Author: Alan
Greenish Yellow
Scandal Solved
This movie was really just for Jon and Wally – a VIA intercity train leaving Kingston Station. A real hog of a file at 12.5 Mbs.
Then I realized I had hit upon something. I found the sponsorship money! At 50 million a “Canada” sign or Canadian flag – surely that is market value – it’s all there. Money well spent. If the Federal Liberals had not ensured trains had the name and flag of my country on it, I can only imagine I would have confused myself for an Albanian one day.
New IT Industry Sector Located
I swear it is the first thing I thought of when I saw the van – some faceless bureaucrat approving an application and issuing a cheque. I am sure there is an ACOA grant behind this somewhere. Perhaps even NRC funding.
Renfrew County
Arran and the Beach
My folks are from the Clyde in the west of Scotland and we figure this painting at Owen Sound is a view from a beach across the Clyde to Arran.
I don’t know the artist’s name but suspect it is a scene from the 30s when my parents would have the ages of these kids. I recall being dragged when I was seven in 1970 to the beach along this stretch in August and freezing in the cold Atlantic.
The view at Largs, Scotland – November 1987.
Rev. Whillans’s War
The father of my Owen Sound connection, my great-grandfather-in-law, was a chaplain in the First World War, Rev. William James Whillans of Winnipeg. This evening, hunting through photos, I came across a post card sent from the front as well as a few others. He is the jaunty gent in the lower right of the first photo.
This is an example of the postcards I discussed in an earlier post. As you can see from the photo below, he was involved with those doing the fighting.
…with a few of the saved from the trenches
…in the trenches…
…and Rev. Whillans with one particular bear brought from Winnipeg during WWI.
NCAA March Madness tourney chart.