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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

The Kitchissippi Museum live presentation! May 15th!

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In my capacity with Elections Ontario, due to my crazy schedule, I expect to have no choice but to slow down almost completely on my history...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Westboro's exciting (but short-lived) Toboggan Park of 1914

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Westboro in 1914 was really only 10 years into its transition from a tiny hamlet of cottages and small wood houses to a developing police vi...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

Profile of the Hinton family - Part 3 (the final part!)

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This week's new issue of the Kitchissippi Times includes my last part in my profile of the Hinton family. This part of the article talks...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

The Hintonburg A&W Drive-In

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Long-time residents of the area will likely remember with fondness the A&W Drive-In that existed on Wellington Street in Hintonburg for ...
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Friday, March 30, 2018

Profile of the Hinton family - Part 2

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In this week's new Kitchissippi Times: Part 2 of my three-parter on the story of the Hinton family. Digging deep in the archives to piec...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Hintonburg's Fairmont Avenue Arena...almost! (and thus how Hintonburg Park, Hintonburg Community Centre and Tom Brown Arena all came to be)

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This is a story from nearly 50 years ago that only older long-time Hintonburg residents might remember. But it is such an important story in...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

Kitchissippi pioneers: The Britt family

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While researching one topic or another, I often find myself deep in to very old records, trying to piece together a story through whatever ...
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