Community Waterfront Heritage Centre, Owen Sound
1155 1st Avenue West N4K 4K8 Owen Sound, ON, Canada

Our "Celebrating a Century Exhibit" is now at the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library. One hundred years ago the Town of Owen Sound became a City. The eight panels tell this story. Here are photos showing the exhibit going from the Community Waterfront Heritage Centre to the Library. #osngupl

Our "Celebrating a Century" exhibit is now at the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library. The eight panels tell the story of the Town of Owen Sound becoming a City.

Shared by Terry McCullough to another site. Clarenville up bound in the Welland Canal 1981

Shipwrecks on the Great Lakes haven't only happened in the distant past. The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald happened only 45 years ago.

FLASHBACK - Sunday, November 8, 1885 What a glorious day for the Canadian Pacific Railway yesterday when the Honourable Donald Smith drove the ceremonial last s...pike in the C.P. R.'s transcontinenatl line at Craigellachie, British Columbia In other news - The CPR steamer, Algoma, is overdue at Port Arthur. It is feared that with the terrible winter weather, at almost hurricane strength, she may have floundered and sank. The fate of 46 passengers and crew is unknown at this time. Photo of S.S. Algoma at the Owen Sound elevator: Courtesy of McCannell Collection