#Little Canada history

[uglyandtraveling]

Discovering Little Canada in Toronto: A Tiny World of Big Adventures!

Explore Little Canada in Toronto! Discover iconic landmarks, stunning miniatures, and interactive fun in this unique Canadian attraction. A must-visit gem!

[oldshowbiz]

1982.

Canada's Newest Rich Little.

[garryoakenthusiast]

So last fall, me and my mother dug up the entirety of our front lawn. We planted a couple shrubs & small trees, but otherwise over the winter it looked pretty bleak 😅

But now finally here's the new plantings for this year! It was really important to me to plant things native to this region of the pnw, though there are a handful of things, like California lilac and western lupines, that are not technically from around here, but close enough.

June plum (with some new licorice fern) and flowering red currant (also a tiny slim leaf onion off to the side) ignore the neighbour's boxwoods LOL

Yarrow & kinnickinnik, and western lupines

now some of the new stuff! The first one is common camas, tufted hair grass, sea blush, and western red columbine. the second is Oregon stonecrop, licorice fern, and some mosses.

The stone and gravel is sort of a budget-friendly experiment in recreating the rocky garry oak environment that much of our area used to be. Last year we noticed that we actually have a tiny garry oak that showed up! I'll take pictures once the leaves start opening up.

[factoidfactory]

Black History Month Fact 3

Canada’s first female publisher was Black.

During the time of the Underground Railroad, Mary Ann Shadd came to Canada and became the country’s first female publisher with her newspaper, The Provincial Freeman.

[yearningforunity]

A photo of King Culture Record Co. in Toronto’s Little Jamaica. Founded by Jamaican expat, King Culture (aka Everett Cooper), the Record Co. was one of many new music businesses that opened in the 1970s and 1980s Toronto as part of the booming Jamaican music industry in the city.  

Courtesy of Beth Lesser

[intothestacks]

Adventures in Librarian-ing

Me, about to read "The Girl Who Built an Ocean: The Invention of the World's First Aquarium": You know, come to think of it, this book is pretty on-theme, considering the Little Mermaid movie's about to come out.

Grade 3s: *immediatedly and unanimously burst into excited chatter over how they're looking forward to the new movie*

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Convicts Celebrated May Day With Songs,” Kingston Whig-Standard. May 2, 1933. Page 3. ---- Could Be Heard Very Distinctly by Those Outside the Walls ---- Hooting, shouting and singing popular songs with a gusto that made their voices clearly heard by passersby on the road, convicts of the Kingston Penitentiary, quartered in the new female prison, had their little private May Day celebration last night. Till after nine o'clock the convicts demonstrated their vocal propensities.

"We Want Nickle!” was heard more  than once by persons passing the prison. This referred to the counsel for several of the convicts charged with rioting, who was successful in having the only convict, whose trial is concluded, acquitted on the charge.

Around nine o'clock when it could be noticed that the convicts were getting tired of their own noise, strains which sounded very much like "Try A Little Tenderness" drifted out to those who were listening from the Prison Road and other popular songs were sung. A little later the convicts decided to sleep and called it a day.

Warden W. B. Megloughlin, when spoken to regarding the incident, said that apparently the convicts were celebrating May Day, but except for the noise the prison routine, was undisturbed. The convicts were all in their cells and when they got tired celebrating they went to sleep.

[beauty-is-terrror]

Reading goals for the rest of the year:

Donna Tartt's novels in publication order (TSH, TLF and TG)

Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Dear tumblrinas I beg you to manifest that I see Him 🖤 while im on vacation bc if I don't I might die

[grandhoff]

Here are some little guys from the Canadian Museum of Civilization History

Above all else remember, humans have always loved little animal guys

[oldshowbiz]

Rich Little started his career with an impressive arsenal of impressions of Canadian politicians

[historydailyfrancischappellblack]

A Year following the massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull and a band of 5000 Sioux followers cross into Canada, hoping to find a safe haven away from the United States Army. May 5, 1877.

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: An 1881 cabinet card of Sitting Bull On this day in history, May 5, 1877, nearly a year following the massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull and a band of 5000 Sioux followers cross into Canada, hoping to find a safe haven away from the United States Army. On June 25, 1876,…

[factoidfactory]

Women's History Month 4

Women were not considered people in Canadian law until 1929.

[lindaseccaspina]

My Little Town

Here are three great women of Carleton Place– Marilyn Lukas, Mayor Melba Barker and singer of the Carleton Place song Pat Labron. Who was the gentleman in this photo? Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum photo. This is a photo of Marilyn Lukas from Carleton Place, Ontario. Chances are you might not know Marilyn, but you know someone like her in your town or city. In 1976 Marilyn, a mother…

[soft-serve-soymilk]

Honestly can you really blame me for ending up the way I did sociopolitically when literally one of my earliest memories with animation is watching Communism: The Cartoon (Krtek, 1957)

[infiniteglitterfall]

People talk about how the Jewish population of the world is still smaller today than it was in 1939.

The 1948-49 American Jewish Year Book says that there were an estimated 16,633,675 Jews on earth in 1939. (Yes, "estimated!")

And that a decade later -- three years after the Holocaust killed nearly 6,000,000 Jews -- there were 11,373,350.

Today, there are (an estimated) 15,736,800.

(It can be higher, depending on how you count it. But this is the number that seems consistent with how the American Jewish Year Book was counting it.)

But it occurred to me recently that that doesn't tell the whole story.

Because today, 0.02% of the world is Jewish. (Really, 0.019%.) But I bet it was different back then.

How different? And different how?

Turns out there are 8 billion people alive today. But there were a little more than 2 billion back then.

16,633,675 divided by 2,300,000,000 is freaking 0.72%.

0.72% of the world was Jewish in 1939. That's almost 300% more than 0.19%?

Even after the Holocaust, 0.49% of the world was Jewish.

Those are still tiny percentages.

But the effect of the Holocaust, the massive ethnic cleansing of Jews across the MENA region after it, and the massive pogroms killing up to 250,000 other Jews before it, has been that the actual proportion of the world that's Jewish plummeted by 75%.

We went from 0.72% of the world to 0.19% just during the last 80 years of all that.

And because it was literally over 50 years of genocides and ethnic cleansings all over the place, we also went from vibrant Jewish communities with thousands of years of history across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, to being almost entirely concentrated in the United States and Israel.

Little bit more in Canada and Australia, neither of whom seem to be handling that fact super-well. And smatterings in many other places.

It's just really fucking wild to me.

Not only that this is true. But that I had to put these pieces together myself, from everything I was learning by studying recent Jewish history.

It's very fucking weird, as an American, to live with the incredible contrast of knowledge and history, versus the overwhelming mainstream leftist message that Jews are a white European oppressor group.