#kirkland lake

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"During the panic of the fall of 1939, the RCMP began harassing communists, arresting them for violating Defence of Canada Regulations (DOCR) regulations 39 and 39A, even before the Party published its position against Canadian participation in the war.

On September 9, Philip and Gordon Tonner, from Toronto, were arrested for distributing Party materials. The court quickly threw out the case against the two men. The Party published its position against Canadian participation in the war on October 14, 1939. On November 10, the RCMP arrested 23, including ten in Montreal, for distributing communist documents. The Canadian Press reported on November 13 that four more communists in Toronto, eight more in Montreal, as well as one man in Lacombe, Alberta were arrested and charged for having distributed anti-war flyers. On November 21, the Canadian Press reported that Douglas Stewart, business manager of the communist newspaper, Clarion, was sentenced to two years of imprisonment for printing the Comintern statement of opposition to  participation in the war. In Oshawa, an ex-soldier, Frank Towers, was sentenced to three months imprisonment for having sold Clarion, even before it had been banned along with its French-language equivalent, Clarté.

Most of these cases were thrown out of court, although some did receive sentences of up to six months in prison and fines of $500. Four communists were arrested for violating regulation 39, or for merely saying things that police judged to be dangerous to the security of the state or the prosecution of the war. Nick Tuchinsky, from Tilsonbury, Ontario and Alfred Neal, from Kingston, were arrested in December, 1940, but each case ended in acquittal. Nevertheless, two men from Kirkland Lake, Ontario, B. L. McMillan and Charles Stewart, each received sentences of three months and fines of $200 for having expressed sentiments judged to be dangerous or subversive. Four people were accused of having distributed Party newspapers, and twenty-one were charged with possession of communist documents, while eight Winnipegers were arrested for being Party members. The most common reason for arrest was distribution of subversive flyers, for which 44 were charged.

Most cases were thrown out of court for insufficient evidence. In fact, this was the case for twelve women from across Canada, while Olive Swankey, wife of Hull internee Ben Swankey, was held for ten days of interrogation in Edmonton, then released without being charged. Hull internee Charles Weir was arrested for distributing anti-war literature, but was freed since there were no witnesses, only to be soon interned. Another Hull internee, Patrick Lenihan, a Calgary alderman, was acquitted by jury of having expressed statements likely to cause disaffection to His Majesty, only to be interned soon after.

Not all was failure for the authorities when charging communists for specific offences. Nine women were successfully charged, including three in Manitoba and four in Saskatchewan, where authorities seemed to be more successful in prosecuting precise offences. The unfortunate Annie Buller and Margaret Mills each received sentences of two years, while Ida Corley received a sentence of one year. All were from Winnipeg, while Regina resident Gladys McDonald was imprisoned for a year, followed by fourteen months of internment, making her the only communist woman to be interned during World War II.

Two cases of imprisonment in Manitoba deserve special mention. In the fall of 1940, Mitch Sago, a Ukrainian community leader, and Tom McEwen, a member of the political bureau of the Party, were charged with being members of the Party. On November 8, 1940, Sago and McEwen were tried and sentenced to two years less a day of hard labour at the provincial jail in Headingly. Nowhere was hard labour to be found within the DOCR, therefore, on October 10, 1941, McEwen and Sago applied for habeas corpus on the grounds that the original magistrate had exceeded the law with the hard labour sentence. Justice Donovan of the Manitoba Supreme Court agreed and granted Sago and McEwen their freedom, however, on September 9, 1941, Justice minister Lapointe had issued an order for internment, which took effect immediately after the men’s liberation from Headingly, whereupon they were interned in Hull. Internment was to prove a much more useful tool for repressing communists, as opposed to imprisonment for specific offences, especially after the Party was made illegal in June, 1940.

Approximately two-thirds of those detained were held using articles 21 and 39C of the DOCR read together. The official history of the Communist Party of Canada cites that “according to the Canadian Civil Liberties Union, 64 persons had been arrested by the end of February, 1940, of which nineteen received prison terms ranging from one month to two years, while the rest were fined amounts ranging from $1 to $500.”

- Michael Martin, The Red Patch: Political Imprisonment in Hull, Quebec during World War 2. Self-published, 2007. p. 121-123.

[someonesawsomething]

Gone Without A Trace - What Really Happened To Robert Heintz?

What Really Happened To Robert Heintz? Robert has not been seen since December 1, 1982. #missing #unforgotten #unsolved #sharethispost #indigenous #truecrime

Robert Carlton Heintz Missing Since: December 1, 1982Missing From: Larder Lake, Kearns, Ontario, CanadaDate Of Birth: May 5, 1970Age at Disappearance: 12 yearsGender: MaleEthnicity: IndigenousHeight: 4’9″ (145 cm)Weight: 90 lbs. (40 kg)Hair: Brown, Straight, ShortEye Color: BrownPhysical Build: Slender / ThinRobert was last seen wearing: Blue jeans; blue jean jacket; Running shoes. A Little Bit…

[solarbird]

So not only did I finish the Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map to connect the Seattle and Eastside maps, I decided I would ALSO make a MEGAMAP of all three maps since King County stopped maintaining a map over 10 years ago which makes this the biggest maintained King County bike map since then.

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map (May 2024)

May 2024 MEGAMAP (Northshore May 2024, Seattle EOY 2023, 2 Line Eastside April 2024)

let's gooooooooo!

[farmazgony]

I have such a hate-hate relationship with backgrounds, so I decided to give it a try 😩

[dustinyellin]

Single Wall Seattle Wet bar: a sizable modern idea for a wet bar with a drop-in sink and a single carpeted wall.

[stopdoopyphotos]

[marca-espana]

Contemporary Deck in Phoenix An illustration of a sizable, modern backyard deck with a fire pit and a roof expansion

[martinskita]

Contemporary Deck in Phoenix An illustration of a sizable, modern backyard deck with a fire pit and a roof expansion

[cxsltd]

Bridge and Culvert Installation Kirkland Lake

When building a trail there are many different types of equipment. The type of equipment will vary from how big you want the trail to be. A small trail construction can consist of chain saws, rake, Weed Wacker, hand saw, axe, and many more. There are many different steps to follow to build a trail. For more, please see the website https://cxsltd.com/services/earth-works-construction/road-and-trail-construction/

[gravelish]

Lake Washington North (CCW)

7 May 2023

I usually do this loop clockwise, but decided to mix it up today. I think I like it a little better this direction. Either way, it always takes me just over 2 hours of riding, plus 40 minutes for coffee at Diva Espresso at the Hangar in Kenmore.

There are a few small rollers at the east end of the 520 Bridge and a modest climb on Market between Kirkland and Juanita, but the big hill is between Juanita and Kenmore, up past Finn Hill and St. Edwards. It’s a little more gradual going in this direction.

The riding is on good bike paths (the Burke Gilman Trail and the 520 Bridge Trail) and on roads that are relatively bike-friendly. This is a popular bike route and cars are usually pretty well-behaved.

My rides inevitably end with an uphill from lake level. My standard option when coming down the Burke Gilman from the north is to leave the trail at U Village and head up through Ravenna Park. It’s a pleasant shaded dirt trail on a gentle grade through the woods along the creek. The only downside is that it usually means I have to hose some mud off the bike when I get home.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Conservative Party of Canada is denying involvement in bolstering Pierre Poilievre’s recent appearance in Kirkland Lake using what appears to be fake social media accounts, called bots. In the days following the Conservative Party of Canada leader’s tour of Northern Ontario, which included a stop in Sudbury, numerous accounts on X.com have posted about their experience. “Pierre Poilievre’s northern Ontario tour is bringing people together! As a northerner myself, I’m thrilled to see a leader who gets it,” one post purportedly from someone in Wyoming read. “Last night’s rally in Kirkland Lake was electric — the packed crowd was a testament to his commitment to our community.” Numerous nearly identical posts from throughout the world were also posted to social media, prompting online ridicule, including one post on X.com parodying the situation by showing a large crowd of thousands of people purporting to have attended the Kirkland Lake rally.

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Kirkland Lake Ontario May 1st 1933. To The 8 Communist Leaders in the Portsmouth Penitentiary. Tim Buck, Tom Ewen. Malcolm Bruce, Sam Carr, A. T. Hill, M. Popovich, J. Boychuk and Tom Cacic. Dear Comrades: In the name of 2,000 workers that participated in the mass May Day demonstration meeting outside and of over 800 workers that participated in the May Day xax**** concert the United Front May Day Conference representing 15 workers organizations sends you Eight communist leaders our hearty militant revolutionary May Day greetings. We pledge to continue and intensify the struggle of the Canadian working class for their immediate needs and for the final abolition and overthrow of this capitalist system of hunger, wage-cuts, murder, terror and war. We pledge to carry on this fight the same fight that you Eight fought for and are serving time in the Penitentiary for this same reason. We also pledge to intensify the fight for your freedom as well as for the freedom of all political and class war prisoners in Canada.

United Front May Day Conference Kirkland Lake Ontario Canada.

[Letter from the United Front organization, a Communist Party of Canada organization set up when the latter party was outlawed in 1932, sending May Day wishes to the incarcerated Communists at Kingston Penitentiary. This was one letter of thousands sent to Kingston Penitentiary between 1932 and 1934.]

[olympeline]

FrUK FACE family Parent Trap AU, part 2! (Part 1)

So, last time we left off with Alfred and Matthew meeting at summer camp and developing an instant, burning dislike. Which is unusual for both of them, tbh. Alfred is normally too happy-go-lucky to hate anyone for long, and Mattie is too gentle and sweet natured. But something about the other boy just grinds on both their tempers. It’s visceral, they can’t explain it, but it’s instant and cuts deep. Particularly when someone points out how similar they look, which happened often until both made it clear how much they hated the comparison

At first, they get put in different cabins so their interactions are limited to meals and camp activities. The general rule I’m going with is that old world nations = adults, new world = kids. So Alfred is rooming with *Insert Human Name Here* Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Meanwhile Canada gets Cuba, Australia, and New Zealand. Many an evening is spent gossiping/bitching about the other twin, especially on Alfred’s end. Eventually, his cabin mates get so sick of listening to “Why Matthew Bonnefoy sucks” that they dare him to put his money where his mouth is and do something about it. Alfred Kirkland never turns down a challenge

He watches his prey and plots, like some totally badass secret agent type guy. Alfred notices Matthew always chooses pancakes for breakfast and drowns them in maple syrup (Ha! Loser! Everyone knows chocolate is where it’s at!). Alfred gets a wonderful idea. He gets a wonderful, awful idea. His dad sent him to camp with a box of homemade snacks/crimes against humanity. Including a bottle of dipping sauce: just as inedible as anything else. Alfred planned to bury them somewhere before going home but now he has a better idea. The next morning, he makes sure to spike the canuck nerd’s syrup and then sits back and watches the hilarity. Even better, he switches the bottles back when the camp counsellor comes to check after Matthew runs to the bathroom to throw up! LOOOL! Alfred, ten billion: Nerd, zero!

As far as Alfred is concerned, their rivalry is over: he’s won. He never expects Matthew to retaliate and, normally, he’d be right. Normally, gentle, non-confrontational Matthew would just shrug it off and go live his best life. This situation isn’t normal. Mattie can’t let it go, not when it’s Alfred Kirkland. He has to get him back, he just has to. Matthew takes his turn plotting, then he and his cabin mates choose their moment: Alfred is always boasting about how great he is at sports, especially baseball. Their camp is scheduled to play a game with the camp across the lake and Alfred is their star hitter. Matthew and co. lie in wait, then switch out the schedules so Alfred and his cabin get the wrong day. They miss the game and spend the afternoon goofing off by the river instead. Only to come back to furious camp counsellors and a week of trash duty for going off alone and ditching the game. Alfred is horrified, Mattie is smug

Their eyes meet. Matthew winks and mimes a swing and a miss, Alfred seethes. If it was on before, oh boy. Now it’s on. It’s on like Donkey Kong. It’s on like SUPER DONKEY KONG 64!

So begins an all out prank war: Alfred waits till it’s time for swimming lessons, then hides Matthew’s clothes. Matthew sneaks into the camp office and switches Alfred’s name from team sports to needlework and cheerleading. Alfred dips Matthew’s glasses in cooking oil. Matthew sews up the armholes of all Alfred’s shirts. Alfred catches a skunk and releases it in Mattie’s cabin. Matthew takes a leaf out of Alfred’s book and spikes his dinner hamburger and milkshake with enough chilli powder to call Alfred’s own personal space coyote. It goes on like that for a while, back and forth, then evolves into daring each other to do increasingly crazy things. Running through the camp naked, cussing out a counsellor, starting a food fight, go out to the creepiest place in the woods after dark, etc. They just keep going. Alfred never gives up, Matthew won’t either. Even their cabin mates are getting worried by this point. It was fun at first, but now the adults are getting really pissed and the dares keep escalating and are some of them are getting legitimately scary.

Everything comes to a head when Alfred dares Matthew to climb the tallest tree in the camp and hang his (maple print) boxers from the highest branch. Mattie is terrified (the tree is a pine and tall af) but looking a Alfred’s smug face (“Haha! You gonna wimp out, Mattie? Gonna go cry to your pa?”) he can’t bear to back out. It doesn’t go well. Mattie gets halfway up, looks down, and gets the vertigo bad. He freezes up, can’t climb higher or come back down, and is stuck there like a terrified koala. Alfred laughs and jeers at first, then realises oh fudge, this is actually serious. He climbs up to try and help, only to get stuck too. Alfred sees Matthew’s tears and feels a stab of guilt, but then the grown ups turn up with a ladder and they’re both in far too much trouble to think about each other for a while

Both boys are in disgrace, grounded for weeks, and - worst of all - sentenced to be cabin mates. Everyone was sick of their rivalry by then, and it was seen as a necessity. It was either that or the counsellors would email their dads to come get them. Neither Alfred or Matthew wanted that, so they grudgingly agree to the punishment. Either they learn to get along, or camp is over. There’s still the threat of telling their dads if they don’t behave too, which is a total bummer

Alfred moves in with Matthew and they spend their first evening in tense silence. Alfred thinks it will be like this for the rest of summer, which is majorly lame. It might have been, but that night Alfred wakes up to go to the bathroom and hears something that makes him freeze: soft sobs, coming from Matthew’s bunk. He’s got the blankets pulled over his head, but Alfred’s ears are sharp. And he can see the lump in the bed shaking in the dark. Alfred ponders, then goes over and pulls the covers away. Matthew is shocked and dismayed, expecting Alfred to laugh and mock him mercilessly. Instead, Alfred asks him what’s wrong. Gruffly but with no hint of malice

Mattie hesitates - he doesn’t want to give his rival more ammunition - then falteringly tells Alfred he’s scared. Alfred asks if it’s about the tree. Matthew says no, though that was scary, it’s about his papa. Alarm bells ring for Alfred (oh shit, what if the nerd has an abusive dad and that’s why he’s such a dumb wuss?) but Matthew assures him he’s not scared of his dad. He loves Francis more than anything. He’s scared he’s going to disappoint him. Alfred asks why. Mattie tells him that he promised he would do his best to socialise and make some friends. He knows how worried Francis is that he spends so much time either alone or with their dog, so he swore he would do his best to get along with the other campers. But all he’s done is blow everything. Papa will be disappointed in him and, much worse, he broke his word. He could have turned the other cheek and ignored Alfred, but his pride got the best of him and he didn’t

More tears. Alfred watches in silence, and thinks it over for a long moment. Then he pats Mattie on the back and tells him to quit blubbing and being dumb: he hasn’t failed, he made friends with his dumb, nerd cabin mates. And all the pranks and dares have to count as socialising, right? Anyway, if his papa asks, Matthew can just say Alfred is his friend or whatever. So, no need to worry!

After this speech, Matthew is shocked and then stares at Alfred in wonder when he realises he’s serious. Mattie falteringly asks if that’s really okay and Alfred says sure, why not. Then he shoves some ancient, crumpled kleenex at Matthew and decides that, as he’s totally awake now, he might as well have fun. Matthew watches Alfred open in a secret compartment in his luggage and dig out comics and candy bars the adults failed to confiscate. Alfred is about to go back into his bunk when he sees Matthew watching, round eyed. He hesitates, then makes an unknowingly life-changing decision for the second time that night. Instead of getting back into his own bunk, he jumps onto Mattie’s and sits cross legged. Then he offers him a comic and one of his smaller candy bars

A moment, then Matthew accepts. The boys eat chocolate and read comics until the early hours when they both fall asleep. The next day when they’re getting dressed, Matthew dares compliment Alfred on his Iron-Man t-shirt. Alfred grins and shows Matthew the totally sick Avengers, light up sneakers his dad bought him for his birthday. They’re the same shoe size and he says Mattie can even borrow them sometime if he’s careful and doesn’t walk in mud. Mattie thanks him, and smiles. Alfred returns it

There’s a long way to go. They’re still unsure around each other: not best friends, or even ordinary ones, yet. But it’s a start

It’s a start

(Stay tuned for part 3! (´ε｀ )♡)

[solarbird]

Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 1.4.5

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.4.5 – 13 December 2024 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 1.4.5 a pasteup of Greater Northshore, City of Seattle, 2 Line Eastside Bike Connector, and a little bit of King County Regional Trails to get us all the way to the south end of Lake Washington.

Changes since 1.4.3 (since I apparently never posted about 1.4.4 here?! so you get a double-dose):

The full long-term remapping of Montlake Boulevard at SR-520 with the new bike/pedestrian bridge. It was supposedly going to be soft-open today, with opening ceremony tomorrow (14 December) but it’s not open yet and landscaping clearly isn’t done. I think it’s open enough for tomorrow but I suspect there will be landscaping-related closures. (MEGAMAP only)

New Safe/Neighbourhood Greenway streets in northern Lake City (already open; Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP)

Improved bike lanes/partial off-street lanes in Redmond on 152nd Ave NE north of NE 24th St. (already open; MEGAMAP only)

Yet another correction to Seattle’s map showing NW 125th between Interurban and Aurora as sharrows, not bike lanes (thank you, @pruwyben@social.ridetrans.it) (Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP)

Construction warning flag removed with the end of Burke-Gilman repaving in Bothell (Greater Northshore and MEGAMAP)

All permalinks continue to work.

If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t. If you have an iPhone, please use the website interface and not the app, because Apple takes 30% if you use the app. I’ll keep doing this regardless, but you know. Thank you! ^_^

[emmanuellececchi]

Photo - pics - Part 1

This is the surrounding of the cottage / Le chalet et ses environs.

Northen Ontario/Nord de l'Ontario, not far from Kirkland Lake

[dertaglichedan]

Kentucky angler nabs a 200-pound prehistoric alligator snapping turtle before going on to reel in monster gar - which stands to break his OWN record

A Kentucky fisherman has reeled in an enormous 200-pound prehistoric alligator snapping turtle and a potentially record-breaking gar at a lake in Texas. 

Art Weston and his trusted guide, Captain Kirk Kirkland, returned to Sam Rayburn Lake, where they had previously hooked a record-shattering alligator gar in the fall.

When the famed fishermen set out on the murky waters last month, they were hoping to find another large alligator gar - one that would break another record. 

During one strenuous morning on the water, Weston hooked and lost multiple record-breaking fish. 

Weston and Kirkland intended to clinch a line-class record, which meant they needed to catch an enormous giant alligator gar with four-pound test line in order for it to qualify as a record.