Dancer, Odawa Powwow, late 80s

 

Odawa Powwow, c. 1989, - when it was held on Corkstown Road in Nepean. More photos here:

https://markbellis.blogspot.com/2013/10/photos-of-odawa-powwow-early-90s-and.html

Dancer, Odawa Powwow

Odawa Powwow, c.1989

more photos here: https://markbellis.blogspot.com/2013/10/photos-of-odawa-powwow-early-90s-and.html

 

Queensboro Bridge, 1991

Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan December 1991 view from Bloomingdale's waitress unlocked door to balcony to let me go out! I saw Linus Pauling, only person to win two unshared Nobel prizes. He was wearing his trademark oversized black beret and I recognized from the other end of the floor. Nobody else did!  If it had been Madonna she would have been mobbed. I was too awestruck to get his photo or talk to him.
 

Diablo Manor

Diablo Manor , spooky house attraction,  10 South Street, Spencerville Ontario

 

Anne Carson

 Embarrassed because I've never heard of Anne Carson, Nobel Prize for Literature winner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature

Graffiti, Trasheteria, Guelph, Ontario

September 23, 1991

 

Vandalized bilingual signs

In 1976, The province of Quebec banned English on commercial signs even though there was a large English speaking community there. 

Although this was not a commercial sign, this sign at the Jeffery Hale Hospital in Quebec City was vandalized. c. 1988

Sign in French for the Théâtre de la Sucerie, Casselman, Ontario vandalized c. 1988. It was a dinner theatre and only did shows in French, and so it wouldn't make any sense for it to have an English translation, but the section of the sign for the Sucerie (Sugar Shack) itself was bilingual

poster, c. 1989

In 1988, The Supreme Court of Canada ruled the ban on English was illegal, and the provincial government responded with Bill 178 which allowed for inside bilingual signs. Political organizations in Quebec protested this new law. 

 

Orange Shirt Day

Memorial for native children. For Orange Shirt Day, which remembers the abuse of native children who were forced to go to residential schools, some of whom died trying to run away from the schools and make their way home. September 26, Morewood Community Centre, Ontario.

 

Sibylle feeds Mennonite horse

Sibylle feeds Mennonite horse, near Elmira, Ontario, c.1989

 

Covid vax Moderna Spike

Blessing of the Animals, Trinity Church, Cornwall, Ontario

Blessing of the Animals, Trinity Church, October 4, 2026, Cornwall, Ontario

 

Fire on the DVP and St. Dennis, 1990s

 

Fire on the Don Valley Parkway at St. Dennis Drive, early 1990s

Jean Louis David, probably Broadway

Hairdressers waiting for clients, Jean Louis David salon, probably on Broadway, NYC, 1991

 

Orange Shirt Day/National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

 

Orange Shirt Day/National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Lamoureux Park, Cornwall, September 30 2026. Social dance, open to everyone. I don't know the name of the drum but they were very good. A woman in a hijab joined in. Multiculturalism at its finest.

Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada - full list here 

Lacrosse players - the game was developed by Haudenosaunee and other First Nations.

'Gutch' Salinas of  Kakhwí:io foods in Akwesasne shows me how flint (hard) corn is prepared. The grains are boiled in water with wood ashes, which produces an alkaline reaction in a process called Nixtamalization that softens the corn and releases nutrients. It can be pounded in a mortar into a flour that can be made into a mush with other ingredients like beans, or the grains of corn can be eaten as is. 

Mother and Mary in New York

New York, 1991, my sister Mary and mother on the right. Mary was working in the gift packing department at Bloomingdale's.

 

Ojibwe Spirit Horse

Ojibwe Spirit Horse, also known as the Lac La Croix Indian Pony, is a breed of horse developed by natives. Truth and Reconciliation event, Morewood, Ontario, 26 September 2026

 

Bring Back The Future with Sharon, 1991

 

This building was Len's Mill Store in Guelph

Monarch, Sainte-Foy, 1989

 

Female Monarch, Sainte-Foy, 1989

Seal, Quebec City

Seal, Aquarium du Quebec, c. 1989

 

André Arthur, radio host and future MP c. 1989

AM talk show host and future MP meets with journalism students from Laval University at CHRC radio in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, c. 1989

 

Claude Ryan, Quebec Liberal Party leader c. 1989

Claude Ryan, Quebec Liberal Party leader c. 1989, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, Quebec

 

 

Traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse recreation

This is a recreation of a traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse - several families of the same clan would live  in apartments in it. Women traditionally enter through the western door, men through the eastern one. Akwesasne, c. 1989

 

Times Square, 1991

 

Another photo of Demonic Dave

A surprisingly cheerful David Cronenberg, U of Toronto, 1991 or 1992

 

Women's Studies and a busty secretary

 I took a Women's Studies course in 1982, "Introduction to Women's Studies,". It was the first one the University of Guelph had for its new Women's Studies program, and Leslie Marshall, a professor there had wanted to get men into it and talked to me about it. I was in a bad place as I'd come back from Europe and found a friend I really liked wouldn't talk to me any more and another had run up bills on the phone when I sublet my apartment to him. .I didn't really understand the course, One woman in the class that I liked was a smart and pretty woman with long brown hair and large breasts who I just decided to be mean to because I was mad at other people and riffed on her being a secretary. I saw her again two years later at a party when something else involving being betrayed was about to happen. She remembered me being mean.

A dog's memorial

When my father was dying in the hospital I found the closet open in his bedroom at home and his slipper on the bed. Our dog Punch had been taking it out and putting it on the bed. 1990. Ilford 120 film, dust removed by AI.

 

Wind Turbine near Winchester, Ontario

Wind Turbine near Winchester, Ontario

 

Dan Palmer. and mustache

Dan Palmer, epic mustache guy from Death by Stereo, playing at K of C hall, Cornwall, Ontario, September 15, 2026. One thing I hadn't seen before is the man who was running the mix board could use a tablet and stand in front of the stage to check adjust the sound remotely.

Poster for show

 

Les neiges d'Antan

Snow coats trees, Winegard Walk, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada c. December 1991

 

Akwesasne Powwow 2026, dancing under a rainbow

I only got to the Smoke dances and the Dancing for the Future Path.

There was a beautiful rainbow over Lamoureux Park at the Akwesasne Powwow 2026 on Sunday around 5pm.

Please feel free to use these photos! Niá:wen!

 

Home made boat on Grand River, Elora, 1990s

Home made boat on Grand River, Elora, 1990s

 

Calling Dr Pain!

 

 

Dr Peter Pain,Chiropractor, Kingston, Ontario

Angry building, Oregon or Washington, 1999

According to passersby, the builder had exceeded the permit height and the local government issued a stop work order. The builder did not take it well. I think this is Oregon coast but it could be Washington, 1999.