I hope you will gain a new appreciation for the complexity of a country that, against many odds, has become a beacon of civilization in our modern times.
A pool for one season
This outdoor pool, 94 years old in 2026, began as a civic project of the Lions Service Club and remains a centre of Stratford summer memories.
Fried food memories
For 73 years and counting, Stratford has been quenching its fried-food thirst with Ken’s Fries.
The bands play on
For nearly 40 years, twice a week during the summer, Stratford locals have gathered in Upper Queens Park to hear a band play.
The bridge … to everywhere
The teenagers flitted to the spot where many classes of youth before them had gone on this day: To the Bridge to Nowhere.
Earning my Cheetos
Over a year, 400,000 residents of Canada give blood. Only two per cent of people in Canada eligible to donate do so.
A blooming good time
Since its early days, Stratford has been a garden-mad city, creating beauty amid sometimes less-than-ideal conditions.
Groovin’ in the Grove
The Stratford Side Trail of the Avon Trail goes through an in-city forested natural area that used to be called The Old Grove.
The paths amid the dead
The Avondale Cemetery covers around 68 acres, with more than 33,200 internments: that’s more than the current official living population of Stratford.
