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Sidetracks Local researcher uncovering the stories behind places, families, and forgotten details. Explore my work at sidetracks.ca.

I share what I find through writing, art, seminars, and community storytelling.

Who do you recognize?The stained-glass windows of the Olde Kirk - formerly St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Kirkfield...
08/16/2026

Who do you recognize?

The stained-glass windows of the Olde Kirk - formerly St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Kirkfield - remember many people and families with connections to the surrounding community:

• Agnes Beatrice (McLeod) and Wilfrid Henry Stoll
• Erin Elizabeth Hopper
• Barbara Jane Ann Hopper
• Jack Hughes
• Katherine MacDonald (Rusland) Hughes
• Richard and Jane Woffenden
• Wakefield and Sadie Bailey
• Neil D. McInnis and Rachel Cookman
• May McInnis McEachern and Isabel McInnis
• Hector D. and Gordon McInnis
• J. Oliver McInnis
• Murray Donald and Evelyn Sarah Kearns
• George and Pearl Bantam, with Weldon and June
• William Lucey and Margaret Cashore
• Josephine Lucey McInnis, Charles Lucey, Ella Lucey Wiley, Zetta Lucey, Minnie Lucey McInnis and Bessie Lucey McKay
• Olive and Wallace Osborne, with their son Robert
• Elizabeth, Jack and Dougal MacGillivray
• Roderick Cookman McKay

Do you recognize a name or know someone who might?

Family photographs, memories, letters, documents, newspaper clippings and corrections can help ensure that these people are remembered as more than dates and names, but as lives lived.

Explore the project and learn how you can contribute:

https://sidetracks.ca/help-tell-the-stories/

Please share this post so it has a chance to reach the families connected to these windows.

This book project, Stories Behind the Glass, is nearing its' completion! I invite anyone with a connection to the Olde K...
08/13/2026

This book project, Stories Behind the Glass, is nearing its' completion!

I invite anyone with a connection to the Olde Kirk - the former St. Andrew's Church in Kirkfield, Ontario - to explore this project and to contribute your knowledge, memories, pictures and corrections:

Visit: https://sidetracks.ca/help-tell-the-stories/

The people recognized within the window dedications should be remembered as more than dates and names, but as lives lived!

Please have a look and feel free to share 🥰

07/29/2026

For those of you who attended my Ontario Land Seminar, you will know how much info can be gleaned from a patent map! This partnership is great news! Still can't find a Bexley Twp. map though...

Canada West 1850's
07/29/2026

Canada West 1850's

Coins in Canada from 1858!
07/27/2026

Coins in Canada from 1858!

Written for the ladies of Port Hope in 1856-7 🥰. If only ads for home decoration were like this today!
07/27/2026

Written for the ladies of Port Hope in 1856-7 🥰. If only ads for home decoration were like this today!

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