| Lowe Square in Renfrew Ontario - Renfrew citizen Jack Davis was the first Canadian soldier wounded in WWI.
- Over the course of both World Wars and the Korean War, over 1,500 local men and women served. Sixty-nine soliders from Renfrew were killed in action or from wounds inflicted during WWI and 68 died in WWII. There were no casualties from Renfrew in the Korean War.
- The National Hockey Association, the brainchild of local businessman Ambrose O'Brien, was the precursor to today's NHL. O'Brien and his father M.J. also established a team that would become the Montreal Canadiens, and another that went on to become the Toronto Maple Leafs.
- In exhibition play, the Renfrew Creamery Kings soundly defeated the Montreal Wanderers, holders of the Stanley Cup in 1910.
- Renfrew's 'Swinging Bridge', built in 1895, is one of only two remaining in Canada.
- Every 25 Ib. shell that Canada supplied to the war effort during WWI came to Renfrew to be filled with the new cordite explosive developed by industrialist M.J. O'Brien.
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