All Posts Tagged With: "Kingston’s waterfront"

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Out With the Old

Late last December, Kingstonist presented you with our top 5 posts from 2008.  With your help, we intend on ringing in the New Year by celebrating our best stories and topics of conversation from 2009.  Did KFL&A Public Health’s management of the swine flu vaccination clinic get your attention?  Will Fauxcoming, the over budget Queen’s [...]

23Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 3 comments | Continued
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Are We Getting Any Greener?

It has been quite some time since I last took the stage atop my environmental soapbox, but with news of Kingston’s green-ness spreading far and wide, the time has come for a brief, yet honest discussion about our stature as a sustainable community.  In a star studded, green carpet affair, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities [...]

24Sep2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 4 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

Every city has a seedy, wart infested underbelly of ugly issues that are capable of dividing and disgusting the local population.  For Kingston, a short list includes the ongoing third crossing saga, Block D development, K-Rock Centre location/finances/naming rights/etc, dog parks, bike lanes and waterfront paths, and the grand daddy of them all, Aberdeen.  The [...]

18Sep2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 19 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

Hey there, and happy Friday. This week we welcomed Kingston’s hippest Librarian to the City, and are optimistic that once she’s nonnomadic, she might be willing to share some of her experiences as a newcomer to our burgeoning metropolis. Notice how craftily I incorporated big, fancy words in that sentence? Perhaps diction will [...]

5Jun2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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Friday Foto

What’s with all this rain? Presently we’re on our third straight day of drizzle, however it looks as though the sun is breaking through the clouds just in time for the weekend. But will it stay? My yard is beginning to look like a farmer’s field, and despite our campaign to eradicate [...]

29May2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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City Landmarks Vol VI

The Limestone City’s waterfront has a storied past, as it served as a strategic shipbuilding centre, and provided the backdrop for the tale of the Herchmer ghost.  But that’s just scratching the surface.  Today we’re advancing our exploration of Kingston’s historical shores by sailing back in time to recount the escape of the Royal George. [...]

21May2009 | Duke Smythe | 0 comments | Continued
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Life’s a Beach

According to a report released today, Mayors along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway want to promote the use of, as well as tackle environmental issues associated with Great Lakes’ beaches. Surprisingly, the 44-page report titled A Mayors’ Collaborative Action Plan to Protect the Great Lakes, has not garnered much attention in the media [...]

6May2009 | Steven Black | 1 comment | Continued
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Friday Foto

This Friday Foto comes to us courtesy of the McCord Museum’s Notman Photographic Archives. Downtown Kingston, circa 1910, was a heavily industrialized area with a rail yard, and steady flow of shipping vessels. A century later, both the steps of City Hall, and face of Kingston’s industrial sector look very different. Where [...]

1May2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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On Third Crossings and Other Mythical Beasts

The other day I attended an information session regarding the environmental assessment associated with a proposed thoroughfare that will better connect the eastern and western realms of Kingston. Truth be told, I was expecting a formal presentation with a Q&A session, however such formalities are rather premature at this early stage in the [...]

27Apr2009 | junior | 4 comments | Continued
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The Wreck of Navy Bay

Instead of focusing on events on the surface, today we’re sinking to a whole new level.  Did you know that Kingston is widely recognized  as one of the best locations for fresh water diving thanks in part to numerous ship wrecks in and around the mouths of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence?  Popular wrecks [...]

22Apr2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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