It’s going to be a busy Christmas

We drove to Ottawa yesterday to pick up and bring back to Toronto, Jason and the grandkids. They were pretty excited to head to Grandma and Grandpa’s house and 15 minutes out of Ottawa came the question, “are we in Toronto yet?” After a quick stop in Napanee, we were off again only stopping for…

The Redbourne family

The story here is fascinating and not one to be tapped out in a few lines! The B&W photo shows a young Alf and Leila Redbourne of Hamilton, Ontario. The little girl is Ruth, Wendy’s Mom. Alf lost his wife, Ruth her mother when she died in childbirth with Ruth. Ruth went off to live…

Satisfaction guaranteed

I remember inside the door of the photo studio was a sign which read something along the lines of, the satisfaction of a good product lasts much longer than the happiness of a cheap price…in other words, this isn’t going to be cheap!  It was Marcon Studios in Palmerston, a small Ontario town just up…