Weekend Roundup

  Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveller

1. Starts with "E"
2. A Favorite
3.EARLY - chosen by Tom

Starts with E (BIGGEST/SMALLEST/LONGEST/SHORTEST)

ELEPHANT Jumbo, in St. Thomas, ON

FAVOURITE

EAGLE ESPLANADE Toronto

EARLY

Toronto EARLY 1990s.

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge Roads: country, freeways, streets



Country - somewhere in Nova Scotia, one of John's favourite photos!

Highway - somewhere in Australia, the Outback.

Street Ho Chi Minh Vietnam

Sepia Saturday

Sepia Saturday

Based on the non-prompt - Without a shadow of a doubt you are on your own with this one, after all, we Sepians are adults and not children. The powers that be (Marilyn and me) have decided that you should be left looking at the picture until you come up with your own interpretation.


Summer 1990 - Montreal Quebec


My cousin's baby shower. That is my maternal grandfather, click here to see him in 1930, some sixty years later, surrounded by some of his great grandchildren. My cousins' children, O'Shea and Swift.

Grandfather was Tom Swift, born in 1904 in Dublin Ireland. he appears on the 1911 census.

I found them in 1912 living in the same house. This is an image of the original 1908-1915 electoral rolls from the Dublin City Archives.

Interesting that his father's name is spelt (UK) or spelled (US) as Swifte. It shows that they lived in a house and shop.

Today it is a funeral house but it is easy to imagine how it would have looked in 1912. It is the small white building in the middle.

Oh the PLACES I've Been!

The Tablescaper dropped by and invited me to post at her weekly meme Oh, the PLACES I've been!

Her rules are:
You must be a FOLLOWER for The Tablescaper. (done)
Your post must be about a PLACE.
Your post must contain a link to The Tablescaper.
It may be your photos from a fantastic trip abroad…
…or maybe just your favorite shop around the corner from where you live.

August 1990 - Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

William Edward deGarthe was born in Helsinki, Finland. He emigrated to Canada in 1926, moved to Halifax in 1945, and eventually settled permanently in the beautiful village of Peggy’s Cove in 1955. He was a painter and sculptor, his artistic work devoted to maritime subjects after his move to Peggy’s Cove. His “Fisherman’s Monument” was sculpted out of a 100 foot granite face of rock below his home. It depicts thirty-two fishermen and their wives and children enveloped in the wings of a guardian angel. The sculpture and his home (now a museum to his work) were donated to the province of Nova Scotia after his death.

inSPIREd Sunday

Sally hosts inSPIREd Sunday!

August 1990 - Souris, PEI

Source for the following information:
Every Saturday afternoon during the summer months less than a dozen Anglicans gather in St. Alban's Anglican Church in Souris for services. This Saturday the services were led by Richard Ball, a lay minister. The church, erected in 1980 to serve approximately 70 parishioners  sits near site of the original church adjacent to Church Street in the town and close to the edge of a cliff bordering Colville Bay. The first church was built in 1895 under the leadership of Rev. E.T. Woollard. Before that, servces were held in a private home. It was closed in 1919 and later demolished. The land was sold for $300 together with part of the churchyard after the Second World War.

Monday Mural

This was taken in Toronto on Yonge St. back in 1989 or 1990. It is a scanned copy. I remember it to this day as the first piece of street art that I noticed.