In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.
16 February 2019, 2:34 pm
24 minutes 22 seconds
Episode 6: The Sixties Come to Kingston
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.
23 October 2017, 10:08 pm
20 minutes 52 seconds
Episode 5: Bennett's, Where Food Buying is Most Satisfactory
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.
16 October 2017, 11:39 pm
24 minutes 37 seconds
Episode 4: World War Two in the Swamp Ward
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.
10 October 2017, 2:28 am
28 minutes 53 seconds
Episode 3: The Inner Harbour, Then and Now
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.
2 October 2017, 10:56 pm
24 minutes 34 seconds
Episode 2: Keeping Shop
Noodle pudding, cigarettes, taffy apples, squid, Indian spices: shopkeepers sold all these in the Swamp Ward, and then there was the kosher butcher and the atheist shoemaker. Hear all about it!
25 September 2017, 9:38 pm
19 minutes 55 seconds
Episode 1: What's in a Name?
Episode 1: What's in a Name? by Stories of the Swamp Ward