Bruce Forsyth

November 2021 In Toronto’s Don Valley, sit three large, white sculptures that look either like the lower half of an elephant or giant teeth. These sculptures are known as the Elevated Wetlands Sculpture, a functional art display, installed in the summer of 1998, that brings together the plastics industry, the artistic community, and environmental stewardship. …

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The building that was once Barrie’s smallest stand-alone variety store

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November 2021 A small non-descript building on Owen Street in Barrie, Ontario, surrounded by modest pre-war and post-war family homes, has the unique distinction of once being the smallest stand-alone variety store in the city. Opened around 1949 by Henry Bauldry, the store, appropriately named Bauldry’s, sold just about everything that you would expect from …

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Two years later, the Mohawk Inn and Conference Centre has yet to be re-born

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November 2021 The much-loved Mohawk Inn & Conference Centre in Milton, Ontario, closed its doors on 15 December 2019, with the intention of demolishing the existing 52-year-old building, so that a new, modern building could rise in its place. Opened on 3 June 1967, the Mohawk Inn was designed as an early Canadian colonial-style Inn. …

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The historic Adamson Estate & Pet Cemetery is a treasure for Port Credit

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October 2021 There are many historic homes in the Greater Toronto Area of southern Ontario. One that is the jewel of the Port Credit area of Mississauga is the Adamson Estate. Situated along the shore of Lake Ontario, on land originally owned by Joseph Cawthra, the name-sake of Cawthra Road, in 1809, it was passed …

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Historic CP Railway station a remains a part of North Bay’s railway heritage

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The former Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station, near the waterfront in North Bay, Ontario, dates back to the golden era of the railways in Canada; a time when railway stations were grand, with architecturally stunning designs. Built in 1903, in the Richardson Romanesque style, the two-storey building was the third station built on the site. …

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OPP dedicates monument to officers lost to suicide

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October 2021 On 15 October 2021, the Ontario Provincial Police dedicated a monument outside their headquarters in Orillia, dedicated to officers who lost their lives to job-related suicide, “…whose deaths were related to the line of duty, rather than (in) the line of duty.” The outdoor monument consists of a memorial gazebo, with a round …

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Bomb Girls – Mural celebrates the legacy of Scarborough’s long-vanished GECO Munitions Plant

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October 2021 In September 1941, a 225 acre property in what was then called Scarborough Township, became the home to Allied War Supplies Corporation’s Project No. 24, a munitions plant operated by the General Electric Company of Canada. Known locally as GECO, the complex consisted of 172 buildings on both sides of Warden Avenue, south …

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The real and devastating consequences of the green obsession

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October 2021 The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that we must stop the exploration and development of new oil and gas fields this year. Further, there can be no new coal-fired power stations constructed anywhere in the world, even using clean-coal technology. Otherwise, we aren’t going to meet the net zero emissions target by 2050. …

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Memories of the Banff National Army Cadet Camp

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October 2021 For thousands of teens who were members of the Canadian Army Cadet Corps in the latter half of the 20th Century, the Banff National Army Cadet Camp brings back fond memories of a summer of challenges, accomplishments and friendships. While there were other army cadet summer camps across the county, the Banff National …

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Half-Masting the Canadian flag for our Indigenous people is now meaningless

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Published in the Toronto Sun, 9 October 2021 Well it’s official. Our virtue-signalling Prime Minister has now turned the honour of half-masting our national flag into a meaningless gesture. It was proper to lower the flag to honour the Indigenous children found buried in unmarked graves at the former Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British …

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