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Postcards from Huron County

Mandy Sinclair

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/26d. Total Eps: 14

Host Mandy Sinclair takes listeners on an intimate journey to the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples, now known as Huron County. Each episode explores an aspect of the heritage and often lesser know history of the area, as told to Sinclair in conversation with historians and community members who have a close connection to each subject.

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Isaac Elliott-Fisher on building a destination toy castle in Brucefield, Ontario

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 • Duration 45:47

On the final episode of season two of Postcards from Huron County, podcast host Mandy Sinclair chats with former Clinton resident, film-maker, and entrepreneur Isaac Elliott-Fisher about returning to the area and creating a destination toy shop in Brucefield, Ontario.

Isaac shares memories of walking into the rundown building that once housed a hotel and restoring it back to its former glory and current home of the Village Toy Castle - part museum, part arcade, part toy shop. But he also talks about a film, Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with connections to Huron County that eventually sold to Paramount.

Favourite quote of the episode: "I found so many articles that mentioned the oyster dinners: 'The Seaforth women’s club enjoyed a lovely oyster dinner at the Brucefield Dixon House'. The newspaper articles of that era are hilarious. You have entire columns about who visited who on what day." - Isaac Elliott-Fisher on visitors past and present at the building that now houses the Village Toy Castle

Related links:

Village Toy Castle: https://toystoreguide.com/villagetoycastle/

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3817848/

Find out more about Postcards from Huron County at: PostcardsfromHuronCounty.ca

Follow Postcards from Huron County on Instagram: @PostcardsfromHuronCounty

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Postcards from Huron County is made possible with funding from the Huron Heritage Fund and Community Futures Huron Community Projects Initiative, and audio production by Clint Mackie at Faux Pop Media.

More about Mandy Sinclair: https://mandyinmorocco.com.

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David Yates on tourism development in Huron County

Season 2

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 • Duration 38:04

On the third episode of season two of Postcards from Huron County, podcast host Mandy Sinclair chats with local historian and author David Yates about the development of the tourism industry in Huron County in the nineteenth century.

David shares stories from hotels past - the Point Farms Hotel, Hotel Sunset, Menesetung Park - where regional produce and meats from local fields and dairy were served in fancy dining rooms to some of the wealthiest and most famous people in central North America.

We talk about the steamboats that arrived on the shores of Lake Huron bringing travellers for their summer stay, and inviting locals to join for a weekend getaway in Detroit. He explains why tourism was able to develop at the turn of the century and early 1900s, and the ultimate decline of this form of tourism.

David writes a column for Huron County newspapers spotlighting local history, including many articles highlighting the tourism sector of the late nineteenth and early twenties centuries, and is the author of Out of the Woods, Out of the Blue and That Freedom Might Survive, to name a few.

He also taught many students history at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton.

Favourite quote of the episode: It was the auto capital of the world, and all those beautiful buildings were being erected in Detroit. It was one of the largest cities in North America, and the excitement of going to Detroit at the time would attract hundreds of people for a long weekend to go down and see a ballgame, the theatres, the music clubs and then come back after four days.

- of the hundreds of people who would travel to Detroit from Goderich on the greyhound steamboat for a long weekend away.

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David is the author of the following books:

Out of the Woods

Sinead Cox on British Home Children in Huron County

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 • Duration 36:49

In the third episode of Postcards from Huron County, podcast host Mandy Sinclair chats with Sinead Cox, a descendent of a British Home Child sent to live in Huron County from the United Kingdom.

Sinead tells of her family heritage, but also the history of the British Home Children sent to Canada between 1869 and 1932. She talks about children who were sent to Huron County and the roles they played in the agricultural industry as well as life for these young children sent abroad, sometimes unbeknownst to their families.

Favourite quote of the episode: “It was a chance to go home, which was very expensive, prohibitively expensive. For a lot of them, it was their only change to go back to the UK. –Sinead Cox of the Home Children who served in the First and Second World Wars

Related links:

For more details about Home Children, visit the Library and Archives: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/Pages/home-children.aspx

The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham: https://genevievegraham.com/books/the-forgotten-home-child/

‘Poisoning our population’: Huron County’s Undesirable Young Immigrants published May 9, 2016 on the Huron County Museums blog: https://www.huroncountymuseum.ca/poisoning-our-population-huron-countys-undesirable-young-immigrants/

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Thanks to our sponsor Royal Lepage Heartland Realty .

Robert (Bob) C. Lee on the Huron Tract development

Tuesday, January 25, 2022 • Duration 26:16

In the second episode of Postcards from Huron County, podcast host Mandy Sinclair chats with Robert (Bob) Lee, a historian whose his Masters of Arts thesis The Canada Company: A study in Direction, 1826-1853 was completed as part of his studies at the University of Guelph. His grandfather, Charles Crabb Lee was the mayor of Goderich from 1931-1934, as well as the owner/operator, amongst other businesses, of the Sunset Hotel, a popular summertime resort destination. He’s also the author of The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853: Personalities, Profits and Politics.

Bob shares stories from his childhood spending summers in Goderich, and history acquired during his Master’s research which includes how the Huron Tract came about, settlers’ arrival on the Huron Tract and the development of the town of Goderich.

Favourite quote of the episode: “When I was a kid, people were saying that Goderich would be the Chicago of the north.”

Bob’s book The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853: Personalities, Profits and Politics is available at Fincher’s in Goderich and The Book Peddler in Goderich or on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.ca/Canada-Company-Huron-Tract-1826-1853/dp/1896219942

Thanks to the Huron Historical Society for connecting me with Bob Lee. Find out more about the Huron Historical Society at: http://www.huroncountyhistoricalsociety.ca/

Follow Postcards from Huron County on Instagram: @PostcardsfromHuronCounty

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Thanks to our sponsor Royal Lepage Heartland Realty https://rlpheartland.ca.

Culture keeper Jenna McGuire on the Historic Saugeen Métis

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 • Duration 41:20

In the first episode of Postcards from Huron County, podcast host Mandy Sinclair chats with Jenna McGuire, a culture keeper from the Historic Saugeen Métis community, about life prior to settler contact.

Jenna tells of community members growing gardens, corn and even certain medicinal plants on the shores of Lake Huron in what settlers know as Goderich, and her family’s long marine history. She tells listeners about trade routes and goods produced in the area and traded on the Great Lakes.

And Jenna shares personal stories of her Aunt Annie and traditional architectural styles.

Favourite quote of the episode: “I remember the voyageurs coming down the peninsula in their canoes laden with furs. And she said, ‘I could hear them singing before I saw them.’”

Follow Postcards from Huron County on Instagram: @PostcardsfromHuronCounty

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More about the Historic Saugeen Metis: https://saugeenmetis.com

Follow Historic Saugeen Metis on Twitter at: @HSMNewsTeam

The Saugeen Shores Hub news article referenced in the episode is available at: https://saugeenshoreshub.ca/events/144-family-kids/5169-spanish-for-kids.html

Thanks to our sponsor Royal Lepage Heartland Realty https://rlpheartland.ca.

Royal LePage Heartland Realty is Huron County’s largest real estate brokerage, with agents specializing in all aspects of real estate spanning the County of Huron and beyond.

Postcards from Huron County Trailer

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 • Duration 04:24

Host Mandy Sinclair has created an eight-part podcast series that takes listeners on an intimate journey to the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples, now known as Huron County. Each episode explores an aspect of the heritage and often lesser know history of the area as toldto Sinclair in conversation with historians and community members who have a close connection to each subject.

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Cathy Elliott on the development of Seaforth’s historic downtown

Season 2 · Episode 2

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 • Duration 42:44

On this week’s episode of Postcards from Huron County, podcast host Mandy Sinclair chats with architectural enthusiast and long-time Seaforth resident Cathy Elliott about the development of the town of Seaforth and its historic downtown core.

Cathy shares memories of the downtown, the industries that once existed, and provides a visual tour inside some of the town’s least accessible buildings dotting the main street. Given her roles and responsibilities as a trustee of the town’s post office housed in a historical building, Cathy shares tips for heritage conservation.

Cathy played the role of Mrs Cardo during the town’s heritage days and brought the building to life.

Favourite quote of the episode: When you walk in you can feel people from the past, you can imagine what life was like. I just find it magical. - Cathy Elliott of visiting historic buildings on Seaforth’s downtown

Seaforth architectural walking tour: https://www.huroneast.com/en/my-huron-east/resources/history/SeaforthWalkingTour.pdf

Heritage Conservation District Study: https://uwaterloo.ca/heritage-resources-centre/sites/ca.heritage-resources-centre/files/uploads/files/Seaforth_HuronEast.pdf

Find out more about Postcards from Huron County at: PostcardsfromHuronCounty.ca

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Marc Cantin on his ancestor’s vision for St. Joseph, Ontario

Season 2 · Episode 1

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 • Duration 43:17

On the first episode of season two of Postcards from Huron County, podcast host Mandy Sinclair chats with visionary and entrepreneur Narcisse Cantin’s great-grandson Marc Cantin about his family’s vision for the area’s waterways and development of St. Joseph’s on the shores of Lake Huron.

Marc shares childhood memories of scouring the family archives with his Uncle Napoleon Cantin, the development of St. Joseph’s and its once-bustling economy, the sad day in Cantin history when the Balmoral Hotel was dismantled, and the family’s local connection to Brother André.

Marc and his wife Pauline hold the archives privately and have fashioned their house around the family history, turning a museum/archives of sorts. They welcome history buffs into their space upon request, and organize the annual heritage day in St. Joseph’s. He continues the family’s long carpentry tradition as the owner of a construction company.

Favourite quote of the episode: When I say that it isn’t always about the story of the seaway, it’s more about the dream. That’s one of the favourite parts, the dream that a man had and to promote it like he did. Marc Cantin of his great-grandfather’s vision.

Related links:

St. Joseph Historical Society: https://stjosephmuseum.ca/

Narcisse, theatrical performance: https://youtu.be/d4PSNJipDF0

Find out more about Postcards from Huron County at: PostcardsfromHuronCounty.ca

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Postcards from Huron County season two trailer

Season 2

Thursday, October 13, 2022 • Duration 01:48

Podcast host Mandy Sinclair returns with a four-part season two of Postcards from Huron County, exploring the county's industrial heritage since settler arrival on October 25, 2022.

Tune in to find out more about the development of the tourism industry, plans for a canal system in St Joseph, the development of a heritage downtown and more!

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Severn Thompson and Donna Govier on Wing Night at the Boot

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 • Duration 34:36

In the final episode of the series, Postcards from Huron County podcast host Mandy Sinclair chats with Severn Thompson, one of the playwrights behind Wing Night at the Boot that performed at the Blyth Festival in 2018. Donna Govier, a regular at the Boot back in the day, joined by telephone, as she inspired the character Connie in the Wing Night at the Boot.

Donna shares some hilarious memories of bygone days of her nights at the famed “Boot” in Blyth, formally known as The Blyth Inn. She tells tales of the streaker who passed through the bar one evening, and even having to turn in her knife at the bar when heading into the bar for a drink after working in the rutabaga plant nearby.

Severn recalls the process for bringing these memories, including the streaker, to stage on the Blyth Festival and the audience reaction to the play.

Favourite quote of the episode: “The first streaker that went through was a local lad. His girlfriend happened to be sitting with us and she didn’t know anything about it. And then he came through the front door with a mask on and work boots and nothing else. She was so angry she took her diamond off and threw it across the room.”

In the episode, Severn references Tuesday as Wing Night at the Boot. At the time of recording, Thursdays were Wing Night at the Boot.

Related links:

Wing Night at the Boot at Blyth Festival: https://blythfestival.com/wing-night-at-the-boot-august-8-september-15-2018/

Playwright Severn Thompson: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0962620/

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