For 73 years and counting, Stratford has been quenching its fried-food thirst with Ken’s Fries.
Tag: Stratford
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.
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.
Shall we gather by the river
It can be easy to take the picturesque, park-lined Avon River for granted. As my father-in-law says, “when I grew up here, I thought every town looked like this.”
Hog wild
The city of Stratford is the largest municipality in Perth County, which has the highest concentration of pig farms in Canada.
