Retrontario

If you needed a mascot in Ontario in the 1970s, there was one Queen you needed to see - Tanya Petrova 👑

🐻 ➡️Among some of the most notable characters Petrova designed - the official mascots for Ontario Place Dear Deer, Bashful Beaver, and Rocky Racoon; Polkaroo for TVO; Winnie the Wintario Bear for OLG; Charlie Horse for Shari Lewis and The Glump for Eatons.
We’d love to learn more about Petrova for a project we are working on, if anyone has any additional information please get in touch ❤️

Retrontario is saddened to learn of the passing of another unsung Titan of 🇨🇦 📺 - Perry Rosemond.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Perry is best remembered for creating The King of Kensington, however he had a tremendous and far reaching career: He helped shape the direction of the CBC’s children’s department in the turbulant 1960s, working on The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup, Sesame Street Canada, and later in the 80s, Fraggle Rock.
In 1966, Perry created a revolutionary news series for the CBC entitled Through the Eyes of Tomorrow, using only young people as reporters, directors and editors. In 1976 he gave a young John Candy an early break in The David Steinberg Show, and was instrumental in the early days of TVOntario.
A true maverick of the small screen and a Canadian legend, we salute Perry Rosemond and our thoughts are with his family and friends 🙏

BUSINESS UP FRONT PARTY IN THE BACK 🤘

Do you remember the Garden Bros Circus experience? Retrontario recently unearthed some footage from a 1984 show at Maple Leaf Gardens and the memories came flooding back! 🌊

Its been almost 10 years since Mac’s were rebranded as Circle K, and 27 years since MacTavish, the OG mascot for Mac’s, was unceremoniously dumped for a winking owl called Hibou. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🦋 Can you name all the shows? 📖 Missing the days when books were central to kids shows. And we wonder why reading has fallen off with young people so much so much? Take a look, it’s in a book 👀 Thanks to Jarid for the template! 👊

Canadian Legends Billy Van and Luba Goy in TVOntario's seminal Bits and Bytes, an introduction to computers that helped forge a generation of programmers ⚡

+ Ginger ale & 🍌 popsicles 🙏