100 Days celebrating 100 years-of North Bay
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.
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2022: Shabogesic Beach & Downtown Waterfront amenities
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2021: Long term care
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2020: COVID-19
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2019: Casino groundbreaking
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2018: Promising the return of the Northlander
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2017: Cardinal & Carter
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2016: Awarded the Women’s World Curling Championship
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2015: Pan Am sand & Porter
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2014: NORAD watching space
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2013: The North Bay Battalion
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2012: Highway 11 4-laning complete
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2011: Omischl Sports Complex opens
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2010: The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
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2009: Downtown Waterfront pedestrian underpass
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2008: E. coli outbreak
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2007: North Bay named Kraft Hockeyville
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2006: A new Water Filtration Plant
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2005: Announcing a new hospital – with audio from Colin Vezina
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2004: One Kids Place
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2003: The big blackout
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2002: Carousel opens
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2001: Centennials sold
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2000: City’s 75th and Memorial Wall – with audio from Bob Studholme
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1999: The rail lands – with audio from Jack Burrows
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1998: Saving CFB – with audio from Colin Vezina
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1997: Air Base Property Corporation – with audio from Patti Carr
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1996: Removing the CN rail line – with audio from Jack Burrows
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1995: Premier Mike Harris – with audio from Colin Vezina
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1994: Cents win OHL title
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1993: Kate Pace Way
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1992: Hospital plan rejected & ’councillor’ accepted – with audio from Jack Burrows
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1991: Michael J. Fox visits
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1990: North Bay Courthouse – with audio from Nestor Prisco
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1989: Planes, trains and Winter Games – with audio from Dave Saad
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1988: Bob Wood elected MP – with audio from Peter Handley & Colin Vezina
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1987: The North Bay Arts Centre – with audio from Barry Burniston
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1986: Gateway Heritage Festival – with audio from Dave Saad
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1985: North Bay Waterfront – with audio from Don King & Jack Burrows
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1984: Barb Olmstead & Pinehill hockey team – with audio from Dave Saad
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1983: Big dig – with audio from George Maroosis
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1982: The North Bay Centennials
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1981: Preparing for the Centennial of Rail
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1980: Mayor Merle Dickerson removed from office – with audio from Colin Vezina
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1979: Northgate/downtown – with audio from Bob Barton & Don King
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1978: “Proudly she stands, our City Hall”
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1977: Winter carnivals – with audio from Colin Vezina
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1976: Donald Kelly & Cloud II
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1975: Barry Building explosion – with audio from Vic McClenaghan
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1974: Chief Commanda I & II
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1973 Education Centre Complex official opening – with audio from Cup Gunning
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1972: BOMARC missile era ends – with audio from Doug Newman
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1971: Transit in North Bay
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1970: French language education/Oak & McIntyre one-way streets
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1969: Amalgamation (part 2) – with audio from Don King
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1968: Amalgamation – with audio Colin Vezina/Peter Handley
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1967: Nipissing/Laurentian & Canadore/Cambrian – with audio from Robert Surtees
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1966: Centennial pool and YMCA
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1965: Rules of ringette revised
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1964: Transportation Building fire
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1963: Underground complex – with audio from Doug Newman
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1962: Airport runway expansion – with audio from Patti Carr
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1961: BOMARC missiles (Part 2) with audio from Doug Newman
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1960: Construction boom
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1959: BOMARC missiles (Part 1) – with audio from Doug Newman
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1958: Golf Street overpass – with audio from Peter Chandler
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1957: NORAD draft agreement – with audio from Doug Newman
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1956: Campbell Mystery (solved 2006)
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1955: Memorial Gardens opens – with audio from Dave Saad
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1954: Death of Emilie Dionne – with audio from Floyd Andrick
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1953: Teachers College – with audio from Cup Gunning
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1952: CF-100 Canuck
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1951: Princess Elizabeth visits North Bay
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1950: Announcing RCAF Station North Bay – with audio from Doug Newman
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1949: Civic Hospital sod turning – with audio from Jack Burrows
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1948: Klock Avenue renamed Algonquin
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1947: Baby boom/Chief Commanda I – with audio from Mac Masson
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1946: T&NO becomes ONR – with audio from Nestor Prisco
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1945: Victory in Europe – with audio from Bob Studholme
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1944: D-Day and liberating Europe – with audio from Don King
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1943: HMCS North Bay – with audio from Cup Gunning
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1942: WWII airport flying school
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1941: Captain of the Clouds
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1940: Algonquin Regiment mobilized for active service – with audio from Don King
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1939: Fort Chippewa – with audio from Cup Gunning
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1938: Grey Owl – with audio from Colin Vezina
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1937: Pete Palangio
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1936: North Bay Arena (Wallace Park) – with audio from Tony Demarco
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1935: The Dionne Quintuplets (part 2) – with audio from Natasha Wiatr and Patti Carr
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1934: The Dionne Quintuplets are born – with audio from Natasha Wiatr
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1933: East/west Trans-Canada Highway
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1932: Planning for planes
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1931: Radio arrives with the launch of CFCH – with audio from Barry Burniston
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1930: Mining services and supply industry – with audio from Roy Summers
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1929: Capitol Theatre opens – with audio from Barry Burniston
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1928: North Bay’s iconic ‘Gateway’ arch
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1927: New roads and highways
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1926: Legion Branch 23 and more – with audio from Robert Surtees
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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.
Richard Coffin has been a reporter and news anchor on the radio in North Bay for over 25 years. From premiers to people in the neighbourhood, he enjoys connecting with newsmakers and writing stories that matter to area listeners on a variety of topics including healthcare, education, politics, sports and more.
