Category Archives: This Week in Peterborough

Well, I was all set here to talk more about sagas, and particularly our own Peterborian variety this evening.  But sometimes events get in the way.    The news this evening is that the National Museum of Brazil is being … Continue reading →

We are well behind in this series, but that’s ok, we shall pick it up where we left off and check on what was happening around here on the occasion of the national holiday in 1963.  And what we find … Continue reading →

And so we resume “This Week in Peterborough”-ing!  When last we checked in, it was mid-June of 1961, so now we move on to the latter part of that month in 1962.  Here we find Peterborians assessing the just-completed federal election, … Continue reading →

As we saw in last week’s brief post, mid-June of 1961 saw feline Peterborians once again exploring the mysteries that dwell at the top of hydro poles.  However, that of course was not all that was going on!  Read on, for … Continue reading →

Our look at mid-June of 1961 will be up in a couple of days, but here is a bit of a spoiler: it would seem that Peterborough’s amazing pole-climbing pussycats were at it again!  Something in the water, perhaps…

It is appropriate enough to post this in the week in which he have said our final goodbyes to the great Gordie Howe; June of 1960 found hockey fans likewise bidding farewell to one of the giants of the game. … Continue reading →

We’re back (and a little behind schedule, as I’m sure you’re aware)!  Our period of interest for 1959 is actually the very beginning of June, and here we find Peterborians talking missile defence systems, provincial election politics, and — loudly … Continue reading →

“But what of 1957?” you ask!  Sadly, the 1957 post will have to wait for another time, but we will address the events of mid-May of that year at some point.  And that brings us to 1958, when this week … Continue reading →

On to another edition of This Week in Peterborough, and this time we are checking in with what was happening here exactly six decades ago, in mid-May of 1956.  Read on, for a civic debate that will be very familiar … Continue reading →

It was hot, unseasonably so, in Peterborough when May of 1955 opened; as the Peterborough Examiner reported on May 5th, only Toronto and Hamilton surpassed our city’s 85 degrees Fahrenheit (about 29 Celsius).  And what else was hot around here?  Well, … Continue reading →