Akwesasne Pow Wow 2025

I didn't do much there - leg was hurting!

 

Akwesasne Powwow, Snake Island Muskies carry 2025 Presidents Cup

Met Instagramer Mimi Lacroix https://www.instagram.com/mimilapoop/ - she's half-Japanese and did the peace sign. Thanks to her boyfriend Sean (sp?)

Bond Girls

 LICENCE TO THRILL

A James Bond Festival at The Port Theatre – Cornwall, Ontario - September 6, 2025

Three Bond Girls - Caroline Munro, The Spy Who Loved Me (Left), Valerie Leon, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Never Say Never Again (Centre), Martine Beswicke,  From Russia with Love, (Right) leave Port Theatre, Cornwall, Ontario, Sept 6, 2025

Caroline Munro 

Martine Beswicke 

Valerie Leon

Most interesting story: Little blond boy who watches Bond's car drive out of the sea in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) was Jaws (Richard Kiel)'s son. I was going to ask Martine Beswicke about her movie 'Seizure', Oliver Stone's directoral debut horror movie, which her co-star Mary Woronov said had some money laundered by a gangster, but thought it might harsh the mood.

Munro also said Kiel loved the peach pies at Marie Callender's, a restaurant chain he took her to in California.

Bartender served complimentary Martinis that were shaken, not stirred. Grey Goose vodka, Martini dry vermouth.

Parc historique Gagnon Historical Park

 Gagnon is a small village near Ottawa that started in the 1880s from two sawmills along the CN railway line.   It became kind of a ghost town when the cheese factory closed in the 1940s and gradually the village dwindled in population - this park was set up in 2001 to commemorate the village.

Little library by a nice bench.

125 cm saw blade from the Shaver mill that was one of the founding industries of the village.

Pétanque court. Pétanque is a bowling game with steel balls that was imported to Canada by immigrants from the south of France in the 1950s in Quebec City and Montreal.

                                  Exposed timbers of the 1880 Pommainville Heritage House, which was moved to the village, showing the marks made by a broad axe.

  Parc du village Gagnon, 1770 Calypso Road, Gagnon, Ontario, 45.32867600, -75.20578500

Z12AC95-P Electrohome Dominion Industries, Kitchener, Ontario, 1946/1947

Seen in the Habitat for Humanity Restore at 1400 Vincent Massey Drive, Cornwall Ontario on August 29, 2025 - I have no idea if it's still there and no other information about it.

Montreal: CFCF was one of the oldest radio stations in the world. It may have been broadcasting as an experimental station during World War I.

Ottawa Stations: CFRA (Still broadcasts on AM!) CKOY, CBO  (CBC) 

Watertown, NY: WWNY 

New York City: WMGM

Trujillo was the name of  Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic between 1930 and 1961 under the dictator Rafael Trujillo, until his assassination.

Canton probably is the city of Guangzhou in the south of China. It was briefly the capital of the Republic of  China until the KMT fled China at the end of 1949.

Great Egret (Ardea alba) Grande Aigrette

Great Egret fishing at the mouth of the Raisin River, South Lancaster, Ontario

 

Little library, Gagnon, Ontario

 

Nice bench beside it to read. 1770 Calypso Road, Gagnon, Ontario, 45.32867600, -75.20578500

Hops

Hop flowers ready to be picked from the bine, as the long stems are called - the base of the flower produces a yellow oily substance called lupulin that gives the hops their bitter flavour. Stephanie Jaworski, one of the owners, told me that hops were grown over a large region around Vankleek Hill in the 1940s  but climate change increased rainfall (not good for hops) and the growers moved to Washington State. At  Old 4th Hop Yard ,  19826 Maple Road, South Glengarry, ON, Canada, Ontario