Dec 31 2021
December 2021 Carousels have been a popular amusement ride since the early 1800s, when John Joseph Merlin created a carousel in his Mechanical Museum in London in 1803. Originally serving as entertainment for London gentry and nobility, by the mid-1800s, they were a popular feature at fairs and carnivals. The inspiration for Merlin’s creation was …
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Dec 30 2021
December 2021 Ancaster, Ontario, is a historic town in the Golden Horseshoe area of southern Ontario; a town that dates back to the early years of British North America. Founded in 1793, just two years after the establishment of the Province of Upper Canada, now the Province of Ontario, Ancaster was given its name by …
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Dec 25 2021
December 2021 Anyone from the Ontario cottage-country town of Orillia will know the notorious Atherley Arms Hotel. Also known as The First, it has the Tudor-style building has served many functions in the century it has stood at the corner of Highway 12 and Creighton Street. From a hotel for weary travelers and workers in …
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Dec 16 2021
December 2021 Although the Barrie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) closed in November 2020, when it moved into a new building in Orillia, the demolition of the old building a year later really punctuates the end of an era. The OPP came to Barrie in 1946, when the Town of Barrie found the …
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Dec 15 2021
December 2021 As we rapidly approach year three of two weeks to flatten the curve, I’m seriously thinking of changing my name to Charlie Brown. Maybe all of us should change our names to Charlie Brown, because of the pronouncements of the impending doom we are facing as we head into the Christmas holiday, I’m …
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Dec 13 2021
December 2021 All older towns and cities have buildings that have changed uses over the years, sometimes multiple times, particularly in the older parts of town. An unassuming, two-story building on Collier Street in Barrie, Ontario, one that currently houses a dental clinic and a bistro, looks like any other retail/residential building common to any …
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Dec 08 2021
December 2021 How hard can it be? There has been much debate as to whether Canada should boycott the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, either diplomatically or by refusing to send out athletes. U.S. President Joe Biden recently announced that America will diplomatically boycott the games, something that the Chinese Communist Party has already condemned, …
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Dec 07 2021
December 2021 Regarding the letter from Albert Sanders (4 December, Toronto Sun, Letters to the Editor): Does Mr. Sanders condemn the actions of Gaige Grosskreutz, who also went to the “protest” armed, in his case with a handgun? This is the same one that he pointed at Kyle Rittenhouse, just before he was shot in …
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Dec 03 2021
Edited by Brittani Schroeder, Editor, Blue Line | Annex Business Media December 2021 I recently found out why a former friend had ended our friendship. I hadn’t seen or spoken to him in several years, for reasons of my own, so this was news to me. As he told me, it had to do with …
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Nov 27 2021
November 2021 If you thought Roxham Road had outlived its purpose, you’d be wrong. The infamous Roxham Road, the now-officially-designated unofficial and illegal Point-of-Entry straddling the Canada-American border at Quebec and New York State, where economic migrants come to make their refugee claims in contravention of the Canada– U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, has officially …
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