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The Historical Research Service is a site dedicated to Ontario Backwoods history.

On this site you will encounter people who carried traditions and who were influenced as much by their origin as by their adopted homeland.

These historical sketches follow the paths of "ordinary" people in their struggles to confornt their difficulties and achieve their dreams.

The narratives revolve around "grassroots" people who are but one shade among all the colors of the great human fresco that crosses time and space in Ontario.

This site takes an historical approach that is off the beaten path, exploring the ups and downs of their lives of our ancestors in an educational manner using old photographs, illustrations, oral testimonies and private and public archives.

One can get further information by visiting []