Stories of the Swamp Ward

Stories of the Swamp Ward

This 6-part podcast series immerses you in a tightly-knit working-class immigrant neighbourhood of a small Canadian city in the 1930s to the 70s. It's warm, touching, evocative, and finely crafted.

13 minutes 31 seconds

Special Mini-Episode: Lorraine Snider

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

14 September 2017, 5:18 pm
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