I've written about Memorial Hall before. Here are a couple more of the stained glass panels. Not only did Sir John A. lay in state in the room, but it is Canada's greatest testimony in art to the war dead of 1914 to 1918. With the advent the Red Ensign Bloggers, I want to do a better job providing …

Rooting around packing to go, I found my old 80 buch 1994 Canadian Tire special binoculars. I help them up to the window and got this photo of the Collins Bay Pen. Opening up MS Paint I got the detail in the lower frame cutting and pasting off of the 3.2 MB photo. Has this solved my need for 75 …

So the ethernet cable healed itself. Funny that the high-speed died at 8:08  •  am Thursday and healed itself late Friday afternoon. Sounds like scheduled  •  maintenance to me. "Admit nothing" however is the mantra of the tech gods.  •  All has fallen back into place and I can return to the …

I had noticed these around City Hall, the coats of arms which over time have sat in council chambers. I noticed the third from the left first as the shield in the centre only has symbols for four provinces - Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick - so it must be from 1867 to 1871 when …

What was the conversation like before this one near Bagot and Williams was built?  •  “Mrs: Jim, I want a nice normal house.  •  Mr: Honey, I want to live in a rocket...”

While I am on the topic of nice heritage signs, here is a favorite from the corner of Wellington and Barrack Streets in Kingston. I had no idea that Canada's heritage of booze and figure skating were so closely tied. Goes to show you. Meagher's now appears to be but a brand of liqueurs in the line …

Above the marquee, Princess Street, Kingston.

I noticed this building off Princess the other day. I especially like the twisty thing on the top of the facade. We need more buildings with twisty things on top. I know, for example, that pineapples in this sort of position mean hospitality - Memorial Hall has one over the door. So what the heck …

Kingston is one of the few spots in Canada where war has taken place and one of the very few where it was by the navy. In  •  November 1812, early on in the War of 1812, the small British fleet here was attractive enough to draw the  •  small American fleet into battle and set up a naval blockade …