or in my case the crampons. We are due for a 26 degree drop in temperatures today, should be fun.
I have been meaning to mention the new Enviro Canada web page; it is clean, crisp, interactive and easy to navigate, much better than the old one.
I found this video over at CartwrightLab blog, it is a little piece done by the Grand River keepers, and you get a little bit of an idea of what the river [river of many names] is like at the falls. I have been there in summer, very impressive, with some vision that area could be one hell of a tourist attraction once the TLH is upgraded to an acceptable national standard. Hat tip to LLoyd for posting it.
In comments oldbrooktrout mentioned the wooden water pipes of yore. I remember seeing remnants of them in my early years here, [or maybe they were the wooden drainage pipes]. Not in use but they would turn up here and there when digging was taking place, plus some of the elders would tell stories about them.
There was at that time what was left of the summer dam up between where the new high school is and the Moravian Manse. Filling that area in for the school without proper drainage was one of the issues that led to millions of dollars of remedial work after the school was finished.
The town infrastructure has come a long way in the intervening years.
One thing I feel nostalgic about is the wooden bridges that used to straddle the brooks just outside the then town boundary. They added character and similar structures could be utilized today over some areas just outside today’s boundaries. Then again progress some times has an ugly head.
I have been meaning to mention the new Enviro Canada web page; it is clean, crisp, interactive and easy to navigate, much better than the old one.
I found this video over at CartwrightLab blog, it is a little piece done by the Grand River keepers, and you get a little bit of an idea of what the river [river of many names] is like at the falls. I have been there in summer, very impressive, with some vision that area could be one hell of a tourist attraction once the TLH is upgraded to an acceptable national standard. Hat tip to LLoyd for posting it.
In comments oldbrooktrout mentioned the wooden water pipes of yore. I remember seeing remnants of them in my early years here, [or maybe they were the wooden drainage pipes]. Not in use but they would turn up here and there when digging was taking place, plus some of the elders would tell stories about them.
There was at that time what was left of the summer dam up between where the new high school is and the Moravian Manse. Filling that area in for the school without proper drainage was one of the issues that led to millions of dollars of remedial work after the school was finished.
The town infrastructure has come a long way in the intervening years.
One thing I feel nostalgic about is the wooden bridges that used to straddle the brooks just outside the then town boundary. They added character and similar structures could be utilized today over some areas just outside today’s boundaries. Then again progress some times has an ugly head.
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