Featured Pieces: Picturesque Postcards
An Aerial postcard of Barrie’s first Shopping Plaza on Wellington Street featuring Holiday Bowl, Power Foods, Woolworth’s, Go-Cart Track, 4-Bay Car wash and the BP Gas Pavilion.
The Grand Opera House on Collier Street was built in 1896 but lost the upper floor to fire in 1926. Eighty years later, in 2006, the remains of the building were expropriated to build a municipal parking garage.
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History Lesson: Accessing the Tollendal Mill
In the 1800s, getting to the Tollendal Mill could be a precarious journey. The only access, before a bridge was built over Lover's Creek, was by way of water or the Tollendal Mill Road. This road ran west from the Penetanguishene Road (Yonge Street), down a steep downslope, over the [...]
In Memory of the Postcard
Wish you were here. A simple sentiment that, at one time, was likely entirely overused. At one time, when distance was a real thing. When entering into someone’s company, regardless of spatial separation, wasn’t as easy as booking a cheap fight to any corner of the world. When our best [...]
Historically Happy Holiday Wishes from the BHA
Members of the BHA celebrate their group award from Heritage Barrie. All the Barrie Historical Archive wants for Christmas is...you! Cliche? Maybe. But in earnest, we want you in 2018! We would be amazed if you shared your historical photos/documents with us. Elated if you offered us your time [...]