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 (Updated August 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 …
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Jul 25 2026
July 2026 Before the motor vehicles and major highway systems, the railway was the fastest and most efficient way to transport people and goods across the country. In addition to the national railways, like Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, there were many smaller regional railways that criss-crossed the provinces and territories, connecting towns and villages …
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Jul 21 2026
July 2026 The Story Garden in Binghamton, New York, is an interactive outdoor playscape and learning area, providing non-stop fun for a wide range of ages. Unlike most playgrounds, the Story Garden provides an interesting way for children to exercise their creative minds, as well as their bodies. The Story Garden was opened in June …
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Jul 16 2026
July 2026 Ghost towns are “a once flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource,” as defined by Webster’s Dictionary. There are many such former towns and villages that no longer exist because the population moved away and the buildings were either demolished, destroyed by natural …
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