Fall 2024 - Volume 37
Tavistock’s Champion Orator
100 Years Ago in Tavistock: From the pages of the Tavistock Gazette
• January 17th, 1924: Arena Complete
• January 24, 1924: Description of Horticultural Society’s effect on the town
• February 7, 1924: Reginald Selfe Opens Tavistock School of Art
• September 25: Fall Fair Best Ever
Students Remember School in the 60's
At The Museum: A selection of artifacts from the museum
• Ruby Quehl Catering Ash Tray
• Loyal Orange Lodge
• Maple Sugar Candy Mould
• Punkeydoodle’s Celebration
10 Hope St. West - Quick Reminiscences
Fall 2023 - Volume 36
It’s a Celebration!
Research Resurgence: Digital access to old German newspapers and more
John Klein: Business as Usual
Memories of our Old School
Quick Reminiscences: A QR Code Historic Tour of Tavistock
Fall 2019 - Volume 35
• Photo: Merchants Softball Team Wins All-Ontario Championship - 1965
• Take me out to the ball game!
• 1965 Merchants Softball Team wins All-Ontario Championship
• A premier fastball pitcher (Keith Wagler)
• Tavistock Merchants 2006 ISCII World Champions
Food that really schmecks!
Spring 2019 - Volume 34
• Putting a date to Tavistock Postcards
•
Wettlaufer Cider Mill, Sebastopol: A trip to the patent office
Fall 2018 - Volume 33
• Parades in Tavistock (1897 - 1901 - 1918 - 1919 - 1950's)
• People and events in the news 1918
• Winhold Wedding
• George Mackay’s Store
• Tavistock 1918: World War Ended
•
7 Woodstock Street South: Wall art makes a splash
Spring 2018 - Volume 32
• Gazette archives at the library
• Former Tavistock resident licenses first homebuilt kit plane
•
Tavistock clock at the Canadian Museum of History
Fall 2017 - Volume 31
• Photo - THE WILLING WORKERS
•
Tavistock ... It was 1917
• Privates Weston, Buchan, Nettleton and Comrade …
•
Early immigration: The Hanke family in Tavistock
Special - October 2016 - Volume 30
• Tavistock: It was 1916
Fall 2016 - Volume 30
• Hickson Community 4-H Project - 2016
• Servicing the Township: Council, fire department, post office, library, park, railway
•
Boys Scouts and Cubs
• The railroad comes to town: Sir Joseph Hickson
Spring 2016 - Volume 29
• The Milkman: By Barb Matthies
•
Tavistock Produce & Egg Circle
•
Santa Claus Parade: A festive Tavistock tradition since 1939
• Insurance at a premium: A brief history of South Easthope Mutual Insurance business
Fall 2015 - Volume 28
• Main Street Memories
• Tavistock: It was 1915!
•
The way we were: Old photograph captures life in 1902
(Maxwell Binders - J.W. Lingelbach)
Spring 2015 - Volume 27
• Ron Rudy:Tavistock’s longest serving police constable: Police badge collection surpasses description
•
Tavistock Police History: Town Constables 90 years on the beat
• Special Service Force receives US Congressional Medal of Honour
Fall 2014 - Volume 26
• A HISTORY OF SCOUTING/GUIDING
• Beer, bonnets and boxcars: Tavistock in 1914 was a bustling hub of commerce
• Trophies of 1914
Scouting in Tavistock
Spring 2014 - Volume 25
• Time takes its toll on a village: Cassel just won’t be the same without 100-year-old sawmill
• Black Shirts gain respect: An excerpt from “Raising the Rafters”
• Memories of Cassel by Lyle Roth
• The Cassel we knew! - Hamlet was once a thriving community
• Hobby tough on fingers (Ed Kaufman)
Winter 2013 - Volume 24
• Not in Kansas anymore: Cyclone hit the area in 1929
• Pillars of the Community: A Tavistock Women’s Institute project
• South Easthope landmark: Andreas Wilker homestead razed
Fall 2013 - Volume 23
• Opening doors to the past
• Casper Mogk homestead: Lot 21/22, Concession 6, South Easthope
• Till death do us part: Funeral rites and customs
• Fall Fair Facts: Things you may not know about the Tavistock Fall Fair
Spring 2013 - Volume 22
• Tavistock’s first survey - Surveyor Shuball Park - 1819
• Martha Wilker saw first train come into Tavistock
• From the Outhouse: Stories gathered by Mary Nicklas
Winter 2012 - Volume 21
• Standing room only: The Christmas Concert
• A very special Santa
•
Notes on Christmas
•
One Christmas Eve: A Christmas truce during World War I
Fall 2012 - Volume 20
• The Family Farm: Herb and Cecil Wagler
• God Save the Queen: Royalty display celebrates Jubilees
160 Years of the Fair
Tavistock’s first businesses: Corner block has been home to many entrepreneurs
Spring 2012 - Volume 19
• 10 YEARS - 2002-2012 - The First Decade
• We’re marking a milestone! - We’re 10 years old!
Winter 2011 - Volume 18
• Building a Village: Christian Frederick Conrad Krug
• Hand-lettered illumination a gift from a grateful congregation
• J.C.Penney and Tavistock?
• The Year in Review
• Sincere Thanks: Taylor McCutchen
•
Quilt donated by Idella Schwartznetruber
Fall 2011 - Volume 17
• 100 Years of the Tavistock fire service
• Genealogy researcher finds home: Armand Schaefer
•
A history of the printed page: The Tavistock Gazette
• Fall Fair Sign
• Fire brigade fights stubborn blaze two hours:
Planing Mill of C.L. Erb & Sons Destroyed Sunday Morning (Feb. 23, 1941)
Winter 2011 - Volume 16
• Dr. Bruce Halliday: DOCTOR, POLITICIAN, FAMILY MAN, FRIEND ~ June 18, 1926 - January 1, 2011
• Vintage tea services in Quehl’s Atrium
• Home Children Update
Fall 2010 - Volume 15
• Carnegie Library ends an era
• Children create a legacy - 2010 - Year of the British Home Child
•
Calendars ~ August 7 to October 30
Spring 2010 - Volume 14
• Check Your Real Estate
Stone, bricks and mortar
• The survey says ...
• Down on the farm ...
Winter 2009 - Volume 13
• 100 Years Ago
•
Tavistock Among The Worth-Whiles
• Front Page news
•
Tavistock Fall Fair
• The Kids in Quehl’s Atrium
Tavistock Artists
Summer 2009 - Volume 12
• Fill ’Er Up: Old Cars and Garages
•
Century Farms catalogued
•
Games people play
• Farm free-for-all!
Winter 2009 - Volume 11
• Swastika: Ontario’s first gold-producing mine
• Dr. Michael Steele, Tavistock
• Quehl’s Atrium
• A Victorian Christmas!
Fall 2008 - Volume 10
• Ancestors Wanted: Dead or Alive
• Ross Butler: World’s leading livestock artist
• Tavistock Fall Fair display
• The display in Quehl’s Atrium
• Hobbies and Collections: Glass and Bottles
•
The Donnelly story comes alive: by Robert Salt
• Christmas at the Museum
Spring 2008 Special Edition - Volume 9
• A century of memories at the Oxford
• 100 Years at the Oxford Hotel: Frederick and Arthur Liebler
• Ruby, Bannerman and Yarich
• Tavistock has always liked its beer
•
Did You Know?
Winter 2007 - Volume 8
• Bless This House: Our Churches
• Who was the first to set foot in Tavistock?
•
All Aboard at Quehl’s Atrium
• Year of the Veteran Project
• World War Songs
• Museum at the Fall Fair
Spring 2008 - Volume 8
• Zimmerman’s: A Family Business
•
Swastika Mine: 100 years later
•
All Aboard! for the Atrium
• Tavistock: A Sports Town
• The Rabbit Drive
Fall 2007 - Volume 7
• Land of Milk, Cheese & Honey: The Matthies Family - Pioneers and Mainstays In Tavistock
• Strike up the band
• Marking Time
• Honouring our Veterans
•
Remember when?
• Quilts Galore!
Spring 2007 - Volume 6
• Tavistock’s Village Smithy: Michael McDermott - 1847-1927
• Chairman’s Message: Ed Pellow
• Honouring our Veterans
•
The Flax Industry in Tavistock
• School Days: Reading, writing and arithmetic
Winter 2006 - Volume 5
• Emerson Weitzel’s General Store: by Marilyn Pearson, granddaughter of Emerson Weitzel
•
Honouring Our Veterans by Susan Pellow
• Behind the Scenes
•
Images in Glass
• Museum Themes
Fall 2006 - Volume 4
• Wood Carvings and Old Farm Toys
• Just like Dad’s: A display of farm toys
•
Carving Decoys is not what it used to be - by Ed Pellow
• June was all about weddings
• Welcome visitors!
• Family Histories
Spring 2006 - Volume 3
• What is The Lemp Studio Collection?
•
We have Charitable Status
•
Who’s in your family tree?
• Who is John Lemp Jr.?
• Crossroads in Time: A pictorial history
• DVD commemorates Year of the Veteran ...
Fall 2005 - Volume 2
• Rotary invests in 5-year plan for Society
• W. O. Kaufman memorabilia donated
•
Travelling display at Doors Open Oxford
• Society acquires antique display cases
• Tavistock and area veterans in the database
Spring 2005 - Volume 1
• History comes alive here in Tavistock!
• War veterans of Tavistock and area
• Everything old is new again!
• Museum/Archives opens
• The Life and Work of Reginald Franklin Selfe (reprinted from the Tavistock Gazette, November 1, 2000)
