Riverbank Caledonia

On Saturday, June 22, paddlers will take to the Grand River for Haldimand's Third "Day of 1000 Canoes."  The event coincides with National Paddling Week, June 16 to June 23.





Popular Trail Along the Grand

 (Photos:  The Grand River below Caledonia, May 6, 2013 lbw.)

 www.1000canoes.com

Pierre Berton Signing Books

Canadian Author Pierre Berton once said, "A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe."

In 2007 the CBC held a nation-wide debate to discover what Canadians viewed as the Seven Wonders of Canada.  After much debate and a vote, the canoe was declared one of the Seven Wonders.  In celebration, the Canadian Canoe Museum declared a National Canoe Day.
This year the celebration continues.  The week of Saturday, June 15 to Sunday, June 23 is National Paddling Week.  In Haldimand County the Third Annual Day of 1000 Canoes on the Grand River will take place on Saturday, June 22.

(Photo: Collection lbwalker.  The late Dr. Alex Turnbull of East Seneca getting Pierre Berton to sign a copy of his book, Vimy.  Dr. Turnbull served overseas as a physician during the war.)

www.canoemuseum.ca

RECONCILIATION

Some may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes
     blind
With lightning you went from me, and I could find
Nothing to make a song about but kings,
Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things
That were like memories of you ~ but now
We'll out, for the world lives as long ago;
And while we're in our laughing, weeping fit,
Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.
But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.

~ W. B. Yeats (June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939) Irish poet and Senator, founded Abbey Theatre.
First Irishman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, 1923, honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."