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Smiths Falls History & Mystery: The Prime Minister, a crystal ball and the Keyhole House

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Did the Right Honorable William Lyon Mackenzie King, the tenth prime minister of Canada, visit the Keyhole House? We are not sure. However, we...
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Smiths Falls History & Mytery: Mysteries of the Keyhole House

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If you like spine tingling tales and spectacular magic, you are going to love this. My wife, Marion, and I are now sharing our...
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Smiths Falls History & Mystery: The vanishing swimming pool

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Evening strolls through Victoria Park often lead to a large stone adorned with a bronze marker laid in 1923. The marker reads “This swimming...
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Smiths Falls History & Mystery: Call the doctor

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Agnes woke up in pitch black darkness—she was shivering uncontrollably and drenched in sweat. By morning she was coughing to the point of choking....
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Smiths Falls History & Mystery: Sparkling water at Smiths Falls

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Several years ago, I unearthed a strange object in our backyard. It was a disc of pale green glass with the markings “F &...
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Smiths Falls History & Mystery: A career criminal’s daughter

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In 1884, at the age of twenty-two, Alice Maude Butler (1866-1935) found herself in a United States courtroom with her fifty-four-year-old mother, Hannah Cordelia...
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Smiths Falls History & Mystery: A tale of two Brodies

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In 1873 McGill University granted its first Engineering degrees which at the time were known as Applied Science. Robert James Brodie (1851-1938) was one...
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Smiths Falls History & Mystery: Father and Son served in WWI

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When Reginald Burroughs moved into the Keyhole House, he left his mark by signing his name, his son Nelson’s name, and the year “1907”...
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Smiths Falls History & Mystery: Lying in wait for a new tomb

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Agnes Lamb was a wealthy woman when she died of tuberculosis in 1903 at the Keyhole House. The 60-year-old spinster left executors of her...
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Smiths Falls History & Mystery: Farmer grocer solider reeve

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Ambrose Halladay moved into the Keyhole House in Smiths Falls with his wife and three children in 1945. His son, Ace, remembers eating a...
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