The Avro Arrow A Picture History

This is An Amazing Story!

Many remember the disappointment and shock at the cancellation of the Canadian Avro.  This is the story.  125 pages of photos and text. $9.95.  An exceptional book.

~ Lawrence Miller, Local Author, Lorimer, 2011. 

"When the magnificent new Avro Arrow fighter jet thundered into the sky over Malton, Ontario on a cold March morning in 1958, Canada became a world leader in the aviation industry.  Less than a year later, the Arrow project was dead.  What happened?

The story of the Avro Arrow has been told, retold, and analyzed so often it is fading into myth.  This book brings the Arrow, and the people who made it, back to life through over 100 historical images cataloguing every step of the Arrow's development ~ and its shocking demise."

Indian Summer

by Wilfred Campbell

Along the line of smoky hills

The crimson forest stands,

And all the day the blue jay calls

Throughout the autumn lands.

Now by the brook the maple leans

With all his glory spread,

And all the sumachs on the hills

Have turned their green to red.

Now by great marshes wrapt in mist,

Or past some river's mouth,

Throughout the long, still autumn day

Wild birds are flying south.

~ Wilfred Campbell (1860 - 1918) Canadian, known as a Confederation Poet.

We are grateful to Laurie Miller, author of The Avro Arrow A Picture History for drawing to our attention this beautiful poem by Canadian poet, Wilfred Campbell.

Giller Prize Shortlist ~

Will Ferguson ~ 419
Alix Ohlin ~ Inside
Nancy Richler ~ The Imposter Bride
Kim Thuy ~ Ru
Russel Wangersky ~ Whirl Away

www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca


A gala and the winner announcement will be held on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.  The Scotia Bank Giller Prize Gala will air on CBC at 9:00 p.m.
The prize recognizes excellence in Canadian Fiction ~ long format or short stories.

In a letter from John Keats* ~
"In Poetry I have a few Axioms, and you will see how far I am from their Centre.  [referring to his poem endymion] 1st. I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity ~ it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance.

~ 2nd. Its touches of Beauty should never be half way ther[e] by making the reader breathless instead of content:  the rise, the progress, the setting of imagery should like the Sun come natural to him ~ shine over him and set soberly although in magnificence leaving him in the Luxury of twilight ~ but it is easier to think what Poetry should be than to write it ~ and this leads me on to another axiom.  That if Poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.  However it may be with me I cannot help looking into new countries with 'O for a Muse of fire to ascend!' ~  If Endymion serves me as a Pioneer perhaps I ought to be content."

John Keats by Wm. Hilton.  National Portrait Gallery, London**

* 27 February, 1818, to John Taylor.  John Keats, English Romantic Poet (1795 - 1821)
** Wikipedia

~ Selected Poems and Letters by John Keats, Edited by Douglas Bush, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959

PUT YOUR HEART ON PAPER ~ STAYING CONNECTED IN A LOOSE-ENDS WORLD *
by Henriette Anne Klauser

"It only takes a few seconds to scratch out a message of care, yet such a simple act can have a long-lasting effect.  A friend who saved a note her dad sent her told me, 'It's like a conversation I can have over and over with him. It continues to give me solace and support fifteen years after his death...  He did not say anything more than 'you're the greatest.' "

*Bantam Books, 1995

In Memory of Our Parents,  Reta and Herb Melick
Married 25 September 1943, East Seneca, Haldimand, ON

Reta L.B. Turnbull (28 September, 1921 ~ 19 September, 2002)
C. Herbert Melick (7 August, 1920 ~ 9 September, 2005)



Her Majesty's Royal Chapel

 Mohawk Chapel Brantford ~ Open Wednesday through Sunday 10:00 - 5:00 until October 28

Approach from The Grand River



2012 Addition of Accessible Entrance

 

Joseph Brant's Vault

 www.mohawkchapel.ca

Photos:  lbwalker

"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"