May 2021 The Tourist Pagoda near the waterfront in Thunder Bay, Ontario, is the oldest continuously operating tourist information building in Canada. Built in 1909, in what was then Port Arthur, it was strategically located near the waterfront and across the railway tracks from the grand Port Arthur Union Station, so as to attract visitors …
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May 2021 While Walt Disney may have made Winnie The Pooh a famous American icon, the soft-hearted bear with the insatiable need for honey actually has a Canadian connection. The real Winnie the Pooh, the one that inspired Christopher Robin Milne, son of English author A.A. Milne, to name his teddy bear Winnie the Pooh, …
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May 2021 A little east of Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a monument to Terry Fox, the 21-year-old Canadian amputee who mounted the Marathon of Hope, an attempt to run across Canada in 1980, to raise money for cancer research. Starting on 12 April 1980, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Terry set out to run a marathon …
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May 2021 At the top of a hill, looking down on the Trans-Canada Highway in the northern Ontario town of Wawa, is a uniquely Canadian statue: the Wawa Goose Monument. Originally unveiled in 1963, the 28 feet tall, 22 feet long statue of a Canada Goose, with a wingspan of 20 feet, has welcomed visitors …
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May 2021 Urban Explorers can forget about going to the former Royal Canadian Air Force Station Sioux Lookout. The owners live on the property and they are NOT friendly at all. For those who don’t know what urban exploration (UE) is, it’s basically exploring things like storm drains, subway tunnels, utility tunnels, abandoned ships or …
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May 2021 A trip to Sudbury, Ontario, is not complete without stopping at a very popular tourist attraction: the Big Nickel. Literally a big nickel, this 30-foot high, 2-foot wide, replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, consisting of an inner steel core and a stainless-steel outer core (stainless steel contains nickel, which prevents rusting). It’s …
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May 2021 When that great, noted philosopher, Justin Trudeau, made his infamous proclamation that we need to “…rethink concepts as basic as space and time,” in 2018, who knew how prophetic it would prove to be just three short years later. As we enter day 428 (as of 15 May) of the “two weeks to …
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May 2021 The community of Townsend is an oddity amongst the other municipalities in southern Ontario. It seems like an oddly placed collection of two residential surveys, with the grandly named Townsend Parkway and Nanticoke Parkway intersecting in the middle of the community, which is surrounded by the farm fields of Haldimand County. Townsend was …
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12 May 2021 It was on 12 May 1961, that my parents Jim and Gwen Forsyth were married in Hamilton, Ontario. Not many couples reach such a milestone. James (Jim) Forsyth was born in Hamilton, on 1 June 1938, to Maurice and Lillian Forsyth. Jim worked as a Chartered Accountant with the Ontario Ministry of …
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May 2021 While Barrie Advance writer Christopher Mansour’s idea of giving Canadians a free university may sound appealing to young students just beginning their post-secondary education, just remember there is nothing free in life. The university still gets paid their money. If the money isn’t coming from the students themselves, then it’s from the taxpayers …
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