Barrie Ontario: Tornado

Although Barrie Ontario is famous for the amount of snow it gets during the winter months, the frequency of extreme weather patterns during the milder spring and summer months is quite low. On May 31, 1985, mother nature came roaring through Barrie Ontario, and in 30 seconds managed to leave a trail of destruction that was too cruel to understand.

The tornado that hit Barrie Ontario on that fateful day, left eight people dead and 155 injured, three hundred homes were destroyed, some of them completely scattered on the ground in a two foot high pile of rubble.

Most of the damage was done on Crawford Street, leaving many residents without a home, and sleeping at the local armory.

The tornado caused 100 million dollars in damage.

If you want to see more on the Barrie Ontario Tornado, visit this url. There is a short video post tornado done by cbc television.


http://archives.cbc.ca/environment/extreme_weather/topics/1713-11757/

Barrie Ontario: Live 8 Concert

On Saturday July 2nd, 2005, an estimated 3 billion people came to together to force politicians to combat world poverty during their g8 summits. Barrie Ontario was the representing Canadian City.

Many musicians from all over the world donated their services to entertain the masses while raising money and awareness about the world´s increasing poverty crisis.

Here are the musicians and presenters who were in Barrie Ontario on that historic day.

Presenters: Dan Aykroyd and Tom Green

Artists performing include:

* African Guitar Summit
* Barenaked Ladies
* Blue Rodeo
* Bruce Cockburn
* Bryan Adams
* The Bachman Cummings Band
* Deep Purple
* DMC
* DobaCaracol featuring K'naan
* Gordon Lightfoot
* Great Big Sea
* Jann Arden
* Jet
* Les Trois Accords
* Motley Crue
* Our Lady Peace
* Sam Roberts
* Simple Plan
* Tegan & Sara
* The Tragically Hip
* Tom Cochrane

The Concerts

* THE LIVE 8 CONCERTS
* London
* Paris
* Berlin
* Rome
* Philadelphia
* Barrie
* Tokyo
* Johannesburg
* Moscow
* Eden Project

Thanks to all the musicians who took part.. It was a fantastic show!