THE SUN'S WOOING

The sun just touched the morning ;
     The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.

She felt herself supremer, ~
A raised, ethereal thing ;
Henceforth for her what holiday !
Meanwhile, her wheeling king

Trailed slow along the orchards
His haughty, spangled hems,
Leaving a new necessity, ~
The want of diadems !

The morning fluttered, staggered,
Felt feebly for her crown, ~
Her unanointed forehead
Henceforth her only one.

~ Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems of ED, Chatham River Press, 1993.

Note:  The Neat L'l Bookshop opens 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to Saturday.  5:00 p.m. closing except for Saturdays when we close at 3:00.  "Stop in, stay a while, read a book.  Coffee pot's always on..."

The Grand River York

Goods Passing Through the Navigation

Goods for which the company recorded the quantities for toll purposes included:

Wheat (bushels), Flour (barrels), Pork (barrels), Whiskey & Beer (barrels), Salt (barrels), Plaster of Paris (tons), Sq. Pine & Sq. Oak (Cu. Ft.), Saw Logs ~ Pine & Oak (number), Sawn Lumber (feet), Staves (Pipe & West India - number).

Ashes, Potatoes, Turnips, Pig Iron, Stone, Castings,
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Firkins, Small Casks, Packages, Lime, Charcoal, Fire Wood (per cord), Shingles.

Vessels for which there were set rates of toll:

Steamboats, Barges, Scows, Boats, &  Passenger tolls.  Any canoe with a cargo, using the Navigation for domestic or agricultural purposes, passed free of Tolls -- but the cargo was subject to the Toll.

~ Bruce Emerson Hill, The Grand River Navigation Company, Brant Historical Society. 1994.

The Grand River Navigation Company

During the early 1800s, the Grand River connected the Welland Canal at Dunnville with the town of Brantford, a distance of about 60 miles.  Remnants of a succession of dams and locks remain.  While walking or navigating the river, visitors can discover these dams and locks between Indiana and Oneida, a distance of approximately nine miles.  Additional locks appear at Bunnell's Landing near Brantford.  The whole ascent gained by the locks was 33 feet.


P. 122 The Grand River Navigation Company, Bruce Emerson Hill, 1994.

Tomorrow:  Commerce on The Grand

Smile for Today ~

On the Grand the Morning Sun...

Krista & Scott ~ Twisted Lemon Cayuga

(Elizabeth & Rebecca w/Grandma, courtesy of Vavoom Photography.)

Fisherville ON  May 26, 2013 lbw

Grand River Banks Cayuga

Love is the passionate and abiding desire
on the part of two or more people
to produce together conditions under which,
each can be and spontaneously express his real self; to produce together
an intellectual soil and an emotional climate
in which each can flourish,
far superior to what either could achieve alone.

~ Author unknown

Congratulations to a special couple today on their wedding day.  Krista and Scott, wishing you all the best always.

Cayuga-on-The-Grand




Ed & Barb Thomson Your Hosts ~ York on the Grand

 Banners and Posters for The Day of 1000 Canoes are appearing around the village and in the media.  The festival on the Grand River coincides with National Paddling Week, June 16 to 23rd.

www.1000canoes.com   To register or participate in the various events along the river.