Time Warp

This week, Kate talks about Ferdinand Sipe who was an example of the early culture and craft tradition of Haliburton County that persists today. Kate still has an example of one of the inlaid tables he built in the 1940's in the Haliburton Highlands Museum that visitors can check out. Plus. Paul talks about Captain William Jackman, shipwrecks, heroism and rescues on the high seas during a raging s...

This week, Kate talks about pets and animal companions in early Haliburton County - we even know some of their names. Plus Paul talks about Canada's world-wide mineral exploration and mining reputation that took a beating in the late 1970's with the Bre-X multi-billion-dollar gold mineral deposit fraud. Who was involved and how deep did it go? Conspiracy theories abound - even up to today. Kate Bu...

This week, Kate talks about how Haliburton County was a destination for historic-car rallies, even in the 1950's. Enthusiasts came from far and wide - often to take in the County's glorious fall leaf colour season. One of these organizations was the Upper Canada Automobile Club. Plus Paul talks about Andrew Mynarski, a young airman from Winnipeg who became the recipient of the last Victoria Cross...

This week, Kate takes an early Halloween opportunity to talk about a couple of spooky tales from Haliburton County history. Plus Paul talks about what we know about Black involvement in early Canadian history - especially in the fur trade. 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...

This week, Kate talks about Joseph Paul who came to Haliburton in 1870. Nominally the local butcher, but really a man of many facets. And perhaps a representative of what the community of Haliburton County is all about. Plus, Paul talks about Rubin Carter who, along with a friend, was convicted of a triple homicide in 1966 in Patterson, New Jersey then fought for almost 20 years to overturn his co...

This week, Kate continues the story of the legacy of Francis Harvey, his land donation on which Dorset's St Mary Magdelene Church was built, and how it contributed to the community for over the next 100 years. Dorset is about 3 hours north of Toronto in the Haliburton Highlands. Plus Paul talks about the last Grand Duchess of Russia - Olga Alexandrovna, who was sister to the last Tsar; how she esc...

This week, Kate talks about school in Haliburton County circa 1908 and Olive Robertson - an 18 year old school teacher in a 1 room schoolhouse (the Moon school) outside Haliburton Village. Plus, Paul talks about Lord Selkirk's humanitarian efforts to relocate poor Scot and Irish tenant farmers displaced by the Clearances - and the unitended impact when indigenous and Métis found themselves displac...

This week, Kate talks about Frances Harvey who settled in Dorset, Ontario (near today's Algonquin Park), but his wife and children lived in Prescott near Ottawa. Yet Harvey somehow managed to travel back and forth and make it work - during a time of few roads. A definite case of wanderlust. Plus Paul talks about Chinese Canadians who largely weren't accepted into the regular armed forces during WW...

This week, Kate talks about Robert McKelvey whose family immigrated from Belfast in the mid-1800's. Robert went on to open Haliburton's OTHER (and lesser known) hotel, the Queens Hotel around 1880. It was an early attempt to attract tourists by providing a full outfitter experience for the outdoorsman. Even the hounds for deer hunting. Plus, Paul talks about Joseph Whiteside Boyle - one of Canada'...

This week, Kate talks about Phoebe Ann Clark who was born in eastern Ontario in the 1830's, married and settled on Haliburton County's Boshkung Lake in the 1870's. Phoebe then led a pretty interesting and diverse life over the years as she adapted to whatever fate brought her. Plus, Paul talks about the first recorded mention of the Red Cross in Canada during the NorthWest Rebellion, the rapid gro...

This week, Kate talks about the Women's Institutes in Haliburton County that provided an outlet for the County's women who wanted to do-good for the community, but couldn't join the fraternal organizations dominated by men. Luckily, Kate has access to the record books and minutes of the Haliburton village chapter to give us a glimpse into the lives of women in the community. Plus Paul talks about...

This week, Kate uses William Cashmere - who came to Haliburton County in the 1860's - as an example of how early settlers would often reinvent themselves and their livlihood to try and succeed in life in the challenging new Ontario frontier. Plus Paul talks about the Irish Republican Brotherhood and their support group in North America - the Fenian Brotherhood - and their campaign of armed invasio...

This week, Kate talks about when the iconic Canadian department store, Stedmans, commisioned picture postcards for Haliburton around 1910 that were accompanied by quite elegant prose regarding what could be found here. Plus, Paul talks about the 1972 crash of a twin engined Beechcraft airplane on a medical mercy flight in Northern Canada and a tragic story of survival involving cannibalism. Kate B...

This week, Kate chats about what the end of the school year would have been like for kids in Haliburton County in the late 1800's and early 1900's. It might sound somewhat familiar - without the electronic devices - but there's always the old swimming hole. Plus, Paul talks about Isobel Gunn - a young lady from the Orkney Islands who fought gender stereotypes by assuming a male identity in the ear...

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...