Bruce Forsyth

October 4, 2020

October 2020 Before the motor vehicles and major highway systems, the railway was the fastest and most efficient way to transport people and goods across the country. In addition to the national railways, like Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, there were many smaller regional railways that criss-crossed the provinces and territories, connecting towns and villages …

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Oct 02 2020

Is it too early for some schadenfreude?

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October 2, 2020

Published in the Toronto Sun, 3 October 2020 Masked Affair With the news that President Donald Trump has contracted the Chinese Communist Party coronoavirus, the usual anti-Trump crowd are dancing in the streets with glee, given Trump’s lax and dismissive attitude towards the wearing of masks. Now, I’m certainly not trying to be a Trump …

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Oct 01 2020

Who is safe from the cancel mob?

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October 1, 2020

October 2020 The danger of judging the past using today’s morals and standards. For the past several years, the “woke” crowd 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 of Indian …

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Sep 22 2020

The mud church of Shanty Bay

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September 22, 2020

September 2020 The small Village of Shanty Bay, north of Barrie, Ontario, has a historic church that is one of the few remaining structures in Ontario built of “rammed earth.” The “rammed earth” construction method involves mixing wet clay with chopped straw, compacted into forms and covered, when dry, with plaster or siding for durability …

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Sep 21 2020

Have we finally learned our lesson?

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September 21, 2020

September 2020 Re: “Heading the lessons of COVID-19” (Toronto Sun Editorial, 20 Sept): I suppose the good news is that we seem to have learned our lesson that masks are necessary in helping to contain the spread of the Chinese Communist Party Virus, despite what experts like Dr. Theresa Tam were telling us up to …

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Sep 20 2020

Lest We Forget – Woodbridge War Memorial Tower

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September 20, 2020

September 2020 In the years after World War I ended, cities, towns and villages across Canada erected cenotaphs to honour the men from their communities who died in the war. Most consisted of a carved square granite column listing the names of the dead, topped with a granite statue of a uniformed soldier. Some are …

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Sep 18 2020

Waterloo Pioneer Memorial Tower – A monument to the Pennsylvania Dutch pioneers of Waterloo County

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September 18, 2020

September 2020 In the south-western Ontario city of Kitchener, a 62-foot tapered tower, built of rounded fieldstones from the surrounding area. This monument, on the shore of the Grand River, is dedicated to the Pennsylvania Dutch (Mennonite) immigrants who came to what was then Upper Canada. Travelling from New York State and Pennsylvania in the …

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Sep 16 2020

The truth should matter, even if you don’t agree – The tragic death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet

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September 16, 2020

September 2020 On 29 August, Toronto Sun’s Editor Emeritus Lorrie Goldstein published a column titled: “When police are accused of racism, facts don’t matter.” It recounted the extensive report issued by Ontario’s Special Investigation Unit into the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet on 27 May 2020; a 29-year-old woman who fell to her death from the …

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Sep 15 2020

The West Montrose Covered Bridge – Ontario’s last remaining covered bridge

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September 15, 2020

September 2020 In the Woolwich Township community of West Montrose, sits the last covered bridge in Ontario. Quite fittingly, the area is heavily populated by Old Order Mennonites, the black-garbed traditionalists, who drive their horse-drawn wagons and buggies across this bridge, just like their Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors did two centuries ago. Covered bridges were quite …

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Sep 14 2020

The Blair Sheave Tower – Ontario’s last remaining wooden water-powered hydro generator tower

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September 14, 2020

September 2020 In a time before power was supplied by electrical grids, grist mills were responsible for generating their own hydro to operate the mills. Sheave towers were an economical way to generate power from rivers by use of a water turbine underneath the tower. The last remaining wooden sheave tower in Ontario can be …

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