Time Warp

This week, Kate brings a tale of the macho culture in late 1800's lumber camps. Plus Paul has the story of Black veterans of the Revolutionary War who fought for Britain then migrated to Canada to take advantage of freedom and land grants. There were also Black slaves who had accompanied Loyalists who fled to Canada. Well, when the War of 1812 broke out these individuals were concerned about an American invasion of Canada and possibly being re-enslaved, so many enlisted in militia units and with the British regular forces. Today it's about the all-Black militia unit that came to be named the Coloured Corp.

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]

This week, Kate takes a look at alcohol in Haliburton County during Prohibition. Plus, Paul tells the story of Canada's Merchant Marine during WW1 and WW2. The Merchant Marine was a fleet of ships owned by the Canadian government and was an unofficial branch of the Armed Forces. The merchantb sailors were constantly exposed to danger as they helped keep the Allies in the war in Europe, and delivered food to feed civilians in the UK. And they had a higher casualty rate proportionate to their numbers than any of the other military branches. Yet, once WW2 was over they had to fight to get veteran's benefits.

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]

This week, Kate points out that summer has officially started, as has cottage and camping season. What better than a story that could be told around a campfire? Plus, Paul has the story of Montreal's Louise Armaindo - trapeze artist, circus strongwoman, marathon walking competitor, and professional high-wheel (penny farthing) bike racer in the late 1800's. Louise has been described as the greatest female athlete. Unfortunately her life and accomplishments have been largely forgotten today.

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]

This week, Kate talks about an early account from 1870's Haliburton County from the diary of a teenager on what life was like in pioneer rural Ontario. Plus, Paul has the story of the late 1700's connections between the British colony of Newfoundland and Ireland, and the 1800 United Irish Uprising in Newfoundland.

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]

This week, Kate delves into the pages of the Haliburton Echo from July 30, 1953 to bring us stories about the local efforts of the Rotary Club. Plus, Paul talks about the Constitution Act of 1791 - one of the steps in the long evolution of Canada from being a colony to an independent country. Under the Constitution Act Britain split the former colony of New France into Upper and Lower Canada. The good intentions of the Act ended up with the Family Compact and Clergy Land Reserves. These in turn built up tensions that led to separate rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada in 1837/38. The British response to the rebellions moved Canada one step closer to Confederation.

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]

This week, Kate tells us the story of the Canadian Land & Immigration Company's promise to provide early settlers with certain amenities to ease their transition. One of those was the Company Store. Plus, on the 80th Anniversary of D-Day (as of today's recording), Paul recounts how a scrapy army of young largely untested Canadian soldiers were assigned a significant role to invade Normandy on D-Day. The allies landed on 6 sites on the coast of France - Canada's objective was an 8 kilometre stretch code named Juno Beach. And they punched way above their weight!

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]

This week, Kate talks about the Freeman family who came from Leeds, England to the Haliburton area. They brought with them little social graces that brought a taste of home for the pioneer family. Plus, Paul tells the story of how cynical eugenics started to promote birth control in Canada in the early 1900's. On the other hand was Dorothea Palmer. She was an altruistic social worker who was counselling poor women with large families on birth control but was charged with distributing birth control information contrary to the Criminal Code. She was caught in the middle between the eugenics movement trying to manipulate the system, and providing birth control information for educational reasons. Regardless, she was commited for trial and was potentially facing 2 years in jail.

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]

This week, Kate talks about the origins of the Victoria Day long weekend and why the traditional first long weekend of summer doesn't necessarily fall on her actual birthday any longer. Plus. we've done a series of episodes on how a few battles in New France over a couple of years near the end of the Seven Year's War radically shaped today's Canada from a French to an english colony. Today's episode is the aftermath as Britain struggled to juggle and accomodate all the North American political realities, including their French subjects, Indigenous issues, and the New England colonies. They hoped the answer would be the Quevbec Act but it very quickly contributed to the American War of Independence and started to shape Canada into the countries as we know it today.

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]

This week, Kate brings the story of a depression era relief project that helped families survive by providing work, but also opened the Haliburton Highlands further to tourism and cottaging. Plus, Paul has the story of Winnipeg entrepreneur and proud Canadian Philip Kives who created the iconic K-Tel company that hawked dozens of items ranging from kitchen products to compilation record albums. K-Tel was really the first marketing concept of its kind - selling products on the relatively new medium of television - that set the stage for today's info-mercials. music streaming, and on-line sales.

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]

This week, Kate talks about the Leatherby family that settled in Haliburton County in 1867 and uses them as an example of how families had to diversify to make ends meet. Plus, Paul talks about the Battle of Sainte-Foy. Sainte-Foy took place pretty much on the grounds where the Battle of the Plains of Abraham had taken place just months earlier. but this time the roles were reversed. The British held Quebec City while the French were trying to take it. Spoiler aalert - the French won the battle, but lost the war.

Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at [email protected]