Dec 30 2018
December 2018 The Ranney Gorge Suspension Bridge is a unique tourist attraction, located in Ferris Provincial Park in Campbellford, Ontario. The 300 foot long bridge, built in 2004, takes visitors on a picturesque trip 30 feet over the Ranney Gorge, just south of Ranney Falls. Built with assistance of a construction engineering detachment from RCAF …
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Dec 30 2018
December 2018 The Molly Maguires was an Irish Catholic clandestine society active during the 1800s in Ireland, Liverpool and in the eastern United States, who engaged in often violent activism among the Irish communities in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region. Back then, the work and personal lives of many Irish immigrants, and of other nationalities, were controlled …
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Dec 30 2018
December 2018 Drivers traveling along the Queen Elizabeth Way know very well the abandoned ship that sits in a small cove in Jordan Station. Officially named “La Grande Hermine” (The Big Weasel), the ship is a replica of the largest of the three ships that French Explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River. …
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Nov 20 2018
November 2018 (Updated April 2022, July 2022, April 2023, August 2023 & August 2024) Note: This is Chapter 1 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 …
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Oct 25 2018
October 2018 On 20 October 2018, around 100 volunteers contributed to the 5th annual community clean-up in Centralia, “Pennsylvania’s Lost Town.” Organized by EPCAMR (Eastern PA Coalition of Abandoned Mine Reclamation), the clean-up has become an increasingly popular annual tradition for community-minded citizens of Pennsylvania and beyond the state, along with current and former residents …
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Sep 24 2018
September 2018 I’ve been involved in the hobby of urban exploration (UE), specifically abandoned structures, for over three decades. The hobby is multifaceted, with some urban explorers (UEers) favouring things like storm drains, subway tunnels, utility tunnels, abandoned ships or areas of occupied buildings not open to the public. One aspect of UE is going …
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Sep 07 2018
September 2018 “At The Secrets of Radar Museum we ask you to imagine keeping a secret for 50 years. Could you do it?”* During WWII, Canada was involved in numerous “behind-the-scenes” projects that aided greatly in the Allied victories in Europe and the Pacific. One of them was the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), …
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Sep 04 2018
August 2018 In the northern Ontario town of Latchford, the steel arch bridge that allows Provincial Highway 11 to cross over the Montreal River is dedicated to the memory of a long-lost local hero: Sergeant Aubrey Cosens, V.C. Cosens is one of only 16 Canadians to be awarded the Victoria Cross during World War II, …
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Jul 31 2018
July 2018 On an elevated piece of land in Saskatchewan, just east of the Alberta border, sits a lonely and neglected radar tower. This is the sole remaining radar tower of what was once Royal Canadian Air Force Station Alsask, an Air Defence radar station on the Pinetree Line. The Pinetree Line stretched across the …
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Jul 20 2018
July 2018 The Great Lakes have been a major shipping route across the northern United States and southern Canada since the first fir traders came to North America. The biggest of the lakes is Lake Superior, a lake that can turn violent when the weather turns bad. On 10 November 1975, the American Great Lakes …
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