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Over to You! (12/3/2020) - Today I delivered the SWIHHP archives to the Queen's University Archives for safekeeping and for sharing. The collection includes interviews with 81 people — current or past residents of the Swamp Ward — with summaries and partial transcriptions — along with many of the family photographs they shared, many photographs I took, 7 podcasts, and documentation of many SWIHHP events including the Facing the Street photo exhibit, walking tours, and the time I hired a guy to paint white lines Read More
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Over to You!
By Laura Murray
/ December 3, 2020
Today I delivered the SWIHHP archives to the Queen's University Archives for safekeeping and for sharing. The collection includes interviews...
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Harvest Time on Pine Street, ca. 1970
By Laura Murray
/ October 3, 2018
What's new and happening today — planting gardens, organic food, chickens in the back yard — that's what we did!...
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People meeting people: Facing the Street, June 2018
By Laura Murray
/ September 27, 2018
The photo exhibit Facing the Street, featured on the streets of the Swamp Ward and in the Elm Cafe for...
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Mary Tutak Boswick, a Polish Kingstonian
By Laura Murray
/ July 5, 2018
SWIHHP is delighted to have a guest blog post this month from Joan McCulloch, telling the story of her grandmother's...
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Real Fathers, Real Sons
By Laura Murray
/ June 17, 2018
Fernando Monte and Bill Cassidy both live on Raglan Road. Both were raised Catholic, found fulfillment in the arts —...
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Bootlegging in the Swamp Ward
By Laura Murray
/ April 24, 2018
When I first started interviewing people in the Swamp Ward, I was a bit perplexed by all the bootlegging I...
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The Art of Transcribing
By Laura Murray
/ January 15, 2018
Ella Mackay Singh worked with SWIHHP this summer on a fellowship through Queen's. She did some fascinating thinking about what...
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Episode Six: The Sixties Come to Kingston
By Laura Murray
/ October 23, 2017
Our sixth podcast starts with an account of an explosive City Council meeting on August 31, 1970. Even the Whig-Standard stood...
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What’s in a Name? Episode One of Stories of the Swamp Ward
By Laura Murray
/ July 22, 2017
You might be here because you already heard this podcast episode, but if not, here it is! I'm not sure...
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Ka’tarohkwi: The Original Swamp Ward?
By Laura Murray
/ July 12, 2017
You've all seen this word around a lot, right? There's the creek, the river, the conservation area, the dental clinic,...
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