The Toronto Archives started in 1960 in the attic of the old city hall when various city department heads were convinced that important records should be kept in special conditions for future generations. It was later moved to the basement where there was more space for everything since 1792. About Read more…
Alexander Graham Bell is credited for inventing the telephone as we know it today. He lived near Brantford, where he lived, worked, and invented the telephone. Former prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had his telephone subscription backdated to make him the first telephone subscriber in the world on paper. Read more…
Chicago – I visited just in time for the annual Taste of Chicago festival where there was free entry and a variety of delicious food in small taster portions at reasonable prices. Of course I had to try two different flavours of deep dish pizza! Man, deep dish pizza is Read more…
When I told my friends I visited Iowa the first thing they typed back on messenger was “where’s Lowa?” [sic]. “Welcome to the flyover state.” ~ Ken I went to Des Moines as part of my epic American road trip to visit Kit, whom I last saw in Minneapolis two Read more…
There are worthwhile things to do in Rochester, but my favourite place is the Strong National Museum of Play. The day before I visited, I spoke with a friend and told her that I value people who are able to make quick and mature decisions but also a child at Read more…
It took me a while to understand what the museum’s name meant. It’s both a museum on the history of Rochester and a science museum. The nature exhibits are quite impressive with everything from taxidermy penguins to a full skeleton of a mammoth woolly mammoth. The hands-on science exhibits are Read more…
The University of Rochester has that stereotypical private university campus layout. Long grassy squares surrounded by dark brick buildings hugged by vines. Greek fraternities perpendicular to the main corridor. Neat rows of student housing arranged around pathways that radiate from a central plaza. The university’s most iconic building is the Read more…
Susan B. Anthony was a champion for women’s rights in America. When she was a child, her Quaker parents wanted to send her to school, but when the teacher refused to teach girls long division, her family hired a private tutor to teach her and other girls. She grew up Read more…
Rochester is home to Eastman Kodak and the Xerox corporation, the founders of which funded the University of Rochester in the early nineteenth century. Susan B. Anthony, a suffragette who lived before the suffragette movement existed, fought for women’s vote and registered to vote in Rochester. Notable museums in Rochester Read more…
Bedford Falls from the 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life was partially filmed in Seneca Falls, NY. In 1917, a man jumped from the bridge and saved a young girl from drowning in the canal at the risk of his own life. This heroic act inspired the movie where George Read more…