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In this episode, MHC Chair, Peter Handley speaks with Randy Sawyer about North Bay's Indigenous history. Handley and Sawyer discuss the Ojibway language, the impact of residential schools and the Jesuit community on the Indigenous Peoples and Sawyer shares some of his favorite Ojibway legends.
In this episode, MHC Chair, Peter Handley speaks with local musician Bill Vrebosch. Handley and Vrebosch discuss other notable local musicians including Bandmaster Virgilli, Jake Thomas & June and Curly McFarlane. Handley and Vrebosch also discuss Vrebosch's entry into the world of music, his teaching career and how he raised…
In this episode, we open our diary of voices from the past for a conversation with now retired Dr. Francoise Noel, recorded in 2014 when she taught history at Nipissing University. This was part of the Cogeco Cable series “Life Is.” Noel from Manitoba, taught in several places before being…
In this episode, MHC Chair, Peter Handley speaks with Peter Chandler about North Bay's railroad history. Chandler talks about his childhood experience in North Bay as well as the evolution of North Bay's various railroads. Handley and Chandler discuss the impact that the Ontario Northland Railway had on urban development…
In this episode, we open our diary of voices from our past for a conversation with the late Professor Bob Surtees—one of the original seven Nipissing University faculty, and author of Northern Connection about the early days of the ONR, and an authority on Native treaties. This was originally recorded…
In this episode, we open our diary of voices from the past for a conversation with the late ship's captain Mac Masson, who handled craft on Lake Nipissing for many years. He was born in 1922 and this was recorded at his home in Callander in 1995, when he was…
In this episode, we open the diary of our voices from the past for a conversation with the late Cup Gunning—former Nipissing University librarian, and a noted local historian, authoring more than a half dozen books on North Bay's civic and military history and key reference for many of the…
In this two-part episode, we open our diary of voices from the past for a conversation with the late World War II Veteran, City Politician, and businessman— Don King. This was originally recorded in 1999 as part of the Cogeco cable series, “Life Is.” In part one, King talks about…