Owen Sound Harbour - A Photographic History by Robert A. Cotton, with foreword by Scott L. Cameron, is now available exclusively at Foto Art Camera Shop. Using over 100 restored historical photographs, each accompanied by a short commentary, Cotton takes you on a visual journey of the harbour from the early grain schooners and side-wheel steamers through the arrival of Canadian Pacific's fleet in 1884 to a harbour filled with the Hindman fleet in the 1950s.
Owen Sound played an important role in pushing....
Join local historian Robert Burcher with Special guest and Viking expert Alison Leonard for an exciting, seafaring tale of what might be the earliest visitors to North America, this Saturday at the Meaford Museum.
Robert Burcher believes that an image of a sailing vessel carved into the rock at the Peterborough Petroglyphs is not of Viking origin, but actually a leather boat built by ancient Celtic Mariners. They would have set sail from Ireland, and...
-by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
OwenSoundHub is sharing a series of stories from local people who make minimum wage. Several have asked us not to include their names and we have agreed. Not only could there be repercussions from landlords or employers, but recent conversations on social media have confirmed that the stigma and judgement of poverty remains firmly in place.
When I was doing it on my own, no, $11.60 was not a livable wage. My husband was out of the picture for 16 months, and to survive my son and I had to be subsidized by Ontario Works. We also had to use the food bank a couple times...
Dear Editor;
The perpetual pilgrimage to the altar of the very destructive low wage economy by great swaths of business community advocates, Conservative / neo-Liberal government leaders, a percentage of businesses and business leaders has gone on uninterrupted for decades and far too long. Perpetuated by organizations ideologically married to worker suppression, this deliberate action was put in place to explicitly undermine the collective strength of workers. The destructive success of this action is measured by...
Violence Prevention Grey Bruce is pleased to announce the hiring of Jon Farmer as its new coordinator. Farmer fills the vacancy left by Colleen Purdon who coordinated the committee for twenty years before retiring this fall. Violence Prevention Grey Bruce is the local domestic violence community coordinating committee that brings more than thirty community services and organizations together to share expertise, conduct research, and raise community awareness...
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