Puslinch History: The Ferguson Family Store
— January 3, 2020This is the Ferguson family and their store which contained the Killean Post Office & barns on their farm. Located just east of the Killean Cemetery.
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Mystery Solved! Hockey Players And Team Identified
— September 26, 2018A PuslinchToday Reader has helped solve the mystery of the team players in the old photo below. The photo turns out to be of the Clyde hockey team. Clyde was a rural community, just south-west of Killean but in Beverly…
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Today In History: December 5, 1887
— December 5, 2017KILLEAN CORRESPONDENCE December 5, 1887 RE-ENGAGED – Mr. James Ramsay, teacher of our section, has been re-engaged for next year. Mr. Ramsay’s services deserve a recognition in the shape of an increased salary. Miss Janet Gilchrist, of Killean, at present…
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A Puslinch View: Train leaving Killean Station
— January 20, 2017Undated photo of a train leaving Killean Station.
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A Life Of Participation – John W. Gilchrist
— May 25, 2016A LIFE OF PARTICIPATION JOHN W. GILCHRIST By Marjorie Clark When his niece, Anna McCormick Jackson, wrote about John W. Gilchrist of Puslinch for the journal of the Wellington County Historical Society in 1999, she entitled the article, “A Rich…
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Puslinch Remembered: Dr. Neil McPhatter
— September 15, 2015Dr. Neil McPhatter by Marjorie Clark “Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society, deposited at first in the alburnum of…
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Road Issues In Killean, 1866, 1874 & 1888
— January 29, 2018KILLEAN ITEMS, July 5, 1866: Statue Labour – Till within a very few years, the road which leads across the Township from Galt to the Brock Road was an apology for the term. Hills, ruts and swamps made it all…
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Health Issues Of Puslinch Settlers: Part 10: Infections
— March 6, 2017This is the tenth in a series of articles about the health of the people of Puslinch from the earliest days of settlement to approximately 1960. INFECTIONS By Marjorie Clark Infections killed people, just as they do today. However, the…
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Today In Puslinch History: Killean Correspondence
— December 5, 2016KILLEAN CORRESPONDENCE December 5, 1887 RE-ENGAGED – Mr. James Ramsay, teacher of our section, has been re-engaged for next year. Mr. Ramsay’s services deserve a recognition in the shape of an increased salary. Miss Janet Gilchrist, of Killean, at present…
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History Corner: Pioneer Gravesites In Puslinch
— April 17, 2016By Marjorie Clark. In the early days of settlement in Puslinch, families may have buried their dead on their farms, perhaps because cemeteries had yet to be established or possibly because inclement weather rendered travel impossible. A few cases are…
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History Corner – THE CREDIT VALLEY / CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
— June 29, 2015THE CREDIT VALLEY/CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY The following article is an excerpt from the book “Our Home and Native Land, Community in Puslinch Township, Wellington County, Ontario”, Published in 2005. This content was graciously provided by Marjorie Clark, the author of…
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