At the Oral History Association conference in Minneapolis last week, I was lucky to hear Staughton and Alice Lynd talk about their long career as…
As the Inner Harbour is the heart of the Swamp Ward, I’ve published quite a bit about it already: check out particularly the post about…
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…
Sometimes maps and pictures aren’t enough to make history come alive: you have to experience and imagine it in the place it actually happened. SWIHHP…
We are excited to invite you to the launch of the app-based walking tour “Life and Labour in the Inner Harbour,” and our Second Summer…
In early July, I had the pleasure of interviewing John Duerkop for SWIHHP. Although he was not born in Kingston and only came to call this…
As Kingston is still home to a military base, it is probably no surprise that the city contributed greatly to Canada’s World War II efforts.…
Lorraine (Burns) Good was born in Hotel Dieu Hospital in 1926 and grew up on Rideau Street and Raglan Road. Her mother, Lorida Laurin, moved…
I’ve been a student at Queen’s University for 5 years and you would think, by now, I would know the ins and outs of campus and…
We are pleased to welcome you to the website of the Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour History Project. The acronym for that is SWIHHP, and…
Last week, I walked through Kingston’s Inner Harbour and along the shoreline of the Cataraqui River. I tried to imagine the Inner Harbour at its…