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Time Warp

Paul Vorvis and Kate Butler | Canoe FM

Time Warp is a podcast on the Canoe FM platform featuring Host Paul Vorvis and Co-Host Kate Butler from the Haliburton Highlands Museum talking about Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada history - as well as some other stories from Canada"s history.

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14:40

Campfire Ghost Story plus Greatest Female Athlete

Time Warp ·

2024/06/28

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

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15:06

Thoughts of a Teenage Pioneer plus United Irish...

Time Warp ·

2024/06/21

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

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14:23

From the Haliburton Echo July 30 1953 plus Rebellion...

Time Warp ·

2024/06/14

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

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15:23

Haliburton's Company Store plus Canada Invades...

Time Warp ·

2024/06/07

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

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14:26

Pioneer Social Graces plus Canada's Last Birth...

Time Warp ·

2024/05/31

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

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14:26

Origins of Victoria Day plus the Quebec Act

Time Warp ·

2024/05/17

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

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15:15

Highway 35 - a depression era work project. Plus, The...

Time Warp ·

2024/05/10

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

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13:14

Haliburton County's Leatherby Family plus Battle of...

Time Warp ·

2024/05/03

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

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15:18

Snapshot of Haliburton County May 1918 plus Sir...

Time Warp ·

2024/04/26

This week, Kate brings a snapshot of Haliburton County going-ons from the pages of the Echo newspaper from May 1918. Plus, Paul has the story of Canadian spy-master Sir William Stephenson - the man code-named Intrepid.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

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13:58

Reminisces from the Echo plus Canadian Spy Winthrop Bell

Time Warp ·

2024/04/19

This week, Kate brings a first-hand reminiscence of early Haliburton County from Marjorie Clark - a columnist in the Echo newspaper. Plus, Paul has the story of Winthrop Pickard Bell - a Canadian academic and spy who became arguably the world's foremost foreign expert on the political and military state of Germany after the end of WW1. His early warnings of the rise of the Nazis, increasing militarism, and threats to Jews and other groups had influence on the preparations of the allies for WW2

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13:22

Haliburton County Centennial 1974 plus Canada's First...

Time Warp ·

2024/04/12

This week, Kate tells us about Haliburton County's centenial anniversary in 1974 and some of the uniques, interesting celbrations that took place including a full day event at Toronto's Ontario Place. Plus, Paul has the story Kathleen 'Kit' Coleman who was a successful journalist, columnist and reporter in the late 1800's - early 1900's. Kit became the first North American female war correspondent who was accredited by the US government to report on the 1898 Spanish-American war being fought in

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13:15

CNE Causing Highlands Angst plus The Edmonton Grads

Time Warp ·

2024/04/05

This week, Kate tells the 1961 story where Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition announced a scheduling change that concerned Haliburton Highlands tourism operators. Plus, Paul tells the tale of the phenomenally successful Edmonton Grads world champion women's basketball team. First formed in 1915 the team came to make world-wide headines, draw large crowds, and winnning roughly 95% of their games before disbanding in 1940 during WW2.Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum

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12:52

1927 Theatre in Haliburton Highlands plus General...

Time Warp ·

2024/03/29

This week, Kate delves into a back copy of the Echo newspaper from February 1927 to show the deep roots of local culture and theatre in the Haliburton Highlands. Plus, Paul builds on the story of Fort Louisburg from the last episode of the TimeWarp to tell the tale of British General James Wolfe who at the age of 32 commanded the flotilla deployed to capture Quebec City from the French during the Seven Years War. He met the French army on the Plains of Abraham where both Wolfe and the French

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13:55

1946 Haliburton Echo Archives plus Fortress Louisbourg

Time Warp ·

2024/03/15

This week, Kate went down another rabbit hole reading a Haliburton Echo newspaper archive from 1946 and came up with 2 stories - one on a committee formed to figure a way for the community to increase tourism in the post WW2 era, and another on Haliburton's Red Cross Outpost Hospital - the building that Canoe FM now occupies.Plus Paul tells the tale of the rise and fall of France's Fort Louisbourg, and the strategic place it held in the see-saw battle between France and Britain for predominance in

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13:40

1949 Minden Public Speaking Contest plus the HMCS Uganda

Time Warp ·

2024/03/08

This week, as local schools take a break for spring Kate talks about a 1949 public speaking competition held at a school in Minden and the wide breadth of topics that must have been much tougher to research in a pre-internet world. Plus Paul talks about the odd saga of WW2's HMCS Uganda. The ship's crew served with honour against the Japanese in the Pacific, but are best remembered today as the only Canadian warship's crew known to vote themselves out of the war and return home. But they weren't

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14:39

From the Echo Newspaper Archives plus Canadians in...

Time Warp ·

2024/03/01

This week, Kate dives back into the archives of the Haliburton Echo newspaper and comes up with Marjorie Clark who wrote a series of columns called 'This I Remember' where she reminisced about life in the County. Marjorie was born in 1882 and her recollections give a first-hand window into life in early Haliburton County. Plus, during WW2 there were many Canadian men and women who worked as secret agents behind the lines with Resistance cells for British Intelligence. Their lives were in constant

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13:12

Haliburton 1870's Dr DeRenzy plus Canada's Civil War...

Time Warp ·

2024/02/23

This week, Kate tells the tale of Mathew DeRenzy and his wife Henrietta who came to Haliburton County in 1869. Matthew was a doctor - or was he? He also dabbled as a veterinarian and as an apothecary. Plus, Paul tells the story of 'Doctor of Courage' Alexander Thomas Augusta who enrolled as a medical student at University of Toronto's Trinity College after hitting higher-education roadblocks in the US. Alexander returned to the US some years later where he became the first Black surgeon and the

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13:43

Joseph Pimm plus Canadian Troops vrs Soviets in WW2

Time Warp ·

2024/02/16

This week, Kate tells the tale of Joseph Pimm, the propietor of Minden's Dominion Hotel in 1892 and the odd details around his demise as the result of a ruckus at the hotel one night. Ironically Joseph was a temperance man despite owning a bar. Plus, Paul tells the story of Canada's 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and their assignment to rush and block a Soviet army advance across the north of Germany during the last few days of WW2.Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum

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14:08

The Story of a Haliburton Church plus Lord Stanley's Cup

Time Warp ·

2024/01/19

This week, Kate talks about how early settlers worshipped in Haliburton County, how local denominations welcomed anyone to their services, and the origin story of one denomination's church - the Baptist Church(s). Plus, Paul talks about Canada's 6th Governor General (since Confederation) Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley and the trophy he presented to be awarded each year to the best team in Canadian amateur hockey - the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup that became known as the Stanley Cup awarded to the

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13:09

1934 Haliburton Highlands Hockey plus the Parkdale...

Time Warp ·

2024/01/12

This week, Kate talks about winter in the 1934 Haliburton Highlands and how important hockey was to the community. Plus, Paul talks about a Victorian era murder mystery in the west Toronto village of Parkdale. On October 6th, 1894 18-year-old Frank Westwood answered his front door, was shot by a stranger, and died 3 days later of his injuries. The story involves a cross-dressing suspect, a nation wide media frenzy, a trial, and even author Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame. Kate Butler is

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