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1985-86 Toronto Maple Leafs team photo
FRONT ROW:
Tim Bernhardt
John Brophy
Dan Maloney
(Borje) Börje Salming
Harold Ballard
King Clancy
Rick Vaive
Gerry McNamara
Gord Stellick
Don Edwards
SECOND ROW:
Dan Lemelin
Bob Stellick
Russ Courtnall
Miroslav Frycer
Brad Maxwell
Gary Nylund
Al Iafrate
Wendel Clark
John Bower
Guy Kinnear
THIRD ROW:
Arkady Tevlin
Gary Leeman
Jim Benning
Greg Terrion
Jim Korn
Tom Fergus
Dan Daoust
Bob McGill
Dan Marr
FOURTH ROW:
Steve Thomas
Blake Wesley
Marian Stastny
Walt Poddubny
Jeff Brubaker
Chris Kotsopoulos
Peter Ihnacak
Bill Root
Dan Hodgson
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This is an old style hat badge that had been worn by constables with the Canadian National Railroad Police. It uses the famous fused letter logo CN, also known as the noodle design.
I am unaware of the years that this badge was actually used - believed to be in the 1980s and 1990s - if you know, please leave a comment to inform us!
The hat badge measures approximately 1 11/16 inches tall and 1 3/4 inches across (4.44 cm).
The CN - Canadian National - and the CP - Canadian Pacific, are the two major freight railroads in Canada. Anyone who has traveled to Canada has likely seen trains from one or both of these railroads.
There is a commonly available tiny lapel pin that matches the design of this hat badge.
People who ride on the Rocky Mountaineer train will see quite a few CN and CP trains that share the same tracks.
I collect insignia items from the CN and the CP, so if you have anything available - patches, badges, pins, uniforms, hats, coins, door decals etc. - feel free to leave a comment below and I will contact you. STILL NEED the hat on which this style of badge was used.
It may look like a piece of the universe in this petri dish, but each "star" is actually a very young (and small) winged mapleleaf mussel reared at Genoa National Fish Hatchery. You could easily fit all 1,992 of these tiny mussels in the palm of your hand.
Photo by USFWS
Inspired by Jennifer Mcguire's shimmery card of using Twinkling H2O, I've decided to give it a try as I like her technique very much.
For more info on the card, please visit www.walchowdesign.blogspot.com
Handmade Greeting Card created with:
- Bazzill Cardstock
- Alcohol Ink on Yupo Paper
- Skeleton Leaf
- Small maple leaf was created with JudiKins Mica Gloss ink on glossy paper, then cut and embossed
- Card measures 5 x 7
Until Shelf Life goes on an actual Hawaiian holiday, we’ll have to settle for cooking up our own tropical meals. Let’s see – here’s a headscratcher: is there a native fruit or other ingredient that really says ‘Hawaii’? There must be something …
I thought the flag looked truly happy (if one can say that about a flag), so I saved the photo for the occasion. Happy Canada Day!
July 1, 2007.
A carved gourd bowl. Yes, it is a bowl. I hid the lid carefully by cutting it out along the lines of the leaves. All the leaves are maple leaves found here in Utah. It is colored with Minwax oil-based stains. I did this so the natural characteristics of the gourd can show through. These stains are also not UV sensitive. I chose them partly for this fact. I do not wan the colors to fade easily which can happen with many other coloring methods used on gourds. I also shose this method because I did not want to use paint which so many other people use.
Sometimes my husband surprises me. I get to see the sentimental side of him when I least expect it.
Yesterday, we travelled to Ottawa to go to Ikea for a few things we have been meaning to pickup. On the way home, I wanted to stop at the little graveyard where I took my class assignment photos a few weeks prior to see if there were more shots I could get.
There it was. This little rusty maple leaf simply marked Veteran. No other marker in the ground except a very worn marker stone in the ground with no name. GP stood there visiting this unknown soldier while I ventured around after he asked me to take a shot of this fella's only placard that would show those years later even hundreds of later of the sacrifices he had made while serving for King and Country in the First World War. We found a few more and I will post those throughout the month as this month marks the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
As we left, I looked over and there was GP's poppy of his lapel tucked into the curled back iron. He said to me quietly "Someone has to remember him and thank him so I did, I only wished I had more as I found several other graves with the little maple leaves that I could have said thank you to." I didn't say anything but held his hand as we walked back to the van. I didn't photograph it with GP's poppy ...it just didn't seem right.
This month, on November 11th marked the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day Day. Please, take TWO MINUTES at 11:00 am on November 11th and bow your head no matter where you are and what you are doing and thank those who gave the greatest gift of their lives so that we would be free, for those who came home and have had to endure years of haunting memories of what they saw, for those who still are serving today protecting what ever country you call home. They really do give the ultimate sacrifice to protect you while you sleep and often they go forgotten. Don't let this unknown veteran here have his life been for nothing. Remember him and those who served and are serving.
Please NO AWARDS PLEASE on this photograph . I don't believe I should get an award for this man's memory. A comment is fine. Just please remember him and the countless of thousands of others who have long since gone. You can View Large. The leaf is dark for a reason. It was a dark part of our history but one we should never forget. If you view large you can see the word Veteran.
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