September 2022 Coming off their 10 million selling 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, expectations were high for Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins for a follow-up album. Combined with a statement from guitarist James Iha in late 1996 that “The future is in electronic music. It really seems boring just to play rock …
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September 2022 Within the growing and busy City of Vaughan is the former unincorporated Hamlet of Vellore. In the years after what was then known as Vaughan Township was surveyed in 1792, small communities were established throughout the 105 square miles of land within its borders. Five years before Vaughan Township was formally incorporated in …
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August 2022 Firstly, I condemn the behaviour of the man and woman who accosted Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Feeland in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Regardless of how much you disagree with a politician, that sort of aggressive behaviour is unacceptable and counter-productive. However, where is the self-awareness on the part of the Liberals? When Catholic Churches …
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August 2022 On 19 April 2019, the notorious Nashville North nightclub in the southern Ontario village of Norval, suddenly shut down, after 57 years of operation. Once described as the greatest country bar in the Greater Toronto Area, it officially opened on 31 December 1961 as the Riviera Club, it would go on to become …
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August 2022 Back in the “Golden Age” of the railways in Canada, railway stations had impressive and appealing architectural designs. While many were demolished when they were no longer needed by the railway companies that used them, others were restored and re-purposed, sometimes re-located to a new location. The former Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station …
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August 2022 The southern Ontario city of Milton, founded in 1821 by Jasper Martin, has turned a former mill pond into a small picturesque paradise in the middle of a busy and growing city. The mill pond, created by damning part of Sixteen Mile Creek, was used to supply water-power to a grist mill built …
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August 2022 The southern Ontario city of Burlington has many historic homes, some dating back to the early days Upper Canada. One such home can be found in the south-west corner of the city; a two-storey brick house, with a third-storey attic level, known both as the Charles G. Davis house and Woodland Terrace. Located …
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Published in the Toronto Sun, 24 August 2022 Re: “Firing anti-racism group took too long given trainer’s racist comments,” (Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, 22 August): If I didn’t know better, I would have sworn that this column was from satirical news sites like “The Onion” or “The Babylon Bee.” It’s cases like this that highlight …
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August 2022 The small Ontario town of Marmora is home to the preserved ruins of St Matilda’s Church, a church that dates back to the early days of the Province of Upper Canada. Built in 1828, under the supervision of Anthony Manahan, the small 43 foot by 25 foot church was built on the west …
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August 2022 Tudor-style Arts & Craft home, sometimes known as Tudor Revival, Mock Tudor, or Jacobean style, are multi-story houses made of brick with large sections of half-timbered white stucco siding, giving them a medieval appearance. Tudors have steeply-pitched gabled roofs with decorative chimney pots, narrow, multi-paned windows, and wooden front doors. Inside, Tudor-style homes …
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