November 2024 One of Canada’s newest naval ships was making the rounds of cities in southern Ontario, as part of the annual Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Great Lakes deployment. HMCS Harry DeWolf, one of the navy’s new Arctic Patrol Vessels, has been on the annual public relations tour, as they did last year. Named after …
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November 2024 Nestled along the shore of Lake Couchiching, sits the stately, 19-room house that served as the summer home of Canadian author and satirist Stephen Leacock. This house represents Stephen Leacock’s love of the small Ontario town of Orillia, immortalized as the mythical Mariposa in his best-seller book “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.” …
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November 2024 Many communities have a performance arts centre where stage plays and musical acts entertain patrons. When the City of Albany, New York, decided to build a new performance arts centre in the 1960s, they went with a very unique design. The Egg Center for the Performing Arts was built between 1966 and 1978, …
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October 2024 Within the growing and busy City of Vaughan, north of Toronto, Ontario, is the former unincorporated village of Teston. In the years after what was then known as Vaughan Township was surveyed in 1792, small communities were established at various street corners throughout the 105 square miles of land within its borders. Founded …
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October 2024 Lakeland Kartway has been a fixture of the beach strip area in Hamilton for 66 years, but the seasonal operation may have seen its last summer. The scheduled closure of the popular go-kart track, the oldest one in Canada, came as a shock to residents of the southern Ontario city and its neighbouring …
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October 2024 It was 24 July 1980, when Terry Fox ran along Yonge Street in Richmond Hill, Ontario, past a small parkette on the east side of the road. The young Canadian runner had begun his cross-Canada run, the Marathon of Hope, in support of cancer research a little over two-months prior in St. John’s Newfoundland. …
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October 2024 Regardless of whether you are a fan of fried chicken or not, everyone knows the name and face of one of the most successful fried chicken restauranteurs in modern history, the man referred to simply as “The Colonel.” Colonel Harland Sanders was the Indiana-born businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain …
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October 2024 On 27 December 2022, 28-year-old Provincial Constable Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala, a rookie member of the Ontario Provincial Police, Haldimand detachment, was shot and killed while responding to a report of a vehicle in a ditch near the Town of Hagersville. It was nothing short of an ambush attack, with Pierzchala not even having …
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October 2024 It’s a striking Victorian Gothic manor, the only remnant of the long-closed Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital on Hamilton Mountain. Century Manor was built in 1884, originally as the East House for what was then called the Hamilton Asylum for the Insane, a provincial facility tasked with housing the criminally insane, like murderers, serial killers …
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September 2024 Cemeteries are like a window to the past and a reflection on the temporary nature of life. From peaceful gardens to majestic sculptures, cemeteries are only the final resting places for the deceased, but also sites of great architectural beauty and cultural significance. Walking through the rows of gravestones, you can see the …
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