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Podcast: Stories From Another Day
Episode: Lighting a Fire
Description: What do absentee politicians, horse races, the queen’s birthday, and a deck fire on a great lake steamer all have to do with the beginnings of our town’s shipbuilding past? In today’s episode we will find out as we journey back to 1883 and the grand opening of the Collingwood Dry Dock! We also point out where you can still see this local landmark for yourself and invite you to come and see our brand new permanent gallery exhibit “Launch Day” which details one of the most exiting parts of that very same shipbuilding history. We are open, by a...