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Come explore the main street of Alice Munro’s hometown of Wingham, Ontario, Canada. Many Munro fans know it as “Jubilee”. In the following six-part tour of Wingham’s main street-Josephine Street- experience the buildings and landmarks that enrich and inform Munro’s celebrated short stories. Tour down the streetscapes of today and yesterday meeting the builders, seeing the buildings they erected, and hear the secrets that lie locked in brick and cement.
With its rich history, Wingham makes an ideal setting for Ms. Munro’s most famous stories. It is a town created by dreamers who saw splendour and promise where others saw only mud. Because the town is nestled on a floodplain, water defined Wingham’s early days, but commerce determined its growth. Industries and the railway lured many to town and they stayed.
Discover a place that is vital and real, a place that fueled the imagination of one of Canada’s most beloved authors.
