Discover Our Local History!

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Please see this guest post from the Thamesford Lion’s Club:

Join us for special event as we welcome Dr. Peter Timmons from the University of Western Ontario, for his talk: “The Wheaton Site: Learning from a Mid-19th Century Travern on the Governor’s Road”

The presentation will take place at the Thamesford Library on Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 7pm in the Beaty room. All are welcome to attend this free talk. For more information contact the Thamesford Lions Club



If you have an event, pictures and articles concerning the history of Oxford County that you would like published on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca

Spirit of Christmas Tour of Homes!

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Please see this guest post from the Woodstock Museum NHS:

The Spirit of Christmas Tour of Homes is back!

Our holiday home tour is returning for the first time in three years on Saturday, November 25 from 10am to 2pm.

Hosted by the Museum Advisory Committee, the tour will feature four historic homes decked out for the holidays. Tickets can be purchased for $20 each at the Museum. Visit our website for a map of the participating homes!



If you have an event, pictures and articles concerning the history of Oxford County that you would like published on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca

The Black Londoners Project – Saturday, November 11, 2023!

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Please see this guest post from: Words The Literary and Creative Arts Festival:

Alyssa MacLean & Miranda Green-Barteet: “Researching London’s Black History: The Black Londoners Project”

November 11, 2023 at 1:00pm

In partnership with the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at Western University, Words is pleased to host a presentation by Western Professors Alyssa MacLean & Miranda Green-Barteet who are mapping the stories of formerly enslaved Black Londoners.

Alyssa MacLean & Miranda Green-Barteet: “Researching London’s Black History: The Black Londoners Project”
Saturday, 11 November, 1PM
Museum London, Centre at the Forks

In 1856, Benjamin Drew, a U.S. abolitionist, travelled to Canada to transcribe the oral stories of formerly enslaved Black individuals. Among them, 16 individuals who originally settled in London, Ont. Their narratives, recorded in Drew’s book, A North-Side View of Slavery, describe their former enslavers, their escapes and how they made it to Canada.

But what of their lives afterwards?

With Drew’s accounts as their starting point, Western researchers Miranda Green-Barteet and Alyssa MacLean are working to trace the paths these self-liberated individuals took after arriving in London and to better understand their experiences in London. By documenting their journeys through an interactive website hosted by Western Libraries, Green-Barteet and MacLean aim to address a longstanding gap in the history of Black Londoners.

In this presentation, Professors Green-Barteet and MacLean will explore how they are using resources in Western Libraries Archives and Special Collections to support their work creating a Black Londoners Digital Archive. 

As part of the Words Festival, we will also have a display of Western Archives materials at Museum London! To register for the event follow the links for their website: Words – Researching London’s Black History: The Black Londoners Project!



If you have an event, pictures and articles concerning the history of Oxford County that you would like published on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca

Proudly She Served – Canadian Women at War: 1885-1945!

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Please see this guest post from the Oxford Branch of Ontario Ancestors:

Please join us at our next virtual meeting on Monday, November 13th at 7:00 pm as

Glenn Wright presents “Proudly She Served – Canadian Women at War – 1885-1945”.  Between 1914 and 1919, more than 3200 nurses served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) at home and overseas. During the Second World War, about 50,000 women volunteered, as the role of women expanded significantly when the Canadian Army, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy created women’s divisions. The CEF and the Second World War service files in the custody of LAC are an important source of information for family historians, genealogists, women’s history, and all those interested in Canada’s military heritage. With these and other sources, we can more fully document and appreciate the role of Canadian women in uniform.

Please visit our website at https://oxford.ogs.on.ca and click on the link “Register Here” for the zoom meeting.  The meeting is free and we welcome everyone.



If you have an event, pictures and articles concerning the history of Oxford County that you would like published on the Society’s blog please email us at info@oxhs.ca

OxHS Local History Books for Sale!

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The Oxford Historical Society will be selling local history books at the Oxford Creates Art Expo on Saturday, November 4th from 10am-4pm, and on Sunday, November 5th from 12-4pm.
To discover more about this event go to: www.oxfordcreativeconnections.com

This is a great time to add to your history collection or start one! To see some of our available titles for purchase click on this link: OxHS Publications

All book prices include taxes, cash only.