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CONTENTS

Authors’ Note

Foreword

DO IT: EVENTS YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN OR ATTEND

Chocolate, Bacon, and Brews

Dragon Boats

Festival Cricket Competition

Free Carriage Rides

Justin Bieber’s Stratford

Puck’s Plenty Foraging Tours

Stratford Chefs School

Stratford Markets

Stratford Perth Museum

To Stratford with Love

SEE IT: THINGS YOU CAN WALK UP TO AND APPRECIATE

A Brief History of the Avon River

Armoury to the Rescue

At First, a Railway Town

Avondale Cemetery Tells Stratford’s Story

Bridge to Nowhere

C.R. Plastic Products

City Hall Almost a Revolving Restaurant

Home Children

Keyboard Tombstone

Locomotive 6218

Loreena McKennitt Saved Falstaff

Parks Versus Progress

Perhaps Provocative Fountain a Distraction

Perth County Courthouse

Sculptured Dove

Shakespeare in the Garden

Stratford Is a Bee City

Stratford Public Library

Stratford War Memorial

Swans on the Avon

The Brooks Steamer

The Only Double-Arched Bridge

University of Waterloo Stratford School

William Allman Memorial Arena

KNOW IT: FASCINATING AND HISTORICAL INFORMATION

City and County Bragging Rights

Early Contributions to Medicine

Escaped Slaves Become Entrepreneurs

Fire Department Has Come a Long Way

First Hospital

Furniture Workers Initiate a Strike

Skip Manley

Sounds of Stratford Past and Present

Stratford Votes, Wet or Dry

Stratford’s Hockey Day in Canada

Tech-Savvy Stratford’s Autonomous Cars

The Classic City

The Soul of Stratford

Thomas Edison in Stratford

What’s in a Name

More Secrets And Surprises

About The Authors

Photo Credit

Acknowledgements

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