With spooky season in our midst, it’s time to dive into our past and perhaps … the occult, maybe a little Séance + Spiritualism in Port Arthur? In the years of 1914 and 1923, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle visited the…
Eaton’s at Christmas
“Wonderful place, this Christmas Store … the Yuletide decorations are up inside and out, soft music floods the aisles and Santa reigns on his throne. Floor after floor is filled with beautiful Christmas gift suggestions – something for everybody! So…
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
It’s here. One of my most favourite events of the season… the Craft Revival. revival |rəˈvīvəl|nounan instance of something becoming popular, active, or important again: cross-country skiing is enjoying a revival. This isn’t your old-school church basement bazaar, filled with…
T.C.A., TBAY + Dominion Day Trout
Canada Day is upon us! For many of us, this celebration equals camp, fireworks, raiding the LCBO (like it’s the apocalypse) and savouring the first long weekend of the summer. Prior to “Canada Day”, up until 1982, Canadians used to…
Misfortune at Maudslay Court
In an innocent search for information regarding Port Arthur’s oldest apartment building, Maudslay Court, I stumbled on misfortune. As I mentioned, Maudslay Court is Port Arthur’s oldest apartment building – perfectly situated on Court Street, overlooking the McVicar creek. Its gorgeous setting…
The Port Arthur Cenotaph
Did you know… The Port Arthur Cenotaph , located in Waverly Park is all thanks to women? Yes women – The Women’s Canadian Club of Port Arthur, to be precise. They not only advocated for a Cenotaph, they formed a search…
Court Street’s Civil War Connection
1906– Port Arthur Nestled between Wolseley and Van Horn streets at the end of city limits, sits a stately home. It is comprised of three floors overlooking Lake Superior and the Sleeping Giant, it boasts a spiraled turret, an open…
The Ladies’ Aid of the General Hospital – Thunder Bay’s Vanished Vanguards
There are many things which truly disappoint me with our city and the people who make final decisions. One of them being, the complete disregard for our history and the lack of acknowledgment to those people/organizations/buildings and their historical significance….
