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UPDATE: VENI, VIDI, VICI! (I came, I sawed, I conquered!)

Rick Henderson

Jan 4
2 min

UPDATE: VENI, VIDI, VICI! (I came, I sawed, I conquered!)

A new Wright wrinkle.

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MISE À JOUR : VENI, CONSCIDISTI, VICI! (Je suis venu, j'ai scié, j'ai conquis!)

Rick Henderson

Jan 4
3 min

MISE À JOUR : VENI, CONSCIDISTI, VICI! (Je suis venu, j'ai scié, j'ai conquis!)

Une nouvelle faille dans l'histoire de Philemon Wright

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More Curious History - Tales from One Side of the River

Rick Henderson

Dec 7, 2022
6 min

More Curious History - Tales from One Side of the River

... here, once again, a revisionist narrative meant only to erase the importance of the actual Founder of Hull: Philemon Wright.

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Plus d'histoire curieuse - Histoires d’un côté de la rivière

Rick Henderson

Dec 7, 2022
6 min

Plus d'histoire curieuse - Histoires d’un côté de la rivière

... et encore une fois, dans ce récit révisionniste qui ne vise qu'à effacer l'importance du véritable fondateur de Hull: Philemon Wright.

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Nicholas Sparks and Sally Olmstead-Wright - the 200th Anniversary

Rick Henderson

Oct 26, 2022
1 min

Nicholas Sparks and Sally Olmstead-Wright - the 200th Anniversary

Sparks 200 anniversary video.

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Rick Henderson

Aug 30, 2022
13 min

Cantley's Haycock Mine

A guest blog about an early and significant mining enterprise that only lasted four years.

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Aylmer's Bellevue Cemetery Celebrates its 200th Anniversary

Rick Henderson

Aug 8, 2022
2 min

Aylmer's Bellevue Cemetery Celebrates its 200th Anniversary

A Gathering of the Descendants of Gideon Olmstead.

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Le cimetière Bellevue d'Aylmer célèbre son 200e anniversaire

Rick Henderson

Aug 6, 2022
2 min

Le cimetière Bellevue d'Aylmer célèbre son 200e anniversaire

Rassemblement des descendants de Gideon Olmstead.

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Rick Henderson

May 18, 2022
1 min

A WALK IN WRIGHT'S TOWN, IN 1830

THIS VIRTUAL WALK in Wright's Town in 1830, captures the town at the very moment when Bytown is founded and the Rideau Canal is being built.

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Rick Henderson

May 18, 2022
1 min

UNE PROMENADE À WRIGHT'S TOWN, EN 1830

CETTE PROMENADE VIRTUELLE dans Wright's Town en 1830 capture le village au moment même de la fondation de Bytown.

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AYLMER: A Tale of Two Landings (1800-1830)

Rick Henderson

Jan 16, 2022
19 min

AYLMER: A Tale of Two Landings (1800-1830)

The curious history of the founding of Aylmer and Deschênes; the first 30 years.

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AYLMER : L'histoire des deux débarcadères (1800-1830)

Rick Henderson

Jan 16, 2022
20 min

AYLMER : L'histoire des deux débarcadères (1800-1830)

La curieuse histoire de la fondation d'Aylmer et de Deschênes ; les 30 premières années.

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Rick Henderson

Jan 1, 2022
1 min

OTTAWA VALLEY RAMBLES-episode 11 - Stepping Back to Bytown, part II

Part 2 of our ramble behind Parliament Hill to the Portage Bridge and back along Wellington St.

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Rick Henderson

Dec 26, 2021
1 min

OTTAWA VALLEY RAMBLES-episode 10 - Stepping Back to Bytown, part I

In this two-part Ramble, Rick and Andrew take you back to several sites of Upper and Lower Bytown.

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Rick Henderson

Dec 18, 2021
1 min

OTTAWA VALLEY RAMBLES-episode 9 - The Earliest Settler Cemeteries

Andrew and Rick take us on a ramble through them and tell us some un-settling stories.

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Rick Henderson

Dec 11, 2021
1 min

OTTAWA VALLEY RAMBLES-episode 8 - The First Farms

In this episode, Andrew & Rick explore the (ahem) roots of the Ottawa Valley's first settlements.

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Rick Henderson

Dec 5, 2021
1 min

THE VOYAGEURS - by Bill Mason

As the perfect means to show what portaging was like, what better video to post than Bill Mason's The Voyageurs, produced by the NFB.

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Rick Henderson

Dec 4, 2021
1 min

OTTAWA VALLEY RAMBLES-episode 7 - The Upper Portage

The Upper Portage of the Chaudière takes us to Mitigomijokan, the Place Where the Red Oaks Grow, commonly known as Deschênes.

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Rick Henderson

Nov 30, 2021
5 min

In Memory of Philemon Wright Jr.

In remembrance of a man who does not have a headstone, I reprint this excerpt from my book Walking in the Footsteps of Philemon Wright.

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Rick Henderson

Nov 30, 2021
6 min

À la mémoire de Philemon Wright Jr.

En mémoire d'un homme qui n'a pas de pierre tombale, je reproduis cet extrait de mon livre Walking in the Footsteps of Philemon Wright.

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