Latest posts tagged with #swont on Bluesky
We stuck with birthdays for this week’s #HiddenHistory of #SWONT, marking Pauline Johnson’s 165th. The #Haudenosaunee poet worked to make #Canadians more accepting of Indigenous Peoples & Women at a time where is was getting harder for both groups: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnhist
It’s a big 1-7-9 for Alexander Graham Bell today, & the 150th anniversary of the #telephone on Saturday, so Matt & I talked about Bell’s legacy in #swont & the #TelephoneCity for this week’s #HiddenHistory. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnhist
We talked about the #BlackHistory of #Hockey in #swont for this week’s #CBCLondon #HiddenHistory. Take a listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnhist
If you are in #Olympics withdrawal, check out last week’s #HiddenHistory of #swont on the history of skiing in our region. Did you know that our ski hills have Olympic connections & #BolerMountain is Canada’s southernmost ski hill? www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
We did the early history of #Curling for this week’s #HiddenHistory of #swont. You can listen to the interview here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
With the start of the 25th Winter #Olympics, Matt & I talked this week about the history of the Olympics in #swont. DYK that Canada’s youngest winter Olympian was from #Stratford, & the oldest man to win gold at a Winter Olympics is a @westernu.ca alum? Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
For this week’s CBC Afternoon Drive #HiddenHistory of #swont column, Matt & I talk about #ldnont ‘s upcoming 200th birthday this Friday. You can listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Before there was #Niagara, there was #PeleeIsland & #Essex Co, home of the first commercial winery in #Canada. In the #NineteenthCentury, Pelée Island was part of the “Wine Islands” of #LakeErie. Learn more in this week’s #HiddenHistory of #swont: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnhist
Doing some prep for this week’s #HiddenHistory of #swont. Here’s a great line about #LakeErie: “Erie is a dull lake, like a person one meets in life, neither beautiful nor ugly, neither strong nor weak, neither good nor bad.” (Harper’s Magazine, June 1873) #onhist #cdnhist
With #AlCapone ‘s birthday coming up on Saturday, we talked #Bootlegging on #LakeErie for this week’s #HiddenHistory of #swont. You can listen the Matt & my conversation here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #Alcohol #cdnhist #onhist
Our #NewYears #HiddenHistory of #swont about #PolarBearDips didn’t get online until today. Here’s the link. It appears that folks in #WindsorON may have been dipping even before folks in #Vancouver. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnhist
Sorry #DryJanuary folks, but we are talking #Alcohol for this month’s #HiddenHistory of #swont. Lots to unpack from #Labatt & #HiramWalker to #Bootlegging & #Prohibition. Hear today’s conversation here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnhist #onhist
Here are the most-read stories of 2025 from St. Thomas Times-Journal: tinyurl.com/msfpzaat #sttont #swont
Here are the most-read stories of 2025 from The Stratford Beacon Herald: tinyurl.com/yhtu42fv #swont
Here are the most-read stories of 2025 from The Chatham Daily News: tinyurl.com/34xdkces #ckont #swont
Here are the most-read stories of 2025 from The London Free Press: tinyurl.com/2s474dwm #ldnont #swont
We did the #NYD #PolarBearDip for this week’s #HiddenHistory of #swont but I don’t have the link, so… here’s the one we did last year about Guy Lombardo: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnhist #NYE2025 Wishing you all an enjoyable & safe transition into 2026!
Few places evoke #Christmas like the #DepartmentStore. Today, Matt & I talked about a few of the iconic stores in #ChathamON, #WindsorON, & #ldnont, for this week’s #HiddenHistory of #swont. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cbc #cdnhist
Keeping with the #Holiday theme, this week as #CBC starts #MakeTheSeason kind, Josiah & I talked about the history of #FoodDrives & #FoodBanks for today’s #HiddenHistory of #swont - www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Matt and I talked #ChristmasLights for today’s #HiddenHistory of #SWONT, but perhaps we should have talked about this, & #JohnBrown’s fundraising tour in 1858. Here’s the link to today’s HHSWont: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Matt & I talked railways this week for our #HiddenHistory of #swont. The #GrandTrunkRailway was opened in November 1859 & built by Casimir Gzowski, Peter Gzowski’s great-great-grandfather. Sarnia-Toronto took 7 hrs & cost $5. #cdnhist #ldnont - www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
