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| Her Majesty's Royal Chapel |
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| Approach from The Grand River |
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| 2012 Addition of Accessible Entrance |
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| Joseph Brant's Vault |
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
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Annie" Button>Melick>Lounsbury>Trimble," when spoken quickly is a familiar childhood rhyme ~ as familiar as Hickory, Dickory, Dock! Annie Button was our Great Grandmother and when Great Grandfather died, Grandma married two more times! Growing up we often recited dear Annie's five names.
Annie" Button>Melick>Lounsbury>Trimble," when spoken quickly is a familiar childhood rhyme ~ as familiar as Hickory, Dickory, Dock! Annie Button was our Great Grandmother and when Great Grandfather died, Grandma married two more times! Growing up we often recited dear Annie's five names.Her tombstone is in the Melick Cemetery in Canborough, along with Great Grandfather who died twenty-four years earlier.
Perhaps part of the intrigue was the unfortunate error on Annie's tombstone. The engraver spelt her name PUTTON instead of BUTTON. Until he passed away in July, 2010, Annie's Grandson, Earl Melick, kept the "B" prominently hand-painted. It falls to our generation to ensure that Annie>Button>Melick>Lounsbury>Trimble's name appears correctly on her tombstone.
A caution for genealogists. "Etched in stone?" Not always! Click on photo for larger image. Note, handwritten "B"
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Home and Friends
Oh, there's a power to make each hour
As sweet as heaven designed it;
Nor need we roam to bring it home,
Though few there be that find it.
We seek too high for things close by
And lose what nature found us,
For life hath here no friends so dear
As home and friends around us.
We oft destroy the present joy
For future hopes and praise them
While flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
If we'd but stoop to raise them.
For things afar still sweeter are
When youth's bright spell hath
bound us,
But soon we're taught the earth
hath naught
Like home and friends around us.
~ Author Unknown
Oh, there's a power to make each hour
As sweet as heaven designed it;
Nor need we roam to bring it home,
Though few there be that find it.
We seek too high for things close by
And lose what nature found us,
For life hath here no friends so dear
As home and friends around us.
We oft destroy the present joy
For future hopes and praise them
While flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
If we'd but stoop to raise them.
For things afar still sweeter are
When youth's bright spell hath
bound us,
But soon we're taught the earth
hath naught
Like home and friends around us.
~ Author Unknown
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Bell Homestead ~
"So much of the practical development of the telephone has been in the United States that I think the fact that the telephone was invented in Canada should be more widely known than it is ~ at least in the United States." *
~ Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) inventor.
Brian, our tour guide today, ardently describes the scientific breakthrough that led to the invention of the telephone and points out the path to the banks of the Grand River where Alexander sat in a spot he called his "dreaming place." (Thank you, Brian.)
Visit: www.bellhomestead.ca for information and photographs.
* Address, "The Substance of My Latest Research," Empire Club of Canada, Toronto, 1 Nov. 1917.
~ Famous Lasting Words, Great Canadian Quotations, John Robert Colombo, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 2000.
Photos: lbwalker
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| Bell Homestead National Historic Site, Brantford, ON |
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| Brian |
"So much of the practical development of the telephone has been in the United States that I think the fact that the telephone was invented in Canada should be more widely known than it is ~ at least in the United States." *
~ Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) inventor.
Brian, our tour guide today, ardently describes the scientific breakthrough that led to the invention of the telephone and points out the path to the banks of the Grand River where Alexander sat in a spot he called his "dreaming place." (Thank you, Brian.)
* Address, "The Substance of My Latest Research," Empire Club of Canada, Toronto, 1 Nov. 1917.
~ Famous Lasting Words, Great Canadian Quotations, John Robert Colombo, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 2000.
Photos: lbwalker
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| Photos: lbwalker |
About Animals ~
"...they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them long and long,
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
~ Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) American poet, journalist. Leaves of Grass, 1855, "Song of Myself."
"...they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them long and long,
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
~ Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) American poet, journalist. Leaves of Grass, 1855, "Song of Myself."
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