Mar 30 2022
March 2022 When walking through Waverly Beach Park in Fort Erie, Ontario, you will past by numerous concrete formations, some looking like breakwalls along the water’s edge, along with other seemingly random posts and slabs scattered along the water’s edge and throughout the woodlot just off the waterfront boardwalk. These are the crumbling remains of …
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Mar 24 2022
March 2022 On the edge of the forested Limehouse Conservation Area, hidden by young and old forest growth, lies the remains of a long-abandoned and forgotten go-kart racing track. This race track in the former village of Limehouse, not part of the Town of Halton Hills, Ontario, was once the home of the North Halton …
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Mar 21 2022
March 2022 While streetcars are still a very popular form of public transportation in major urban centres like Toronto, which is in the process of adding new lines, they have fallen in popularity in most municipalities, replaced by buses. The southern Ontario city of Hamilton, who’s municipal transit system is named the Hamilton Street Railway …
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Mar 19 2022
March 2022 Driving along Plains Road in the south-west corner of Burlington, Ontario, today, it’s hard to imagine that this area was once known as the fruit basket of Ontario. Known as Aldershot, this former unincorporated village, a part of East Flamborough Township until it was annexed by Burlington in 1958, was once a major …
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Mar 05 2022
March 2022 More than 100 people attended a rally at Barrie’s Meridian Square on a very cold Thursday night, 3 March, to show support for Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s invasion of their country. Organized by former Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte MP Alex Nuttall, speakers at the rally included Barrie Mayor Jeff Lehman, Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte MPP Doug Downey, Simcoe County …
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Feb 07 2022
February 2022 The centrepiece of the Utopia Conservation Area, west of Barrie, Ontario, is the historic Bell Grist Mill, also known as the Utopia Grist Mill, is a 118-year-old restored grist mill, and one of the few original remnants of the Village of Utopia. It’s survived not only a devastating hurricane, but also deterioration from …
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Jan 29 2022
January 2022 Published in Burlington Local News, 30 March 2022 The Beach Strip between the cities of Hamilton and Burlington, in southern Ontario, has been a popular summer destination for residents seeking relief from the summer heat for more 100 years. The Beach Strip is a 4-mile long strip that stretches from Spencer Smith Park …
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Jan 29 2022
January 2022 Kingston Road in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, formerly part of The King’s Highway #2, was once a major east-west travel route in and out of the east end of Toronto. Like many of the provincial highways across Ontario, the section through Scarborough featured an assortment of motels, serving as a haven for …
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Jan 18 2022
January 2022 The historic City of Kingston, Ontario, is known for being the original capital of the United Province of Canada (in 1841) and being the birthplace of Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Nicknamed the “Limestone City” because of the many heritage buildings constructed using the plentiful limestone mined in the area, …
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Jan 14 2022
January 2022 The historic southern Ontario town of Picton, dates back to the early days of British North America. First settled in the 1780s by United Empire Loyalists who fled north during the American Revolutionary War, the town was named after Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, second-in-command to the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of …
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