grocery – Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour History Project

Mary Tutak Boswick, a Polish Kingstonian

Laura Murray July 5, 2018 Featured 3 Comments

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.…

Keeping Shop: Episode Two of Stories of the Swamp Ward

Laura Murray September 25, 2017 Children and Youth 1 Comment

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.…

The Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour History Project aims to document the history of two of the oldest areas of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. For Indigenous people through centuries, Ka’tarohkwi was a good place to fish, to gather, to trade. After Europeans arrived, the Inner Harbour became industrial, complete with railroads, factories, and docks; the Swamp Ward, adjacent to it, was where workers and their families lived, went to school, went to church, shopped, and played. The area continues to evolve in new ways. Through archival research and oral history, and starting with a focus on the twentieth century, SWIHHP brings people, time periods, spaces, and issues into Kingston’s story and out of the shadow of limestone buildings and celebrated politicians.

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Mary Tutak Boswick, a Polish Kingstonian

Keeping Shop: Episode Two of Stories of the Swamp Ward