Featured Pieces: Picturesque Postcards
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Walking Tour Reveals Places in Time
Mary Harris tells the history of buildings in Barrie's downtown core. Exposed to the stiff fall breeze, a large group of warmly dressed people looked south from Homestead Bakery and Artisan Cafe and took in a view of Kempenfelt Bay that didn’t exist 60 years earlier. The group [...]
From Barrie with Love Part VII, Last Entries: Wartime Letters from a Briton in Barrie
This is the final set of entries in an exciting blog series for the Barrie Historical Archive, made possible by archive supporter Diana Strachan. When last we heard from Diana’s mother, Peggy Newman, she was preparing for the cold and crisp winter weather that accompanied Christmas 1941 in Barrie. These [...]
From Barrie with Love Part VI: Wartime Letters from a Briton in Barrie
Ready for another read? This blog series, made possible by the Diana Strachan, daughter of our author Peggy Newman, offers us a look through the lens of a 16-year-old Briton in Barrie during the Second World War. With Christmas time fast approaching, our author is enthralled in her social circles [...]