Stories

I remember visiting Brockville when I first came to Canada from the US. I was living in downtown Toronto at the time, but my...

It was the dead of winter, a day so cold that when you inhaled through your nostrils, they’d stick together. The snow was heavy and...

My father always wanted to be a farmer. After the war, and a year in a concentration camp, he wanted to leave Holland and follow his...

I was born in the Alps, the French Alps. Twenty-eight years ago I came to Canada, but I first came to Quebec. My first child was born in...

I moved to the Leeds Grenville area from Ottawa in 2006 because my first grandchild was about to be born here. The first few years we...

We didn’t know about this area before we first visited here. If we hadn’t stopped on our way from Montreal to Oakville, I don’t know...

Our region prides itself on its Loyalist roots. It is a good place to come to. In 2017, Brockville welcomed several families from Syria....