#vancouver to kamloops

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Day 11 - Rocky Mountaineer part 1

I'm behind again! Mostly because I've been busy experiencing stuff, and not connected to tech!!

Anyway, Day 10 started pretty early - coach pick up at the hotel was 7:50am, but our luggage had to be outside our rooms for collection an hour before that.

Our coach was the first to arrive at the station, so we had about half an hour to hang around before the welcome (which involved bagpipes), and then boarding.

(This is a Gold Leaf carriage - I was travelling on Silver Leaf)

We set off at 8am, and while we were still slowly trundling out of Vancouver the first refreshments were served - coffee and tea, then a 2 course breakfast!

We had an unexpected and sudden stop when the emergency brake was pulled due to "an issue with the crossing ahead." Not sure what the issue was, but when the emergency brake is pulled the whole length of train has to be walked to check the brake has been released. I think we were stopped for about 10 minutes.

(The stop also caused a service cart at the back of our carriage to topple. These carts basically never to that, so this was definitely unusual according to our 3 cabin hosts!)

Not long after that we had a glimpse of Mt Barker (which is over the border in the US - Washington).

At this point I feel the need to point out 2 important things: 1. I took over 200 photos today 2. All photos were taken through the windows of the train, and are therefore subject to reflections off the glass - watch out for the little UFOs, they are reflections of the lights in the carriage ceiling!

I also should point out seeing mountains like these is kinda exciting for me - Australia's mountains aren't like this! And the train follows the Fraser River pretty closely. The grey-green colour of the water is apparently due to the sediments it carries - they never get a chance to settle.

Speaking of colours . . . this mixture of blues and greens is because it's part of where the Fraser meets the Thomson River, which the train then follows to our eventual overnight stop in Kamloops.

This train trip is like being in a moving restaurant - we were supplied with drinks and a snack, then a 3 course lunch by the time we hit this point!

Rainbow Canyon - the colours of the rocks caused by oxidation of iron, copper and sulfur (I think that's what they said!)

I was really on the wrong side of the train to get shots of the rapids on the Thompson, where some of the rocks have names! Can you spot the rock called the frog? (right pic above)

Murray Creek Falls . . .

On one of our many stops while waiting on a siding for a freight train to pass in the opposite direction, we had a Bald Eagle circling beside us. Not easy to snap pics!

Somewhere near Black Canyon we had one of the best chances to shoot pics of the front of the train - my carriage was the second last of 22 "pieces of equipment" (engine, carriages inc non-passenger cars), and the last passenger car. (I still had trouble getting a decent shot without reflections or telephone wires in the way!)

We spent much of the day spotting Osprey nests! (And one or two eagle nests)

Does anyone recognise Rainbow Bluffs? Apparently they appeared in the X-Files. (right pic above)

After many, many delays pulling into sidings for freight trains (the two I counted cars for were 150 and 194 cars long - so not short trains!), and our afternoon snack and drink, we finally came up along Kamloops Lake. Lots of winding track as the train closely follows the shoreline.

And that's my 30 image limit!

We were late getting into Kamloops - so many stops along the way we even got a second afternoon snack!! So, when we finally reached our hotels it was around 9pm. That's basically a 13hr train trip! Certainly not boring though.

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BC agates

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hellooo good morning 🥰

yes I was in Canada, as I said around 10 years ago, because my aunt lives in Canada and she payed for our flights and let us stay in her house. and yeah I was in Ontario and Quebec. it was really fun even though I don't remember much anymore. only that the supermarkets were huge and that the family homes suburbs without pavements were so weird. also of course we visited Niagara falls. I wish I could go again but I don't have the money for that 😅

technically good morning since its almost 2 am lol

i think i was in ontario around 10 years ago visiting family also :0 what if we saw each other and had no idea 😔 canada suburbs are weird they're building a new one 15 minutes from me the houses are two feet apart from each other its ridiculous

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Kamloops Lake, B.C.

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Six pilotes canadiens du 416 'City of Oshawa' Tactical Fighter Squadron – Angleterre – 30 mai 1944

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©Colorisation de Canadian Colour

Une semaine avant le jour J, les six pilotes se sont battus contre six avions ennemis, en détruisant quatre et en endommageant un, sans aucune perte à déplorer.

En haut de gauche à droite : adjudant Patterson de Kelowna (Colombie-Britannique), lieutenant W.F. Mason de Smiths Falls (Ontario), lieutenant G.A. Borland de Guelph (Ontario)

En bas de gauche à droite : Officier pilote W.H. Palmer de Kamloops et Salmon Arm (Colombie-Britannique), lieutenant R.D. Forbes-Roberts de Vancouver (Colombie-Britannique) et lieutenant A.R. McFadden de Springdale (Alberta)

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Where was The Last Of Us Season 2 Filmed? 🇨🇦🍁🎥

This is from a travel magazine called CNTraveler. I copied most of it since it is behind a paywall.

Production designer Don Macaulay combined locations and sets to create both cities, as well as the surrounding wilderness, with the help of the visual effects team. It required a huge amount of planning and multiple film studios and back-lots around Vancouver.

Here Macaulay breaks down the key locations used in The Last of Us season two.

How many locations did you use for season two?

Probably 60 or 70. There were usually eight or 10 locations per episode. A lot of those were heavily effected [with visual effects]. We were all over the Lower Mainland in British Columbia, up in Kamloops, then up in Whistler, back to Alberta, and even down to Montana. For Episode Three there was a montage unit who actually did film throughout the states where the characters go.

For season one, Jackson, Wyoming, was built in Canmore. How did you do it this time?

We built it from scratch in a parking lot in Britannia Beach, which is just north of Vancouver. Canmore felt like the game, but we had a lot more we needed to control this time. We leaned into the game to a point, but we didn’t want it to be too old Western feeling so we also leaned into actual Jackson. It became a combo of what’s in the game and Jackson itself.

Did you have to destroy the set when the hoard invades in Episode Two?

We burned things and broke things. Once Mark Mylod, who was the director of that episode, landed there was a lot of retro-fitting. We ended up building a whole network of roofs so there could be action on top of the buildings and people could fall off. But we knew that scene was coming when we laid out and built the town. It was a massive build.

Was the house where Abby kills Joel a real house?

That was someone’s actual home out in Mission, which is east of Vancouver. It was such a match to the game. Typically, on a show like this we would just build that, but we didn’t want to have to blue screen out the windows, which you would have to do on a set. It was amongst some trees so we could use what was outside the windows.

Was Ellie and Joel’s house also someone’s home?

It was a real house in Langley. We built the porch for the porch scene and built out the interior. We brought snow in for the whole street.

How did you create the version of Seattle we see this season?

It’s a combination of locations and sets. I have to give credit where credit is due to our location manager, Nicole. She got us into places that are traditionally very difficult or where you’re not allowed to shoot. We were going to shoot in Gastown, but it’s super touristy and busy. So we ended up going to a little town called Nanaimo, which is a 20-minute float plane ride from Vancouver. There's a beautiful strip of old, appropriate buildings and we were able to take over. They allowed us to strip out all the storefronts and break windows and change awnings. We brought in all the [plants].

Was the theater where Ellie and Dina hide out a real theater?

The lobby is a set on a stage and the exterior was a set on the back lot. But once we pass through the lobby and go into the auditorium, that's the Orpheum Theater in downtown Vancouver. It is so similar to what's in the game.

What other Vancouver locations did you use?

We did use some downtown street and we had to reroute buses. We used some abandoned places, like the old Molson Brewery, the old Dairyland facility, and Stanley Park, which is traditionally a place you're not able to shoot because they don't want you to do any damage. We used the forest in Stanley Park, including some night work with torches. Some of that forest we also build on a stage for when Ellie gets into trouble in Episode Seven. We did go to the actual Vancouver Aquarium [in the finale] and spent some time in the bowels of the building. We could have done it on a set, but locations offer up unforeseen opportunities like that.

Was Bella actually out on the water in the finale?

Only part of that is real—when she gets washed up on the shore. But the dock and the aquarium façade were built in a field surrounded by blue screens. When she’s boating across open water and when she tips over, that was all done on a tank in a sound-stage. I think people will be a little shocked when they see how we pulled that off.

Where is the lake in the last episode?

There's a little lake at the top of Mount Seymour called Mystery Lake. It’s a beautiful little mountain lake that we were going to shoot Eugene's end at. We did all the prep, got everyone up there, and then it was swarming with bugs, so we just not being able to shoot it. So instead we built that set and all that you're seeing beyond Eugene is visual effects.

At the end of the finale it cuts to Abby in the headquarters of the Washington Liberation Front. Was that a set?

We built the box where she wakes up and then walks through to get to the railing. The rest we illustrated based on Lumen Field in Seattle, which is the home of the Seahawks, and it was done by visual effects. We know we need to build it next season, but none of that was practical yet.

What are you most proud of about this season?

That it got done successfully! And the gaming community seems to be really happy with the way it turned out. Season two was bigger and more challenging in a lot of ways. And I can only imagine that Season three is going to be even bigger and more challenging. I've already been warned: It's going to be big and we’ve got a top Season two.

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … December 27

c.15 AD – John the Evangelist. The Gospel of John makes several references to "the disciple Jesus loved", and to "the Beloved Disciple", including references to special priviliges that Jesus gave to this relationship, not granted to other disciples. This is taken by some Biblical scholars as evidence that Jesus had a relationship with this disciple which was at least emotionally intimate, and possibly sexual. In medieval Northern Europe, there was even a long-standing tradition that he and Christ were the bridal couple at the Cana Wedding Feast.

It is not clear whether this "Beloved Disciple" was John himself (although it could have been), or someone else possibly Lazarus.

In any event, there are suggestions from elsewhere that John may have had a same-sex relationship with another, his scribe Prochorus, after Christ's death. Prochorus later became bishop of Nicomedia, and in turn, formed a fresh relationship of his own with a younger man, Irenaeus.

1846 – Ezra Allen Miner, more popularly known as Bill Miner, was an American bandit, originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, who served several prison terms for stagecoach robbery (d.1913). Known for his unusual politeness while committing robberies, he was widely nicknamed the Grey Fox, Gentleman Robber or the Gentleman Bandit. He is reputed to have been the originator of the phrase

"Hands up!"

Legend has it that Bill Miner admonished his cohorts to fire their guns when in danger of capture but "do not kill a man".

Miner was born Ezra Allen Miner in Vevay Township, near Onondaga, Ingham County, Michigan. He never legally changed his first name, but regarded William Allen Miner as his true name throughout most of his life. He was arrested for the first time in 1866 in San Joaquin County, California and served time there. He then formed a partnership with Bill Leroy to rob a stagecoach. Leroy was caught and lynched, but Miner escaped. He was later caught for another robbery in Tuolumne County, California and was released from San Quentin in 1901.

After his third prison term, Miner moved to British Columbia in Canada, where he adopted the pseudonym George Edwards and is believed to have staged British Columbia's first-ever train robbery on September 10, 1904 at Silverdale about 35 kilometres (22 mi) east of Vancouver, just west of Mission City.

Miner was eventually caught after a botched payroll train robbery near Kamloops at Monte Creek (then known as "Ducks"). Choosing the wrong car, they managed only to rob $15 plus a bottle of kidney pills that Miner picked up off of a shelf. Miner and his two accomplices, Tom "Shorty" Dunn and Louis Colquhoun, were located near Douglas Lake, British Columbia after an extensive manhunt. A posse surrounded them while they were lunching in the woods. Miner presented himself as George Edwards and claimed that he and his cohorts were prospectors. The officer in charge of the posse suspected he had encountered the nefarious train-robbing gang and challenged the claim, putting them under arrest.

Dunn attempted to fire at the police and was shot in the leg. He gave up quickly after being wounded. Colquhoun was disarmed by an officer standing nearby and Miner never drew his weapon. Miner's arrest and subsequent trial in Kamloops caused a media spectacle. Apparently the most damning evidence against him was the bottle of kidney pills that Miner had picked up during the Ducks robbery. Upon his conviction, he, Dunn and Colquhoun were transported by train to the provincial penitentiary in New Westminster. By that time, Miner's celebrity status had risen to the point that the tracks were reputedly lined with throngs of supporters, many of whom expressed satisfaction with the fact that someone had taken the very unpopular CPR to task.

While serving time in the B.C. Penitentiary, Miner escaped in 1907 and was never recaptured in Canada. He moved back to the United States, becoming once again involved in robberies in the South at Gainesville in 1909. There, he served more prison time, and escaped twice.

He died in the prison farm at Milledgeville, Georgia, of gastritis, contracted from drinking brackish water during his previous escape attempt.Researchers Mark Dugan and and John Boessenecker contend that Miner was the only known homosexual outlaw in the American "Wild West." In his younger days, "Miner, who had a slender, girlish figure, no doubt was a target for sex-starved older and stronger convicts." Later, they claim, he lured young men into crime and preyed on them sexually. Whatever Miner's sexual preference, the only evidence of Miner's homosexuality surfaced in 1903 when the Pinkerton Detective Agency stated that Miner "is said to be a sodomist and may have a boy with him."

1901 – Marlene Dietrich (d.1992) was a German-American actress and singer.

Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and provided her a contract with Paramount Pictures in the US.

Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalised on her glamour and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a US citizen in 1937, and throughout World War II she was a high-profile frontline entertainer.

Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a successful show performer.

Unlike her professional celebrity, which was carefully crafted and maintained, Dietrich's personal life was kept out of public view. Dietrich, who was bisexual, enjoyed the thriving gay scene of the time and drag balls of 1920s Berlin.

She married only once, to assistant director Rudolf Sieber, who later became an assistant director at Paramount Pictures in France, responsible for foreign language dubbing.

Throughout her career Dietrich had an unending string of affairs, some short-lived, some lasting decades; they often overlapped and were almost all known to her husband, to whom she was in the habit of passing the love letters of her men, sometimes with biting comments.

During the filming of Destry Rides Again, Dietrich started a love affair with co-star Jimmy Stewart, which ended after filming. In 1938, Dietrich met and began a relationship with the writer Erich Maria Remarque, and in 1941, the French actor and military hero Jean Gabin. Their relationship ended in the mid-1940s. She also had an affair with the Cuban-American writer Mercedes de Acosta, who was Greta Garbo's lover. Her last great passion, when she was in her 50s, appears to have been for the actor Yul Brynner, but her love life continued well into her 70s. She counted John Wayne, George Bernard Shaw and John F. Kennedy among her conquests. Dietrich maintained her husband and his mistress first in Europe and later on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, California.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of all time.

1932 – On this date Fritz "Fred" Klein the Austrian-born American sex researcher, psychiatrist and pioneering Bisexual rights activist was born (d.2006). He's best known as the inventor of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid. He was also a pioneering bisexual rights activist, who was an important figure in the modern LGBT rights movement.

As a self-identified bisexual, Klein was surprised at the lack of literature on his sexuality in the New York Public Library in 1974. He was inspired to place an advertisement in a New York City alternative newspaper the Village Voice and founded a ground-breaking social and support group for the Bisexual Community called Bisexual Forum.

He devised the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid, a multi-dimensional system for describing complex sexual orientation, similar to the "zero-to-six" scale Kinsey scale used by Alfred Kinsey, but measuring seven different vectors of sexual orientation and identity (sexual attractions, sexual behavior, sexual fantasies, emotional preference, social preference, lifestyle and self-identification) separately, as they relate person's past, present and ideal future.

Klein published The Bisexual Option: A Concept of One Hundred Percent Intimacy in 1978, based on his research, the world's first real psychological study of bisexuality. He also co-authored Man, His Body, His Sex in 1978, and published Bisexualities: Theory and Research in 1986 and Bisexual and Gay Husbands: Their Stories, Their Words in 2001. He published a novel, Life, Sex and the Pursuit of Happiness in 2005.

1962 – Joseph Mantello is an American actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of Wicked, and Assassins, as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast of Angels in America. Mantello directed The Ritz, his sixth production with playwright Terrence McNally, in 2007.

Joe Mantello was born the oldest son of an Italian-American family in the suburban community of Rockford, Illinois, a city some 90 miles outside of Chicago. With his parents' encouragement, he spent much of his childhood acting in community theater.

In 1984, he graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. That same year he moved to New York to pursue a career in theater. As an actor, Mantello appeared in several Off Broadway productions.

Mantello's early acting career culminated in the original Broadway production of Tony Kushner's groundbreaking seven-hour, two-play cycle Angels in America (1993). In both of the play's two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, Mantello portrayed Louis Ironson, a liberal, self-centered Jewish New Yorker who leaves his lover Prior Walter, a gay man struggling with AIDS, and becomes involved with Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican lawyer struggling with his sexuality.

Since his appearance in Angels in America, however, he has concentrated on his directing career. Nevertheless, in early 2011 Mantello returned to acting in a limited-run Broadway production of The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer's 1985 landmark play about the AIDS crisis.

Mantello also drew attention for his widely-chronicled romantic partnership from 1990 to 2002 with the playwright Jon Robin Baitz. In 1994, the New York Times dubbed the two men "the New York theater's couple of the moment."

They were linked professionally as well, with Mantello directing several of Baitz's plays. As the New York Times' Bruce Weber noted, their personalities and talents are "complementary," with Mantello's "warmth and humor burnishing" Baitz's "intellectual rigor and undercutting his earnestness."

When the two men separated after 12 years together, Mantello felt "completely isolated and heartbroken," but he never ascribed blame for the breakup to Baitz. "Neither of us felt wronged," Mantello later explained. "There wasn't another person. It was just a very painful, mutual acknowledgement that we had evolved from being a couple who lived together into best friends."

Indeed, Mantello and Baitz have remained friends, and in 2011 the two men reunited professionally, when Mantello directed, to critical acclaim, Baitz's new play Other Desert Cities.

Other noeworthy productions by Mantello include Terrence McNally's play Love! Valour! Compassion!, about eight gay men sharing a series of summer holidays in an upstate New York house; and Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, which focuses on the issue of gay athletes in the straight-male-dominated world of professional sports.

1973 – Wilson Cruz (born Wilson Echevarría) is an American actor known for playing Rickie Vasquez on My So-Called Life and the recurring characters of Junito on Noah's Arcand Dr. Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery. As an openly gay person of Puerto Rican ancestry, he has served as an advocate for gay youth, especially gay youth of color.

Wilson Cruz was born in Brooklyn, New York to parents of Puerto Rican descent. His family eventually moved to Rialto, California where he attended Eisenhower High School, graduating in 1991. At age 19, Cruz came out to his parents as gay, first to his mother and then his father. While his mother was initially hurt and shocked, she eventually accepted the news. His father, however, threw him out of the house, and Cruz spent the next few months living in his car and at the homes of friends. He later reconciled with his father.

After coming out to his parents, Cruz went to Hollywood to seek work as an actor, intending to be open about his sexuality from the beginning of his career. In 1994 he was cast as Enrique "Rickie" Vasquez, a troubled gay teen, in the short-lived critically acclaimed cult classic TV series My So-Called Life. In one episode (entitled "So-Called Angels") drawn from Cruz's own life, Rickie comes out to his family, who throw him out of the house.

Cruz works with and advocates on behalf of LGBT youth, especially youth of color. He has volunteered his time as host for the Youth Zone, an online community at Gay.com for LGBT youth. He was the Grand Marshal of the 1998 West Hollywood Gay Pride parade and the 2005 Chicago Pride Parade. In 2008, he was the keynote speaker at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Lavender Graduation and Rainbow Banquet honoring graduating LGBT students.

Cruz joined the board of directors of GLAAD in 1997 in order to assist the organization through a leadership transition, and joined the staff of GLAAD in 2012 as a National Spokesperson and Strategic Giving Officer.

Rowland in his army days

1990 – Died: Chuck Rowland (b.1917) was a founding member of the Mattachine Society. He was active with ONE Inc. and founded the short-lived Church of One Brotherhood. Upon retiring from twenty years of teaching in 1982, Rowland founded Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles.

Chuck Rowland was born and grew up in tiny Gary, South Dakota. He recognized he was homosexual at an early age, and after reading a sympathetic series of articles in a pulp magazine, concluded that, if millions like him existed, they could be mobilized. At the University of Minnesota in the late 1930s, he was active on campus in support of the loyalists of Spain and other causes. While in grad school during 1939–40 he returned to Gary as a substitute for the spring term. On a weekend visit to Minneapolis, he met Bob Hull, a U of M undergraduate. The two had a brief romance, lived together, and became lifelong friends.

In 1942, Rowland was drafted into the army. Due to a severe injury, he stayed stateside during the war. While enlisted, Rowland became a charter member of the American Veterans Committee, a liberal alternative to the American Legion. After discharge in March 1946, he showed his talent as an AVC organizer, but his active support for veterans’ bonus legislation, which the group disparaged as “handouts,” led to his being “canned” by the AVC by 1947.

While in the AVC, Rowland noted that those he knew to be communists were some of AVC’s best organizers. “I was just carried along with this feeling of liberalism and the horror of the [anti-communist] reaction that was setting in,” he said, “and my feeling was that we had to move farther and farther to the left, as a result of which I got into the Communist Party.” Rowland returned to Minneapolis and headed the CP’s Midwest youth division.* (His value as an organizer trumped any chance of being expelled under the party’s unwritten anti-gay policy.) Rowland recruited Hull into the party, and the two contemplated Rowland’s childhood dream of organizing homosexuals.

In 1948, he quit the CP and move to Los Angeles, followed by Hull. There, at a labor school, the two met a teacher, Harry Hay, who also had done some thinking about a homosexual organization.

Harry Hay was developing a blueprint for a homophile support group, but before he could show it to them, Rowland and Hull moved to Mexico in the summer of 1950, intending to relocate permanently to avoid anti-Communist witch-hunts. They returned by fall, however, and received Hay’s completed prospectus, which they eagerly shared with Hull’s new boyfriend, Dale Jennings. The three met with Hay and his lover Rudi Gernreich on Armistice Day 1950, and eventually formed the (necessarily) secretive Mattachine Society and its public nonprofit, Mattachine Foundation.

Mattachine members clockwise from top: Chuck Rowland, Konrad Stevens, unknown, Bob Hull, Jim Gruber

Rowland immersed himself in ONE Inc., writing for its magazine and directing its social services division. In 1954 he proposed that ONE open a guidance center staffed with gay counselors to mentor the waifs who found themselves alone in a new city. The project foundered, but Rowland nevertheless reported to ONE that in 1955 his division provided job placement and/or vocational counseling for nearly 100 people.

The early 60s saw Rowland involved in a possible FBI blacklisting (as both Red and gay), a failed business partnership, a dependence on intoxicants, mounting debt, and eviction. Finally, following the tragic suicide of his friend Bob Hull in May of 1962, Rowland returned to the Midwest. That summer he was hired as a credentialed high school teacher in Iowa. Obtaining his master’s degree in 1967, he chaired the theater arts department at a Minnesota college.

Upon retiring in 1982, Rowland returned to Los Angeles from his “exile,” as he put it, while admitting to “some worthy accomplishments” and meaningful relationships. In late 1982, with Jim Kepner and ex-Mattachino Martin Block, Rowland founded Celebration Theatre, billed as “the only theatre in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to productions of gay and lesbian plays.” Kepner hosted its debut in the late spring of 1983, in his National Gay Archives.

Having been hospitalized in March 1090 with prostate cancer that proved to be terminal, Rowland “moved to Duluth where a former student fixed up a handsome apartment overlooking the lake,” according to a Kepner-penned obituary. “He spent five happy months among students and relatives….” Chuck Rowland died December 27, 1990.

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Brothers Jack and Quinn Hughes, two of hockey’s top prospects, take the ice at U.S. junior showcase

Aug 1, 2018

The Hughes brothers used to play mini-stick hockey in their basement, pretending they were on the same NHL team.

Now that dream is edging closer to reality, with two of the brothers among hockey’s fastest rising stars.

Eighteen-year-old Quinn was taken seventh overall by the Vancouver Canucks at this year’s draft and 17-year-old Jack is an early favourite to be next year’s top pick.

Their younger brother, 14-year-old Luke, played major bantam AAA in Detroit last year.

Whether the Hughes siblings will ever get to play on the same NHL team remains to be seen, but the day when Quinn and Jack play in the same league appears to be just around the corner.

“(Playing together) is something all brothers dream of and that’d be pretty fun,” said Quinn.

This week, Quinn and Jack are on the ice together in Kamloops, B.C., where they’re playing for the U.S. in the world junior showcase.

“Any time you get to be on the ice with a kid like Quinn, whether he’s my brother or not, you’d be excited to play with him because he’s so good,” Jack said.

It’s the first time they’ve really had an opportunity to play organized hockey together.

Jack fed a pass to Quinn for the winner with 2:25 left as a U.S. split-squad team beat a Canada split-squad team 7-5 on Tuesday night.

“It’s definitely a cool experience,” Quinn said.

On the ice, the young men have obvious chemistry, talent and passion for the game, said Mike Hastings, head coach of the U.S. junior team.

“They don’t have a lot of fear in their game. They don’t mind giving it up and getting it back,” he said. “They’re good hockey players.”

The fact that they excel at the game isn’t a huge surprise, considering their family’s hockey roots.

Their mom, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, played hockey, soccer and lacrosse at the University of New Hampshire, and suited up for the U.S. women’s hockey team.

Their dad, Jim Hughes, played for Providence College, then worked in coaching and player development with the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs.

When Quinn was a baby, the family lived in Orlando and Ellen often worked out of town. Jim would often take Quinn to the rink, where various players would watch over him, Ellen said.

All three of the boys grew up in hockey rinks, Jim added.

“They took a liking to it from an early age. It just happened naturally, organically,” he said. “And I suppose somewhere along the way, they fell in love with the sport.”

Ellen and Jim tried hard to expose their boys to other sports, too, and let them pick what they loved, making sure that they were always having fun, and being good people and teammates.

“The things we stressed were find something you’re passionate about and whatever you’re going to do, be the best that you can be,” Ellen said.

It just happened that what they loved was hockey, she added.

Jack said his parents are “tremendous athletes and tremendous hockey minds.”

“Both of them taught me so much,” he said.

Quinn remembers his mom driving him to games and giving him tips on getting better.

“A lot of times, she would be the one telling me, ‘Maybe on this play, do that.’ So obviously I respect her opinion. She knows the game,” he said. “It’s always nice to have two parents who know what they’re talking about.”

Growing up in a hockey family with a talented player as an older brother has been great, Jack said.

“I love watching (Quinn) play and he’s been a really good influence on me growing up,” he said.

The middle child admitted, though, that the desire to beat his siblings is strong, whether they’re skating on an outdoor rink, playing mini sticks in the basement or shooting hoops in the driveway.

“Whatever you do it’s competitive with three boys in the house. It’s a really good childhood,” Jack said with a laugh.

For Quinn, being the oldest doesn’t always mean leading on the ice.

“Even though I’m the older brother, (Jack) pushes me too. And I respect his opinion and everything like that. He has a very smart hockey mind, so it would be dumb of me not to listen to him,” Quinn said.

Jack showed off that hockey mind in his first game at the showcase in Kamloops this week, saucering the puck to himself amid a cluster of Finnish players.

It was a gutsy move for the five-foot-10, 166-pound centre, but Jack said that’s just the way he plays.

“I’m a confident player. I trust myself, I think. I mean, high-skilled plays, I’ve been doing it since I was six or seven,” he said.

The teen’s ability to make those plays, combined with his stunning acceleration, has many guessing he’ll be the No. 1 pick at the NHL draft next year.

Jack doesn’t see those projections as adding any sort of pressure as he heads into another season with the U.S. National Development Team.

“I’m not too worried about where I’m going to go. I’m kind of just worried about my game and how I’m playing,” he said.

Quinn, too, is looking at improving his game.

The five-foot-10, 174-pound defenceman went to the Canucks’ development camp in July, but recently decided to return to the University of Michigan this fall.

It was a tough call, he said.

“Do I think I could have played this year? Absolutely,” Quinn said. “But I want to step in when I can really make a difference and help the Canucks win hockey games.”

Last year he had five goals and 29 points in 37 games with Michigan. The team was knocked out of the NCAA championship semifinals by Notre Dame and Quinn has said he believes they have a chance to win it all this season.

Heading back to Michigan will allow him to focus on getting stronger and developing as a player, Quinn said, adding that he sees “no reason why” his play wouldn’t improve five to 10 per cent.

Still, the top Canucks prospect is likely to return to Vancouver this winter, when the city co-hosts the world junior hockey championship with Victoria.

Quinn said he’s looking forward to playing in front of B.C. fans, both with the junior national team and the Canucks.

“I’m excited to get to Vancouver when the time comes and kind of show everyone what I can do,” he said. “But for right now, I’m just focused on USA Hockey and trying to build this group here.”

Jim Hughes said he’s always emphasized the importance of staying in the moment to his sons.

The family doesn’t pay much attention to the hype surrounding the young men, he said. Instead, they focus on continuing to get better at what they love.

“Up to this point, they just need to keep their feet on the ground, keep loving the sport and keep working,” he said.

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cameron

September 10, 2023

Cameron had been traded to the Kamloops Blazer from the Regina Pats for what will most likely be her last season in the WHL as she is getting drafted next season.

She is also living alone for the first time ever as she lived with the Bedard family her last two season in Regina but is living alone in Vancouver now but she can drive now so it is easier for her to be alone.

Cameron pulled into the parking lot for the ice rink the Kamloops Blazer’s practice and play at and hopped out of the car grabbing her hockey bag out of the back.

Cameron walked into the building where her team is and checked in at the front and headed to the locker room, she said a few quiet hello’s to a few of her new teammates.

She got settled into her stall and started getting ready for her first practice with the team.

Cameron tapped her stick to the floor as she headed out of the locker room and towards the ice and bunching up with her new team as their coach started to talk to them and put out the first set of lines and partners he wants to try.

Cameron was called to go to left wing, a position she really likes plays and she almost likes playing it more than center.

Cameron watched as a boy was called to be center for the line she was in.

“Hi.” The boy quietly spoke as he stood next to Cameron, “I’m Fraser.” Fraser kinda awkwardly smiled and turned around holding out his gloved hand and blinked in shock seeing her, she was absolutely stunning and he could feel his heart speeding up looking at her.

“Cameron.” Camron soflty introduced herself and gently shook his hand and gave him a shy smile back.

“Cameron.” Fraser mumbled to himself thinking her name absolutely fits her perfectly.

[gingerbeer-queer]

I know it probably wasn't that productive being bitchy on that Vancouver Public Library post, but damn. I was so disappointed when they hosted Meghan Murphy and then doubled down on the decision after Vancouver Pride kicked out VPL.

We KNEW she was fucked up. The way she wrote about Laverne Cox's body was sanitized and used all the right social justice buzzwords... but the fuckin message was disturbing!

A black transwoman photographed as being sexy was pornography. That was the nitty giddy of Murphy's take.

Who could have foreseen that she'd PERSONALLY advocate against federal transgender protections?

Who could have foreseen she'd be "critical" of BLM?

Who could have foreseen she'd be a genocide denier and claim that there were no bodies located at the Kamloops Residential School site?

Who could have foreseen that she'd join the far-right People's Party of Canada and be a Trump Supporter in 2025?

WHO COULD HAVE FORSEEN THAT THE RACIST TRANSPHOBE WOULD BE A RACIST TRANSPHOBE

[honorarytheyfab]

appreciation thread for British Columbia municipal coat of arms, which go surprisingly hard Abbotsford

Armstrong

Burnaby

Castlegar

Chilliwack

Coquitlam

Dawson Creek

Delta

Fernie

Kamloops

Maple Ridge

Merritt

Mission

Nelson

North Vancouver (city)

North Vancouver (District)

Port Alberni (not really a coat of arms but still baller)

Richmond

Surrey

Trail

Vancouver (great shield, but those fucking supporters lol)

Victoria

White Rock

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Geography Poll

Related to the last one https://www.tumblr.com/fairytalesandimaginings/747781894135021568/georgraphy-poll?source=share

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2024 olympics Canada roster

Archery

Eric Peters (Kitchener, Ontario)

Virginie Chénier (Montreal, Quebec)

Athletics

Eliezer Adjibi (Ottawa, Ontario)

Duan Asemota (Ajax, Ontario)

Aaron Brown (Toronto, Ontario)

Andre De Grasse (Markham, Ontario)

Brendon Rodney (Brampton, Ontario)

Christopher Morales (York, Ontario)

Marco Arop (Edmonton, Alberta)

Kieran Lumb (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Charles Philibert-Thiboutot (Quebec, Quebec)

Mohammed Ahmed (St. Catherines, Ontario)

Ben Flanagan (Kitchener, Ontario)

Thomas Fafard (Repentigny, Quebec)

Craig Thorne (Quispamsis, New Brunswick)

Jean-Simon Desgagnés (Quebec, Quebec)

Jerome Blake (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Cameron Levins (Courtenay, British Columbia)

Rory Linkletter (Flagstaff, Arizona)

Evan Dunfee (Richmond, British Columbia)

Rowan Hamilton (Chilliwack, British Columbia)

Ethan Katzberg (Kamloops, British Columbia)

Adam Keenan (Victoria, British Columbia)

Damian Warner (London, Ontario)

Marie-Éloïse Leclair (Montreal, Quebec)

Sade McCreath-Tardiel (Toronto, Ontario)

Jasneet Nijjar (Surrey, British Columbia)

Audrey Leduc (Gatineau, Quebec)

Jacqueline Madogo (Ottawa, Ontario)

Lauren Gale (Ottawa, Ontario)

Zoe Sherar (Toronto, Ontario)

Jazz Shukla (Toronto, Ontario)

Kate Current (Cobourg, Ontario)

Simone Plourde (Montreal, Quebec)

Lucia Stafford (Toronto, Ontario)

Briana Scott (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Regan Yee (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Mariam Abdul-Rashid (Oshawa, Ontario)

Michelle Harrison (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Savannah Sutherland (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Ceili McCabe (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Malindi Elmore (Kelowna, British Columbia)

Crystal Emmanuel-Ahye (Toronto, Ontario)

Kyra Constantine (Brampton, Ontario)

Aiyanna Stiverne (Laval, Quebec)

Olivia Lundman (Nanaimo, British Columbia)

Camryn Rogers (Richmond, British Columbia)

Anicka Newell (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Alysha Newman (London, Ontario)

Sarah Mitton (Queens Municipality, Nova Scotia)

Badminton

Brian Yang (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Adam Dong (Burlington, Ontario)

Nyl Yakura (Toronto, Ontario)

Michelle Li (Markham, Ontario)

Basketball

Luguentz Dort (Montreal, Quebec)

Nickeil Alexander-Walker (Vaughan, Ontario)

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Hamilton, Ontario)

Melvin Ejim (Rocky View County, Alberta)

Jamal Murray (Orangeville, Ontario)

Dwight Powell (Toronto, Ontario)

Trey Lyles (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

R.A. Barrett; Jr. (Mississauga, Ontario)

Kelly Olynyk (Kamloops, British Columbia)

Andrew Nembhard (Vaughan, Ontario)

Dillon Brooks (Mississauga, Ontario)

Khem Birch (Russell Township, Ontario)

Shay Colley (Brampton, Ontario)

Samantha Hill (Toronto, Ontario)

Kia Nurse (Hamilton, Ontario)

Bridget Carleton (Chatham-Kent, Ontario)

Cassandre Prosper (Ottawa, Ontario)

Yvonne Ejim (Rocky View County, Alberta)

Natalie Achonwa (Guelph, Ontario)

Syla Swords (Sudbury, Ontario)

Kayla Alexander (Milton, Ontario)

Laeticia Amihere (Mississauga, Ontario)

Nirra Fields (Montreal, Quebec)

Aaliyah Edwards (Kingston, Ontario)

Kacie Bosch (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Paige Crozon (Humboldt, Saskatchewan)

Katherine Plouffe (Edmonton, Alberta)

Michelle Plouffe (Edmonton, Alberta)

Boxing

Wyatt Sanford (Montreal, Quebec)

Tammara Thibeault (Saint-Georges, Quebec)

Breakdancing

Phil Kim (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Canoeing

Alex Baldoni (Pau, France)

Connor Fitzpatrick (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia)

Laurent Lavigne (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Nicholas Matveev (Toronto, Ontario)

Simon McTavish (Sydney, Australia)

Pierre-Luc Poulin (Quebec, Quebec)

Lois Betteridge (Ottawa, Ontario)

Sophia Jensen (Chelsea, Quebec)

Sloan MacKenzie (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Katie Vincent (Mississauga, Ontario)

Michelle Russell (Halifax Municipality, Nova Scotia)

Toshka Besharah-Hrebacka (Ottawa, Ontario)

Natalie Davison (Ottawa, Ontario)

Riley Melanson (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia)

Courtney Stott (Pickering, Ontario)

Cycling

Derek Gee (Ottawa, Ontario)

Michael Woods (Toronto, Ontario)

Tyler Rorke (Wilmot Township, Ontario)

Nick Wammes (Chatham-Kent, Ontario)

James Hedgcock (Hamilton, Ontario)

Dylan Bibic (Mississauga, Ontario)

Michael Foley (Milton, Ontario)

Mathis Guillemette (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Carson Mattern (Hamilton, Ontario)

Gunnar Holmgren (Oro-Medonte Township, Ontario)

Jeffrey Whaley (L'Assomption, Quebec)

Olivia Baril (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec)

Alison Jackson (Vermilion, Alberta)

Lauriane Genest (Montreal, Quebec)

Kelsey Mitchell (Strathcona County, Alberta)

Sarah Orban (Calgary, Alberta)

Erin Attwell (Victoria, British Columbia)

Ariane Bonhomme (Gatineau, Quebec)

Maggie Coles-Lyster (Maple Ridge, British Columbia)

Sarah Van Dam (Victoria, British Columbia)

Isabella Holmgren (Oro-Medonte Township, Ontario)

Molly Simpson (Red Deer, Alberta)

Diving

Rylan Wiens (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Nathan Zsombor-Murray (Pointe-Claire, Quebec)

Margo Erlam (Calgary, Alberta)

Caeli McKay (Montreal, Quebec)

Kate Miller (Ottawa, Ontario)

Equestrian

Chris Van Martels (Chatham-Kent, Ontario)

Karl Slezak (Tottenham, Ontario)

Mike Winter (Montreal, Quebec)

Mario Deslauriers (Venise-En-Quebec, Quebec)

Camille Carier-Bergeron (Laval, Quebec)

Naïma Laliberté-Moreira (Montreal, Quebec)

Jessica Phoenix (Uxbridge Township, Ontario)

Erynn Ballard (Caledon, Ontario)

Amy Millar (Perth, Ontario)

Fencing

Nicholas Zhang (Richmond, British Columbia)

Blake Broszus (San José, California)

Daniel Gu (Edmonton, Alberta)

Maximilien Van Haaster (Montreal, Quebec)

Fares Arfa (Laval, Quebec)

François Cauchon (Montreal, Quebec)

Shaul Gordon (Richmond, British Columbia)

Ruien Xiao (Markham, Ontario)

Jessica Guo (Toronto, Ontario)

Eleanor Harvey (Hamilton, Ontario)

Yunjia Zhang (Toronto, Ontario)

Pamela Brind'Amour (Sainte-Martine, Quebec)

Golf

Corey Connors (Jupiter, Florida)

Nick Taylor (Abbotsford, British Columbia)

Brooke Henderson (Naples, Florida)

Alena Sharp (Phoenix, Arizona)

Gymnastics

Zachary Clay (Chilliwack, British Columbia)

René Cournoyer (Repentigny, Quebec)

Félix Dolci (Saint-Eustache, Quebec)

William Émard (Laval, Quebec)

Samuel Zakutney (Montreal, Quebec)

Elsabeth Black (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Shallon Olsen (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)

Cassie Lee (Toronto, Ontario)

Ava Stewart (Bowmanville, Ontario)

Aurélie Tran (Repentigny, Quebec)

Sophiane Méthot (Varennes, Quebec)

Judo

Arthur Margelidon (Montreal, Quebec)

François Gauthier-Drapeau (Alma, Quebec)

Shady Elnahas (Toronto, Ontario)

Ana Portuondo (La Prairie, Quebec)

Kelly Deguchi (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Christina Deguchi (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard (Saint-Hubert, Quebec)

Rowing

Jennifer Casson (Victoria, British Columbia)

Jill Moffatt (Victoria, British Columbia)

Abby Dent (Kenora, Ontario)

Caileigh Filmer (Saanich, British Columbia)

Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski (Calgary, Alberta)

Maya Meschkuleit (Mississauga, Ontario)

Sydney Paine (Toronto, Ontario)

Jessica Sevick (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Kristina Walker (Frontenac Islands Township, Ontario)

Avalon Wasteneys (Victoria, British Columbia)

Kristen Kit (St. Catherines, Ontario)

Rugby

Caroline Crossley (New Westminster, British Columbia)

Olivia Apps (Victoria, British Columbia)

Alysha Corrigan (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island)

Asia Hogan-Rochester (Toronto, Ontario)

Chloe Daniels (Langford, British Columbia)

Charity Williams (Victoria, British Columbia)

Florence Symonds (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Carissa Norsten (Waldheim, Saskatchewan)

Krissy Scurfield (Canmore, Alberta)

Fancy Bermudez (Edmonton, Alberta)

Piper Logan (Calgary, Alberta)

Keyara Wardley (Victoria, British Columbia)

Sailing

Justin Barnes (Pickering, Ontario)

Will Jones (Hamilton, Ontario)

Sarah Douglas (Toronto, Ontario)

Emily Bugeja (North Vancouver, British Columbia)

Antonia Lewin-LaFrance (Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia)

Georgia Lewin-LaFrance (Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia)

Shooting

Tye Ikeda (Calgary, Alberta)

Michele Esercitato (Calgary, Alberta)

Shannon Westlake (Georgina, Ontario)

Skateboarding

Cordano Russell (Carlsbad, California)

Matt Berger (Huntington Beach, California)

Ryan Decenzo (Delta, British Columbia)

Fay De Fazio-Ebert (Toronto, Ontario)

Soccer

Kailen Sheridan (Whitby, Ontario)

Gabrielle Carle (Lévis, Quebec)

Kadeisha Buchanan (Brampton, Ontario)

Evelyne Viens (L'Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec)

Rebecca Quinn (Toronto, Ontario)

Cloé Lacasse (Sudbury, Ontario)

Julia Grosso (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Jayde Riviere (Markham, Ontario)

Jordyn Huitema (Chilliwack, British Columbia)

Ashley Lawrence (Toronto, Ontario)

Adriana Leon (King Township, Ontario)

Jade Rose (Markham, Ontario)

Simi Awujo (Atlanta, Georgia)

Vanessa Gilles (Châteauguay, Quebec)

Nichelle Prince (Ajax, Ontario)

Janine Beckie (Douglas County, Colorado)

Jessie Fleming (London, Ontario)

Sabrina D'Angelo (Welland, Ontario)

Shelina Zadorsky (London, Ontario)

Surfing

Sanoa Dempfle-Olin (Tofino, British Columbia)

Swimming

Josh Liendo-Edwards (Toronto, Ontario)

Yuri Kisil (Calgary, Alberta)

Javier Acevedo (Toronto, Ontario)

Blake Tierney (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Ilya Kharun (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Finlay Knox (Okotoks, Alberta)

Tristan Jankovics (Puslinch Township, Ontario)

Alex Axon (Newmarket, Ontario)

Jeremy Bagshaw (Victoria, British Columbia)

Patrick Hussey (Beaconsfield, Quebec)

Lorne Wigginton (Calgary, Alberta)

Apollo Hess (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Audrey Lamothe (Montreal, Quebec)

Jacqueline Simoneau (Saint-Laurent, Quebec)

Scarlett Finn (Toronto, Ontario)

Joannie Newman (Grande Prairie, Alberta)

Raphaelle Plante (Quebec City, Quebec)

Kenzie Priddell (Regina, Saskatchewan)

Claire Scheffel (Brantford, Ontario)

Florence Tremblay (Rimouski, Quebec)

Taylor Ruck (Scottsdale, Arizona)

Maggie MacNeil (London, Ontario)

Mary-Sophie Harvey (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Summer McIntosh (Toronto, Ontario)

Kylie Masse (Windsor, Ontario)

Ingrid Wilm (Calgary, Alberta)

Regan Rathwell (Ottawa, Ontario)

Sophie Angus (Toronto, Ontario)

Sydney Pickrem (Dunedin, Florida)

Kelsey Wog (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Rebecca Smith (Red Deer, Alberta)

Ella Jansen (Burlington, Ontario)

Penny Oleksiak (Toronto, Ontario)

Brooklyn Douthwright (Riverview, New Brunswick)

Julie Brousseau (Ottawa, Ontario)

Emma O'Croinin (Edmonton, Alberta)

Emma Finlin (Edmonton, Alberta)

Table tennis

Edward Ly (Lachine, Quebec)

Eugene Wang (Aurora, Ontario)

Jeremy Hazin (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Mo Zhang (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Taekwondo

Josipa Kafadar (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Skylar Park (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Tennis

Félix Auger-Aliassime (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Miloš Raonić (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Bianca Andreescu (Vaughan, Ontario)

Leylah Fernandez (Boynton Beach, Florida)

Gaby Dabrowski (Ottawa, Ontario)

Triathlon

Tyler Mislawchuk (Macdonald Municipality, Manitoba)

Claude Paquet (Port-Cartier, Quebec)

Emy Legault (Montreal, Quebec)

Volleyball

Daniel Dearing (Toronto, Ontario)

Sammy Schachter (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Luke Herr (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Nick Hoag (Sherbrooke, Quebec)

Brodie Hofer (Langley, British Columbia)

Danny Demyanenko (Toronto, Ontario)

Stephen Maar (Aurora, Ontario)

Brett Walsh (Calgary, Alberta)

Xander Ketrzynski (Toronto, Ontario)

Lucas Van Berkel (Edmonton, Alberta)

Arthur Szwarc (Toronto, Ontario)

Justin Lui (Pickering, Ontario)

Fynn McCarthy (Lake Country Municipality, British Columbia)

Eric Loeppky (Steinbach, Manitoba)

Melissa Humaña-Paredes (Toronto, Ontario)

Brandie Wilkerson (Toronto, Ontario)

Heather Bansley (Toronto, Ontario)

Sophie Bukovec (Toronto, Ontario)

Water polo

Jessica Gaudreault (Ottawa, Ontario)

Rae Lekness (Calgary, Alberta)

Axelle Crevier (Montreal, Quebec)

Emma Wright (Whitby, Ontario)

Marilia Mimides (Toronto, Ontario)

Blaire McDowell (Fernie, British Columbia)

Verica Bakoc (Toronto, Ontario)

Elyse Lemay-Lavoie (Montreal, Quebec)

Hayley McKelvey (Delta, British Columbia)

Serena Browne (Montreal, Quebec)

Kindred Paul (Spruce Grove, Alberta)

Shae La Roche (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Clara Vulpisi (Montreal, Quebec)

Weightlifting

Boady Santavy (Sarnia, Ontario)

Maude Charron (Rimouski, Quebec)

Wrestling

Alex Moore (Montreal, Quebec)

Amar Dhesi (Surrey, British Columbia)

Hannah Taylor (Cornwall, Prince Edward Island)

Ana Godinez (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Linda Morais (Tecumseh, Ontario)

Justina Di Stasio (Coquitlam, British Columbia)

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