1 November 2015 by Admin in Blog, Image Credits Comments Off on PHOTOlog | a fall drive ONTARIO
A red brick Ontario Gothic farmhouse at Leaskdale. The “wing” with the cornice-returns may be the earliest-built. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October 2015
The Thomas Foster memorial, a Byzantine-style crypt built by a former Toronto mayor in 1935. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October 2015
ONTARIO County | Scott Township
30 November 2014 by Admin in Blog, Image Credits Comments Off on PHOTOlog | contested yet immoveable border WELLAND
Commemorative banner over the commercial strip Lundy’s Lane at Drummond Hill, the site of the 1814 Battle. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, November 2014
The John Thompson house, built 1825 as the center of a large farm estate (Lot 108), remains cozy by virtue of its 3-foot-thick stone walls. 4891 Portage Road, Niagara Falls. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, February 2011
WELLAND County | Stamford Township
4 November 2014 by Admin in Blog, Image Credits Comments Off on PHOTOlog | east-west colonization road MUSKOKA
Autumn splendour on the Fraserburg Road. Worth writing home about? Photo credit: Lisa Rance, October 2014
The western terminus of the Peterson Colonization Road near Muskoka Falls at Bracebridge, constructed starting 1858 and connecting with the Buckhorn Road due east to the Opeongo Road at Brudenell in Renfrew County. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, September, 2014
MUSKOKA District | Draper Township
20 September 2014 by Admin in Blog, Image Credits Comments Off on PHOTOlog | gateway to the north MUSKOKA
Commemorating the first steps into the “District”, with the enticement of free land grants in the “back townships”. Photo credit, Lisa Rance, September 2014
Kilworthy General Store, derelict, although hardly an abandoned community today. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, July 2013
MUSKOKA District | Morrison Township
30 July 2014 by Admin in Blog, Image Credits Comments Off on PHOTOlog | local militia re-enactment WELLAND
Bi-Centennial re-enactment of the War of 1812 Battle of Chippawa, Niagara Parkway. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, July 2014
Many times occupied, but never burnt, the 1805 Strickler-Danner House is now a bed and breakfast. 12549 Niagara Parkway. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, February 2012
WELLAND County | Willoughby Township
11 November 2011 by Admin in Blog, Image Credits Comments Off on PHOTOlog | war memorial windows GREY
European medieval glass Memorial windows in Christ Church, Meaford. The windows were fashioned from shards collected by the church’s chaplain in the Second World War. Photo credit: Lisa Rance, September 2011.
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