Kingston - Lake Ontario
Wolfe Island Turbine
611 Truck Stop Kingston Ontario
Hues Of Red
Garden Island
1000 island cruise boat tour- view the many red topped forts
Kingston Panorama
Ice outside Morris Hall
142 Montreal
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School bus
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33 Elmwood Street
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Free community garden plots off MacDonnell St. Some plots look as it their "owners" haven't weeded in a while. Photo taken Aug. 2013.
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The Kings' Crossing Outlet Centre in Kingston, Ontario. View is looking north toward the Highway 401. Photo taken on a blazing hot day, Aug. 2013.
Park near An Clachan, Kingston, Canada
Sunrise east of Kingston
Rideau Trail board walk, The trail goes from Kingston to Ottawa.
Kingston Mills is a quiet tranquil setting, then all of a sudden..... . This bridge serves CNR and VIA trains from Quebec City to Windsor. It was built as part of the Grand Trunk Railway, it reached from Montreal to Kingston in 1855, Sarnia 1857. It connected Portland Maine to Chicago in 1859, it became the largest railway in the world in 1867 with 2,055 km. tracks. This section was double tracked by 1903. The original bridge was open steel truss frame. It became part of CNR in 1923.
Looking west along the former Wolfe Island Canal built in 1852 for barges and steamers between Cape Vincent and Kingston. It was used until 1932 for small boats. Travel around the west end of Wolfe Island is treacherous due to many sholes and huge waves on Lake Ontario. John A. McDonald who later became Canada's first Prime Minister was one of it's directors. It was incorporated as the Wolfe Island Canal and Railway Co..
Brewery, possibly 200 years old. This building was one of three on the site forming a brewery that was operating in 1878. There was one licensed brewery for every 65 citizens in the area at that time. Today, we call them micro-breweries.
Some of the 50 or more deer in this herd.
That was a lot of plowing for a dead end road. The snow banks are 3 m. high, and twice as wide.
Dry stone fence, Celtic style. They are very popular in Great Britain, but are built here only for style here. This one is particularly well crafted.
Ice storm Dec. 24 2013. It left 3/4 million people without power and heat for many days, mostly in the Toronto area. The air at ground level was - 5 C with a fine rain from warmer air above. It super cools ( does not freeze at temperatures below freezing) but instantly freezes when it hits any object.
Facinating geology. (1) Nearly vertical layers of soft billion year old gneiss erroded on top. (2) river boulders above the gneiss, and below limestone. (3) 470 million year old limestone is nearly level, indicating little tilting since then. (4) Talus-slope boulder layer sheltered from glacial action by 5. (5) Hard quartzite rock forms the hill to the north (left), protcting loose and softer rock on the south side (right) from glaciers.
Big snow drifts on highway 95. This was as much as 2.5 m. thick. It was from snow drifting off the fields which were almost bare (see the right side past the drifts). It has been much higher other years.
Turn your Knob
Wind Turbines, Wolfe island, ON.
Robert Wallace Drive at Miles Ave (Polson Park)
Picnic Area - Wolfe Island
ePEARL Lab, Walter Light Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Thousand Islands sunset, Kingston
Storm clouds clear in Kingston harbour. The Sorlandet waits at anchor before proceeding to Toronto for the tall ship tour of the Great lakes for 2013. Double click on the picture to enlarge the ship.
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Close up of Cathcart Redoubt on Cedar Island.
Stone house built in 1850. Simple symetrical design. The chimney located directly over a window indicates that the house was heated with iron box stoves and stove pipes which were more efficient than fire places. The lack of a front lawn is very typical of that era, large back yards held the stables, fire wood, out-house and perhaps a shallow well. Rain water was kept in a basement cistern. Johnny Fay of The Tragically Hip band grew up here.
Inside this clapboard house, is a log house probably built close to 1800 and predates the village of Barriefield.
Town houses along the waterfront. Built in 1841 and are known as Hales Cottages. Kingston did not have municipal water and sewer until 1850, but these people had easy access to Lake Ontario for water. Sewage went straight into the lake too. You had to put on your heavy coat and boots to use the out house in the winter, or regularly empty the chamber pot behind the house. It wasn't just cold out there, it was dark and spooky too.
Electrical generating station at Kingston Mills. Owned by Fortis Properties. There is a 45 ft. ( 14 m.) vertical water drop producing 2.4 MW of power, enough for 2,400 1,000 watt heaters or 3,200 hp, but it is very seasonal. A single large diesel locomotive has as much power output.
Magnificient stone house. note the large porch on the left side. Built about 1845. Imagine heating it with hand cut wood 160 years ago. By 1900 there were few trees left in the area. Coal was not available before 1871. Coal gas first appeared in 1847 to light streets, but it would have taken years for piping it to here. Oil lamps provided lighting for a long time.
Sir John A. Macdonald Monument
Beavers are now invading urban areas causing flooding. They blocked a culvert flooding this part of the Rideau Trail.
Princess of Wales Own Regiment armories. The regiment was founded in 1863 and a military museum is housed there now.
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