Stories of the Swamp Ward
Arts & Culture Podcasts
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.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Website:
http://swampwardhistory.com
Episodes
Special Mini-Episode: Lorraine Snider
2/16/2019
In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.
Duration:00:13:31
Episode 6: The Sixties Come to Kingston
10/23/2017
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.
Duration:00:24:22
Episode 5: Bennett's, Where Food Buying is Most Satisfactory
10/16/2017
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.
Duration:00:20:52
Episode 4: World War Two in the Swamp Ward
10/9/2017
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.
Duration:00:24:37
Episode 3: The Inner Harbour, Then and Now
10/2/2017
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.
Duration:00:28:53
Episode 2: Keeping Shop
9/25/2017
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!
Duration:00:24:34
Episode 1: What's in a Name?
9/14/2017
Episode 1: What's in a Name? by Stories of the Swamp Ward
Duration:00:19:55