Showing posts with label Quebec. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quebec. Show all posts

Thursday, December 25, 2025

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas (On skates)


 

Written on the back, "Jan 15, 71St Therese, Quebec.  Darlene & friend of Darlene, Jo-anne & Daddy."  Well, I guess a white January rather than a white Christmas.  Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, is a suburb of Montreal, population 26,533 as of the 2021 census.  It's also the snowblower capital of the world.  Manufacturing, not ownership.  Are they skating on the local hockey rink?  

Monday, October 29, 2012

Road Trip!


I hate driving in cities, but I love road trips, and this picture looks to have been from a great one.  I put my best magnifying glass on the cars license plate and it's from Pennsylvania in 1928.  And where did she go; Watkins Glen in New York, on Seneca lake in the finger lakes district.  Au Sable, New York on the Au Sable River, near Lake Champlain.  And on Lake Champlain, Rouses Point, a mile south of the Canadian border and during prohibition a great place to meet alcohol smugglers from Canada.  And of course, everyone should know about Montreal and Toronto.  I imagine this lady and her travelling companion(s) circled Lake Ontario, returning through Niagara Falls.  So, Watkins Glen State Park, the Adirondacks, beautiful lakes, smuggled Canadian whiskey,  French speakers, and shredded wheat.  (Shredded wheat is made in Niagara Falls, New York.)  And with no four lane highways, and probably more than a few miles on dirt routes, it must have taken at least a month.  Now that's a trip.