Jun 18 2025
June 2025 On 7 October 2023, a group of around 6, 000 terrorists with the death cult Hamas breached the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, and launched an armed attack against civilians attending the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re’im, in southern Israel. The barbaric attack began at 06:29 hours, as the sun …
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Jun 16 2025
June 2025 In December 2024, a small parkette was dedicated in Springwater Township, west of Barrie, Ontario. Dedicated in honour of the centennial of the Royal Canadian Air Force, a retired Canadair CT-133 Silver Star jet trainer, is the centrepiece of memorial parkette. Seven plaques are found along a short walking path around the parkette, …
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Jun 13 2025
June 2025 The infamous Marigold Hotel is no more. While the building still stands, so far, it’s been turned into a rotting corpse of a building. In just two short years, vandals, the elements and water damage, have turned it into a dilapidated mess. Sitting on the busy Queen Street East in Brampton, Ontario, not …
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Jun 05 2025
June 2025 Gage Park is an iconic jewel in the southern Ontario city of Hamilton. The 30-hectare multi-use park was created in the 1920s in a style reflective of the Canadian City Beautiful movement, featuring outstanding gardens, a large selection of trees, including Cherry Blossom trees that attract large crowds every spring, a 14,000 square-foot …
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Jun 05 2025
June 2025 Penetanguishene, Ontario, has a new tourist attraction, and it’s completely free. Welcome to Tiny Town, the passion project of Shelley and Mike Duval, built right in their backyard. What started as simply a privacy fence, built beginning in 2021 by Mike, at the request of his beloved wife of over five decades, it …
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May 28 2025
May 2025 A lonely building of Edwardian Classical architecture sits at the edge of a woodlot, along the edge of the Niagara Escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario. Abandoned since 2013, this building, known as the Chedoke Hospital Long & Bisby Building, is one of the few reminders of the former Chedoke Sanatorium, also known as the …
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May 27 2025
May 2025 Two more markers dedicated! Not a bad weekend in the Catskills area of eastern New York State. Colloquially known as the Borscht Belt, the area was once populated with resorts and bungalow colonies that served as a summer refuge for Jewish clients from New York City, in an era when Jewish people still …
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May 13 2025
May 2025 The southern Ontario city of Toronto, has a long history with live music. Whether it’s a world-famous band, or a local bar band; whether the venue is a stadium or an intimate club setting, music fans will find a wide variety of musical choices and venue selections. The Danforth Music Hall is a …
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May 12 2025
May 2025 Thousands of police officers from Canada, America and abroad, marched through the street around Queen’s Park in Toronto in commemoration of police officers who have died in the line of duty in Ontario. On Sunday, 4 May, the 25th Anniversary of the Ontario Police Memorial Foundation Ceremony of Remembrance was held. This is …
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May 12 2025
May 2025 In small historic villages and towns like Williamsford, Ontario, gristmills were an essential element in the community. Since the early days of British North America, many towns and villages sprung up around rivers, where water-powered mills were built so that local farmers could easily transport their grain there to be milled. These communities …
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