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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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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