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A teacher at a One School at a Time partner school using a chapati to teach students about fractions.
A fraction of a second is what it takes to capture a moment like this with the eagle splashing down on a fish with its powerful talons. www.troymarcyphotography.com
A fraction of a second earlier, this was a 2foot ripple - this place wedges hard
A fraction of a second later, I went over the falls backwards.
This fraction of a second he looked into my eyes, is a moment I carry always through my life.
God Bless you and God help us now that you are gone.Here are a few snaps I took on June 30, 1990 in Oakland, less than 4 months after he been freed from 27 years in Robben Island, my whole life at that time.. We carry you in our hearts always.
"Man a man has done what he considers to be his duty to the people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity"- Nelson Mandela.
Each of these bowls has a quarter "cut out," which took a lot of engineering to figure out how to do. I started playing with this idea about a year ago, but I didn't have the skills at that time to make it work well. Each is folded from a rectangle of Elephant Hide paper.
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Harrogate finally got a couple of their new electric e400s into use a fraction before Christmas on the 36. December not a great time to try photograph a largely black bus on a North - South route. With the majority of the spots closed down in winter, the bottom of Chapletown Rd Leeds had to do for now. For once and a pleasure to say...these blinds are an absolute joy to photograph !
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This shot includes a major fraction of the Snow Geese that formed this huge flock. They rose from this newly created shallow lake as if shot from a cannon!. I don't have a clue what spooked them! They circled this lake for several minutes and then returned as if nothing had happened. The visual flight density reminded me more of insect swarms! I estimated the entire flock to comprise several thousand birds. This viewing was a real treat because large assemblies of this species have not been that visible in the refuges along the Rio Grande flyway for the past several years. You should hear the "ear candy" from this group exercising a mass exodus as they pass overhead... it's deafening and exciting!
( A sharp-eyed observer can identify several Sandhill Cranes in the flight group... they were already airborne when the Snow Geese overwhelmed them! The feeding Cranes in the foreground and background completely ignored the Snow Geese panic!)
IMG_1144; Snow Geese
This shot includes only a fraction of the Snow Geese that formed this huge flock. The density reminded me of insect swarms! I estimated the flock to comprise several thousand birds. This viewing was a real treat because large numbers of this species have not been that visible in the Bosque del Apache NWR and other regions along the Rio Grande flyway for the past several years. You should hear the "ear candy" from this group!
IMG_7804; Snow Geese
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
Columbia Gardens, B.C. to Cranbrook, B.C., 27 October 1931
3 cents forward letter + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents.
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Columbia Gardens is a ghost town located in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. The town is situated near Trail, British Columbia. Columbia Gardens is near the Waneta border crossing.
Columbia Gardens was established as the flag-stop of “Sayward” by the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway in 1893, it served at first the loggers who came to collect the forest’s trees and slowly became the centre of the small agrarian community which was growing up on the locality’s sandy, rich soil. In the early part of the twentieth century developers bought tracts of railroad land and subdivided them into 10-acre “fruit ranches,” and reflective of this land use, the settlement’s name was changed to “Columbia Gardens” in 1905.
PLACE NAMES: Columbia Gardens - article written by Greg Nesteroff - Surveyor J.D. Anderson deposited his Columbia Gardens plan with the land registry on Sept. 14, 1907. The Columbia Gardens post office operated from 1908-50, but the name Sayward persisted a little longer. A letter postmarked July 7, 1910 was addressed to “Mrs. Pipkin, Columbia Gardens, Old Sayward, BC (near Waneta).” And according to the Nelson Daily News of Jan. 20, 1913, it took the influence of the local Farmers Institute and a petition by residents to convince the Great Northern to finally change the name of the railway station from Sayward to Columbia Gardens: “The change was put into effect on Tuesday, Jan. 11, and express as well as mail will henceforth be addressed to Columbia Gardens.” LINK to the complete article - www.nelsonstar.com/community/place-names-sayward/
(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - COLUMBIA GARDENS - a post office and farming settlement 59 miles south of Nelson and 7 east of Trail, on Kootenay River, Trail Provincial Electoral District, on the G. N. R. Nearest telegraph point Waneta, on the G. N. R., 4 miles. The population in 1918 was 60. Local resources: Mixed farming.
Columbia Gardens’ post office was established - 1 April 1908 and closed - 31 July 1950, and the school followed in 1954 with the kids heading for the new school in Fruitvale.
- sent from - / COLUMBIA - GARDENS / MY 17 / 34 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A-1) is not listed in the proof book - it was most likely proofed c. 1908 when the Post Office opened - (RF D). (there is a period after the C - I saw a nice 1910 strike showing the period after the "C")
by registered mail - / R / COLUMBIA GARDENS, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (576) / - boxed handstamp in purple ink
via - / NELSON / MY 16 / 34 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
via rpo - / MED. HAT & NEL. R.P.O. / 12 / MY 17 / 34 / No 1 / - rpo transit backstamp
arrival - / CRANBROOK / MY 17 / 34 / B.C. / - cds arrival backstamp
Addressed to: The Manager / The Canadian Bank of Commerce / Cranbrook / B.C.
- sent by: Mrs. H. I. Hild / Columbia Gardens, / B.C.
Hariette Isabelle (nee Parker) Hild
(b. 4 January 1905 in Cranbrook, B.C. - d. 1994) - she was a school teacher at Columbia Gardens from 1934 to 1941. In August 1941 they moved to the USA.
Her father - Charles Summerville Parker
(b. 15 August 1863 in Quebed – d. 12 April 1944)
Her mother - Anna Thersa Sheppard
(b. 4 December 1875 – d. 18 December 1946 in Vancouver, B.C.) - they were married - 12 March 1901 in Cranbrook, B.C.
Her husband - Victor Hjalmar Hild
(b. 12 November 1898 in Kingsville, Kent County, Ontario, Canada - d. 17 November 1962 at age 64 in Trail, B.C.) - he was a customs officer. They were married in Spokane, Washington on - 23 May 1927.
LINK to his Personnel Records from the First World War - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-wo... He served in France with the "Canadian Light Horse". Regiment No. 552825.
His father: Andrew Isaac Hild (b. 1868 in Kristianstad, Sweden – Deceased)
His mother: Johanna Sodergren (b. 1868 in Sweden – Deceased)
Kermit: “Hey, Fozzie. What’s with the numbers?”
Fozzie: “We’re here to see how numbers line up. And Kermit, remember that not all math problems are bad. Only sum.”
Kermit: “I heard the fraction and the decimal are no longer speaking to each other.”
Fozzie: “Why is that?”
Kermit: “The fraction couldn’t see the point.”
Fozzie: “Did you know that parallel lines have so much in common.”
Kermit: “Too bad they can’t meet.”
Fozzie: “I also have to introduce you to this king who loves fractions.”
Kermit: “Who is he?”
Fozzie: “Why, he’s King Henry VIII.”
Kermit: “I guess that makes King Louis XIV a little smaller king.”
Fozzie: “And to think, I always had problems with Math. I failed it so many times I couldn’t count.”
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DB Cargo's 66059 Rolls Across Dent Head Viaduct With The 10.44 New Biggin (British Gypsum) to Hull Coal Terminal, Running 10 Minutes Early.
With The Police Keeping An Eye On Things, The Cars Parked In The Distance Are Just A Fraction Of The People Who Were Waiting For A Picture Of 60163 'Tornado' Heading North To Appleby.
Wednesday 15th February 2017
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Shave of a fraction and today marks the 1/3 point in the project. I thought this is a good time to give some of my thoughts on the project. I feel like I am hitting my stride, I no longer stress over my daily shot, they just come to me. If I do stress it is over things like the potential of a week working in montreal or denver. both might happen before the end of the project and yes I can take my camera but how interesting will my hotel room be? I have learned a great deal and at the beginning of the project i had to do several takes to 'get it right", this morning i did 2. The one getting the splash of the rock I got on the 3rd take. yesterday took me 2 takes, one to get the lines and framing correct..then the shot. I look forward to the next 2/3 and to see where it takes me. Thank you all for the interest and comments to this point on my project.
Little Jackson was overnight with us, last night, and his best buddy also came along .... I believe he's called Spot!
Flickr Lounge ~ Weekend Theme (Week 11) ~ Fraction ...
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Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all!
Best Viewed Large - This is just a fraction of the swarm of Gulls that were following our Lobster Boat out of the entrance of Shippagan Harbour - there's a community of what looks like thousands of Seagulls who've set-up home at the harbour mouth and who descend on all the returning fishing boats to pick up fish scraps and left-over bait.
This was one of the 'tidier' frames from the many I shot from the boat, none of which really does justice to the spectacle of hundreds of these spectacular birds all just swarming over the back of the boat.
The eagle-eyed among you may spot the falling piece of fish that one of the birds just dropped and which is about to cause pandemonium among the birds as it falls into the sea.
This was shot using the superbly crisp Canon 16-35/2.8 MKII L - I'm impressed at the amazing detail it's picking up in the wings of the birds.
A fraction of the exposure of my last post, picking out detail in the waves, while maintaining the effect of motion. The great thing about shooting a scene like this is that it constantly changes as the tide evolves new details.
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
3 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents
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CAMPBELL CREEK, East of Kamloops. Originally the San Poel (Sans Poil?) River. It was named after Louis (or Lewis) Campbell, an American cattle drover who began building a fine ranch there in the 1860s, one that ultimately extended for about 6 miles along the south bank of the South Thompson River.
Campbell Creek, 35 miles long, runs into the south Thompson River, 13 miles east of Kamloops. There is a ranching settlement on the Creek, 11 miles southeast of Kamloops. Post office now called Barnhart Vale.
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - CAMPBELL CREEK, a rural post office in Yale County, B.C., 3 miles south of the North Thompson River, 8 miles from Ducks Station, and 10 miles from Kamloops, both on the C.P.R., 250 and 263 miles respectively west of Vancouver.
(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - BARNHART VALE - a post office and settlement on Campbell Creek, 10 miles south of Kamloops, in Kamloops Provincial Electoral District, reached by stage from Kamloops. Farming, dairying and fruit-growing.
Barnhartvale, originally Barnhart Vale, is located at the southeast end of Kamloops, south of Dallas in British Columbia, Canada. The area includes riding stables, farms, honey bee farms, and ranches. There is a local store called Happy Valley Foods, and a local elementary school, Robert L. Clemitson. The main road which runs through Barnhartvale is Barnhartvale Road. Todd Road and Pratt Road are the main accesses through the subdivided western portion of Barnhartvale. In 1973, Barnhartvale and other outlying communities were amalgamated with the City of Kamloops. Barnhartvale was originally referred to as Campbell Creek or Campbell's Creek until 1909. It is now named after Peter Barnhart, who was the conductor on the first CPR train through Kamloops. He moved to Campbell Creek and opened a post office and in 1909 the name was changed to Barnhart Vale Post. In 1978 the spelling was formally changed to one word, Barnhartvale. 1865 marks the beginning of the written history of the area later named Barnhartvale. That was the year that James Todd and Lewis (Lew) Campbell, the first two pioneers, arrived. The next settlers in the region were John and William McLeod in 1879. A major road in the area is named after the Robert and Henry Pratt families who occupied the bulk of the valley after 1890.
(From Place Names of the Kamloops District; Kamloops Museum, 1978) - Campbell Creek Post Office was established 1 June 1905, named after a settler. Name changed to Barnhartvale Post Office 1 June 1909, Peter Ashton Barnhart, first postmaster. Barnhartvale Post Office closed 30 August 1951. Peter Barnhart was conductor on the first CPR train in 1886, but retired during the 1890's to run a hotel in Kamloops. In 1905 he settled a short distance up Campbell Creek and opened a Post Office to which he attached his own name - to the disgust of early settlers!
Peter Barnhart was the conductor on the first Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) transcontinental train in 1886. Barnhartvale, British Columbia, Canada is named after him.
Barnhart Vale Post Office - In 1905 Barnhart purchased property in what was then known as Campbell Creek and in 1906 opened a post office there. Initially naming his post office "Campbell Creek (South) Post Office", he changed the name to "Barnhart Vale Post Office" in 1909 because of confusions with "Campbell Creek Post Office" established by Lew Campbell at the Campbell Creek Ranch in 1905.
In 1978, the spelling was officially changed to "Barnhartvale".
The Post Office was established at Campbell Creek - 1 June 1905 - it became Barnhart Vale - 1 June 1909 - in 1978 the name came one word - Barnhartvale.
LINK to a list of all the Postmasters who served at the CAMPBELL CREEK / BARNHART VALE Post Office - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
sent from - / BARNHART VALE / NO 23 / 34 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A-1) was proofed - 9 June 1909 - (RF C).
by registered mail - / R / BARNHART VALE, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (121) - registered boxed marking (in black ink)
via - / KAMLOOPS / 1 / NO 23 / 34 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
via the train - / X C. & V. R.P.O. X / 4 / NO 24 / 34 / B.C. / - rpo backstamp
via - / • MONTREAL • / 1 PM / 27 NO / 34 / CANADA / - transit backstamp
via - / • MONTREAL • / 1 PM / NO 28 / 34 / CANADA / - transit backstamp
arrival - / MONTREAL, P.Q. / NOV 28 1934 / REGISTERED / - boxed handstamp backstamp (in purple ink).
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Addressed to: Dept F.P. / Trico Mills / Montreal / Box 2503 /
A fraction of a second before being bowled by a Desiro on the up fast, 92015 passes Cow Roast with 6A42 Crick-Wembley empty vans. 25th June 2014
This was a fun one too - Inspired by two amazing quilters:
r0ssie's fraction quilt:
www.flickr.com/photos/rossiebug/sets/72157622119666246/
r0ssie's inspiration for her quilt:
Cheryl Arkison:
naptimequilter.blogspot.com/2009/05/your-parents-are-cool...
'Fraction' project by Primary 4 pupils (Ham and Bacon Fried Rice). Well done children! Fried rice was favourited and enjoyed by whole class. Thank you Lookaew, Ning-ning, Thai, Bank, Nine and Arm for all the preparation and T. Mem for all the help.
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Enjoy spectacular artworks by Paul Klee (1879–1940), the father of Abstract Art and a central figure of the Bauhaus movement. Born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, the Swiss–German artist began his painting training in 1898 in Munich and later became involved with the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Influenced by Cubism and Surrealism, he is best known for minimal stick figures, abstract forms, vivid colors and his usage of symbols drawn from imagination, poetry, music, literature and the world around him. In 1920, Walter Gropius invited Klee to teach at the Bauhaus, where he became one of the most celebrated teachers. His artworks later inspired the next generations of artists and designers including Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, and Mark Rothko. We have digitally enhanced some of his well–known art pieces and they are available to download and use under the CC0 license.
"The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract." – Paul Klee
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A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
3 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents
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Baynes Lake (40 km south of Fernie): Named after Mr. Baynes (Andrew Bain who located land on the lake in 1896) who had a small shack near the lake in 1902, when the Great Northern Railroad was built, this town once contained a Lumber Company mill, a hotel, hardware store, schools, newspaper company, nursery, 2 greenhouses, a land office and a clubhouse. The mill ceased operation in 1925; homes were boarded up with only a small community store left today to serve scattered settlers. The Great Northern Railway between Newgate and Morrissey was built in 1902, and Baynes Lake became a division point. The area was logged and by 1910 there was a population of about 1,500 between Baynes Lake and Newgate. The Great Northern Railway abandoned Baynes Lake in 1936, leaving what amounts to a ghost town.
Baynes Lake is an unincorporated rural community in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, located on the east shore of Lake Koocanusa just north of the mouth of the Elk River. Baynes Lake consists of approximately 160 residences with a number of those belonging to seasonal residents. The village of Baynes Lake includes a community hall, an Anglican church, the Baynes Lake Volunteer Fire Hall, the Baynes Lake General Store, and a community park. The community of Baynes Lake began along the shores of Baynes Lake in 1896. The main attraction for settlers was the opportunity for employment by the Adolph Lumber Company which established a mill site along the eastern shore around 1907. A Baynes Lake station with the Great Northern Railway existed from 1904 to 1937. With the closing of the mill, the population quickly dwindled and workers moved to find employment elsewhere. Many of the remaining residents were farmers or worked in the new portable mills of the area. With flooding of Kootenay River valley to accommodate the Libby Dam in Montana, several families who had been displaced by the rising waters were relocated to small building lots in Baynes Lake. It was named after James Bayne, an Englishman.
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - BAYNES LAKE, a post office in Kootenay District, B.C., a station on the Great Northern Ry., near the junction of the Elk and Kootenay Rivers.
(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - BAYNES LAKE - a post office and station on the Fernie-Rexford Division of the G. N. R., 20 miles north of Gateway and 32 miles southwest of Fernie, in East Kootenay District.
Baynes Lake Post Office opened - 1 June 1904 and closed - 28 February 1943 - it re-opened - 19 July 1943 and closed - 20 October 1968.
sent from - / BAYNES LAKE / SP 13 / 32 / B.C. / - split ring arrival - this split ring hammer (A-2) was proofed - 16 December 1920 - (RF C). (second hammer)
by registered mail - / R / BAYNE8 LAKE, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (228) - registered boxed marking (in blue ink) NOTE the spelling of BAYNES (BAYNE8) the "8" was used for the "S".
via - / REGISTERED / SEP 13 1932 / FERNIE, B.C. / - registered transit double line (thin inner line) oval marking in blue / green ink.
via - / MED. HAT & NEL • R.P.O. / 11 / SP 14 / 32 / No. 12 / - cds rpo transit / (W-77 - RF 40) Hammer (#12) - Canadian Pacific Railway - Medicine Hat & Nelson. The No. 12 hammer was proofed - 2 October 1924 - the ERD for this hammer was - 11 August 1927 and the LRD is - 31 October 1950. The Indicia were 6, 11, 12, 67 & 68.
The Medicine Hat & Nelson R.P.O. service began in 1901 and ended in 1957. There were also two short-lived runs, one between Medicine Hat & Lethbridge from 1949 and 1952 and another, between Medicine Hat & Cranbrook, from 1952 until 1954. Link to the complete article - www.bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/rpo/rpo-2007-07-v035n06-w19...
Addressed to: "The Manager" / The Canadian Bank of Commerce / Cranbrook, B.C.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building and Wentworth Hotel. The Canadian Bank of Commerce came to Cranbrook August 8, 1898, within a month of the arrival of the railway. Built at a cost of $15,000 it was one of Cranbrook's first imposing commercial structures. By 1967 the building no longer adequately accommodated bank business. The new (and present) Royal Bank building opened August 17th, 1968. The Wentworth Hotel can be seen behind the bank building. Link to photo - basininstitute.org/home/image.html?zn=7&id=d560405491...
There is a Cranbrook split ring arrival backstamp on the reverse of the cover - / CRANBROOK / SP 1 4 / 32 / B.C. / - this split ring hammer (A-7) was proofed - 29 April 1925 - (RF A) - left arc - 8.0 mm / right arc - 7.5 mm.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - Cranbrook - a city of about 3,000 population, has a gravity water system, owned by the city, sewerage, and electric light and power day and night. The electric light and power plant is owned by a private company, the Cranbrook Electric Light Co. Limited. It is a divisional point of the C. P. R., being situated on the main line of the Crow's Nest branch. From Cranbrook a branch line of the C. P. R. runs to Kimberley, 19 miles north, a mining town whose output of silver-lead ore is the greatest on the continent and possibly is, at the present time, the greatest in the world. This branch also touches Wycliffe, 9 miles from Cranbrook, where are situated the sawmills of the Otistaples Lumber Co. Ltd. Another branch of the C. P. R. runs from Cranbrook to Golden, making connection between the Crow branch and the main line, and tapping the rich valley of the Columbia River. This line passes through the old mining town of Fort Steele, 11 miles from Cranbrook, which in earlier days added millions in coarse gold to the wealth of the country and is still augmenting it by a considerable output of fine gold from the washings of the rich tailings of former days. Wardner and Bull River, both mill towns, are served by this branch, and are within convenient distance of Cranbrook to insure that city getting the largest share of their business. To the west of Cranbrook, on the main Crow line, is the town of Wattsburg, 7 miles distant, where the mills of the Wattsburg Lumber Co. are located. Between Wattsburg and Cranbrook, 4 miles from the latter, is one of the mills of the East Kootenay Lumber Co.
Fraction of a Dot
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot...
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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An excellent day at Gt Yarmouth, we only caught a fraction of the acts but what we did see we enjoyed
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
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- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - BAKER, a post office in Kootenay District, B.C., 3/4 of a mile from Fort Steele, a station on the C.P.R., between Fernie and Cranbrook.
(from - Wrigley's 1922 British Columbia directory) - BAKER - a post office and ranching settlement in Cranbrook Provincial Electoral District, midway between Rampart and Mayook, on the C. P. R. Crow's Nest branch. Has Kootenay lines telephone.
(from - Wrigley's 1932 British Columbia directory) - BAKER - a post office and ranching settlement 12 miles from Cranbrook, in Cranbrook Provincial Electoral District. 1 mile from Mayook on the Canadian Pacific Railway. The population in 1932 was 100. (Baker & Mayook combined).
The Baker name was chosen in 1904 for the new Post Office. It was named after Colonel James Baker (father of Cranbrook, MLA, 1887), who owned the large ranch on which Cranbrook was later built. The Mayook Post Office (1) was established - 1 February 1904 - it became the BAKER Post Office - 1 May 1905 it was located just northwest (one mile) of the Mayook Post Office; the BAKER Post Office closed - 15 September 1937.
from - / BAKER / MY 3 / 32 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-2) was proofed - 2 June 1920 - (RF D).
sent by registered mail - / R / BAKER, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (595) / - registered boxed handstamp in magenta ink.
via - / MED. HAT & NEL. R.P.O. / 11 / MY 4 / 32 / No 1. / - cds rpo transit / W-77 - RF40 Hammer (#1b) - Canadian Pacific Railway - Medicine Hat & Nelson.
The Medicine Hat & Nelson R.P.O. service began in 1901 and ended in 1957. There were also two short-lived runs, one between Medicine Hat & Lethbridge from 1949 and 1952 and another, between Medicine Hat & Cranbrook, from 1952 until 1954. Link to the complete article - www.bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/rpo/rpo-2007-07-v035n06-w19...
Addressed to: "The Manager" / The Canadian Bank of Commerce / Cranbrook, B.C.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building and Wentworth Hotel. The Canadian Bank of Commerce came to Cranbrook August 8, 1898, within a month of the arrival of the railway. Built at a cost of $15,000 it was one of Cranbrook's first imposing commercial structures. By 1967 the building no longer adequately accommodated bank business. The new (and present) Royal Bank building opened August 17th, 1968. The Wentworth Hotel can be seen behind the bank building. Link to photo - basininstitute.org/home/image.html?zn=7&id=d560405491...
There is a Cranbrook arrival split ring backstamp on the reverse of the cover - / CRANBROOK / MY 4 / 32 / B.C. / - this split ring hammer (#7) was proofed - 29 April 1925 - (RF A) - left arc - 8.0 mm / right arc - 7.5 mm.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - Cranbrook - a city of about 3,000 population, has a gravity water system, owned by the city, sewerage, and electric light and power day and night. The electric light and power plant is owned by a private company, the Cranbrook Electric Light Co. Limited. It is a divisional point of the C. P. R., being situated on the main line of the Crow's Nest branch. From Cranbrook a branch line of the C. P. R. runs to Kimberley, 19 miles north, a mining town whose output of silver-lead ore is the greatest on the continent and possibly is, at the present time, the greatest in the world. This branch also touches Wycliffe, 9 miles from Cranbrook, where are situated the sawmills of the Otistaples Lumber Co. Ltd. Another branch of the C. P. R. runs from Cranbrook to Golden, making connection between the Crow branch and the main line, and tapping the rich valley of the Columbia River. This line passes through the old mining town of Fort Steele, 11 miles from Cranbrook, which in earlier days added millions in coarse gold to the wealth of the country and is still augmenting it by a considerable output of fine gold from the washings of the rich tailings of former days. Wardner and Bull River, both mill towns, are served by this branch, and are within convenient distance of Cranbrook to insure that city getting the largest share of their business. To the west of Cranbrook, on the main Crow line, is the town of Wattsburg, 7 miles distant, where the mills of the Wattsburg Lumber Co. are located. Between Wattsburg and Cranbrook, 4 miles from the latter, is one of the mills of the East Kootenay Lumber Co.
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Registered letter sent by - Albin Eliason
Albin Eliason - section foreman for CPR in 1932.
Maintenance-of-way Employees & Railway Shop Labourers, United Brotherhood of, Local No. 229
President, Albin Eliason, Baker; (1934)
Name: Oscar Albin Eliason
Birth Date: 1909
Death Date: 1953 in Cranbrook, East Kootenay Regional District, British Columbia
Name: Oskar Albin Eliason
Gender: Male
Arrival Age: 17
Birth Year: abt 1909
Birth Country: Sweden
Departure Port: Gothenburg, Sweden
Arrival Date: 20 Mar 1926
Arrival Port: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Vessel: Drottningholm
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
Pioneer Mine, B.C. to Vancouver, B.C., 27 October 1931
3 cents forward letter + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents.
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Pioneer Mine was a historic Canadian gold mining community in the Bridge River District, some eighty dirt road miles west of the town of Lillooet.
Just up the mountain ridge from Bralorne, the Pioneer mine is closed, the town deserted, but telltale signs in foundations
overgrown with brush are still visible to hikers through the thousand acres of this mining territory.
During the mid-1890s, companies such as Pioneer Gold Mines and Bralorne Mines were developed in the Bridge River district of south-central B. C. and became substantial gold-producers for a number of years.
By 1914 Pioneer Gold Mines was set up with more industrial equipment, boilers and modern rock mill. The site worked through the 1920s and the profitable King vein exploited. But it was the collapse of world markets and the solid price of gold in the Depression, when the mines really took off; when men and investment ramped up production. The district was one of the few bright lights in the BC economy during the Depression - in a seven-year period in the 1930s, the mines of the Bridge River produced $370,000,000 in gold.
In 1928 Pioneer Gold Mines of B.C. Limited assumed operational control. From 1928 to 1971, the Bralorne and nearby Pioneer and King mines produced 4.15 million ounces of gold from 7.9 million tons of ore. Average head grades exceeded halfanounce per ton.
Link to - Winter at Pioneer Mine and Townsite, 1939. - www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-commu...
A small former mining town south of Gold Bridge, located on the western flank of the Bendor Range in the Coast Mountains. Bralorne was the largest and most important of the towns of the Bridge River goldfields. The town of Pioneer Mine, a few miles southeast, was older but it was Bralorne which became the main centre of the district, even though it was purely a company town and many services were located in satellite communities at Ogden or Brexton or various tiny localities sandwiched in between mine properties or even perched on road allowances - or 10 miles away in Gold Bridge or en route to Shalalth at Minto City where Gun Creek enters Carpenter Lake today (Minto was itself a company town but less restrictively managed than Bralorne or Pioneer). The non-company towns and localities provided various amenities forbidden by company policy, such as bars and "sporting houses" (brothels), or simply commercial services of one kind or another from garages to shoemakers to grocery stores.
The Post Office at Pioneer Mine was established - 1 May 1928 and closed - 31 December 1966. The Pioneer Gold Mines of B.C. Ltd. / Bralorne Pioneer Mines Ltd. were in charge of the Post Office from - 16 March 1947 to - 7 September 1961.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the PIONEER MINE Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
- sent from - / PIONEER MINE / OC 27 / 31 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer was proofed - 21 April 1928.
- by registered mail - / R / Pioneer Mine, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (2022) / - registered boxed marking in grayish black ink.
via - / VANCOUVER / OC 28 / 31 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
arrived at - / VANCOUVER • B.C. / OC 29 / 31 / POSTAL STATION • C / - partial cds arrival backstamp
- sent by - From / J. Prestage / Pioneer Mine P.O. / B.C.
George John Arthur Prestage (George Prestage)
(b. 1872 in West Hackney, London, England – d. 4 June 1937 in Marguerite, British Columbia) - Born in West Hackney, London, England on about 1872 to George Henry Prestage and Ellen Smith. George John Arthur Prestage married Mary Henrietta Trueman and had 4 children.
His wife - Mary Henrietta (nee Trueman) Prestage
(b. 1862 in England – d. 6 November 1939 at age 79 in Castle Rock, B.C.) - Her first husband was George Marmaduke Hewett (1852 - 1890).
They had four children:
(1) - John Arthur George Prestage (b. 21 March 1897 in Chigwell, England – d. 7 May 1990 at age 93 in Vancouver, B.C.)
His wife - Mary Elizabeth (nee Sheriff) Prestage (b. 19 January 1905 in Calgary, Alberta - d. 7 March 1978 at age 73 in Vancouver, B.C.) - they were married in Vancouver, B.C. on 4 January 1930.
(this registered letter was sent by Mary Elizabeth Prestage - as the writing on this cover matches her writing on their marriage certificate)
John Arthur George Prestage is listed in the 1931 Wrigley's - British Columbia Directory living in Pioneer Mine, B.C. as J. A. Prestage - occupation - mucker P G mines (Pioneer Gold Mines) - “Mucking” was the mining term for shoveling broken rock into tramming cars. In mining operations large enough to divide up the work, the men who earned their living shoveling were called muckers.
(2) - Donald William Prestage - he was born in London, England on - 26 November 1898 to George John Arthur Prestage and Mary Henrietta Trueman. Donald William Prestage passed away on - 28 Mar 1956 in Narcosli Creek, British Columbia.
(28 July 1928 / Quesnel, B.C.) - The marriage occurred last Saturday afternoon - 21 July 1928 in Quesnel, B.C., at the Church of St. John the Divine here, of Christine Martha Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Cooper of Castle Rock, to Donald William Prestage, of the Pioneer mine, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. A. Prestage, of Castle Rock, B.C.
(3) - Stanley Roy Prestage
(b. 7 June 1900 in London, England – d. 20 February 1975 at age 74 in Creston, British Columbia, Canada) - he married Naomi Rebecca Land (b. USA) on - 10 May 1930 in Alexandria, B.C.
(4) - Marjory Helen Prestage - she was born in Stanbridge Wales, (or Withyham) Sussex, England on 18 Aug 1903 to George John Arthur Prestage and Mary Henrietta Trueman. Marjorie Helen Prestage married Richard Alfred Humphries Smith (b. Quebec) and had 5 children. She passed away in Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada. They were married - 6 May 1923 in MacAlister, B.C.
- addressed to: The Vancouver Drug Co., / Vancouver, / B.C.
The Walker Dam – Its Past, Present and Future
28 years I have lived in Aberdeen, never knowing this beautiful piece of land was less than a 15 minute drive through the city centre from my home.
I visited today 3rd May 2018, and walked the whole area taking photos of everything that lured me, on my walk I saw herrons, mandarin ducks , mallards etc, it was a joy.
The weather was overcast though warm and bright, I will revisit in the summer on a golden day to get the best of this beautiful area of Aberdeen.
The Walker Dam, with which many Aberdeen citizens are so familiar, is only a fraction of the size it was when - in the 1830s - it was constructed in accordance with the plans drawn by
Aberdeen’s first City Architect, John Smith.
From the second quarter of the 19th century to the early 20th century the dam was a deep and massive body of water which extended from its present location, eastward, to Springfield Road – then called Walker Dam Road – where its sluice gate would have been opened at the beginning of the working day to allow water to rush through a culvert under the road, then south-east through a deep man-made channel (which is still evident today) to feed the steam condensing ponds of the Rubislaw Bleachfield, the property Richards and Company, textile manufacturers.
Today this treasured green space is one of Aberdeen City Council's 'Local Nature Conservation Sites', the 'Walker Dam and Rubislaw Link', which is a 3.9 kilometre walk along
a series of connected paths and streets. Popular with dog walkers, joggers and ramblers, the future of this valuable charming landscaped area with its semi-natural habitats, has been secured by the initiatives and work of 'Friends of Walker Dam' who are registered with 'Keep Scotland Beautiful' - a Scottish environment charity – which, independent of governmental finance and influence, is committed to the improvement of people’s lives and the places they care for.
The Friends of Walker Dam work in partnership with Aberdeen City Council to deliver the standards of maintenance and the plans for future improvements to this amenity site.
Mr Allan Davidson, Treasurer of Craigiebuckler and Seafield Community Council who is also a member of Friends of Walker Dam, has frequent meetings with the City Council's Environment Manager.
Those meetings have been very productive and improvements to the site have already been achieved.
For example, there has been a clean-up of the Dam and the
burn which flows into it; improvements have also been made to the path on the South bank of the dam, which is part of Aberdeen's core path system. The Walker Dam sign has also
been repainted.
In the near future, a bridge will be constructed at the East bank of the dam to connect its North and South banks - thus making both banks accessible for the enjoyment of visitors to
the dam. This significant infrastructural improvement has been made possible by a final act of generosity by Aberdeen Greenspace Trust. Local Councillor Martin Greig is a member of Greenspace and worked to ensure a donation of £8000 from the Trust towards the upgrade of the Walker Dam which includes the construction of the bridge, new benches, bins and various paths and tree works. A further enhancement in the area is a community notice
board.
Thanks to the Friends of Walker Dam, Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeen Greenspace Trust and the work of many volunteers, we have much to look forward to.
Walker Dam is located within the former Royal Forest of Stocket, part of the Freedom Lands gifted by Robert I to the burgh (recorded in a charter of 1319). Now it is in the modern
Burnieboozle estate, part of the larger Craigiebuckler estate, which was sparsely populated countryside until the 1950s, when major housing development began in that area.
Walker Dam is bounded by Springfield Road (which replaced a roadway called Walker Dam Road) to the east and Woodburn Gardens to the north.
The dam is fed by the Holburn (‘Burn of the Howe’), which has two head waters, the northern and greater one coming from Hazlehead and through Walker Dam.
The section entering Walker Dam is the West Burn of Rubislaw. The two head streams of the Holburn joined together between Rubislaw Quarry and Springbank Cemetery, and this united stream fed the steamcondensing
ponds at Rubislaw Bleachfield before flowing eastward together as far as Hartington Road, where they separate.
The south branch, the original burn, crossed Union Grove and passed under the old Holburn Bridge, while the north branch, an artificial mill-lead, went to the Upper and Lower Justice Mills.
As a consequence, Walker Dam was at one time closely associated with the city’s milling operations and, especially, with textile manufacturing. In the nineteenth century it was a resource integral to the firm once called Maberly’s (established between 1808 and 1811) and later Richards, which had the Broadford Works on Maberly Street and which was
the principal user of the bleachfields. An 1866-67 Ordnance Survey description of Walker Dam gives it as ‘a very large dam built by the proprietors of the Rubislaw Bleach Field for their own use.’
Bleachfields were a development of the eighteenth century Scottish textile and thread industries. The first bleachfield in Scotland was established in the late 1720s as an alternative to
either small, burnside bleaching operations which were of variable quality, or sending the unbleached cloth to England, Ireland or Holland for treatment.
In March 1801, the lands of Springfield were offered for sale. They were described as comprising about 63 acres, ‘inclosed and subdivided’, and held feu of ‘the Community of Aberdeen’ at the annual feu-duty of £2 14s 2d sterling. A large house was included in the sale, and it was noted that ‘the dam for the Justice-mills is situated within this property, and the millburn
passes thro’ it, by which considerable benefit may be derived by a purchaser.’
In 1833 Aberdeen Town Council agreed to have Walker Dam cleaned out and deepened, in partnership with Messrs Richards and Company, manufacturers in Aberdeen.
Richards was the instigator of the plan, to which the Council agreed because the work was expected to be ‘highly
beneficial to the Upper and Nether Justice Mills by affording them an additional supply of water,’ and authorised it providing that the Town’s share of the costs would not exceed £20; the work would be executed under the sole charge of John Smith, Town Superintendant; and Richards, which must not spend less than the Council on the project, should not use this as a means of claiming any right over Walker Dam in future.
In 1837, Richards proposed to the Council that Walker Dam should be excavated and extended, citing an 1829 agreement to this effect between the Town and Messrs Maberly and Company, the previous owners of the manufacturing works now operated by Richards (Maberley’s folded in 1832).
Richards sought a lease of the dam water at a fixed rent once the work had been completed.
The Council remitted consideration of this to a committee previously established to look at a proposal to move Justice Mill Dam westwards to Rubislaw. Early in 1839, the Council
approved the recommendation of this committee that Walker Dam should be excavated and enlarged so that it would hold an additional 700,000 cubic feet of water, again on the grounds that it would provide a more reliable source of water for the town’s mills, especially in the dry
season.
The new capacity of the dam was expected to be more than adequate for the needs of the mills. The estimated cost of the works at this stage was £360: should the eventual cost exceed £400, Richards was to pay the excess.
The company was also to pay the Council £75 a year for its
lease of the water, and would be responsible for repair and maintenance of the extended dam, to the satisfaction of the Town, during the life of its lease. (Richards continued to own rights over the water for several decades.)
After further negotiations, a Council meeting of 15 April 1839 approved implementation of the project and authorised the Town Treasurer to enter into a contract with Richards and Co.
Work included the construction of a spillwater tunnel and breast mound for the dam extension,with additional dykes and the installation of a new cast-iron tunnel pipe and sluice.
The plans,drawings and a detailed specification produced by the Council formed the basis of the contract, signed on 17 April 1839.
The revised estimate of costs based on the plans drawn up by the Town considerably exceeded the original £400 anticipated; the Council minutes do not record the new estimate but note that Richards offered to pay the full amount, on the basis that Richards would receive the original £400 from the Town once the work was completed.
The Council had earlier noted that implementation of the project would require the purchase of an adjacent piece
of land owned by Alexander Bannerman and instructed that he should be approached to sell part
of his property near Springfield
The necessary land was obtained from Bannerman at a feu-duty of £20, recorded in a feu charter of 19 April 1839.
On 1 August 1860, the lands and estates of Craigiebuckler and Burnieboozle, including Walker Dam, were offered for sale by public roup, as part of the sequestrated estate of John Blaikie,
advocate. (John Blaikie went to Spain in 1860, following the collapse of his business and financial ruin. He was a son of James Blaikie of Craigiebuckler, Provost of Aberdeen from 1833 to 1835.) Walker Dam is described in the sale notice as ‘an Ornamental Sheet of Water, from which there is an yearly Revenue of £20 sterling from the Town of Aberdeen’.
The estates evidently failed to sell at the advertised ‘upset price’ (the lowest price consistent with the valuation of a property) of at £5,771 2s 6d, since the estate of Burnieboozle, within which Walker Dam is situated, was again offered for sale on 3 September 1860, now at £5,500, with neighbouring lands at Springfield for sale separately.18 Again it failed to realise this amount and was offered for sale on 5 October 1860 at the further reduced upset price of £5,200.19.
At some point after this date it was purchased by John Stewart, Esq.
The lands of Burnieboozle and Walkerhill were once again offered for sale in August 1865, with Walker Dam included - the sale notice mentions the annual feu-duty of £20 paid by the Town Council on it.20 In early September, the Aberdeen Journal reported that ‘The estates of Craigiebuckler, Burnieboozle, Walkerhill, and others, lately belonging to John Stewart, Esq., were on Friday purchased for the sum of £31,500 by Lauchlan McKinnon, junior, advocate, on behalf
of John Cardno Couper, Esq., lately of Whampoa, China.’ (Whampoa is now usually known as Classifed advertisement inviting tenders for the work, The Aberdeen Journal, 30 Jan 1839.
urgh, had served as an apprentice in the Aberdeen shipbuilding
firm of Alexander Hall and Co. before going to Hong Kong and working with his father in their
own highly successful ship-building and repairing company. By the time he returned to Aberdeen
in the 1860s, he had amassed a fortune. He was involved in a number of Aberdeen business
enterprises and in the Church of Scotland. Couper gave a portion of land close to Walker Dam to
be the site of Craigiebuckler Church, built in 1883, of which he was an elder. He died in January
1902 at the age of 82. His son, Lieutenant-Colonel John Cardno Ogston Couper (1st Highland
Brigade), succeeded to the property but died at the age of 48 in 1913. His widow and two young
children remained at Craigiebuckler; his daughter, Florence, went on to marry the ministe
Dr S. Marshall, 2014
The Council’s Finance Committee visited the dam in the aftermath of the tragic incident and
agreed to recommend the repair of the surrounding walls. They also instructed that information
boards should be erected at the site warning of the dangers. During this site visit, one of the
councillors slipped by the side of the stream entering the dam, and fell into the mud. It is not
clear if the children had similarly slipped and landed in the water, or if they had intended to enter
it.
The future of Walker Dam was the subject of two proposals of 1933. Council minutes of 4 December that year record that Aberdeen Land Association intended to donate to the Council the wooded den lying between Johnston House on Springfield Road and Viewfield Road, on condition the den should be maintained by the local authority as an open space and that the Council pay half the cost of a proposed road to be built along the west boundary of the property.
The Council formally accepted this proposal in January of 1934.26.
Also in December 1933, the City Engineer, Thomas F. Henderson, wrote to the Council’s Streets and Works Committee, which was then looking at the widening of Springfield Road and the layout and construction of a new road between it and Queen’s Road. Henderson asked the
committee to consider the future use of the Council-owned Walker Dam at the same time.
According to Henderson: ‘This dam is formed on a burn which rises in the grounds of Hazlehead and flows through the dam and joins the West Burn of Rubislaw at a point south-east of
Kepplestone Nursing Home and later forms what is known as the Ferryhill Burn.’
On 12 July that year, very heavy rainfall had flooded the electricity works and caused damage to property in
Crown Street and Ferryhill Terrace. To prevent further flooding, the water was run out of the dam on 1 September and although here had been no heavy rain since then, ‘we know that, by controlling the flow at the outlet of the dam we can reduce the risk of flooding in the lower parts
very considerably.
‘In conjunction with the Superintendant of Parks, I have prepared a plan showing how the Walker Dam could be laid out as a pleasure ground where the public could leave Springfield Road and walk through the gardens on to the grounds of Hazlehead.
The superintendant of parks is of the opinion that during storm periods the gardens could be flooded without doing much damage to the grass or plants. As the Dam is the property of the Common Good, I would suggest that the sub-committee confer with the Finance Committee and Town Planning Committee and submit a report.’
The next meeting of full Council on 3 January 1934 agreed that the committee should investigate further, though it also wanted the remarks of the Superintendant of Parks about flooding not doing damage to the proposed gardens to be deleted. Also presented to the Council at the same
meeting was a letter to the Town Clerk from Professor James Ritchie of the University of Aberdeen, suggesting the Council should consider making Walker Dam a bird sanctuary. This
was remitted to Streets and Works Committee for consideration. (The two schemes were possibly
not wholly compatible - some residents opposed turning the site into a pleasure park on the grounds that it would interfere with the natural beauty and the birdlife of the site.)
It seems that these two proposals had been prompted by the threat of the dam being filled in or otherwise scrapped: two days after the Council meeting, a reader’s letter to the
Aberdeen Journal urged that the dam should be improved and made safe for children rather than ‘done away with’.
The writer suggested that a low wall could be built around it, ‘made from the old dykes that have been pulled down in the vicinity’. Whatever enclosure was erected in 1911 after the drowning incident had evidently not endured.
The same edition of the paper published an old photograph of the dam ‘before it was drained’.
This remark referred to the decision to run off the water in the dam the previous year, to obviate flood damage to the surroundings. However, doing so had created other problems – correspondents to the Aberdeen Journal in 1934 complained about the condition of the dam as ‘an evil-smelling mudhole’ and ‘horrible looking and stinking’, especially during hot weather, and recommended that the Medical Officer of Health should investigate.
Whatever schemes were mooted for the dam, they took a considerable time to be implemented.
The better part of two years later, a short Bon-Accord article of October 1935 reports work being undertaken to transform Walker Dam, ‘from its present wild state’.
From the mid-1940s and during the 1950s, Stewart Construction (Aberdeen) Ltd., which was by then the heritable proprietor of the Craigiebuckler estate, built several housing developments on the land around Walker Dam.29
The minute of a meeting of the Links and Parks Committee of Aberdeen Town Council, held on 24 August 1964, notes that the committee considered a report by the Director of Parks and agreed the recommendation that the Council lay out an amenity area on ground lying to the south of the woodlands at Walker Dam extending to c. 0.75 of an acre. This was one of three proposed (and agreed) amenity areas to be created in the vicinity and included in the report, the others being a
strip of ground on the south side of Hazledene Road (c. 0.4 acre), and two strips of ground adjoining Craigiebuckler Avenue (c. 3,150 square yards).
The total estimated cost is given as £1,470.30
By this time Walker Dam had become home to a community of swans. The Press & Journal reported that the Links and Parks Committee of 30 September 1964 considered a letter from the
Aberdeen Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, requesting the committee ban fishing in Walker Dam, so as to protect the swans living on it. The committee recommended no action.
This was the second attempt by the association to have fishing banned: it had submitted a similar request at the previous meeting. The renewal of the request was prompted by the discovery of a cygnet badly injured by a fishing hook and line.
Walker Dam is no longer a swan habitat, but they were a popular feature of Walker Dam for many years. When Walker Dam Infant School opened in 1966, it adopted the emblem of swans on water as its school badge. (The swans have also inspired the song, ‘Walker Dam’, by Aberdeen singer-songwriter Bob Knight.)
A Springfield resident, Mrs Nanette Grieve, had left the Council a bequest on her death in 1955 to
fund the services of a warden to protect them.
At times, much effort was put into ensuring this protection: the Evening Express in 1972 reported that the Council had mounted a vigil of ‘almost Loch Garten proportions’ to see that swan eggs made it to hatching. In previous years eggs had
been stolen or lost due to flooding.
As this suggests, the problem of flooding at Walker Dam, highlighted by the City Engineer in 1933, was still an issue over thirty years later.
In 1965, the Evening Express published ‘before and after’ photographs of the flooded area: the latter image shows Council parks and recreation staff laying out grounds and planting shrubs and other flora capable of surviving immersion for a Craigiebuckler Chartulery (Charter Register of Craigiebuckler, 1958-1959), CA/4/21 in Records of the Royal Burgh and City of Aberdeen, Aberdeen City Archives.
The newspaper also reported that the works were to include provision for the dam water to be diverted at times into a burn, so relieving the pressure and reducing the silting that had caused flooding problems in the past.
A 1969 article in the Aberdeen Press & Journal refers
to Walker Dam being a body of water ‘shaped and even bottomed by the combined operations of the Aberdeen Corporation Cleansing and Links & Parks Departments,’ and to a plan by Links & Parks to provide an amenity walk or nature trail along the course from Johnston Gardens to Hazlehead, via Walker Dam.
Today (2014) Walker Dam (with Rubislaw Link) is a 3.38 hectare Local Nature Conservation Site, run by Aberdeen City Council’s Countryside Ranger Service.33 Comprising a mix of open water, landscaped areas and semi-natural habitats, with a footpath running through it, Walker Dam is animportant recreational and educational resource, being one of the few larger bodies of water in the city.
This 165,000 square foot store was opened in October 1992 as the second Super Kmart store in the chain. This store is only about 10 miles from the first Super Kmart store in Medina (opened 1991, closed 2012). This store was closed in the 2003 round of closings and later subdivided into JCPenney and Levin Furniture. Levin Furniture closed in 2020.
Some drone shots of the current and former businesses in Montrose / Fairlawn, Ohio
Here is a 360 degree view of the area
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This is only a small fraction of the seabirds that had assembled on the shoreline of the well-visited public beach park. If you walked slowly through the place where they were resting, the grounded flock usually parted (without flying) to create a path to let you pass through. Sometimes, however, the beachgoers' actions spooked them and they rose en masse, circling low across the area before resettling in the same spot on the beach. This behavior afforded many photo ops for close flight shots of the group, and even better yet, of individual birds. Most of these birds are Royal Terns and Elegant Terns, but I also could spot a few black bills (now out of frame to the left) that indicate Sandwich Terns.
IMG_0335; Royal Terns