Excerpt from www.notlhydro.com/transformer-beautification/:

Niagara-on-the-Lake Hydro first began the process of Transformer box beautification in 2019 in partnership with the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, The Communities in Bloom Committee, and the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre. The program has been successful in celebrating local artists and beautifying the Town. Each year since 2019 there has been a call for entries with a theme attached to it. Local artists submit their artwork to the Pumphouse and several are chosen each year to be turned into a Transformer wrap. Winners are also given an honorarium.

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Effet Domino: a friendly and fun experience that encourages encounters and collaboration.

The public is invited to have fun with the 60 giant dominoes divided into several stations to create light and musical effects.

Make the dominoes fall one after the other to trigger a musical harmony and form a colorful and luminous arc in pastel tones.

Result: an orchestra of multi-colored dominoes! Each of the modules offers a different sound universe: voice, percussion, marimba, balafon, flute. Play together to get the dominoes upright faster and cause a new fall or push them in the opposite direction to reverse the sound sequence. The participative installation, domino effect, with its vintage tropical colors, will prove to be an outing as inspiring as it is energizing!

Excerpt from “A Short Walking Tour of the Yates Street Heritage District”:

4 College Street was owned by the Gilmore family of Gilmore and Company, automobiles, baby carriages, bicycles, phonographs and sporting goods at the time of its construction in 1910. It was built in the Classical Revival style as shown by its front gable plan, rectangular windows with heavy lintels and sills, and classically detailed porch. A second storey addition was added at a later date.

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Tivoli, also known as Tivoli Gardens, is an amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. The park opened on 15 August 1843 and is the third-oldest operating amusement park in the world, after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg, also in Denmark, and Wurstelprater in Vienna, Austria.

With 4.6 million visitors in 2017, Tivoli is the most visited amusement park in Scandinavia and second-most popular seasonal amusement park in the world after Europa-Park. Tivoli is also the fifth-most visited amusement park in Europe, behind Disneyland Park, Europa-Park, Walt Disney Studios Park and Efteling. It is located in downtown Copenhagen, next to the Central rail station.

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Henningsvær is a fishing village in Vågan Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on several small islands off the southern coast of the large island of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago. The village is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of the town of Svolvær. Henningsvær is connected to the rest of Vågan via the Henningsvær Bridges. The village is mostly located on the islands of Heimøya and Hellandsøya.

The 0.3-square-kilometre (74-acre) village has a population (2018) of 510 which gives the village a population density of 1,700 inhabitants per square kilometre (4,400/sq mi). Due to its traditional fishing village architecture, Henningsvær draws many tourists. Climbing and diving/snorkeling are also popular tourist activities. Henningsvær Church is located in the village, on the island of Heimøya.

Excerpt from arrivalguides.com:

One of Frankfurt’s most popular attractions is the Applewine Express. Take a tour on this merry streetcar and become better acquainted with downtown Frankfurt while enjoying pretzels and a glass or two of Frankfurt apple wine. This particular way of sightseeing also entails background music and plenty of laughs. The starting point of the Ebbelwei-Express is at the zoo, but you can hop on and off at any of the stops.

Excerpt from www.petsfriendsforlife.org/:

Pets/Friends for Life is a registered non-profit charity and no-kill cat shelter in St.Thomas, ON. We have been helping abandoned and rescued cats find homes since 2000! Our cats receive veterinarian care, spaying/neutering, and initial vaccinations. Our shelter allows for a bright surrounding in a safe environment where cats can have their own space. Daily playtime and socialization helps our rescue cats prepare for their new families.

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“Fire/Water”: It is interesting to me that these two elements seem to not get along with each other. However, we naturally gravitate and enjoy ourselves when in the presence of both. Certainly, they are part of our genetic, ancestral makeup and we wouldn’t be here without them.

It was with these thoughts that this sculpture was created. Being able to sit on a stone that has water flowing through and over it would feel wonderful. Adding to that, the representational, metal fire component, would protect and warm us. This hopefully would make the person interacting with this sculpture feel calm, safe, and connected.

The stone component of this sculpture is surface limestone found near Marr, Ontario.

Excerpt from www.brant.ca/en/live-and-discover/resources/HeritageDrivi...:

ON16 Octagonal Silo (at the County of Brant sign, left hand side of Highway #54)

This area is fortunate to have a rare octagonal silo. The square silo was the first type of tower silo to be built but it proved not to be the most practical design. The octagonal silo tried to combine the ease of square construction with the benefits of a circular design. The small house nearby was once the hired man’s house.

Excerpt from www.tourstcatharines.com/tours-wellandave.shtml:

41 and 43 Welland Avenue are vernacular homes with some interesting details. Both have dentil decoration at the eaves (the series of small rectangular blocks at the top of the wall). 43 Welland Avenue’s porch is most likely closer to the original than that of 41. Each house has had various alterations over the years.

Excerpt from www.livabl.com/2014/08/toronto-public-art-photo-tour.html:

Artist: Francisco Gazitua

Location: Absolute World, 80 Absolute Way, Mississauga

The sculpture of three horses, which made its debut in December 2011, represents a new way of thinking for the city of Mississauga. Not only does the art go hand-in-hand with the curving, skyline-defining “Marilyn Monroe” towers, the work was also the first privately commissioned piece of public art in Mississauga’s history. Artist Francisco Gazitua has created other public pieces in the GTA, such as the Rosa Nautica at Cityplace.

Excerpt from mississauga.illumi.com:

A herd of 200 sparkling stallions, inspired by Cavalia’s white show-horses, takes you on an epic imaginary ride filled with beauty, mystery, majesty and horsepower. This colossal herd, constructed from thousands of dazzling lights, will remind you of the gracefulness of Cavalia’s equine stars that made the show a global success. Through the magic of water screens and brilliant projections, you’ll also see real Cavalia horses enjoying themselves and romping about to music created by the Canadian composer, Michel Cusson.

Excerpt from justinpluslauren.com/kariya-park-mississauga/:

Kariya Park is one of the most tranquil places amidst the bustling city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is a peaceful Japanese garden that pays tribute to Kariya City in Japan, the twinned sister city to Mississauga. Kariya Garden is located centrally in the core of the city near Square One, the biggest shopping mall in the area.

Kariya Park officially opened in July 1992, celebrating the 11th year anniversary of the twin-city relationship between Mississauga and Kariya. Its design was a collaboration between Canadian and Japanese planners.

Excerpt from “A Short Walking Tour of the Yates Street Heritage District”:

68 Yates Street is an interesting Queen Anne Revival style home built in 1912. Queen Anne characteristics included on this home include the irregular plan and roofline and textured stucco finish. Bay windows span both storeys, creating a tower-like effect.

Excerpt from heritageburlington.ca:

One-and-a-half-storey front-gabled brick structure built in 1852.

Excerpt from ucluelet.ca/images/wild-pacific-trail-map-brochure.pdf:

The Wild Pacific Trail skirts the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, where the ancient rainforest meets the open Pacific Ocean. Walk the only trail in the Long Beach region with panoramic views of Barkley Sound and the Broken Islands of Pacific Rim National Park. This famous trail meanders beneath the forest canopy and along a spectacular coastline abundant with birds and whales. Perfect for photography and storm watching, visitors to the Wild Pacific Trail will truly experience “Life on the Edge”.

Excerpt from uwaterloo.ca:

Description of the District

The Cross-Melville Heritage Conservation District is bounded by Sydenham, Melville, Cross and Victoria Streets in the former Town of Dundas, now the City of Hamilton. The district consists of 49 properties. These properties are predominantly single family dwellings with the exception of three churches.

Cultural Heritage Value of the District

According to the Cross-Melville Heritage Conservation District Study - Background Report the cultural heritage value of the district lies in its historical and associative value, design or physical value as well as the contextual value. The Background Report concludes:

“The Cross-Melville area constitutes a superb collection of buildings with particularly fine architectural attributes. Tree planted along the streets enhance the surroundings of individual buildings and provide expansive canopies over adjacent streets. Developed in the 1840s and 1850s as the first exclusively residential area distinct from the commercial and industrial locales of Dundas, this neighbourhood is associated with numerous prominent citizens, mayors and councillors, including George Rolph, William Notman, Alexis Begue and the Grafton family”.

Excerpt from www.tourstcatharines.com/tours-wellandave.shtml:

9 Welland Avenue is also vernacular but the builder has incorporated a Gothic Revival-like pointed arch window in the gable.

Excerpt from cambridgesculpturegarden.com:

In 2000, the Cambridge Sculpture Garden (CSG) Volunteer Committee acquired a flat piece of land belonging to the Grand River Conservation Authority and transformed it into an inviting contoured sculpture garden.

We are nestled along the historic Grand River in the heart of Galt Downtown City Centre and are joined along the Trans Canada Trail. Our gardens offer an oasis to all, free of charge, 24/7.

Excerpt from www.goderich.ca/en/town-hall-and-services/resources/Herit...

87 North Street, St. George’s Anglican Church and Rectory. The rectory was built first in 1862 to face Nelson St. when the original frame church was still on St. George’s Crescent. After a fire, the church was rebuilt on this corner in 1881. By

that time there were three churches on North St causing local residents to refer

to the street as “Pater Noster Row”. The front end of this church is shaped like

the bow of an ark and the floor slopes gently towards it (an unusual feature for churches of this denomination). The steeple and roof were refurbished in 2010.

Excerpt from www.railwaycitytourism.com/murals.html#portfolio-6ca4e194...:

“Inside the Museum"

Artist: Rick Hodges

Artwork: Digital media

Location: Elgin County Railway Museum, 225 Wellington Street, St Thomas, ON

Having worked on the railway in the St. Thomas area for about 10 years, I became interested in our town's heritage of the railway. Over the years, I painted about the railway and collected railroad artifacts which I donated. They can now be seen inside the Elgin County Railway Museum.

The miniature mural project was organized by Sarah Van Pelt for the 2022 Track to the Future Mural Festival. She created a small scene with a 2” high figure of a photographer seated on a tiny cement bench, admiring tiny murals featuring the art from 11 local artists, herself included. They can be found at multiple locations around St. Thomas. A huge thanks goes to all of the participating artists and to all of the hosting locations.

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

The Desjardins Canal, named after its promoter Pierre Desjardins, was built to give Dundas, Ontario, easier access to Lake Ontario and the Great Lakes system of North America. Although a technological achievement and a short term commercial success, the canal was soon eclipsed by the railway, and Dundas by neighbouring Hamilton.

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This house, built before 1828 in Beverly, Township, represents the blacksmith's home in 1870. It was donated by the Saccomano family.

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Whistler Mountain is a mountain in the Fitzsimmons Range of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, located on the northwestern edge of Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is the location of the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort and the town of Whistler, British Columbia.

Previously, the mountain was called London Mountain, named after a mining claim in the area. The locality was called Alta Lake before the creation of the Resort Municipality of Whistler in the 1970s, but the mountain's name had already been changed in 1965 as the associations with London's bad weather were deemed to be bad for advertising purposes. With the advent of the ski resort in the late 1960s the name was changed to "Whistler" to represent the whistling calls of the marmots, which are also known as "whistlers", that live in the alpine areas of the mountain.

Because of the mountain's proximity to Garibaldi Provincial Park, ski lifts are regularly used to quickly reach the alpine, and ski tour into the park. The summit is home to the Whistler Peak chair, and this makes it one of the most travelled summits in British Columbia.

The mountain forms part of a major ski and snowboard resort.

Excerpt from www.railwaycitytourism.com/murals.html#portfolio-6:

PROTOCOL IK

Located at the home of the Ignite Teen Centre and Steam Education Centre, Protocol IK is meant to excite the youth that visit the centre.

Protocol IK speaks to our digital future, and how youth are working to navigate that frenetic landscape.

Excerpt from www.brant.ca/en/live-and-discover/resources/HeritageDrivi...:

SD15 McPherson School, S.S. No. 10, 1870 (Designated)

283 McPherson School Rd., Brant

This school was built on a lot purchased from Daniel McPherson. The nine-over-nine windows reflect the original style. The bell has been restored and placed on a large stone on the southwest corner of the property in dedication to the school’s closing in 1961. Today, it is a unique private home.

Excerpt from www.brant.ca/en/live-and-discover/resources/HeritageDrivi...:

SD23 John Maus Residence, 1860 (Designated)

289 Pinehurst Rd., Glen Morris, (Brant, Paris??)

This fieldstone house of Provincial Scottish Victorian architecture was built for one of the early settlers in his part of the former Township. The stone for this farmer’s residence and carriage house was drawn from local fields. This is one of six significant residential buildings featured in the 1875 Atlas of the County of Brant. Today it is a private residence with an antique shop.

Excerpt from www.centralelgin.org/en/recreation-and-culture/Heritage/H...:

Russel House

211 Main Street, Port Stanley

The Russell house was built in the early 1870s of locally made strawberry bricks by a newly arrived settler, John Sweeney. It was one of the first hotels in Port Stanley, and one of a number of similar inns required in the early days of lake, rail and stagecoach travel. Over the years it has served as butcher and plumbing shops, and doctor's, lawyer's and insurance agent's offices. The building later became the Sterling Bank, and several staff members lived in rooms on the second floor. One of these staff included a young banker named Mitchell Hepburn, who later became Premier of Ontario.

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The Credit River is a river in southern Ontario, which flows from headwaters above the Niagara Escarpment near Orangeville and Caledon East to empty into Lake Ontario at Port Credit, Mississauga. It drains an area of approximately 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi). The total length of the river and its tributary streams is over 1,500 kilometres (930 mi).

Despite urbanization and associated problems with water quality on the lower section of this river, it provides spawning areas for Chinook salmon and rainbow trout. There is a fish ladder on the river at Streetsville. Much of the river can still be travelled by canoe or kayak. The headwaters of the Credit River is home to a native self-sustaining brook trout population and an introduced brown trout population.

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Roskilde Cathedral (Danish: Roskilde Domkirke), in the city of Roskilde on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark, is a cathedral of the Lutheran Church of Denmark.

The cathedral is the most important church in Denmark, the official royal burial church of the Danish monarchs, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is due to two criteria: the architecture of the cathedral shows 800 years of European architectural styles, and it is one of the earliest examples in Scandinavia of a Gothic cathedral to be built in brick; it encouraged the spread of the Brick Gothic style throughout Northern Europe. Constructed during the 12th and 13th centuries, the cathedral incorporates both Gothic and Romanesque architectural features in its design. The cathedral has been the main burial site for Danish monarchs since the 15th century. As such, it has been significantly extended and altered over the centuries to accommodate a considerable number of burial chapels and the many added chapels show different architectural styles.

The cathedral is a major tourist attraction, bringing in over 165,000 visitors annually. Since 1995, it has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its unique architecture. A working church, it also hosts concerts throughout the year.

Excerpt from heritageburlington.ca:

1060 Mohawk Road is a two-and-a-half storey stuccoed structure dating back to 1929.

Excerpt from www.goderich.ca/en/town-hall-and-services/resources/Herit...

53 North Street, was built in the Queen Anne style by George Acheson about 1905, builder of several fine homes and a block on The Square. The pleasing proportions of the tower help set the tone of this genteel streetscape. One of the owners, William Coats, tended 200 varieties of peonies in the yard and a rose garden behind the Registry Office across the street.

Excerpt from heritageburlington.ca:

McCulloch-Greer House was built in 1885 as a one-and-a-half storey brick structure in vernacular style.

Excerpt from www.tofinohiking.com/hikes/schooner-cove-trail/:

The Schooner Cove Trail is a popular two-kilometre hike in Vancouver Island's Pacific Rim National Park. As a short and relatively easy trail, this scenic hike leads you through lush rainforests and over gentle meandering streams before arriving at a spectacular beachfront area.

This beautiful and pristine beach offers amazing views of a rocky outcrop, which can be accessed at low tides. However, it's important to be extremely careful as tides can change quickly in the area - making it easy to become trapped by a single rising tide.

Excerpt from www.niagarafallstourism.com/fireworks/:

The Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights presents Fireworks during the Festival. Celebrating 40 years, the Fireworks display will span over 40 Nights during the Festival from November 12, 2022 to February 20, 2023.

Excerpt from www.railwaycitytourism.com/murals.html#portfolio-be37304d...:

PLAY TIME

A fun and playful take celebrating Jumbo at Rosethorn Park painted by Emily Jacques-Hawco.

Emily is an artist located in St. Thomas ON, she studied at OCAD University in Toronto ON and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Emily's works are heavily influenced by her passion for colour. The content of her work is inspired by the natural world through portraiture, landscapes, abstraction, and animals.

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Oliphant, Sicily, Italy, 12th century. Ivory, carved: Ivory horns, or oliphants, were made between the mid eleventh to the thirteenth centuries and are exquisite examples of cultural exchange between Muslim and Christian societies in the Mediterranean world. These ivory horns are mostly associated with noble hunting, a practice that also implied land ownership. They could be blown to create signals during hunt but had also been used as a drinking vessel at the end of the hunt by stopping their open ends.

The size of this oliphant, its richly carved figurative decoration, and its excellent condition seems to suggest a ceremonial function in courtly societies, associated with the hunt, combat, and banquets.

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Polypedates otilophus (also known as the file-eared tree frog, Borneo eared frog, or bony-headed flying frog) is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Borneo where it is widespread and found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia, typically in the lowlands but sometimes as high as 1,100 m (3,600 ft) above sea level. This species has prominent, sharp ridges behind the eye, above the ear, referred to in its names.

Description

Males measure up to 80 mm (3.1 in) and females up to 100 mm (3.9 in) in snout–vent length. The body is robust and dorsally lemon yellow in color, with many thin, black stripes; also the thighs have many black bars. The tympanum is conspicuous, with a serrated bony crest above it (the "ear"). Fingertips are expanded into large discs; those on the toes are smaller. The fingers have only rudimentary webbing whereas the toes are moderately webbed. The tadpoles are yellowish green above and white below, acquiring the stripes seen in adults well before metamorphosis. The largest tadpoles are 60 mm (2.4 in) in total length.

Habitat and conservation

Polypedates otilophus typically occurs in secondary habitats, at the edges of primary forest, and also in villages. They are most easily spotted at suitable breeding ponds where adults perch on vegetation 1–4 m above the ground. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

Excerpt from www.oakville.ca/assets/general%20-%20business/1-Section%2...:

329 Sumner Avenue (1874): Built around 1874 and owned by Horatio Nelson Long, a carpenter active in the Oakville area during the 1870s. For the best part of a century, it was occupied by the Litchfield family.

Built in the Victorian Picturesque style. Notable features include asymmetrical wings, decorative bargeboards and fretted treillage.

Excerpt from www.stcatharines.ca/en/building-and-renovating/resources/...:

1317 Pelham Road

Brown-Jouppien House

This structure represents one of the few remaining earliest dwellings of this area, and is a fine example of a Loyalist Georgian House executed in local stone. The general structural characteristics and surviving details date if from the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and much of the original plan survived. It is believed that the house was occupied by Merritts Dragoons during the war of 1812.

Excerpt from ucluelet.ca/images/wild-pacific-trail-map-brochure.pdf:

The Wild Pacific Trail skirts the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, where the ancient rainforest meets the open Pacific Ocean. Walk the only trail in the Long Beach region with panoramic views of Barkley Sound and the Broken Islands of Pacific Rim National Park. This famous trail meanders beneath the forest canopy and along a spectacular coastline abundant with birds and whales. Perfect for photography and storm watching, visitors to the Wild Pacific Trail will truly experience “Life on the Edge”.

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St. Lorenz (St. Lawrence) is a medieval church of the former free imperial city of Nuremberg in southern Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Lawrence. The church was badly damaged during the Second World War and later restored. It is one of the most prominent churches of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.

The nave of the church was completed by around 1400. In 1439, work began on the choir in the form of a hall church in the late German Sondergotik style of Gothic architecture. The choir was largely completed by 1477 by Konrad Roriczer,[1] although Jakob Grimm completed the intricate vaults.

In the choir one can find the carving of the Angelic Salutation by Veit Stoss, and the monumental tabernacle by Adam Kraft. The latter includes a prominent figure of the sculptor himself.

The building and furnishing of the church was cared of by the city council and by wealthy citizens. This is probably the reason why the art treasures of St. Lawrence were spared during the iconoclasm during the Reformation period. Despite St. Lawrence being one of the first churches in Germany to be Lutheran (1525), the wealthy citizens of Nuremberg wanted to preserve the memory of their ancestors and refused the removal of the donated works of art.

The west facade is richly articulated, reflecting the wealth of the Nuremberg citizens. The facade is dominated by the two towers, mirroring St. Sebald and indirectly Bamberg Cathedral with a sharp towering West portal doorway, and an indented rose window 9 metres in diameter.

Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillsonburg:

Private Residence: 101 Rolph St. This two storey Gothic-style house was built in 1880. Bay window projections on the front and side of the house combine with the striking two storey porch to create an inviting exterior. Of note are the wooden shutters that are shaped to fit each curved window.

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A kettle (also known as a kettle lake, kettle hole, or pothole) is a depression/hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating glaciers, which become surrounded by sediment deposited by meltwater streams as there is increased friction. The ice becomes buried in the sediment and when the ice melts, a depression is left called a kettle hole, creating a dimpled appearance on the outwash plain. Lakes often fill these kettles; these are called kettle-hole lakes. Another source is the sudden drainage of an ice-dammed lake. When the block melts, the hole it leaves behind is a kettle. As the ice melts, ramparts can form around the edge of the kettle hole. The lakes that fill these holes are seldom more than 10 m (33 ft) deep and eventually become filled with sediment. In acid conditions, a kettle bog may form but in alkaline conditions, it will be kettle peatland.

Excerpt from ucluelet.ca/images/wild-pacific-trail-map-brochure.pdf:

The Wild Pacific Trail skirts the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, where the ancient rainforest meets the open Pacific Ocean. Walk the only trail in the Long Beach region with panoramic views of Barkley Sound and the Broken Islands of Pacific Rim National Park. This famous trail meanders beneath the forest canopy and along a spectacular coastline abundant with birds and whales. Perfect for photography and storm watching, visitors to the Wild Pacific Trail will truly experience “Life on the Edge”.

Excerpt from www.blogto.com/sports_play/2018/09/screaming-heads-midlot...:

This enchanted garden is less than three hours from Toronto, and, because of it's eerie vibe, is the perfect spot to visit for those interested in the spooky and unusual.

The Screaming Heads are located in Burk's Falls, and is half-art gallery, half-outdoor playground.

This surreal property is owned and operated by the Screaming Heads artist himself, Peter Camani, on his 300-acre land.

Visitors are welcome to wander around and admire the 20-ft concrete sculptures that adorn his gardens, including heads and hands that seem to be exploding out of the earth - making the property feel otherworldly.

Often referred to as Ontario's Stonehenge, the arrangement of the artwork may seem random, but seen from above, you'll discover the concrete sculptures form the shape of a dragon.

The Screaming Heads of Midlothian is open year round, but perhaps is best seen in fall because of the vibrant autumn foliage of the Almaguin Highlands Region.

Although it's free to enter, there is a donation box at the entrance, and visitors are encouraged to bring donations of non-perishable food items for the Burk's Falls and District Food Bank.

Excerpt from bronte-village.ca/event/at-home-in-bronte/:

In 2017, Canada turned 150 years old and Bronte celebrated the occasion by showcasing over 60 community hand-painted Muskoka chairs throughout the district. Now in its sixth year, the At Home in Bronte Muskoka chairs have become an iconic art installation that helps to kick-off the changing seasons.

Visitors are invited to explore our beautiful waterfront and surrounding businesses to check out each uniquely designed chair by local artists, including Sheridan College students. There are 100+ chairs to explore! Each art chair has a hidden lighthouse icon waiting to be discovered.

This program is organized and paid for by the Bronte BIA and its 175+ businesses. It is part of our effort to encourage local residents and visitors to get outdoors, get active and enjoy the colour, vibrancy and charm of Bronte.

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Uspenski Cathedral (Finnish: Uspenskin katedraali) is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Helsinki, Finland, and main cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Finland, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos (the Virgin Mary). Its name comes from the Old Church Slavonic word Uspenie, which denotes the Dormition.

After Helsinki was made into the capital of Finland in 1812, Alexander I decreed in 1814 that 15 percent of the salt import tax were to be collected into a fund for two churches, one Lutheran and one Orthodox. Helsinki's Orthodox Church, considered to have formed in 1827 with the construction of the Holy Trinity Church, Helsinki, was in need of a larger church than before for a growing Orthodox parish. The construction of Uspenski Cathedral was largely funded by parishioners and private donors. The cathedral designed by the Russian architect Aleksey Gornostayev (1808–1862). The cathedral was built after his death in 1862–1868 and the work was led by architect Ivan Varnek. It was inaugurated on 25 October 1868. Used in construction of the cathedral, 700 000 bricks were brought over in barges from the Bomarsund Fortress that had been demolished in the Crimean War. The iconostasis is painted by Pavel S. Šiltsov. From the wish of Alexander II the church was dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God, Uspenie.

Excerpt from barnquilttrails.ca/barns/oxford-county/arrowhead-puzzle/:

The block on the Stubbe’s Furniture Barn honours this area’s First Nations’. Prior to European settlement, Oxford County was home to many First Nations villages, one of which was located just west of here. An archaeological dig conducted in 2000 discovered an Iroquoian village dating to approximately 1400 that covered over 20 acres, making it the largest known pre-contact Iroquoian village of its time in southern Ontario.

Excerpt from www.loyalistparkway.org/locations/robert-mcdowall-church-...:

In 1834, a frame church was built by the early Presbyterian families. In 1887 the church was renovated, the tower was added on the front rising 60 feet. The building was brick with eight new memorial windows made of cathedral glass. On September 21, 1921, the church was destroyed by fire. The tower, with its battlements was restored as a monument for the cemetery and a vault door installed in front.