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March 21, 2020

March 2020 Known to the locals as Valley Inn, this picturesque cove on the western edge of Burlington Bay/Hamilton Harbour at the end of Burlington Heights, was once along the main land route between Hamilton and the East Flamborough Township village of Aldershot, now a part of the City of Burlington, in southern Ontario. This …

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Mar 19 2020

Ruins of The Hermitage a popular attraction in the Hamilton area

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March 19, 2020

March 2020 Just west of Ancaster, Ontario, in the Dundas Valley, sits the burnt-out shell of an abandoned stone mansion on a former estate property known as The Hermitage. The 165-year old ruins and the property are now a tourist attraction for hikers and those interested in the paranormal, maintained by the Hamilton Conservation Authority. …

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Mar 18 2020

Old station is one of the few remnants of the Hamilton Radial Electric Railway

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March 18, 2020

March 2020 In the downtown core of Oakville, Ontario, sits a small three-storey, century-old building with a link to the early era of modern public transportation in southern Ontario. Built in 1906, this building was the eastern terminus station for the Hamilton Radial Electric Railway (HRER). The HRER began business when they received their charter …

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Mar 18 2020

Stupid is, as stupid does – The downside of a free-market economy

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March 18, 2020

Published in the Toronto Sun, 19 March 2020 Re: “A warning to not be irresponsible hoarders” (Jerry Agar, Toronto Sun, 17 March): While I agree with what Jerry says, especially the idea of price gouging, the other side of the coin is that this is simply the good and bad of a free-market economy. People …

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Mar 17 2020

The Kedge Anchor – A relic of the War of 1812 in Holland Landing

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March 17, 2020

March 2020 The small community of Holland Landing, Ontario, played an important part in the early history of Upper Canada, now known as the Canadian province of Ontario. Today, it has a monument in a community park that has an interesting history. Holland Landing was the northernmost point of the original alignment of Yonge Street, …

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Mar 12 2020

Buried bridges of Toronto

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March 12, 2020

March 2020 Like most cities, Toronto has a spotted history of preserving buildings and structures from the past. Most times, old buildings and structures are torn down to make room for new ones, all in the name of progress. In some cases, it’s simply too expensive to repair them, but especially in the case of …

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Mar 08 2020

QEW Monument commemorates Ontario’s first “super-highway”

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March 8, 2020

March 2020 When the Ontario government of George Stewart Henry began the process of expanding and converting the Middle Road into a new Toronto to Hamilton highway in 1931, it was originally conceived as a work relief project during the Great Depression. Originally a dusty, rural concession road, the Middle Road, which ran parallel to …

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Mar 05 2020

Shining a light on the past – Queen’s Wharf Lighthouse

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March 5, 2020

March 2020 For centuries, going back to the days of ancient Rome, lighthouses have lined shorelines around the world to serve as a navigational aid and to warn boats of dangerous areas; like a traffic sign on the sea. The Queen’s Wharf Lighthouse is a wooden, 36-foot octagonal lighthouse, sitting on a small plot of …

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Feb 24 2020

Ghosts of the past – The St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital

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February 24, 2020

February 2020 On Elgin County Road 4, south of St. Thomas, Ontario, sits a complex of vacant, inter-connected Queenston Limestone, Art Deco buildings, done in a Pavilion Plan style, on a 650-acre property. This is the former St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital. Opened in April 1939 as the Ontario Hospital – St. Thomas, the facility already …

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Feb 22 2020

The crisis in policing continues

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