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A Grey Bushchat (Saxicola ferreus) caught in a well balanced pose curiously asking my slow movements from a bush. Pics was taken from Dehradoon, India.
- sent from - / PETAWAWA CAMP / 27 X / 64 / ONT. / - cds cancel - B/T M20-61 (RF B) - proofed 7 June 1950.
- sent by registered mail - / R / PETAWAWA CAMP, ONT. / No. (871) / - Registered boxed marking in black ink - is not listed in Bailey / Toop - Sayles gives it a RF C.
- via - / PEMBROKE / 20 / OC 27 / 64 / ONT. / - cds transit backstamp
- via - / MONT. & TOR. / 17 / 28 X / 64 / R.P.O. / - rpo cds transit backstamp
- arrived at - / OAKVILLE, ONT. / 28 / X / 1964 / REGISTERED / - large cds arrival backstamp (30.5 mm).
- sent by - D.R. Mountford / Box 308 / Camp Petawawa / Ontario
Desmond Reynolds Mountford - LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/116531286/obituary-for-desmond-re... LINK to his Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/231681082/desmond-reynolds-mo....
Addressed to - Northrigg Investments Limited / P.O. Box 301 / 169 Colborne Street East / Oakville / Ontario
Company is manager and distributor of shares of Entarea Investment Fund, a mutual fund. It acquired assets of Northrigg Investments Ltd., a real estate firm, in November 1964. LINK - www.newspapers.com/clip/116535444/northrigg-investment-ltd/
Address:〒071-0235 北海道上川郡美瑛町白金
青池（日語：青い池／あおいいけ Aoi-ike）是位於日本北海道上川郡美瑛町白金的一個人工水池。又稱「白金青池」、「美瑛白金青池」。
青池標高約500米，位於美瑛町的東南部，美瑛川左岸，白金溫泉西北約2.5公里處。為1988年（昭和63年）12月，為了防止十勝岳爆發後的堆積物產生火山泥流的災害，在美瑛川建設了多個攔河堤，而青池就是其中的一座攔河堤所形成的水池。
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From my set entitled “Our Home, Streetsville”
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I’ve always lived close to railway lines. When I was growing up in Orangeville, Ontario, I lived near the main station. Both the Canadian National Railway (CNR) and the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) passed through town. When my sister and I moved to a fifty acre farm in Dixie, Ontario (near Toronto) in 1960, the CPR bisected our land.
For the twenty-two years Karen and I have lived at our current address in Streetsville, Ontario, the CPR has been our neighbour across the back fence. People ask us, “Don’t the trains bother you?” We answer that we don’t even hear them.
We sit on the deck and view a lot of interesting stuff go by. One day I watched a trainload of tanks pass. Didn’t know Canada had so many tanks. We also see intriguing graffiti on the sides of tankers and boxcars. And there are cars from all over the U.S. and Canada.
This is the first shot of the trains I have taken from the deck, but there will be more. It’s best to take such pictures after the leaves have dropped, since it’s hard to see the trains through the summer foliage.
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The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR; AAR reporting marks CP, CPAA, CPI), known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. Its rail network stretches from Vancouver to Montreal, and also serves major cities in the United States such as Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City. Its headquarters are in Calgary, Alberta.
The railway was originally built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871. It was Canada's first transcontinental railway. Now primarily a freight railway, the CPR was for decades the only practical means of long distance passenger transport in most regions of Canada, and was instrumental in the settlement and development of Western Canada. The CP company became one of the largest and most powerful in Canada, a position it held as late as 1975.[1] Its primary passenger services were eliminated in 1986 after being assumed by VIA Rail Canada in 1978. A beaver was chosen as the railway's logo because it is one of the national symbols of Canada and represents the hardworking character of the company. The object of both praise and condemnation for over 120 years, the CPR remains an indisputable icon of Canadian nationalism.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is a public company with over 15,000 employees and market capitalization of 7 billion USD in 2008.[2]
Canada's very existence depended on the successful completion of the major civil engineering project, the creation of a transcontinental railway. Creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway was a task originally undertaken for a combination of reasons by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. British Columbia had insisted upon a transport link to the east as a condition for joining the Confederation of Canada (initially requesting a wagon road). The government however, proposed to build a railway linking the Pacific province to the eastern provinces within ten years of July 20, 1871. Macdonald also saw it as essential to the creation of a unified Canadian nation that would stretch across the continent. Moreover, manufacturing interests in Quebec and Ontario desired access to sources of raw materials and markets in Canada's west.
The first obstacle to its construction was economic. The logical route went through the American Midwest and the city of Chicago, Illinois. In addition to the obvious difficulty of building a railroad through the Canadian Rockies, an entirely Canadian route would require crossing 1,600 km (1,000 miles) of rugged terrain of the barren Canadian Shield and muskeg of Northern Ontario. To ensure this routing, the government offered huge incentives including vast grants of land in Western Canada.
In 1872, Sir John A. Macdonald and other high-ranking politicians, swayed by bribes in the so-called Pacific Scandal, granted federal contracts to Hugh Allan's "Canada Pacific Railway Company" (which was unrelated to the current company) and to the Inter-Ocean Railway Company. Because of this scandal, the Conservative party was removed from office in 1873. The new Liberal prime minister, Alexander Mackenzie, began construction of segments of the railway as a public enterprise under the supervision of the Department of Public Works. The Thunder Bay branch linking Lake Superior to Winnipeg was commenced in 1875. Progress was discouragingly slow because of the lack of public money. With Sir John A. Macdonald's return to power on October 16, 1878, a more aggressive construction policy was adopted. Macdonald confirmed that Port Moody would be the terminus of the transcontinental railway, and announced that the railway would follow the Fraser and Thompson rivers between Port Moody and Kamloops. In 1879, the federal government floated bonds in London and called for tenders to construct the 206 km (128 mile) section of the railway from Yale, British Columbia to Savona's Ferry on Kamloops Lake. The contract was awarded to Andrew Onderdonk, whose men started work on May 15, 1880. After the completion of that section, Onderdonk received contracts to build between Yale and Port Moody, and between Savona's Ferry and Eagle Pass.
On October 21, 1880, a new syndicate, unrelated to Hugh Allan's, signed a contract with the Macdonald government. They agreed to build the railway in exchange for $25,000,000 (approximately $625,000,000 in modern Canadian dollars) in credit from the Canadian government and a grant of 25,000,000 acres (100,000 km²) of land. The government transferred to the new company those sections of the railway it had constructed under government ownership. The government also defrayed surveying costs and exempted the railway from property taxes for 20 years. The Montreal-based syndicate officially comprised five men: George Stephen, James J. Hill, Duncan McIntyre, Richard B. Angus, and John Stewart Kennedy. Donald A. Smith and Norman Kittson were unofficial silent partners with a significant financial interest. On February 15, 1881, legislation confirming the contract received royal assent, and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company was formally incorporated the next day.
The CPR started its westward expansion from Bonfield, Ontario (previously called Callander Station) where the first spike was driven into a sunken railway tie. Bonfield, Ontario was inducted into Canadian Railway Hall of Fame in 2002 as the CPR First Spike location. That was the point where the Canada Central Railway extension ended. The CCR was owned by Duncan McIntyre who amalgamated it with the CPR and became one of the handful of officers of the newly formed CPR. The CCR started in Brockville and extended to Pembroke. It then followed a westward route along the Ottawa River passing through places like Cobden, Deux-Rivières, and eventually to Mattawa at the confluence of the Mattawa and Ottawa Rivers. It then proceeded cross-country towards its final destination Bonfield (previously called Callander Station).
Duncan McIntyre and his contractor James Worthington piloted the CCR expansion. Worthington continued on as the construction superintendent for the CPR past Bonfield. He remained with the CPR for about a year until he left the company. McIntyre was uncle to John Ferguson who staked out future North Bay after getting assurance from his uncle and Worthington that it would be the divisional and a location of some importance.
It was assumed that the railway would travel through the rich "Fertile Belt" of the North Saskatchewan River valley and cross the Rocky Mountains via the Yellowhead Pass, a route suggested by Sir Sandford Fleming based on a decade of work. However, the CPR quickly discarded this plan in favour of a more southerly route across the arid Palliser's Triangle in Saskatchewan and through Kicking Horse Pass over the Field Hill. This route was more direct and closer to the American border, making it easier for the CPR to keep American railways from encroaching on the Canadian market. However, this route also had several disadvantages.
One consequence was that the CPR would need to find a route through the Selkirk Mountains, as at the time it was not known whether a route even existed. The job of finding a pass was assigned to a surveyor named Major Albert Bowman Rogers. The CPR promised him a cheque for $5,000 and that the pass would be named in his honour. Rogers became obsessed with finding the pass that would immortalize his name. He found the pass on May 29, 1881, and true to its word, the CPR named the pass "Rogers Pass" and gave him the cheque. This however, he at first refused to cash, preferring to frame it, and saying he did not do it for the money. He later agreed to cash it with the promise of an engraved watch.
Another obstacle was that the proposed route crossed land controlled by the Blackfoot First Nation. This difficulty was overcome when a missionary priest, Albert Lacombe, persuaded the Blackfoot chief Crowfoot that construction of the railway was inevitable.
In return for his assent, Crowfoot was famously rewarded with a lifetime pass to ride the CPR. A more lasting consequence of the choice of route was that, unlike the one proposed by Fleming, the land surrounding the railway often proved too arid for successful agriculture. The CPR may have placed too much reliance on a report from naturalist John Macoun, who had crossed the prairies at a time of very high rainfall and had reported that the area was fertile.
The greatest disadvantage of the route was in Kicking Horse Pass. In the first 6 km (3.7 miles) west of the 1,625 metre (5,330 ft) high summit, the Kicking Horse River drops 350 metres (1,150 ft). The steep drop would force the cash-strapped CPR to build a 7 km (4.5 mile) long stretch of track with a very steep 4.5% gradient once it reached the pass in 1884. This was over four times the maximum gradient recommended for railways of this era, and even modern railways rarely exceed a 2% gradient. However, this route was far more direct than one through the Yellowhead Pass, and saved hours for both passengers and freight. This section of track was the CPR's Big Hill. Safety switches were installed at several points, the speed limit for descending trains was set at 10 km per hour (6 mph), and special locomotives were ordered. Despite these measures, several serious runaways still occurred. CPR officials insisted that this was a temporary expediency, but this state of affairs would last for 25 years until the completion of the Spiral Tunnels in the early 20th century.
In 1881 construction progressed at a pace too slow for the railway's officials, who in 1882 hired the renowned railway executive William Cornelius Van Horne, to oversee construction with the inducement of a generous salary and the intriguing challenge of handling such a difficult railway project. Van Horne stated that he would have 800 km (500 miles) of main line built in 1882. Floods delayed the start of the construction season, but over 672 km (417 miles) of main line, as well as various sidings and branch lines, were built that year. The Thunder Bay branch (west from Fort William) was completed in June 1882 by the Department of Railways and Canals and turned over to the company in May 1883, permitting all-Canadian lake and rail traffic from eastern Canada to Winnipeg for the first time in Canada's history. By the end of 1883, the railway had reached the Rocky Mountains, just eight km (5 miles) east of Kicking Horse Pass. The construction seasons of 1884 and 1885 would be spent in the mountains of British Columbia and on the north shore of Lake Superior.
Many thousands of navvies worked on the railway. Many were European immigrants. In British Columbia, the CPR hired workers from China, nicknamed coolies. A navvy received between $1 and $2.50 per day, but had to pay for his own food, clothing, transportation to the job site, mail, and medical care. After two and a half months of back-breaking labour, they could net as little as $16. Chinese navvies in British Columbia made only between $0.75 and $1.25 a day, not including expenses, leaving barely anything to send home. They did the most dangerous construction jobs, such as working with explosives. The families of the Chinese who were killed received no compensation, or even notification of loss of life. Many of the men who survived did not have enough money to return to their families in China. Many spent years in lonely, sad and often poor conditions. Yet the Chinese were hard working and played a key role in building the western stretch of the railway; even some boys as young as 12 years old served as tea-boys.
By 1883, railway construction was progressing rapidly, but the CPR was in danger of running out of funds. In response, on January 31, 1884, the government passed the Railway Relief Bill, providing a further $22,500,000 in loans to the CPR. The bill received royal assent on March 6, 1884.
In March 1885, the North-West Rebellion broke out in the District of Saskatchewan. Van Horne, in Ottawa at the time, suggested to the government that the CPR could transport troops to Qu'Appelle, Assiniboia, in eleven days. Some sections of track were incomplete or had not been used before, but the trip to Winnipeg was made in nine days and the rebellion was quickly put down. Perhaps because the government was grateful for this service, they subsequently re-organized the CPR's debt and provided a further $5,000,000 loan. This money was desperately needed by the CPR. On November 7, 1885 the Last Spike was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia, making good on the original promise. Four days earlier, the last spike of the Lake Superior section was driven in just west of Jackfish, Ontario. While the railway was completed four years after the original 1881 deadline, it was completed more than five years ahead of the new date of 1891 that Macdonald gave in 1881.
The successful construction of such a massive project, although troubled by delays and scandal, was considered an impressive feat of engineering and political will for a country with such a small population, limited capital, and difficult terrain. It was by far the longest railway ever constructed at the time. It had taken 12,000 men, 5,000 horses, and 300 dog-sled teams to build the railway.
Meanwhile, in Eastern Canada, the CPR had created a network of lines reaching from Quebec City to St. Thomas, Ontario by 1885, and had launched a fleet of Great Lakes ships to link its terminals. The CPR had effected purchases and long-term leases of several railways through an associated railway company, the Ontario and Quebec Railway (O&Q). The O&Q built a line between Perth, Ontario, and Toronto (completed on May 5, 1884) to connect these acquisitions. The CPR obtained a 999-year lease on the O&Q on January 4, 1884. Later, in 1895, it acquired a minority interest in the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway, giving it a link to New York and the northeast US.
So many cost-cutting shortcuts were taken in constructing the railway that regular transcontinental service could not start for another seven months while work was done to improve the railway's condition. However, had these shortcuts not been taken, it is conceivable that the CPR might have had to default financially, leaving the railway unfinished. The first transcontinental passenger train departed from Montreal's Dalhousie Station, located at Berri Street and Notre Dame Street on June 28, 1886 at 8:00 p.m. and arrived at Port Moody on July 4, 1886 at noon. This train consisted of two baggage cars, a mail car, one second-class coach, two immigrant sleepers, two first-class coaches, two sleeping cars, and a diner.
By that time, however, the CPR had decided to move its western terminus from Port Moody to Gastown, which was renamed "Vancouver" later that year. The first official train destined for Vancouver arrived on May 23, 1887, although the line had already been in use for three months. The CPR quickly became profitable, and all loans from the Federal government were repaid years ahead of time.
In 1888, a branch line was opened between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie where the CPR connected with the American railway system and its own steamships. That same year, work was started on a line from London, Ontario to the American border at Windsor, Ontario. That line opened on June 12, 1890.
The CPR also leased the New Brunswick Railway for 999 years and built the International Railway of Maine, connecting Montreal with Saint John, New Brunswick in 1889. The connection with Saint John on the Atlantic coast made the CPR the first truly transcontinental railway company and permitted trans-Atlantic cargo and passenger services to continue year-round when sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence closed the port of Montreal during the winter months.
By 1896, competition with the Great Northern Railway for traffic in southern British Columbia forced the CPR to construct a second line across the province, south of the original line. Van Horne, now president of the CPR, asked for government aid, and the government agreed to provide around $3.6 million to construct a railway from Lethbridge, Alberta through Crowsnest Pass to the south shore of Kootenay Lake, in exchange for the CPR agreeing to reduce freight rates in perpetuity for key commodities shipped in Western Canada. The controversial Crowsnest Pass Agreement effectively locked the eastbound rate on grain products and westbound rates on certain "settlers' effects" at the 1897 level. Although temporarily suspended during World War I, it was not until 1983 that the "Crow Rate" was permanently replaced by the Western Grain Transportation Act which allowed for the gradual increase of grain shipping prices. The Crowsnest Pass line opened on June 18, 1899.
Practically speaking, the CPR had built a railway that operated mostly in the wilderness. The usefulness of the Prairies was questionable in the minds of many. The thinking prevailed that the Prairies had great potential. Under the initial contract with the Canadian Government to build the railway, the CPR was granted 25,000,000 acres (100,000 km²). Proving already to be a very resourceful organization, Canadian Pacific began an intense campaign to bring immigrants to Canada.
Canadian Pacific agents operated in many overseas locations. Immigrants were often sold a package that included passage on a CP ship, travel on a CP train, and land sold by the CP railway. Land was priced at $2.50 an acre and up. Immigrants paid very little for a seven-day journey to the West. They rode in Colonist cars that had sleeping facilities and a small kitchen at one end of the car. Children were not allowed off the train, lest they wander off and be left behind. The directors of the CPR knew that not only were they creating a nation, but also a long-term source of revenue for their company.
During the first decade of the twentieth century, the CPR continued to build more lines. In 1908 the CPR opened a line connecting Toronto with Sudbury. Previously, westbound traffic originating in southern Ontario took a circuitous route through eastern Ontario.
Several operational improvements were also made to the railway in western Canada. In 1909 the CPR completed two significant engineering accomplishments. The most significant was the replacement of the Big Hill, which had become a major bottleneck in the CPR's main line, with the Spiral Tunnels, reducing the grade to 2.2% from 4.5%. The Spiral Tunnels opened in August. On November 3, 1909, the Lethbridge Viaduct over the Oldman River valley at Lethbridge, Alberta was opened. It is 1,624 metres (5,327 ft) long and, at its maximum, 96 metres (314 ft) high, making it the longest railway bridge in Canada. In 1916 the CPR replaced its line through Rogers Pass, which was prone to avalanches, with the Connaught Tunnel, an eight km (5 mile) long tunnel under Mount Macdonald that was, at the time of its opening, the longest railway tunnel in the Western Hemisphere.
The CPR acquired several smaller railways via long-term leases in 1912. On January 3, 1912, the CPR acquired the Dominion Atlantic Railway, a railway that ran in western Nova Scotia. This acquisition gave the CPR a connection to Halifax, a significant port on the Atlantic Ocean. The Dominion Atlantic was isolated from the rest of the CPR network and used the CNR to facilitate interchange; the DAR also operated ferry services across the Bay of Fundy for passengers and cargo (but not rail cars) from the port of Digby, Nova Scotia to the CPR at Saint John, New Brunswick. DAR steamships also provided connections for passengers and cargo between Yarmouth, Boston and New York.
On July 1, 1912, the CPR acquired the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, a railway on Vancouver Island that connected to the CPR using a railcar ferry. The CPR also acquired the Quebec Central Railway on December 14, 1912.
During the late 19th century, the railway undertook an ambitious program of hotel construction, building the Château Frontenac in Quebec City, the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, the Banff Springs Hotel, and several other major Canadian landmarks. By then, the CPR had competition from three other transcontinental lines, all of them money-losers. In 1919, these lines were consolidated, along with the track of the old Intercolonial Railway and its spurs, into the government-owned Canadian National Railways.
When World War I broke out in 1914, the CPR devoted resources to the war effort, and managed to stay profitable while its competitors struggled to remain solvent. After the war, the Federal government created Canadian National Railways (CNR, later CN) out of several bankrupt railways that fell into government hands during and after the war. CNR would become the main competitor to the CPR in Canada.
The Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 until 1939, hit many companies heavily. While the CPR was affected, it was not affected to the extent of its rival CNR because it, unlike the CNR, was debt-free. The CPR scaled back on some of its passenger and freight services, and stopped issuing dividends to its shareholders after 1932.
One highlight of the 1930s, both for the railway and for Canada, was the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Canada in 1939, the first time that the reigning monarch had visited the country. The CPR and the CNR shared the honours of pulling the royal train across the country, with the CPR undertaking the westbound journey from Quebec City to Vancouver.
Later that year, World War II began. As it had done in World War I, the CPR devoted much of its resources to the war effort. It retooled its Angus Shops in Montreal to produce Valentine tanks, and transported troops and resources across the country. As well, 22 of the CPR's ships went to warfare, 12 of which were sunk.
After World War II, the transportation industry in Canada changed. Where railways had previously provided almost universal freight and passenger services, cars, trucks, and airplanes started to take traffic away from railways. This naturally helped the CPR's air and trucking operations, and the railway's freight operations continued to thrive hauling resource traffic and bulk commodities. However, passenger trains quickly became unprofitable.
During the 1950s, the railway introduced new innovations in passenger service, and in 1955 introduced The Canadian, a new luxury transcontinental train. However, starting in the 1960s the company started to pull out of passenger services, ending services on many of its branch lines. It also discontinued its transcontinental train The Dominion in 1966, and in 1970 unsuccessfully applied to discontinue The Canadian. For the next eight years, it continued to apply to discontinue the service, and service on The Canadian declined markedly. On October 29, 1978, CP Rail transferred its passenger services to VIA Rail, a new federal Crown corporation that is responsible for managing all intercity passenger service formerly handled by both CP Rail and CN. VIA eventually took almost all of its passenger trains, including The Canadian, off CP's lines.
In 1968, as part of a corporate re-organization, each of the CPR's major operations, including its rail operations, were organized as separate subsidiaries. The name of the railway was changed to CP Rail, and the parent company changed its name to Canadian Pacific Limited in 1971. Its express, telecommunications, hotel and real estate holdings were spun off, and ownership of all of the companies transferred to Canadian Pacific Investments. The company discarded its beaver logo, adopting the new Multimark logo that could be used for each of its operations.
In 1984 CP Rail commenced construction of the Mount Macdonald Tunnel to augment the Connaught Tunnel under the Selkirk Mountains. The first revenue train passed through the tunnel in 1988. At 14.7 km (9 miles), it is the longest tunnel in the Americas.
During the 1980s, the Soo Line, in which CP Rail still owned a controlling interest, underwent several changes. It acquired the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway in 1982. Then on February 21, 1985, the Soo Line obtained a controlling interest in the Milwaukee Road, merging it into its system on January 1, 1986. Also in 1980 Canadian Pacific bought out the controlling interests of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway (TH&B) from Conrail and molded it into the Canadian Pacific System, dissolving the TH&B's name from the books in 1985. In 1987 most of CPR's trackage in the Great Lakes region, including much of the original Soo Line, were spun off into a new railway, the Wisconsin Central, which was subsequently purchased by CN.
Influenced by the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1989 which liberalized trade between the two nations, the CPR's expansion continued during the early 1990s: CP Rail gained full control of the Soo Line in 1990, and bought the Delaware and Hudson Railway in 1991. These two acquisitions gave CP Rail routes to the major American cities of Chicago (via the Soo Line) and New York City (via the D&H).
During the next few years CP Rail downsized its route, and several Canadian branch lines were either sold to short lines or abandoned. This included all of its lines east of Montreal, with the routes operating across Maine and New Brunswick to the port of Saint John (operating as the Canadian Atlantic Railway) being sold or abandoned, severing CPR's transcontinental status (in Canada); the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the late 1950s, coupled with subsidized icebreaking services, made Saint John surplus to CPR's requirements. During the 1990s, both CP Rail and CN attempted unsuccessfully to buy out the eastern assets of the other, so as to permit further rationalization. As well, it closed divisional and regional offices, drastically reduced white collar staff, and consolidated its Canadian traffic control system in Calgary, Alberta.
Finally, in 1996, reflecting the increased importance of western traffic to the railway, CP Rail moved its head office to Calgary from Montreal and changed its name back to Canadian Pacific Railway. A new subsidiary company, the St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway, was created to operate its money-losing lines in eastern North America, covering Quebec, Southern and Eastern Ontario, trackage rights to Chicago, Illinois, as well as the Delaware and Hudson Railway in the U.S. Northeast. However, the new subsidiary, threatened with being sold off and free to innovate, quickly spun off losing track to short lines, instituted scheduled freight service, and produced an unexpected turn-around in profitability. After only four years, CPR revised its opinion and the StL&H formally re-amalgamated with its parent on January 1, 2001.
In 2001, the CPR's parent company, Canadian Pacific Limited, spun off its five subsidiaries, including the CPR, into independent companies. Canadian Pacific Railway formally (but, not legally) shortened its name to Canadian Pacific in early 2007, dropping the word "railway" in order to reflect more operational flexibility. Shortly after the name revision, Canadian Pacific announced that it had committed to becoming a major sponsor and logistics provider to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.
On September 4, 2007, CPR announced it was acquiring the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad from its present owners, London-based Electra Private Equity.[3] The transaction is an "end-to-end" consolidation,[4][5] and will give CPR access to U.S. shippers of agricultural products, ethanol, and coal. CPR has stated its intention to use this purchase to gain access to the rich coal fields of Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The purchase price is US$1.48 billion, and future payments of over US$1.0 billion contingent on commencement of construction on the smaller railroad's Powder River extension and specified volumes of coal shipments from the Powder River basin.[4] The transaction was subject to approval of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB), which was expected to take a year.[4] On October 4, 2007, CPR announced it has completed the financial transactions required for the acquisition, placing the DM&E and IC&E in a voting trust with Richard Hamlin appointed as the trustee. CPR planned to integrate the railroads' operations once the STB approves the acquisition.[6] The merger was completed as of October 31, 2008.[7]
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(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - BURQUITLAM - a post office and farming settlement between New Westminster and Port Coquitlam, in Dewdney Provincial Electoral District, reached by jitney stage from New Westminster, which is the business centre.
BURQUITLAM was located three and one-half miles north of New Westminster, between Burnaby and Coquitlam. Name derived from positions of the two adjoining municipalities - Coquitlam and Burnaby - for the purpose of providing a post office. BURQUITLAM Post Office opened - 1 October 1906, with Peter Lawson as postmaster. BURQUITLAM Post Office amalgamated as a sub-office of New Westminster Post Office - 1 August 1946 becoming New Westminster-Burquitlam.
Link - to a list of the Postmasters who served at the BURQUITLAM Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
When this registered letter entered the postal system at BURQUITLAM the Postmistress was Mrs. May Copping - she served as Postmistress at BURQUITLAM from - 16 June 1933 to - 24 April 1944.
May (nee Cotton) Copping / Stevens
(b. 15 July 1886 in in Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England - d. 25 August 1970 at age 84 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/25... - LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...
Copping's Corner (garage, store and Post Office) located on the corner of Hamilton and North Roads in Burquitlam. The Post Office was located in the old country Copping's Store in a little alcove in the back, where Mrs. May Copping dispenced the mail.
Her first husband - George Copping
(b. 27 November 1863 in England - d. 19 September 1930 at age 66 in Coquitlam, British Columbia )
Her second husband - Albert Charles Stevens
(b. 26 September 1884 in England - d. 10 September 1961 at age 76 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - occupation - building inspector for the City of Vancouver, B.C. - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/ca... - LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...
- sent from - / BURQUITLAM / FE 13 / 40 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was not listed in the Proof Book - it was most likely proofed c. 1906 when the Post Office opened - (RF C).
- sent by registered mail - / R / BURQUITLAM, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. / 490 / - registered boxed marking in purple ink
- via - / NEW WESTMINSTER / 10 / FE 13 / 40 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
- via - / VANCOUVER / FE 13 / 40 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
George VI "Mufti" Period
1937 - 1942
International Mail - The international surface rates which were in effect during the 1937 - 1942 period were unchanged from those which applied in 1931. Preferred Letter Rate - A reduced international letter rate was available for mail to the following destinations: Great Britain and places within the Empire, Republic of Ireland, France, Spain , United States and all other countries in North and South America. LINK - postalhistorycorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/george-vi-mufti-...
The rate was 3 cents for the first ounce and 2 cents for each additional ounce.
7 cents paying the 3 ounce rate to New Zealand
The registration fee was 10 cents to New Zealand
Burquitlam, B.C. to Dunedin, New Zealand - 13 February 1940 - 3 cents (first ounce) + 2 cents (second ounce) + 2 cents (third ounce) + 10 cents registration = 17 cents
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- sent by - A.P. Ranger / Hamilton Rd. / Burquitlam, B.C.
Albert Percy Ranger
(b. 17 August 1888 in London, England - d. 16 November 1961 age 73 in Burnaby, British Columbia) - he had a small chicken farm in Burquitlam, B.C. - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/1d...
His wife - Winnifred Kathleen "Kate" (nee Petty) Ranger
(b. 22 November 1886 in London, England - d. 30 March 1969 at age 82 in New Westminster, British Columbia) - they were married in 1920 in Hampstead, London, England - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/54...
Addressed to - Messrs Wilcox Smith & Co. / 14 Manse Street / Dunedin / New Zealand
Wilcox Smith & Company - Dunedin firm of stamp dealers - Took over business of Auckland Foreign Stamp Depot in 1883. The firm was run by W L Hooper until his death in 1942. George Kitchin J P owned the business until his death in 1964. It was then bought by Laurie Franks Ltd and moved to Christchurch. Letter book, 1883-1885, is to be placed in the library of the Christchurch Philatelic Society.
The Rockleigh Country Club
Full Address (Number, Street, Town, Zip): 26 Paris Avenue Rockleigh NJ 07647 By Alex Kaplan www.AlexKaplanWeddings.com
Apparently these were all waiting for restoration... Quite a job.
The first address we visited, still on the way to CZ (so in Germany): A classic Skoda/Soviet car-specialist.
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------------😿GIRL WITHOUT A CAT😿:
HEAD:
Hair: .EscalateD. Robyn
Creator: 562b1bf6-d7d1-4629-817e-b787e464f1db Dolphin Ayres www.flickr.com/photos/145948990@N02/
❗Hat: Grasshopper Street Tudor Cap
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BODY:
❗Dress: {Fantasy world} Candy (Size for: Legacy, Legacy Perky, reborn, Maitreya) Shown on Maitreya. www.flickr.com/photos/184714631@N02/53166689484/in/datepo...
Tights BoM: EstyssEon -Eon- White (100%) gift
Creator: cf464ab9-d0a2-4601-b6aa-1ef001385318 EonSL (estysseon)
Gloves: *OAL* Gem (Size for: Maitreya, Slink) Shown on Maitreya. www.flickr.com/photos/127853456@N06/50135342377/in/pool-2...
Creator: cef49b41-efd0-4345-99fc-615a6cb16d94 Lark (discovering.destiny) www.flickr.com/groups/2804477@N22/pool/
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------------🎩GENTLEMAN WITH A PIPE🎩:
HEAD:
Hat: BONDI . The Gentleman Top Hat www.flickr.com/photos/141375325@N05/49494347851/in/datepo...
Creator: aefeb35b-5266-41b1-ae2e-7ca3144274de Manu Wrydan www.flickr.com/photos/141375325@N05/
BODY:
Gloves: [ContraptioN] Dapper Dandy's www.flickr.com/photos/waltonwainwright/49178027427/
Creator: 93b985da-06bd-43de-885e-65ad75e68eee Walton F. Wainwright (walton.wainwright) www.flickr.com/photos/waltonwainwright/
❗Tailcoat/Breeches: Grasshopper St Incroyable (Size for: Legacy, Belleza Jake, Anatomy) Shown on Legacy m. www.flickr.com/photos/grasshopper-st/53770090448/in/datep...
(❗❗❗ATTENTION❗❗❗You can find this set on Vintage Fair event in June 7th-17th ❗❗❗)
❗Tights BoM: from Grasshopper St Poulaines & Pattens - Male pack. - GHS Full Foot Joined Hose White color www.flickr.com/photos/grasshopper-st/53307131166/in/datep...
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------------👥LADY IN BLACK👥:
HEAD:
❗️Hair: Raven Bell - Theodora Hair
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BODY:
❗Lace gloves - Bom: :: ANTAYA :: www.flickr.com/photos/antaya/53520721258/in/dateposted/
❗Lace cuffs: :: ANTAYA :: "Elise" (Size for: Legacy, Maitreya) Shown on Legacy. www.flickr.com/photos/antaya/51950485106/in/dateposted/
❗Neck decoration: Raven Bell - Lorien Jewelry [Set] www.flickr.com/photos/71086839@N02/52923540570/in/datepos...
❗Dress: Ruxy - Alessandra (Size for: Maitreya, Maitreya Domina, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Legacy Perky Nerido) shown on Legacy. www.flickr.com/photos/36849167@N07/52833204902/in/datepos...
❗Shoulders: [:MILKBATH:] Cupid Sleeves (Size for: Belleza Jake, Legacy f/m, Reborn) Shown on Legacy F. www.flickr.com/photos/185448095@N04/53544380233/in/datepo...
BOM top: ::FLO:: Aedos undershirt with lace collar EvoX
Creator: 1a4ee9f2-e2db-464f-9387-7f3491727c23 Florence (flo.udimo) www.flickr.com/photos/146615922@N06/
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Hair: TRUTH Poetry flickr.com/photos/truthhawks/49992608087/in/dateposted/
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BODY:
Short Gloves: On A Lark *OAL* Bento (Size for: Maitreya, Slink, Fitted) For legacy i use fitted size and off hands in alpha HUD) www.flickr.com/photos/127853456@N06/50060006343/in/pool-2...
Creator: cef49b41-efd0-4345-99fc-615a6cb16d94 Lark (discovering.destiny) www.flickr.com/groups/2804477@N22/pool/
❗Neck decoration: [:MILKBATH:] Draped Pearls 1 (Size for: LegacyF/M, Legacy Vtech, Belleza Jake, Reborn, Reborn Vtech, Reborn Waifu, Reborn Mounds, Reborn Teacups) Shown on Legacy F. www.flickr.com/photos/185448095@N04/53609664226/in/datepo...
BOM Shirt: from -foolish- Set (Shirt3) (P.S tint inemerald color)
Creator: 3f4c62a9-3705-4ce5-bcac-0ca484715f50 MarieMcBeth
❗Dress: UNA. Eloise (Size for: Legacy, Legacy Perky Nerido, Legacy Nerido, Legacy Perky, LaraX, Ebody Reborn, Ebody Juicy) Shown on Legacy. www.flickr.com/photos/unadaxterfantasyurban/53756114074/i...
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------------------------📜LITTLE STORY📜
🎩A gentleman with a pipe🎩: - Have you heard what the papers are saying? The Titanic that everyone had such high hopes for has sunk. The whole thing went under when it collided with a block of ice. I was going to buy us tickets to the Titanic, it's like God took me away.
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👥Lady in Black👥: - God had nothing to do with it. I told you from the beginning that a huge object like that was dangerous. Imagine how many noble families have been affected? I wonder what will happen in the world now that most of the corporations are without their owners?
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🎩A gentleman with a pipe🎩: - I heard even before the Titanic was built and all the noble families headed for the voyage on it, a lot of the shares in their companies were bought up by the Rockefellers and the like.
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👥Lady in Black👥: - I think it was a set-up too, but let's not talk about it in the train restaurant in front of everyone. Honey, what are you standing there for? There's a seat, sit down, have a nice cake and tea with us. We've got a long way to go.
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🎩A gentleman with a pipe🎩: - One can only hope that the new train we're travelling on doesn't suddenly collide with some moose on the way too and we don't die, haha.
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👥Lady in Black👥: - Oh my God, stop making jokes like that! Bone jokes don't make me happy.
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😿Girl without a cat😿: - I don't want to sit with you all! I wanted to be with my cat... I have a grudge against you all!
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🙋Snow Elf🙋: - So, what, a lot of the food and technology famous industries will now go to the Rockefellers?
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🎩A gentleman with a pipe🎩: - It appears so. Now they will decide which nations will have the right to a cup of coffee and which ones will drink just dung. I feel we're not going to an industrialised world, but a world of slavery and Satanism.
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👥Lady in Black👥: - I'm asking you all to stop this conversation! Let's talk about something light and positive.
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😿Girl without a cat😿: - What's positive without that ginger lump?
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*Everyone switched to everyday conversations occasionally drinking hot tea and eating a tasty cake, and only the red-haired girl looked out of the train window into the distance, remembering the warmth and softness of the sleepy cat.*
CAMPBELL RIVER is a city in British Columbia on the east coast of Vancouver Island at the south end of Discovery Passage, which lies among the 50th parallel north along the important Inside Passage shipping route. Campbell River has a population (2016 census) of 35,138 and has long been touted as "the Salmon Capital of the World". Campbell River and Region is in close proximity to the neighboring communities of Quadra and the Discovery Islands, Sayward, Oyster River, Gold River, Tahsis and Zeballos. There is uncertainty about the source of the name of the city. It is thought that the river and the city may have been named for Dr. Samuel Campbell who was assistant surgeon aboard HMS Plumper from 1857 to 1861. The population in 1918 was about 500.
The CAMPBELL RIVER Post Office was opened - 1 June 1907.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the CAMPBELL RIVER Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
- sent from - / CAMPBELL RIVER / AP 9 / 12 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was not listed in the Proof Book - it was most likely proofed c. 1907 - (RF A) - split ring hammer (A1-2) was proofed - 19 December 1917.
Message on postcard reads - Dear Lisa - Your card received - I suppose you must have my letter by this time - you need not worry about nurses as I've had that job to do myself. Am not doing so well as I was and will have to go to the hospital at Vananda - but not to get my arm fixed up. How's your little self. Write and tell me. Your old pal Jim - I wrote and told the folks but I guess they think I'm OK - let them think that.
Addressed to - Miss Lesa Jones / Vancouver, B.C. / 1937 3rd Ave. E / Grandview (the house went up for auction in 1921) - LINK - www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-1937-third-ave-ea...
Lesa Winnifred (nee Jones) Teefel
(b. 15 February 1895 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – d. 11 June 1982 at age 87 in North Vancouver, British Columbia) - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/c8... - LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...
Her husband - Arthur John Teefel
(b. 31 August 1894 in England – 9 December 1951 at age 57 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - occupation - commercial traveler / wholesale confectionery - they were married - 14 August 1920 in Whatcom County, Washington, United States - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/1f... - LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...
Her father - Thomas Henry Jones
(b. 8 June 1866 in Lindsay, Ontario – d. 10 December 1949 at age 83 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - occupation - building contractor - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/dd... - LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-obituary-for-thom...
Her mother - Mary Jane (nee Cashore) Jones
(b. 1865 in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland - d. 4 November 1942 at age 77 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - they were married - 10 February 1892 in Victoria County, Ontario - LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-obituary-for-mary... and - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...
The Rockleigh Country Club
Full Address (Number, Street, Town, Zip): 26 Paris Avenue Rockleigh NJ 07647 By Alex Kaplan www.AlexKaplanWeddings.com
Address entered in the Mérimée database:
Church (place de l')
29560 Argol - France
Insee code of the municipality: 29001
Finistère [29] - Quimper - Brittany
Approximate address taken from GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude):
2 Rue Saint-Guénolé 29560 Argol
Protected elements:
Church and triumphal arch of the cemetery (cad. AB 33): classification by decree of November 12, 1914
History
The triumphal arch with triple arcade, which gives access to the cemetery, dates from 1659. The church, from 1575, has a bell tower of the type of slender bell towers with a single chamber for the bells and whose walls are crowned by gables between which rises an arrow decorated with hooks.
Periods of construction:
16th century, 3rd quarter 17th century
property of the municipality
Built in 1575 , the church was restored in 1617 , then enlarged in 1674 . The side walls were completely redone in 1784 . The bell tower, with its Gothic spire and rectangular base, dates from 1585 . The apse of the building was rebuilt in 1641 . The porch, meanwhile, was redone in 1839 .
The pinnacle which surmounts the west gable under the gallery is dated 1582 on the lintel. On the south facade, at the base of the bell tower, we read the following inscriptions: "B. Merour: Breton Year 1585".
The incumbents of the church are the apostles Peter and Paul . Saint Clément is the main patron of the place and Saint Geneviève , the secondary patroness at least since 1634 .
The church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul and the cemetery's triumphal arch have been classified as historical monuments since November 12 , 1914
Description
Exterior
Place de l'Eglise, to the right of the triumphal arch, in front of the entrance to the courtyard of the old presbytery , is a monumental granite statue of King Gradlon made by Patrig Ar Goarnig , measuring 3 m long and weighing three tons. This equestrian statue tells the two versions (the Christian on the right side and the pagan on the left side) of the legend of the city of Ys .
Address: 〒639-3115 奈良県吉野郡吉野町大字吉野山1711
吉野山（よしのやま）位在奈良縣中部，為從吉野郡吉野町吉野川（紀之川）南岸到大峰山脈北端的山稜之總稱，或是以金峯山寺為中心的山地之廣域地名。
古來以花之名而為人熟知，其中特別以櫻花最為出名，甚至被稱讚為千本櫻，地域分成下千本（しもせんぼん）、中千本（なかせんぼん）、上千本（かみせんぼん）、奧千本（おくせんぼん）。
大正13年（1924年）12月，指定為國之名勝・史跡，昭和11年（1936年）2月，指定為吉野熊野國立公園。平成16年（2004年）7月，吉野山・高野山到熊野的靈場和參詣道以『紀伊山地的靈場和參拜道』登錄為聯合國教科文組織的世界遺產。平成2年（1990年），選定為日本櫻名所100選。
Info: wikipedia.org
An early address label featuring Santa Claus. He doesn't look too happy about having to deliver all those packages!
Text on label: "To. From. Via Parcel Post. Christmas. Made in Saxony."
NICOMIN / NICOMEN - a station on the C.P.R. 52 miles east of Vancouver in the New Westminster District. The Fraser River is only a mile south and the Sumas Post Office just across the River. Nearest telegraph and railway is at Mission City, 10 miles distant. Mails tri-weekly.
The NICOMIN Post Office was established - 1 November 1890 and closed - 10 June 1911.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the NICOMIN Post Office - central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=posoffposmas&id=2...
When this postcard arrived at NICOMIN, B. C. the Postmaster was Thomas S. Purdy - he served from - 1 July 1907 to - 7 April 1911.
Thomas Samuel Purdy
(b. 7 June 1859 in Kewanee, Henry County, Illinois, USA - d. 21 November 1945 at age 86 in Essondale, British Columbia)
Clipped from - The Province newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 23 November 1945 - PURDY - Passed away on Nov. 21, 1945, after a lingering illness, Thomas Samuel Purdy, of Mission City, B.C. In his 87th year. He leaves to mourn his passing his loving wife, Minnie L. Purdy; 4 daughters, Mrs. John Gourlay, of Duncan, B.C., Mrs. Thomas D. and Mrs. John Northcot, Mission City. Mrs. Albert Slaney, Powell River, B.C.; 6 grandchildren. Funeral service will be held from the Henderson Funeral Home, Mission City. Sunday, Nov. 25, at 2 p.m., Rev. H. U. Oswald officiating. Interment family plot, Hatzlc Cemetery.
His wife - Minnie (nee Lewis) Purdy
(b. 26 May 1871 in London, England - d. 15 December 1951 at age 80 in Mission City, British Columbia) - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/6f...
Clipped from - The Province newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 28 August 1937 - Celebrate Golden Wedding Day - Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Purdy of Mission celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on Tuesday. They were married In 1887 at Dresden, Ont., and have four daughters and four grandsons, who were able to be present at their golden wedding. The anniversary was spent at White Rock at a picnic given in their honor by their family and later followed by a dinner at home. Mr. and Mrs. Purdy received many congratulations and gifts during the day from friends and relatives.
- sent from - / KAMLOOPS / OC 15 / 07 (inverted 7) / B.C. / - duplex cancel (Cloutier - DBC-175)
- via - / DEROCHE / OC 16 / 07 / B.C. / - split ring transit - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 29 June 1891 - (RF B).
- arrived at - / NICOMIN / OC 16 / 07 / B.C. / - split ring arrival - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 3 November 1890 - (RF E).
Message on postcard reads: Have found some ink at last. This gives a fairly good idea of this little town, though I think it is rather prettier than the card represents. From Julia - 15 October 1907
Addressed to: Mr. J. E. Scott - Jones / Nicomen / B.C.
Even though the address is in Westford, we are really just outside of Randolph for this view of L593 passing the Wendlandt Farm. This farm is one of the many "Century Farms" in the state meaning that it has been owned by the same family for over 100 years. Family farms, particularly dairy farms, are as quintessentially Wisconsin as beer and cheese. Another view of this farm can be found here.
Took this one out of the ol' Brian Plant playbook. Perfect spot to attempt to hide the lease geep that's been hanging around. As with life, everything can't be sunny skies and all red consists. On the bright side, at least it's clean!
I've created a Cambria Subdivision Album which organizes all the photos in geographical order starting in Horicon and ending in Cambria.
SCOTCH CREEK, British Columbia - located on the north shore of Shuswap Lake opposite Sorrento. It was named after Scottish prospectors who worker this creek for gold in the 1860's. There is still a bit of placer mining done near the creek. Scotch Creek began to significantly grow when the provincial park opened in 1958, welcoming a sudden influx of campers. To take advantage of the summer visitors, Frank and Akiko Imai built the Park Store across the street. LINK - shuswappassion.ca/communities/scotch-creek-was-once-part-...
The SCOTCH CREEK Post Office was established - 14 May 1958 and closed - 30 May 1970. LINK - www.newspapers.com/clip/121423773/rural-mail-service-up-t...
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the SCOTCH CREEK Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
When this letter entered the postal system at the SCOTCH CREEK Post Office the Postmaster was Ernest George Cottrell - he served from - 23 March 1961 to - 31 March 1968.
Ernest George Cottrell
(b. 28 June 1898 in Orillia, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada - d. 18 May 1978 (aged 79) in Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - He was a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces - Staff Sergeant
R.C.A.S.C. - after the WWII he had a taxi business in Nanaimo, British Columbia - LINK - www.newspapers.com/clip/121420479/ernest-george-cottrell/ - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/ac... - LINKS to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/121420546/obituary-for-ernest-geo... and www.newspapers.com/clip/121420774/obituary-for-ernest-geo...
His wife - Laura Emma (nee Van Vlack) Cottrell
(b. 13 March 1917 in Orillia, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada - d. 20 Jan 1991 (aged 73) in Salmon Arm, Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - she took over from her husband and served as Postmistress at SCOTCH CREEK Post Office from - 1 April 1968 to (1970) ? - She was a resident of the Scotch Creek area from 1947 to 1979 and had resided in Salmon Arm until her passing Laura was predeceased by her husband Ernest in 1978. LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/121420908/obituary-for-laura-emma... LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/80...
- sent from - / SCOTCH CREEK / 3 VII / 61 / B.C. / - cds cancel - (RF D).
Addressed to (favour cover prepared for) - Mr. W.E. Topping / 3227 West 28th / Vancouver 8, B.C.
William Ellis Topping (1928 - 2017), who died on October 21, 2017, was a prominent philatelist, especially in the field of British Columbia postal history, and the founder and long-time editor of the BRITISH COLUMBIA POSTAL HISTORY NEWSLETTER. He was born in Everett, Washington, and moved to Vancouver at the age of four.
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Mucking about spinning a Bitbanger Labs Pixelstick and waving a white light, various iterations of spin and zoom, all one exposure, no post processing. The anomalous blue dots are light reflected from the wall behind.
Incorporating elements of the work of the mighty Victor Vasarely
Inspired by a conversation with fellow photon-wrangler Auroramovement
It was amazing how this looked to the naked eye, I don't think I've ever seen the Milky Way more clearly!
Tipsoo Lake & Naches Peak, Mt. Rainier N.P, WA
Canon 5D Mark II
Sigma 12-24 @ 12mm
1 min., f/4.5, ISO 6400
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It was my attention that 1st post in 2016 to be for the Address Hotel !
Rubbing Lincoln's nose for good luck.
Info can be found here.
gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/other-monuments/lincolns-ge...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
—Abraham Lincoln
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
More info on the Gettysburg National Cemetery can be found here.
www.nps.gov/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/pennsylvania/ge...
Marpole is one of Vancouver's oldest communities. The Great Marpole Midden, an ancient Musqueam village and burial site, one of North America's largest village sites and "one of the largest pre-contact middens on the Pacific coast of Canada", has been a National Historic Site since 1933. Marpole was once known as Eburne Townsite (also “EBURNE STATION”). When Europeans began to settle the area the 1860s, it became known as Eburne after Harry Eburne, the first storekeeper and postmaster in the vicinity. It became important to distinguish ‘Eburne’ on the mainland (what is now called Marpole) from the ‘Eburne’ on Sea Island – where Mr Eburne ultimately moved (apparently, taking the name of the settlement along with him). To help distinguish the Sea Island Eburne from the Mainland Eburne, the latter became known as EBURNE STATION and, by 1916, as Marpole (after CPR executive, Richard Marpole). Link to the complete article - The Oldest Part of Vancouver Might Not Be Where You Think It Is - scoutmagazine.ca/2018/03/02/the-oldest-part-of-vancouver-...
Named after William Henry Eburne, who opened the first general store at the Sea Island end of the bridge across the Fraser. He was born in England c. 1856, he came as a youth of 18 to British Columbia, his uncle, Mr. Cridland, being one of the early settlers on the Fraser. The settlement that grew up [around Eburne's general store] and the post office were named after him. Originally the whole district was named after him, but to avoid confusion, the mainland portion was changed to Marpole, after the well-known general superintendent of the CPR. Mr. Eburne sold out his store business to Messrs. Churchill and McKay but he continued to reside in the district. Died at Marpole in June 1924 at the age of 68.
An ill-defined area on the North Arm of the Fraser River, this takes its name from W.H. Eburne. In 1881, fed up with farming, Eburne opened a store on the mainland opposite Sea Island. In 1891, after the bridges were built, he moved his store to Sea Island. The Post Office in his store had its name changed in 1894 from "North Arm" to "Eburne." The mainland portion of Eburne was renamed "Marpole" in 1916.
Link to - Eburne Station - May 10, 2011 - Marpole - By armstrongrealty - armstrongrealty.wordpress.com/tag/eburne-station/
North Arm Post Office was opened 1 January 1882. Re-named Eburne Post Office - 1 October 1892. Closed temporarily - 7 April 1914; re-opened - 23 April 1914. Eburne Post Office was closed - 31 March 1947.
The EBURNE STATION Post Office opened - 16 May 1911 and was renamed Marpole Post Office - 1 June 1916.
- sent from / EBURNE STATION / AU 12 / 11 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 2 May 1911 - (RF E now is classified as RF D) - early strike.
- arrived at - / KILSYTH / AU 17 / 11 / ONT / - split ring arrival backstamp (light strike).
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Message on postcard reads - Eburne Station / August 11, 1911 - My Dear Sis, I have been looking for letter but none came, so I will not write this week only this card, we are very well, and babe is growing fine & good as gold. Today we were at New Westminster for two hours, and she slept all the time. Hope mother is keeping better. I got this O.S. (Owen Sound) news and a little bit of news. How is Jessie? This is our school. Hope you got the box alright. Best Love to you all. Ewart, Jean & Kids
- the sender of this postcard - Ann Jean / Jane (nee Burr) Clugston
(b. 3 October 1881 in Kilsyth, Gray County, Ontario - d. 6 May 1948 at age 66 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/c6... LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-obituary-for-ann-...
Her husband - Robert Ewart Clugston
(b. 29 October 1877 in Euphrasia, Grey County, Ontario, Canada - d. 7 November 1965 at age 88 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - occupation - hardware merchant - they were married - 2 January 1907 in Kilsyth, Ontario - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/13... LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...
LINK to a photo of his blacksmith shop in Eburne - m.facebook.com/groups/128486813979056/permalink/177928177...
Their daughter "babe" - Kathryn Maisie Clugston was mentioned in the message on this postcard.
Kathryn Maisie (nee Clugston) Groves
(b. 15 July 1911 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - d. 1 May 1985 at age 73 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) - occupation - registered nurse - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/e4... LINK to her photo - www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Clugston-119
Postcard was addressed to her sister - Miss K.M. Burr / Kilsyth / Ontario - LINK to a photo of her - www.wikitree.com/photo.php/7/7c/Burr-2764.jpg
Katherine May (nee Burr) Clugston
(b. 3 June 1885 in Kilsyth, Grey, Ontario, Canada - d. 8 May 1967 at age 81 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) - she arrived in British Columbia in 1914 - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/cb...
She married Milton Taylor Clugston (1885 - 1974) — 31 January 1917 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Robert Ewart Clugston brother) - LINK to their marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/fc...
The Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Memorial is in the background.
More info on the Gettysburg National Cemetery can be found here.
www.nps.gov/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/pennsylvania/ge...