In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.Von Stories of the Swamp Ward

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.Von Stories of the Swamp Ward

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.Von Stories of 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.Von Stories of the Swamp Ward

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.Von Stories of the Swamp Ward

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!Von Stories of the Swamp Ward

Episode 1: What's in a Name? by Stories of the Swamp WardVon Stories of the Swamp Ward