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Remember This?
Remember This?
What and where was Simcoe Hall?
(5 photos)
With a bit of digging and some assistance from the ever-helpful local experts, Mary Harris gets to the bottom of this mystery in this week's Remember This
Nov 15, 2017 12:00 PM
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So, you're a single mother in 1908. Now what?
(5 photos)
'Remember This' columnist Mary Harris explains how marriage, divorce and parenthood was scandalous business in the late 1800s, early 1900s
Nov 8, 2017 12:00 PM
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Remember This?
The Square
(5 photos)
Barrie's most controversial piece of property
Nov 1, 2017 12:00 PM
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Remember This?
The Ovenden murder
(photos)
John Strathy was shot dead on a sharply cold day in 1896
Oct 25, 2017 12:00 PM
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The shady deals of A.J. Tuck
(5 photos)
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
Oct 18, 2017 12:00 PM
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Remember This?:
Lilac Villa
And the man who built it
Oct 11, 2017 2:38 PM
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A little Chinese bird
(5 photos)
Two years after meeting, Lieutenant Shearman Godfrey Bird married Amoi Chun and eventually settled in Barrie
Oct 4, 2017 12:00 PM
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The very odd Guthrie story
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What was later described as 'the greatest sensation this town has seen for years' began the evening of November 17 in 1909
Sep 27, 2017 12:00 PM
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Dairy Queen - Keeping Barrie cool Since 1959
(7 photos)
'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'
Sep 20, 2017 12:00 PM
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Remember This?:
The sad and strange tale of James Carruthers
Let us recount the tale of the first man hanged in the Barrie Jail
Sep 13, 2017 1:00 PM
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