Huntlywood Statue
Source: Beaconsfield and Beaurepaire, R. Baird and G. Hall


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Beaconsfield Nature

 

Taxi about 1900
Collection: R.F. McBride
Fact or Fiction Quiz

Fact or fiction? You decide.

#5. A brook that meanders through Beaconsfield was once called Lichtenhein Creek.

#4 The Grove Hotel never has any vacancies. FACT or FICTION?

#3 École Primaire Beaconsfield was once called Briarwood School. FACT or FICTION?

#2 Christmas Park is so named because Santa Claus supposedly landed there one year. FACT or FICTION?

#1 Huntlywood is a large mansion on a TV soap opera modelled after a home in Beaconsfield. FACT or FICTION?

Try our quiz

Try our daily Fact or Fiction quiz to find out the answers to these intriguing last century questions.

  • Were babies born on kitchen tables?
  • Could you take a boat under St. Charles Boulevard?
  • Was a painted outhouse a status symbol?

 

We’re counting down the days

We’re counting down 100 days from our website launch date of February 24, 2010 to June 4, 2010, our official anniversary, with 100 questions —one per day — in our Fact or Fiction Quiz. Come join the fun!


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