Your curiousity will shape the route taken and stories told on historical walking tours of Ritchie in late September.
Email us your questions by Thursday, Sept. 3, and we’ll pass them on to the team at Let’s Find Out podcast to get answers.
This is the fourth year the league has partnered Let’s Find Out to bring these tours to you. Let’s Find Out won a silver medal for Best Consumer Podcast from the Canadian Online Publishing Awards in 2018 and was a finalist for the 2019 Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Documentary. You can listen to past episodes online.
Episode 42 (recorded 2019) explores the history of meatpacking, German immigration and iconic local species in the neighbourhood.
Episode 24 (recorded 2018) takes you to Wallace Shoe Making, the 1917 Dame residence and Minchau blacksmith shop.
Episode 11 (recorded 2017) features Ritchie School, the Gainers meatpacking plant and Ritchie’s urban forest.
Details about how you can join the History Tour will be announced soon.