This is the second in a three-part series on family cemeteries in the Newmarket area, in which we’ll investigate some of our local family cemeteries with an eye to their location, uniqueness, and history. Here is a list of the family cemeteries in York Region I shall examine in this column. You can get a full listing…
Month: April 2024
Significance Of The Family Cemetery
My topic for this weekend’s article on Newmarket Today will focus on one of my favorite topics, our local cemeteries. I have written a few articles in the past on the subject, focusing primarily on the history of the various public cemeteries in our area but I thought that this weekend we would have a…
The History Of The Newmarket Horticultural Society
This weekend on Newmarket Today we will examine an organization which has been focused on contributing to natural beauty and its communal beauty for over 146 years in Newmarket. The Newmarket Horticultural Society has been dedicated to making Newmarket a more pleasant place to live for all of us. Perhaps before we look at the…
The Newmarket Legion Soap Box Derby
For this weekend’ article on Newmarket Today I turn my attention to an annual event which captured the heart of the whole community for generations and in which many of us participated in our youth. That event is the Newmarket Legion’s annual ‘Soap Box Derby.’ The Newmarket Legion ‘Soapbox Derby’ was a beloved annual event…
