Monarch Butterfly on Goldenrod

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Swan, Elora, 1994 (redo)

Picture is upside down

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Sunrise

Sunrise

Power lines in the Sunset

Dogs and a cat in cars

Cat at Tim Horton's drive-thru

Dogs in the sun in the winter

Sun dogs, Bow String Bridge on Raisin River

 Sun dogs over St. Lawrence

Bow bridge, Raisin River

Honeybee on comb

From 2008, found this honeycomb on floor of forest - must have fallen from a tree - bees were working at draining it - in a few hours all the honey had been taken out.

Men's Entrance

In 1937 Ontario passed a law that required bars to have separate entrances and drinking areas for men and women - one source, now only available on the Wayback Machine,  quotes a now removed article from a Burnaby NewsLeader, a BC newspaper, which said "...this seems to have been part of an anti-VD campaign in Canada. 

.in the late 1930s, the Provincial Division of Venereal Disease Control launched a major campaign against hotel beer parlours alleging that they were spreading venereal disease and that prostitution was the main source of VD. 'You read these official records and it’s only women who spread disease,' Campbell [probably Robert Campbell, a Capilano College, now University, history professor]  said with a laugh. 'They never acknowledge that they got it from a man. Only women.' 

The campaign intensified with the Second World War during which VD was seen as undermining the war effort by infecting young men. In 1942, the provincial government ordered that beer parlours erect physical barriers between two separate areas with separate entrances designated for men only and for ladies with escorts. The latter would allow women either alone or with their husbands and boyfriends. "The whole idea was to try to separate unattached women from unattached men."

Campbell published a study on Gender Segregation in British Columbia's bars before the end of WWII.

There had to be some kind of barrier between the side in the bar where women sat and where men sat, but it was "Ladies and their (male) Escorts" on the women's side and no women on the men's side. To this day many old bars in Ontario still have two doors, although the separation barriers are long gone.

This was in effect up at least into the 1970s, and in Quebec many taverns were off limits to women in practise until the 1980s - in 2007 a woman was refused service at a gay bar in Montreal. 

This is a building on Beckworth and William streets, in Smith Falls, Ontario in 2008 that probably was a hotel with a bar - sign is now gone.

http://www.puncheddrunk.ca/establishments-ladies.html

Bird's Nest Fungi

Crucibulum laeve ? Bird's Nest fungi yellowish  fungi that have some pill like things inside them on growing on decaying wood, probably taken somewhere in Charlottenburgh Park on July 23, 2008

Turkey Trot

Wild Turkeys in Snow, mating dance, Turkey Trot - the two males are usually related and do a slow walk together while the females watch and follow. Three hens following two toms (bright coloured heads), taken about April 4, 2008.

Freighter in Christmas Lights, St. Lawrence, December 2007

Boat on St. Lawrence with Christmas lights, December 2007 - these can be up to 230 metres long

Sunrise, January 2, 2017

There are times when Canada looks just like a Group of Seven painting.

Sun Pillar, New Year's Day Sunset, 2017