PortlandOntario.com

Categories

• Local Events
• Monthly Newsletters
• Museum Additions
• Portland in Literature
• Uncategorized

PortlandOntario.com

• History
  • Cemeteries & Burial Sites
    • Dennis Donovan
  • Events
    • Sea Plane Crash of 1985
    • Skate the Lake
    • Cow Island Fireworks
  • People
    • Residents
      • Diana Kingsmill Wright
      • Admiral Kingsmill
      • Daniel Arenstein
    • Notable Visitors
      • David Niven
    • Aboriginal People’s History
    • Family Histories
      • The Polk Family
      • The Bolton-Lyons Family
    • Military Memorials
    • Early Residents
      • Elizabeth Eleanor McCann
  • Village of Portland
    • General
    • Village Maps & Geography
    • Buildings & Houses
      • 22 Perth Street
      • Polk Store
      • Bolton-Lyon House
  • Big Rideau Lake
    • Rideau Canal
    • Cottage Histories
      • Grindstone Island
      • Tower Island
      • Cow Island
      • Bungalow Island
      • Long Island
      • Anglers Inn
    • Fishing Guides
  • Industry & Business
    • Sawmills
    • Cheese Factories
    • Boat Building
    • Tourism
      • Cataraqui Trail
    • Hotels
  • Organizations
    • Sports
      • 1938 Portland Hockey Team
      • Boat Races
    • Other
  • Artifacts
• About PRHS
  • PRHS Constitution
  • Mission Statement
  • Officers & Board of Directors
  • General Practices & Policies
    • Committees
    • Meetings
      • Annual General Meetings
        • Annual General Meeting 2009
    • Archivist
  • Membership
    • Communications
    • Application Form & Fees
    • Member List
• Contact
• PRHS Requests for Info
  • 1953 Portland Bank Robbery
  • 1950’s Portland Tombolo
  • Postcard Found at 22 Perth Street
  • Bungalow Club Employees Circa 1930’s

Recent Comments

• Lorie mcIvor on Skate the Lake
• Alan Weekes on The Bolton-Lyons Family
• John Moore on The Bolton-Lyons Family
• John Moore on The Bolton-Lyons Family
• portl3 on 22 Perth Street

Recent Posts

• Portland’s Wicked Past
• Portland Bay Winter Games – January 30th
• Happy New Year, Portland Ontario!
• PRHS Newsletter – June, 2009
• Rick Mercer Reports from Skate the Lake

• Blogroll

  • Portland Outdoors

Archives

• February 2010
• January 2010
• June 2009
• April 2009
• April 2007

More Canadian History

• Cohen Prize to John English
  John English's much-nominated Trudeau biography Just Watch Me won the Shaugnessey Cohen prize for political books last night in Ottawa. Globe story here. Daniel Poliquin's Réné Lévesque, also much nominated, was once again among the runners-up […]
• Who writes history?
  The wife of an admired American historian of baseball, now dead, demonstrates pretty convincingly she made a major contribution to "his" work and is honoured along with him by SABR, the baseball historians. She says, "He just couldn’t share credit. And I didn’t say anything at the time, because at the time, wives just didn’t do that.” […]
• History of Public Health
  The Canadian Public Health Association, marking its hundredth anniversary in 2010, has up a centenary website with quite a bit of public health history. The anniversary will also be marked by Christopher Ruddy's history Constant Vigilance: The Story of Public Health in Canada. More info here. […]
• Thinking about parliaments
  Janet passes on a mini-review of Adam Tomkins' Our Republican Constitution and its analysis of how parliaments work and how they should work. My own longer review in the Literary Review of Canada, which introduced Tomkins to Canadian discussions, is here. I have another essay on another topic forthcoming in the LRC - don't miss the April issue.Brec […]
• British historians on deficits and budgets
  History and Policy is a British website in which historians attempt to influence public policy discussions with historical information. A case in point is the recent argument by historian Glen O'Hara (supported by 19 other scholars) that an analysis of historical levels of British public debt suggests that deep and immediate "cuts" in public s […]