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In this episode, MHC Chair, Peter Handley speaks with Nestor Prisco - historian, researcher and former Sheriff of Nipissing. Prisco details the 1895 election and how it led to North Bay being chosen as the 'County Town' over other nearby towns which is the basis of the story of how North Bay's first courthouse came to be. Handley and Prisco go on to discuss how the City quickly outgrew the aforementioned courthouse and Prisco shares a rare story about the well-known champion who ensured that a new courthouse would come to fruition in North Bay.
In this episode, MHC Chair, Peter Handley speaks with Nestor Prisco - historian, researcher and former Sheriff of Nipissing. Prisco details the 1895 election and how it led to North Bay being chosen as the 'County Town' over other nearby towns which is the basis of the story of how North Bay's first courthouse came to be. Handley and Prisco go on to discuss how the City quickly outgrew the aforementioned courthouse and Prisco shares a rare story about the well-known champion who ensured that a new courthouse would come to fruition in North Bay.