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…
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…
What’s new and happening today — planting gardens, organic food, chickens in the back yard — that’s what we did! Our whole back yard was…
Fernando Monte and Bill Cassidy both live on Raglan Road. Both were raised Catholic, found fulfillment in the arts — and they are exactly the…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Few of us have had our new hockey skates handed to us by an NHL coach. Garry Lavallee, though, is the rare exception. And not…
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…
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…
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…
A couple of weeks ago, I visited the Frontenac County Schools Museum in Barriefield with hopes of finding information on the history of the schools…