Bruce Forsyth

July 16, 2021

July 2021 Near the intersection of Highway 9 and County Road 50, on the border between Wellington and Simcoe Counties is a short road called Ballycroy Road. This road, along with the old General Store, attached house and barn, are all that remains of the former Town of Ballycroy. Established in the 1820s, and geographically …

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Jul 14 2021

Monument to doomed Air Canada Flight 621 at crash site in Brampton

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July 14, 2021

July 2021 Air travel is a very safe way to travel, with thousands of flights taking off and landing safely every day around the world. However, when things go wrong, the results can be catastrophic. On 5 July 1970, Air Canada Flight 621, a Douglas DC-8, took off from Montreal–Dorval International Airport in Montreal, Quebec, …

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Jul 11 2021

Many more tears to be shed

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July 11, 2021

July 2021 With the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former Indian Residential Schools in Kamloops, British Columbia and the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan, fresh in my mind, I visited the remains of the abandoned Spanish Indian Residential School in Spanish, Ontario. What became the Spanish Indian Residential School has its beginnings with …

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Jul 07 2021

From the “No amount of money is too much” file

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July 7, 2021

July 2021 So, Toronto city Council given approval for the re-naming of Dundas Street, an action that is estimated to cost between $5 million and $6.3 million. Of course, we all know this means it will actually cost around $10 million, at minimum, but I digress. Seeing as Toronto Council has so much spare money …

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Jul 06 2021

After the last guest checks out – Abandoned Lookout Inn rumoured to be haunted

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July 6, 2021

July 2021 The Lookout Inn, overlooking Lake Nippising, in Callander, Ontario, was a popular hotel that operated from the mid-1950s until closing in late 1980s. Its dining area and patio provided a great view overlooking Lake Nipissing. Reportedly, one of the original owners hanged herself in the hotel, after losing her daughter in a drowning …

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Jul 02 2021

The sacrifice of Rosa Parks remembered at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation

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July 2, 2021

July 2021 Rosa Parks is an icon in the American civil rights movement, best remembered for her brave stand against Alabama’s segregation laws in the 1950s. On 1 December 1955, Parks was arrested after refusing an order by Montgomery, Alabama, bus driver James F. Blake, to vacate her seat in the “coloured” section of the …

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Jun 27 2021

Ghostly tunnels of the abandoned Rochester Subway

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June 27, 2021

June 2021 Light rail transit services have been a popular public transportation choice for cities since the 1800s. Some are built at grade on public streets, while others are built on their own dedicated corridor, sometimes above ground, and sometimes below grade. When the Erie Canal in western New York State was re-routed to bypass …

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Jun 26 2021

“…and a small voice whispers, ‘They found us.'” – Time to face the shameful past of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools

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June 26, 2021

June 2021 Earlier this month, Canadians were shocked to learn of the discovery of the unmarked graves of 215 Indigenous children who were buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia. While Indigenous people have spoken for years about these unmarked and largely forgotten (at least by non-Indigenous …

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Jun 18 2021

Where does it stop?

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June 18, 2021

June 2021 Re: “‘Dark shadow’: Ryerson Public School in Burlington to be re-named,” (Kathy Yanchus, 17 June): For the past several years, many have been calling for the Stalinesque erasure of people from Canada’s past. Our first prime minister and father of Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald, has been a favourite target for his support …

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Jun 17 2021

Interesting roadside attractions in Ontario

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June 17, 2021

June 2021 We see them as we drive along the roads in Ontario. Some are structures of varying sizes, some are statures or art pieces, some are vehicles or vessels, but all draw our attention in one way or another, like Jumbo the Elephant, found in St. Thomas. Here are just some of the interesting …

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