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Ontario’s Historic Places – silcoxblog
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Ontario’s Historic Places. This blog takes viewers to Ontario’s National Hsitoric Sites telling the human history behind them. The Kingston Penitentiary:Murderers,Serial Killers and Childen. February 13, 2016. February 13, 2016. On a fall visit to the lovely and historic limestone city of Kingston, on National Historic Site adventuring, Louis and I had The Pen on the top of our must see list. The youngest inmate to arrive at K.P. was 8-year-old Antoine Beauché, a pick-pocket. Even at that you...Records s...
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The Point Abino Lighthouse: No Riff-Raff Allowed Here! October 13, 2015. October 13, 2015. Our tour guide’s warning: When you’re on the bus don’t take any pictures of the houses out the windows” was a first for your intrepid National Historic Site explorers. But then, there’s nothing usual about a trip to the Point Abino Lighthouse National Historic Site. Great Lakes watchers estimate that there have been over 700 shipwrecks throughout the centuries on the combined lakes. Lake Erie tops the list of l...
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Mather Arch Fort Erie. Point Abino Light House. Council Receives 2015 Annual Financial Report. At Monday night’s council meeting, Town Council received the 2015 Annual Financial Report from Town Staff and approved the distribution of the 2015 Levy Operating surplus. The Financial Report contains the audited 2015 consolidated financial statements. The purpose of the…. June 22, 2016. Road Resurfacing program underway. June 22, 2016. June 21, 2016. June 21, 2016. Mayors Oppose Waukesha Water Diversion.
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National Historic Sites in Ontarioi – silcoxblog
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National Historic Sites in Ontarioi. The Kingston Penitentiary:Murderers,Serial Killers and Childen. February 13, 2016. February 13, 2016. Constructed in 1835 during Queen Victoria’s reign, and occupied continuously until 2013, the Kingston Penitentiary once held a dubious distinction. K.P. as it was known in the corrections system remained among the oldest of North American prisons to house criminals in the age of computers, space exploration and smart phones. The youngest inmate to arrive at K.P...
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Chiefswood: Ontario’s House of Royalty. April 24, 2016. Chiefswood: Ontario’s House of Royalty. It’s a delicious spring day and the Silcox National Historic Site bus is on the road. We’re heading to Brantford the First Nation Reserve of Oshweken to be exact. Our destination is Chiefswood, the ancestral home of poet and performer E. Pauline Johnson. West wind, blow from your prairie nest,. Blow from the mountains, blow from the west. The sail is idle, the sailor too;. O wind of the west, we wait for you!
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Chiefswood: Ontario’s House of Royalty. April 24, 2016. Chiefswood: Ontario’s House of Royalty. It’s a delicious spring day and the Silcox National Historic Site bus is on the road. We’re heading to Brantford the First Nation Reserve of Oshweken to be exact. Our destination is Chiefswood, the ancestral home of poet and performer E. Pauline Johnson. West wind, blow from your prairie nest,. Blow from the mountains, blow from the west. The sail is idle, the sailor too;. O wind of the west, we wait for you!