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So yes I am in my mid 20's and yes I LOVE Pokemon! For Christmas, I was lukcy enough to get the special Pokemon Kanto edition of Monopoly which I really wanted and had a lot of fun playing Christmas night after dinner.
These are the tokens which replace the usual ones in the standard editions of monopoly. I was originally going to do a 1:1 macro shot of each individual token but i liked this set up better. For any Pokemon fans, definitely go out and get the Pokemon Monopoly, you won't regret it!
Guess what?! Here’s a new surprise addition to this round of GCW! Bat-Tokens! Make sure you read their rules, because they really could mean life or death for you!
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Bat-Token General Rules:
General Rules:
What is a Bat-Token?
-Bat-Tokens are unique artifacts that players discover as the game progresses. They hide on neutral lots and give the discoverer powerful one time abilities.
All Bat-Tokens can be used only once, and after their use they are removed from the game. Players may only carry one Token at a time, unless stated differently. All Bat-Tokens, unless stated differently have an expiration date, and must be used before that date or they will automatically be removed from the game once the expiration date is reached. Bat-Tokens, with long enough expiration dates or depending to the discovery date, may continue to function through Refresh Mondays, unless stated otherwise.
Bat-Tokens are spread throughout the city, and there are multiples of each type of Token; as well as being many various Token abilities. The number of a certain type of Token is based on rarity, with some tokens being very common and others being ultra rare.
Discovering Tokens:
When a player lands on a territory with a Bat-Token, they will be notified by a comment on their takeover picture, and they will then be FM’d (As soon as possible) the name and description of the Token they discovered, as well as being notified of the time limit in which they have to use the Token. Other than the comment about the discovery on their picture, the public will know nothing about which Token was found (Or what it does), and will only find out the abilities of Token if it is used. Tokens that reach their expiration date are removed from the game, and the public will not be notified about which Token it was or what it did.
If you own a Bat-Token and move onto a lot where another Token presides, the second Token remains dormant until a player with no Token lands on that lot. This means that there could be Tokens on owned lots that are just dormant. Sometimes it may be possible for a player to return to owned lots and discover Tokens that were previously dormant. Dormant tokens are never removed from the game; so unless a Token is found/used/expires/or is discarded, it will remain dormant indefinitely, and will stay placed on the map.
Using Tokens:
To use a Token, you must post that your character is using one during a corresponding action. Most, if not all, Tokens can only be used along with a certain type of action, whether it be a takeover, move, transport, etc.; the required action for use will be stated in the Token’s ability.
On the photo and the action log, you must post the name of the Token, along with its full ability. If this is not done, the Token is ignored and discarded. Tokens may not be used on past actions. Once a Token is used, it is removed from the game.
Discarding Tokens:
Sometimes, you may find that it is in your interest to not continue holding a token you own. At any time, you are allowed as a free action to discard a token you possess. To do this, you must simply post in the action log that your player is discarding a token. Discarded tokens are removed from the game.
The driver of Scotrail's Class 37/4 37408 prepares to complete the token exchange at Corpach while working the 16:05 Fort William to Mallaig service.
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The Blue Plaque commemorating Captain George Manby on his former home, now 'Manby House', 86 High Road, Gorleston, Norfolk.
George William Manby, Fellow of the Royal Society, was born in the village of Denver on the edge of the Norfolk Fens. His parents were Captain Matthew Pepper Manby (1735-1774), lord of the manor of Wood Hall in Hilgay, a former soldier and aide-de-camp to Lord Townshend and barrack-master of Limerick at his death and Mary Woodcock (1741-1783).
Manby went to school at Downham Market followed by the Free Grammar School in King's Lynn.
He volunteered to fight in the American War of Independence, aged 17, but was rejected because of his youth and his small size. Instead, he entered the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. He is listed as one of the Artillery cadets on 31st. March 1784. On 21st. April 1788 he obtained a commission as a Lieutenant in the Cambridgeshire Militia where he gained the rank of Captain. He left the regiment in the Spring of 1793.
He married Jane Preston in December, 1793 the only daughter of Rev. Dr. Preston JP, of Waldingfield and Rougham and inherited his wife's family's estates. He left her in 1801 after being shot by her lover Captain Pogson of the East India Company and moved to Clifton, Bristol. There, he published several books, including The History and Antiquities of St David's (1801), Sketches of the History and Natural Beauties of Clifton (1802), and A Guide from Clifton to the Counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, etc. (1802). In 1803, his pamphlet An Englishman's Reflexions on the Author of the Present Disturbances, on Napoleon's plans to invade England, came to the attention of the Secretary of War, Robert Hobart, 4th. Earl of Buckinghamshire, who was impressed and recommended Manby to be appointed as Barrack-Master at Great Yarmouth in September, 1803.
On 18th. February 1807, as a helpless onlooker, he witnessed a Royal Navy ship, HMS Snipe carrying French prisoners run aground 50 yards off Gorleston beach during a storm. Several other vessels were wrecked along the Norfolk and Suffolk coast that day and according to some accounts a total of 214 people drowned, including French prisoners of war, women and children. The figure of '67 brave men' for the Snipe was quoted in the House of Commons in June 1808. Following this tragedy, Manby experimented with mortars, and so invented the Manby Mortar, later to be used with the breeches buoy, that fired a thin rope from shore into the rigging of a ship in distress. A strong rope, attached to the thin one, could be pulled aboard the ship. His successful invention supposedly followed an experiment as a youth in 1783, when he shot a mortar carrying a line over Downham church.
Manby carried out a successful demonstration of his apparatus before the Suffolk Humane Society and a very large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen at Lowestoft, on the 26th. August and 10th. September 1807, on the former John Rous, 1st. Earl of Stradbroke, their President was present.
Sergeant, later Lieutenant, John Bell, Royal Artillery had in 1791 successfully demonstrated the use of a mortar to throw a line to shore and use it to float men to the shore, he had also suggested that these be held in ports to throw a line to a ship, he was awarded 50 Guineas by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Another earlier, similar design to Manby's invention had been made in the late 18th. century by the French agronomist and inventor Jacques Joseph Ducarne de Blangy. Manby's invention was independently arrived at, and there is no suggestion that he copied de Blangy's idea.
In 1808 the crew of a brig were rescued at Gt. Yarmouth by the use of Manby's device fired from a gun carriage and supervised by Manby.
The following is from page two of the The Ipswich Journal, 27th. February 1808.
"Captain G. Manby's invention of throwing a rope to a ship stranded on a lee shore, for the purpose of saving the crew, proved the certainty of its never-failing success on the Elizabeth of Plymouth, that was wrecked on the beach at Yarmouth in the tremendous gale of the 12th. instant, the master, who is part owner, making so grateful an affidavit before the Mayor of that place, he expressed a desire to see the experiment tried, which took place on Monday last, in the presence of Vice Admiral Douglas, several officers of the navy, the merchants, and many persons from different parts of the coast, the wind was blowing very fresh on shore, and the spot chosen 130 yards from a stranded brig, with all her emblems of distress flying. A galloper carriage, drawn by one horse, brought, with considerable expedition, every requisite for the service, a 5 1/2 inch royal mortar being dismounted, a 1 1/4 inch rope (having a 24 pounder shot appended to it) was staked in its front, about 2 feet from the shot the rope passed through a collar of leather, effectually preventing its burning, being projected by one pound of powder, more than 100 yards over the vessel, part of the rope fell upon the rigging, the persons on board returning a rope by the one sent, hauled off a stout rope, with a smaller one rove through a tailed block, the larger being made fast to the foot of the main top mast, the other end to a long, gun tackle, secured to three iron-shod stakes, driven triangularly in the ground, the tackle being bowsed, kept the rope sufficiently tight, and by persons easing off the fall, as the ship rolled, prevented danger to the rope, or to what it was lashed being carried away; the tailed block was made fast under the large rope, and each end of the small rope to the extremities of a ham-mock, extended by a stretcher of wood, (fitted up like the pole of a tent, for the convenience of a carriage), having gudgeons with forelock pins, through which was rove the great rope. By the assistance of one person from the shore, the hammock travelled to and fro, bringing all the people who were assembled in the main top, one by one, in perfect ease and safety, a service that can always be performed, when it is impossible for any boat to give the least assistance and be done when persons are initiated in the several uses, in a quarter an hour. Every person present testified their highest approbation, and several gave certificates that had a similar system and apparatus been placed at Lowestoft, Yarmouth, Winterton and Happisbro', on the 18th. February 1807 (on which distressing day the idea first suggested itself to the inventor), more than 100 persons would have been saved. It is most earnestly to be hoped it will be generally adopted, being a circumstance of such magnitude to this country, and deeply interesting to the world at large".
Manby was one of those to receive an honorary award at the Annual Festival of the Royal Humane Society in the May following the rescue. In June 1808 Manby received a gold medal from The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, via the hands of Henry Howard, 13th. Duke of Norfolk, for forming a communication with ships by means of a rope thrown over the vessel from a mortar gun on the shore. In August 1808 Manby received a medallion from the Suffolk Humane Society. Following the awards he later made a demonstration to the armed forces of the use of his apparatus. The following is from page 3 of the Sun (London), 7th. October 1808.
"SHIPWRECKED MARINERS.
On Tuesday last a most interesting and highly important experiment was made at Woolwich, by Captain MANBY, of Yarmouth, on a Vessel at anchor in the Thames, upwards of 100 yards from the shore, before a Committee of General Officers of Artillery, Commissioner CUNNINGHAM, Admiral LOSACK and several Officers of the Royal Navy, for the purpose of effecting a communication with a Ship stranded on a lee shore, and to bring the crew in perfect safety from the wreck. A rope was projected from a Royal Mortar across the Ship supposed to be stranded, by which was hauled on board by the crew a large rope, to be made fast to the mast-head, and kept at a proper degree of tension for a cot to travel on it, by a tackle purchase, that likewise admitted of the vessel's rolling : at the same time was sent to the ship a tailed block, with a small rope rove through it; each end of the small rope was made fast to the ends of the cot, that conveyed it to the Ship, and brought a person in perfect safety to the shore. The whole service was performed in a quarter of an hour, to the utmost gratification and highest approbation of every one present, particularly several eminent naval characters, who were heard to congratulate and express their warmest encomiums to the inventor for his very ingenious and laudable contrivance".
The device was successfully used in rescues by Sea Fencibles from Great Yarmouth and Winterton in 1810.
The Official Copy of a Report from the Committee of Field Officers of Artillery, containing an Account of the Experiments made at Woolwich on the 18th. and 20th. May 1811 alluded to the work of Lieutenant Bell, RA and his successful demonstration of a mortar to shoot a line in 1791.
Manby's invention was officially adopted in 1814, and a series of mortar stations were established around the coast. It was estimated that by the time of his death nearly 1,000 persons had been rescued from stranded ships by means of his apparatus.
Manby also built an 'unsinkable' boat. The first test indeed proved it to be floating when mostly filled with water, however, the seamen (who disliked Manby) rocked the boat back and forth, so that it eventually turned over. The boatmen depended on the cargo left over from shipwrecks, and may have thought Manby's mortar a threat to their livelihood.
The property that Manby owned in Yarmouth Denes was advertised in an auction notice in 1812 as he was leaving Yarmouth.
In February 1813 Manby gave a lecture to the Highland Society of Edinburgh followed by a demonstration on Bruntsfield links, Edinburgh. The gun was fired by use of a chemical to set off the charge, to overcome the problems caused by gunpowder getting damp in the storm conditions, often experienced when carrying out rescues.
In 1813 Manby invented the 'Extincteur', the first portable pressurised fire extinguisher. This consisted of a copper vessel of 3 gallons of pearl ash (potassium carbonate) solution contained within compressed air. He also invented a device intended to save people who had fallen through ice.
In July 1813 Manby's profile was increased when his portrait featured in the European Magazine.
On Friday 30th. August 1816 a committee of the Board of Ordnance and Lords of the Admiralty observed a demonstration of Manby's fire extinguisher and other equipment.
On 10th. March 1818 he married Sophia Gooch, daughter of Sir Thomas Gooch, 4th. Baronet.
In 1821 he sailed to Greenland with William Scoresby, for the purpose of testing a new type of harpoon for whaling, based on the same principles as his mortar. However, his device was sabotaged by the whalers. He published his account in 1822 as 'Journal of a Voyage to Greenland', containing observations on the flora and fauna of the Arctic regions as well as the practice of whale hunting. As a result of that voyage, Manby espoused three ideas: 1 - that there might still be Norse survivors in the so-called ‘Lost Colony’ in East Greenland, 2 - that Britain should claim the area of East Greenland north of the area claimed by Denmark, 3 - and that this area should be developed as a penal colony.
In June 1823 a House of Commons committee of supply voted Manby £2,000 for his lifesaving apparatus.
Manby was present at the London Tavern on 4th. March 1824 for the foundation of the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, later to become the RNLI. He was one of the first five persons to receive their gold medal in 1825. Manby is considered by some to be a true founder of the RNLI.
In 1825 the King of Sweden (via the mayor of Gt. Yarmouth) presented Manby with a splendid medallion in token of his Majesty's approbation of the Captain's humane merit, and inventions. In 1828 the King of Denmark (via his consul) presented Manby with a gold medal "accompanied with a letter, communicating His Majesty's gracious approbation of his philanthopic and arduous exertions in saving the crews of shipwrecked vessels."
On 4th. August 1830 he attended court and presented King William IV with a Treatise on the Preservation of Mariners from Stranded Vessels, and the Prevention of Shipwreck, with a Statement of the number of subjects of different nations saved by that plan, by Sir Robert Peel.
Manby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831 in recognition of his many accomplishments.
Manby was the first to advocate a national fire brigade. In April 1838 Charles Wood, aged 17, a drummer in the 1st. Battalion Grenadier Guards was killed by a fall caused by a faulty component when carrying out a trial of Manby's apparatus for fire rescues from buildings. Manby received a silver medal from the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire in May 1838.
In March 1842, Manby received a belated Queen Victoria Gold Coronation Medal.
In October 1843 Sophia died. When Manby retired his post as Barrack-master was terminated and he was required to moved out of his accommodation. Manby, obsessed with Nelson, later turned his home 'Pedestal House' into a Nelson museum filled with memorabilia, even having an internal wall knocked down to create a Nelson Gallery, and living in the basement.
A letter to the local paper in 1845 describes Manby as a Freeman of Yarmouth.
Following a meeting chaired by Yarmouth's mayor in 1849, Manby's apparatus was exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and was awarded a medal.
In 1852 it was reported Manby had donated part of his collection, the 'Nelson Cabinet' to King's Lynn museum.
Queen Victoria presented Manby with the sum of £100 from the Royal Bounty Fund in December 1852.
Ten days short of his eighty-nine birthday, Manby died on 18th. November 1854 at his home in Gorleston and he was buried at All Saints church in Hilgay on the 24th. A plaque in the church reads;
IN THE CHURCHYARD NEAR THIS SPOT REST THE BONES OF GEORGE WILLIAM MANBY CAPTAIN. F.R.S. A NAME TO BE REMEMBERED AS LONG AS THERE CAN BE A STRANDED SHIP. HE DIED NOV'R 18. 1854, AGED 88 years. OUT OF HIS EIGHT BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE LARGE MARBLE STONE ALSO RECORDED THE DEATHS OF MARY JANE AUGUST 3rd 1772 AGED 10 YEARS. JOHN MAY 20th 1783 AGED 10 YEARS, AND OF TWO INFANTS.
An inscription underneath reads 'The public should have paid this tribute.
The contents of Pedestal House were auctioned on Tuesday 19th. December 1854. Pedestal House and the 'Manby Crest' public house were auctioned on 28th. May 1855 at the Star Inn.
Awards
No.1 - Queen's Gold Coronation Medal "as a mark of the sense she entertains of the usefulness of his inventions in the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck."
No.2 - A gold medal from Charles X, King of the French, 1828.
No.3 - Gold medal from William, King of the Netherlands, 1830. No.4 - Gold medal from Frederick, King of Denmark.
No.5 - Gold medal from Charles. XIV, King of Sweden and Norway.
No.6 - Gold medal from the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, (London), voted 15th Dec. 1830.
No.7 - Gold medal from the Society of Arts, Adelphi, London. No.8 - Gold medal from the Highland Society of Scotland
No.9 - Silver medal from the Royal Humane Society, London. No.10 - Silver medal from the Suffolk Humane Society.
No.11 - Silver medal from the Norfolk Association for saving Lives from Shipwreck, 1824.
No.12 - Silver medal from the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire.
A lifeboat at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France was named the Captain George Manby. The Lifeboat was presented to the Society Humaine by the City of Boulogne.
The Hilgay village sign features a Manby Mortar.
Denver Historical Society had a Blue Plaque erected on the property he was born in, 'Easthall Manor', Sluice Road, Denver.
His former home, now two houses called 'Manby House' (No. 86) and 'Ahoy' (No. 87) High Road, Gorleston are now Grade: II listed buildings.
To follow on from another recent upload this is the single line token that permits trains to run between Buxton No.1 Junction and Great Rocks Junction on the former Midland Railway route through Wye Dale. The token is issued to the driver in a leather pouch but I took it out for this quick picture. The pouch is fitted with a wire loop allowing an easy hand over at both signal boxes.
D1015 "Western Champion" heads into Highley on the Severn Valley railway, with a service to Bridgnorth.
TATA based WAG-5 loco - 23162 (leading triplet) is pulling away with a BOXN freight rake at its tow while the Assistant Locomotive Pilot (ALP) is busy in collecting the token from the official of D-Cabin for getting the sectional clearance between D-Cabin and B-Cabin and finally join the main line towards Muri (MURI) from B-Cabin of Bokaro (BKSC) yard !!
37191 waits at Tulloch as the driver on 37184 passes over the token for the stretch to Spean Bridge on 5th October 1983.
The token is exchanged with the driver of 37184, just arriving from Fort William on the 0840 to Glasgow Queen Street whilst 37191 waits for departure to Fort William with the 0550 from Glasgow. 37184 was taken to Dumbarton for a 303 to Glasgow. Can't think of any logical reason why I got off there except to save the walk from Queen Street to Central!
I then headed eastwards on a shove-set from Queen Street for some 27's on the Edinburgh - Dundee's and finally headed back to Liverpool on the 1805 ex Edinburgh which was hauled by 47703 (to Carstairs), 87011 (to Preston) and 47468 for the final part of the trip to Lime Street. This was the last day of a week long Scottish trip.
37191 was withdrawn in February 2001 after over 37 years service.
37184 was withdrawn in May 2000 and scrapped in September the following year.
Halfpenny copper token
Ref: BOLMG: 1914.17.3
William Williamson, his halfpenny copper token, Newton, Manchester 1669.
Obverse [head]: HIS HALFPENNY 1669 in centre, surrounded by: William Williamson of.
Reverse: Two 'W's with flowers entwined between the letters in the centre: NEWTON ...R MANCHESTER.
Biography
This halfpenny copper token is dated 1669 and would have been used by traders in Manchester during the second half of the seventeenth century. It first came into the museum’s collection in 1914 as a purchase from S. H. Hamer of Halifax. The accession number is 1914.17 (part number .3) and the token entered the collection with five other 17th century trade tokens, all from Lancashire. The tokens were previously displayed in the Chadwick Museum, probably soon after 1914. It is unclear if they were displayed in our current museum on the Crescent recently, but you can now see this coin on display.
Some interesting facts…
Traders began minting their own coins in the 17th century as a result of a lack of small change being produced by the Royal Mint. From 1657 to 1752 many retailers, from grocers to city corporations made their own illegal money.
The coins often had local symbols and the name of the trader that produced them.
Tokens like this one only disappeared from circulation following properly constituted royal coinage in copper in 1792.
Find out more!
This token is now on display in the coin desktop found in the Europe Bay in the World Bays area of Bolton Museum.
Come and see other Lancashire tokens from Clitheroe and Blackburn alongside this one.
Do you have any information about 17th century tokens?
We would like to read any comments, especially if you know about local Lancashire tokens, or anything about Mr William Williamson of Newton, Manchester.
The Golden Gate International Exposition (1939 and 1940), held at San Francisco, California's Treasure Island, was a World's Fair that celebrated, among other things, the city's two newly built bridges. The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge was dedicated in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge was dedicated in 1937. The exposition was opened initially from February 18, 1939 through October 29, 1939. It opened again from May 25, 1940 through September 29, 1940.
The driver of 37294 prepares to hand over the token on the approach to Embsay station at the end of its run from Bolton Abbey.
Token of my mother's ashes taken to the Big Island. She passed away Sept 2023 just days shy of her 91st birthday. She loved living in and visiting Hawaii.
The 1A52 12:20 Inverness to Aberdeen arrives at Nairn where the token exchange is completed by a member of the station staff. Class 37/4 37404 'Ben Cruachan' was providing the 'growl' up front.
A product of the English Electric Vulcan Foundary, D6986 was delivered in June 1965. TOPS classification as a 37/0 saw it renumbered to 37286 at the start of 1973. Refurbishment and the fitting of train heating completed in 1985 saw it emerge as 37404 in large logo blue. In January 1986 it was named 'Ben Cruachan' and re-painting to InterCity Mainline livery as illustrated was completed mid-1989. After 33 years and 8 months in service, withdrawal came in February 1999 and the locomotive was scrapped at C F Booth, Rotherham 3 years later.
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A summer Saturday at Welshpool and the driver of Class 37/0 37251 has a quick chat with the duty signalman as the tokens are exchanged. The 2J17 07:53 Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth comprised a set of Inter-City liveried stock that would later return as the 1A50 servce to London Euston.
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Woke up early to take the image, edited the image...forgot to post the image. So here it is, for the sake of posterity and workflow completion. Sunrise as it breaks through the treeline this Cold November Morning.
Week 32 / Planes, Trains, or Automobiles
52 Weeks of Pix
A little late to the party....but, my fave game piece of Monopoly(next to the top hat!)
In the game of Monopoly : "Each player is represented by a small metal token that is moved around the edge of the board according to the roll of two dice. The number of tokens and the tokens themselves have changed over the history of the game, with many appearing in special editions only, and some available with non-game purchases. As of 2013, eight tokens are included in standard edition games, including:
Wheelbarrow (1937b edition)
Battleship
Racecar
Thimble
Old-style shoe (or boot)
Scottie dog
Top hat
Cat (2013-onwards)"
The Canadian Tulip Festival / Festival Canadien des Tulipes in Ottawa the capital city of Canada
The Canadian Tulip Festival began after the Second World War, when Princess Juliana of the Netherlands presented Ottawa with 100,000 tulip bulbs as a token of friendship in 1945.
Canada had provided asylum for the Dutch royal family during the war and played a strong role in the Netherlands’ liberation. While the royal family sought refuge in Ottawa, Princess Juliana gave birth to Princess Margriet on January 19th 1943 at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The Canadian government temporarily declared the room “Dutch soil,” to ensure that the Princess would remain in line for the throne.
The Netherlands continues to give Ottawa 20,000 tulip bulbs every year.
Ottawa’s first Canadian Tulip Festival took place in May 1953 and opened with an inauguration ceremony at Parliament Hill.
The Canadian Tulip Festival has grown into the largest annual display of tulips in North America.
The Canadian Tulip Festival is also a celebration of the return of spring, with over a million tulips in 50 varieties blooming in public spaces across the National Capital Region.
Images are from:
Tulip Legacy 70th Anniversary 1945 - 2015 / Patrimoine tulipe 70e anniversaire 1945 - 2015
Visiting Commissioners Park at Dow's Lake on the Rideau Canal which is a major tulip viewing area and Parliament Hill / Colline du Parlement
For more information on The Canadian Tulip Festival visit:
Ottawa founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as "Ottawa" in 1855
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Canada was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867
Canada became a country when the British colonies of Canada ( Ontario and Québec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were federally united into one Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867. July 1st is a federal holiday known as Canada Day / Fête du Canada
Canada is a Commonwealth Realm member of the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly the British Commonwealth) that have have Queen Elizabeth II as the reigning constitutional monarch while operating as an independent country from the UK United Kingdom.
Canada has two official languages French and English
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********** About This Trip *********
2-Day Canada Ottawa Tulip Festival Tour from Boston Tour Code: 678-1105
Boston - Ottawa (427 miles)
Guests will be picked up in Boston in the morning. After lunch, we will arrive in Ottawa, ON to see the Canadian Tulip Festival. After, we will head to ByWard Market for food and shopping. We will transfer to the hotel after dinner.
Ottawa, ON Located on the Ottawa River in eastern Ontario, Canada's capital city is also its center of technology and politics. This historic city features many museums, art galleries, and performance centers as well as other attractions like the Rideau Canal.
Canadian Tulip Festival This massive flower festival held annually in Ottawa, Ontario bills itself as the largest tulip festival in the world with more than one million of the flowers on display. It gets more than 500,000 visitors every May.
ByWard Market This massive indoor market is one of Ottawa's biggest tourist attractions. It contains representatives from more than 500 business, at least half of them local artisans and farmers. It sees the most traffic during the summer months.
In the morning we will leave the hotel. On our way back to Boston we will stop at Ottawa's Parliament Hill to see sights such as the Peace Tower. We will arrive back in Boston in the evening. See "Departure and Return Details" for pickup and dropoff information.
Parliament Hill, located on the banks of the Ottawa River Canada's capital city, is home to the Canadian Parliament. The gorgeous location and dramatic architecture make this a huge tourist location-- more than 3 million people come every year.
The Peace Tower is a large clock tower in Ottawa, Ontario that sits at the center of Parliament Hill. This iconic Canadian building appears on both the fifty- and twenty-dollar Canadian bills. It is more than 300 feet tall.
Visit:
Ottawa Capital of Canada
Canadian Tulip Festival
ByWard Market
Parliament Hill
Peace Tower clock tower
Montréal drive though with view of L'oratoire Saint Joseph du Mont Royal / Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal
Duty Free / Hors Taxes shopping in Philipsburg Canada
Border crossing from Alexandria Bay, New York USA to Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Ontario, Canada
Border crossing from Saint-Armand Philipsburg, Québec, Canada to Highgate Springs, Vermont, USA
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A Japanese arcade token. It is the size of a quarter and it is the same on both sides. It is made of metal but it is not magnetic.
I was in a mood to shoot small this morning, and when I was contemplating what to use as my subject du jour this was staring me in the face. My husband had given it to me, thinking that it was an old, leftover New York City Subway Token. Except that when I tried to look it up this morning, it didn't turn up in NYC token history. So I looked a little further, and established that the Metropolitan Transit Authority One Fare token was a pre-1964 token from Boston. We lived in Boston in the mid-80's, so this must have been leftover from that time. I guess they were the same size as the MBTA tokens that replaced them, and they must have remained in circulation until the time that Boston replaced tokens with Charlie Cards (like NYC's Metro Cards).
This is a re-shot of the subject, because I wan't happy with the detail in the earlier shot and wanted to try something different with it.
The scene at Daliganj Junction Station in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh where the 11:40 Aishbargh to Izzatnager Junction Passenger 52244 was about to continue its journey north. The token had just been delivered by the bicycle rider who was about to turn and head off back to the control room. YDM-4 6552 would soon head off for Sitapur Junction and beyond.
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The Dean Forest Railway held their Diesel Gala during the weekend of 15 to 17 September 2017 and I was able to make a brief visit on the first day. The lure was to see and photograph the visiting Clayton Type 1, but I also have an affinity with Class 31s, and the EWS livery of 31466 looks quite striking. The 31 has slowed to hand the token over whilst working the 14.00 Lydney Junction to Parkend and has but a few yards to reach its destination.
66094 arrives at Brentford with the 0449 Severnside Sita-Brentford. As 6A23 had come down the branch with the ticket this train had the staff. As it will depart before me we exchange tokens so the Southall service can leave with the ticket leaving the staff on 6Z18
YDM-4 6756 rolls into Nyoriya Husenpur where the token hoop is ready for the loco crew to take for the journey onward to Pilibhit Juntion. Train 52220 was the 12:40 from Tanakpur, the TPE-PBE Passenger.
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