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Best Viewed Large - This is just a fraction of the swarm of Gulls that were following our Lobster Boat out of the entrance of Shippagan Harbour - there's a community of what looks like thousands of Seagulls who've set-up home at the harbour mouth and who descend on all the returning fishing boats to pick up fish scraps and left-over bait.
This was one of the 'tidier' frames from the many I shot from the boat, none of which really does justice to the spectacle of hundreds of these spectacular birds all just swarming over the back of the boat.
The eagle-eyed among you may spot the falling piece of fish that one of the birds just dropped and which is about to cause pandemonium among the birds as it falls into the sea.
This was shot using the superbly crisp Canon 16-35/2.8 MKII L - I'm impressed at the amazing detail it's picking up in the wings of the birds.
A fraction of the exposure of my last post, picking out detail in the waves, while maintaining the effect of motion. The great thing about shooting a scene like this is that it constantly changes as the tide evolves new details.
Kermit: “Hey, Fozzie. What’s with the numbers?”
Fozzie: “We’re here to see how numbers line up. And Kermit, remember that not all math problems are bad. Only sum.”
Kermit: “I heard the fraction and the decimal are no longer speaking to each other.”
Fozzie: “Why is that?”
Kermit: “The fraction couldn’t see the point.”
Fozzie: “Did you know that parallel lines have so much in common.”
Kermit: “Too bad they can’t meet.”
Fozzie: “I also have to introduce you to this king who loves fractions.”
Kermit: “Who is he?”
Fozzie: “Why, he’s King Henry VIII.”
Kermit: “I guess that makes King Louis XIV a little smaller king.”
Fozzie: “And to think, I always had problems with Math. I failed it so many times I couldn’t count.”
A fraction of a second before being bowled by a Desiro on the up fast, 92015 passes Cow Roast with 6A42 Crick-Wembley empty vans. 25th June 2014
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
3 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents
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CAMPBELL CREEK, East of Kamloops. Originally the San Poel (Sans Poil?) River. It was named after Louis (or Lewis) Campbell, an American cattle drover who began building a fine ranch there in the 1860s, one that ultimately extended for about 6 miles along the south bank of the South Thompson River.
Campbell Creek, 35 miles long, runs into the south Thompson River, 13 miles east of Kamloops. There is a ranching settlement on the Creek, 11 miles southeast of Kamloops. Post office now called Barnhart Vale.
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - CAMPBELL CREEK, a rural post office in Yale County, B.C., 3 miles south of the North Thompson River, 8 miles from Ducks Station, and 10 miles from Kamloops, both on the C.P.R., 250 and 263 miles respectively west of Vancouver.
(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - BARNHART VALE - a post office and settlement on Campbell Creek, 10 miles south of Kamloops, in Kamloops Provincial Electoral District, reached by stage from Kamloops. Farming, dairying and fruit-growing.
Barnhartvale, originally Barnhart Vale, is located at the southeast end of Kamloops, south of Dallas in British Columbia, Canada. The area includes riding stables, farms, honey bee farms, and ranches. There is a local store called Happy Valley Foods, and a local elementary school, Robert L. Clemitson. The main road which runs through Barnhartvale is Barnhartvale Road. Todd Road and Pratt Road are the main accesses through the subdivided western portion of Barnhartvale. In 1973, Barnhartvale and other outlying communities were amalgamated with the City of Kamloops. Barnhartvale was originally referred to as Campbell Creek or Campbell's Creek until 1909. It is now named after Peter Barnhart, who was the conductor on the first CPR train through Kamloops. He moved to Campbell Creek and opened a post office and in 1909 the name was changed to Barnhart Vale Post. In 1978 the spelling was formally changed to one word, Barnhartvale. 1865 marks the beginning of the written history of the area later named Barnhartvale. That was the year that James Todd and Lewis (Lew) Campbell, the first two pioneers, arrived. The next settlers in the region were John and William McLeod in 1879. A major road in the area is named after the Robert and Henry Pratt families who occupied the bulk of the valley after 1890.
(From Place Names of the Kamloops District; Kamloops Museum, 1978) - Campbell Creek Post Office was established 1 June 1905, named after a settler. Name changed to Barnhartvale Post Office 1 June 1909, Peter Ashton Barnhart, first postmaster. Barnhartvale Post Office closed 30 August 1951. Peter Barnhart was conductor on the first CPR train in 1886, but retired during the 1890's to run a hotel in Kamloops. In 1905 he settled a short distance up Campbell Creek and opened a Post Office to which he attached his own name - to the disgust of early settlers!
Peter Barnhart was the conductor on the first Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) transcontinental train in 1886. Barnhartvale, British Columbia, Canada is named after him.
Barnhart Vale Post Office - In 1905 Barnhart purchased property in what was then known as Campbell Creek and in 1906 opened a post office there. Initially naming his post office "Campbell Creek (South) Post Office", he changed the name to "Barnhart Vale Post Office" in 1909 because of confusions with "Campbell Creek Post Office" established by Lew Campbell at the Campbell Creek Ranch in 1905.
In 1978, the spelling was officially changed to "Barnhartvale".
The Post Office was established at Campbell Creek - 1 June 1905 - it became Barnhart Vale - 1 June 1909 - in 1978 the name came one word - Barnhartvale.
LINK to a list of all the Postmasters who served at the CAMPBELL CREEK / BARNHART VALE Post Office - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
sent from - / BARNHART VALE / NO 23 / 34 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A-1) was proofed - 9 June 1909 - (RF C).
by registered mail - / R / BARNHART VALE, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (121) - registered boxed marking (in black ink)
via - / KAMLOOPS / 1 / NO 23 / 34 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
via the train - / X C. & V. R.P.O. X / 4 / NO 24 / 34 / B.C. / - rpo backstamp
via - / • MONTREAL • / 1 PM / 27 NO / 34 / CANADA / - transit backstamp
via - / • MONTREAL • / 1 PM / NO 28 / 34 / CANADA / - transit backstamp
arrival - / MONTREAL, P.Q. / NOV 28 1934 / REGISTERED / - boxed handstamp backstamp (in purple ink).
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Addressed to: Dept F.P. / Trico Mills / Montreal / Box 2503 /
This was a fun one too - Inspired by two amazing quilters:
r0ssie's fraction quilt:
www.flickr.com/photos/rossiebug/sets/72157622119666246/
r0ssie's inspiration for her quilt:
Cheryl Arkison:
naptimequilter.blogspot.com/2009/05/your-parents-are-cool...
'Fraction' project by Primary 4 pupils (Ham and Bacon Fried Rice). Well done children! Fried rice was favourited and enjoyed by whole class. Thank you Lookaew, Ning-ning, Thai, Bank, Nine and Arm for all the preparation and T. Mem for all the help.
Measuring tapes are divided into tiny fractions, and I must confess I don't know what they are all called. It's something I think the average Jo might have to look up if they want to get an accurate measure.
1974. This is another 'test strip' used to determine the proper exposure time to use for making photo enlargements. It shows only a fraction of the entire photo.
These three are Los Al students whom I believe are members of the Class of 1974. It’s a rare case but I do not know their names though I am familiar with the faces of the young women. (Please note that there were perhaps about 2,800 students enrolled at Los Al then.)
Little Jackson was overnight with us, last night, and his best buddy also came along .... I believe he's called Spot!
Flickr Lounge ~ Weekend Theme (Week 11) ~ Fraction ...
Stay Safe and Healthy Everyone!
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all!
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
3 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents
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Baynes Lake (40 km south of Fernie): Named after Mr. Baynes (Andrew Bain who located land on the lake in 1896) who had a small shack near the lake in 1902, when the Great Northern Railroad was built, this town once contained a Lumber Company mill, a hotel, hardware store, schools, newspaper company, nursery, 2 greenhouses, a land office and a clubhouse. The mill ceased operation in 1925; homes were boarded up with only a small community store left today to serve scattered settlers. The Great Northern Railway between Newgate and Morrissey was built in 1902, and Baynes Lake became a division point. The area was logged and by 1910 there was a population of about 1,500 between Baynes Lake and Newgate. The Great Northern Railway abandoned Baynes Lake in 1936, leaving what amounts to a ghost town.
Baynes Lake is an unincorporated rural community in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, located on the east shore of Lake Koocanusa just north of the mouth of the Elk River. Baynes Lake consists of approximately 160 residences with a number of those belonging to seasonal residents. The village of Baynes Lake includes a community hall, an Anglican church, the Baynes Lake Volunteer Fire Hall, the Baynes Lake General Store, and a community park. The community of Baynes Lake began along the shores of Baynes Lake in 1896. The main attraction for settlers was the opportunity for employment by the Adolph Lumber Company which established a mill site along the eastern shore around 1907. A Baynes Lake station with the Great Northern Railway existed from 1904 to 1937. With the closing of the mill, the population quickly dwindled and workers moved to find employment elsewhere. Many of the remaining residents were farmers or worked in the new portable mills of the area. With flooding of Kootenay River valley to accommodate the Libby Dam in Montana, several families who had been displaced by the rising waters were relocated to small building lots in Baynes Lake. It was named after James Bayne, an Englishman.
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - BAYNES LAKE, a post office in Kootenay District, B.C., a station on the Great Northern Ry., near the junction of the Elk and Kootenay Rivers.
(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - BAYNES LAKE - a post office and station on the Fernie-Rexford Division of the G. N. R., 20 miles north of Gateway and 32 miles southwest of Fernie, in East Kootenay District.
Baynes Lake Post Office opened - 1 June 1904 and closed - 28 February 1943 - it re-opened - 19 July 1943 and closed - 20 October 1968.
sent from - / BAYNES LAKE / SP 13 / 32 / B.C. / - split ring arrival - this split ring hammer (A-2) was proofed - 16 December 1920 - (RF C). (second hammer)
by registered mail - / R / BAYNE8 LAKE, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (228) - registered boxed marking (in blue ink) NOTE the spelling of BAYNES (BAYNE8) the "8" was used for the "S".
via - / REGISTERED / SEP 13 1932 / FERNIE, B.C. / - registered transit double line (thin inner line) oval marking in blue / green ink.
via - / MED. HAT & NEL • R.P.O. / 11 / SP 14 / 32 / No. 12 / - cds rpo transit / (W-77 - RF 40) Hammer (#12) - Canadian Pacific Railway - Medicine Hat & Nelson. The No. 12 hammer was proofed - 2 October 1924 - the ERD for this hammer was - 11 August 1927 and the LRD is - 31 October 1950. The Indicia were 6, 11, 12, 67 & 68.
The Medicine Hat & Nelson R.P.O. service began in 1901 and ended in 1957. There were also two short-lived runs, one between Medicine Hat & Lethbridge from 1949 and 1952 and another, between Medicine Hat & Cranbrook, from 1952 until 1954. Link to the complete article - www.bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/rpo/rpo-2007-07-v035n06-w19...
Addressed to: "The Manager" / The Canadian Bank of Commerce / Cranbrook, B.C.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building and Wentworth Hotel. The Canadian Bank of Commerce came to Cranbrook August 8, 1898, within a month of the arrival of the railway. Built at a cost of $15,000 it was one of Cranbrook's first imposing commercial structures. By 1967 the building no longer adequately accommodated bank business. The new (and present) Royal Bank building opened August 17th, 1968. The Wentworth Hotel can be seen behind the bank building. Link to photo - basininstitute.org/home/image.html?zn=7&id=d560405491...
There is a Cranbrook split ring arrival backstamp on the reverse of the cover - / CRANBROOK / SP 1 4 / 32 / B.C. / - this split ring hammer (A-7) was proofed - 29 April 1925 - (RF A) - left arc - 8.0 mm / right arc - 7.5 mm.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - Cranbrook - a city of about 3,000 population, has a gravity water system, owned by the city, sewerage, and electric light and power day and night. The electric light and power plant is owned by a private company, the Cranbrook Electric Light Co. Limited. It is a divisional point of the C. P. R., being situated on the main line of the Crow's Nest branch. From Cranbrook a branch line of the C. P. R. runs to Kimberley, 19 miles north, a mining town whose output of silver-lead ore is the greatest on the continent and possibly is, at the present time, the greatest in the world. This branch also touches Wycliffe, 9 miles from Cranbrook, where are situated the sawmills of the Otistaples Lumber Co. Ltd. Another branch of the C. P. R. runs from Cranbrook to Golden, making connection between the Crow branch and the main line, and tapping the rich valley of the Columbia River. This line passes through the old mining town of Fort Steele, 11 miles from Cranbrook, which in earlier days added millions in coarse gold to the wealth of the country and is still augmenting it by a considerable output of fine gold from the washings of the rich tailings of former days. Wardner and Bull River, both mill towns, are served by this branch, and are within convenient distance of Cranbrook to insure that city getting the largest share of their business. To the west of Cranbrook, on the main Crow line, is the town of Wattsburg, 7 miles distant, where the mills of the Wattsburg Lumber Co. are located. Between Wattsburg and Cranbrook, 4 miles from the latter, is one of the mills of the East Kootenay Lumber Co.
Fraction of a Dot
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot...
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Mobile Art
Inquiries for prints are welcome
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
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- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - BAKER, a post office in Kootenay District, B.C., 3/4 of a mile from Fort Steele, a station on the C.P.R., between Fernie and Cranbrook.
(from - Wrigley's 1922 British Columbia directory) - BAKER - a post office and ranching settlement in Cranbrook Provincial Electoral District, midway between Rampart and Mayook, on the C. P. R. Crow's Nest branch. Has Kootenay lines telephone.
(from - Wrigley's 1932 British Columbia directory) - BAKER - a post office and ranching settlement 12 miles from Cranbrook, in Cranbrook Provincial Electoral District. 1 mile from Mayook on the Canadian Pacific Railway. The population in 1932 was 100. (Baker & Mayook combined).
The Baker name was chosen in 1904 for the new Post Office. It was named after Colonel James Baker (father of Cranbrook, MLA, 1887), who owned the large ranch on which Cranbrook was later built. The Mayook Post Office (1) was established - 1 February 1904 - it became the BAKER Post Office - 1 May 1905 it was located just northwest (one mile) of the Mayook Post Office; the BAKER Post Office closed - 15 September 1937.
from - / BAKER / MY 3 / 32 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-2) was proofed - 2 June 1920 - (RF D).
sent by registered mail - / R / BAKER, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (595) / - registered boxed handstamp in magenta ink.
via - / MED. HAT & NEL. R.P.O. / 11 / MY 4 / 32 / No 1. / - cds rpo transit / W-77 - RF40 Hammer (#1b) - Canadian Pacific Railway - Medicine Hat & Nelson.
The Medicine Hat & Nelson R.P.O. service began in 1901 and ended in 1957. There were also two short-lived runs, one between Medicine Hat & Lethbridge from 1949 and 1952 and another, between Medicine Hat & Cranbrook, from 1952 until 1954. Link to the complete article - www.bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/rpo/rpo-2007-07-v035n06-w19...
Addressed to: "The Manager" / The Canadian Bank of Commerce / Cranbrook, B.C.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building and Wentworth Hotel. The Canadian Bank of Commerce came to Cranbrook August 8, 1898, within a month of the arrival of the railway. Built at a cost of $15,000 it was one of Cranbrook's first imposing commercial structures. By 1967 the building no longer adequately accommodated bank business. The new (and present) Royal Bank building opened August 17th, 1968. The Wentworth Hotel can be seen behind the bank building. Link to photo - basininstitute.org/home/image.html?zn=7&id=d560405491...
There is a Cranbrook arrival split ring backstamp on the reverse of the cover - / CRANBROOK / MY 4 / 32 / B.C. / - this split ring hammer (#7) was proofed - 29 April 1925 - (RF A) - left arc - 8.0 mm / right arc - 7.5 mm.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - Cranbrook - a city of about 3,000 population, has a gravity water system, owned by the city, sewerage, and electric light and power day and night. The electric light and power plant is owned by a private company, the Cranbrook Electric Light Co. Limited. It is a divisional point of the C. P. R., being situated on the main line of the Crow's Nest branch. From Cranbrook a branch line of the C. P. R. runs to Kimberley, 19 miles north, a mining town whose output of silver-lead ore is the greatest on the continent and possibly is, at the present time, the greatest in the world. This branch also touches Wycliffe, 9 miles from Cranbrook, where are situated the sawmills of the Otistaples Lumber Co. Ltd. Another branch of the C. P. R. runs from Cranbrook to Golden, making connection between the Crow branch and the main line, and tapping the rich valley of the Columbia River. This line passes through the old mining town of Fort Steele, 11 miles from Cranbrook, which in earlier days added millions in coarse gold to the wealth of the country and is still augmenting it by a considerable output of fine gold from the washings of the rich tailings of former days. Wardner and Bull River, both mill towns, are served by this branch, and are within convenient distance of Cranbrook to insure that city getting the largest share of their business. To the west of Cranbrook, on the main Crow line, is the town of Wattsburg, 7 miles distant, where the mills of the Wattsburg Lumber Co. are located. Between Wattsburg and Cranbrook, 4 miles from the latter, is one of the mills of the East Kootenay Lumber Co.
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Registered letter sent by - Albin Eliason
Albin Eliason - section foreman for CPR in 1932.
Maintenance-of-way Employees & Railway Shop Labourers, United Brotherhood of, Local No. 229
President, Albin Eliason, Baker; (1934)
Name: Oscar Albin Eliason
Birth Date: 1909
Death Date: 1953 in Cranbrook, East Kootenay Regional District, British Columbia
Name: Oskar Albin Eliason
Gender: Male
Arrival Age: 17
Birth Year: abt 1909
Birth Country: Sweden
Departure Port: Gothenburg, Sweden
Arrival Date: 20 Mar 1926
Arrival Port: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Vessel: Drottningholm
1991’s Aerial Intruder from the Blacktron II fraction enters the LEGO City!
The ‘Big’ ship from a fan favorite (myself decidedly included) sub-theme is actually not all that big compared to the other Space sub-themes’ flagships. This ship checks the majority of my criteria for what made an excellent spaceship play set as a kid!
Great color scheme and cool large transparent elements?
Blacktron 2 has arguably the best + printed large windshield!
Detachable base with usable interior space?
The center of the ship is large when opened and has an aft storage compartment. While tight when loaded with cargo, great when side-builds are deployed
Dropship/Escape Pod?
Two of the best designed simple ships that deploy from the sides, that are also designed to be compatible with the rest of the sub-theme! So simple and genius
And a bonus jetpack element that is classic
Rover?
Two! Yes, super simple, but very standard for the time.
Action features?
The simple rover launch action definitely suffices.
Droid/Robot?
Not for this faction, but I believe that’s because they were outlaws. Correct me if I’m wrong?
Yes, I’m a really big fan of this old spaceship. Any detractors, like having 5 pilot-able options with only two minifigs can be understood with all their buddies they’d have to break from the Space Police II
This Absolute Classic brings me to the conclusion of my look back at some of my favorite LEGO from the ‘90s. I’m sure I’ll do more shoots with these sets in the future, but I’ve got a ton of contemporary sets to showcase for now and a large MOC in progress.
What did you think of this ship? Did you have it? Does it hold up today?
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A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
Pioneer Mine, B.C. to Vancouver, B.C., 27 October 1931
3 cents forward letter + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents.
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Pioneer Mine was a historic Canadian gold mining community in the Bridge River District, some eighty dirt road miles west of the town of Lillooet.
Just up the mountain ridge from Bralorne, the Pioneer mine is closed, the town deserted, but telltale signs in foundations
overgrown with brush are still visible to hikers through the thousand acres of this mining territory.
During the mid-1890s, companies such as Pioneer Gold Mines and Bralorne Mines were developed in the Bridge River district of south-central B. C. and became substantial gold-producers for a number of years.
By 1914 Pioneer Gold Mines was set up with more industrial equipment, boilers and modern rock mill. The site worked through the 1920s and the profitable King vein exploited. But it was the collapse of world markets and the solid price of gold in the Depression, when the mines really took off; when men and investment ramped up production. The district was one of the few bright lights in the BC economy during the Depression - in a seven-year period in the 1930s, the mines of the Bridge River produced $370,000,000 in gold.
In 1928 Pioneer Gold Mines of B.C. Limited assumed operational control. From 1928 to 1971, the Bralorne and nearby Pioneer and King mines produced 4.15 million ounces of gold from 7.9 million tons of ore. Average head grades exceeded halfanounce per ton.
Link to - Winter at Pioneer Mine and Townsite, 1939. - www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-commu...
A small former mining town south of Gold Bridge, located on the western flank of the Bendor Range in the Coast Mountains. Bralorne was the largest and most important of the towns of the Bridge River goldfields. The town of Pioneer Mine, a few miles southeast, was older but it was Bralorne which became the main centre of the district, even though it was purely a company town and many services were located in satellite communities at Ogden or Brexton or various tiny localities sandwiched in between mine properties or even perched on road allowances - or 10 miles away in Gold Bridge or en route to Shalalth at Minto City where Gun Creek enters Carpenter Lake today (Minto was itself a company town but less restrictively managed than Bralorne or Pioneer). The non-company towns and localities provided various amenities forbidden by company policy, such as bars and "sporting houses" (brothels), or simply commercial services of one kind or another from garages to shoemakers to grocery stores.
The Post Office at Pioneer Mine was established - 1 May 1928 and closed - 31 December 1966. The Pioneer Gold Mines of B.C. Ltd. / Bralorne Pioneer Mines Ltd. were in charge of the Post Office from - 16 March 1947 to - 7 September 1961.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the PIONEER MINE Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
- sent from - / PIONEER MINE / OC 27 / 31 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer was proofed - 21 April 1928.
- by registered mail - / R / Pioneer Mine, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (2022) / - registered boxed marking in grayish black ink.
via - / VANCOUVER / OC 28 / 31 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
arrived at - / VANCOUVER • B.C. / OC 29 / 31 / POSTAL STATION • C / - partial cds arrival backstamp
- sent by - From / J. Prestage / Pioneer Mine P.O. / B.C.
George John Arthur Prestage (George Prestage)
(b. 1872 in West Hackney, London, England – d. 4 June 1937 in Marguerite, British Columbia) - Born in West Hackney, London, England on about 1872 to George Henry Prestage and Ellen Smith. George John Arthur Prestage married Mary Henrietta Trueman and had 4 children.
His wife - Mary Henrietta (nee Trueman) Prestage
(b. 1862 in England – d. 6 November 1939 at age 79 in Castle Rock, B.C.) - Her first husband was George Marmaduke Hewett (1852 - 1890).
They had four children:
(1) - John Arthur George Prestage (b. 21 March 1897 in Chigwell, England – d. 7 May 1990 at age 93 in Vancouver, B.C.)
His wife - Mary Elizabeth (nee Sheriff) Prestage (b. 19 January 1905 in Calgary, Alberta - d. 7 March 1978 at age 73 in Vancouver, B.C.) - they were married in Vancouver, B.C. on 4 January 1930.
(this registered letter was sent by Mary Elizabeth Prestage - as the writing on this cover matches her writing on their marriage certificate)
John Arthur George Prestage is listed in the 1931 Wrigley's - British Columbia Directory living in Pioneer Mine, B.C. as J. A. Prestage - occupation - mucker P G mines (Pioneer Gold Mines) - “Mucking” was the mining term for shoveling broken rock into tramming cars. In mining operations large enough to divide up the work, the men who earned their living shoveling were called muckers.
(2) - Donald William Prestage - he was born in London, England on - 26 November 1898 to George John Arthur Prestage and Mary Henrietta Trueman. Donald William Prestage passed away on - 28 Mar 1956 in Narcosli Creek, British Columbia.
(28 July 1928 / Quesnel, B.C.) - The marriage occurred last Saturday afternoon - 21 July 1928 in Quesnel, B.C., at the Church of St. John the Divine here, of Christine Martha Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Cooper of Castle Rock, to Donald William Prestage, of the Pioneer mine, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. A. Prestage, of Castle Rock, B.C.
(3) - Stanley Roy Prestage
(b. 7 June 1900 in London, England – d. 20 February 1975 at age 74 in Creston, British Columbia, Canada) - he married Naomi Rebecca Land (b. USA) on - 10 May 1930 in Alexandria, B.C.
(4) - Marjory Helen Prestage - she was born in Stanbridge Wales, (or Withyham) Sussex, England on 18 Aug 1903 to George John Arthur Prestage and Mary Henrietta Trueman. Marjorie Helen Prestage married Richard Alfred Humphries Smith (b. Quebec) and had 5 children. She passed away in Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada. They were married - 6 May 1923 in MacAlister, B.C.
- addressed to: The Vancouver Drug Co., / Vancouver, / B.C.
This is only a small fraction of the seabirds that had assembled on the shoreline of the well-visited public beach park. If you walked slowly through the place where they were resting, the grounded flock usually parted (without flying) to create a path to let you pass through. Sometimes, however, the beachgoers' actions spooked them and they rose en masse, circling low across the area before resettling in the same spot on the beach. This behavior afforded many photo ops for close flight shots of the group, and even better yet, of individual birds. Most of these birds are Royal Terns and Elegant Terns, but I also could spot a few black bills (now out of frame to the left) that indicate Sandwich Terns.
IMG_0335; Royal Terns
The Walker Dam – Its Past, Present and Future
28 years I have lived in Aberdeen, never knowing this beautiful piece of land was less than a 15 minute drive through the city centre from my home.
I visited today 3rd May 2018, and walked the whole area taking photos of everything that lured me, on my walk I saw herrons, mandarin ducks , mallards etc, it was a joy.
The weather was overcast though warm and bright, I will revisit in the summer on a golden day to get the best of this beautiful area of Aberdeen.
The Walker Dam, with which many Aberdeen citizens are so familiar, is only a fraction of the size it was when - in the 1830s - it was constructed in accordance with the plans drawn by
Aberdeen’s first City Architect, John Smith.
From the second quarter of the 19th century to the early 20th century the dam was a deep and massive body of water which extended from its present location, eastward, to Springfield Road – then called Walker Dam Road – where its sluice gate would have been opened at the beginning of the working day to allow water to rush through a culvert under the road, then south-east through a deep man-made channel (which is still evident today) to feed the steam condensing ponds of the Rubislaw Bleachfield, the property Richards and Company, textile manufacturers.
Today this treasured green space is one of Aberdeen City Council's 'Local Nature Conservation Sites', the 'Walker Dam and Rubislaw Link', which is a 3.9 kilometre walk along
a series of connected paths and streets. Popular with dog walkers, joggers and ramblers, the future of this valuable charming landscaped area with its semi-natural habitats, has been secured by the initiatives and work of 'Friends of Walker Dam' who are registered with 'Keep Scotland Beautiful' - a Scottish environment charity – which, independent of governmental finance and influence, is committed to the improvement of people’s lives and the places they care for.
The Friends of Walker Dam work in partnership with Aberdeen City Council to deliver the standards of maintenance and the plans for future improvements to this amenity site.
Mr Allan Davidson, Treasurer of Craigiebuckler and Seafield Community Council who is also a member of Friends of Walker Dam, has frequent meetings with the City Council's Environment Manager.
Those meetings have been very productive and improvements to the site have already been achieved.
For example, there has been a clean-up of the Dam and the
burn which flows into it; improvements have also been made to the path on the South bank of the dam, which is part of Aberdeen's core path system. The Walker Dam sign has also
been repainted.
In the near future, a bridge will be constructed at the East bank of the dam to connect its North and South banks - thus making both banks accessible for the enjoyment of visitors to
the dam. This significant infrastructural improvement has been made possible by a final act of generosity by Aberdeen Greenspace Trust. Local Councillor Martin Greig is a member of Greenspace and worked to ensure a donation of £8000 from the Trust towards the upgrade of the Walker Dam which includes the construction of the bridge, new benches, bins and various paths and tree works. A further enhancement in the area is a community notice
board.
Thanks to the Friends of Walker Dam, Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeen Greenspace Trust and the work of many volunteers, we have much to look forward to.
Walker Dam is located within the former Royal Forest of Stocket, part of the Freedom Lands gifted by Robert I to the burgh (recorded in a charter of 1319). Now it is in the modern
Burnieboozle estate, part of the larger Craigiebuckler estate, which was sparsely populated countryside until the 1950s, when major housing development began in that area.
Walker Dam is bounded by Springfield Road (which replaced a roadway called Walker Dam Road) to the east and Woodburn Gardens to the north.
The dam is fed by the Holburn (‘Burn of the Howe’), which has two head waters, the northern and greater one coming from Hazlehead and through Walker Dam.
The section entering Walker Dam is the West Burn of Rubislaw. The two head streams of the Holburn joined together between Rubislaw Quarry and Springbank Cemetery, and this united stream fed the steamcondensing
ponds at Rubislaw Bleachfield before flowing eastward together as far as Hartington Road, where they separate.
The south branch, the original burn, crossed Union Grove and passed under the old Holburn Bridge, while the north branch, an artificial mill-lead, went to the Upper and Lower Justice Mills.
As a consequence, Walker Dam was at one time closely associated with the city’s milling operations and, especially, with textile manufacturing. In the nineteenth century it was a resource integral to the firm once called Maberly’s (established between 1808 and 1811) and later Richards, which had the Broadford Works on Maberly Street and which was
the principal user of the bleachfields. An 1866-67 Ordnance Survey description of Walker Dam gives it as ‘a very large dam built by the proprietors of the Rubislaw Bleach Field for their own use.’
Bleachfields were a development of the eighteenth century Scottish textile and thread industries. The first bleachfield in Scotland was established in the late 1720s as an alternative to
either small, burnside bleaching operations which were of variable quality, or sending the unbleached cloth to England, Ireland or Holland for treatment.
In March 1801, the lands of Springfield were offered for sale. They were described as comprising about 63 acres, ‘inclosed and subdivided’, and held feu of ‘the Community of Aberdeen’ at the annual feu-duty of £2 14s 2d sterling. A large house was included in the sale, and it was noted that ‘the dam for the Justice-mills is situated within this property, and the millburn
passes thro’ it, by which considerable benefit may be derived by a purchaser.’
In 1833 Aberdeen Town Council agreed to have Walker Dam cleaned out and deepened, in partnership with Messrs Richards and Company, manufacturers in Aberdeen.
Richards was the instigator of the plan, to which the Council agreed because the work was expected to be ‘highly
beneficial to the Upper and Nether Justice Mills by affording them an additional supply of water,’ and authorised it providing that the Town’s share of the costs would not exceed £20; the work would be executed under the sole charge of John Smith, Town Superintendant; and Richards, which must not spend less than the Council on the project, should not use this as a means of claiming any right over Walker Dam in future.
In 1837, Richards proposed to the Council that Walker Dam should be excavated and extended, citing an 1829 agreement to this effect between the Town and Messrs Maberly and Company, the previous owners of the manufacturing works now operated by Richards (Maberley’s folded in 1832).
Richards sought a lease of the dam water at a fixed rent once the work had been completed.
The Council remitted consideration of this to a committee previously established to look at a proposal to move Justice Mill Dam westwards to Rubislaw. Early in 1839, the Council
approved the recommendation of this committee that Walker Dam should be excavated and enlarged so that it would hold an additional 700,000 cubic feet of water, again on the grounds that it would provide a more reliable source of water for the town’s mills, especially in the dry
season.
The new capacity of the dam was expected to be more than adequate for the needs of the mills. The estimated cost of the works at this stage was £360: should the eventual cost exceed £400, Richards was to pay the excess.
The company was also to pay the Council £75 a year for its
lease of the water, and would be responsible for repair and maintenance of the extended dam, to the satisfaction of the Town, during the life of its lease. (Richards continued to own rights over the water for several decades.)
After further negotiations, a Council meeting of 15 April 1839 approved implementation of the project and authorised the Town Treasurer to enter into a contract with Richards and Co.
Work included the construction of a spillwater tunnel and breast mound for the dam extension,with additional dykes and the installation of a new cast-iron tunnel pipe and sluice.
The plans,drawings and a detailed specification produced by the Council formed the basis of the contract, signed on 17 April 1839.
The revised estimate of costs based on the plans drawn up by the Town considerably exceeded the original £400 anticipated; the Council minutes do not record the new estimate but note that Richards offered to pay the full amount, on the basis that Richards would receive the original £400 from the Town once the work was completed.
The Council had earlier noted that implementation of the project would require the purchase of an adjacent piece
of land owned by Alexander Bannerman and instructed that he should be approached to sell part
of his property near Springfield
The necessary land was obtained from Bannerman at a feu-duty of £20, recorded in a feu charter of 19 April 1839.
On 1 August 1860, the lands and estates of Craigiebuckler and Burnieboozle, including Walker Dam, were offered for sale by public roup, as part of the sequestrated estate of John Blaikie,
advocate. (John Blaikie went to Spain in 1860, following the collapse of his business and financial ruin. He was a son of James Blaikie of Craigiebuckler, Provost of Aberdeen from 1833 to 1835.) Walker Dam is described in the sale notice as ‘an Ornamental Sheet of Water, from which there is an yearly Revenue of £20 sterling from the Town of Aberdeen’.
The estates evidently failed to sell at the advertised ‘upset price’ (the lowest price consistent with the valuation of a property) of at £5,771 2s 6d, since the estate of Burnieboozle, within which Walker Dam is situated, was again offered for sale on 3 September 1860, now at £5,500, with neighbouring lands at Springfield for sale separately.18 Again it failed to realise this amount and was offered for sale on 5 October 1860 at the further reduced upset price of £5,200.19.
At some point after this date it was purchased by John Stewart, Esq.
The lands of Burnieboozle and Walkerhill were once again offered for sale in August 1865, with Walker Dam included - the sale notice mentions the annual feu-duty of £20 paid by the Town Council on it.20 In early September, the Aberdeen Journal reported that ‘The estates of Craigiebuckler, Burnieboozle, Walkerhill, and others, lately belonging to John Stewart, Esq., were on Friday purchased for the sum of £31,500 by Lauchlan McKinnon, junior, advocate, on behalf
of John Cardno Couper, Esq., lately of Whampoa, China.’ (Whampoa is now usually known as Classifed advertisement inviting tenders for the work, The Aberdeen Journal, 30 Jan 1839.
urgh, had served as an apprentice in the Aberdeen shipbuilding
firm of Alexander Hall and Co. before going to Hong Kong and working with his father in their
own highly successful ship-building and repairing company. By the time he returned to Aberdeen
in the 1860s, he had amassed a fortune. He was involved in a number of Aberdeen business
enterprises and in the Church of Scotland. Couper gave a portion of land close to Walker Dam to
be the site of Craigiebuckler Church, built in 1883, of which he was an elder. He died in January
1902 at the age of 82. His son, Lieutenant-Colonel John Cardno Ogston Couper (1st Highland
Brigade), succeeded to the property but died at the age of 48 in 1913. His widow and two young
children remained at Craigiebuckler; his daughter, Florence, went on to marry the ministe
Dr S. Marshall, 2014
The Council’s Finance Committee visited the dam in the aftermath of the tragic incident and
agreed to recommend the repair of the surrounding walls. They also instructed that information
boards should be erected at the site warning of the dangers. During this site visit, one of the
councillors slipped by the side of the stream entering the dam, and fell into the mud. It is not
clear if the children had similarly slipped and landed in the water, or if they had intended to enter
it.
The future of Walker Dam was the subject of two proposals of 1933. Council minutes of 4 December that year record that Aberdeen Land Association intended to donate to the Council the wooded den lying between Johnston House on Springfield Road and Viewfield Road, on condition the den should be maintained by the local authority as an open space and that the Council pay half the cost of a proposed road to be built along the west boundary of the property.
The Council formally accepted this proposal in January of 1934.26.
Also in December 1933, the City Engineer, Thomas F. Henderson, wrote to the Council’s Streets and Works Committee, which was then looking at the widening of Springfield Road and the layout and construction of a new road between it and Queen’s Road. Henderson asked the
committee to consider the future use of the Council-owned Walker Dam at the same time.
According to Henderson: ‘This dam is formed on a burn which rises in the grounds of Hazlehead and flows through the dam and joins the West Burn of Rubislaw at a point south-east of
Kepplestone Nursing Home and later forms what is known as the Ferryhill Burn.’
On 12 July that year, very heavy rainfall had flooded the electricity works and caused damage to property in
Crown Street and Ferryhill Terrace. To prevent further flooding, the water was run out of the dam on 1 September and although here had been no heavy rain since then, ‘we know that, by controlling the flow at the outlet of the dam we can reduce the risk of flooding in the lower parts
very considerably.
‘In conjunction with the Superintendant of Parks, I have prepared a plan showing how the Walker Dam could be laid out as a pleasure ground where the public could leave Springfield Road and walk through the gardens on to the grounds of Hazlehead.
The superintendant of parks is of the opinion that during storm periods the gardens could be flooded without doing much damage to the grass or plants. As the Dam is the property of the Common Good, I would suggest that the sub-committee confer with the Finance Committee and Town Planning Committee and submit a report.’
The next meeting of full Council on 3 January 1934 agreed that the committee should investigate further, though it also wanted the remarks of the Superintendant of Parks about flooding not doing damage to the proposed gardens to be deleted. Also presented to the Council at the same
meeting was a letter to the Town Clerk from Professor James Ritchie of the University of Aberdeen, suggesting the Council should consider making Walker Dam a bird sanctuary. This
was remitted to Streets and Works Committee for consideration. (The two schemes were possibly
not wholly compatible - some residents opposed turning the site into a pleasure park on the grounds that it would interfere with the natural beauty and the birdlife of the site.)
It seems that these two proposals had been prompted by the threat of the dam being filled in or otherwise scrapped: two days after the Council meeting, a reader’s letter to the
Aberdeen Journal urged that the dam should be improved and made safe for children rather than ‘done away with’.
The writer suggested that a low wall could be built around it, ‘made from the old dykes that have been pulled down in the vicinity’. Whatever enclosure was erected in 1911 after the drowning incident had evidently not endured.
The same edition of the paper published an old photograph of the dam ‘before it was drained’.
This remark referred to the decision to run off the water in the dam the previous year, to obviate flood damage to the surroundings. However, doing so had created other problems – correspondents to the Aberdeen Journal in 1934 complained about the condition of the dam as ‘an evil-smelling mudhole’ and ‘horrible looking and stinking’, especially during hot weather, and recommended that the Medical Officer of Health should investigate.
Whatever schemes were mooted for the dam, they took a considerable time to be implemented.
The better part of two years later, a short Bon-Accord article of October 1935 reports work being undertaken to transform Walker Dam, ‘from its present wild state’.
From the mid-1940s and during the 1950s, Stewart Construction (Aberdeen) Ltd., which was by then the heritable proprietor of the Craigiebuckler estate, built several housing developments on the land around Walker Dam.29
The minute of a meeting of the Links and Parks Committee of Aberdeen Town Council, held on 24 August 1964, notes that the committee considered a report by the Director of Parks and agreed the recommendation that the Council lay out an amenity area on ground lying to the south of the woodlands at Walker Dam extending to c. 0.75 of an acre. This was one of three proposed (and agreed) amenity areas to be created in the vicinity and included in the report, the others being a
strip of ground on the south side of Hazledene Road (c. 0.4 acre), and two strips of ground adjoining Craigiebuckler Avenue (c. 3,150 square yards).
The total estimated cost is given as £1,470.30
By this time Walker Dam had become home to a community of swans. The Press & Journal reported that the Links and Parks Committee of 30 September 1964 considered a letter from the
Aberdeen Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, requesting the committee ban fishing in Walker Dam, so as to protect the swans living on it. The committee recommended no action.
This was the second attempt by the association to have fishing banned: it had submitted a similar request at the previous meeting. The renewal of the request was prompted by the discovery of a cygnet badly injured by a fishing hook and line.
Walker Dam is no longer a swan habitat, but they were a popular feature of Walker Dam for many years. When Walker Dam Infant School opened in 1966, it adopted the emblem of swans on water as its school badge. (The swans have also inspired the song, ‘Walker Dam’, by Aberdeen singer-songwriter Bob Knight.)
A Springfield resident, Mrs Nanette Grieve, had left the Council a bequest on her death in 1955 to
fund the services of a warden to protect them.
At times, much effort was put into ensuring this protection: the Evening Express in 1972 reported that the Council had mounted a vigil of ‘almost Loch Garten proportions’ to see that swan eggs made it to hatching. In previous years eggs had
been stolen or lost due to flooding.
As this suggests, the problem of flooding at Walker Dam, highlighted by the City Engineer in 1933, was still an issue over thirty years later.
In 1965, the Evening Express published ‘before and after’ photographs of the flooded area: the latter image shows Council parks and recreation staff laying out grounds and planting shrubs and other flora capable of surviving immersion for a Craigiebuckler Chartulery (Charter Register of Craigiebuckler, 1958-1959), CA/4/21 in Records of the Royal Burgh and City of Aberdeen, Aberdeen City Archives.
The newspaper also reported that the works were to include provision for the dam water to be diverted at times into a burn, so relieving the pressure and reducing the silting that had caused flooding problems in the past.
A 1969 article in the Aberdeen Press & Journal refers
to Walker Dam being a body of water ‘shaped and even bottomed by the combined operations of the Aberdeen Corporation Cleansing and Links & Parks Departments,’ and to a plan by Links & Parks to provide an amenity walk or nature trail along the course from Johnston Gardens to Hazlehead, via Walker Dam.
Today (2014) Walker Dam (with Rubislaw Link) is a 3.38 hectare Local Nature Conservation Site, run by Aberdeen City Council’s Countryside Ranger Service.33 Comprising a mix of open water, landscaped areas and semi-natural habitats, with a footpath running through it, Walker Dam is animportant recreational and educational resource, being one of the few larger bodies of water in the city.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_443)
"Jellyfish Nebula" redirects here. Not to be confused with jellyfish galaxy.
IC 443 (also known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248 (Sh2-248)) is a galactic supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini. On the plane of the sky, it is located near the star Eta Geminorum. Its distance is roughly 5,000 light years from Earth.
IC 443 may be the remains of a supernova that occurred 30,000 - 35,000 years ago. The same supernova event likely created the neutron star CXOU J061705.3+222127, the collapsed remnant of the stellar core. IC 443 is one of the best-studied cases of supernova remnants interacting with surrounding molecular clouds.
Global properties:
IC 443 is an extended source, having an angular diameter of 50 arcmin (by comparison, the full moon is 30 arcmin across). At the estimated distance of 5,000 ly (1,500 parsec) from Earth, it corresponds to a physical size of roughly 70 light years (20 parsec).
The SNR optical and radio morphology is shell-like (e.g. a prototypical shell-like SNR is SN 1006), consisting of two connected sub-shells with different centers and radii. A third, larger sub-shell—initially attributed to IC 443—is now recognized as a different and older (100,000 years) SNR, called G189.6+3.3.[1]
Notably, IC 443 X-ray morphology is centrally peaked and a very soft X-ray shell is barely visible.[2] Unlike plerion remnants, e.g. the Crab Nebula, the inner X-ray emission is not dominated by the central pulsar wind nebula. It has indeed a thermal origin.[3] IC 443 shows very similar features to the class of mixed morphology[4] SNRs. Both optical and X-ray emission are heavily absorbed by a giant molecular cloud in the foreground, crossing the whole remnant body from northwest to southeast.
The remnant's age is still uncertain. There is some agreement that the progenitor supernova happened between 3,000[3] and 30,000[5] years ago. Recent Chandra[6] and XMM-Newton[7] observations identified a plerion nebula, close to the remnant southern rim. The point source near the apex of the nebula is a neutron star, relic of a SN explosion. The location in a star forming region and the presence of a neutron star favor a Type II supernova, the ultimate fate of a massive star, as the progenitor explosion.
The SNR environment:
The SNR IC 443 is located in the galactic anticenter direction (l=189.1°), close to the galactic plane (b=+3.0°). Many objects lie in the same region of sky: the HII region S249, several young stars (members of the GEM OB1 association), and an older SNR (G189.6+3.3).
The remnant is evolving in a rich and complex environment, which strongly affects its morphology. Multi-wavelength observations show the presence of sharp density gradients and different cloud geometries in the surroundings of IC 443. Massive stars are known to be short lived (roughly 30 million years), ending their life when they are still embedded within the progenitor cloud. The more massive stars (O-type) probably clear the circum-stellar environment by powerful stellar winds or photoionizing radiation. Early B-type stars, with a typical mass between 8 and 12 solar masses, are not capable of this, and they likely interact with the primordial molecular cloud when they explode. Thus, it is not surprising that the SNR IC 443, which is thought to be the aftermath of a stellar explosion, evolved in such a complex environment. For instance, an appreciable fraction of supernova remnants lies close to dense molecular clouds (~50 out of 265 in the Green catalogue[8]), and most of them (~60%) show clear signs of interaction with the adjacent cloud.
X-ray and the optical images are characterized by a dark lane, crossing IC 443 from northwest to southeast. Emission from quiescent molecular gas has been observed toward the same direction,[9] and it is likely due to a giant molecular cloud, located between the remnant and the observer. This is the main source of extinction of the low energy SNR emission.
In the southeast the blast wave is interacting with a very dense (~10,000 cm−3) and clumpy molecular cloud, such that the emitting shocked gas has a ring-like shape. The blast wave has been strongly decelerated by the cloud and is moving with an estimated velocity of roughly 30–40 km s−1.[10] OH (1720 MHz) maser emission, which is a robust tracer of interaction between SNRs and dense molecular clouds, has been detected in this region.[11] A source of gamma-ray radiation[12] is spatially coincident with IC 443 and the maser emission region, though is not well understood whether it is physically associated with the remnant or not.
In the northeast, where the brightest optical filaments are located, the SNR is interacting with a very different environment. The forward shock has encountered a wall of neutral hydrogen (HI), and is propagating into a less dense medium (~10-1,000 cm−3) with a much higher velocity (80–100 km s−1)[10] than in the southern ridge.
In the western region, the shock wave breaks out into a more homogeneous and rarefied medium.
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
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Yahk is an unincorporated hamlet in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, just north of the Canada-U.S. border. Yahk Provincial Park borders the village to the south. Yahk is located on the Moyie River.
Thanks to the CPR Railway pushing westwards, the community of Yahk came to be in 1899 when the railroad arrived. By 1905 the King family had settled in the area and set up the King Lumber Company with milling operations located in nearby Ryan. The Yahk Hotel, post office and general store quickly followed as other families moved here and logging continued to expand and flourish. A one-room school was opened in 1918 and by 1920 a second school opened. In 1928 CPR-sponsored families from Europe arrived and the town of Yahk was thriving. By 1931 a grass runway had been built designed as a stopping point for the Trans Canada Airway between Lethbridge in Alberta and Vancouver in British Columbia. Eventually the airstrip was used for emergency service only and it shut down in 1988. By the late 1930s the road was being paved.
During the prohibition era which began in 1917, inhabitants of Yahk had a very profitable side industry distilling and selling illicit alcohol, driving it to and from the US under cover of darkness – at least, so the story goes!
Today, the train no longer runs through Yahk and the artifacts from the bygone era are housed in the Creston Museum. This quiet hamlet is home to some 130 families and many more in the summer who come here to camp or stop enroute north or south to enjoy the scenic Moyie River or savour an ice cream. Link to the complete article - www.travel-british-columbia.com/kootenay-rockies/canadian...
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - YAHK, a post office in Kootenay District, B.C., and a station on the C.P.R., 41 miles from Cranbrook and 42 miles from Kootenay Landing.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - YAHK, a post office and station on the C. P. Railway, Crow's Nest line, at junction of C. P. Railway line south to Spokane. It is 26 miles east of Creston. and 41 southwest of Cranbrook, in Cranbrook Provincial Electoral District. Is on the Moyie River. Has East Kootenay and Government telephone lines; also C. P. R. telegraph. Water tank rand two section crews. The population in 1918 was 59. Local resources: Lumbering.
The population of Yahk, B.C. in 1932 was 150.
The Yahk Post Office opened - 1 September 1905, S.A. Speers was the Postmaster. "Yahk" is the Kootenay Indian name of the river (variously spelled Yaak, Yak and Yaht), meaning "arrow", referring to its arrow-like position at the bow or bend of the Kootenay River. From the Indian word "yaak" meaning "bow", a name which the Kootenay Indians applied to the Kootenay River which first flows south then west, then north. By extension the word would be applied to the country contained within the "bow" of the Kootenay River. Some derive the name from "a'k" meaning "arrow".
From - / YAHK / SP 1 / 32 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A-2) was proofed - 2 November 1923 - (RF B).
/ R / YAHK, B. C. / ORIGINAL No. (109) / - rectangle box marking in purple ink
This registered letter was sent by - Thomas Evjen (b. 15 Mar 1891 in Norway - d. 31 Jul 1941 at Cranbrook, B.C.)
via - / MED. HAT & NEL. R.P.O. / 12 / SP 1 / 32 / No 9 / - cds rpo transit / W-77 - RF40 Hammer (#9b) - Canadian Pacific Railway - Medicine Hat & Nelson.
This registered cover was carried on the eastbound Medicine Hat & Nelson R.P.O. There is a Cranbrook arrival backstamp which is dated the same day.
The Medicine Hat & Nelson R.P.O. service began in 1901 and ended in 1957. There were also two short-lived runs, one between Medicine Hat & Lethbridge from 1949 and 1952 and another, between Medicine Hat & Cranbrook, from 1952 until 1954. Link to the complete article - www.bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/rpo/rpo-2007-07-v035n06-w19...
Addressed to: The Canadian Bank of Commerce / 902 Cranbrook, B.C.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building and Wentworth Hotel. The Canadian Bank of Commerce came to Cranbrook August 8, 1898, within a month of the arrival of the railway. Built at a cost of $15,000 it was one of Cranbrook's first imposing commercial structures. By 1967 the building no longer adequately accommodated bank business. The new (and present) Royal Bank building opened August 17th, 1968. The Wentworth Hotel can be seen behind the bank building. Link to photo - basininstitute.org/home/image.html?zn=7&id=d560405491...
There is a Cranbrook arrival split ring backstamp on the reverse of the cover - / CRANBROOK / SP 1 / 32 / B.C. / - this split ring hammer (#7) was proofed - 29 April 1925 - (RF A) - left arc - 8.0 mm / right arc - 7.5 mm.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - Cranbrook - a city of about 3,000 population, has a gravity water system, owned by the city, sewerage, and electric light and power day and night. The electric light and power plant is owned by a private company, the Cranbrook Electric Light Co. Limited. It is a divisional point of the C. P. R., being situated on the main line of the Crow's Nest branch. From Cranbrook a branch line of the C. P. R. runs to Kimberley, 19 miles north, a mining town whose output of silver-lead ore is the greatest on the continent and possibly is, at the present time, the greatest in the world. This branch also touches Wycliffe, 9 miles from Cranbrook, where are situated the sawmills of the Otistaples Lumber Co. Ltd. Another branch of the C. P. R. runs from Cranbrook to Golden, making connection between the Crow branch and the main line, and tapping the rich valley of the Columbia River. This line passes through the old mining town of Fort Steele, 11 miles from Cranbrook, which in earlier days added millions in coarse gold to the wealth of the country and is still augmenting it by a considerable output of fine gold from the washings of the rich tailings of former days. Wardner and Bull River, both mill towns, are served by this branch, and are within convenient distance of Cranbrook to insure that city getting the largest share of their business. To the west of Cranbrook, on the main Crow line, is the town of Wattsburg, 7 miles distant, where the mills of the Wattsburg Lumber Co. are located. Between Wattsburg and Cranbrook, 4 miles from the latter, is one of the mills of the East Kootenay Lumber Co.
Shaving fractions of seconds is the essence of hillclimbing, and that includes shaving the tyres to ensure that maximum grip is available. Wallace Menzies' Gould GR59M gets the treatment in the paddock, but it was not quite enough to prevent him being pipped for first place and BTD by the flying Matthew Ryder in a similar car, who also took a new outright hill record at 34.60 seconds.
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'There's a fraction too much friction
There's a fraction too much friction
Holding on the bygone era
Everybody shout cos we're getting nearer
There's a fraction too much friction
What we need is some positive action
What we need is some positive thought'
Tim Finn
Of the locomotives in storage. They go as far as the eye can see and around the curve they are four tracks wide sitting there, wasting away. Hamlet is a shadow of it's former self, it's sad. Gotta love "precision railroading"....
What you see here is actually only a fraction of the outfits Colleen and I designed for our Raggedy Ann and Andy paper dolls during 2001 and 2002. Back then, I think we spent at least an hour making them new outfits before each doll game. At some point, I think we had over a hundred! Circa 2003 or 2004, we decided to overhaul our vast collection. I designed new family members and furniture, and we thinned out Ann and Andy's ridiculously huge wardrobe. We kept only our favorite outfits, the ones we played with all the time, or the ones that were drawn better. Most of the ones in this picture were drawn and colored in by my sister. There are a few however that I made too (while she was making more clothes, I was usually designing new furniture). Ann and Andy had outfits for literally every occasion you could possibly imagine, and more. The top row features their bathing clothes (which I think they wore in the tub), random play outfits, school outfits (even though they didn't actually go to school), and winter play outfits. In the second row, there are Ann and Andy's tea party clothes, fishing outfits, chef outfits, and their camouflage (I'm not sure what they needed these outfits for). The third row pictures their grocery shopping ensembles (yes, they even had outfits just to run their errands at "Doll Mart"), their Thanksgiving clothes, their zoo outfits, and the clothes they wore to drink hot cocoa. The fourth and final row features Ann and Andy's beach clothes, Hawaiian costumes, and of course the outfits they wore when they tidied their house (which by the way got very messy all the time).
It was easy for me to date these outfits for a variety of reasons. The most obvious being that Colleen and I had an intricate coding system. On the backs of ALL our handmade Ann and Andy stuff, we put a series of numbers and letters. For example, two outfits and their coordinating accessories would all be labeled "A3." When we overhauled our collection in 2003 or 2004 we revamped our coding system, but it was more or less the same, we just scratched out the old codes and restarted the system to eliminate confusion. Plus, we always put our "brand" insignia on the back of their stuff: "S&C Workshop," with the date we completed the outfits (the "S" was for my name, Shelly, the "C" was for Colleen's name). The "S" and the "C" were actually linked together in the center. Colleen and I got a little bit carried away whenever we designed stuff....we sometimes thought we were famous designers and movie producers. Yes, we even used my whiteboard and my chalkboard to write down our cast, their roles, and we even mapped out our setups (which was my FAVORITE thing to do). These clothes are also the ones I remember the best, as we owned them the longest and played with them the most over the years, so even without our detailed labeling, I probably could have figured it out.
Some times the Eco Terrorists (like here) make attacks on high-tech targets as this advanced Spaceport hangar, the usually shoot their way to the core of the base, smashing high-tech equipment is priority and when they finally get cornered enough they use pre 2021 explosives to make as much damage to the tech before they go out...
They usually make a last battle call "for the extinct animals and nature, for natural tech of a pre-2021 natural-technology, I give my soul to the Gaia Goddess!
then the charges usually go off wiping out them and some of the tech-structures!
It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.
This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty. As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leland Stanford was one of the “Big Four” founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, and by mid-century had amassed a fortune of many millions of dollars. When one spoke of a “Robber Baron”, Leland Stanford would be among the first names to come to mind. Yet during the final decade of his life, Leland Stanford had come to the conclusion that American society would in the future be better off if it did not create more tycoons such as himself; instead, that the division between capitalist and laborer should disappear, that the industries of American should come to be owned and managed cooperatively by their very workers. This, Stanford saw as a fulfillment of the dream of American democracy.
Beyond Capitalism:
Leland Stanford’s Forgotten Vision
dynamics.org/~altenber/PAPERS/BCLSFV/
We do not need a Michael Moore's documentary to show us what Wall Street and it's religion "Capitalism" is doing to America and the world. It is clear to all working people and the millions who have lost jobs and homes all across this country the effects of this heartless greed based system. Over the last few years we see millions of families thrown into the streets without a roof over their heads; too bad you did not read the fine print that I was about to rob you of your American dream; young families, the sick and even the elderly alike are not spared. They are left to fend in a nightmare of hopelessness. We know hundreds of thousands die for lack or decent healthcare and millions more continue to live without healthcare in the world wealthiest nation. These greedy capitalist spend billions on slick television commercials, lobbyist and talking heads trying to convince the American people that having universal healthcare is an ungodly thing and bad for them. While they rob the American tax payers of trillions of dollars to save their crumbling empires of greed.
The destruction of American jobs en masse is not a mistake but a deliberate plan by the “Robber Barons” to produce more with less workers and to increase unworldly profits. Over the last 30 years workers are producing more while their salaries and security diminishes. Where is the fairness for the working man and woman that create the wealth with his labor?. When the CEO of a large corporation can make more in one year than a worker can make in a lifetime, something is terrible wrong with the picture. when a CEO can make $42 million in 4 years while millions of the world inhabitants live on less than a dollar a day, something is devilish wrong with that. Those who support this inequality think nothing is wrong with that, I say where is the human conscience in this scenario. Somethings are just plain wrong and this is one of them.
American workers have struggled and fought for a living wage, better working condition and job security over a hundred years. However, their rights have been systemically crushed and weaken; Unions have been marginalized and destroyed. This is what Capitalism loves, it loves a defenseless workforce that it can disposed of without any opposition. Millions of workers have lost Jobs and if you have notice that there has been very little mass workers protest or resistance in this country during all this. Today Wall street is enjoying a comeback they say, raking in billions in profits while the american workers see none of this. The working class and the poor struggle each day to keep their heads above water. We are told that this is the best system for the creation of wealth, but at what cost and for who? surly not for the American workers who are getting poorer while a minority gets richer. The gap between the rich and the poor is now wider than at any other time in human history.
The American working class must wake up to the lie of this system that continue to strangle them. Nowhere in the constitution of America is Capitalism mentioned. It is not synonymous with Democracy or Freedom. China's increase growth and success proves the point that Capitalism does not need Democracy or Political freedoms to survive, it flourishes even under Communist dictatorship. All the "freedom" loving capitalist are now embracing China's money making machine with much excitement. They are very elated with China's model it is what they have been working on in America for decades.
The alternative is to have a wealth creation system that is based on fairness and Democracy. A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and democratically controlled by its worker-owners. Workers who produce wealth should have a greater say and share of that wealth which they produce with their labor. Workers should not beg for crumbs that fall form the fat cats table.
The Second Bill of Rights
was a proposal made by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944 to suggest that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second bill of rights. Roosevelt did not argue for any change to the United States Constitution; he argued that the second bill of rights was to be implemented politically, not by federal judges. Roosevelt's stated justification was that the "political rights" guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness." Roosevelt's remedy was to create an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee:
A job with a living wage
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
A home
Medical care
Education
Recreation
This Second Bill of Rights were never implemented in America. Ironically these are also the same rights that Unions all over the world have been fighting for. However, Capitalism continue to make sure these basic guarantees never happen in America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
I recommend my visitors to see the Michael Moore Movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" if some are not convinced by what has happened and experienced these last 20 years. Maybe just maybe this film will change some mind.
Franklin Roosevelt -Second Bill of Rights
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwUL9tJmypI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
Rochdale Principles
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Principles
Eisenhowers Farewell Address Jan. 1961
Jules Photo Challenge Group
June 2013
June 09- Some ideas are just hard to express- so show us something abstract
Spinning wheels make my mind wonder to follow the lines to see what the plan for the man becomes. Word.
a mere fraction of a second after that:
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A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
Moyie, B.C. to Cranbrook, B.C., 18 December 1931
3 cents forward letter + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents.
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Moyie is an unincorporated community in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located on Highway 3, 19 miles (30 km) south of Cranbrook on the eastern shore of Moyie Lake. Once known as Grande Quete, the origin of Moyie's name is, via the river of the same name, thought to be the French word mouille, meaning wet.
At one time called Moyie City, this tiny southern British Columbia community, once boasting a population of 1,200, was considered by the Canadian federal government as the most important silver-lead mining centre in the country. But today, all that remains of the operation — the St. Eugene Mine, located just outside the western edge of the current village of Moyie, are the tailings and concrete foundations from several large buildings. The mine’s boom years crested in 1909, with 450 employees but by 1920 it had dropped to 20 and the town never fully recovered. The ruins of an old church are nearby as well as the old graveyard, which is still being used and maintained. All of the ruins and graveyard are along Highway 3, which runs alongside Moyie Lake. The village of Moyie, 32 kilometres (20 miles) west of Cranbrook and current home to less than 200 citizens, is still hanging on. Residents can stop in and view several historic buildings from the mining era, including the old fire hall. LINK to the complete article - www.ghosttowns.com/canada/bc/moyie.html
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - MOYIE, a mining and post settlement in Yale and Cariboo District, B.C., on Moyie Lake, also a station on the Crow's Nest Pass of the C.P.R., 20 miles west of Cranbrook and 60 miles east of Sirdar Jet. The St. Eugene Mining Co., with a large lead concentrator (capacity 400 tons daily), operate here, and employ 300 men. Moyie has 2 churches (R.C. and Meth.), 5 stores, 6 hotels, 2 lumber mills, a silver-lead concentrator. 1 printing and newspaper office (Moyie "Leader," weekly), besides express and telegraph offices. The population in 1908 was 850.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia Directory) - MOYIE - a post office and station on the C. P. R. Crow's Nest line, 20 miles southwest of Cranbrook, on the west side of Moyie Lake, in Cranbrook Provincial Electoral District. Has C. P. R. telegraph, Methodist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches. The population in 1918 was 100. Local resources: St. Eugene Lead Mine, employing 20 men, ranching and lumbering.
LINK to a video - Gold Trails and Ghost Towns: Moyie - www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUPn4MUnGgw
Moyie Post Office was opened - 1 January 1899, named in association with the river, in turn a corruption of the French, mouiller, "to (make) wet", the name given by trappers owing to the moist conditions described by David Thompson, 1808. - it changed to a Franchise Office - 1 March 1967.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the MOYIE Post Office - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
- sent from / MOYIE / AM / DEC 18 / 31 / B.C. / - cds cancel - (RF B).
- by registered mail - / R / MOYIE, B.C. / ORIGINAL NO. (308) / - boxed marking in purple ink.
via - / M. HAT. & NEL. R.P.O. / 12 / DE 19 / 31 / No 9 / - rpo transit backstamp (very light / partial strike)
The Medicine Hat & Nelson R.P.O. service began in 1901 and ended in 1957. There were also two short-lived runs, one between Medicine Hat & Lethbridge from 1949 and 1952 and another, between Medicine Hat & Cranbrook, from 1952 until 1954.
Registered letter was addressed to: Canadian Bank of Commerce / Cranbrook / B.C.
arrived at - / CRANBROOK / DEC 19 / 31 / B.C. / - arrival split ring backstamp - this split ring hammer (A-7) was proofed - 29 April 1925 - (RF A).
This time other fraction, Wolfpack. This is one of my favourite nation of Lego Castle. Maybe that gatehouse will be a part of something bigger :) I want to build big fortress based on modular elements, which could be useable in other models. But I’m not sure that my computer has enough power, we will see ;)
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