inSPIREd Sunday

Beth and Sally host inSPIREd Sunday

September 2017 - Nipigon ON

I couldn't find any history about this church.


The Annunciation (from Latin annuntiatio), also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation. Gabriel told Mary to name her son Yeshua, meaning "YHWH is salvation".

Nipigon Murals

September 2017 - Nipigon ON

Racing the Train
The old Nipigon CP Railway station built in 1929, existed on mid-Front Street.
It was demolished in October 1982 despite a valiant effort to save it by a local committee.
Painted by Dan Sawatzky, July 16, 1992

Zechners
This mural depicts Mr. Zechner returning with a full truck from the blueberry patches, 1937. He would make a run three times a week to a Duluth winery.

Log Drive
After WWII, the pulp and paper industry boomed & the Nipigon River was one of many area rivers used to drive logs downstream to the waiting mills.

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Home Cookin'

October 2017

Here is our final daily recap of our road trip with links to all the other days.

SATURDAY
Six Word Saturday

Day 25 - Nipigon ON to Sault Ste. Marie ON


We're on our last leg of this journey. We'll be home on Monday afternoon.

We woke in Nipigon, probably definitely the worst accommodations so far and quickly packed up and went out to the frosty car.

Breakfast at a good ole Canadian standby.

We stop at he fabulous Aguasabon Falls. The Aguasabon Falls boardwalk leads to a viewing platform overlooking the gorge and the spectacular 100 foot falls. The Falls were created as a result of a hydro project to power the creation of Terrace Bay and the forestry industry.

White River
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A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, who was the basis for the character Christopher Robin.

Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a Canadian black bear he often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday. The bear cub was purchased from a hunter for $20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, Canada, while en route to England during the First World War. He named the bear "Winnie" after his adopted hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba. "Winnie" was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as The Fort Garry Horse regimental mascot. Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much loved attraction there.

Wawa
Horrible selfie beneath the famous Wawa Goose.
The name of the townWawa is in turn derived from the Ojibwe word for the Canada goose (taken from The Song of Hiawatha).

Lunch

It has gotten cloudy and cold as the day wore on.

John's chili poutine.

Gorgeous  painted Muskoka chairs at the Visitors' Centre.

We are staying in a Microtel by Wyndham in Sault Ste Marie. The hotel rooms are on the micro size but were perfect for one night.
We had picked up vegetables and fruits for dinner.


SUNDAY
inSPIREd Sunday
One Word Sunday
Shadow Shot Sunday

Day 7 - Sault Ste. Marie ON to Sudbury ON

It was a quiet Sunday morning as we took a brisk walk along the Locks in
Sault Ste. Marie with the International Bridge highlighting the skyline from Sault Ste. Marie Canada into Sault Ste. Marie Michigan on the other side.

John capturing me capturing the moose.

MONDAY
Monday Mural
Good Random Fun
Foto Tunes

The Great Pumpkin outside the museum.

At his feet.

We had picked up groceries and I had planned to cook but ended up not feeling like it so we ordered Swiss Chalet chicken.

TUESDAY
Wordless
Tuesday Treasures
Weekly Travel Theme

Our first full day home and it was a lazy one, doing laundry and unpacking.

I did make Asian chicken wraps for dinner.

WEDNESDAY

I got a badly needed mani pedi and John went to Costco to stock up on the items we get from there.

John had his final weekly golf game and banquet.

He even sent me a photo of his prime rib as he knows I love it while I ate leftovers.

THURSDAY

We went to stock up on fruits and vegetables as it is Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend and I am cooking twice.
Then I spent a few hours with a friend who had kindly collected our mail for us.

I had a frozen beef heart so decided to make a stew with it but it was very tough. But everything else was good especially a mash of white and sweet potato with parsnips.

FRIDAY
Weekend Reflections
Friday Finds
Weekend Green Butchart Gardens Victoria BC

Since I was meeting my BFF for lunch and a chin wag after being away I went downtown early for a haircut.
I found these cuties.

We had a great chat and Philly cheese wraps for lunch which we should have shared as it was too big.

Lamb chops and baked potato was on the menu for dinner.

Quite a sunset tonight!

BOOKS

I started reading The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, and I am finding it a little slow as it is developing but I am intrigued.

Day 26 - Nipigon ON to Sault Ste. Marie ON

September 2017

It is 0 C and extremely foggy as we head to Tim Horton's for breakfast in the dark at 7:30.

This is a long day of driving on a single lane highway with lots of construction.

The river originates at Chorus Lake and empties into Lake Superior near the community of Terrace Bay.

The Aguasabon is 70 kilometres (43 mi) in length, and plunges down 30 metres (98 ft) at the Aguasabon Falls. The river follows fractures in the 2.6 billion-year-old bedrock, and the exposed rock is granodiorite.

White River and Winnie the Pooh!

World-famous children’s character Winnie the Pooh was inspired by an orphaned bear cub, which was purchased from a trapper at White River by Captain Harry Colebourn, during WW I. He was a veternarian and his troop train had stopped at this Northern Ontario town enroute from Winnipeg.

Colebourn named Winnie for his home city (Winnipeg) and took her on to England as his troop's mascot. Before shipping on to France he left Winnie at the London Zoo where she was discovered by author A.A. Milne’s delighted son Christopher. Winnie inspired Milne to write the children’s stories for his child.His son, Christopher Robin, added the Pooh.

Wawa's history is rich in mining, forestry, and the fur trade. Mining attempts began as early as the late 1660s.

William Teddy discovered gold on Wawa Lake in 1897. The population of Wawa village quickly grew with 1,700 claims staked in 1898. However, most gold production stopped by 1906. Beginning in 1914 with the completion of the Algoma Central Railway, gold production commenced again from 22 prospects.

In 1898, the town site at what is now called "the Mission" was registered as "Michipicoten City." In 1899, Wawa was surveyed and plotted as a town and registered as Wawa City. In the latter half of the 1950s, the town's name was temporarily changed to Jamestown in honour of Sir James Hamet Dunn, but it was later returned to Wawa at the request of the community's residents.

Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet (October 29, 1874 – January 1, 1956) was a Canadian financier and industrialist during the first half of the 20th century. He is recognized chiefly for his 1935 rescue and subsequent 20-year presidency and proprietorship of Algoma Steel.

Click on the link above to learn more about Dunn, quite a fascinating piece of Camadian history.

 While Wawa was bustling with mining and forestry jobs back in 1960 when the first goose was first put up to welcome highway travellers, it has shrunk to 2,900 people since then and tourism is what keeps the town going.

The famous Wawa Goose Monument was replaced for Canada's 150th anniversary this year…a giant 4 ton statue of the Canadian Goose which proudly stands at the entrance to the town. In fact, it’s reported to be the most photographed landmark in North America.

A few of the painted Muskoka chairs on the deck. I know, Americans called them Adirondacks but we call them Muskoka, after our famous cottage country.

There were a few more geese in town.

Pancake Bay was the final location of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in a fierce November storm in 1975. Gordon Lightfoot sings about the sinking.

Finally ready to put our feet up in Sault Ste. Marie.

Sault Ste. Marie ("Soo Saint Marie") is a city on the St. Marys River, close to the US-Canada border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.

To the south, across the river, is the United States and the city of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River.

Day 1 - Toronto to Chesterton IN
Day 2 - Chesterton IN to Rochester MN
Day 3 - Rochester MN to Lincoln NB
Day 4 - Lincoln NB to Denver CO
Weekly recap with more photos
Day 5 - Denver CO to Rapid City SD
The Curtis Hotel Denver CO funky themed floors
Day 6 - Rapid City SD Mount Rushmore City of Presidents
Day 7 - Rapid City SD to Billings MT Crazy Horse and Little Big Horn
Day 8 - Billings MT to Driggs ID
Day 9 - Jackson Hole WY and Grand Teton NP
Day 10 - Yellowstone National Park
Day 11 - Driggs ID to Spokane WA
Weekly Recap
Day 12 - Spokane WA to Port Angeles WA
Day 13 - Port Angeles WA to Victoria BC
Day 14 - Victoria BC
Day 15 - Victoria BC to Olympia WA
Weekly Recap
Day 16 - Olympia WA to Vancouver BC
Day 17 - Vancouver BC to Kamloops BC
Day 18 - Kamloops BC to Jasper AB
Day 19 Jasper AB to Edmonton AB
Day 20 - Edmonton AB to Medicine Hat AB
Day 21 - Medicine Hat AB to Regina SK
Day 22 - Regina SK to Brandon MB
Day 23 - Brandon MB to Winnipeg MB
Day 24 - Winnipeg MB to Dryden ON
Weekly Recap
Day 25 - Dryden ON to Nipigon ON