Wednesday, May 30, 2007

The Vaughan Street Jail

The Vaughan street jail in Winnipeg was built in 1881 and housed men, women and children as young as five years old. The executions were held in the court yard which now serves as a parking lot since the jail closed it doors forever in 1984.
For more information go to this site. http://www.virtual.heritagewinnipeg.com/vignettes/vignettes_125W.htm









Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Monday, April 30, 2007

Camp Hughes

These are the only WWI training trenches in North America located 10km from Carberry.
Click on the picture to make it bigger.

For the really fascinating history go to the website:
http://www.gatewest.net/~gcros/hughes/hughes.html












Sunday, April 22, 2007

My Brother Mike.

This picture was taken by Beanie, my 13 year old niece in England...I just put a nice border on it.


Thursday, April 12, 2007