October 2025 A new transit terminal opened in Barrie, Ontario, on 21 September, replacing the now-closed downtown transit terminal. The location of the new Barrie Allandale Transit Terminal has a long history of transportation, occupying a portion of the former Canadian National Railway lands on the shore of Kempenfelt Bay, once a large, important railway …
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September 2025 The National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, is a 1,120,000 square feet museum dedicated to telling the story of the United States Air Force and its predecessor services, starting with the Aeronautical Division, Signal Corps in 1907. The museum dates to 1923, when the Engineering Division at McCook …
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September 2025 For nearly 170 years, there had been a church on Nottawasaga 33/34 Sideroad in Clearview Township, in southern Ontario. Geographically situated at Part Lot 33, Concession 9, in what was then Nottawasaga Township, the West Nottawasaga Presbyterian Church had been in existence longer than Canada has been a country. The land for the …
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August 2025 Today, it’s an empty, overgrown field. However, just nine short years ago, this was the sports field for Barrie Central Collegiate, in Barrie, Ontario, as it had since 1951. Known as Red Storey Field, the sports field named after Canadian Sports Hall of Fame winner and Barrie native Alvin “Red” Storey. Generations of …
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August 2025 Sullivan County in south-eastern New York State is known known for being a significant part of the Borscht Belt, the vacation land for New York City-area Jewish families prior to integration. The county also has a collection of historic iron bridges from an age when bridge construction was transitioning from wood framed construction …
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August 2025 The National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, was officially dedicated on 21 May 1939, originally to commemorate Canadians who died in World War I. By 1982, it was re-dedicated to honour those who died World War II and the Korean War, with dedications to those lost in the Second Boer War and Afghanistan …
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August 2025 When most people think of the War of 1812 battlefields, they think of areas from the St. Lawrence River, to Lake Ontario, to Lake Erie. Many will forget that Lake Huron and Georgian Bay also saw action during the war. Wasaga Beach is now a beach resort community, but during the War of …
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August 2025 Since the early 2000s, the manufacturing sector in Canada has declined significantly in response to changes in the global economy and fewer regulatory controls over Canadian produced products. In Bowmanville, a large brown brick building, once owned by Goodyear Tire Company, silently stands like a tombstone to a manufacturing past that is likely to …
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July 2025 Victoria Square Park, in downtown Toronto, is a small park with a morbid past. Like McBurney Park in Kingston, Ontario, a park known locally as Skeleton Park, was the final resting place for many early settlers in the Toronto area of Upper Canada. The cemetery was established in 1793, under orders from Governor …
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July 2025 Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre was turned into a multimedia comedy carnival on 9 July, when the king of musical comedy brought his show to the city where fun usually goes to die. Serving up two hours of music, comedy, short films, lots of costume changes and droll social commentary, the pride of Lynwood, California, …
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