Retrontario
Retrontario seeks to preserve, celebrate and research recent Ontario history and pop-culture. Our content – a mixture of rare recently digitized video from the 1970s, 80s and 90s is disseminated through social media channels where curated comments help build an ongoing and crucial oral history. Retrontario has become a buzz worthy destination for all nostalgia and Canadian pop-culture enthusiasts.
Creator Ed Conroy is a Toronto-based cultural historian, writer, producer, archivist and vintage video sleuth. He is the Founder of Retrontario.com and his pieces on Canadian pop-culture and history have appeared in The Toronto Star, Toronto Life, blogTO, The Canadian Encyclopedia Blog, and YTV.com. He has appeared on CTV's PopLife, Global TV, CBC Radio, AM740 Zoomer Radio, Indie88, TVOntario, CJAD Montreal, is a regular guest on The Jerry Agar Show and occasional host on Newstalk 1010. In 2016, Ed won a Heritage Toronto award of merit for his work in the field of Media.
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Retrontario presents... New Years Eve GROGSTREAM... all the classic YTV Grog adventures including Festival of Friends, The Grogs First Santa Claus Parade, and the immortal WTV... plus some surprises... all day and night NYE ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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TONIGHT AT 9 p.m. ET 🎃📺🎃⚡
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TONIGHT AT 9PM E.T... EASTER EGGSTREAM 🐇🐇🐇
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Tonight at 9PM! Brought to you by RetroKid's new YTV 35th anniversary collection ⏰👻🎃📼
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Retrontario's WEENSTREAM returns this Friday, October 27th at 9PM 🎃📼🎃
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Join us this coming Friday for a livestream of new & old 16mm Board of Education classics dragged from the Retrontario archive and digitized by our amazing intern Daniel Loker! Show should start around 9PM and run all night. AV club assemble ⚡⚡⚡
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After a brief hiatus we are BACK tomorrow night livestreaming more masochistic VHS madness dragged from the Retrontario archives to support our secret store with Retrokid launching tonight: retrokid.ca/pages/secret-store-access
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We're back tonight after a January hiatus with a new Retrontario Livestream to keep you warm during these chilly times! See you at 9PM ET ⏱
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