Put on your coziest sweater and join us on Saturday, Nov. 16 for our annual Fall Festival! We will have several vendors offering seasonal decor, plants, crafts, jewelry and hand-painted furniture, among other things. We will also have baked good and preserves for sale, books and puzzles for sale, and a special silent auction. Refreshments […]
Our annual Fall Festival featuring craft vendors, baked goods, refreshments, preserves, books, and much more!
Rochelle Bush, Resident Historian of the Salem Chapel, BME Church and Harriet Tubman Underground Railway National Historic Sites will speak to us about early Black History in Lincoln and Welland Counties.
Pelham Historical Society members Geoff Bowden and Graham Segger will co-present on the closely related topics of Taverns and the Temperance Movement in early Pelham Township. They will explore the evolution of taverns as an outgrowth of the developing road network in Niagara and their decline after the coming of the railroads and the ascendance […]
David Sherlock is part of a Transportation family. His grandfather worked at Lock 1 of the Welland Canal in the ‘30s and ‘40s, his father, Paul Sherlock, started working there in 1955. Paul worked his way up to Traffic Control Superintendant for the Western Region of the Seaway by the early 70s. Paul collected marine […]
In 1792 a fierce hurricane (or more likely a tornado) blew through Pelham, leveling many of the trees and everything else in its path.A Quaker visitor to the area shortly thereafter recorded the following in his journal “and truly I may say, I never saw so great destruction of timber. For about two miles in […]
The annual PHS “Members’ Interests Presentations” allows members to share with the Society the results of a special research interest they may have been pursuing in the past year. This year there will be at least four presentations.1. Mary Lamb will discuss Jacqueline (Jackie) Damato (1936-2022), who once lived in Fonthill and did editorial cartoons […]
A visual presentation featuring voice recordings of memories of the Fenwick Fair along with old photos taken at the fair in the early 1900s.
Kirk on the Hill is hosting a Fall Festival in the heart of Fonthill! Event open to the public. Fall decor & beverages included. Farmer pumpkin attraction in parking lot. Bazaar vendors (artists, bakers, small business or crafters) are welcome; $50 for table, with charitable receipt provided. We are looking forward to welcoming the neighbourhood […]
All meetings are open to the general public and there is no cost to attend. All meetings are scheduled for Kirk on the Hill Presbyterian Church, 1344 Haist Street in Fonthill. Come and hear about the History of the Upper part of Fonthill through the early years of the 20th century. This talk will be […]
All meetings are open to the general public and there is no cost to attend. All meetings are scheduled for Kirk on the Hill Presbyterian Church, 1344 Haist Street in Fonthill. Professor Michelle Vosburgh of Brock University will speak on the life and career of Niagara native, Helen Kinnear. Ms. Kinnear was a trailblazer for […]
All meetings are open to the general public and there is no cost to attend. All meetings are scheduled for Kirk on the Hill Presbyterian Church, 1344 Haist Street in Fonthill. Come and hear about the work being done to restore the Historic Beaverdams Methodist Church in Thorold. David Cowan will share progress to date […]
All meetings are open to the general public and there is no cost to attend. All meetings are scheduled for Kirk on the Hill Presbyterian Church, 1344 Haist Street in Fonthill. Come hear sample interviews of Pelham residents recorded in the 1980s about what life was like in the area in the early 20th century. […]
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