Those were Lake Louise, Mont Tremblant, Quebec City and the Sandbanks near the Bay of Quinte.
This pic is near my hometown, where hamburger and mrs. hamburger still live.
ya know Thousand Islands Dressing and Waldorf Salad?
this is where they came from
Quote:Boldt Castle was to be more than a grand dream. It was to be a physical - and enduring - testament of Boldt's adoration for his wife, Louise.
As millionaire proprietor of the world-famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, money was no object to Boldt, who set out to build a full-size Rhineland castle on an island he purchased from E.K. Hart, a New York congressman.
Beginning in 1900, Boldt's family spent four summers on the island while as many as 300 stonemasons, carpenters and artists worked.
The plans included an indoor pool, 16 fireplaces, a power house, a drawbridge, Italian gardens, a swan pond, a three-story dovecote, a Roman archway that was to be the formal entry for launches delivering guests to the island, and service tunnels equipped with trolleys.
The Alster Tower, where the family lived those summers during construction, was the first building constructed. Also called the Playhouse, it was to contain a billiard room, a dance hall, library, bedrooms, kitchen and a bowling alley in the basement.
In 1904, tragedy struck when Louise died suddenly from tuberculosis. Boldt telegrammed the island and ordered an immediate halt to construction. Seventy years later unopened packages of tiles and other building materials still remained.
A brokenhearted Boldt could not imagine his dream castle without his beloved Louise. He never finished it, and he never returned to Heart Island.
pueo, Don't write off Canada, Canada, and/or Canada. It's really nice during the summer and fall. When my wife and I did the trans-Canada train tour last August, the weather was about perfect for a visit. Canada has so many different personalities for the visitor, that writing it off would be a big mistake.
In the winter, maybe. But during the summer months, it's really nice and beautiful.
Not during the summer. There are several deserts in canada, vineyards with world class vintages sprinkled from sea to shining sea, snorkeling, surfing, boating...........
I could go on.
During the Worlds 2001, Track and Feild marathon here two years ago africans were passing out from heat exhaustion. Africans!!!
it's getting down to 74 degrees here at night. to me that's cold.
Yeah, that's one of the great things about Canadia . . . i break out in a sweat whenever the temperature goes over 60 degrees Fluerenhagger . . .
The difference is that Canadians have been disarmed by their government and their own ignorance.
Excuse me Setanta, but with 1 person per square mile, or less, no way I'd be out there unarmed. You'd have to be a fool.
What is your opposition to firearm ownership by law abiding citizens? In every case where we've attempted to take away guns from citizens the crime rates have gone up. Give the guns back and they go down. Explain.
I have spend a great deal of time in the northern part of the U.S. and it's pretty sparse. But get up into rural Canada and there's nothing there but a bunch of drunks scattered about the shield. These are not necessarily friendly people. I'm assuming you probably spend most of your time in a more urban setting.
I'm under no obligation to explain your partisan slant on questionable statistics--the known leading cause of cancer in laboratory animals. Your comment about the population density of Canada is misleading. Of the roughly 10,000,000 square kilometers of the nation, about 75% is uninhabited altogether. The majority of the population clusters along the US border. Vancouver is about the size of Cleveland; Toronto, in which 10% of the nation's population lives, is about the size of Chicago. If you live in Canada, and the surrounding populations density is 1 per square mile, you have chosen an isolated spot. Especially now that the Inuit have largely abandoned nomadic habits, and the Slave nation and the Athabaskan nation have moved into villages, population density figures simply reflect how much "empty" land there is there. Population density as a justification for gun ownership is ludicrous, to my mind, with regard to any nation.
Really?
I have a cabin in Michigan that is miles from anywhere. My nearest neighbor is on the other side of a river. Going in there I have to take a 2-track about 1/2 mile off the main road.
Now, what if I stumble into someone that isn't supposed to be there? Or what if someone unwanted comes to visit? Just exactly what am I supposed to do? Nicely ask them to leave?
Depends on the level of threat. I'm not saying you should not have your bang-bang toys, i've just reacted to what i see as your ridiculous condemnation of Canada because they have different fire arm laws. It is their right, you know, to legislate as they see fit.
I do not have any "bang bang toys". Anybody who treats a gun like a toy deserves to be shot.
No one deserves to be shot, unless there is a clear-cut case of self-defense. If you shoot someone dead who has entered your home, with what can reasonably be characterized as violent intent, you have a good case for self-defense, whether you live in the Bronx among millions, or miles from anyone in the deep woods south of Christmas, Michigan. Shoot someone dead in your back yard, whether it's in St. Louis or somewhere deep in the Brooks Range in Alaska, and you'll play hell avoiding at the least a charge of manslaughter. Population density as a justification for gun ownership is a non-starter.
