July 2025 The Queen Street entrance to Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto, Ontario, has a unique feature, that also serves as a nod to the property’s past: the stone and wrought iron gates that marked the main entrance to Trinity College. Trinity Bellwoods Park was created around 1900, and was referred to at the time …
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June 2025 On 31 May 1985, the southern Ontario City of Barrie was forever changed. That was the day that an F-4 tornado tore through the small city, one of around 9 tornados that slammed though the province that day. When all was done, 12 people were dead, more than 600 homes were badly damaged, …
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June 2025 Covered bridges were once quite popular across North America throughout the 19th century. Back when wood was inexpensive and commonly used in bridge construction, there was an obvious benefit to adding walls and roofs to slow deterioration caused by rain, snow and the sun. Covered bridges, a timber-truss structure with a roof, decking …
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June 2025 On 7 October 2023, a group of around 6, 000 terrorists with the death cult Hamas breached the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, and launched an armed attack against civilians attending the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re’im, in southern Israel. The barbaric attack began at 06:29 hours, as the sun …
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June 2025 In December 2024, a small parkette was dedicated in Springwater Township, west of Barrie, Ontario. Dedicated in honour of the centennial of the Royal Canadian Air Force, a retired Canadair CT-133 Silver Star jet trainer, is the centrepiece of memorial parkette. Seven plaques are found along a short walking path around the parkette, …
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June 2025 The infamous Marigold Hotel is no more. While the building still stands, so far, it’s been turned into a rotting corpse of a building. In just two short years, vandals, the elements and water damage, have turned it into a dilapidated mess. Sitting on the busy Queen Street East in Brampton, Ontario, not …
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June 2025 Gage Park is an iconic jewel in the southern Ontario city of Hamilton. The 30-hectare multi-use park was created in the 1920s in a style reflective of the Canadian City Beautiful movement, featuring outstanding gardens, a large selection of trees, including Cherry Blossom trees that attract large crowds every spring, a 14,000 square-foot …
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June 2025 Penetanguishene, Ontario, has a new tourist attraction, and it’s completely free. Welcome to Tiny Town, the passion project of Shelley and Mike Duval, built right in their backyard. What started as simply a privacy fence, built beginning in 2021 by Mike, at the request of his beloved wife of over five decades, it …
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May 2025 A lonely building of Edwardian Classical architecture sits at the edge of a woodlot, along the edge of the Niagara Escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario. Abandoned since 2013, this building, known as the Chedoke Hospital Long & Bisby Building, is one of the few reminders of the former Chedoke Sanatorium, also known as the …
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May 2025 Two more markers dedicated! Not a bad weekend in the Catskills area of eastern New York State. Colloquially known as the Borscht Belt, the area was once populated with resorts and bungalow colonies that served as a summer refuge for Jewish clients from New York City, in an era when Jewish people still …
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