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Stand on the corner of Wallace and Huron streets in Wallaceburg most any sunny summer day. You will hear tires crunching broken asphalt as vehicles pull into and out of the Wallaceburg public boat ramp. Listen carefully and you will hear the high-speed clicking of winches as people coax their boats off trailers, the spinning of wheels as cars or trucks extract the trailer off the slippery, river-muddy surface of the boat ramp (maybe even a bit of cursing as people rock stuck boats off trailers or try to get stubborn motors to start), then the slamming of car doors and people walking to their boats.
I would love to talk to him just one more time – Lines and Shadows (Part 7)
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I would love to talk to him just one more time – Lines and Shadows (Part 7)
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Turn at the intersection of Huron and Gillard streets in Wallaceburg and then head straight south on Gillard Street. For most hours of the day on most days of the year, this section of Gillard Street is pretty quiet now. Had you made this trip anytime during the annual âsugar beet campaignâ that happened between early October and the end of February every year between 1901 (when The Wallaceburg Sugar Company first began operations) and 1960 (when The Canada and Dominion (C & D) Sugar Company shut down) you could not have missed seeing a towering smokestack belching black smoke between you and the shores of the mighty Sydenham River. That smoke stack was the exhaust pipe of the power plant of âthe Sugar factory.â
Author of the article: John Martinello
Publishing date: Jan 18, 2021  â¢Â January 18, 2021  â¢Â 9 minute read  â¢Â The Girl in the Engine. Joyce Vye, at seven years old, standing in front of her house at the corner of Wallace and Huron streets. Ready to walk one mile to the former DA Gordon School at the corner of King and Murray streets. To this day, Joyce remembers the red coat with the gray fur collar that she wore to school. Photo submitted by Joyce Ritchie.
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Stand in the middle of the boat ramp parking lot at the intersection of Wallace and Huron streets in Wallaceburg, Ontario. You wouldnât know it now, but 70 years ago, you might have been standing under a 30 foot-high coal pile.