Thanks to funding from a City of Kingston Heritage Fund Project Grant, SWIHHP is delighted to announce a new online resource on stoneskingston.ca based on…
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…
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…
Take a look at this photograph. What do you see? When Chris Miner — my co-curator for the Facing the Street exhibition — first encountered…
SWIHHP is delighted to have a guest blog post this month from Joan McCulloch, telling the story of her grandmother’s arrival in Kingston in 1913.…
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…
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…
Our sixth podcast starts with an account of an explosive City Council meeting on August 31, 1970. Even the Whig-Standard stood up and took notice: On…
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…
Growing up on Stephen and then Bagot Streets, the five Wallace sisters — Helen, Elsie, Jean, Isobel, and Betty — got a stylish start in life. Their…
Alma Street, all one block of it, runs along the west side of McBurney Park, which was once the Upper Burial Grounds. The park is…
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…
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.…
The recent death of Flora Macdonald, Kingston MP from 1972 to 1988, reminded me to listen again to our fascinating interview in June with Pat…
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…
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…