๐๐ฐ๐ฉ๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ "๐, ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ถ๐ด", ๐๐๐ ๐๐, 1976
Mark Bellis
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Michael Leunig 1945-2024
photo: Bahudhara , via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Leunig, one of my favourite cartoonists, died late last year. I watched part of his memorial service from St.Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Tariff threat reactions
The shoppers in the grocery stores in Cornwall were checking the labels to make sure they weren't buying American.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Finding Krystal
I just found where Krystal's remains are. She's where her grandmother said, but I couldn't find it until someone uploaded the info to Findagrave last month. It's a great relief to me as I wasn't sure if she was even buried. I hope to go visit the grave.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
John Baker
Slavery was legal in Canada until 1834, when it was abolished by the British parliament. Upper Canada, now the southern part of Ontario, had limited slavery in 1793, when it passed an act that stopped the importation of slaves into Upper Canada, and freed the children of enslaved people when they turned 25, but one source I read said there were still were enslaved people in Upper Canada until 1834.
John Baker was born into slavery in Lower Canada (now the southern part of Quebec), and was brought with his mother into Upper Canada. Baker had been freed in the will of his enslaver, and he joined a Canadian regiment and fought against American invaders during the War of 1812, notably at the Battle of Lundy's Lane in Niagara Falls, and the Battle of Waterloo against Napoleon. When Baker died in 1871, he was the last known surviving person to have been enslaved in Upper and Lower Canada.
Text on sign by historian Natasha Henry-Dixon and can be read here: One too many.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Lunar New Year trinkets
Acrylic rolling pin with stars floating in them. I don't know what this has to do with the Lunar New Year.
Serving tray with zodiac.
Monday, January 20, 2025
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