The Opeongo Line

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The Opeongo Line episodes

January 15, 2023 The Last Laird of McNab
Jeff Bowman, Cathy Chapeskie, Karen Filipkowski and Lynn Stewart, all members of the Opeongo Readers' Theatre present a 200-year-old story, somewhat true and sometimes fiction, of Archibald McNab, Renfrew County's very own feudal countryman of Robbie Burns.
58 min
January 01, 2023 The Mayor’s Levee
In honour of a very old Canadian tradition established in 1646, the new Mayor of the Township of Madawaska Valley, Mark Willmer, sat down with Opeongo Line host, Sean Conway, on this New Years Day and discussed matters of municipal interest.
1 hr 6 min
December 24, 2022 Christmas with Ms. Montgomery I
The Opeongo Line's annual Christmas show with Jeff Bowman, Cathy Chapeskie, Karen and Rob Filipkowski, Carol and Brian Peterson, Lynn Stewart and Mark Woermke, all members of the Opeongo Readers' Theatre. This year they present eight short stories, all about Christmas in Canada, by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
1 hr 2 min
December 24, 2022 Christmas with Ms. Montgomery II
The Opeongo Line's annual Christmas show with Jeff Bowman, Cathy Chapeskie, Karen and Rob Filipkowski, Carol and Brian Peterson, Lynn Stewart and Mark Woermke, all members of the Opeongo Readers' Theatre. This year they present eight short stories, all about Christmas in Canada, by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
53 min
December 12, 2022 The Boys of Autumn
Three personal essays written and read by Barry Conway including "On McAuley Lake Road," "The Back Forty." and "The Big Eddy," all memoirs of growing up in the Upper Madawaska and Opeongo River Valleys in the 1960s.
1 hr 15 min
December 11, 2022 The Boys of Autumn
Three personal essays or memoirs written and read by Barry Conway including "On McAuley Lake Road," "The Back Forty," and "The Big Eddy," all about life in the Upper Madawaska and Opeongo River Valleys in the 1960s.
1 hr 15 min
November 06, 2022 Renfrew County & the 1917 Khaki Election
The Bromley Historical Society hosted Sean Conway, a former Ontario cabinet minister, who spoke in Cobden recently about the federal election of 1917 and the atypical results in Renfrew County due to the Conscription issue.
1 hr 24 min
October 28, 2022 Buck Hill & Other Stories
The Opeongo Readers' Theatre present its annual Halloween show including an ancient tract about Irish Banshees, a wild story about a town drunk who dies and comes back to run for office, a curious tale of Siberian magic and, finally, a disturbing story about our local area's most haunted places, Reds and Buck Hill.
1 hr 6 min
October 09, 2022 Algonquin Voices II
Anne K. Wilde brings us a special Thanksgiving gift, a unique hour of Algonquin songs, folktales and legends provided by several Indigenous women who live along the York River in the Hastings Highlands near Algonquin Park.
56 min
September 26, 2022 Democracy in Action 2a
The first part of the second Township of Madawaska Valley's All Candidates meeting held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 406, in Barry's Bay, Ontario on Sunday, September 25th to sort out who will be the next mayor of the township and who will be elected to the four council seats. This event was sponsored by the Valley Gazette and moderated by its publisher, Michel Lavigne.
56 min