All Posts Tagged With: "tourism"
Share Your Opinion About Kingston’s History & Stories
As part of the continuing work on the Kingston Culture Plan, the City has launched a Your Opinion survey to ask Kingston residents, businesses and institutions how they perceive the city’s history and stories. “With so many significant anniversaries and celebrations coming up in the next few years, this process of gathering and sharing stories [...]
Continue reading Share Your Opinion About Kingston’s History & Stories
Don Cherry Supports IHHOF Re-Location
The story of how the International Hockey Hall of Fame (IHHOF) came to be established in Kingston, and was later cast aside by the National Hockey League (NHL) is ripe with intrigue. Over the years, the new, official Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto has allegedly attempted to procure the IHHOF’s exhibits, as well as [...]
Continue reading Don Cherry Supports IHHOF Re-Location
What Tourists Say About Kingston
Late last month, Star columnist Adrian Brijbassi visited various destinations in Limestone City, which he highlighted in an article titled: Perfect Weekend in Kingston: Markets, history and relaxation. Brijbassi paid Kingston some very kind compliments, as he remarked that our city is “stocked with credible restaurants…unique experiences that are educational, reasonably priced and easy to [...]
Continue reading What Tourists Say About Kingston
Grad Season
Last Thursday and Friday, the Royal Military College of Canada held their annual Graduation activities, which included Convocation, the Sunset Ceremony as well as the Grad Parade. Even if you weren’t on campus, the show was hard to miss as it included demonstrations by the Snow Birds, SkyHawks as well as one of the greatest [...]
Continue reading Grad Season
Guide to Bed and Breakfasts
This week we’ve focused our attention on staycations as well as our top five things to see and do during the summer months. Carrying on and as a compliment to this tourism theme, today we’re featuring some of our favorite inns, and bed and breakfasts that Kingston has to offer. Admittedly this brief overview of [...]
Continue reading Guide to Bed and Breakfasts
Weekly Poll: Staycations in Kingston
First off, this week’s poll marks a momentous milestone for Kingstonist, as it’s the 50th time we’ve asked our readers to vote on a given topic of interest. Over the past year we’ve registered your support on who you will vote for in the upcoming federal election, the best small venue for live music, whether [...]
Continue reading Weekly Poll: Staycations in Kingston
Weekly Poll: Alt Landmarks
If you close your eyes and concentrate on a definitive symbol that represents the Limestone City, whether it’s a building, an over-sized sculpture, or a distinct district within the city, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? The folks who designed the City of Kingston logo featured the tholobate and dome of our iconic [...]
Continue reading Weekly Poll: Alt Landmarks
Weekly Poll: That’s Our Motto
In Vancouver it’s “By Sea, Land and Air We Prosper“, while Edmonton is guided by “Industry, Integrity, Progress“, and London lives “Through Labour and Perseverence“. In the Limestone City our motto is “Antiquitate Civilitate Humanitate“, which is to say that we aspire to be “A Civil And Creative Community With A Proud Past“. Are kids [...]
Continue reading Weekly Poll: That’s Our Motto
Kingston Arts Council Fine Arts and Crafts Guide
The Kingston Regional Arts Council is pleased to announce the creation of the annual guide of professional visual artists and craftspeople for the Kingston and surrounding areas. This guide will be marketed to tourists and residents to promote our studios, galleries and artists in the region. The multi-page, colour brochure will be distributed at tourism [...]
Continue reading Kingston Arts Council Fine Arts and Crafts Guide
Haunted Walk
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to go on Kingston’s famous Haunted Walk. I love playing tourist, especially when it’s close to home. Almost every time I am downtown during the summer months, I spot one of the cloaked guides leading around a group of visitors by lantern, and I imagine [...]
Continue reading Haunted Walk
