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The Zorra Tug of War team, from the Village of Embro, began to attract attention in 1881 for their ability to out pull teams that often outweighed them. Because of this a great rivalry began between the Zorra Team and the Dereham Team, with the Dereham Team outweighing them by 20 pounds apiece. In the four years they competed against each other the Zorra team never lost. As their reputation spread the Zorra Team was challenged by teams from around the province, but none were able to beat the Mighty Men of Zorra.

On August 3rd, 1888 the team went to Buffalo to compete and was able to beat teams from Buffalo and Rochester, for which they received a silver tankard and a purse of money.

In 1890, the team received a challenge from the Highland Association of Chicago to compete against a Chicago team. The challenge was accepted and the match took place on August 23rd, with the Zorra team losing following a misinterpretation of the starting rule. As a result a re-match was requested to be held in Embro on October 10th. With over 4,000 in attendance the Zorra team was able to settle the score by beating the Chicago team in a long drawn out battle. These two teams met again at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 where teams from Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, as well as the United States would compete. With fierce competition the “Zorras” once again defeated the Chicago team, in the finals, to become the official World Champions. Following their victory the Hon. Oliver Mowat offered his congratulations.

The team consisted of Alex Clark, Robert McLeod, Ira Hummason, William R. Munro, E.L. Sutherland (Captain) and Robert McIntosh and all were well over 40 years of age when they competed.

The three championship trophies the team won during international competitions were kept by Hon. James Sutherland at his home and later at Altadore, before being kept in the home of Bob McIntosh in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They were presented to the Woodstock Museum in 1976.
In 1939, a cairn was erected at the North Embro cemetery gates in their honor, which reads “Men of Might Who Feared the Lord”

The Zorra Rebekah Lodge, Lodge #250, was established on June 12, 1923. Brother R.A. Sharp was serving as the Grand Master of the Great Lodge of the I.O.O.F. in Ontario this year. The Charter members of the Zorra Rebekah Lodge were as follows: H.B. Atkinson, D.R. Halladay, D.I. Rose, R.H. Clark, Burns Sutherland, Annie Atkinson, Anna McKay, Alice Clark, Helen Rose and Viola Sanders.

Formed on March 18th 1856, the Embro Highland Games was created with the intention of preserving the language, martial spirit, dress, music, literature, antiquities, and games of the ancient Caledonians. This society helped create and celebrate the Highland Games in Embro, Ontario, yet disbanded a decade after forming for reasons unknown in 1888.

It was not until the year 1937 when the society regained a new form as the Zorra Caledonian Society. During that same year, the Highland Games returned to Embro. The games are still being hosted annually to this day, with some of the events taking place including bagpipe music, Highland dancing, and athletic competitions like tug-of-war.

The Zonta Club was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1919 by a group of businesswomen under the leadership of Marian de Forest. In 1927, the first club established outside the U.S was formed in Toronto and a year later in Hamilton. In 1963, the Zonta Club of Hamilton (now Hamilton I) resolved to organize a sister club in Burlington. Margaret Marshall (Briggs) was appointed to be the organizer. The new club was to honour Mary Smale of Burlington, past president of the Zonta Club of Hamilton and past governor of District IV, Zonta International. By December Margaret had assembled twenty interested women in executive positions and professions; and a charter dinner was held on December 6, 1963 at the Estaminet, with Alice Peck (Slavin), a former member of the Zonta Club of Hamilton, as the first president. Alice served in that office for the remainder of the fiscal year of 1963-64 and the following year 1964-65.

The Zonta Club of Guelph filed its charter application in October 1979 and became an official chartered club of Zonta International in the same year.

Zonta International, founded in Buffalo in 1919, is a worldwide service organization of executives in business and the professions working together to advance the status of women. Zonta takes its name from the Lakota Sioux Indian word meaning "honest and trustworthy." Zontians volunteer their time, talents and energy to local and international service projects that are designed to advance the status of women. In addition to fulfilling this mandate, the Zonta Club of Guelph also organizes tours of historic homes in the city and hosts social events for its members.

The Township of Zone was incorporated in 1856 under the terms of the Baldwon Act,Chapter 81, Canada Statutes, 1849. As an incorporated township, lower tier municipality, it had a council consisting of an elected Reeve and councillors depending on population. Its responsibilites related largely to the upkeep of the local road system and the delivery of services. It had the power to raise money through direct taxation on land and through the use of debentures. Under the provisions of Bill 26, the Savings and Restructuring Act, 1996, Zone was amalgamated into the new Municipality of Chatham-Kent effective January 1, 1998.

The Zola Research Program (in French, Le Programme de recherche sur Zola et le Naturalisme, or more commonly known as Programme Zola) began in 1971 when Henri Mitterand was a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. The three key members at this time were Henri Mitterand (University of Paris VIII), John Walker (French Department, University of Toronto), and Bard Bakker (Glendon College, York University). The goal of the project was to collect, organize and eventually publish letters written by Émile Zola. The project ran from 1975 until 1995, when the final volume in the series was published. The Zola Research Program published over 4000 (previously published and unpublished) letters written by Zola over 10 volumes. The volumes were published by the University of Montreal Press in association with the Edition Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Each letter is accompanied by contextual annotations provided through examinations of letters written to Zola, chronologies and histories detailing the political and social situation in 19th century France, as well as contextual information on events or figures referred to in the letters. The records in the Zola Research Program fonds likewise reflect these different activities-- photocopies of the letters by Zola, letters to Zola and letters by contemporaries are also accompanied by various documents collecting information about the various figures prominent in Zola’s life and the social/political milieu of 19th century France. These supplementary records form the contextual backbone of the correspondence volumes. The first volume was published in 1978, and consecutive volumes wer published approximately 18 months apart.

The Zola Research Program consisted of a joint effort between two teams, one in Paris and the other in Toronto. The Paris team (titled the Centre de Recherches sur Zola et le Naturalisme) was headed by Mitterand (Literary Advisor), and consisted of a variety of members including Colette Becker (Associate Editor), Danielle Coussot and Colette Morin-Laborde. The Toronto team was headed by Bard Bakker (Director and General Editor) and consisted of John Walker (General Secretary), Dorothy Speirs (Research Associate), Dolores Signori (Research Fellow), Owen Morgan, Hélène Issayevitch (Project Archivist), with various graduate students and research assistants throughout the years. Support and funding of the project derived from a variety of sources. The Paris team worked in collaboration with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (who generally supplied funding and publication), the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, the Archives Nationales France and various other public and private institutions. The Toronto team was based out of the Department of French at the University of Toronto, and was largely funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). These two teams actively included Zola’s descendants in the project. The private collections of Zola’s grandsons (Dr. François Émile-Zola and Jean-Claude Le Blond) provided the primary source of letters, which were then expanded upon through intensive searches for more sources. These sources include various other public institutions (such as the Bibliothèque National de Paris and the Pierpont Morgan Library) and private auction houses (such as Hôtel Drouot), as well as individual private collectors. Donor agreements demonstrate the goal of the project as the one-time publication of the letters, and each photocopy contained in the collection is stamped or identified as deriving from its original collection. The Zola Research Program was dissolved after the publication of the final volume in 1995.

The Agar family's presence in Vaughan was initiated with the arrival of Hannah and Thomas, and their son Richard, from Moolson, Yorkshire, in 1830. They settled on Lot 11, Concession 10 and their descendants continue to reside in Vaughan.

Carleton Place: Zion Memorial Pastoral Charge was formed in 1966 with the amalgamation of Carleton Place: Memorial Park Pastoral Charge and Carleton Place: Zion Pastoral Charge. It included Zion-Memorial, Boyd's and Franktown until May 1, 193 when Franktown and Boyd's separated to form a separate charge. It is still an active charge of the United Church of Canada.
Zion United Church was established in 1925, formerly Presbyterian; it amalgamated ca. 1966 with Memorial Park United Church in Carleton Place to form Zion Memorial United Church.
Memorial Park United Church was established in 1925, formerly Methodist; it amalgamated ca. 1966 with Zion United Church in Carleton Place to form Zion Memorial United Church.

The Zionist Organization of Canada (ZOC) (1921-1978) acted as the official voice of Zionism in Canada, promoting the aims of Zionism in communities across the country. The ZOC adhered to the principles of the Jerusalem Programme of the World Zionist Movement founded by Theodor Herzl in 1898 during the First Zionist Congress held in Basle Switzerland. These principles included: 1) the promotion of immigration to Israel; 2) raising funds to carry out the aims of Zionism; 3) encouraging investment in Israel; 4) fostering Jewish consciousness; and 5) mobilizing public opinion about Israel and the Jewish communities of the Diaspora. The Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada (FZSOC) was founded in 1898 as the national collective of groups representing Zionist interests in Canada. In 1921 the organization changed its name and was incorporated as the Zionist Organization of Canada, becoming the primary umbrella organization for Zionist groups in Canada. The ZOC was a broad-based organization that embraced an ideology of nationhood which attracted influential national leaders within the Jewish community as well as thousands of members across the country. ZOC's main office was located in Montreal until 1970, when it moved to the Toronto Zionist Centre on Marlee Ave, Toronto. ZOC provided smaller communities, which had few institutional supports, with vital linkages to the metropolitan centres through their programs that were run out of the regional offices and local Zionist councils. The Zionist Organization of Canada operated as an umbrella group that oversaw Zionist funds and administered the budgets of such organizations as Canadian Hadassah-Wizo, the Men's Zionist Organization of Canada and Young Judaea. ZOC programs promoted a stronger Jewish identity amongst Canadian Jews and familiarity with Hebrew through the periodical, Canadian Zionist. These programs included book clubs, lunch clubs, film exhibits, youth camps, travel offices, and two television programs during the 1970s on cable television in Montreal and Toronto. In 1967, ZOC became a constituent member of the new Federated Zionist Organization of Canada (FZOC), along with Canadian Hadassah-Wizo, the Labour Zionist Movement of Canada, Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi Organization of Canada, Zionist Revisionist Organization of Canada, Achdut Avoda, and Friends of Pioneering Israel (Mapam). In 1972, FZOC became the Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF). During the 1970s, ZOC's functions were gradually absorbed by the Canadian Zionist Federation, the CZF Central Region based in Toronto, and by the Toronto Zionist Council. By 1978, the Zionist Organization of Canada had ceased to function as an organization.

The Zion Women’s Institute was established in the summer of 1914 at the home of Mrs. R.T. Edwards, located on the 6th Concession of Glenelg Township. Over the years, the Institute has contributed to its community through donations to the Durham and Centre Grey Hospitals. They have helped organizations such as the Salvation Army, the Cancer Society, the Save the Children Fund, and the Arthritis Society. They also financed scholarships awarded to local high school students pursuing continuing education in the field of nursing. They have also worked in conjunction with organizations such as the 4H Club and the Durham and Markdale Agricultural Societies. The Institute disbanded in 2005, at which time it became the Zion Friendship Group.

Zion United Church was established in 1925 as Sundridge United Church; formerly a union church

Zion United Church, Peabody was established in 1925, formerly Presbyterian; it closed ca. 1960