Talk:Bobcaygeon

References in Popular Culture
The info below has been copied from the main page before being reverted. I don't think this info should be included in the Bobcaygeon article perhaps a new article about Bobcaygeon (song)? -Andrew 17:15, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

The Canadian rock music band The Tragically Hip have a song titled 'Bobcaygeon' on their album 'Phantom Power.' The song is about a police officer during the 1940's who meets a woman who lives in Bobcaygeon; he sleeps at her house (they have sex while listening to Willie Nelson & drinking wine) and the next morning drives back to 'town' (Toronto) while thinking of 'quitting & leaving it behind'. That night, he is assigned to work the Christie Pits anti-semitic racial riot, which breaks out after a softball game during which one of the teams was primarily Jewish. Although the essence of the song is the love that the cop feels for the woman he has met, as 'in the middle of that riot I couldn't get you off my mind', the song does make several references to Bobcaygeon that could ring true to locals. Firstly, the woman that he is with is construed by the song to live in a rural area; most of Bobcaygeon is rural. Secondly, many references to '[watching] the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time' are made; Bobcaygeon is famous for the success of stargazers situated there as the town is far enough away from Toronto to have a view of the night time stars without the interference of smog.

The song is fictious in that it is highly unlikely there really was a cop who fell in love with a girl from Bobcaygeon the night before the Christie Pitts racial riot; however the riot itself did happen & its inclusion in the song is another example of the Tragically Hip highlighting anecdotal parts of Canadian history that many people are unaware of.

However, lead singer/songwriter Gordon Downie was asked about the name of the song during an interview on an American radio station; he said that the band really could have used the name of any Canadian town but chose Bobcaygeon as it rhymed with 'constellation.'

This has been moved to it's own article. Backinblack spider (talk) 19:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

At the time of this edit I think the decision was mostly right, but after Tragically Hip's concert there in 2012, and that being made into a film, it's way past time to include mention of not only the song, but the movie and the concert. Maybe not a big deal to the he world scene, but certainly a VERY big deal to Bobcaygeon. Big enough to warrant its own section in this article. SentientParadox (talk) 04:05, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

March 2020
In March 2020, an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 resulted in a COVID-19 hotspot during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, which appeared at the Pinecrest Nursing Home. 9 residents died in just the last week of March, out of 65 total residents. Over 24 of the staff had tested positive at the end of March, and 34 had symptoms, over half the total staffing. At the that time, it was the biggest COIVD-19 outbreak in Ontario.

It certainly seems that the biggest outbreak, so far, in COVID-19 Ontarian history should be a notable event for the history of Bobcaygeon. -- 65.94.170.207 (talk) 20:05, 30 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Makes perfect sense to me. Why not take a crack at it and add it yourself? With cited references of course. And be sure to uee "as of" followed by a date because it's likely going to take a while to play out entirely. SentientParadox (talk) 19:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)