HISTORY

Our Duty: To Remember Them

As the years turn to decades and the surviving veterans of the Great Wars dwindle in number, the need to remember those who fought and those who died for Canada becomes an essential duty.

Season’s Greetings from 1957

The diversity of businesses in Oxford some 65 years ago boggles the mind... how many of these local proprietors do you remember? Some were still operating into the 1970s. On the occasion of Christmas, 1957, these were the greetings published in The Oxford Journal from local mom 'n' pop stores, and more!

Oxford’s “Empress”

Oxford Skirts Fire Disaster

Puzzle from 1965

Events

Around Town This Week

It's a busy week in Oxford! Paving, patching, parking improvements, Fire Department tours, Seniors Club party, a Gala Awards night, Home & School meeting, and Community Karaoke at the Capitol Theatre!

Coming Up:

PHOTOGRAPHY

CN 8801 trailing as a mid DPU on CN 120 bound for Halifax NS

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Sunrise

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Met a BIG blueberry today

Remembrance Day 2024

CULTURE

Oxford’s Capitol Thespians Take a Bow!

Oxford's theatre community takes to the stage once again, to sing, dance, and receive the recognition they deserve.

Rhyme nor Reason

Oxford's unofficial poet laureate offers up prose that recalls a childhood growing up adjacent to the blueberry patch.