Nun's Farts

Nun's farts ( Pet de sœur ) are often made with maple syrup, and can be found at sugar shacks during sugaring off season  - but these in the photo are rolls made with brown sugar and cinnamon. In France there is a pastry, sort of like a small donut (beignet), called 'pet de nonne' (again, nun's fart, but with another word for nun), 'Nun's puff' in English, that is not like this, but it has been around for hundreds of years - one source says that it is a corruption of "paix de nonne" (peace of the nun) because a nun gave the recipe to bring peace between her convent and a neighbouring rival one,  another says that it was that a nun loudly broke wind before her colleagues, and in embarrassment dropped a dollop of batter into hot fat, creating the first one.  (Source: Wikipedia Pet de nonne ). Probably it's called that just because it's a light fluffy pastry, like Angel's Food cake.

What I imagine happened is that someone in Canada had a French cookbook and may have mixed up the names between the beignet and the roll.
recipe 

2024 update - Boulangerie St-Donat bowdlerized their translation slightly!

Rolkolsen Home Theater R-70

Rolkolsen speakers have been reported in 'White Van Scams' - this is where you're in a parking lot and you get approached by some guys saying that they were delivering high priced stereo equipment and they have a couple extras that they'll sell you at a low low price.  This was donated to Value Village. I think they'd reduced it to $ 150.00. In the Metronews article linked below, the actual value of another Rolkolsen system was pegged at "$20 to $30" by the owner of a professional audio equipment store.

 Printing quality is OK, but note there is no French on the packaging, required by Canadian law.

 Note the Alfa-Romeo logo with Audio Master written on it

 MSRP $ 3129.00 ? When do you see a MSRP on high priced electronics?

The glue splotches on the speaker cones do not inspire confidence!

See: http://metronews.ca/news/canada/553206/inside-a-white-van-speaker-scam-dont-buy-a-rolkolsen/

and http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/04/12/consumerwatch-con-artists-selling-fake-high-end-audio-gear/

Canoe Lake, where Thomson drowned

Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, where Thomson died

Tom Thomson's Grave

Leith Church, 419134 Tom Thomson Lane, Leith, Ontario

Offerings of coins and an artist's eraser on Thomson's grave

Tom Thomson Art Gallery

 Thomson Gallery

 His mandolin

Northern Lights

Billy Bishop Home and Museum, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada

Billy Bishop Home and Museum, 948 3rd Ave. West, Owen Sound, Ontario
Billy Bishop was one of the top fighter aces in World War I. I didn't know he was upper class - his home was a substantial Victorian red brick that had a servant's quarter. There was also an interesting display on black servicemen from the area. Often they couldn't serve in combat because of their race.

 Some of  Bishop's ancestors were United Empire Loyalists and used "Queen Anne's Flag" - this only has the two crosses of England and Scotland, not the three crosses to include Ireland in the modern "Union Jack"

Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church National Historic Site of Canada

Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church was designated a national historic site of Canada in 2000 because:
- it is the last built remnant of a community of African Canadians whose roots are uniquely anchored in the history of United Empire Loyalists,
- it represents the important role that Black militiamen played in the defence of Upper Canada during the War of 1812, and early Upper Canada land policy.
Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church was built by African Canadians. The Oro Black settlement was a unique approach to integrating African Canadians into a farming community. The idea for an African Canadian community originated in 1783 with Sir Guy Carleton, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America. During the American Revolution, Carleton had promised that the slaves of non-Loyalists who joined the British Army would have their freedom and protection from re-enslavement. Black soldiers not only fought with the British during the American Revolution, but also as the “Coloured Corps”, a trusted unit of the Upper Canadian militia during the War of 1812. Between 1819 and 1826, the British granted 25 plots of land in Oro County to Black settlers, eleven of them former soldiers who received their grants in acknowledgement of military service. Although the area had strategic value, the land was both remote and agriculturally poor. Only nine of the original grant recipients took up their plots, settling along an area of the Penatanguishine Road known as Wilberforce Street. In 1829-1831, the settlement was augmented by thirty more families. They built Oro Church in 1847, and it remained active until around 1900 when the community itself faded away. The British Methodist Episcopal Church declared the building abandonned in 1916. Local residents rallied to preserve it in 1947, in 1956, and again after vandalism in 1981.
The heritage value of Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church National Historic Site of Canada resides in its associated history as illustrated by the form and composition of the building, the integrity of the remnant cemetery, and in their site and setting.
Source: Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, Minutes, June 2000
I couldn't get into this church when I went by in July of 2013 - the guy who was there to service it from the township said that it hadn't been inspected yet and wasn't open to the public.