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In Listowel, we met with a survivor of the 1959 arena collapse, which killed seven young boys and their coach during hockey practice. We spoke of loss, grief, the impact of trauma on the individual and on community.
Visiting Listowel today, there are memorial stained glass church windows on the walls of a local church, and a display inside the new arena. In Listowel, they still play hockey, they have maintained that small-town Ontario culture that is parodied hilariously in the show Letterkenney. Arenas across the province were inspected and upgraded, to prevent a similar collapse from happening again. 60 years later, the memories are fading -- and new ones are being created. There is no easy answer to tragedy.

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On the day my brother died
On the day our parents cried
When the neighbours heard the sound
Like a garage door coming down

Our footprints gathered in the snow
Led by God or something we don’t know

Now some days I walk alone
And look at stained glass church windows
Someone said these boys are all
Under a roof that never falls

I still live in a hockey town
Swirling memories that cannot be found
But I don’t know what I’m longing for
A muffled voice from behind closed doors

The news reporters they don’t know
Artists and lawyers they don’t know
They write their words and sing their songs
But soon the memory will be gone


I can’t remember my brother’s face
What could have been still cannot replace
But I don’t know what I’m longing for
A muffled voice from behind closed doors


There’s no memories of you in my world
No not even a trace
Even the stories of our childhood long past
They sit still longing to be found

And I can’t believe
What it’s done to me
Let’s get together
Feel what we can’t remember
We are a hockey town

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from The Song Of Ontario, released April 13, 2020

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Matt and Jun Hamilton, Ontario

We are 1st year medical students at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario. From July-November 2019 we are going on a road trip across the province to learn more about the places and people who call Ontario home. We seek to express what we learn, see, feel, and hear in our journey as a musical album, that captures some of the essence of life in Ontario.​
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