Stories of the Swamp Ward

Stories of the Swamp Ward
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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.

Episodes

  1. 02/16/2019

    Special Mini-Episode: Lorraine Snider

    In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.

    Special Mini-Episode: Lorraine Snider

  2. 10/23/2017

    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.

    Episode 6: The Sixties Come to Kingston

  3. 10/16/2017

    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.

    Episode 5: Bennett's, Where Food Buying is Most Satisfactory

  4. 10/10/2017

    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.

    Episode 4: World War Two in the Swamp Ward

  5. 10/02/2017

    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.

  6. 09/25/2017

    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!

  7. 09/14/2017

    Episode 1: What's in a Name?

    Episode 1: What's in a Name? by Stories of the Swamp Ward

    Episode 1: What's in a Name?
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About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    Stories of the Swamp Ward
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2019
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Show Website
    Stories of the Swamp Ward