You can learn a lot from shadows. You can learn the shapes of things you can’t see — including yourself. Sometimes we overemphasize shadows’ propensity…
I’ve been busily working away with Chris Miner, my co-curator, Anne Lougheed, production manager, and Vince Perez, designer, to get this fabulous show together. Let…
When I first started interviewing people in the Swamp Ward, I was a bit perplexed by all the bootlegging I heard about. To me, bootlegging…
I hope you enjoyed the Bennett’s podcast episode. You might also appreciate the brief post I wrote to celebrate a photo shared with me by…
The many small businesses of the Swamp Ward were a constant theme in our research and so have featured several times in our blog previously.…
You might be here because you already heard this podcast episode, but if not, here it is! I’m not sure when I first heard the…
Some demolished buildings are missed for their elegant architecture, but that isn’t likely to be the case with Bird’s Grocery. 462 Bagot Street was an odd…
“My dad always had a joke, or a smile on his face waiting for somebody to make a joke,” Rosalyn Routbard remembers. In the 40s…
SWIHHP is lucky to have two new team members this summer. You may meet them soon out and about on the job — and there…
It’s interesting to know the past lives of buildings we take for granted. Last week, I picked a few Montreal Street addresses that I had…
To enrich the stories of work and war, I have decided I’d like to hear love stories from the Swamp Ward. I usually try to…
What a fun photo! This is the wedding party of Joan Evans and Ron North in May 1957. The photographer would have been standing on…
Lauren and I had good fortune a couple of weeks ago to visit to Bob Fray’s sign-painting shop on Division Street. Bob’s father started Kingston…
As part of the Jane’s Walks that honour Jane Jacobs and her vision of a walkable city, I led a tour of Bagot Street from…