100 stories. 100 days celebrating 100 years of North Bay.
Some stories feature audio from the North Bay Municipal Heritage Committee’s Heritage Diary podcasts with Peter Handley, courtesy The City of North Bay.
1977: Winter carnivals – with audio from Colin Vezina
1976: Donald Kelly & Cloud II
1975: Barry Building explosion – with audio from Vic McClenaghan
1974: Chief Commanda I & II
1973 Education Centre Complex official opening – with audio from Cup Gunning
1972: BOMARC missile era ends – with audio from Doug Newman
1971: Transit in North Bay
1970: French language education/Oak & McIntyre one-way streets
1969: Amalgamation (part 2) – with audio from Don King
1968: Amalgamation – with audio Colin Vezina/Peter Handley
1967: Nipissing/Laurentian & Canadore/Cambrian – with audio from Robert Surtees
1966: Centennial pool and YMCA
1965: Rules of ringette revised
1964: Transportation Building fire
1963: Underground complex – with audio from Doug Newman
1962: Airport runway expansion – with audio from Patti Carr
1961: BOMARC missiles (Part 2) with audio from Doug Newman
1960: Construction boom
1959: BOMARC missiles (Part 1) – with audio from Doug Newman
1958: Golf Street overpass – with audio from Peter Chandler
1957: NORAD draft agreement – with audio from Doug Newman
1956: Campbell Mystery (solved 2006)
1955: Memorial Gardens opens – with audio from Dave Saad
1954: Death of Emilie Dionne – with audio from Floyd Andrick
1953: Teachers College – with audio from Cup Gunning
1952: CF-100 Canuck
1951: Princess Elizabeth visits North Bay
1950: Announcing RCAF Station North Bay – with audio from Doug Newman
1949: Civic Hospital sod turning – with audio from Jack Burrows
1948: Klock Avenue renamed Algonquin
1947: Baby boom/Chief Commanda I – with audio from Mac Masson
1946: T&NO becomes ONR – with audio from Nestor Prisco
1945: Victory in Europe – with audio from Bob Studholme
1944: D-Day and liberating Europe – with audio from Don King
1943: HMCS North Bay – with audio from Cup Gunning
1942: WWII airport flying school
1941: Captain of the Clouds
1940: Algonquin Regiment mobilized for active service – with audio from Don King
1939: Fort Chippewa – with audio from Cup Gunning
1938: Grey Owl – with audio from Colin Vezina
1937: Pete Palangio
1936: North Bay Arena (Wallace Park) – with audio from Tony Demarco
1935: The Dionne Quintuplets (part 2) – with audio from Natasha Wiatr and Patti Carr
1934: The Dionne Quintuplets are born – with audio from Natasha Wiatr
1933: East/west Trans-Canada Highway
1932: Planning for planes
1931: Radio arrives with the launch of CFCH – with audio from Barry Burniston
1930: Mining services and supply industry – with audio from Roy Summers
1929: Capitol Theatre opens – with audio from Barry Burniston
1928: North Bay’s iconic ‘Gateway’ arch
1927: New roads and highways
1926: Legion Branch 23 and more – with audio from Robert Surtees
1925: A city is born – with audio from Robert Surtees, Peter Chandler & Mayor Peter Chirico
Special thanks to the City of North Bay and the North Bay Museum for resource material provided in the creation of this series.
100 Days of North Bay is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
