July 2024 Community parks are an important part of life in our cities and towns. Some are passive parks for relaxation, a place for sports activities, for special events, for children to play on play structures or part of a waterfront beach area, they play a role in the quality of life for residents and …
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July 2024 The southern Ontario City of Stoney Creek is known for many things, but one of their lesser-known having their own warlock. Coming from the Old English word “waerloga,” one who lies or breaks faith and is also a word for the Devil. They are a person, usually a man, who uses magic against …
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July 2024 The buildings are boarded up; the boards that make up the oval enclosure are weathered and deteriorating, containing an overgrown space that once was a popular place to skate away the afternoon or evening. The chatter and excitement of crowds skating in circles under the overhead lighting have been replaced by silence, only …
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July 2024 The Auld Kirk Scotch Settlement is long-gone, leaving only the Presbyterian Church, which sat abandoned for over half a century. This small church is one of many that can still be found across the rural landscape. When driving along the rural sideroads across Canada and America, you will still see the occasional old, …
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July 2024 Despite what some believe Henry Ford and the Ford motor company weren’t the ones who created the gas powered automobile. That distinction goes to Carl Benz, who created the first gas powered automobile in 1885, fifteen years after a small gas powered motor was placed on a car, proving it could be used …
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June 2024 On Sunday, 23 June, hundreds of police officers and their supporters gathered at the site of the Ontario Police Memorial in Toronto to commemorate the first annual Ontario Police Suicide Memorial ceremony. Unlike the existing police memorial, which pays tribute to police officers killed in the line of duty, this new memorial pays …
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June 2024 For rural communities, one-room or small multi-room schoolhouses were the standard before communities grew and educational course offerings necessitated bigger schools, holding anywhere from several hundred to one or two thousand students. Before the invention of the automobile, these one-room or small schools were built close to the towns and farms where the …
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June 2024 They called him the King; the King of Kenzington. Also known as Albert “Al” Waxman, the versatile Canadian actor and director had a long and distinguished career that included radio, stage, films and television. Albert Samuel Waxman, was born on 2 March 1935 in Toronto, the son of Jewish Polish immigrants. Waxman’s career began …
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June 2024 The St. James on-the-Lines Church, a small, unassuming, white clapboard-sided church in the lakeside town of Penetanguishene, Ontario, may not seem that significant on first inspection. However, there is a very specific reason why the British Union Jack flies outside the church: the St. James on-the-Lines Church is older than Canada itself. The …
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June 2024 On the evening of 6 June, at Barrie’s Military Heritage Park, along the shore of Kempenfelt Bay, a large crowd gathered for a special Sunset Ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the beginning of the end for the Nazis and the Third Reich. Codenamed Operation Neptune, the Normandy landings on 6 …
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