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Frank Doble was born in Brock Township and operated a lumber business with a planing mill in Sunderland at River and Pine Streets until 1905. With Sunderland expanding with the arrival of the railroad, Doble constructed several new homes in the village. Frank Doble and his family are credited with establishing the village’s first library … Read more

Lorne Brethour was born and raised in Brock Township. As a boy on the farm, Lorne developed a passion for horses and quickly showed a natural ability to work with them. The Brethours owned a farm to the west of Sunderland where Lorne in partnership with his brother Wilmot raised and trained horses. Standardbreds became … Read more

George Ernest Bott was born on a farm near Blackwater, Ontario in 1892. He attended Pinedale Public School and Port Perry High School before attending the University of Toronto where he studied Divinity at Victoria College. Through his study, he was ordained as a Minister of the Methodist Church in 1921. After graduation, he travelled … Read more

James (Jim) Anderson attended school in Campbellford, Ontario and after graduating from high school, attended the Ontario College of Pharmacy. After graduation he was employed at a pharmacy in Beaverton and just prior to the outbreak of the first world war, he opened his own drug store on River Street in Sunderland. With the outbreak … Read more

Born July 8, 1905, in Blackwater, at the time a hamlet of six houses and a store, Elizabeth Allin went on to earn a PhD at Cambridge in atomic physics. This after attending a one-room school in Sunderland and high school in Port Perry where she developed a love for basketball and mathematics. Eventually, as … Read more