Fergus Scottish Festival & Highland Games, 1997

 Fergus, ON, August 8-10, 1997 -

Heron colony

Great blue heron colony (Ardea herodias) Grand Héron, c. 1990, Bull Island (also known as Dickinson Island), St. Lawrence River, Akwesasne.  Many of the trees on the island had died, probably due to the birds' acidic droppings and breaking branches to build nests.   

 

Lower Town, Quebec City, c. 1989

 I was in Quebec City from 1987 to 1990 - these are some photos I took I think in 1989 in Lower Town.

Little boy in electric jeep

Prickly Pear

 

Trip to New Mexico 1993, Prickly Pear Cactus

Fatal fire, 1990s, Guelph, Ontario

These kids were lined up like sparrows on the fence looking at the scene of a fatal fire, which I think included children, in Guelph, Ontario in the 1990s. The constable had come to shoo them away. A version I took just before the cop showed up ran in the Toronto Star, but I didn't get the negatives back. 

 

Salon du Debosselage

Sometime in 1990

'Salon' is a bit of a joke, as it's more for a hairdressing shop. 
 I think this maybe the one near St-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!, Quebec, according to the yellow pages "Fondé il y a plus de 30 ans par Berthier Thibault,"and now called Carrossier Procolor Cabano, with a new building, different from this Quonset hut.

1060, ch du Golf, Témiscouata-Sur-Le-Lac QC 

Earliest memories

 Early 60s - going to Granby zoo and to Niagara Falls. At Granby I was small enough for my mother to hold in her arms and the giraffe nibbled her hair. I remember an outdoor aquarium in the shape of a whale - the mouth was a glass wall with the fish behind.