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.
In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Episode 1: What's in a Name? by Stories of the Swamp Ward
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