South Fort George is a suburb of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. - Before the arrival of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, the Prince George area was known as Fort George and was a Lheidli T'enneh village and Hudson's Bay Company store. In 1909, two rival townsites were built and promoted. One was on the Fraser River and was called South Fort George, while the other was on the Nechako River and was called Central Fort George. Both of these townsites believed that the railway would build a station in their community, but in May 1912, the railway chose to purchase the First Nation's village instead.

(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - SOUTH FORT GEORGE - a post office and town on the Fraser River, and opposite Prince George on the G. T. P. Railway, 1 1/2 miles, in Fort George Provincial Electoral District. Served also by river steamers to Quesnel by the B. C. Express Co. Has Anglican, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches. The population in 1918 was 200. Local resources: Farming, timber and mining.

Link to - Wrigley's 1922 British Columbia Directory for South Fort George - archive.org/details/wrigleysbritishc1922wriguoft/page/710

The Fort George Post Office (1) was established - 1 July 1906 - it became South Fort George - 16 August 1910 / 1 September 1910 - and then became Prince George Sub Office South Fort George - 2 July 1959 and closed - 11 May 1962.

/ SOUTH FORT GEORGE / JUN 12 / 11 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A-1) was proofed - 23 July 1910 - (RF D).

Message on postcard reads - Dear Friend, June 3rd, Have just completed a 320 mile trip over a rough trail. We shot a number of game birds for eating & for the skins. I saw a colony of beaver but they are protected so had to leave them. We have a number of photos but haven't developed yet. Started from Ashcroft May 1st. Arrived June 2nd. Ivor Guest

From the book - "Voices of British Columbia" - Ivor B. Guest" is asked - What did you come to Vancouver for? What was out there? Ivor Answers - Oh, just some place to go, and I worked there that winter (1910-1911) for the Eastman Kodak Company on Granville Street and I saw posters of Fort George, B.C. - How they grow wheat and oranges, or not oranges but peaches and apples, and so on. So I thought, boy, that's a wonderful valley. I'll go up there...Read the complete chapter - Oh, Just Some Place to Go - by Ivor Guest - Vancouver to South Fort George - pages 57 to 61 - the Link - books.google.ca/books?id=rCYDFrR-ywgC&pg=PA57&lpg...

Ivor B. Guest (1886–1980), and his brother Harry (1882–1973), arrived in South Fort George in 1911. During the 1912 summer, Ivor worked for the forestry service as a fire warden along the Crooked River. The following winter he broke trail for Emmet Baxter (Shorty) Haynes' dog team taking mail, food, and whisky, to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction camps. Ivor operated a trading post at McLeod Lake 1914–20, interrupted by almost three years army service. A keen amateur photographer, he ran a photography supply, fishing tackle and stationery store in Prince George 1922–75. He married Mary Elizabeth Howes (1895–1979) in 1923. Harry B. Guest married Augusta Freida Grossman (c.1892–?) in 1915. He was connected with the pharmaceutical trade, and became a partner in the Prince George Drug Co. 1917–31. As coroner for the region throughout the 1920s, he no doubt examined cases in the vicinity. Harry's family relocated to Vancouver in the early 1930s. Link to a 1914 photo of Ivor B Guest Holding a Large Sturgeon at Thomas Creek, BC - search.nbca.unbc.ca/uploads/r/northern-bc-archives-specia...

1964-07-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ivor Guest recalls his history; he was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1886. He first came west in 1908 to Edmonton. He eventually came to Vancouver and saw posters of Fort George, and so he decided to go there. His brother came from New York to join him. Their other brother met up with them and in May 1911, they came to Ashcroft and bought a team of horses to make the journey to Fort George. He describes what the journey was like, what the road houses were like, the ferry at Quesnel and how he sold a horse and traded another to an Indian for a canoe which broke in two. He describes several characters with whom he rode dog teams and canoed; his job as a fire warden at the Crooked River near Fort McLeod in the summers of 1912 and 1913; a description of Fort McLeod and who lived there; the business of fur; the growth of Fort George and his first impressions; the business of saw mills; Summit Lake prospecting; and the Grand Trunk Railroad. TRACK 2: Mr. Guest continues by describing farming in the Fort George area; the old characters; and differences between central and south Fort George.

Link to - Ivor Guest Personnel Records from the First World War - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-wo...

Addressed to: Mr. Carl Herman / Yarmouth, Nova Scotia / Canada

Carl Herman was a shoemaker and had a Cobble Shop in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - he was also a taxidermist. He immigrated to Canada in 1901 from Germany.

Carl J. Herman

Birth - 1864

Death - 1957 (aged 92–93)

Burial - Churchill Cemetery Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Name: Carl Herman (from 1921 census)

Gender: Male

Marital status: Married

Age: 55

Birth Year: abt 1866

Birth Place: American Germany

Relation to Head of House: Head

Spouse's name: Emma Herman

Father Birth Place: Germany

Mother Birth Place: Germany

Year of Immigration: 1901

Racial or Tribal Origin: German

Province or Territory: Nova Scotia

District: Yarmouth and Clare

Occupation: Cobbler

Emma A. Herman

Birth - 1869

Death - 1944 (aged 74–75)

Burial - Churchill Cemetery Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada

this is my paternal grandmother, a milliner, born in 1880. she gave birth to my father when she was 48 years old in 1928, a year after immigrating to canada with my grandfather and their 5 other children - just in time for the depression. luckily i lived with her for a few years during my early childhood, otherwise i wouldn't have so many memories of her. she died in a car accident in the spring of 1966, the year i was 5. my dad adored and respected his mother, and was never able to speak of her without a great deal of emotion. i remember her beautiful hands, her pure white hair, and that she never needed an alarm clock to wake on time. she also made the best matrimonial cake (date squares) in the world.

the artifacts are her gold locket, which you can see her wearing in the photo, her emerald ring, and her linen handkerchief. the locket was a gift from her mother on her 19th birthday, the handkerchief was bought in ireland sometime before 1927, the ring was an anniversary gift from my grandfather circa 1945. i wear the ring nearly every day. the chain on the locket is modern, the original long since gone.

Montreal’s Portuguese community is celebrating two big milestones this year: a decade of the “Festival Portugal International de Montreal” and the 70th anniversary of Portuguese immigration to Canada.

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The ghost town of Newfoundout in the Ottawa Valley of Ontario still has a few old log structures left standing. This area was settled by Irish folks immigrating to Canada due to the potato famine of 1845-1852. Unfortunately it is located on top of a mountain and the area is too remote and the soil too poor for them to eke out a living. The area was abandoned within twenty years and became a "ghost town".

The first settlers north of the Peace River arrived in the last few years before the First World War. The trail to Dunvegan brought the settlers past a watering hole 4 miles south of the present site of Fairview. There a hamlet appropriately named “Waterhole” sprang into existence and served as a centre for the area until the railway was built in 1928, bypassing Waterhole to the north. The inhabitants of the hamlet moved to a new site by the railway which was called Fairview after one of the homesteads. By the end of the summer of 1928, Fairview already had six grain elevators, three hotels and a variety of businesses, serving a population of 400 to 500 persons. On the 28th of March 1929 Fairview achieved the status of a village and 20 years later (April 25, 1948) it was incorporated as a town.

Fairview is a town in northern Alberta within the heart of the Peace Country. It is located 82 km (51 mi) southwest of the Town of Peace River and 115 km (71 mi) north of Grande Prairie at the intersection of Highway 2 and Highway 64A. In 1928, the railroad extended west from Whitelaw through the Beaver Indian Reserve across a stubble field where the Hamlet of Fairview was established. The community of Waterhole, five miles to the south, was packed onto skids and wagons and relocated to the railroad site. The first train rolled into Fairview on November 2, 1928. The hamlet was incorporated as a village on April 22, 1929. In 1949, the village was incorporated into the Town of Fairview.

Waterhole is an old established office. It was opened on August 15, 1912. On January 29, 1928, Mr. David P. Smith, returned soldier, was appointed postmaster. Mr. Smith is still postmaster at Waterhole. Prior to Mr. Smith being appointed Mr. H. Sigler was acting postmaster. Mr. Sigler was applicant for the postmastership at Waterhole, and asked that if he were not successful in the appointment there he be considered as an applicant for the position of postmaster at Fairview.

Fairview post office (report from 1929). In 1920 authority was given for the opening of a new post office at Fairview, 44 miles from Waterhole. In submitting the application for the new office the district superintendent stated that there were two applicants, namely, Mr. Sigler and Mr. Levesque. In the first instance authority was given for the opening of the office at Fairview under the postmastership of Mr. Lesveque. In September the Postmaster General suspended action as he understood that Levesque was a non-resident. In November, 1928, the office was opened in charge of Mr. Sigler, who had been the former acting postmaster at Water-hole. Mr. Smith, the postmaster at Waterhole, inquired in regard to the possibility of his getting the appointment at Fairview, presumably on account of the increase in business at Waterhole, many of the residents having left for Fairview. Both offices are in operation at the present time. Mr. Smith is postmaster at Waterhole, and Mr. Sigler is the postmaster at Fairview. Up to the present time the postmaster at Fairview, Mr. Sigler, has been paid a salary of $100 a year. The postmaster at Waterhole, Mr. Smith, is still paid at the rate of approximately $1,000 a year.

The revenue of the Fairview post office from November 1, 1928, to the end of March, 1929, is $986. The revenue of the Waterhole office for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1929, is $1,423. The salaries will be adjusted on the above revenue bases at April 1, 1929.

sent from - / MONTREAL / SEP 29 / 10 PM / 1921 / P.Q. / - machine cancel.

arrived at - / WATERHOLE / OC 10 / 21 / ALTA / - split ring receiver.

The Waterhole Post Office closed - 31 March 1932.

Message on postcard reads: Teinkora - Apt 3 - September 29 - Montreal - Dear Mr. Trickett - Rev. H. M. Little is home again, his address is 4175 Western Ave., Montreal. His trip has done him a lot of good, he looks so much better. Mr. M does not want to go to Dunskirck again. They have a student - a Mr. Smith there now. E. Markhat

Addressed to: Rev. W. H. Trickett / Waterhole / Peace River / Alberta

William Henry Trickett (b. 1881 in England) he immigrated to Canada in 1902.

He was the Clergyman at the "St. John The Evangelist Anglican Church" in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario from 1909 to 1918. He was also a keen musician.

Link to - St. Helen's Church at Waterhole, Alberta - contentdm.ucalgary.ca/digital/collection/p22007coll8/id/1...

The Anglican Church in Calgary : church activities, 1878-1974 : accounts - The Early Years of The Church of The Redeemer, Calgary - 27 - In July 1924, Rev. William Henry Trickett was appointed an assistant priest in the Parish. In November he was appointed "Priest Vicar" in the "Pro". Link to the page - contentdm.ucalgary.ca/digital/collection/p22007coll8/id/1...

The old barn at Pinhey's Point Historic Site in Dunrobin (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada.

This barn, built in two phases during the 19th century, the right side of it being the original barn, is located next to the Horaceville manor house.

The Honourable Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey (1784-1857) immigrated to Canada from England in 1820 to develop his estate, Horaceville, Pinhey's Point. That same year, 1820, he built the first Pinhey house to which additions were made over the next 28 years.

This property remained in the Pinhey family until 1971 when March Township purchased it. In 1990 the City of Kanata (now part of the City of Ottawa) acquired Pinhey's Point.

.... Some mausoleums have become neglected with the passing of time and generations – like the Joseph Simpson hillside mausoleum. Born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1823, young Simpson entered the business world at the age of 13 as a clerk in one of that southern city's dry good stores. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Joseph Simpson immigrated to Canada where he obtained work in the grain business. In 1862, he began manufacturing knitted goods which eventually led him to establish the Toronto Knitting Company. The business grew to become one of the largest knitting and yarn companies in the nation. Joseph Simpson died on August 7, 1898, a total of nine members of the Simpson family are interred in the family hillside mausoleum ....

This was the first hammer used at New Waterford - it was proofed - 16 July 1909. It had replaced the Dominion No. 12 split ring hammer that was in use until this New Waterford hammer had been proofed.

New Waterford (Cape Breton County) is located north of Sydney and northwest of Glace Bay in Nova Scotia. It is named after the city of Waterford, in Ireland. It is located near the ocean and is bordered on one side by cliffs. It is a fishing port and former coal-mining community that has been in economic decline in recent years.

New Waterford (Cape Breton County / Nova Scotia) was incorporated in 1913 it is located 10 miles north-west of Glace Bay and 14 miles north-east of Sydney by highway. It is a coal mining community.

The Post Office at New Waterford opened - 1 July 1909 - Previously was called Dominion No. 12 which opened - 1 May 1909.

/ NEW WATERFORD / MR 21 / 10 / N.S. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer was proofed - 16 July 1909. It was replaced by the duplex hammer c. 1912.

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This postcard was sent to: Mr. William Corbett / Reserve Mines / Cape Breton / Nova Scotia

Message on postcard reads: Dear Uncle - Just a souvenir of St. Patrick's Day - From Arabella

A Corbett family household of at least 6 members residing in the district of Cape Breton was recorded in 1901. The head of household, William Corbett, was born in Nova Scotia in 1852. He identified his heritage as Scotch. By 1901, at the age of 48, he had an occupation that was recorded as "Coal Weigher". William's wife was Mary J Corbett, who was 41 years old. Mary was born in "United States" in 1859. Identifying her heritage as Irish Mary immigrated to Canada in 1882 when she was 23 years old. William and Mary had 4 children, 3 boys and a girl. In 1884 their eldest child, a boy named William, was born. Five years later, in 1889, when William was 37 years old and Mary was 30 years old their second son, who was named Edward, was born. Then, in 1892, with their two older sons ages 8 years and 3 years, their third child, Mary, was born. In 1901 another son, their fourth child and third boy, George, was born. Thus, at the time of the 1901 census, this Corbett family household was filled with 4 children whose ages were 4, 8, 11, and 16 years.

The Moodie Family Cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

James Moodie immigrated to Canada from Scotland in the 18th century and purchased 200 acres of land in the Gloucester South Nepean region. On this land, a farm, houses and a cemetery were built where Moodie family members have been laid to rest.

It is located in the Claudette Cain Park near the shores of the Rideau River.

Moodie Drive in Ottawa is named after this pioneering family.

Russian Orthodox Holy Trinity Church (ROCOR).

The church was built between 1938 and 1940.

in 1937Archpriest Alexander Kiziun joined the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR).

Almost single-handedly, with a few but loyal and reliable parishioners, he began the construction of the Holy Trinity Temple on Campbell Avenue in the Vancouver-Strathcona district.

Many Slavs who immigrated to Canada lived in the neighbourhood.

Construction was completed in 1940 and In effect, it was a “private” Temple, since it was built by Father Alexander on land owned by Father Alexander.

The construction was on the basis of traditional Russian canons for building Orthodox temples.

Father Alexander was never able to complete the Temple in all respects, but it was fit for worship.

Father Alexander continued to serve there until the end of his life in 1953 and was interred at the Mountain View Cemetery on Fraser Street.

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia is based on the mission of preserving the loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Christians in exile, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Russian Orthodox spiritual culture.

This mission has been carried out and executed in daily life in Temples, schools, and homes, and in the concern about preserving the Russian spiritual life as far as possible in a foreign environment.

Ian David Nsenga, aka Creative, was born in the city of Nairobi, Kenya as one of many diasporas of a war torn Rwanda. His journey began on the continent of Africa but he eventually immigrated to Canada in 1993. His love for music and literature shaped his style - fusing poetry and hip-hop during his university days in British Columbia. His journey brought him to major venues in the community and diverse settings from International Festivals to Non-Profit Organizations during the 2010 Olympic Games.

www.myspace.com/iammadecreative

Montreal’s Portuguese community is celebrating two big milestones this year: a decade of the “Festival Portugal International de Montreal” and the 70th anniversary of Portuguese immigration to Canada.

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"Memorial of Catherine Noel , a devoted wife, a tender mother, a true friend, who departed a life of many sorrows meekly borne. Died February 11th 1832 aged 52 years

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted"

"Catherine born at Claybrooke, Lutterworth, was the daughter of Elizabeth Grace 1786 & Halled Smith 1732 - 1795 , a rich attorney who had bought Normanton Turville Hall

She m (1st wife) 7 May 1796 at St Mary's church, Bucklebury, Rev Thomas Noel === , rector of Kirkby Mallory, illegitimate son of Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth of Wellesborough 1815 & Anna Catherina Vanloo 1781 ; His father m2 Mary daughter of Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington, Widow of the 1st Earl Ligonier having no further children

Rev Thomas was the grandson of Richard Hon. Edward Noel , Lord Viscount Wentworth, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/04XW24 1774 & Judith, daughter of William Lambe

Catherine died at Norris Hill, Hampshire

Children

1. Mary Georgiana 1797 - 1815 died unmarried at Malvern

2. Catharine Judith 1798 - 1815 died unmarried

3. Thomas of Boyne Cottage, Cookham, Berks, poet, 1799 - 1861 m 1831 (1st husband) Emily Anne daughter of Alexander Halliday

4. Rowney b/d 1800

5. Jane b/d 1801

6. Major Robert Ralph of Brompton,. 1802 - dsp 1885 m 1838 Louise Von Hennigen .

7. Sophia Anne 1805 - 1876 m 1833 Lt. Lionel Halliday of St Helier, Jersey son of Capt. Francis Alexander Halliday of Ham Lodge

8. Charles +++ , land agent for Lady Byron 1809 - 1857 m 1836 Mary Anne daughter of Rev Jerome Dyke of Burbage

9. Anna Frances 1809 - 1833 (twln of Charles) died unmarried

10. Edward Henry 1811 - 1884 m 1838 Frances Isabella daughter of Maj-Gen. Carlo Joseph Doyle & Chiano Begum

=== Her husband Rev. Thomas Noel, rector of Kirkby Mallory, is one of the rare instances of an illegitimate child of a peer receiving mention in Burke's Peerage . Conceived 4 months after his father had succeeded as 2nd Viscount Wentworth of Wellesborough, and born at the end of 1775, Tom lived with his sister Anna Catherine who was 6 years his senior, and their mother Anna Caterina van Loo, the Belgian-born Catholic mistress of Viscount Wentworth, until his mother's death in 1781. "My chief anxiety is about the poor Children," Viscount Wentworth wrote to his aunt Mary Noel 2 days later, "which are truly dear to me, & as fine ones as can be...The boy I shall educate well, & inculcate into him that his future livelihood must depend on some profession he may chuse." Viscount Wentworth stayed true to his word, sending his son to Rugby School where, in his last half-year, his father proudly wrote that Tom had "grown a devilish handsome strapping fellow." In April 1792, Viscount Wentworth sent his son to his own alma mater, Christ Church Oxford, and Tom Noel seems by that point to have decided on the career of a clergyman, for he was baptized in the Anglican church two days prior to his admission.

In the summer of 1795, having completed his third year at Christ Church, Tom Noel accompanied his cousin Sophia Curzon daughter of (1779-1849) to Ravensworth Castle the seat of Sir Thomas Liddell, 6th Bart 1855, later 1st Baron Ravensworth) and his widowed mother. There, Tom and Elizabeth 'Betsy' Liddell, the 21-year-old eldest sister of the baronet, fell in love. Thinking that his father Viscount Wentworth would settle a generous inheritance on his only son, the dowager Lady Liddell encouraged the romance. "Nothing could make me happier than seeing Tom so very respectably settled & his forming so enviable a connection," Viscount Wentworth wrote to his sister Judith, Lady Milbanke, "but surely I could wish that no step might be taken without giving time & particularly to the Lady to reflect on future consequences." Once it became clear to Lady Liddell that Viscount Wentworth was both unwilling and unable (he had many debts and his properties were heavily mortgaged) to provide immediately for his son, she insisted that her daughter break off the romance. .

Two months later, Viscount Wentworth discovered that his son's "vanity was the only part much hurt by his dismission." Seven months later in May 1796, Tom Noel received his bachelor's degree from Oxford and eloped. "Tom has stole a match with Kitty Smith" and "must lie in the bed he had made for himself," Viscount Wentworth reported to his sister Judith Milbanke.

Catherine Smith was the 22-year-old daughter of Holled Smith, a Leicestershire attorney who had died the previous summer. Having lost her mother when she was aged 13 , Catherine, the 4th of five surviving daughters, was a close neighbour to Viscount Wentworth and his son, for Normanton Turville Hall, her father's seat, was less than 5 miles from Kirkby Mallory. Left to her own devices immediately following her father's death, as her only brother Thomas Grace Smith (1770-1812) was distracted with the £33,000 sale of Normanton Turville, Catherine and Tom Noel found sympathy for their secret romance from Catherine's elder sister Susannah Coxe (1768-1836), and were married by her husband Rev. Richard Coxe, Vicar of Bucklebury.

Likely it was Tom Noel's stepmother Countess Ligonier who smoothed things over between her husband Viscount Wentworth and his impulsive son, for Tom named his firstborn child, which followed 9 months after his wedding, 'Mary' in his stepmother's honour. In 1798, Viscount Wentworth was reconciled enough to Tom that he presented him the livings of Kirkby Mallory and Elmsthorpe. Rev. Noel received his Master's degree from Oxford in 1801, and settled down for the next 12 years as the rector of Kirkby Mallory. In 1812, he asked for, and was granted, the honour of performing the wedding ceremony of his cousin Anne Isabella Milbanke, the legal heir of Viscount Wentworth, to Lord Byron. The poet took a ring from his finger and gave it to Rev. Noel as a souvenir of the occasion, but one of Tom's daughters wrote to a friend, "Papa expects something more substantial for the service he has rendered Lord Byron."

Tom was increasingly frustrated by the inheritance situation following his father's death in 1815 - To provide for Tom & his sister, Viscount Wentworth stipulated in his will that his Gloucestershire estates were to be sold for payment of his debts and to provide legacies for them. However his aunt Judith Milbanke had laboured determinedly for the past two decades to insure that Viscount Wentworth designated her and her only daughter as his legal heirs, and Judith even agreed to her brother's stipulation that she, her husband, her daughter and even her son-in-law Lord Byron all had to legally assume the surname Noel. Judith triumphantly moved into Kirkby Hall immediately on inheriting it, and never left it again. With her usual incapacity for seeing any perspective other than her own, she then legally blocked her brother's executors from selling his Gloucestershire estates.

In 1816, Rev. Noel and his sister Mrs. Biscoe, both with large families, sued their father's trustees, Judith, and her husband for a settlement under the terms of their father's will. Not blessed with the several manors and estates of the Milbankes and Noels which Judith had successfully combined, Viscount Wentworth's two children needed the cash he had stipulated for them to help provide for their families, and didn't have the luxury of waiting for property values to increase, which seemed to be Judith's goal in delaying the sale. Judith once referred to Tom's wife Catherine as "a poor timid low-spirited creature," so it's no surprise that when she took possession of Kirkby Hall, Tom appointed a fellow prelate to perform the clerical duties of the parish, and vacated Kirkby Mallory.

Judith's death in 1822 prompted Rev. Noel's request to Lord Byron to intercede with Lady Byron, the new legal owner of Kirkby Hall, to obtain a promise that, following his death, the living of Kirkby Mallory should be given to one of his sons. Though Annabella, Lady Byron flic.kr/p/2iG6XoT (later 11th Baroness Wentworth) was a far more generous lady of the manor than her mother had been, the damage Judith had caused Rev. Noel ran too deep. He wrote bitterly to Annabella in 1846: "Madam a stranger has afforded me the assistance of the loan of £60 which your silence or contempt on my application denied me, & from which the consanguinity betwixt us and your ample means derived from my late Father you could so readily afford to his publicly acknowledged son. Much of his property you are now enjoying had he not been so suddenly seized with paralysis he meant to leave to me & my sister, as He stated to me previous to his leaving Kirkby for London for the purpose of altering his will."

Lady Byron's refusal to loan money to Rev. Noel could have been a result of his own foolish behaviour. After the death of his wife Catherine in 1832, Rev. Noel seems to have moved to Calais, perhaps fleeing creditors. In 1838, at the age of 62, he made a second marriage in the Town Hall there, to the 30-year-old Henrietta Elizabeth 1808 - 1878 daughter of Thomas Fisher of Gravesend 1814 and had 2 more sons.

His 5 surviving children from his first marriage, grown-up and starting families of their own, with the financial support of Lady Byron, were dismayed by their father's second wife and family. Rev. Noel felt betrayed enough by his son Charles +++ , who had accepted Lady Byron's offer in 1831 to serve as her resident land agent at Kirkby Mallory with an annual income of £100, that he cut him out of his will.

Rev. Noel died 22nd August 1853 in Plymouth aged 77 & was buried in Ford Park Cemetery leaving dual families: a 45-year-old widow with two young sons, aged 10 and 8, and grown children with families of their own scattered throughout England, Germany and Greece.

It is evident that, thanks to the support of Lady Byron, the children of Rev. Noel's first marriage did much better in life than the two young sons of his second marriage. When his widow Henrietta died in Plymouth in 1878, her estate was valued at less than £300.

Her elder son Dr Vincent Edmund Noel 1843 - 1866 a physician, he died of scarlet fever at age 23 while treating an outbreak of it in Plymouth.

The second son Rev Henry Anthony 1845 - 1893 rector of a Manchester parish m 1869 Jane Elizabeth daughter of Capt. Henry O'Neil of Plymouth leaving 2 sons , the elder, Ternan Noel, a labourer who immigrated to Canada and died in a psychiatric facility, and the younger, Archibald Noel, a bookkeeper in Manchester

Rev. Noel spent the last four decades of his life focused on his father's will and the unfairness of the Wentworth inheritance. The bitterness is completely understandable. Viscount Wentworth spent the last 20 years of his life at Kirkby Mallory with his son Tom the young rector, and the county locals certainly viewed Tom as the natural heir to the manor. The History of Leicester in the 118c (1871) even goes so far as to say "The family is now represented by Lord Wentworth, the grandson of the late Lady Noel Byron, and by the male descendants of the last Viscount, who (it is believed) duly contracted a marriage on the Continent with Catherine Louisa Van Loo--a Belgian lady--but not according to the rites of the Church of England. The offspring of this union was Thomas, afterwards the Rev. Thomas Noel, Rector of Kirkby Mallory." If his mother's Catholicism was indeed the only reason keeping Tom from legitimacy, it's a real shame as there's every indication that Tom Noel would have made a worthy peer. His marriage to Elizabeth Liddell would have been a far more brilliant match than his father's to Countess Ligonier, and demonstrates Tom had the ability and personality to surpass his father's limited achievements and influence at court and in the political arena. That Rev. Noel ended his life stewing under the assumption that he had been cheated from an inheritance is sad, for the appointment of Charles Noel as land agent shows that Lady Byron, unlike her obsessively ambitious mother, recognized an importance in keeping the Noel line at Kirkby Mallory.

Charles, the son Rev. Noel felt inclined to cut out from inheritance, was able to reach a state his father never could: forgiveness. He wrote to Lady Byron: "Relating to the will of my late Father I wish to place on record my earnest desire in relation to that document. First I freely forgive the dead. Next I wish to prove to the widow that I cannot in hope of a future world before my eyes use the same weapons in defence...and I trust that I may be enabled to live and die without receiving in any way benefit from my Father's property." That a son engaged in a material career proved more spiritual in the end than a father engaged in a clerical one may not be so unusual among the 19c English clergy. Lord Byron deferred to his estranged wife on the matter of Rev. Noel, "she is a better judge of parsons than me."

- Church of All Saints, Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire

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Picture with thanks - copyright John Salmon CCL - www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5103609

(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - LANG BAY - a Post Office and settlement 60 miles from Vancouver. It was formerly called Wolfsohn Bay, in Comox Provincial Electoral District. It was reached by Union Steamship Companies steamers. It has a telegraph office. A summer resort with a splendid bathing beach, with good fishing and hunting. Powell River is the business centre. Resources are logging and ranching. The population in 1922 was 50.

Shortly after the government saw fit to establish a post office in 1918 at Lang Bay, B.C. the Young couple (John and Eliza / known as “Granny”) became postmaster and postmistress, posts they were to keep till 1939.

The Lang Bay Post Office was established - 15 July 1918 and closed - 28 February 1955.

Sent from - / LANG BAY / OC 3 / 29 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (second hammer / 21.0 mm) was proofed - 20 July 1922 - (RF C). The first split ring hammer (19.0 mm) was proofed - 2 July 1918.

Cover was addressed to: H. Jardine Esq. / 617 Michigan Street / Victoria, B.C.

Harold Jardine (occupation was a carpenter and a broker)

b. 1 February 1880 in Scotland - d. 2 August 1940 at New Westminster / Essondale, B.C.

Harold and his mother - Caroline "Matheson" Jardine immigrated to Canada in 1909.

He married Agnes Octavia "Squire" Jardine - 21 May 1913 in Vancouver, B.C. - she was born - 2 April 1889 in Tokyo, Japan - d. 14 March 1971 in Victoria, B.C. - her father was Mountjoy Squire who was a Commander in the Royal Navy.

- ex Andrew Scott collection...

Vancouver Sub Post Office No. 9 was located in the Foley Building - Samuel Barker and Son (Ernest) Grocery Store (the original address was 3153 Heather Street) in 1910 / in 1911 the address was NW corner Heather & 16th Ave. - Alternate Address - 3208 Heather St, Vancouver BC / Neighbourhood - South Cambie.

Rebuilt in 2005, this 1909 Edwardian building was one of the first commercial buildings erected in the Municipality of Point Grey, which was established in 1908, before amalgamating with the City of Vancouver in 1929.

The building was erected in 1909 by J.B. Foley, a local realtor. The corner commercial unit at 698 West 16th was a grocery or confectionery store continuously from 1911 until the mid 1990s. The first store was the Samuel Barker and Son (Ernest) grocery store. This was followed by a string of grocers until 1914 when it became the Heather Market, and then in 1930 the Heather Confectionery. From 1940-1965 the Beckett family operated the Heather Confectionery which became Beckett's Red and White from 1960-1970. Once the Beckett family moved from both the residential unit and the store, the Chow family's Golden Star Grocery and subsequently the Kim family's Olympic Grocery carried on the store tradition. Link to the complete article - www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/location/696-698-w-16...

Link to a photo of the Foley building - www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/20...

1911 to 1913 - Sub P.O. 9 was located - NW corner Heather & 16th Ave. (Samuel Barker - Postmaster)

Samuel Barker was the Postmaster at Vancouver, B.C. Sub Post Office No. 9 from - 1 October 1910 to - 5 April 1913.

Samuel Barker (b. January 1862 in Leighton, Buzzard, England - d.

Wife - Ellen Barker (b. 1862 in England - d.

Son - Ernest Bernard Barker (b. March 1884 in England - d.

They immigrated to Canada in 1907.

1914 - Sub P.O. 9 - NW corner Heather & 16th Ave. (Jessie Wilson - Postmistress)

1915 - Sub P.O. 9 - 3153 Heather Street (Jessie Wilson - Postmistress - it stayed the same until 1921).

Jessie Thomson Wilson (b. 14 or 30 April 1891 in Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland - d. 3 July 1984 in Vernon, B.C.

Her home address when she was Postmistress - 985 10th Ave West, Vancouver, B.C.

She was the Postmistress at Vancouver, B.C. Sub Post Office No. 9 from 31 May 1913 to 21 March 1921.

She married William Cran Jessiman on - 26 April 1921 in Vancouver, B.C.

Her father was - James Thomson Wilson (b. in Scotland)

Her mother was - Margaret Morris

After their marriage - she returned to her job as Postmistress at Sub No. 9 from - 2 June 1921 to - 6 November 1923.

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Sent from - / HIGH RIVER / NO 5 / 10 / ALTA / - cds cancel

Vancouver Sub Office No. 9 Post Office / Heather Street Post Office - opened - 1 October 1910.

Arrived at - / VANCOUVER.B.C. (SUB.OFFICE No. 9) / PM / NO 7 / 10 / • / - cds arrival backstamp - (first hammer - this hammer was only used for short period of time - (RF E).

Postcard was addressed to: Mrs. Conley / Corner 17th & Heather Street / Vancouver, B.C.

James Conley lived on Heather Street near 17th Ave in 1911 and worked as a salesman for the Coquitlam Terminal Company - link to a photo of the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company Terminal office, Coquitlam (now Port Coquitlam), British Columbia - www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/details/collection/object/11511

This novel handmade postcard, fashioned from birch bark, was mailed from the Sambro Post Office on - 28 August 1905, and arrived at the Halifax Post office the same day at 11:30 AM.

Postcards can also be made from leather and birch bark, and can include embroidery, applied glitter, felt pennants, real feathers, ribbon and buttons, among other materials.

I have also seen birch bark envelopes with birch bark letters.

Link to an article - All about Postcards - www.weirsbeach.com/Largejpgs/postcardhistory.html

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Sambro is located 17 miles southwest of Halifax, this was a fishing and boat building settlement which had a population of 200 in 1871, 260 in 1919 and in 1956 was 400.

The Sambro Way Office opened in 1868 and was upgraded to a post office on 1 January 1876.

Distributing point - Halifax

Mail route - Halifax and Sambro

Postcard was sent from: / SAMBRO / AU 28 / 05 / N.S. / - split ring cancel (Hammer #2) - this split ring hammer was proofed 15 April 1893 and was used until the summer of 1908.

It was letter rated so - Postage Due "2" cents owed - is double the deficiency hence the large 2...

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- sent to: Revd J. L. Batty / Robie Street / Halifax, N.S.

Rev. James Lumb Batty was born in 1858 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. He married his wife in the Annapolis Valley, NS and he died on Oct 6 1922 in Victoria BC. He came to Canada in 1882, Halifax NS, then to Winnipeg MB in 1919 Victoria BC survived by wife buried Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria BC.

Link to: Memorable Manitobans: James Lumb Batty (1860 - 1922) - www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/batty_jl.shtml

Born in England on 1 June 1860, he immigrated to Canada in 1882 and entered the Methodist ministry around 1883. He came from Moncton, New Brunswick to Winnipeg and was Reverend of Zion Methodist Church (1913-1916) and Maryland Methodist Church (1916-1919). As of his departure, he had changed pulpits a dozen times over his career. He and his wife, Jerusha Tupper Batty (1854-1944), then left for his next posting at Victoria, British Columbia. He died at Victoria on 6 October 1922.

M & R Feeds, an old flour mill along the Quyon River in Quyon, Quebec, Canada.

Quyon began as a village founded by John Egan in 1848, born near Aughrim, Ireland in 1811 and after immigrating to Canada, was a lumber baron of the Ottawa Valley and mayor of Aylmer (now Gatineau) from 1847 to 1855.

The stone ruins shown here, are all that remains of the former lumber mill.

Eganville in Ontario is named after him, where in 1848, he built a grist mill, which speaks volumes of his entrepreneurial spirit.

Beaton, formerly Thomson's Landing and also formerly known as Evansport, is a locality and former townsite and steamboat landing at the head of Beaton Arm at the head of Upper Arrow Lake in the Kootenay Country of British Columbia, Canada. There were 65 residents of Beaton in 1911. Ferry service was cancelled in 1964, with the post office being closed in 1969, although the locality remains partly inhabited today. Other towns in the vicinity included Comaplix, Camborne and Arrowhead, among others. Access today is from the Galena Bay ferry terminal north of Nakusp, which is the only remaining major town in the area, which had at one time been busy with galena mining prospects.

The original name Thomson's Landing was from that of the owner of the townsite, James William Thomson, who was the local Notary Public in 1901. Thomson's partner was Malcolm Beaton, publisher of the Nelson Miner in Nelson. Beaton took over the townsite from Thomson in 1907, though the name Beaton was already in use by 1902.

Link to article - Off the Beaton path - For such a small place, the town of Beaton, on the northeast arm of Upper Arrow Lake has a curiously complicated naming history - www.nelsonstar.com/community/off-the-beaton-path/

Link to - MEMORIES OF A GREAT BUT FORGOTTEN GOLDRUSH - archive.macleans.ca/article/1963/9/21/memories-of-a-great...

- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - BEATON, a post office in Kootenay District, B.C. on the northeast arm of Arrow Lake, 10 miles from Arrowhead, a station on the Revelstoke & Arrowhead branch of the C.P.R., 28 miles south of Revelstoke. It has 1 Presbyterian church, 1 general store, and 1 hotel, besides post, telegraph and express offices. The population in 1908 was 300.

(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - BEATON - a post office and settlement on North Arm of Upper Arrow Lake, in Revelstoke Provincial Electoral District, 10 miles from Arrowhead, on the C. P. R., the nearest railway and telegraph point, and reached by C. P. R. lake steamers. Mining. The population in 1918 was 55.

The Post Office at Thomson's Landing, B.C. was established - 1 July 1895 - it changed name to Beaton - 1 August 1902 and closed - 30 August 1969.

/ BEATON / DE 7 / 57 / B.C. / - split ring cancel (in red ink) - this split ring hammer is not listed in the proof book - it was most likely proofed c. 1902.

from - WATER RESOURCES DIVISION / Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources - Engineering and Water Resources Branch / OBSERVATIONS OF WATER HEIGHT at Incomappleaux River near Beaton - water postcard - signed by the observer at Incomappleaux River - Leonid Bobicki

Tony was born September 5, 1931 in Poland to Leonid and Anastasia Bobicki of Porovanche, Ukraine. After immigrating to Canada, the Bobicki family eventually settled on a farm in Beaton B.C., where they raised cattle. Tony had fond memories of dismantling an old mining shack to build his mother a home.

Name: Leonid Bobicki

Birth Date: 13 Jul 1901

Birth Place: Ukraine

Death Date: 26 Oct 1982 in Nakusp, British Columbia, Canada

Son of Paul Bobicki; married to Anastasia Adamchuck

Anastasia "Adamchuck" Bobicki

Birth: 21 Apr 1902 in Ukraine

Death: 23 Mar 1988 (aged 85) in Nakusp, British Columbia, Canada

My son and I were taking a walk in Toronto’s east end, not far from home, and he suddenly stopped and asked me if I’d mind taking a few minutes for him to get a haircut. We had just passed a barber shop and noted it had no customers. I said it would be fine. This man sprang up as we entered and prepared to ply his trade on my son. Meet Tony.

I sat nearby as Tony wrapped a tissue around my son’s neck and draped him with the cape and a few instructions were exchanged and soon the clippers were buzzing and the scissors were clicking. I sat and tried to initiate some “small talk” with Tony by asking about the shop and how long he’s been in business. I was getting the feeling he was either hard of hearing or someone who just “kept his own counsel” as my mother used to say about people who hold their cards close to their chest. Nonetheless, I volunteered a bit about us and pretty soon Tony became more comfortable in chatting.

In response to my question about how long he’s been cutting hair he asked me to guess. He had that smug smile people have when they ask you to guess and expect you to be wrong. I obliged by guessing 20 years. Tony was pleased and paused with his scissors and gestured upward. I kept nudging the guess upward until he finally ended the suspense by telling me 64 years. Now convinced that my interest was real, his story began to flow and Tony’s story was the classic old-world immigrant story.

He learned his trade at his father’s knee in a village not far from Naples in Italy. At the age of 10 he would go straight to his father’s barber shop and sweep the floor. Soon he “graduated” to foaming up the shaving lather with a brush. Next came learning how to shave a customer with a straight razor. Finally came the art of cutting hair for customers.

When Tony immigrated to Canada 55 years ago he started out taking ESL classes (English as a second language) to learn enough English to enroll in a barbering course at the local community college where he earned the required qualification to be licensed by the city to do a job he had been doing since childhood. “No license, no shop and no work for anybody’s shop” he said. While he is clearly proud of his Italian heritage, Tony is just as proud of being Canadian. During our conversation he mentioned more than once "But I am a Canadian now." It always interests me how people in this city of immigrants form an identity that combines their heritage and a sense of being Canadian. The balance varies depending on the individual (and the community) but it is always there.

“I have this shop 50 years, same address: 910 Broadview Ave. Same address” he proudly repeated in case that fact had not been fully appreciated. Before that he used to cut hair in downtown Toronto. He asked me “How old you think I am?” Again, the same flicker of a smile as he waited for my wrong guess. “Well” I said “if you’ve been in business for 50 years in this location, obviously you’re older than I thought.” The proud smile turned to a smug one. “How old? Guess.” Following the obligatory wrong guesses I was told the correct answer that had eluded me: 74.

“74 and still cutting hair. You must enjoy your work” I ventured. Tony seemed a bit puzzled. “What am I going to do?” was his reply as the trimmer buzzed and the scissors clicked. “What do you like best about your job?” I asked. Tony seemed puzzled by my question and fished for a reply. He said “Personality.” By that, I guessed he liked meeting the people since this is definitely a people business. “What is your secret, Tony, to having a long life and a long career?” He didn’t pause before answering. The scissors paused and he glanced my way. “Two important things. First is good woman. Next is good wine. Red wine. Not from store. Make yourself.”

We laughed and I nodded at his formula. We joked a bit and Tony was now quite in his element. Gone was the silent man with an apparent hearing problem. He heard just fine. I said I have the good woman but I guess I have to work on the good home-made wine. He laughed. We concluded that making good wine was more easily accomplished than finding the right woman.

By now Tony was finishing up the haircut which he did with lather and a straight razor to do the neck and around the ears. He pulled a page out of a magazine and used it to wipe the blade between strokes and said “You not see this anywhere any more. The blade.” I agreed and said it’s a very rare talent now.

Haircut complete, mirror held, and approval given, my son paid up and I told Tony about my photography project and invited him to participate. He was surprised when I said I would do his portrait then and there because my camera was hidden in the small shoulder bag. “Sure” he said. “You do it.” I wanted a bit of context in the photo so, with Tony’s permission, I pushed an overstuffed easy chair aside to I could pose him next to a display case of memorabilia and “tools of the trade,” with him facing the front of the shop to make use of natural light from the display window. The display case contained old family photos, a souvenir plate, Christmas cards, a small religious shrine, and various bottles of powders and liquids. In a neighborhood with lots of upscale haircutting salons and spas, Tony's in a no-nonsense down-to-earth, rather spare, old-fashioned barber shop. No bells and whistles here. Just a comfortable, well-worn, traditional barber shop with no pretentions.

I took another photo of Tony at the front door and he was clearly proud of his small shop and there was a feeling that we were old friends although we had just met 15 minutes ago. Tony wanted me to be sure to photograph the barber pole in front of his shop, indicating that there aren’t a lot of those around anymore. “Original” he stated proudly. I showed him his image on the camera display and he winced. “Old man” he said. I told him I would not forget his secrets for a long life and pointed out that he’s not that much older than I am.

We thanked him for the haircut and I promised to drop off his photo next week. He said he’s there all day every day except Sunday. A hard-working man. As my son and I walked up the street we reflected on Tony’s story and we agreed that my comment that he must like his job or he wouldn’t have stayed in it so long probably missed the point. Tony came from a world where people didn’t have the luxury of reflecting on a variety of career choices and pursuing a dream. He learned his job from his father and it is simply what he does - for life. Although Tony does enjoy his work, like in much of the world, it probably wasn’t a matter of conscious choice.

Thank you Tony for participating in 100 Strangers and for sharing the story of your long career – in Italy and in Canada. You are Stranger #611 in Round 7 of my project.

Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by the other photographers in our group at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.

I hope this little bouquet brightens your day…..calendulas are a sweet childhood memory for me. My dad brought some seeds with us from the Netherlands when we immigrated to Canada and we had them in our garden every year.

thanks so much for your visits

thanks to Mat texturonline for his texture

R.M.S. Carmania - Postcard

Reg (my father) and family immigrated to Canada on this ship in 1924.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carmania_(1905)

So I was out to Riding Mountain National Park almost a year ago and was intrigued by the hike to visit Grey Owl's cabin. On this trip I made the hike.

I must say, it turned out to be a little more than I first anticipated. The hike to the cabin and back was 18km (11 miles) with a lot of up and down. I must also admit that coming into the parking lot, I was all alone and was a little concerned about running into a bear. But I still live to tell the tale :))

The only other down side was that in the last 1/2 hour it started to rain, so Chloe and I were rather wet by the time we got back. But it did help cool us down :p

A little background if you're interest about who Grey Owl is:

Grey Owl, born Archibald Belaney in England, was fascinated by native American culture and immigrated to Canada in the early 1900's. He adopted the name Grey Owl when he took upon a First Nations identity as an adult.

He was a writer and became one of Canada's first conservationists.

He spent 6 months living in a cabin in Riding Mountain National park studying and working with wildlife, including two beavers named Jelly Roll and Rawhide. His main goal in the park was to re-establish beaver colonies in areas where they were exterminated.

His living quarters, now known as "Grey Owl's Cabin", still stand to this day.

Message on postcard reads: The latest on post cards from Sambro & knowing that you are collecting them - have remembered you. This is the place to rusticate. L. C. C.

- sent to: Revd J. L. Batty / Robie Street / Halifax, N.S.

Rev. James Lumb Batty was born in 1858 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. He married his wife in the Annapolis Valley, NS and he died on Oct 6 1922 in Victoria BC. He came to Canada in 1882, Halifax NS, then to Winnipeg MB in 1919 Victoria BC survived by wife buried Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria BC.

Link to: Memorable Manitobans: James Lumb Batty (1860 - 1922) - www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/batty_jl.shtml

Born in England on 1 June 1860, he immigrated to Canada in 1882 and entered the Methodist ministry around 1883. He came from Moncton, New Brunswick to Winnipeg and was Reverend of Zion Methodist Church (1913-1916) and Maryland Methodist Church (1916-1919). As of his departure, he had changed pulpits a dozen times over his career. He and his wife, Jerusha Tupper Batty (1854-1944), then left for his next posting at Victoria, British Columbia. He died at Victoria on 6 October 1922.

Brochure cover on immigration to Canada symboizes the theme by dynamic typography. Designed by Ernst Roch

From description here:

Quyon began as a village founded by John Egan in 1848, born near Aughrim, Ireland in 1811 and after immigrating to Canada, was a lumber baron of the Ottawa Valley and mayor of Aylmer (now Gatineau) from 1847 to 1855.

Eganville in Ontario is named after him, where in 1848, he built a grist mill, which speaks volumes of his entrepreneurial spirit.

By Robert R. Whale ( 1805-1887 )

The British-born artist Robert R. Whale was already in his forties when he immigrated to Canada in 1852. He settled near Brantford and remained there for the rest of his life. This composition is reminiscent of the work of Claude Lorrain: a few skillfully placed trees in the foreground frame a vista that includes a small town, while the sense of vastness is accentuated by the tiny scale of the human figures. The naturalistic handling of the trees and the rocks adds to the picture’s appeal.

Ever since I was eight or nine, I've always had a thing for bikes. I wasn't frankly a big rider, also having had a thing for cars, but about ten years ago, there was a place in the industrial suburbs, that sold Italian road bikes. The fellow's name was Antonio Pavan, and for about two or three years, he'd had a 'retirement sale' at the end of season, where he'd mark down the prices by a goodly percentage. I would go over, find it too much for me to buy, and pass, hoping that there would be another 'retirement sale' the next year. One year, it was evident that Antonio, despite being a vital septuagenarian, was really going to close up shop, so I bit and bought my dream Italian bike. The other story is that Antonio, as a child, worked for the famed bike builder Pinarello, building wheelsets, and when he immigrated to Canada, he continued a relationship with them and was an importer of Pinarello's line. He also, apparently, had a deal whereby Pinarello would build some frames to his specification, some of which were very similar to Pinarello's own bikes, that he would sell under the Pavan label. Times change, it I've done some 'renovations' to the bike, but it still has the Campagnolo Centaur 'gruppo' it came with, and the rest of the Italian made elements.

The bicycle industry has changed a lot since I got this bike. Carbon fibre is the new material of choice, and almost all of them are made in the far East. Shimano and Sram have pretty much eclipsed Campagnolo for gears and brakes. It's all mass manufactured, and frankly, quite a bit cheaper, but some of the mystique of the Italian road bike remains. Current day Pinarellos are made in China for the most part, and outfitted with mass produced Shimano groupsets. The affordable bikes aren't really a whole lot different, as they're all made in one of three factories for the most part.

So this is for Antonio Pavan, wherever he may be. Here's a YouTube video of him riding what looks to be a version of the bike I bought from him, in the signature yellow that he seemed to like.

The climb is incredible - and keep in mind that Antonio is in his 70s.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-NrYIVyBLY

In 1960 he'd have been 39. This was taken at the top of the Jolly Cut at Mountain Brow Park in Hamilton, Ontario.

Thomas Muir Williamson of Glasgow, Scotland. He immigrated to Canada sometime in the early 1950s I'm told.

The Globe and Mail's editorial obituary: 2019-12-07.

I'm normally not particularly an emotional person, I don't have very much empathy. If you call me "heartless", I would not counter you or get upset.

But the recent passing of Zofia Cisowski in Poland affected me. The tragedy that she encountered in Canada was very sad and avoidable if the people involved in killing her son had more compassion and sense.

Most people outside of Canada and Poland probably never heard of Zofia Cisowski or her son Robert Dziekanski (Dziekański in Polski).

Ms. Cisowski was a Polish woman who immigrated to Canada in 1999, settling in British Columbia. As a single mother, she had dreamed of bringing her only child Robert Dziekanski to Canada. Mr. Dziekanski was a handyman in his native Poland and he flew on his own to Vancouver in October 2007 to re-unite with his mother and start a new life in Canada.

His mother Ms. Cisowski waited at the Vancouver airport for his arrival. But hours after the flight had landed, her son was nowhere to be seen. As it turned out, due to his lack of English knowledge and that no one at the airport could understand him, Mr. Dziekanski got confused and wandered inside the airport for 10 hours (he had never travelled on a plane before), not knowing how to get out or contact his mother. Even though his mother made inquiries about his missing son, airport employees dismissed her concerns and suggested that she simply be patient.

When Mr. Dziekaaski became agitated, the police was called. Four Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, or the "Mounties") promptly showed up, which probably alarmed the 40-year old man more. An altercation ensued and the police officers tasered Mr. Dziekanski five times, then tackled and handcuffed him. Mr. Dziekanski suffered a cardiac arrest. An ambulance was called but it took some 15 minutes to arrive. Mr. Dziekanski died on scene.

Ms. Cisowski and her son were moments from re-uniting and living their lives together, but a chain of events would end one's and forever change the other's.

The RCMP officers were never charged for the action that led to Mr. Dziekanski's death, but two of them were charged and convicted of perjury related to their false testimony at a public inquiry into the case. The RCMP and the Vancouver airport were heavily criticised for their treatment of a confused and tired traveller. Eventually the RCMP admitted fault, issued an official apology, and paid a financial settlement to Ms. Cisowski. The incidence left a sad and shameful mark on the Canadian identity. We can all learn a lesson and be more kind to someone who seems confused, tired, distressed and in need of help.

Happy Bench Monday!

Grassi Lakes were named after Lawrence Grassi (1890–1980):

"Lawrence Grassi, born Lorenzo, immigrated to Canada from Italy in 1912 and eventually settled in the Bow Valley in 1916 to work as a coal miner.

But he devoted much of his spare time to mountain climbing and carving out trails, such as the original steps that take visitors to the aquamarine water of Grassi Lakes and many more paths around Lake O'Hara and Lake Louise."

The road to the EEOR (East End of Rundle) trailhead is very rough, and so we parked at a trailhead at Grassi Lakes instead. It added a few kilometres of distance, and few hundred metres of elevation, but not a significant issue for us. The Lakes are stunning, and while the trail up EEOR is steep and often scrubbly/rubbly, the views are amazing.

Introducing our artists:

Lisa Ramsammy of The Doll Place, experianced doll repainter.

My name is Lisa Ramsammy. I live in Ontario, Canada. I was born in Trinidad and Tobago.

Art has always been a part of my life since early childhood. You could always find me with a paper and pencil sketching and doodling something. I fine tuned my artistic skills through the end of high school and graduated with a distinction in art. For a few years I was a photographer on the race track taking photos of the horses and the

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races, selling my photos to owners and trainers. I even won best racing photograph one year with a thrilling finish. Some saw my artwork and asked why don't I try painting the horses? From there I did many equine portraits by commission both in Trinidad and Barbados. It is through horse racing I met my husband Emile as he was embarking on a successful career as a jockey .

We immigrated to Canada, got married and started a family and that was my main focus for a few years while still doing the odd equine portrait commission.

One trainer from Trinidad - Joe Hadeed upon his retirement from horse racing did his autobiography of his career and graced the book cover duly titled "Under The Fiddlewood Tree" with a painting I did of him sitting under a tree watching his horses train. It was his favorites and one of my many paintings done for him.

After three boys and many miscarriages in between I often wondered if I would ever have a daughter and I started collecting dolls - vintage Barbie, Disney etc in hopes one day I would hand them down to a daughter or granddaughter. Then came Integrity Toy's Fashion Royalty dolls and their convention in Canada. I entered my first ever repaint/design competition not really having a clue how to repaint properly or even the right sized brush for such a tiny face! I placed 2nd and it encouraged me to learn and try to improve. It was difficult adapting my painting skills to a tiny doll face!

This brought me to discover Ebay and doll magazines such as Haute Doll and FDQ with various articles and features on other doll artists. I stumbled into the doll repaint world in 2004. I was fascinated and decided to take a serious approach and try my art on such a small scale. Deeply inspired by artists Laurie Leigh-"Beautiful Faces" and Noel Cruz, who were very helpful with advice, as well as Cindy Lorimer, Karen Kay, Vanessa Tull-"Star Studio", Isabelle Ashing, Lisa Gates who took the time to answer questions from someone striving to learn about technique, painting products, doll making materials, photography tips, etc., yet stay true to my own style. I've been fine tuning my skills ever since. I am grateful to them.

I mainly sell my repainted dolls on EBay. I repaint 13" Integrity dolls as well as 16" and 17" Tonner dolls. I do my own websitewww.thedollplace.ca when I have time.

My professional Facebook page www.facebook.com/LisaRamsammythedollplace/ is where I upload photos of my work as they are done and sometimes in progress.

I enjoy photographing my repaints very much. They take on a life of their own when they are all dressed up and posing. It's like the icing on the cake!

I have entered Integrity Toys design competition annually at their doll conventions over a ten year span and won numerous awards including their first advanced design competition 2013 where the winner would be put into production. Judged by fashion designer Jason Wu, my winning entry "Edge," was produced by Integrity Toys in 2014.

I have people enjoying my art in different forms - horse portraits, people portraits,still life and doll portraits. I love art and admire the art of others.

In life I strive to always do things well and feel my art is a reflection of this. I enjoy it immensely and can only hope it brings joy to others as it does to myself. I am always eager to learn and develop my technique and try new things. I am thankful to all who have supported me in my art and my doll repaints over the years.

It is a privilege and an honor to be in the company of this esteemed group of artists I can call friends!

Well, this was very lucky! Years ago my son was given this ice hockey sticky from an aunt of my wife who immigrated to Canada. many years ago. I don't have any other "props" that could represent the Winter Olympics, so, yes lucky!!

Our Daily Challenge ~ ODC OLYMPICS .....

Thanks, in advance, 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.

Panorama – 2nd place

Marc Cadranel, Oakville

Rockwood Park Panorama

Marc Cadranel, born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spent nearly 20 years in South Africa before immigrating to Canada in 1999 with his family. He started taking photographs in his teens – mainly slides back then – and has always loved nature photography.

During the summer months, Marc and his family are avid weekend day-trippers. They can be found exploring southern Ontario and reconnecting with nature as much as possible. “The area around us is so beautiful, varied and widespread that I suspect it will take us a while yet to cover it all,” he said.

The prize-winning panorama was captured on a beautiful summer day in Rockwood Park. When asked about the photo Marc said, “I particularly like it because, if one looks carefully, there are a few canoes that emphasize the imposing beauty of the park.”

Frederick Horsman Varley (Sheffield, England January 2, 1881 – Toronto, Canada September 8, 1969) was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven. He immigrated to Canada in 1912 on the advice of another Sheffield native (and future Group of Seven member), Arthur Lismer, and found work at the Grip Ltd. design firm in Toronto, Ontario. In 1920, he was a founding member of the Group of Seven. He was the only original member of the Group of Seven to specialize in portraiture, but he also painted landscapes.

Source: Wikipedia

This was one of the infrequent occasions when I saw a location for a photo and waited for a suitable stranger to complete the scene. It was a narrow laneway between office buildings in downtown Toronto. I’ve said before that I’m not very patient when it comes to street portraiture and it doesn’t take me more than a couple of minutes to start feeling like a lurker. I generally do much better when I’m on the move, making the best use I can of locations when I happen upon an interesting stranger. I had invested five minutes at this location without much success (suitable pedestrians seemed to be in a hurry and I was getting the hesitation blues). I almost moved on when this man approached and I found his face interesting. He wasn’t moving quickly and when I introduced myself and my project he said “Sure. I can do that.” Meet Julian.

I had taken a selfie in the mouth of the laneway earlier on this wet, overcast day and I knew it could work. Two office workers on a smoke break were in the background but I was able to “disappear” them behind Julian. Two other smokers arrived just as I had positioned Julian but a friendly request for them to step forward just a few paces met with their cooperation. There wasn’t a lot of fancy to the photo-taking. I took care with focus and checked exposure and soon was confident that I had a few good images to choose from.

Back out on the sidewalk, we chatted. Julian said he liked the photos but admitted that he wasn’t feeling very well. He went on to tell me that he has recently recovered from a painful bout of shingles and his high blood pressure was acting up, leaving him light-headed and a bit unsteady on his feet. I suggested he monitor this with his doctor and he admitted he’s supposed to take medication for the blood pressure but hasn’t been very consistent about it. I told him I thought it was really important and he said he has an appointment coming up and will speak to his doctor about it.

I learned that Julian is 57 and he was born in Baghdad. He proudly told me that he is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. He taught art for a year but was then drafted into the army during the war with Iran in the 1980s. He didn’t believe in war and managed to escape to Turkey where he lived for two years before immigrating to Canada at age 30. His mother was British and his father Iraqi. I didn’t learn much about Julian’s work history but it seemed that a promising career as an artist had been disrupted and through it all he regrets that he lost the opportunity to have a family and a home. He now finds himself in poor health, living on disability in downtown Toronto. He feels, however, most fortunate to be living in a country that is peaceful and care about one another. His biggest challenge as he sees it now is loneliness. “It’s hard to be on your own without family and unable to afford a place to live where crack heads aren’t banging on your door at midnight.” I sympathized that Toronto can be an expensive city and when you are living on disability, you don’t have a lot of choice in accommodations.

I asked what activity I had interrupted with my project request and he said he had just come from a nearby mosque where he had hoped to borrow some money from a friend to get by until the first of December when his next check comes in. His friend, however, wasn’t there so now he was going to go to another downtown mosque to look for another friend. I offered him a modest donation for a cup of coffee and he almost declined. He felt bad that it had appeared he was begging when he wasn’t. I told him I knew he wasn’t begging and it was I who offered the money and I wanted him to have it. It wasn’t much but he said he would enjoy a cup of coffee. He asked which way I was going and I said I could walk him halfway to the mosque but then I was getting on the subway.

We had a friendly chat as we walked for 15 minutes and I discovered Julian’s sense of humor. He likes to tease doctors. He said his doctor asked if he drinks a lot and he said “not when I’m asleep.” He said his doctor almost choked on his coffee which clearly pleased Julian. While taking a physical prior to coming to Canada he had been asked if he’s had chicken pox. His response was “I had chicken wings two days ago.” We shared a laugh as we worked our way through a boisterous group of school kids on a field trip.

Julian said he had no particular regrets as to how he’s led his life but he did admit that things had not gone the way he would have hoped. When he found out I am 70 he said I seemed to be doing really well for 70. I said I appreciated the compliment and said “we do the best we can.” He said “That wasn’t a compliment. It was the truth. I’m an artist so I’m a good observer. I’m reporting what I see.”

Julian’s words of wisdom included “Be kind to others and always give more than you take.” His advice to the project was “Don’t fear falling down. All great people have fallen down. What makes them great is how they get back up again.” We parted with a warm handshake as he turned toward the mosque and I headed into the subway. It was obvious that we had both enjoyed our chance meeting.

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Felix Sigmund (Phil) Geiler immigrated to Canada in 1919 from Germany and settled in Dauphin, Manitoba where he established the “Northern Manitoba Motor Bus Company” in 1929 operating between Dauphin and Brandon.

Phil Geiler relocated company headquarters to Brandon, where on May 18, 1933 it became the first to transport passengers inter-provincially into Manitoba from Flemming, Saskatchewan.

On September 5, 1933, Geiler changed the name of his company to “Manitoba Motor Transit Limited”. Throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 1960s, Phil Geiler, along with his son Bill, pioneered scheduled bus service northward to the remote mining centres of The Pas, Flin Flon and Thompson.

Although a rumoured buy-out by Greyhound Lines of Canada had been circulating amongst drivers, the company was purchased by Grey Goose Bus Lines of Winnipeg in 1969.

(written by Greg Nesteroff, Jan 30, 2016) - According to the BC Geographical Names database, NEEDLES is the landing’s name, but The Needles is still the official name of the narrows, even though construction of the High Arrow Dam in the 1960s submerged both the sandspits and the community that grew up there. A new NEEDLES post office was established in 1908 and closed in 1968 upon the flooding of the Arrow Lakes. Today the only thing left of the old community is its cemetery. The late Bill Laux said McKallister’s (or McAllister’s) Landing was the site of the original Fire Valley post office, which opened in 1894. Later, the CPR called this place Page’s Landing after William Henry Page (1861-1933), an English miner who came to the area from Butte, Mont. around 1893 and served as Fire Valley postmaster from 1908 to 1910. Link to the complete article - PLACE NAMES: NEEDLES - www.nelsonstar.com/community/place-names-needles/

NEEDLES, the western terminal of the Lower Arrow Lake ferry, was formerly known as The Needles and was first mentioned in 1895.

(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - NEEDLES - a post office on east side of Lower Arrow Lake, opposite Fire Valley, and 40 miles south of Nakusp, in Slocan Provincial Electoral District, served by C. P. R. Arrow Lake steamers between Arrowhead and West Robson. Local resources: Fruit-growing.

The Post Office at NEEDLES opened (second opening) - 1 July 1908 and closed - 30 April 1968 - The Post Office permanently closed due to the resignation of the postmaster. All mail addressed to Needles was forwarded to Fauquier for delivery.

LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the NEEDLES Post Office (second opening) - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...

- sent from - / NEEDLES / MR 27 / 09 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) is not listed in the proof book - most likely was proofed c. 1908 (RF C) - early strike.

- via - / ARMSTRONG / AP 1 / 09 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp

Message on postcard reads - (Merry Easter!) - From your cousin - Annie C. Funk - Needles

Annie (Anna) Catharine (Katherine) Funk / Baxter

(b. 23 October 1900 in Fire Valley, British Columbia - d. Humboldt, California, USA) - (I've got to do some digging on this one) - Link to her birth certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/0c... she was still alive in 1922 as she signed her sister's marriage certificate (Minnie Victoria Funk).

Her husband - Fred Wilber Baxter

(b. 5 January 1893 in Cowley, Kansas, United States - d. 25 Dec 1968 at age 75 in Arcata, Humboldt County, California, USA) - his first wife was Mary Augustina Rawson (24 August 1890 – 4 June 1970) - he married his second wife Anna Katharine Funk - 2 July 1931 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States - LINK to his Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/105861569/fred-wilber-baxter

Her father - John George Funk

(b. 10 October 1868 in Bavaria, Germany - d. 23 January 1949 at age 81 in Vernon, British Columbia) - farmer / Postmaster at Needles, B.C. - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/07... - LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...

Her mother - Julianna "Julia" Annie (nee Mosheimer) Funk

(b. 6 January 1878 in Germany - d. ) - she was 15 when they were married - 2 November 1893 in the Vernon District, B.C. (at this time they were both living in White Valley, British Columbia) - LINK to their marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/95... - they were divorced - 21 November 1936 in Vernon, B.C.

Her stepmother - Gwendolyn Elizabeth (nee Draffen) Funk

(b. 2 October 1912 in Vernon, B.C. – d. 28 December 1943 at age 31 in Lumby, British Columbia) - they were married - 11 March 1937 in Kamloops, British Columbia) - LINK to their marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/98...

Addressed to: Miss Mary Bell / Falkland P.O. / B.C.

Mary Bell

(b. 27 September 1899 in Falkland, Columbia-Shuswap, British Columbia, Canada – d. 14 December 1918 (Spanish Flu) at age 19 in Victoria, British Columbia) - LINK to her birth certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/e5... LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-victoria-daily-times-obitu...

Her father - William Bell

(b. 9 November 1867 in Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom – d. 25 July 1935 at age 67 in Vernon, British Columbia) - LINK to his Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/193163398/william-bell NOTE - he was the Postmaster at FALKLAND, B.C. (first opening) from - 1 January 1898 to - 9 July 1912.

Her mother - Maria Barbara Funk

(b. 12 January 1870 in Bergen, Germany – d. 25 February 1965 at age 95 in Falkland, Columbia-Shuswap, British Columbia, Canada) - immigrated to Canada around 1894. She married William Bell on - 15 January 1897 in Falkland, British Columbia. LINK to her Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/117299176/maria-barbara-bell

(L-R) Christine Decelles (panel), Erika Ayala (panel), Reception, Queer Peers, a Human Rights Panel Discussion on International Transgender Politics,

An evening of Queer Expressions, Photos © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com and Pride Toronto 2009, Tuesday June 23, 2009,

Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

Moderator: Fred Kuhr

Panelists:

(L-R) Victor Mukasa, Susan Gapka, Erika Ayala, Evana Ortigoza , Notisha Massaquoi, Christine Decelles, N. Nicole Nussbaum

Global Trans Rights Activist Victor Mukasa from Uganda has been chosen as Pride Toronto's 2009 International Grand Marshal. Join us as we pay tribute to the brave queer activists fighting for their rights in Africa and specifically in Uganda. Come and hear Victor speak. As the 2009 International Grand Marshal, he proudly leads Toronto's Pride Parade on Sunday, June 28 at 2:00PM.

Victor Mukasa, Chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), 2009 Pride Toronto's International Grand Marshal: is the Chairperson of SMUG and a human rights defender for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender liberation in his home country of Uganda and across Africa. As a global trans rights activist, he strives to protect and defend the space to exit freely without harassment, threat, or violence and to change this world' traditional gender categories so that people are no longer punished for simply being who they are.

Victor Juliet Mukasa is a Ugandan transgender activist who has gained international recognition for bringing light to human rights issues globally. He is a TransLesbian working with the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) as Research and Policy Associate for East, Central and Horn of Africa. Victor is a founding member of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), served as SMUG’s Chairperson from March 2004 to October 2007 and is now serving on the organizations Advisory Board. He’s also the Grand Marshall for Pride Toronto 2009.

N. Nicole Nussbaum, Barrister & Solicitor is an Employment and Human Rights Lawyer working with the Fred Victor Trans Employment Support Program. She represents both employees and employers on employment agreements, wrongful dismissal litigation, human rights complaints, employment and human rights trainings, corporate employment policy review and drafting, and other related services. Nicole transitioned from male to female in 2006.

Susan Gapka is committed to the empowerment of the marginalized community of transgender and transexual people through her dedication to social justice and her activism. She has been vocal in her lobbying the government for the rights of transpeople. Susan has won several awards for her work, worked on several committees, and facilitated many workshops and training sessions.

Notisha Massaquoi is originally from Sierra Leone and is the Executive Director of Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre (WHCHC). Her most recent publication is the edited anthology Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought. She is the winner of the 2008 IRN-Africa Audre Lorde award for outstanding writing and she is currently working on a second collection of writing with Selly Thiam entitled, None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa. Her most recent work has been implementing transgender programming into the WHCHC.

Christine Decelles is a volunteer with PWA Speakers Bureau, and an active participant and advocate in the gay community and HIV/AIDS movement who has been living with HIV for 21 years. She has done volunteer work for 10 years at PASAN, working with people who are positive within the prison system. She is the chair of Ritten House, an agency dealing with transformative justice, and also a member of Voices of Positive Women. Christine is working hard to break down the stigma and discrimination around HIV, AIDS, transsexual and transgendered people.

Erika Ayala was born in Mexico City, and has been living as a female since she was 15 years old. She first immigrated to the United States where she lived for 10 years, before moving to Canada five years ago. Erika recounts her claim for refugee status, applying as a trans-person and experiencing trans-phobia. The Queer Refugee Experience in Canada

Evana Ortigoza is a Trans Sex Outreach Worker with TransPULSE and 519 Community Centre. She was born in Venezuela, immigrated to Canada in 1994, and danced with the National Ballet of Canada for 4 years. She also coordinates the weekly Meal Trans Drop-In for low income trans-people.

I met Crysel during a BC Culture days event.

Crysel looked positively festive in her brightly flowered dress, surrounded by Mexican knickknacks and a large Mexican flag. I immediately thought of my 100 Strangers project and how nice it would be if she was in it. When I told her about the project Crysel seemed very happy to be part of it.

I asked Crysel about the challenges she faced upon immigrating to Canada from Mexico. "It's the little things: the climate, the foods, the customs." Crysel studied English and nutrition and now works as a nutritional advisor.

Muchas gracias Crysel!

Crysel was my 29th in my 100 stranger project. (I am unable to post to the group itself because of this being a repost).

Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at:

www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/

"Come September " ~ 1961

One of my all-time favorite movies of the sixties " It's September 1st, 2020, wish I was back in 1961, well maybe, a little later since I didn't see this movie until I immigrated to Canada in 64, but Italy was always on my mind. This movie brings back so many sentimental, happy memories.

" I don't *have* to make sense! I'm *Italian*!" 🇮🇹🍕🍝😊

Love Grows ♥️🌱Autumn Clematis covered in buds is just about to bloom. Do you see the heart? I didn't plant it this way.🍀💚

" COME SEPTEMBER "~ 1961

STARRING ROCK HUDSON, GINA LOLLOBRIGDA, SANDRA DEE AND BOBBY DARIN

youtu.be/te7I_ta7Vzc

Me with Kelly Vanderbeek and John Kucera at the CTV set in the village at Whistler.

Kelly VanderBeek – Analyst

A three-time World Cup medallist, VanderBeek, a native of Kitchener, Ont., is one of three members of Canada’s ‘Speed Queens’, including Canadian alpine teammates Britt Janyk and Emily Brydon, all of whom are considered among the country’s brightest stars in their sport. VanderBeek brings a great deal of familiarity of the sport to her broadcasting role at Vancouver 2010, having represented Canada on the World Cup circuit and at the Olympic Games. VanderBeek is unable to compete at the 2010 Winter Games due to injury – a torn ACL in her left knee during a downhill training run in Val d'Isere, France in December 2009. The 27-year-old competed at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin and just missed the podium, finishing 4th in the Ladies Super-G event. VanderBeek is married to fellow Olympian David Ford, a kayaker who competed for Canada at Beijing 2008.

John Kucera – Guest Analyst

The reigning downhill World Champion, Kucera began skiing when he was 18 months old and racing at the age of five. The 26-year-old represented Canada at the Turin 2006 Olympic Winter Games, finishing 17th in the men’s combined event. A three-time World Cup medallist, Kucera captured his first-ever World Championship title in February 2009 at Val d’Isere, France. The native of Calgary was considered a medal threat for Vancouver 2010 before breaking his left tibia and fibula during a crash at a World Cup event at Lake Louise in November 2009. As a child, Kucera, whose parents immigrated to Canada from the Former Czechoslovakia in 1981, attended the last Olympic Games held on Canadian soil at Calgary 1988 and watched the alpine events with his parents.

.... John Samuel Collins was born in Kent, England on January 19, 1874. On April 6, 1912, 38 year old John Collins signed onto Titanic's maiden voyage, as a coal shoveling fireman / stoker. He was one of more than 150 'firemen' or stokers, whose job it was to keep Titanic's 29 colossal boilers at steam, day and night, for the entire journey. It's unclear whether John Collins was on or off duty when Titanic collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, the odds however against his survival were steep, due to both his physical and social position within the ship. Despite the incredible challenges facing them, a number of stokers including Collins, navigated deck by deck, a maze of stairwells, gangways and corridors before they could reach the open air Boat Deck. By the time they emerged into the freezing night air, Collins - who was wearing only a pair of overalls and a thin cotton vest - were immediately put to work by Chief Officer Murdoch, in helping to prepare lifeboat 1 for launch. When no one else seemed to be around - all the nearby lifeboats were gone and the crowd had moved aft, Murdoch permitted Collins and six other stokers to enter the boat, joining five passengers, just before it was lowered. It was the fourth boat launched to sea, at 1:05 AM, over an hour into Titanic's sinking. With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night. Most of the occupants of Boat 1 were men, despite Captain Smith's call for "women and children first." First Officer Murdoch, in charge of the evacuation effort on the ship's starboard side, had allowed a number of male passengers & crew to board lifeboats. Murdoch permitted ten men to board lifeboat 1. The passengers included Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon; his wife Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon; her secretary, Mabel Francatelli; Abraham Salomon and C. E. Henry Stengel. The crewmen were: Lookout George Symons, whom Murdoch placed in charge of the craft, Charles Hendrickson, John Collins, George Taylor, Frederick Sheath, Robert Pusey and Albert Horswill. Boat No. 1 and its occupants were picked up by the RMS Carpathia sometime shortly after 4:10 am, being the second Titanic lifeboat to reach the rescue ship. After disembarking the Carpathia in New York and returning home to England, Collins was later called to testify at the British Inquiry into the disaster during the summer of 1912. Afterwards, John Collins and his wife immigrated to Canada, settling in Toronto, Ontario. During World War 1, Collins served in France with the Canadian Field Artillery & Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was wounded and discharged, returning to Canada in 1916. On April 15 1939, Collins put together a reunion for himself and three other Titanic survivors who were living in Toronto at the time. All four survivors met at the Royal York Hotel to have dinner together on the same day the ship went down 27 years earlier. John Samuel Collins died in 1950, age 76 of cancer, at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto and was buried in the military veterans section of Pine Hills Cemetery. .... Section N - Plot 255

Wilno is nestled in the rolling, picturesque terrain of the Madawaska valley which was largely shaped during the demise of the Laurentide ice sheet at the end of the last North American Ice Age.

Wilno is the first and oldest Polish settlement in Canada. The original settlers in this area circa 1858 were mainly of Kashubian origin from the then German area of Poland. One of the reasons they chose this area to settle was because of the landscape which reminded them of their original homes.

At one time, John Rudolphus Booth's Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway ran through the town mainly serving the lumber industry. The former train route has now been redeveloped into a recreational path. The former train station has likewise been converted into an early settler building and museum that presents the early history of the town. The museum and open air wodden skansen contain the history of the first Kaszebe people as well as their immigration to Canada, freedom and eventually, after many hardships, their settlement journey to the Wilno area.

Wilno's namesake was the city of Wilno, then in a Russian-occupied area of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, (now Vilnius, capital of Lithuania), the birthplace of Reverend Ludwik Dembski, who was a prominent community spiritual leader and town founder, who would not have wanted the town named after himself. Therefore, the townsfolk, grateful for his contributions to their town, may have suggested the name of Wilno.

Montreal’s Portuguese community is celebrating two big milestones this year: a decade of the “Festival Portugal International de Montreal” and the 70th anniversary of Portuguese immigration to Canada.

Meyer Optik Gorlitz Trioplan 35mm f/2.8

Don Cosens Collection

M5 S1 Sh1 B1 F14 14

Frome, located between Shedden and Talbotville on Talbot Line, was first settled by members of the Silcox family. Daniel Silcox, a native of Frome, England, settled in Southwold Township in 1816. A year later, his brother Joseph (d. 1873) immigrated to Canada and soon after settled on land where Frome is now located. In 1819, Joseph was ordained and formed a church, which later became the Frome Congregational Church and is today the Frome United Church (built in 1888).

Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, Frome quickly became a thriving settlement. A school was built across from the church in 1820, and in the proceeding decades a general store and post office (owned by Grant Silcox), blacksmith shops, a flour and sawmill, and a gas station (owned by Wilfred Silcox) were built. Other early settlers in Frome included the Horton, Daugharty, Sharon, Egan, and Sutton families.

Tombstone of James W. Cockburn (February 13, 1819 - August 14, 1883) and his wife. He was a lawyer and a politician at both the provincial and federal levels. He was the first speaker in the House of Commons. St. James Cemetery, Toronto, Canada. Spring afternoon, 2021. Pentax K1 II.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cockburn_(Ontario_politician)

James W. Cockburn, QC (February 13, 1819 – August 14, 1883) was a Canadian Conservative politician, and a father of Canadian Confederation.

Early life

He was born in Berwick-Upon-Tweed on the English–Scottish border and immigrated to Canada with his father, James Cockburn Snr. (1787–1832), mother, Sarah Turnbull (1797–1867) and brother, Adam (1820–1861), at the age of 13. After attending Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall, he established a law practice in Cobourg, Ontario.

Career

In the 1850s, Cockburn was elected to the town council. In 1861, he was elected to the Province of Canada's legislative assembly as a Reformer representing Northumberland West. Despite elected as an opponent of the Macdonald - Cartier administration, Cockburn switched allegiances and became a supporter of Macdonald's Liberal-Conservative Party.

Cockburn attended the Quebec Conference of 1864 as a supporter of Confederation. After Confederation, he was elected to the new House of Commons of Canada in the country's first election. He was nominated by Sir John A. Macdonald to be Canada's first Speaker of the House of Commons, a position in which he served from 1867 to 1874.

His performance as Speaker was hindered by the fact that he spoke no French in a chamber in which both English and French were official languages. He did however understand French. In 1872, Cockburn was nominated for a second term as Speaker despite reservations by the Opposition that he had been too favourable to the government in his rulings. Cockburn lost his seat in the 1874 election that had been precipitated by the Pacific Scandal and that brought down the Macdonald government.

Cockburn won back his former seat in the 1878 election but did not take an active role in Parliament. He resigned in 1881 when he was appointed to collect and classify Canadian statutes but this assignment was cut short by his death.

Death

Cockburn died on August 14, 1883 from unknown causes. He is buried in St. James Cemetery, in Toronto.

Personal life

He married Isabella Susan Patterson (1838-1862) in 1854 and they had three children: Sarah Isabella Cockburn (1857-1911), Francis Cockburn (1858-1868) and May Cockburn (1859-1943).

www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cockburn_james_11E.html

COCKBURN, JAMES, lawyer, businessman, and politician; b. 13 Feb. 1819 at Berwick upon Tweed, England, son of James Cockburn, a merchant, and Sarah Turnbull; m. 14 Dec. 1854 Isabella Susan Patterson (d. 1862), and they had three children; d. 14 Aug. 1883 at Ottawa, Ont.

James Cockburn’s family was of Scottish Presbyterian origin although Cockburn himself was a member of the Church of England by the 1860s. He received his early education at a grammar school in Berwick upon Tweed. In 1832 he came with his family, which seems to have had some financial resources, to Montreal, Lower Canada, where his father died of cholera in the same year. Sarah Cockburn then moved her family to York (Toronto), Upper Canada, and in 1832–33 James continued his education at Upper Canada College.

Cockburn began to study law in 1841 and was admitted to the bar in 1846. He then moved to Cobourg and in July of that year began to practise in partnership with D’Arcy Edward Boulton. Cockburn was also involved in other business activities in Cobourg and the surrounding area. In 1856 he was employing men for the construction of a dam, slide, booms, and piers at Campbellford on the Trent River and he was also the Cobourg agent for the Colonial Life Assurance Company. From 1864 to 1870 he acted as mortgage and land agent for Richard John Cartwright*.

Meanwhile Cockburn’s legal practice was declining. In 1863 he had been appointed a qc and the following year was elected a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. By then, however, he was involved in politics and these accolades were probably more political than professional honours; he was not a prominent lawyer. His business affairs also ran into difficulties. In 1864 he tried to borrow money on the security of his Cobourg properties but land values had fallen sharply. By 1866 he was virtually bankrupt and he was never able to restore his financial position. In 1869, admitting that his legal career was in jeopardy, he explained his plight to Cartwright: “I have come to grief and have been made to feel very poor and very penniless. . . . I am trying to work up my professional practice again, but it needs time, and time though it may heal will also kill.”

Cockburn was more successful in politics. He served on the Cobourg Town Council in 1855–56 and in 1859. In 1861 he successfully contested Northumberland West against Sidney Smith, postmaster general in the government of George-Étienne Cartier* and John A. Macdonald*. Cockburn was described by Macdonald in 1861 as “a Tory of the old school. In fact, [you] might say he belonged to the old fossil party – a Tory of the old Family Compact . . . .” Promising in the campaign that “If elected my vote shall be given unhesitatingly against [the ministry] on every question involving want of confidence,” Cockburn endorsed representation by population and sought unity of political opinion in Canada West in order to accomplish for it “the objectives we frequently desire.” Although he voted in favour of the government’s militia bill, on which the Cartier–Macdonald ministry was defeated in May 1862, he explained that this support was not an expression of “his confidence” in Macdonald. He endorsed portions of the policy of the new administration formed by John Sandfield Macdonald* and Louis-Victor Sicotte but never committed himself to the Reform ministry. After his election by acclamation in 1863 he emerged as a supporter of John A. Macdonald and remained a Liberal-Conservative for the rest of his career. On 30 March 1864 he was appointed solicitor general in the government of Étienne-Paschal Taché* and John A. Macdonald.

Cockburn was not a distinguished parliamentarian nor was he an important regional politician. He administered his portfolio in a routine manner, and attended to the patronage problems of his constituents. With the instability of union politics, which meant frequent change in cabinets, men such as Cockburn who would otherwise have remained obscure rose to ministerial rank. Cockburn had the good fortune to be in office when the “Great Coalition” was formed in 1864 [see George Brown*] and as a minister of the government became a delegate to the Quebec conference. His contributions to the proceedings and to the subsequent debates on confederation in the Legislative Assembly were negligible. Nevertheless, “an inferior man,” as Alexander Mackenzie* privately called him, is remembered as a father of confederation.

Cockburn was elected by acclamation to the first federal parliament in 1867. There was no place for him in the cabinet; as compensation he was chosen speaker of the House of Commons. Leading Liberals held the first speaker in low regard and his inability to speak French was resented by some members from Quebec. In 1873, however, he was re-elected to the post. His fortunes declined rapidly after the fall of the Macdonald government in November 1873. He lost Northumberland West in 1874 and was unsuccessful in Northumberland East in a by-election later that year. He moved his family to Ottawa to re-establish himself as a lawyer. The Toronto Daily Mail claimed that he built “a good practice in the Supreme Court,” but he remained destitute. In 1878 he secured the Conservative nomination in Northumberland West after a bitter struggle and won a narrow victory in the general election of that year. However, his political career was virtually over. Cockburn was seriously ill after 1878; his major interest was in securing a patronage post to obtain financial security for himself and his children. In 1871 he had tried to persuade Macdonald to appoint him lieutenant governor of British Columbia. He asked for the speakership again in 1878 and was refused. In 1881 Macdonald finally employed the sick and worried man on the consolidation of the statutes. Cockburn pursued the task informally until ill health forced him to resign his seat on 15 Nov. 1881. He was immediately appointed to the commission for the codification of dominion statutory law. By 1882 Cockburn was too ill to leave his lodgings, but he continued to press Macdonald for patronage until his death.

Pacific Mall is an Asian shopping mall in Markham, Ontario, Canada. Opened in the mid-1990s amid a period of significant Chinese immigration to Canada, Pacific Mall is the largest indoor Asian shopping mall in North America.

Coming 2021: B&W Night Photography.

Coming 2022: 80s&90s Television.

This is one of the last photos of my Great Grandparent's Steve and Margit (Makranyi) Kapcsos farmstead east of Strawberry Lake near the village of Hill Spring, Alberta. Built by my Great Grandpa Steve and local carpenter, logs were hauled from Pole Haven west of Mountain View, Alberta.

My Great Grandpa immigrated to Canada from Polgar, Hungary in 1927. He made it to Saskatchewan working fields rock picking for a farmer. After receiving very little money as was promised to him. He continued on in search of greener pastures, eventually making his journey west, until finally settling in the Hill Spring area.

He immediately fell in love with the beauty of this new foreign land that reminded him so much of his homeland of Hungary. He worked hard and received this land in return for his work. He eventually built a smaller shack in order to house his wife, Margret and daughter, who later immigrated to Canada once he had saved up enough money to send back to them for their long journey to Canada. He and another Hungarian carpenter built this house for his growing family. As their family grew the shack was added onto using the small railway waiting room moved from Parkbend, Alberta, 6km south of Hill Spring.

In 1947 Steve was struck by a stray bullet from nearby Strawberry Lake while working the fields. He was struck in his back and was taken to hospital where he recovered. Sadly he caught a cold almost a year later and died of kidney failure.

Their hopes to build a permanent home on this land was lost with the death of Steve. The now widowed Margit was left to take care of their 5 children and the farm.

The farmstead didn't have modern conveniences such as electric power until the mid 1960s. A hole behind the house was used to store food to keep cool, until the addition of modern convenience such as a refrigerator and electricity could be afforded.

Margit eventually moved to Cardston, Alberta in 1970 and later sold the farm in 1972. She lived here until eventually moving to a seniors home in Cardston until her death in 2004.

The old Kapcsos shack was about to be demolished almost 10 years later in 1980 when the new owners were going to build a new home on the present site. Luckily they decided to move the original home a little to the west for storage. Later it was used as a barn. It has been about 40 years since it was last occupied as a home, here it now sat as a reminder of what life on the Canadian Prairies was like until it was removed in 2009.

My Grandpa Steve Jr. was born in a barn just a little west and north of this home in 1932 (died 2015), The house is the last of the original farm and has lasted over 80 years until finally falling in on itself with a little help from a backhoe. It's a good thing we made it out there in time to see it go. I climbed through the hole in the roof and found a couple old tin cans shoes and neat old Hungarian newspapers dated back to 1936, which have now become family-heirlooms.

Cardston County, Alberta - March 22, 2008

The Horaceville manor house at Pinhey's Point Historic Site in Dunrobin (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada.

The Honourable Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey (1784-1857) immigrated to Canada from England in 1820 to develop his estate, Horaceville, Pinhey's Point. That same year, 1820, he built the first Pinhey house to which additions were made over the next 28 years.

This property remained in the Pinhey family until 1971 when March Township purchased it. In 1990 the City of Kanata (now part of the City of Ottawa) acquired Pinhey's Point.