In the Spring 2023 Edition of Back in the Bay magazine, I began the story of a flying misadventure my husband Lloyd and I shared in 1997. See it HERE. A recap of Part I: We were flying home from a day spent on Lake Temagami when …. 20 minutes from takeoff, Lloyd...
It was a perfect Sunday morning in late November, 1964. I was visiting my sister and brother-in-law, Edna and Stewart Scott at their home just outside Callander. There we were drinking coffee, chatting about the usual things with no sign that my life was about to...
I have mentioned The Country Roads Studio Tour which operated from 1980 to 2011. The tour brought together unique home-based businesses that featured art, traditional crafts as well as agri-businesses scattered across the rural landscape south and east of North Bay....
The annual prom was the social event of the year for most high schools in the 1950s and 60s. At St. Joseph’s College it was a brief and glorious respite from the strictures of convent school life and the drab brownness of the school uniform. Only seniors from Grades...
North Bay has been entertained by the Gateway Theatre Guild since 1948. We have been delighted by plays, revues and musicals featuring casts of colourful characters with lots of drama on and off stage. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, the Guild was forced to cancel the...
The year was 1958. My friend Dee and I were walking down either Wyld or Ferguson. The exact street is lost in the mists of time but no matter. We had just been to a dance at the arena featuring Irwin Prescott and the Melotones. Picture us; saddle shoes, bobby socks,...