Nov 23 2020
November 2020 In Peace Memorial Park on Hamilton Mountain, in southern Ontario, is a large, 40 foot high brick structure, with limestone columns and an arch in the centre. Atop the structure is a carved limestone block that says, “Peace Memorial School.” While this may simply look like an ordinary monument, it’s actually the main …
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Nov 18 2020
November 2020 While most homes throughout the centuries have been box shaped, perhaps with a turret at one or two ends on homes of the wealthy, a design that was popular in the mid to late-19th century was octagonal-shaped homes. The octagonal design was believed to promote good health, as advocated by Orson Squire Fowler, …
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Nov 10 2020
November 2020 Near the abandoned pioneer hamlet of Williamsport, seven miles north-east of the Town of Huntsville, Ontario, is a 42-foot high granite monument, sitting in a small clearing, on top of a secluded hill at the end of a deteriorating dirt road that is slowly falling to the Big East River a considerable drop …
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Nov 10 2020
November 2020 Algonquin Provincial Park in the Nipissing District of Ontario is the oldest provincial park in Canada, having been established in 1893. The almost 3,000 square mile park is one of the best places in Canada for canoeing, with hundreds of navigable lakes and rivers forming a 1,200 mile long interconnected system of canoe routes. …
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Nov 02 2020
November 2020 While clock towers are usually architecturally pleasing, whether as stand-alone structures or as an accent to a building, their original purpose was more of a practical one. In a time before watches (pocket or wrist) and wall clocks in homes and work places, clock towers were the most common way to tell time. …
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Oct 31 2020
October 2020 In the north end of the Village of Paisley, Ontario, in a small park called Willow Creek Park, stands a tall brick chimney. While seemingly out of place, this lonely chimney is a monument to a long vanished foundry known as the Paisley Agricultural Works. Originally opened around 1860 as Laidlaw’s Foundry, it …
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Oct 31 2020
October 2020 Since 1913, the towering Michigan Central Station been a landmark in the Corktown area of Detroit, Michigan. Built for the Michigan Central Railway, the station was an architecturally stunning structure, built in the Beaux-Arts style. Consisting of a train depot and a thirteen story office tower, two mezzanine levels, and a roof height …
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Oct 23 2020
October 2020 On the west shore of Bond Lake, north of Richmond Hill, Ontario, is a small boarded-up building resembling an old farmhouse. Between the house and Yonge Street, a little to the west, are several small, parallel, cut-stone walls. This was once a generating station for the defunct Metropolitan Street Railway Company, a privately-owned …
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Oct 23 2020
October 2020 Dating back to the early 1800s, when railways came into being across the world, train stations were constructed along the rail lines to accommodate the flow of passengers and cargo in the villages, towns and cities through which the rail lines traveled. Sometimes towns sprang up around these stations where no town existed …
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Oct 22 2020
October 2020 A community park in the Town of Keswick in southern Ontario is dedicated to the memory of a York Regional Police officer killed in the line of duty back in 2011. Constable Garrett Styles was on patrol at 5am on the morning of 28 June 2011, when he made a “routine” traffic stop …
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