May 2024 For a man who loved football, the re-naming of Centennial Park football stadium to Rob Ford Stadium on 28 May, the day that would have been Ford’s 55th birthday, is a fitting tribute. The newly-rechristened Rob Ford Stadium is a 2,200-seat stadium, opened in 1975 in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, that is primarily …
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May 2024 The historic southern Ontario town of Penetanguishene is a small, bilingual town with a history that goes back to the early days of New France and the French explorers who helped settle North America. French translator Étienne Brûlé was the first European to set foot in the Penetanguishene area around 1610, where he …
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May 2024 Meridian Place in downtown Barrie, Ontario, was a busy place on Sunday, 19 May, for Barrie’s second annual Ukrainian Vyshyvanka Day Festival. Hosted by the Ukrainian Community in Barrie, Vyshyvanka Day is an annual holiday celebrated internationally, where Ukrainians celebrate their heritage and the symbol of the iconic Ukrainian embroidered shirt (vyshyvanka). With …
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May 2024 The Queen’s Hotel in the southern Ontario city of Barrie has been an institution for almost 175 years. Beginning as a tavern in 1850, it was known as Marks’ Hotel back then, named after proprietor Edward Marks. The three-storey brick hotel on Dunlop Street East, no longer offers rooms for the night, but …
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May 2024 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, 5 May. While thunderstorms threatened to roll through the area, the rain fortunately held off for the day, …
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May 2024 Every spring, around the middle of April to early May, the cherry blossom trees come to life after their winter dormancy period. Each spring, the tree branches become covered with double petal blossoms, making it look like a flower within a flower. These deep-pink blossoms grow in clusters, making the trees look like …
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April 2024 Cemeteries can serve as a window into the past and can provide a lot of information about the history of a community. This is very true when it comes to old pioneer cemeteries, like the Union Burying Ground on Plains Road East in Burlington. Established in 1848, it’s the final resting place of …
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April 2024 The southern Ontario County of Simcoe, named after Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 to 1796, has a long, rich history, dating back to the early days of British North America. That history is celebrated at the Simcoe County Museum, an interactive museum that tells the …
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April 2024 Canadian Forces Base Borden, in the southern Ontario county of Simcoe, has been a training base for Canada’s Armed Forces for over a century. Opened on 11 July 1916 as Camp Borden, named after Sir Frederick Borden, Minister of Militia under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, it was originally a training centre for infantry …
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April 2024 Since the early Nineteenth Century, railroads have have been an effective transportation option for goods and passengers. While the railways once dominated transportation, particularly land transportation, the emergence of automobiles, trucks and improved road networks gave the business community and the general public better options, leading to the demise of many railway companies …
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