<description>In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.</description>

In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1…

In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.

Special Mini-Episode: Lorraine Snider

<description>Hear about youth and tenant activism in the late 60s and early 70s when Kingston like other places vibrated with anger, hope, and global awareness.</description>

Hear about youth and tenant activism in the late …

Hear about youth and tenant activism in the late 60s and early 70s when Kingston like other places vibrated with anger, hope, and global awareness.

Episode 6: The Sixties Come to Kingston

<description>Bennett'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.</description>

Bennett's Supermarket served residents of the Swa…

Bennett'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.

Episode 5: Bennett's, Where Food Buying is Most Satisfactory

<description>Hear 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.</description>

Hear about the proximity of World War 1 and World…

Hear 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.

Episode 4: World War Two in the Swamp Ward

<description>Experience 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.</description>

Experience Kingston's inner harbour as a place of…

Experience 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.

Episode 3: The Inner Harbour, Then and Now

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.

Stories of the Swamp Ward

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