November 2023 On 5 November, I took my daughter to her first “official” concert: Depeche Mode. The band were on their Memento Mori Tour, in support of the album of the same name. I say first “official” because we had twice been to concerts before, once when she was eight, but we had to leave …
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November 2023 Since the mid-nineteenth century, the railways were once a vital transportation link for the movement of people and goods in the days before the automobile and paved roads. Alma, Ontario, a former unincorporated village in Mapletown Township, Ontario, has an interesting roadside attraction that acknowledges this link to the past. Sitting beside a …
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November 2023 The Butler name is one that is intertwined with the history of the Niagara area. Lieutenant-Colonel John Butler was a soldier in the British Army in the 18th Century who played a significant role in the founding of the new settlement at Niagara, in what was then known as Upper Canada. Born in …
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November 2023 The Village of Ellenville, in the Catskills region of eastern New York State, is the home to a new museum, dedicated to showcasing the history of America’s Jewish Vacationland. The Borscht Belt Museum will commemorate and tell the story of the Borscht Belt, an era when millions of urban dwellers sought refuge in …
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November 2023 The City of Vaughan, in southern Ontario, a former rural township that grew up into a busy, vibrant city, has seen many changes since it was first surveyed in the early 19th Century. Back when horse and buggy travel was the primary mode of transportation for the average person, traveling great distances was …
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October 2023 Like many towns in Ontario, the railways were once a vital transportation link for the movement of people and goods in the days before the automobile and paved roads. Numerous railway line crisscrossed the country until motor vehicles and improved highways made the transportation of people and goods easier. Smaller railway companies went …
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October 2023 Shipping canals have been an important part of water-based transportation of people and goods for centuries. The Erie Canal is a 351-mile long historic canal in upstate New York, running east-west from the Hudson River at Waterford, north of Albany, to Lake Erie at Tonawanda. As with most canals, a series of locks were constructed …
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October 2023 Since the early days of British North America, many towns and villages sprung up around rivers, where water-powered mills were built so that local farmers could easily transport their grain there to be milled. These communities were dependent on their local mill as bread was a staple part of the diet. Watson’s Mill is …
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October 2023 The Sound of Music Festival is an annual music festival in Burlington, Ontario, held in mid-June over the Father’s Day weekend. The free-admission festival, with paid VIP upgrades, is held in Spencer Smith Park along the city’s waterfront and throughout the downtown core, billing itself as “Canada’s Largest Free Music Festival.” Just two of the …
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September 2023 A large crowd gathered on 18 September in a small park in Bradford, Ontario, for the official re-naming of Middleton Park to Constable Devon Northrup Memorial Park, in honor of the fallen 33-year-old South Simcoe Police officer killed in the line of duty almost exactly a year prior. On 11 October 2022, South …
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