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Remember This? Cripps Jewellery and Gifts, behind the business

Remember This? Cripps Jewellery and Gifts, behind the business

This week we learn the story of an engraver from Toronto who, with his wife, moved to the Sault to open a jewellery store and become a dairy farmer
Remember This? 'Algoma's Amazons' at the steel plant

Remember This? 'Algoma's Amazons' at the steel plant

Remembering when they had 'welfare' rooms with bunks in the steel plant and women required employment permits to work there
Remember this? The Rainsmere Hotel

Remember this? The Rainsmere Hotel

A grand landmark that stood in Sailors Encampment on St. Joseph Island
Remember this? The raising of number five

Remember this? The raising of number five

The morning after 19 went to the rafters we remember number 5, Adam Foote
Remember This? Hallowe'en Dance 1946

Remember This? Hallowe'en Dance 1946

A group of 16-year-old girls cause a stir when they decry dating prospects in letter to Sault Star
Remember This? Pump house on Gore Street

Remember This? Pump house on Gore Street

A combined sewage pumping station and transformer station once stood at the junction of Sault Ste. Marie and Steelton
Remember This? Seeing the trees for the forest

Remember This? Seeing the trees for the forest

How Barry Lyons explained the importance of trees to urban settings
Remember This? Pet wolf licks candy from children's fingers

Remember This? Pet wolf licks candy from children's fingers

This week we learn the story of Buster the pet wolf and how he landed his owner in court
Remember This? The Adanac Dairy Bar

Remember This? The Adanac Dairy Bar

From 'greasy fork and spoon' to high-end restaurant, the Adanac Dairy Bar occupied the corner of Queen and Gore for 55 years
All about Ms. Hardy and her dance school

All about Ms. Hardy and her dance school

How the Matriarch of Dance's steps choreographed the course of dance in the Sault for more than 50 years