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…
For 24 years I’ve lived within sight of Lorraine Snider’s house and garden. It’s a little old white house perched on a cliff near the…
The post-Mike-Harris municipality of Kingston is an amalgamation of various formerly independent towns and villages — Portsmouth, Barriefield, and Glenburnie among them. It also includes…
The photo exhibit Facing the Street, featured on the streets of the Swamp Ward and in the Elm Cafe for one month this summer, was…
Take a look at this photograph. What do you see? When Chris Miner — my co-curator for the Facing the Street exhibition — first encountered…
Twenty of the Facing the Street photos are on the streets at these locations until June 30. See one, or see them all. Twenty four…
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…
Ella Mackay Singh worked with SWIHHP this summer on a fellowship through Queen’s. She did some fascinating thinking about what happens when we move words…
At long last, the Stories of the Swamp Ward podcast series is almost ready to release. These half-hour windows into our oral history collections will…
July 28th, 2017 7:30am My alarm goes off and I check the weather network. The first time I met Stan, he agreed to go on…
You’ve all seen this word around a lot, right? There’s the creek, the river, the conservation area, the dental clinic, the golf club, the cemetery,…
I’m Ella Mackay Singh, a Queen’s student, and I’m thrilled to be working with SWIHHP this summer! Part of what drew to this project was…
On one of those horribly hot and sticky days in July, a group of 15 people gathered at 99 York Street to learn how to…
For the last couple months I have been in the Queen’s Archives, going through city directories and doing general research on streets around Skeleton Park…
SWIHHP is participating in the Skeleton Park Arts Festival this weekend. Come to Side Stage #3 at Alma and Balaclava Streets on Sunday June 26…
Ronen and I have been poring over some more city directories lately, looking at who lived where, what they did for a living, who they…
SWIHHP is lucky to have two new team members this summer. You may meet them soon out and about on the job — and there…
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…
Do you have a deep appreciation for the human voice and how people remember and talk about their lives? Do you have the technical chops…
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply for this position! Hiring: Oral History Coordinator Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour History Project (SWIHHP) Terms of Work -Approximately…
In case you’re wondering: here’s a bit of a progress report! Today I had the pleasure of accompanying Mary Farrar and Elizabeth Durno (Friends of…
I was very sorry today to hear of the death of Claude Clement, my cherished neighbour, a role model for community engagement, my very first…
Earlier tonight, as the geese flew south and a banjo played over by the LCBO, a group of SWIHHP mailing list members examined the foundations…
This blog has been silent for the past month but not for lack of activity at SWIHHP! The highlight of September was Bronwyn Jaques’ walking…
Who would have thought reading phone books could be a fun thing to do? But the Might’s City Directories, published until the early 2000s, are…
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…
Last evening, lovely as it was, Lauren, Nancy, and Laura did our first street swihhp. The idea is to visit people at their homes, tell…
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…