This week has been a tough week for Canada, not because of COVID but because of the horrific discovery of 215 bodies of children in an unmarked and undocumented burial site near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School...a discovery that reflects a dark and painful chapter in our country’s history. I can’t imagine the grief and pain that the families and communities of these children are feeling. This residential school for Indigenous children was only one of 139 that operated in Canada between 1831 and 1996. As a country we have a lot of work ahead of us!
Week 64 of pandemic life is ending on a very hot note…it’s been over 30 degrees for the past three days with a couple more still to come according to the forecast. My daily walks took me to different locations this week - sometimes city streets, sometimes into the ravine systems, and because of the weather, a couple of times down to the waterfront.
I was walking in a new part of the city today and saw this - hilarious!!
And then it got even funnier!!
The Queen Elizabeth Way Monument - the QEW was the first controlled-access highway in Canada.
Finally, someone who agrees that when you have the right branch it needs a swing!
A very large duck family
Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion has been a landmark on Toronto’s waterfront since it opened in 1922. And then, after two unseasonably cold summers, a heated outdoor pool, known as the “Sunnyside Tank”, opened in 1925. With a capacity for 2000 swimmers, it was reputed to be one of the largest outdoor pools in the world.
The lakeside façade features two central towers with terraces on each side, and a smaller tower at each end.
Life is quiet on the beach during a stay-at-home order!
A memorial to the refugees of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Goslings are getting bigger!
A monument to Casimir Gzowski, a pioneer engineer in the building of railways in Canada.
I have no idea when this tree was cut down, but it’s determined to grow again!
Something ‘funny’ about this sign…I can’t believe it was made this way.
They’re a long way below ground, hanging on the edge of this scaffolding.
A little, lost stuffie…
Windle House, built in 1897
The piece of public art is a solid 6 tonne piece of grey granite, quarried in South Africa and carved in Québec.
Can’t wait until the sign is completely covered…and then there’s an accident…
Sir Frederick Grant Banting - a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter and Nobel laureate, noted as the co-discovered of insulin. He and his wife are buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
For a change of scenery, I will take a book and a blanket and head to my local park. Lying down, looking up at the clouds…
This tight little bud (above) - becomes this beautiful, multi-layered flower (below).
Wilket Creek is a river, just under 4 kms long, that feeds into the Don River.
‘OK’, said the city planning engineer, ‘let’s end the sidewalk here’…???
I don’t know if this is going to work if Mother Nature doesn’t provide, but it's pretty interesting.
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