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Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
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LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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Eden = a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)...
Also, paradise, heaven, shangri-la, arcadia, the promised land, nirvana.
So, I ran after her. And took pictures... And ran after her.... And took pictures. Like it was the only time there was and it was the only world that existed.
Off Plank Road
heading South
Ethel, Louisiana
I told you it was a beautiful afternoon. :)
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"Betrayal: The Creature"
Passionate & Prepared are two different concepts. In the months prior to this letter, I have been filled with passion & desire. But Prepared for the Leadership expected of me, I was not. A wise man once said, Desire without Knowledge is not good. That's the place at which I would myself. And anytime you're 'bout to get it right, the Enemy's not far from makin' everything wrong.
written by: Jeremy Pritchard
The first of my new series "the creature."
Each picture, youll learn more about the characters and the amazing story line. I interpreted one of Jer's writings last year in film and was super happy with it. He is amazingly talented at writing, and I love doing projects based off of them.
Flickr Friday theme, Knowledge. One of my old books. Cookie and Mouse. Mouse doesn't want to give up his bowtie.
the old photographer,;-)
To appreciate this scene, you need local knowledge of the Arriva Cymru fleet at Wrexham.
The full height ADL E400City's, which were purchased for route 1 Wrexham to Chester and 5 Wrexham to Llangollen with the last three of the batch been unbranded. They sometimes get used on the 2C Wrexham to Cefn Mawr if been kept close to Wrexham, but one often is worked on route 41 Wrexham Industrial Estate for capacity on peaks.
These are not permitted to work to Oswestry due some risks of low branches on the 2A route and incase the 2 has to divert under a low bridge if there is a road closure.
Therefore seeing this in Oswestry was somewhat strange!
The final day of the shuttles between Oswestry and Llangollen for the Music Festival switched away from the pair of VDL DB300's, having worked solid, assumed they returned home.
A very much a in haste rush shot this early evening when I noticed it heading into Oswestry, a bit late in the day, but a worthwhile record. 1012 CX17 BXP was the other one used.
These ADL E400City's are known to be leaving Wrexham in the near future, making Wrexham a full single deck depot (again!). There is much speculation where these are moving to, one day its appartently Southport and another its Milton Keynes, answers on a post card lol.
To the best of my knowledge, the last wig wag in service on the Shasta Route protected KLAD Crossing. This grade crossing lies between Texum siding and Bieber Line Junction just south of Klamath Falls, Oregon. The white structure behind the stop sign was originally an administrative office building for the lumber mill on the site. After the plant closed for the final time, the administrative building was converted for use by radio station KLAD, which gave the crossing its unofficial name.
Although the radio station has since moved on, the crossing retains its unofficial name to this day. Not long after this Kodachrome was exposed, the Magnetic Flagman was retired by Union Pacific.
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There Is a New Song
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Each morning of our life,
There is a new song
And when dusk arrive,
These, remain and carry on;
Futile is our love story,
If enlighten is not there,
With tuneful morning glory
And basket of fruits to bear.
Freedom is no yesterday,
Nor is it in a book we read,
It is the doing of our say
And how we others treat;
Flower within your breast
Are beautiful of wisdom,
If they are for love that is least,
They truly shall forward bloom.
Our heaven is not in book,
Or a story that once was told,
Nor is it of rainbow look,
It is what we give and hold;
Let there be love in what we do
And kindness is what you give,
Then prosperity becomes you
And justice shall with you live.
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The poem appeared on www.poemhunter.com/peter-s-quinn
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“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao Tzu”
Macro Monday project – 04/07/14
"the Office"
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The future looks busy :) with some new adventures planned ahead.
*This next series is of Deadman’s Junction Ranch in Savona, BC Canada, and this is one of the buildings off the main road to the ranch.
In 2011, Matt Sandvoss moved from the Langley to a property just outside of Savona where he proceeded to build an old western town based on replicas of actual historic buildings located throughout the US and Canada
His time period is late 1800's and his passion is weapons. He has a large collection of old gun, rifles and native weapons along with a huge collection of assorted artifacts from that time period. His collection is so large that he rents it out to movie producers to use as props and can supply up to two movie sets at a time.
When he isn't travelling around North America with the Knowledge Network uncovering historical buildings and artifacts, he is building his own piece of history to store his collection in. His town contains a trading post, a saloon, a county jail, a drug store and an undertaker's shop amongst other buildings.
The town, which has already been used to film Western movies and featured on Canadian Pickers, has a great gift shop where you can purchase an assortment of native art, weapons and even peace pipes.
Reference: Story by Teresa the Traveler @ teresathetraveler.ca/deadman-junction-ranch
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A collection of books gathers dust. Part of a library in an abandoned manor house in the UK. A time capsule of Victorian and early 20th century artefacts.