December 2024 The southern Ontario town of Wasaga Beach has the distinction of having the world’s longest fresh water beach, spanning 10 miles. The beach community has another distinction of being the starting point in a record-breaking aviation milestone. The appeal of Wasaga Beach for both aviators was its naturally long, straight beach, which provided …
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December 2024 The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem (CSYV) Holocaust Memorial Site in North York is a monument dedicated to the memory of victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Containing almost 5,000 names, it is the most extensive listing of any memorial site in Canada. The monument was built in three phases over a period …
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December 2024 When travelling across the rural roads of Ontario, former thriving villages like Craighurst can be found at both busy and desolated crossroads. Situated at the corner of Simcoe County Road 93, also known as Penetanguishene Road, and Horseshoe Valley Road, Craighurst was one of these small villages, many of which grew up along …
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December 2024 Across many older towns and cities, ruins of structures from the past can occasionally be found, crumbling and forgotten, hidden by vegetation Erindale Park, found in the Erindale area of Mississauga, Ontario, is a community park complete with a playground for children, picnic areas and miles of walking trails in and around the …
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December 2024 On 1 December, I attended a pro-Israel rally at the corner of Bathurst And Sheppard in North York, Ontario. This is a largely Jewish area of Toronto, with many carrying rally attendees carrying posters with the faces of the hostages taken by Hamas during their attack. These rallies have been held every Sunday …
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November 2024 Canada’s premier blues band, the Downchild Blues Band, played to a full-house at Hugh’s Room in Toronto on 13 November, just one of the stops on their farewell tour. After releasing 19 albums, receiving numerous awards and touring around the world for the past 55 years, Downchild Blues Band have decided it’s time to …
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November 2024 Burlington Heights is an elevated sand and gravel bar in the southern Ontario City of Hamilton, formed across the eastern end of the Dundas Valley by Glacial Lake Iroquois. Rising around 330 feet above the shoreline, it separates Hamilton Harbour from Cootes Paradise Marsh, and is now recognized as a National Historic Site …
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November 2024 For rural communities, one-room or small multi-room schoolhouses were the standard before communities grew and educational course offerings necessitated bigger schools, holding anywhere from several hundred to one or two thousand students. Before the invention of the automobile, these one-room or small schools were built close to the towns and farms where the …
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November 2024 The trash talking, the body slams, the flying leaps of the turnbuckle. They were all there and more on 2 November at Ferris Lane Community Church in Barrie, Ontario. The family-friendly pro wrestling company had their first event ever back on 1 November 2014, and have been providing a mix of hard-hitting action, …
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November 2024 One of Canada’s newest naval ships was making the rounds of cities in southern Ontario, as part of the annual Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Great Lakes deployment. HMCS Harry DeWolf, one of the navy’s new Arctic Patrol Vessels, has been on the annual public relations tour, as they did last year. Named after …
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