This 6-part podcast series immerses you in a tightly-knit working-class immigrant neighbourhood of a small Canadian city in the 1930s to the 70s. It's warm, touching, evocative, and finely crafted.
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Special Mini-Episode: Lorraine Snider
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13:31In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.Autor: Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 6: The Sixties Come to Kingston
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24:22Hear about youth and tenant activism in the late 60s and early 70s when Kingston like other places vibrated with anger, hope, and global awareness.Autor: Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 5: Bennett's, Where Food Buying is Most Satisfactory
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20:52Bennett'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.Autor: Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 4: World War Two in the Swamp Ward
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24:37Hear 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.Autor: Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 3: The Inner Harbour, Then and Now
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28:53Experience 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.Autor: Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Noodle pudding, cigarettes, taffy apples, squid, Indian spices: shopkeepers sold all these in the Swamp Ward, and then there was the kosher butcher and the atheist shoemaker. Hear all about it!Autor: Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 1: What's in a Name? by Stories of the Swamp WardAutor: Stories of the Swamp Ward
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