Showing posts with label Ontario. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ontario. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 December 2023

Watching the Santa Clause parade in Kenora, Ontario, in 1953

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This is Kenora in Onraio and I am watching the 1953 Santa Clause parade. It is the second in a short series on Christmas before now .* ...
Thursday, 23 March 2023

Walking the railroad in Ontario …….

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Now , if you want a series of images of rural North America, these from Karen Mahoney do the trick . They bring back countless films of smal...
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Friday, 31 August 2018

The Maple Leaf Flag, the European Union, and that house in Ingersoll

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Now Ingersoll is one of those places which my Canadian cousins talk about. It is a town in Oxford County on the Thames River and i...
Monday, 27 March 2017

Pizza, pesto and a trip up country ........... getting closer to my Canadian history

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Until recently I had no idea just how deeply my family’s past was linked to Canada. Our connections with Germany and Italy were pretty ...
Saturday, 16 January 2016

In Ontario with our cousins ................ exploring a landscape and a shared British Home Child

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N ow there is something about looking out across a Canadian landscape that one of your family might first have encountered a century ago o...
Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Coming soon........ stories of Canada’s history

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St John River, 2011,  where our great uncle first worked in Canada, I am quite excited that my cousin Chris from Ontario has agreed to ...