Volunteer Curator Team Recruitment
Volunteer Curator Team Opportunity April 2026 Do you have a passion for history, heritage, and storytelling? The Paris Museum & Historical Society is seeking individuals to serve on a three-person volunteer Curator Team that will bring our community’s past to life by caring for and interpreting our archival and artifact collections. The Curator Team will […]
1900 BIG FIRE AT PARIS, ONTARIO
This article was written by Chris Whelan and originally printed in the Paris Independent newspaper on April 2, 2025. Permission to re-publish the article has been granted. BIG FIRE AT PARIS, ONTARIO.; Business Portion of the Town Destroyed — Loss, $250,000. On the evening of September 12, 1900, a fierce southwesterly wind swept through the bustling streets […]
PARIS PAST: Marching down memory lane: Paris’ glorious Canada Day past
This article was written by Chris Whelan and originally printed in the Paris Independent newspaper on June 24, 2025. Permission to re-publish the article has been granted. Canada Day, previously known as Dominion Day, has long been a cherished tradition in Canada, commemorating the birth of the nation in 1867 with the passage of the […]
Then and Now
Some places are gone, some are largely unchanged.