11 February 2008

A View of Brockville from the Waterfront ca.1896

ca.1896

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This marvelous view of earlier Brockville was taken from the roof of the CPR warehouse south of the Brockville Railway Tunnel. It has captured a period [...]

11 February 2008

Welcome to the first “History of Brockville” Blog

This site will be devoted to showing, telling, and describing the multitude of historical information that is available about the great city of Brockville, Ontario.

This cartoon below is from “It Happened in Canada,” a regular newspaper drawing feature similar to “Ripley’s Believe It or Not”. The drawings and details were created and researched by Gordon [...]