To promote the history of Oxford County in South-Western Ontario
Hello Everyone,
Please read this guest post from the Woodstock Museum NHS!
The OxHS is now on Facebook and Instagram, to like us search: OxfordHistoricalSociety1897
Or click on the FB or Instagram symbol on the right hand side of our website!
If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca
Oxford County Branch – Ontario Ancestors – Zoom Meeting: April 14, 2025 at 7pm!
Preachers, Teachers, Entrepreneurs and Rebels by Deward Yates
Deward Yates will take us on a virtual field trip of historical plaques, following rural and urban pathways, celebrating Oxford County’s History from Embro to Wolverton and multiple places in between!
To register for this free presentation, please visit our website at https://oxford.ogs.on.ca
The OxHS is now on Facebook and Instagram, to like us search: OxfordHistoricalSociety1897
Or click on the FB or Instagram symbol on the right hand side of our website!
If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca
Oxford County Branch – Ontario Ancestors – Zoom Meeting: March 10, 2025 at 7pm!
The Devon Elliotts: The Stories of Those Who Came, Those Who Stayed and
Those Who Left Presented by Glenn Elliott
Glenn was born and raised on a North Oxford farm two kilometres west of Beachville. He spent an idyllic childhood of chores, tractors, and farm activities. However he was one of those who left. A 40 year career in Broadcast Television in Vancouver was a far cry from the solitude of the farm and dairy herd. With retirement and Covid limiting activities he was looking for a project and started researching his family. His massive family history is still a document in progress. It was an eye
opening road to discovery of the exciting, tragic, humbling, humorous stories of his extended family and those who preceded them. Along his journey he met family members he didn’t know before and made many new friends.
To register for this free presentation, please visit our website at https://oxford.ogs.on.ca
The OxHS is now on Facebook and Instagram, to like us search: OxfordHistoricalSociety1897
Or click on the FB or Instagram symbol on the right hand side of our website!
If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca
Hello Everyone,
Please see this guest post from the Annandale NHS:
Annandale NHS is excited to announce that we are now selling copies of Pursuing Play: Women’s Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870–1914 (University of Manitoba Press), by Rebecca Beausaert. Rebecca Beausaert is an adjunct professor in the Department of History, University of Guelph, and co-founder and co-director of the “What Canada Ate” website. She was also Annandale House’s summer research assistant from 2003-2006.
Life in the Canadian countryside at the turn of the twentieth century is often generalized as insular, backwards, and arduous. These assumptions are redressed in Rebecca Beausaert’s Pursuing Play, which highlights the complexity of small-town culture through a lively examination of women’s efforts to negotiate space for themselves and their leisure pursuits. Amply illustrated, Pursuing Play draws on diaries, letters, and newspapers to investigate women’s recreational activities—including sports, “armchair travelling,” gambling, and Spinster Conventions—in Dresden, Tillsonburg, and Elora between 1870–1914.
Copies are $35.00 (taxes included)!
For information about this purchasing the book, contact the Annandale NHS at 519-842-2294.
If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca
The OxHS is now on Facebook and Instagram, to like us search: OxfordHistoricalSociety1897
Or click on the FB or Instagram symbol on the right hand side of our website!
Hello Everyone,
Please see this guest post from the Woodstock Public Library:
Woodstock Public Library is excited to be hosting the following Local History author book talk event on Thursday, January 9, 2025 from 6:30pm until 8:00pm. It is a registered program event. Join author Ian Radforth, writer of the recent non-fiction boo; “Deadly Swindle: An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario that Gripped the World” for a fascinating discussion about one of Canada’s most sensational murder cases and how the regional and international press ran with it.
This is an RSVP event, please use this link to register: https://woodstock.bibliocommons.com/events/672a71e98fc0a328000b3110
For information about this event, contact the Woodstock Public Library at 519-539-4801.
If you would like your event or article published (relating to Oxford County ON or South-Western ON), on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca
The OxHS is now on Facebook and Instagram, to like us search: OxfordHistoricalSociety1897
Or click on the FB or Instagram symbol on the right hand side of our website!