Apr 24 2025
April 2025 Of all the historic buildings in Canada, none are more significant than the Parliament of Canada building in Ottawa, Ontario. The historic building includes offices, meeting rooms, the Parliamentary Library and most importantly, the chambers for the Senate and the House of Commons. Sitting atop a hill, overlooking the Ottawa River, are the …
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Mar 08 2025
March 2025 Over the past century, since the Wright Brother’s first successful flight, there have been almost two-dozen airports and aerodromes in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). From international to general aviation to military airports, the GTHA has always been a busy area for aviators and airplanes of all sizes. Some, like Armour …
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Feb 22 2025
February 2025 There’s a bit more tourist activity in the Catskills area of eastern New York State these days. Helping to draw visitors are two new tourist attractions meant to celebrate the area once known as the “Jewish Alps” and “The Borscht Belt”: the Borscht Belt Museum and the Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project. For …
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Feb 13 2025
February 2025 The former Parliament Oak Public School in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, has found itself in the way of progress, falling to the development of a new 129-room boutique hotel in this historic and picturesque town. While there is no conclusive proof, it has been long believed that the school property was the site of the …
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Jan 29 2025
January 2025 Palermo Within the boundaries of the busy Town of Oakville, Ontario, are the remains of several former villages and hamlets. In the years after what was then known as Trafalgar Township was surveyed in 1806, one of three townships that were created after the purchase of land from the Mississauga Nations the previous …
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Jan 22 2025
January 2024 On Remembrance Day in 2020, an addition was made to the Ontario Veterans’ Memorial, on the south lawn of the Ontario Legislature, to commemorate the Afghanistan War. The Afghanistan Memorial recognizes the participation of Canadians who served during the mission to free Afghanistan from control of the Taliban. Designed by landscape architectural firm …
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Jan 11 2025
January 2025 Music, dancing, food and a great waterfront view. The southern Ontario resort community of Wasaga Beach has been a popular recreation and vacation destination for over a century. Now, a massive re-development plan at Beach area One will see the demolition of several of the old, wood buildings along Beach Drive, including the …
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Dec 31 2024
December 2024 One of the newest residential neighbourhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, is known as Chedoke Heights. Consisting of upscale, three-storey townhomes, the Chedoke Heights property bears no resemblance to its former function as Chedoke Hospital, a sanitarium for tuberculosis (TB) patients that opened in 1906. Chedoke had very humble beginnings, starting as a two tent …
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Dec 28 2024
December 2024 The southern Ontario town of Wasaga Beach has the distinction of having the world’s longest fresh water beach, spanning 10 miles. The beach community has another distinction of being the starting point in a record-breaking aviation milestone. The appeal of Wasaga Beach for both aviators was its naturally long, straight beach, which provided …
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Dec 24 2024
December 2024 The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem (CSYV) Holocaust Memorial Site in North York is a monument dedicated to the memory of victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Containing almost 5,000 names, it is the most extensive listing of any memorial site in Canada. The monument was built in three phases over a period …
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