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A Canadian Armed Forces Sea King helicopter does a fly past over Fort Rodd Hill.
LR re-edit of a 2009 favourite.
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On a sunny and reasonably warm Family Day in B.C.
Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites
Another interior shot of a gatehouse at Fort Rodd Hill. Again, this shows how HDR can balance interior and exterior lighting. Note subtle variations of light on the stove, the wall above the door, the ceiling and under the windows. Kinda blown out through the gate, but the room was dark and it was full sun coming through there. That ray was blown in all five exposures. No flash used here, of course.
www.flickr.com/explore/interesting Highest Position # 343 on Wed. Feb.8th 2012
The waterfront sites at Fisgard Lighthouse and Fort Rodd Hill are extremely photogenic, especially with the scenic backdrop of the Olympic Mountains in neighbouring Washington state.
The Strait of Juan de Fuca almost always offers a wide variety of ships, from small sailing vessels, to enormous cargo ships, and the proximity of the Canadian Navy base means that military craft of several nations are often seen at close range.
Wildlife at the sites includes Columbian black-tailed deer, river otters, mink, raccoons, harbour seals, and sea lions.
“Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site is a 19th-century coastal artillery fort on the Colwood, British Columbia side of Esquimalt Harbour, (Greater Victoria/Victoria BC Metropolitan Area). The site is adjacent to Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site, the first lighthouse on the west coast of Canada. Both the fort and lighthouse are managed and presented to the public by Parks Canada.”
A saltwater lagoon located at the base of the Royal Roads property, next to the Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites and a view across Esquimalt Harbour at Dockyard. Victoria, BC
Colwood, BC Canada
Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site, on Fisgard Island at the mouth of Esquimalt Harbour in Colwood, British Columbia, is the site of Fisgard Lighthouse, the first lighthouse on the west coast of Canada.
Fisgard Lighthouse is about 6.2 miles by boat or 7.8 miles by car from downtown Victoria. Automated in 1929, the light shows a white isophase light of 2 second period in a sector from 322° to 195° at 71 ft above mean sea level, and in other directions it shows red shutters. The white 48 ft tower is floodlit below balcony level.
Fisgard Lighthouse was built in 1860 to guide vessels through the entrance of Esquimalt harbour. It was named after HMS Fisgard, a British Navy ship that spent time in the Pacific.
Fisgard Lighthouse and its sister station Race Rocks Light, were constructed in 1859–60, to ease the movement of naval ships into Esquimalt harbour and merchant ships into Victoria Harbour. The light stations were also seen as a significant political and fiduciary commitment on the part of the British government to the Colony of Vancouver Island, partly in response to the American gold miners flooding into the region: some 25,000 arrived in 1858 for the Fraser gold rush.
The cast-iron spiral staircase in the tower was made in sections in San Francisco.Local legend claims that the brick and stone used in construction were sent out from Britain as ballast; in fact local brick yards and quarries supplied these materials, while the lens, lamp apparatus and lantern room were accompanied from England by the first keeper, Mr. George Davies, in 1859. The cast-iron spiral staircase in the tower was made in sections in San Francisco.
Fisgard first showed a light from the tower at sunset on 16 November 1860. Colonial Governor James Douglas petitioned the British government to build the lighthouse. Captain Richards supported his position. Construction was supervised by Colonial Surveyor and Engineer JD Pemberton. Architects John Wright and Hermann Otto Tiedemann did the design of the lighthouse and the picturesque gothic red brick residence adjoining it.
Permanent steel shutters were added to the landward side of the lantern room some time after 1897, when concussion from the 6-inch guns at newly built Fort Rodd Hill caused cracks to appear in the lantern windows. The last keeper to actually live full-time at Fisgard was George Johnson; Josiah Gosse, Fisgard's final keeper, had permission from the lighthouse authority to live ashore (nearby on Esquimalt Lagoon), and row out to Fisgard every evening.
In the early 1940s, the acetylene lamp in Fisgard's tower was replaced by a battery-powered electric light. In 1950–51, a causeway was built out to Fisgard Island from the foreshore at Fort Rodd Hill by the Canadian Army; this was intended as a military obstacle, but also provided direct access to Fisgard Lighthouse.
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'RODD 01' from the 337th Airlift Squadron, the 'Patriot Wing' at Westover Air Reserve Base, Chicopee, MA
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Esquimalt, BC Canada
Tour through secret bunkers, military command posts and original 19th century buildings at Fort Rodd Hill, a west coast artillery fortress on active duty from 1895 to 1956.
Fisgard Lighthouse
Named a national historic site in 1960, a century after first showing its light, Fisgard is still a working lighthouse - although the last keeper rowed away in 1929. Fisgard was an early expression of government sovereignty on what would become Canada's west coast.
Generations of mariners - British and Canadian, naval and merchant - have relied on Fisgard as a landmark to find Esquimalt harbour's narrow entrance. With Race Rocks light, FIsgard marks the safe anchorage of Royal Roads, and also points the way to Victoria harbour for merchant ships.
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Sulla strada Provinciale per Verduno-Roddi, le colline delle Langhe in lontananza e il fiume Tanaro si incontrano due strani pilastri ad arco che fino al 1945 reggevano un ponte di legno che collegava le due sponde del fiume cuneese.
Venne costruito a metà dell'800', sotto ordine di re Carlo Alberto, all'interno del quadro di ricostruzione del paese di Pollenzo, sede attuale dell’Università di Scienze Gastronomiche.
L'arco a ferro di cavallo e le decorazioni diffuse creano un'architettura che ricorda lo stile moresco delle medine arabe: per quanto questo possa sembrare strano, poiché insolito per lo stile urbanistico della zona, l'architettura del ponte è comunque in continuità con lo stile eclettico delle altre costruzioni che Carlo Alberto fece costruire a Pollenzo, costruzioni che spaziano dallo stile Tudor a quello medioevale e a quello, appunto, moresco.
La distruzione del ponte di corde e legno, fatta ad opera dei partigiani durante la seconda guerra mondiale per difendere l'accesso alla città di Alba, è vivacemente testimoniata da Beppe Fenoglio nel suo "i ventitré giorni della città di Alba".
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PS: Mi scuso con gli amici e i visitatori, ma sono costretta a venirvi a trovare solo un po' per volta, oggi un pacchetto di voi, domani un altro eccetera...
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Notes: The man down on the footpath at left with a bill board, looks like 'Batt, Rodd and Purves' 'Tuesday Next' and some names.
See the comments below for the extensive research carried our by our intrepid followers, thank you to all!
Format: Albumen photo print
Date Range: 1880s
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: From an album
Links: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_zoomify/2008/D00663/a1367435.html
Fort Rodd Hill, Colwood, BC
Canada Geese begin to mate at around two to three years of age. They will mate for life unless one dies, then they will find another mate. The female chooses the nesting spot which is usually on a somewhat elevated ground by water that has an unobstructed view. They want to be able to spot predators nearby. The nest also built by the female, is a shallow bowl made of sticks, grass, weeds, moss, and lined with down feathers. She is the only one to incubate the eggs with the male on guard.
Canada Geese have one brood with the female laying anywhere from two to eight creamy white eggs. Incubation takes up to twenty-eight days. Within twenty four hours the young goslings are able to walk, swim, feed, and dive. When the young are about two to three months old they learn to fly.
Reference: abirdsdelight.com/canada-goose-nesting-habits
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Fort Rodd Hill.
Island’s stately arbutus trees wither in seasons of changeDAR-RON KLOSTER dkloster@times-colonist.com
Times Colonist
Mar 27, 2021
Vancouver Island’s cherished arbutus trees are looking a little sickly these days, their normally colourful bark blackened or grey and leaves withering and falling off.
Experts say it’s due to a combination of factors — fungal leaf blights, successive seasons of drought, climate change and human disturbances.
The problem is widespread and some areas are being harder hit than others. Several of the majestic trees have been stricken in Mount Douglas Park, along with others in regional parks such as Frances King and Mount Work and in pockets from Sooke to its northern-most range around Parksville.
Canada’s only broadleaf evergreen tree is in serious trouble, said Metchosin’s Andy McKinnon, a retired professional forester and biologist.
“Everywhere I’ve looked, the arbutus are in a bad state,” McKinnon said Friday. “They are being hammered by blight, a species of fungus that attacks the leaf.”
He said seasons of drought and “well-documented changes in climate” leave the arbutus stressed and unable to fight the fungus, and some of the trees are dying.
The arbutus has been dealing with fungal leaf blight for hundreds of years, McKinnon said. While the organisms haven’t changed, the trees are less hardy and more susceptible to defoliation due to eroding soils, dry summers and stress from human disturbances.
“They are losing the battle and it breaks my heart to see this happen,” said McKinnon. “Five years ago, we had a similar experience and we ended up with a lot of dead arbutus. I think we’re seeing that again now.”
McKinnon and other experts are monitoring trees to determine if the afflicted arbutus are mainly those growing in shallow soils, where moisture isn’t easily maintained.
Most of the Island’s arbutus trees are found in rocky outcroppings near the ocean.
Arbutus menziesii, also known as Pacific Madrone, is a “striking work of nature,” according to The Land Conservancy of British Columbia. They can live to be hundreds of years old. Their flowers support pollinating insects and their berries are an important food source for robins, waxwings, thrushes and woodpeckers.
Arbutus bark regenerates new layers every year and its colour varies, depending on its age, ranging from brilliant chartreuse to a deep red.
But the blight is turning many of the distinctive trees into drab shadows on the landscape.
“When you see an arbutus going grey or black, that’s an advanced onset of [disease] and it’s a challenge for an arbutus to come back from that,” said Andrew Connell, an arborist with the District of Saanich.
Connell is hopeful many of the trees will bounce back.
He said if people have arbutus trees on their properties, they should water them during dry periods, reduce pruning and do what they can to reduce climate change.
He discourages transplanting, saying arbutus don’t survive moves well, and he recommends planting seedlings.
Saanich’s tree bylaws protect arbutus trees as small as four centimetres in diameter, and the district examines any development that involves removal of the trees. Garry oak, Pacific dogwood and yew trees are also protected.
McKinnon, a Metchosin councillor, said many of the region’s councils could do a lot more to protect arbutus trees, saying Langford and Colwood developments have wiped out most of the trees in those areas.
Duncan Frater, who lives downtown and has been taking regular hikes during the pandemic, said he started noticing the sickly state of arbutus trees during trips this spring to Mount Work Regional Park.
“Lots of us are hiking these days and it’s obvious that the arbutus trees are going through some kind of change,” he said. “They are really magnificent trees. The bark is beautiful and changes colour when it rains. Now a lot of them don’t look well.”
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Historic Fisgard Lighthouse, Victoria, British Columbia
Fisgard Lighthouse in Victoria is nationally important as the first lighthouse on the rocky Pacific west coast of Canada. Built by the British when Vancouver Island was still a crown colony, Fisgard Lighthouse has stood as a symbol of sovereignty since its construction in 1860. The lighthouse is still in operation but is now fully operational.
Along with nearby Race Rocks Lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Fisgard still provides a welcome guide for mariners to Royal Roads anchorage and the Esquimalt naval base (CFB Esquimalt), and also points the way to Victoria harbour for merchant ships and recreational vessels.
The former keeper's house now contains exhibits, artifacts, children's games, and hands-on display panels. Panoramic views from the lighthouse include tall ships at the Canadian Naval Base, Esquimalt lagoon, and the snow-capped Olympic Mountains across the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Access to Fisgard Lighthouse is through the large grounds of historic Fort Rodd Hill, a coast artillery fort overlooking the entrance to Esquimalt Harbour, built in the late 1890s to protect Victoria and the Royal Naval base.
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A WWII searchlight installation disguised as a fishing shack at Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site, Colwood, BC
It has been quite a few years since I visited Fisgard Lighthouse, the light was the first lighthouse build on the West Coast of Canada in 1860. It is a beautiful old lighthouse. Located at the Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site, Victoria, B.C.
Ford Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse
Esquimalt, BC Canada
Tour through secret bunkers, military command posts and original 19th century buildings at Fort Rodd Hill, a west coast artillery fortress on active duty from 1895 to 1956.
Fisgard Lighthouse
Named a national historic site in 1960, a century after first showing its light, Fisgard is still a working lighthouse - although the last keeper rowed away in 1929. Fisgard was an early expression of government sovereignty on what would become Canada's west coast.
Generations of mariners - British and Canadian, naval and merchant - have relied on Fisgard as a landmark to find Esquimalt harbour's narrow entrance. With Race Rocks light, FIsgard marks the safe anchorage of Royal Roads, and also points the way to Victoria harbour for merchant ships.
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Ford Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse
Esquimalt, BC Canada
Tour through secret bunkers, military command posts and original 19th century buildings at Fort Rodd Hill, a west coast artillery fortress on active duty from 1895 to 1956.
Fisgard Lighthouse
Named a national historic site in 1960, a century after first showing its light, Fisgard is still a working lighthouse - although the last keeper rowed away in 1929. Fisgard was an early expression of government sovereignty on what would become Canada's west coast.
Generations of mariners - British and Canadian, naval and merchant - have relied on Fisgard as a landmark to find Esquimalt harbour's narrow entrance. With Race Rocks light, FIsgard marks the safe anchorage of Royal Roads, and also points the way to Victoria harbour for merchant ships.
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Sonja
Victoria, BC - I am thankful that a ceremony to mark the 100-year anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge is the only reason I'm seeing and hearing Howitzers firing a 100-shot barrage. May we never forget what our forebears endured...
Notes: title from album page, identified as the grave of Eliza Rodd.
Glenroy was a significant government station in the two decades after 1816. Nothing remains above ground of the government site and this grave is unusual testimony to the soldiers stationed there. It is also the earliest dated grave marker west of the Blue Mountains.
As soon as William Cox and his convicts built a road over the Blue Mountains and across the western plains in 1813-14, Governor Macquarie moved government stock over the mountains first to Hartley in 1815 then to Glenroy in 1816. The Glenroy settlement consisted of stockyards, pens, slab huts for stockmen and soldiers' accommodation near Cox's crossing of Cox's River: it retained importance until the early 1830s.
In 1831 the 39th regiment of foot was stationed at Glenroy: on 12 January the wife of the colour sergeant, James Rodd, bore a daughter. She was christened Eliza but died on 14 September 1831 and was buried some 300 metres from the barracks. The property has been pastoral since the military withdrew soon after Eliza's burial.
Inscription reads, verbatim:
"SACRED To The MEMORY
of
ELIZA RODD
who departed this life September 14the 1831
Aged 8 months and 2 days daughter of
J Rodd colour sergant in his
MAGESTY 39th Regt foot
How can a tender Mothers care
cease to love the child she bers
how can my frends discontented be
since my Savour has taken me"
Preceding civil registration, this stone is the only evidence of Eliza Rodd's existence. Its vernacular spelling and touching text are valuable evidence for social life in the area in the 1830s and of high significance at so early a date. (Heritage listing)
Format: b&w photo 9.5 cm x 6.5 cm
Date Range: c.1910. Frank Walker was photographing around Lithgow in May 1910.
Location: Glenroy, Hartley
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection SHS 185
Provenance: donation, from an album - ‘Western District Relics Illustrated’ by Frank Walker (1861-1948) FRAHS, 1914.
Links: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe...
www.lithgow-nsw.com/GlenroyH7.html
www.gg.gov.au/program/eliza-rodd-governor-macquarie-manly...
April 26th, 2014
On a quest to be become a better Victorian I have made it a goal to check out more tourist attractions. I didn't grow up here so I never got to go on all those boring field trips.
This is the Fisgard Lighthouse located at Fort Rodd Hill. It was pretty neat.
"DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE
Situated near the water’s edge, Searchlight N° 7 of the Fort Rodd Hill complex faces south across the Juan de Fuca Strait. The single-storey, flat-roofed massing of the searchlight structure is carefully obscured by a simple gable roof and the lean-to shed-roof. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building."