that place was falling apart, now build a condo

My great grandfather worked for Yale & Towne in Stamford CT and immigrated to St. Catharines in 1913 to work in this plant. He started as Asst. Superintendent. The family story goes that his father-in-law was a senior person in the company and gave him the choice of going to a new plant in Atlanta or St. Catharines. I was back in town a few weeks ago to visit the museum with my father, and we commented on how many names and photos of people we knew who were part of the exhibits. Now you have added another. Thanks for posting this.

St. Catharines used to have such beautiful buildings. There's probably someone planning to demo the old courthouse right now to add parking for the market. Remember the old YMCA? SMH

Beautiful building and the historical value is great. I'm going to guess that it will probably be torn down when the developers take over. Thank you for this.

Thank you, Sean. I really enjoy your videos and you present in such an engaging, conversational way that it feels like I'm standing there with you. This is the way to present history that gives meaning to bricks and plaster. Great job. I think the highlighting of these architectural gems is so important in preserving the city's history. I've seen so many of these heritage buildings disappear through neglect and it pains me to see each one disappear. The Standard building is another loss, and I hope the interior features are documented carefully before it becomes a memory as well.

I am worried about what will become of this wonderful old building, stuffed with good local history. thanks for this.

Thank you. I always enjoy watching your videos.

This was very well done! Looking forward to more content like this!

There must be some evidence somewhere of Neil playing at the Lion.

The DeCew station kept west hills power on during the blackout of 2003 woot!

I started my long career as a race horse farrier at Garden City Raceway in St. Catherines. It was a beautiful facility in earl 1970's.

I have a crazy question about how the images an articles are attached to the pages of the scrapbook. Did they use glue or paste?

😮 shockingly it's coincidence that it is older than world war 2. Passport existed only in Europe and America back then

Thanks

I love the old phone number. We were also MU (mutuel) when I was young. I remember when my parents explained to me that we would have to start dialing the 68 in front of our number.

I always look forward to watching your videos. Very interesting. Thanks.

Well done....

Nicely done.

I spent my early childhood at 8 Ann Street, now Norris Place.

It was a strip bar in the 70s and 80s. I was in in more than one bar brawl there.

It seems like a crime that such beautiful classic buildings were torn down.

What an amazing project! This past winter I was lucky to have monitored construction work on Ontario Street and we uncovered the south and north walls of the Lock3-4 pond directly under Ontario Street, 40m apart

My parents in the early 1950's rented a small house on a farm 5:58 just outside Welland. The steam train would fill with water at Coyle and open up the throttle going towards Hamilton. My only memory of that time was watching the train pick up speed spewing smoke and steam across the field as it headed towards Hamilton. At night we could see the hobos campfires in the bush behind our house.

Thank you for doing a spot on The Castle. Wish there was a plaque onsite, like they have in Toronto.

I was too young to go to the castle in its day but my older siblings did. My oldest brother Fred Holden was part of that scene playing in the group called the Fugitives which then changed their name to The Renovators and finally The Tradition. For the most part the members were Pete Dowan on Guitar/Vox, Larry Reid on Bass, Brian Master Lead Vocal, and Fred Holden on Lead Guitar. Earlier members of the Fugitives were Lenny Martin on Vocals, Gary Clark on Guitar/Vox, and Terry Walsh on Bass. The changes in the group members and the group names likely are as a result of the influence of Ronn Metcalfe. My teen siblings often had parties in our parent’s basement listening to records of the era as well as live music from Fred and his friends. Our family was sent photos from Brian Master of them performing. More photos and stories showed up in different groups on Facebook and I discovered that a 1966 EP recording demo of the Renovators still existed. In spite of being borrowed for 46 years it had recently been returned to Pete Dowan. Shortly afterward I reached out to the Toronto music community to contact Brian Master and reunite these two former band mates. It was so nice to be able to make this happen. It is amazing to hear the group again after all these years. Paul Mill made a documentary of the St. Catharines Music scene led by Ronn Metcalfe called The Big Story of Small Potatoes The website listing all of the groups and members of the music scene can be found here: www.miil.ca/doc.html The documentary The Big Story of Small Potatoes can be found on KZbin in four parts here: kzbin.info/aero/PLgqHWWmiF4G67AQSQwvyqpGTQD_yUhKu-

my swimming hole when I was a teenager. I still love going there to sit and reflect. It is very calming

It is good farmland and we keep growing houses on it

It did offer many many forms of entertainment over it's lifetime and interesting timing to it's sad demise

fascinating list of luminaries that lived in the house. The house was on the CFUW's house tour last May.

Very interesting. Thanks for putting this together.

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Interesting as always.

Do you have an item on St. CATharines's own riot over the court decision to send an escaped slave back to US? The prisoner escaped but the leader of the protesters from coloured town was shot dead by a deputy.

Great story but maybe you can add hockey broadcaster Rex Stimers and his legendary opening: "coming to you live from the Miami of Canada." My friends often went together as teens to Blackhawk games, buying standing room but moving into empty but pricey seats later. Then the team got better and we returned to standing. That was okay, because the view was good there too.

This school is bad

I spent my preschool years on Anne St( now Norris Place) half a block from the park. I remember playing softball on the far side of the park away from Ontario Street in the 1950s. What is that ugly low structure behind the narrator's back and in front of the dance pavilion? Very enjoyable . May I suggest: the railway tunnel under the old Welland Canal? The " Negro Village".

Neil Peart Pavillion. !

1:30 musta been nice now our schools full of kids too disrespectful and ignorant to learn

Now this is cool and all but now the schools just wanna be gang bangers,whiggers,disrespectful kids,awesome teachers,stabbings,fights,etc some good some bad (the bads not their faults its the kids) happy 100th anniversary

Presentation starts at 9:25

i thought i was going to learn some cool history, i didn`t realize it would just be about recruitment how you do the work. Appreciate all ur hard work

How did the building burn? Who built the old and new? How long did it take to build? Where did they get their materials and how was it brought in? Why did they choose to build in this style? Who designed the glass and what do they represent? Did they reuse materials?

Deemed unsafe after 1 inspection? Was this the 1st and only? Sounds, suspicious. I think no matter what, they were being closed down for the hospital...

I remember seeing the Headstones there, such a shame it's gone :(

needs more Go Trains

It’s interesting, but not very well practiced. No offense

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Wow, I will definitely integrate this into my homeschool history curriculum. This is fascinating.

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