NOTE: I've stopped updating this blog on a regular basis, but will leave the posts online for the foreseeable future so that anyone who is interested in the history of Manitoulin Island can browse the content.

October 31, 2025 | From Ireland to Manitoulin
September 23, 2025 | Who Doesn't Love Geology Textbooks?
August 05, 2025 | Blue Jay Creek
May 13, 2025 | A History of Homes
April 15, 2025 | Whiskey in a Jar
March 11, 2025 | Snake Fences
February 12, 2025 | Green Bay United Church Cemetery
January 17, 2025 | Hilly Grove Cemetery
December 11, 2024 | Oil Exploration on Manitoulin Island
November 19, 2024 | Forest Bailiffs
October 21, 2024 | Farming Comes to Manitoulin Island
September 15, 2024 | Forged in Fire
August 15, 2024 | Oswald Hinds
July 13, 2024 | The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of the Michael's Bay Lighthouse
June 12, 2024 | Setters arrive in Tehkummah
May 22, 2024 | Hannah, Dakota Territory
April 30, 2024 | Rules for Teachers - 1872
March 20, 2024 | Every Homesteader was an Herbalist
February 20, 2024 | Preserving Meat in the Days Before Refrigeration
January 19, 2024 | Researching 19th Century Family History on Manitoulin Island
December 29, 2023 | Childhood in Tehkummah in the 1870s
November 13, 2023 | What Would Manitoulin Residents Have Read in 1877?
October 17, 2023 | How Newspapers Shaped Manitoulin Island in the 1870s
September 15, 2023 | The Significance of Letter Writing in the 19th Century
August 15, 2023 | Why Manitoulin Residents are Known as Haweaters
July 15, 2023 | The Impact of Alcohol on Families in 19th Century Ontario
June 15, 2023 | The Geologic History of Manitoulin Island
July 07, 2022 | When A Boom Goes Bust
June 16, 2022 | Garafraxa Road
May 02, 2022 | Airing Laundry in Public
April 08, 2022 | And Nothing But The Truth
March 18, 2022 | Memoirs of a (Not So) Great Canadian Detective
February 21, 2022 | Farming the Unfarmable
January 17, 2022 | The Problem of Trees
December 10, 2021 | The Slow Pace of Settlement
November 24, 2021 | Unfamiliar Words
October 17, 2021 | Poultices Cured Pretty Much Everything
September 09, 2021 | She Said What?
August 11, 2021 | Farming 19th Century Style
July 12, 2021 | Out of the Frying Pan
June 28, 2021 | Getting to Know Eleanor Bryan
May 17, 2021 | Baking Bread Like a Pioneer
April 23, 2021 | What Became of Arthur Bryan?
March 17, 2021 | When Is a Road Not a Road?
February 23, 2021 | Nothing Says Family Quite Like a Subpoena
January 02, 2021 | To Bee or Not To Bee
December 16, 2020 | A Glorious Hodgepodge of Information
November 01, 2020 | The Proton Murder of 1861
October 01, 2020 | Sloane’s Melodeon Factory
September 03, 2020 | A History of Fires
August 03, 2020 | Finally!
July 29, 2020 | What's in a Name
June 09, 2020 | The History Keepers
May 26, 2020 | The Amazing Thing About Research
April 07, 2020 | Tracking Down a Missing Map
March 16, 2020 | A Boyish Almost Feminine Appearance
February 10, 2020 | All Guns Are Not Created Equal
January 03, 2020 | The Picture Worth a Thousand Words