Stories of the Swamp Ward

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Special Mini-Episode: Lorraine Snider

2019-02-1613:31

In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.

Episode 6: The Sixties Come to Kingston

2017-10-2324:22

Hear about youth and tenant activism in the late 60s and early 70s when Kingston like other places vibrated with anger, hope, and global awareness.

Episode 5: Bennett's, Where Food Buying is Most Satisfactory

2017-10-1620:52

Bennett's Supermarket served residents of the Swamp Ward from the 1920s for eighty years. Hear about the family who ran it, and the lively world the store sustained.

Episode 4: World War Two in the Swamp Ward

2017-10-1024:37

Hear about the proximity of World War 1 and World War 2; how women experienced the war; how it affected immigrants' sense of themselves; and its mixed aftereffects even on a place far from combat.

Episode 3: The Inner Harbour, Then and Now

2017-10-0228:53

Experience Kingston's inner harbour as a place of play, labour, and reinvention, haunted by toxic waste and yet offering possibilities to the patient and observant.

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