Stories of the Swamp Ward

By 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.... more

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How many episodes does Stories of the Swamp Ward have?

The podcast currently has 7 episodes available.

Stories of the Swamp Ward episodes:

February 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.
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14min
October 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.
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25min
October 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.
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21min
October 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.
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25min
October 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.
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29min
September 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!
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25min
September 14, 2017 Episode 1: What's in a Name?
Episode 1: What's in a Name? by Stories of the Swamp Ward
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20min

FAQs about Stories of the Swamp Ward:

How many episodes does Stories of the Swamp Ward have?

The podcast currently has 7 episodes available.