Sep 01 2026
September 2026 Beautiful Joe Park is a unique park, found in Meaford, Ontario. While many parks are meant to be dog-friendly, with fenced in leash-free sections where dogs can run free, Beautiful Joe Park is a park dedicated to all the canine friends that make our lives better, from service animals to search and rescue …
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Aug 27 2026
August 2026 The Memorial of Hope monument on the campus of the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, is a permanent memorial to the infamous mass murder of 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989. Known as the “Montreal massacre,” it was the deadliest mass shooting in Canada until the Nova Scotia attacks …
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Aug 23 2026
August 2026 Every day, over $320 million worth of goods cross the Windsor-Detroit border crossing, approximately 25% of trade between Canada and America, primarily across the Ambassador Bridge and the newly-opened Gordie Howe International Bridge, which stand 152 feet above the Detroit River. A railway barge used to carry rail cars across the river, but …
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Aug 22 2026
August 2026 Those looking to cross over the Detroit River separating Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, now have a third option. After a long wait, the Gordie Howe International Bridge officially opened to traffic on 27 July 2026. Named in honour of the late Canadian professional ice hockey player Gordie Howe, who played the bulk of …
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Aug 18 2026
August 2026 Found in Barbara Hall Park, the AIDS Memorial is a physical representation of the loss suffered over the decades by Toronto and the world. Situated in the heart of the Gay Village in Toronto, the largest group affected in Toronto in the 1980s, the memorial is the result of hard work by a …
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Aug 15 2026
August 2026 It’s been 25-years since that horrible day. It was a sunny September morning in 2001 when a group of al-Qaeda operatives hijacked three passenger jets, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center Towers in New York City, with the third crashing into a field in Pennsylvania after the passengers apparently tried …
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Aug 13 2026
August 2026 Before motor vehicles and paved highways made transportation of people and goods easier, railways were the fastest and most efficient method of land transportation. Besides the transportation of people and goods, they helped settle western Canada and unite the country from coast to coast. As other transportation options became viable, railroads merged, were …
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Jul 31 2026
July 2026 Note: This article was originally in Part 1 of my Borscht Belt series profiling multiple former hotels and bungalow colonies, first published in November 2018. As I have photographed the Kutsher’s more than most other hotels in the borscht Belt over the past 6 years, I decided to make this entry a stand alone. …
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Jul 27 2026
July 2026 A lonely log cabin sits on the southeast corner of Huronia Road and Lockhart Street in the southern Ontario city of Barrie, on the edge of a woodlot. For over 90 years, it has stood at this corner, the north part of Lot 11, Concession 10, in what was once a part of …
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Jul 27 2026
July 2026 Note: This is Chapter 4 in my Borscht Belt series. Links to the other Borscht Belt articles are at the bottom of this article. If you don’t find a write-up on a specific hotel or bungalow colony in this chapter, either they are profiled in the other chapters or I haven’t heard of …
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