La Tragédie du Pont

Linda added a plaque to her collection. This one is on the river in Granby, QC.

The plaque recounts what happened on the 21st of April 1869, when eleven people, children and parents,  lost their lives when the ice they were watching on Lac Boivin went out over the dam and took out the bridge on which they were standing.

La Tragédie du Pont

A la mémoire des onze personnes qui ont perdu la vie lorsque le pont sur lequel elles s'étaient attardées pour voir passer les glaces fut emporté par la crue de la rivière Yamaska le 21 avril 1869.

Patrick Hackett (59 ans), premier maire de Granby

Eliza Jane Sargent (49 ans), épouse de S.H.C. Miner

Cora G, Anna Miner (6 ans), fille de S.H.C. Miner

Eliza Harrington Park (68 ans), mère d'Eliza Jane Sargent

Amanda M. Blake (35 ans), épouse de John B Bradford

Charles Arthur Bradford (9 ans), fils de John Bradford

Maria Augusta Bradford (8 ans), fille de John Bradford

Sarah E. Harvey (29 ans), soèur de Susan A. Harvey

Edward R.C. Gilmour (50 ans), marchand

Edward R. Gilmour (14 ans), fils d'Edward R.C. Gilmour

Granby

Ville rayonnante

The Google Maps Street View shows the plaque.


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Bromont/Granby, QC via Yamaska

Garmin Connect - Bromont/Granby, QC via Yamaska

Bob Schermer invited me to help him scout the afternoon route for the four-day VerMontreal ride for 2012. This is the lake entrance to the St Christophe in Granby, the end of day 2 after a ride through Yamaska Parc or directly from Bromont. Linda simulates a welcome.

We discovered a number of corrections to be made to the route sheet. I took photos of the critical junctions and turns.  I want to place the photos on a map of the route. Maybe this will help.

Bonneville Again

Bob Immler sent a scan of the album cover of the recording that included Norm's Alfa running at Bonneville in 1960. The recording is mentioned in a previous post.

The ripped text is "Tenafly, N.J." Norm took the 1500 cc class at 114.35 mph.

This new discussion started when I sent a copy of an article from the Times to Bob Immler about Craig Breedlove, who ran a jet-powered car to several land speed records a couple of years after this. The car on the album cover is Mickey Thompson's. Bob recalled that Thompson was murdered and thought that he (Bob) might have seen the murderers fleeing on bicycles the morning of the event.

Ride to Mills Point

This is a usual ride on the Burlington Bike Path from home to Mills Point, Colchester, and back. I can tell you all the good places to stop.




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Spider Bite or Tick Bite

I noticed this on my left wrist about the time I felt low and with little energy. About a week later, I took a follow up photo after my dentist noticed it and thought it might be a tick bite.

A week later:

Sally's Pancake Recipe

Saul came up to retrieve Claude the pup and asked for this pancake recipe that Linda got from Sally Steinhardt all those many years ago.

Scanning Issues

I wondered why I could't operate the HP Scanner that I bought from a UVM student a couple of years ago. It turns out that the HP-Director won't work on the latest (10.7.5,6) OS. But it took a while to find out the reason. Built in software on the Mac can operate the scanner. So even though we got a Canon copier/printer/scanner, I still wanted to see if I could make the HP work, partly because it has a larger bed and just to see if I could do it.
The images above were from my tests. The cat is a birthday card from Carl and Les with the words to Charles Lloyd's Tagi transcribed on a sheet of paper. I wanted to see if I could use the OCR that seems to be packaged with the Canon to recognize the words in an image that I scanned using the HP. Maybe.
It's a good thing Saul and Laura are coming up tonight through the winter storm alert weather. I'm sure they will want to play with the system after coffee in the morning.
Happy New Year