Join Dan Schmalz as he begins a new series of interviews with members of the local history community. In Volume 1 Dan speaks with Marion Roes about her book Death as Life's Work, which deals with Undertaking and Funeral Homes in Waterloo Region.  She comes from a family that has 4 generations of experience in the field and she tells interesting stories about Cambridge Funeral Homes and more ..read more

Join Dan Schmalz as he continues to look at the early history of Galt, part of what is now Cambridge, Ontario.  This episode he looks at what was like 200 years ago and how the settlement developed from 1816 to about 1834 ..read more

Back for Season Two after a long hiatus.  New name same great local history!  Learn a bit about where we will go next. Dan Schmalz is your guide as we continue to Explore Our Story ..read more

In the first of a two part episode learn about the history of the iconic Queen's Square in Galt.  The plan to make it Galt's Town Centre, it's amazing Churches, the Cenotaph and more ..read more

Join Dan this time and he discussed the most famous event in Cambridge's almost 50 year history.  The Great Flood of 1974 ..read more

The tragic story of the pleasure boat Empress of India and the sinking that claimed the lives of more than a dozen people on the Grand River in 1878 ..read more

The story of Hespeler Hockey Sticks.  From it's early beginnings, to being the stick supplier of the Great One himself.  Learn about the history of one of Hespeler's most iconic businesses ..read more

This is Part One of a four part episode discussing hockey in Cambridge.  It begins with the story of the incredible Preston Rivulettes, a women's hockey team of the 1930's that lost only twice in over 350 games.  Stay tuned for more including Hespeler and its hockey sticks and the Galt Arena Gardens (The world's oldest continually operating arena) and hockey since Cambridge was created in 1973 ..read more

This episode explores the sinking of the RMS Titanic and its connection to the Galt area of Cambridge in the form of the six Chinese men who survived its sinking.  One of these men was a Lee Bing who may have settled in Galt.  Learn more about Cambridge's connection to Titanic and the new documentary film  "The Six" chronicling the incredible story of of these men who survived Titanic, racism and more to finally have their stories told more than a century after the sinking of the Titanic ..read more

In this episode we take a look at the field of genealogy and how to study your family history using popular tools such as Ancestry, oral histories and good ole fashion detective work!  I also use my own experience researching my family and how I was able to trace my family back to Belgium, Ireland and Germany and then visited my ancestral homelands in the summer of 2016 ..read more