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Mr. Tuck would come to be very familiar with the Barrie Fire Department over the years. In what may have been his first stroke of fire-related bad luck, Arthur lost a building on Gowan Street in Allandale to flames in July of 1914

And the man who built it

Two years after meeting, Lieutenant Shearman Godfrey Bird married Amoi Chun and eventually settled in Barrie

What was later described as 'the greatest sensation this town has seen for years' began the evening of November 17 in 1909

'To a bunch of soaking wet kids straight out of a lake, after an hour or two of fresh air and horseplay, these were the best burgers ever'

Let us recount the tale of the first man hanged in the Barrie Jail

Today, there must be a hundred places where you can buy so-called Italian take-out food in the area. Yet Nino's keep plodding along, unperturbed by 2-4-1 deals, stuffed crusts, pretzel dough, crazy bread or trendy toppings

Unlike most of the other fine buildings Mary has written, she didn't have to ask for a special tour of this one

If you like stuff — stuffed fish, manual meat grinders, witty signs, family portraits — then you'll like Fil's

Mary Harris examines the history of her own former family home