#Saint-Lawrence River

[aultsville]

Two appliqué projects I did about the St. Lawrence Seaway/The Lost Villages.

Top one is based on the Lost Villages Historical Society logo, bottom is based on a photograph by George Hickey taken in Aultsville, Ontario just before the flooding of the Seaway.

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[rabbitcruiser]

The SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas on April 26, 1956.    

[shutterandsentence]

Photo: Quebec, Canada

[spockvarietyhour]

Opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway with the C.G.S. D'Iberville Icebreaker (in the Saint Lambert lock), 1959.

[the-river-blogger]

Restaurant Review: Clipper Inn

Restaurant Review: Clipper Inn

[thelostarchivescafe]

Dude on a skate board and his dog. Saint Lawrence River. Thousand Islands, New York.

[mapsontheweb]

The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

[drowster]

Bic National Park, Canada

[theriverblo]

Songs That Got You Through

Songs That Got You Through

“Taking it all the right wayKeeping it in the backTaking it all the right wayNever no turning back” David Bowie I feel that music is in our souls. It’s in our heartbeat, the air we breathe, our dreams. I have to take a moment to pay tribute to the songs that got me through the hard times over the years. I hope this makes you think of the songs that have helped you, as well. Teenage…

[aultsville]

Cartoons by Bob Eadie about the St. Lawrence Seaway

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[rabbitcruiser]

The Saint Lawrence River was named on August 10, 1535.  

[dat-soldier]

a fellow quebecois artist?? hell yeah 🤝🤝

i want my ashes spread across the saint lawrence river. not when i die, just whenever. surprise me

[luimnigh]

I know that Washington fought in the Seven Years War and had a few fuckups therein, but how did he cause it? Don't think I've ever heard that part.

So, before the Seven Years' War, most of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains up to the Mississippi River was nominally claimed by the French as "New France". Realistically, France had a handful of towns and outposts along the Mississippi, Great Lakes, and St. Lawrence Rivers. Most of the land was actually inhabited by the native peoples, with only 75,000 French people inhabiting what is now called the Mid-West.

Meanwhile, east of the Appalachians was the Thirteen Colonies, which was home to 1.5-2 million people. And they wanted to expand. So, British colonists and traders began to venture into Ohio, which was claimed by France.

French Colonists responded by sending in their military to drive off and capture British colonists in Ohio, and to build fortifications to prevent them from coming back.

The Governor of Virginia had invested in the efforts to settle Ohio, so he sent a 21-year-old Lieutenant Colonel by the name of George Washington to give the French commander an order to leave. Washington met the commander, a guy named Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, and gave him the order, which Saint-Pierre ignored.

Washington went back to Virginia. However, on his way back, two things happed:

Saint-Pierre was relieved of command by Claude-Pierre Pécaudy de Contrecœur

The Governor of Virginia sent a small group of soldiers to build a fort in Ohio.

Washington was basically immediately sent back with 40 men, picking up a group of 12 warriors from an allied group of natives along the way. His orders were to stop any attempts to prevent the building of the Fort, through lethal force if necessary.

Meanwhile, De Contrecoeur came across the British fort with a much larger force of 500 men, forced the British out, and bought their construction equipment to finish building the fort for France.

Washington and his men, after learning of the French forcing out the group they were supposed to reinforce, came across a 35-man scouting party of the main force.

And Washington launched an ambush.

Most of the French were captured or killed.

This became known as The Battle of Jumonville Glen. Named after Joseph Coulon de Villiers, Sieur de Jumonville, leader of the French scouting party, who was killed at the site.

Washington retreated away from the French, and constructed a fort in Ohio called Fort Necessity. A month later, after both sides were reinforced, a force of 600 French, Canadien, and Native soldiers launched an attack on Fort Necessity.

They were led by Captain Louis Coulon de Villiers. Joseph's older brother. He wanted revenge for his brother.

The Battle of Fort Necessity ended in Washington's surrender, whereupon he signed a document in French (which he could not read) that said he had assassinated Joseph Coulon. Washington and his forces were allowed to then leave back to Virginia.

Washington's superiors reneged on the terms of Washington's surrender, declaring they would not release the prisoners Washington had taken, and instead began more military incursions into France's claimed territory.

And so a war began between France and Britain in North America because a 22-year old George Washington was told "kill 'em if you have to" and followed through with that, unfortunately managing to kill the little brother of a guy who could raise a bigger army than Washington.

This later escalated when France attacked British holdings in the Mediterranean two years later (in order to exchange them to Spain for help with the war), which kicked off the Seven Years' War in earnest.

[the-river-blogger]

Songs That Got You Through

Songs That Got You Through

“Taking it all the right wayKeeping it in the backTaking it all the right wayNever no turning back” David Bowie I feel that music is in our souls. It’s in our heartbeat, the air we breathe, our dreams. I have to take a moment to pay tribute to the songs that got me through the hard times over the years. I hope this makes you think of the songs that have helped you, as well. Teenage…