise to show it to you again soon with the addition of more information; it’s been several years – I’ve been remiss. In July 1905 the ...

In the fall of 2024, I published a book titled Boards & Bricks, A History of Chatham Buildings & Structures. However, by the latter point of research I had surpassed 200 pages of content with my ...

The photo included is one of my favourites and though the quality of the picture is not the best, it does tell a wonderful story. The concept was to invite hundreds of former Chatham residents to ...

My go-to plant for backyard gardeners wishing to attract birds is juneberry. Juneberries, sometimes called serviceberries, are deciduous trees native to all of Canada and most of the U.S. In the wild, ...

I have a number of aerial photos beginning with what I believe to have been the first which was an aerial photo taken in 1919 and depicting Public General Hospital and the area surrounding the lower ...

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go to bed and wake the next morning with another language in your brain and on your tongue? Sadly, it doesn’t work that way. Today, online translation is certainly ...

Mid to late winter is the time of year when the Thames has been known to breach its banks. Most of the water depth, between Chatham and the lake, is about eight feet but once the current subsides, the ...

Originally, before the creation of the roads and the railways, any cargo or passengers coming to Chatham would do so via sailing craft that would travel the river from Lake St Clair. In the period ...

I have always thought that the busiest retail space in early Chatham could be found at the intersection of King and Fifth streets. The accolades, however, would fall to King and Fifth as it would ...

For residents and business owners near the site of the former tent encampment at Rotary Park in downtown Chatham, it’s a good news story. However, a few weeks ago as I drove by, I saw a flurry of ...

Trigger alert: In this column, I’ll be discussing some disturbing war-related topics, so please bear that in mind if you continue on. The war was the backdrop of much of my father’s childhood, ...

I showed you the included picture in March 2023, and I did so with a promise to tell you more about its content. A notation on the photo indicates 1906 as the year the image was created, but I do not ...