Apr 01 2021
April 2021 While pet cemeteries are no where near as common as cemeteries for humans, they do exist. The first one in Canada was opened in King Township, north of Toronto, Ontario. While it had its last burial around 1975, and has been largely abandoned for over four decades, it’s now owned by the Town …
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Apr 01 2021
April 2021 When someone mentions Toronto’s castle, most thing of the historic Casa Loma, a large château that was once the majestic home of Major-General Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, CVO, a Canadian financier and soldier; once the biggest private residence ever constructed in Canada. Some long-time residents of Toronto will remember the Glengrove Substation, also …
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Mar 26 2021
March 2021 On the north side of Old Barrie Rd, next to the new entrance of the landfill site, east of Line 5 in Oro-Medonte Township, Ontario, sit two lone grave sites. It’s believed that these graves belonged to graves are the final resting place of black settlers who came to this region in the …
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Mar 26 2021
March 2021 A church in the small Town of Angus, Ontario, which is almost as old as Canada itself, is facing demolition to make way for a proposed 26 -unit townhouse development. Zion Presbyterian Church at 14 Margaret Street, which held its final service on 30 September 2018, was bought by Wynstar Developments in April 2019, …
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Mar 21 2021
March 2021 The Midhurst Community Centre building on Doran Road, in the small southern Ontario village of Midhurst is a fairly simple, small, non-descript building. This historic building serves as a meeting and special events facility for the small community in Springwater Township of around 3, 000 people, as it has since it was formally …
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Mar 16 2021
March 2021 Hamilton, Ontario, is an old city that has many historic buildings still standing, even as the city has grown and changed. Dundurn Castle, the LCol John Weir Foote, VC, CD Armouries, the Scottish Rite, the former Canadian National Railways station and the former Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railways station. Ravenscliffe Castle is a …
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Mar 16 2021
March 2021 The Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) is a celebrated 2,422 acre nature sanctuary straddling the border of Burlington and Hamilton, at the tip of Lake Ontario, in the Golden Horseshoe area of southern Ontario. Officially established in 1941, through the over decade-long efforts of Thomas B. McQueston, Chair of the City of Hamilton Board …
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Mar 03 2021
March 2021 At the corner of Davenport Road and Bathurst Street in Toronto, Ontario, sits a small, white clapboard cottage, with a modern addition on the west side. This historic three room cottage, 20 feet by 30 feet in size, is listed by the City of Toronto as being the twelfth oldest residence remaining in …
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Feb 16 2021
February 2021 The small village of Varney, Ontario, an unincorporated village within the Municipality of West Grey, is known for two things: the Varney International Speedway, a 1/4 mile high banked short track motor racing oval, and the Varney Big Chair. The Varney Big Chair is a massively oversized Muskoka Chair (also known as an …
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Feb 11 2021
February 2021 While winter after the joy and colour of Christmas can be pretty dreary for some, for others, it’s the time to get creative. Two Barrie families have built giant snowmen in their front yards, much to the delight of area residents. Chad Hanna built a 17-foot-tall snowman on the front lawn of his …
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