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July 2020 The former Canadian National Railway (CNR) station in Orillia is facing an uncertain future after being sold to a developer. Originally built by the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) in 1917, it became part of the CNR inventory when the GTR went bankrupt six years later. It replaced the original station, which was destroyed …

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Restored Grand Trunk Railway station in Caledonia a local treasure

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July 2020 The Grand Trunk Railway station in Caledonia is one of several restored railway stations that hearken back to the day of Canada’s “golden age” of railway travel, when railway stations had impressive and appealing architectural designs. The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) built the current station in 1908, the third GTR railway station to …

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The Norfolk Carillon Tower – A towering memorial to the county’s war dead

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July 2020 The Norfolk Carillon Tower, dedicated on 17 June 1925, was built to honour the men, and one woman, from Norfolk County, who were lost in The Great War. A carillon is a musical instrument that is usually housed in a bell tower on a church or other public building. Funds were raised by …

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Justin says we are to call out racism when we see it, so…….

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Published in the Toronto Sun 17 July 2020 Trudeau’s race relations. Oy vey! The jokes just keep writing themselves when it comes to Justin Trudeau. In reaction to a disgusting incident on 5 July at a T&T Supermarket in Mississauga, where a 48-year-old male, identified by Peel Police as John McCash, launched into an almost …

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Taber Hill – An unassuming hill that became a significant ethnological discovery

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July 2020 Large parts of the earth feature rolling topography; any land formation, hill, or raised land, that is not high enough to be considered a mountain, that has been formed by erosion or some other force in nature like glaciers. Sometimes the hills we see around our communities are man-made, like Taber Hill, located …

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Ghost Towns of Bruce County – The rise and fall of Little Egypt

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July 2020 Ghost towns are; “a once flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource,” as defined by Webster’s Dictionary. The Bruce County community of Egypt, sometimes referred to as Little Egypt, is an oddity in that it was never really an actual “town,” but simply …

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Historically significant buildings in Canada – The Sharon Temple

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July 2020 Canada has many unique and historically significant buildings. The Sharon Temple, located in the Village of Sharon, in central Ontario, is one such building. The white, timber-frame, clapboard building of ascending chambers, is the centrepiece of an open-air museum, composed of seven other heritage buildings on a 4.5 acre property, and owned by …

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The Old Finch Avenue Bailey Bridge – A historic temporary bridge still in use 66 years later

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June 2020 A Bailey Bridge is a pre-fabricated truss bridge that was designed by civil engineer Donald Bailey of the British War Office, and developed for use by the British military early in World War II. The wood and steel Bailey Bridge was designed as a portable type of bridge; one that could be easily …

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Sewells Road Bridge – Toronto’s only suspension bridge

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June 2020 Civil engineer Frank Barber has designed many unique bridges in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. Perhaps the most unique bridge, for the Toronto area, is the Sewells Road Bridge; unique in that it’s the only suspension bridge in Toronto and one of the few found in Ontario. The single lane Sewells Road …

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Is police violence on TV to blame?

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June 2020 The age-old question has been does watching too much TV rot your brain? In light of the most recent shooting death of a black man in Atlanta, 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, by now former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, who is now facing 11 charges, I do have to wonder what the effect cop …

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