At our April meeting, Dennis Carter-Edwards will present the story of the British-sponsored migration of Irish settlers to the Peterborough area. In 1825, nine ships carried more than 2,000 Irish emigrants to the Peterborough area[...]

Scary Harry, The Northumberland County Cheesemaker Who Blew Up the Old West Albert Horsley started out as an admired cheesemaker, a good husband and father, on the back roads of Northumberland County. But his path[...]

For 233 years, Cobourg’s landscape has been shaped by homes—some grand and others modest—that influenced the lives of our residents. The stories behind these houses and their builders are key to understanding Cobourg’s development. At[...]

The presenter at our January meeting will be CDHS member George Parker. One of our favourite presenters, George is a graduate of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. He spent his career working as a planning consultant in[...]

Denis Carroll Feely was one of the most notorious Irish revolutionaries in the United States. A leading member of the Clan na Gael, an Irish secret society he helped to organize a bombing campaign in[...]

Historian Christopher Dummitt will guide us through the complexities and controversies surrounding recent high-profile cases of historical renaming. Why do partial truths so often replace a more nuanced understanding of the past? Why is it[...]