Time Warp

This week, Kate delves into some of the changes students faced returning to school in 1949's Haliburton County. Plus Paul tells the story of late 1800's-early 1900's architect EJ Lennox and the over 70 iconic buildings he designed in and around Victorian Toronto. Today's tale Includes the drama, disputes and revenge centred around one of those buildings - what's known today as Old City Hall. Oh ye...

This week, in 1918 the small community of Wilberforce in Haliburton County wanted a church. They came up a simple solution - repurpose an already existing building. A huge challange came up a short time later - moving the 2-story church to a new loaction. Plus, the story of John Murray - who became Ontario's first Provincial Detective. His sensational cases, innovative investigative techniques and...

This week, Kate talks about Haliburton businessman and character Frederick Freeman that ran a store in Haliburton village for 69 years. Plus Paul reminsces about an earlier romantic and nostalgic time before mechanization when horses were everywehere - for better and worse. Including the main focus for today, fire-horses. Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis...

This week, Kate tells the tale of landscaping problems that happen when cows roam free in early Haliburton County. It caused problems similar to what you get with deer these days. Plus Paul talks about early Canadian automobile inventions in the late 1800's including a steam driven buggy, a hybrid gas/steam vehicle, and a battery operated car. To wrap it up there's the depression era Bennet Buggy...

This week, Kate brings a tale of the macho culture in late 1800's lumber camps. Plus Paul has the story of Black veterans of the Revolutionary War who fought for Britain then migrated to Canada to take advantage of freedom and land grants. There were also Black slaves who had accompanied Loyalists who fled to Canada. Well, when the War of 1812 broke out these individuals were concerned about an Am...

This week, Kate takes a look at alcohol in Haliburton County during Prohibition. Plus, Paul tells the story of Canada's Merchant Marine during WW1 and WW2. The Merchant Marine was a fleet of ships owned by the Canadian government and was an unofficial branch of the Armed Forces. The merchantb sailors were constantly exposed to danger as they helped keep the Allies in the war in Europe, and deliver...

This week, Kate points out that summer has officially started, as has cottage and camping season. What better than a story that could be told around a campfire? Plus, Paul has the story of Montreal's Louise Armaindo - trapeze artist, circus strongwoman, marathon walking competitor, and professional high-wheel (penny farthing) bike racer in the late 1800's. Louise has been described as the greatest...

This week, Kate talks about an early account from 1870's Haliburton County from the diary of a teenager on what life was like in pioneer rural Ontario. Plus, Paul has the story of the late 1700's connections between the British colony of Newfoundland and Ireland, and the 1800 United Irish Uprising in Newfoundland. Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the h...

This week, Kate delves into the pages of the Haliburton Echo from July 30, 1953 to bring us stories about the local efforts of the Rotary Club. Plus, Paul talks about the Constitution Act of 1791 - one of the steps in the long evolution of Canada from being a colony to an independent country. Under the Constitution Act Britain split the former colony of New France into Upper and Lower Canada. The...

This week, Kate tells us the story of the Canadian Land & Immigration Company's promise to provide early settlers with certain amenities to ease their transition. One of those was the Company Store. Plus, on the 80th Anniversary of D-Day (as of today's recording), Paul recounts how a scrapy army of young largely untested Canadian soldiers were assigned a significant role to invade Normandy on...

This week, Kate talks about the Freeman family who came from Leeds, England to the Haliburton area. They brought with them little social graces that brought a taste of home for the pioneer family. Plus, Paul tells the story of how cynical eugenics started to promote birth control in Canada in the early 1900's. On the other hand was Dorothea Palmer. She was an altruistic social worker who was couns...

This week, Kate talks about the origins of the Victoria Day long weekend and why the traditional first long weekend of summer doesn't necessarily fall on her actual birthday any longer. Plus. we've done a series of episodes on how a few battles in New France over a couple of years near the end of the Seven Year's War radically shaped today's Canada from a French to an english colony. Today's episo...

This week, Kate brings the story of a depression era relief project that helped families survive by providing work, but also opened the Haliburton Highlands further to tourism and cottaging. Plus, Paul has the story of Winnipeg entrepreneur and proud Canadian Philip Kives who created the iconic K-Tel company that hawked dozens of items ranging from kitchen products to compilation record albums. K-...

This week, Kate talks about the Leatherby family that settled in Haliburton County in 1867 and uses them as an example of how families had to diversify to make ends meet. Plus, Paul talks about the Battle of Sainte-Foy. Sainte-Foy took place pretty much on the grounds where the Battle of the Plains of Abraham had taken place just months earlier. but this time the roles were reversed. The British h...

This week, Kate brings a snapshot of Haliburton County going-ons from the pages of the Echo newspaper from May 1918. Plus, Paul has the story of Canadian spy-master Sir William Stephenson - the man code-named Intrepid. 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. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on you...

This week, Kate brings a first-hand reminiscence of early Haliburton County from Marjorie Clark - a columnist in the Echo newspaper. Plus, Paul has the story of Winthrop Pickard Bell - a Canadian academic and spy who became arguably the world's foremost foreign expert on the political and military state of Germany after the end of WW1. His early warnings of the rise of the Nazis, increasing milita...

This week, Kate tells us about Haliburton County's centenial anniversary in 1974 and some of the uniques, interesting celbrations that took place including a full day event at Toronto's Ontario Place. Plus, Paul has the story Kathleen 'Kit' Coleman who was a successful journalist, columnist and reporter in the late 1800's - early 1900's. Kit became the first North American female war correspondent...

This week, Kate tells the 1961 story where Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition announced a scheduling change that concerned Haliburton Highlands tourism operators. Plus, Paul tells the tale of the phenomenally successful Edmonton Grads world champion women's basketball team. First formed in 1915 the team came to make world-wide headines, draw large crowds, and winnning roughly 95% of their game...

This week, Kate delves into a back copy of the Echo newspaper from February 1927 to show the deep roots of local culture and theatre in the Haliburton Highlands. Plus, Paul builds on the story of Fort Louisburg from the last episode of the TimeWarp to tell the tale of British General James Wolfe who at the age of 32 commanded the flotilla deployed to capture Quebec City from the French during the...

This week, Kate went down another rabbit hole reading a Haliburton Echo newspaper archive from 1946 and came up with 2 stories - one on a committee formed to figure a way for the community to increase tourism in the post WW2 era, and another on Haliburton's Red Cross Outpost Hospital - the building that Canoe FM now occupies. Plus Paul tells the tale of the rise and fall of France's Fort Louisbour...

This week, as local schools take a break for spring Kate talks about a 1949 public speaking competition held at a school in Minden and the wide breadth of topics that must have been much tougher to research in a pre-internet world. Plus Paul talks about the odd saga of WW2's HMCS Uganda. The ship's crew served with honour against the Japanese in the Pacific, but are best remembered today as the on...

This week, Kate dives back into the archives of the Haliburton Echo newspaper and comes up with Marjorie Clark who wrote a series of columns called 'This I Remember' where she reminisced about life in the County. Marjorie was born in 1882 and her recollections give a first-hand window into life in early Haliburton County. Plus, during WW2 there were many Canadian men and women who worked as secret...

This week, Kate tells the tale of Mathew DeRenzy and his wife Henrietta who came to Haliburton County in 1869. Matthew was a doctor - or was he? He also dabbled as a veterinarian and as an apothecary. Plus, Paul tells the story of 'Doctor of Courage' Alexander Thomas Augusta who enrolled as a medical student at University of Toronto's Trinity College after hitting higher-education roadblocks in th...

This week, Kate tells the tale of Joseph Pimm, the propietor of Minden's Dominion Hotel in 1892 and the odd details around his demise as the result of a ruckus at the hotel one night. Ironically Joseph was a temperance man despite owning a bar. Plus, Paul tells the story of Canada's 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and their assignment to rush and block a Soviet army advance across the north of Ge...

This week, Kate talks about how early settlers worshipped in Haliburton County, how local denominations welcomed anyone to their services, and the origin story of one denomination's church - the Baptist Church(s). Plus, Paul talks about Canada's 6th Governor General (since Confederation) Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley and the trophy he presented to be awarded each year to the best team in Canadian a...