The lore of Peterborough’s theatre history insists that the famous “Marx Brothers” performed on the stage of the city’s Grand Opera House. The legend goes way back – as exemplified by a July 1950 Examiner headline: “Opera, Marx Bros., Circuses, Noted Actors, Came to Town.”

There was a time – and not so very, very long ago – when Peterborough had ice cream parlours, but no ice cream cones. Then, one day in mid-June 1908, a “stranger” came to town.