Author launches new book on Old Hastings Road history

July 17, 2014

The Old Ormsby School House was the perfect place on July 13 for the launch of local author and publisher Paul Kirby’s new book tracing the history of surveying, building and settlement on the Hastings Colonization Road (now called the Old Hastings Road). Ormsby was an important stop on the original colonization road, and was located at the junction of the Hastings Colonization Road, and later the Central Ontario Railroad.

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Healthy beech trees may soon disappear

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Wollaston council gets good marks from their auditor

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