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We invite you to explore the photos, videos and artefacts featured in Everyone Has a Story. Have fun browsing our gallery below. Click on an image to see an enlarged photo with description or to play a short video with subtitles (English or French).
Scenic aerial view of downtown Orillia, overlooks historic red brick buildings, running along a tree-lined street, towards a striking blue Lake Couchiching.
Black and white photograph of Stephen Leacock outdoors, laughing with his farm hat in hand, circa 1941
Franklin Carmichael's vibrant oil painting sketches a colourful autumn scene in Northern Ontario. A log cabin and barn sit atop a tree-lined hill, next to a mountainous blue lake. Additional details below on paper.
Aged, yellow-tinted Packet & Times newspaper article to Orillians of Year 2067. Mayor of 1967 describes the placement of a time capsule for future Orillians.
Arthur Shilling’s vibrant oil painting of four Indigenous family members gathered around colourful blankets hanging to dry outside on a sunny winter day.
Vintage black and white photo circa 1953. Two men, a woman, and three small girls in white dresses, pose closely together on a tree-lined sidewalk.
Red-toned Mariposa Folk Festival booklet cover features a generational collage of musical artists's performing. A mature maple tree sits bottom left, sun-themed logo bottom right accompanies title 50 Years of Mariposa”
Black and white photocopy of the 1966 North Simcoe Electoral District Map. Thick black bordered area includes Orillia, Lake Simcoe, Barrie, Oro, Medonte, and Matchedash.
Large, colourful letter sculptures from Streets Alive artists help spell, Arts District in front of a sun-bleached brick wall downtown Orillia.
Vintage black and white photograph with torn, yellowed edges circa 1950. Pete McGarvey sits at large desk with CFOR recording box and holds microphone to his left towards a well-dressed man in black-rimmed glasses.
Aged black and white photograph of a man dressed in white sitting at the entrance of a large brick building. Written below the image is Orillia Collegiate, Borland Street, 1899.
Vintage sepia photograph circa 1900. Orillia Fire Brigade in front of brick Fire Hall. Five men sit atop an industrious fire carriage, lead by two white horses over sandy road.
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