Time Warp

This week, Kate talks about what happens in a small town when new fangled automobiles start to replace the tried and true horse and buggy - and the effect when they have to share the road. Plus, Paul talks about when Canada's Indigenous people volunteer and enlist in the Canadian military during WW2, and how a select group sign-up for an elite group - Canada's Cree Code Talkers - and why so little...

This week, Kate talks about Bernard Naraseau - a Huron from the Montreal area - who settled in Haliburton County and played a significant (although largely unacknowleged) role in the early development of Haliburton County. Plus Paul talks about an attempt to assimilate Ontario's Francophone minority through changes to the educational system that was overcome by a grass roots resistance and the 'Ba...

This week, Kate talks about the Reid family who built Haliburton village's iconic Reid House in the late 1800's that you can still visit at the Haliburton Highlands Museum. But who were the Reid family, and did they stay in Haliburton? Plus, Paul talks about John Anderson - a slave who killed a man while escaping from the US to Canada, and the legal attempts to try and extradite him back to the US...

This week, Kate talks about Bill Hudgins and his wife Emily - a well matched happy couple who added so much to the fabric of the early small village of Haliburton. Plus Paul talks about John Joseph Kelso, an Irish immigrant to Toronto who rose above early adversity to create charitable organizations protecting poor children and abused animals. His reforms were eventually enshrined in legislation a...

This week, Kate talks about early Haliburton village's attempts to create Evergreen Cemetery - their first cemetery in the late 1860's. The type of service you don't necessarily initially think about and plan for when carving a new community out of the wilderness. Plus Paul talks about Marie-Josephte Corriveau - a young woman in 1760's Quebec who was convicted of murdering her husband, was execute...

This week, Kate talks about Arthur Bachelor and his legacy in early 1900's Haliburton. Arthur was a classic mover and shaker who was into EVERYTHING and contributed so much to the community - and died too young under tragic circumstances. Plus, Paul talks about the minesweeper HMCS Esquimalt, its fateful meeting with the German submarine the U-190, and how the two ships came to rest together forev...

This week, Kate talks about the little town of Cheddar in Haliburton County from the late 1800's and how it may have gotten its name. BTW - it's a ghost town today. Plus, Paul talks about how Ireland's potato famine and land clearances led to tension and violence between Irish Protestant and Catholics in mid-1800's Toronto - all leading to Toronto being nicknamed the Belfast of North America. Kate...

This week, Kate talks about Nurses Week coming up, the connection between Florence Nightingale and Haliburton County and nursing in the County including at the Red Cross Outpost. Plus, Paul talks about the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike where almost all of the city's working population walked out for 40 days, and the short - and long - term legacies of the strike for worker's in Canada. Kate Butler...

This week, Kate talks about members of the community in Haliburton County aspiring to greater things - 'the little community that could', if you will. One example was the late 1800's Young Men's Literary Society where young men aspiring to greater culture could gather for tea, recitations, songs and stories. Plus, Paul talks about the more than 34,000 WW2 POW's who were held in camps in Canada and...

This week - as early as 1892 people were canoe treking for recreation in Haliburton County. Kate talks about the diary entries of 2 such canoeists and their experiences while treking in September 1892. In some ways not so different from today. Plus, Paul talks about Edwin Alonzo Boyd and the Boyd Gang of bank robbing - and jail breaking - folk heroes from 1950's Toronto. Kate Butler is the Directo...

This week, Kate talks about an iconic building in Haliburton County's village of Minden - the Rockcliffe Tavern. Built in 1903 it's had a number of owners, the building has changed over time and it's use has evolved over the generations from a hotel to a small town tavern. And now it has new owners! Plus, Paul talks about the tragic sinking of the SS Atlantic off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1873 w...

This week, Kate talks about a memorial stone dedicated to 5 pioneer children in Essonville (part of Haliburton County) who succumbed to diptheria - all of them separately over the period of roughly a month in 1896 - and the other 3 children and the parents who survived. Plus, Paul talks about Canada's first Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe and how he was portrayed in the Netflix historical/f...

Today, Haliburton County has a strong theatrical culture with at least 3 community theatre groups and an annual advanced opera studio. This week, Kate talks about the roots of that tradition that go back 120 years or more. Plus, Paul talks about Elsie MacGill who was born in Vancouver in 1905 and went on to become the aeronautical engineer who oversaw the production of Hawker Hurrican fighter plan...

This week, Kate talks about the beverage of choice in early Haliburton County history - was it tea or coffee and why? Plus Paul talks about Dr Norman Bethune. A brilliant Canadian medical doctor who dedicated his life to social issues and working for the disadvantaged here in Canada, but also on the front lines in conflicts during WW1, the Spanish Civil War and China's war with Japan during the 19...

This week, Kate talks about the trials of lumber men 'driving' the trees harvested over the winter to their destinations via the thawing lakes and rivers. Focus is on Eldridge Bull who was a 13 year old working the drive around 1911 and was interviewed about his experiences in the 1970's. Plus, Paul talks about Hans Island that sits on the border between Canada and Greenland and how it's caused a...

This week, Kate talks about Janet Bain - a governess and teacher in the early 1900's Haliburton County plus Paul talks about Rose Fortune of mid-1800's Anapolis Royal. Both of these women stand out in the historical record through being unconventional. Rose in particular because she was a woman and black, yet managed to create a successful business at a time when her colour and sex made it highly...

This week, it's the story of Reverend George Finch and his family who moved to Haliburton in 1906 and was based at the Haliburton Baptist Church. The Rev made a weekly circuit over 'rustic' roads to serve seven local communities. Plus, Paul talks about WW1 pilot Alan Arnett McLeod from Manitoba, a hero who had a harrowing experience to earn a Victoria Cross medal for gallantry at the age of 18 - C...

This week, Kate talks about Samuel (or Lemeul) Neily - a shoemaker in the Haliburton area in the 1870's. Interesting to hear how people in an isolated area managed to get boots and shoes in the 1800's. Plus Paul talks about Grace Marks, a 16 year old Irish immigrant caught up in a murder in 1840's Thornhill, north of Toronto. Grace became the inspiration for Margaret Atwood's 'Alias Grace' and the...

This week, Kate talks about Remittance Men in 1800's Haliburton County. Remittance Men were 'black sheep' sons of Victorian English aristicocracy who were were sent far by their families with an income - as long as they stayed far away. One of those was Theophilus Bellairs. Plus Paul talks about Canada's top secret WW2 spy school on the shore of Lake Ontario near Whitby - it was the first of its k...

This week, Kate talks about Mossom Boyd an entrepreneuring yound man who emigrated to Canada from Ireland in the 1800's and became a Lumber Baron in Haliburton County - and beyond. Plus Paul talks about how Canada was an early pioneer in nuclear research - going back to 1899 - and how that lead to a significant role in the Manhattan Project that created the first atomic bomb. Kate Butler is the Di...

This week, Kate talks about the several photgraphs that exist of the day Harry and Fanny Clark were married - August 12, 1891. They create a snapshot of small town life in Haliburton Village. Plus Paul talks about Anderson Ruffin Abbott who in 1861 became the first Candian born Black medical doctor. Among his many accomplishments was to be one of the doctors who stood vigil by President Abraham Li...

This week, Kate talks a light hearted look at how a couple of Haliburton County communities might - or might not - have been named. Is it Fact or fiction? The communities this week are Tory Hill and Gooderham. Plus, Paul talks about Pearl Hart from Lindsay, Ontario who gained fame and notoriety as one of only two female stagecoach robbers in the American Old West. Kate Butler is the Director of th...

This week, Kate talks about Fort Irwin - a small community in Haliburton County and how it got it's name in the 1880's. Was it actually a Fort? Plus talks about the real Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in World War II and the significant Canadian involvement. Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fri...

This week, Kate talks about which Christmas Carols would have been popular with settlers in Haliburton County 150 years ago. Plus Paul talks about Kelly Chamandy - an adventurer, entrepreneur and arguably Canada's most internationally famous bear-oil salesman.....and curer of baldness. Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Mo...

This week, Kate talks about what Christmas was like for Haliburton County's pioneers and their Christmas traditions. Maybe it wasn't unlike Christmas under COVID-19? Plus, Paul talks about 'Cougar Annie' (real name Ada Annie Jordan) a remarkable, feisty woman who pioneered on Vancouver Island's rugged and wild west coast in the mid-1900's. Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Mu...