Résultats

      Area landfills re-opened this week – but with conditions. Still, Cuppy is pumped, so he held a news conference. Great time to try gardening, eh! Home hair care? Uh, maybe. They’re now called Heaps – same fellas, still producing great music. A young woman watches a pandemic’s effects on her …

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      Hair stylists, like Kim Murphy, miss us as much as we miss them. Lindsay’s homeless shelter sees surge in client numbers. Wards family lawyer, Ryan O’Neill, explains how Covid could affect child custody. Ontario Youth Parliament inspires two Lindsay natives. Sylvia Keesmaat teaches Denis a few things about OUTdoor gardening.

      Bass players or Bassist: Graeme’s cool with either. So many chipmunks. So many squirrels. So, why? Reaboro’s champion of the post office is gone, but never forgotten. What’s a Covid-19 test like anyway? Denis meets an internet troll – and chip a truck maven. Two different people, btw. Guess which …

      Host Grignon speaks with Charlie McDonald about the downtown reconstruction happening in Lindsay and its effects on the local businesses on Kent Street West; Barbara Doyle about the popularity of trivia nights as she hosts the Olde Gaol Museum's trivia night fundraiser at the Pie-Eyed Monk Brewery; and joins Mike …

      To Comfort or Provoke? The Necessary and Complex Role of Theater in our Chaotic World. Lecture by Jackie Maxwell, director (since 2001) and artistic director (since 2003) of the Shaw Festival Theatre at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Part of series Chautauqua Lectures.

      SCOPE AND CONTENTS This series is comprised of records relating to some of Douglas R. Letson's major book publications. The records include correspondence, reviews, recorded interviews, typescripts, working papers, research, and publicity materials. The records are arranged in 6 subseries: 1) Portraits of Canadian Catholicism (1986); 2) My Father's Business: …

      Doug Tangney interviews George Avery and Walter Chidley about life in Little Britain and Mariposa township. Subjects include where they were born and raised, farming the land, education, hockey and skating, development of Little Britain, the railway, Lindsay fair, the first car, fire in Little Britain, “The Farmer’s Sun” newspaper, …

      Doug Tangney interviews Laura Beall about the Beall family and their home at 9 Albert St. S., Lindsay. John Holtom and Moti Tahiliani contribute to interview. Subjects include some Beall family history, descriptions of the home they built including bricks used, acreage, conservatory, trees and garden, heating, plumbing and water. …

      Doug Tangney interviews Bill Breese about life in Lindsay. Mr. Breese was a past principal of L.C.I. and a long-time resident of Lindsay. As well, he served in the RCAF. He talks about the changes to L.C.I. and L.C.V.I. – architecture, student population, curriculum, matriculation, cadet corps, and football. Mrs. …

      Doug Tangney interviews Dick Bulmer about life in the Fenelon Falls area. Mr. Bulmer, born in 1894, was one of the last blacksmiths in Fenelon Falls. He talks about his early years on his father’s farm in Somerville twp., logging in the area and river drives, farming his own land, …

      Dorothe Comber talks to Doug Tangney about life in the Bobcaygeon area. There is no introduction at the beginning of the tape but a woman’s voice, presumably Miss Comber, begins speaking about the Boyds of Bobcaygeon and their lumber business and local people. Speaks of her mother’s mother and of …

      Stuart Flavelle recounts to Doug Tangney the story of the Flavelle family in Lindsay. According to Mr. Flavelle, his family first came to Lindsay around 1860 when his great-uncle, J.R. Dundas came to run a store in Lindsay for Claxton’s of Peterborough. Mr. Flavelle’s father and another uncle followed. He …

      Broadcast announcers were Wyn McNabb (wife of Peter McNabb, owner of radio station CKLY) and Bob Eakins.

      Mrs. Hopkins talks to Doug Tangney about the early years in the Burnt River area. Again, there is no introduction and a female voice, presumably Mrs. Hopkins, begins her story. Her father was a lumber buyer for the Carews and her mother kept the farm; it was near Fell’s Station. …

      Jack Lightbody talks to Doug Tangney about the history of Ontario Hydro, provincially and locally. He addresses the incorporation of Ontario Hydro and the many changes that it has undergone since 1906. He talks about the history of power generation in the town of Lindsay beginning with Needler, Sadler and …

      Norm McConnell talks to Doug Tangney about life on Sturgeon Lake and McConnell’s Island. He talks about his family’s ownership of McConnell’s Island, logging and milling on the lake, the various sawmills, fishing, “Jackson” the hermit, boating and using the frozen lake for transportation in winter. This conversation only lasts …

      Mrs. McIntosh speaks to Doug Tangney of the Rosedale/Fenelon Falls area. She talks about logging in the area and the chemical mill; her youth and schooling and being the first woman to work in a bank in Fenelon Falls. The conversation ends ½ way through the first side.

      Mr. Nokes was a long-time resident of the Manilla area. He speaks knowledgably and interestingly of pioneering, farming and machinery and barn-raising in the area. Side A: 31 minutes

      Dr. Parker has written down his story (February 1977) and reads from it to Doug Tangney. He speaks of his early memories of visiting Lindsay and then coming to Lindsay to attend L.C.I.; the Depression years in Lindsay; the unsanitary conditions at local schools. He made it clear that he …