May 26 2021
May 2021 At the top of a hill, looking down on the Trans-Canada Highway in the northern Ontario town of Wawa, is a uniquely Canadian statue: the Wawa Goose Monument. Originally unveiled in 1963, the 28 feet tall, 22 feet long statue of a Canada Goose, with a wingspan of 20 feet, has welcomed visitors …
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May 26 2021
May 2021 Urban Explorers can forget about going to the former Royal Canadian Air Force Station Sioux Lookout. The owners live on the property and they are NOT friendly at all. For those who don’t know what urban exploration (UE) is, it’s basically exploring things like storm drains, subway tunnels, utility tunnels, abandoned ships or …
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May 17 2021
May 2021 A trip to Sudbury, Ontario, is not complete without stopping at a very popular tourist attraction: the Big Nickel. Literally a big nickel, this 30-foot high, 2-foot wide, replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, consisting of an inner steel core and a stainless-steel outer core (stainless steel contains nickel, which prevents rusting). It’s …
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May 15 2021
May 2021 When that great, noted philosopher, Justin Trudeau, made his infamous proclamation that we need to “…rethink concepts as basic as space and time,” in 2018, who knew how prophetic it would prove to be just three short years later. As we enter day 428 (as of 15 May) of the “two weeks to …
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May 15 2021
May 2021 The community of Townsend is an oddity amongst the other municipalities in southern Ontario. It seems like an oddly placed collection of two residential surveys, with the grandly named Townsend Parkway and Nanticoke Parkway intersecting in the middle of the community, which is surrounded by the farm fields of Haldimand County. Townsend was …
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May 12 2021
12 May 2021 It was on 12 May 1961, that my parents Jim and Gwen Forsyth were married in Hamilton, Ontario. Not many couples reach such a milestone. James (Jim) Forsyth was born in Hamilton, on 1 June 1938, to Maurice and Lillian Forsyth. Jim worked as a Chartered Accountant with the Ontario Ministry of …
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May 10 2021
May 2021 While Barrie Advance writer Christopher Mansour’s idea of giving Canadians a free university may sound appealing to young students just beginning their post-secondary education, just remember there is nothing free in life. The university still gets paid their money. If the money isn’t coming from the students themselves, then it’s from the taxpayers …
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May 10 2021
May 2021 The Ontario government announced that the stay-at-home order, that was set to expire on 20 May, will be extended to 2 June. Does anyone honestly believe it won’t be extended again, possibly into July? How many times do we have to endure lockdown orders? Does anyone remember the “just two weeks to flatten …
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May 10 2021
May 2021 Overlooking the City of Hamilton, on the edge of the Niagara Escarpment (known locally as Hamilton Mountain) at Upper James Street and Claremont Drive, is a 3-acre park named Southam Park, named after Major Gordon Southam, a Canadian Field Artillery officer who was killed on 15 October 1916, during the Battle of the …
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Apr 29 2021
April 2021 “What would happen if every human on Earth disappeared? This isn’t the story of how we might vanish…it is the story of what will happen to the world we leave behind.” – Life After People This is part 2 of my Urban Exploration (UER) series. All photos were taken in Ontario, unless noted. **************************************************************************** I’ve …
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