Résultats

      Alan Ely recalls how he spent his free time as a youth including bringing in docks during working bees, going "fishing" to instead spend time with friends listening to the radio, visiting the Strand Movie theatre, playing touch football with ten or fifteen other young people, and going for milk ...

      John Grant recounts some stories of moonshiners growing their own grain and distilling their own alcohol on Thorah Island in an effort to stay self-sufficient during prohibition. It was called Thorah Island honey, or sometimes Thorah Island bang. The last still was dismantled in the 1970s but evidently parts can ...

      Alan Ely describes some fond memories from his youth in Beaverton sitting at the edge of Lake Simcoe, small groups of youths on Sunday afternoons and evenings playing music and singing before returning to Toronto for the week. Children and teens would also gather at the drive-in, or in Orillia ...

      Jean Warrington, a long-time Innisfil resident, discusses growing up in Innisfil and the farming community. This clip explains her mother's use of a dog-powered cream separator. The dog was a bull mastiff named Major, and her grandfather would harness the dog into a homemade device that would separate the cream ...