Tag: Toronto
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Oma Says
Read More: Oma SaysThe Collected Sayings of Oma Brouwer These sayings were written down by Mina Brouwer in a ledger, as she thought of them, and typed out later by one of her descendants. The text recognition and translations come courtesy of Google Lens
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Protected: Later Events and Conclusions
Read More: Protected: Later Events and ConclusionsThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Protected: The Years 1960 – 1984
Read More: Protected: The Years 1960 – 1984There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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A New Life in Canada
Read More: A New Life in CanadaChapter 11 A NEW LIFE IN CANADA On May 12, after eight days at sea, the Brouwer family arrived in Quebec City. First they had to go into a large hall and had to wait for a long time. There their papers where checked again. Finally they were allowed to board the train. This part…
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Memories
Read More: MemoriesChapter 12 The Ramblings of Ineke Pennings-Brouwer What is a Brouwer? This is the Brouwer book. Have you ever wondered what the first Brouwer was like? Brouwer comes from the brewer industry, someone who brews beer. Did he pick his name from his business or because he loved brewed beer. I think he was a…
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2021 – Herb Lake
Read More: 2021 – Herb LakeBy staying close to access points for our canoe camping we’re more likely to end up mixed in with cottages. Here again though, like Wolf Lake
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November
Read More: NovemberThe road between Orangeville and Listowel stretched ahead of me, endlessly. A fine drizzle obscured
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Wilderness Windows
Read More: Wilderness WindowsI like to imagine what it was like then — my neighbourhood, or ravine-riven Toronto, or the Sarnia savannah. It would be nice, just once, to hike through old woods from the lake shore to the escarpment or High Park to Forest Hill, or along the beach from Centennial to Bright’s Grove, and see nothing…
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Keep in the Castle
Read More: Keep in the CastleBuild walls to keep out the bad and you have a small garden of Eden — ‘paradeisos’, literally, an enclosed park. Castles and their compounds, cities with walls and even humble homes are meant to be places of peace and well being, protecting us from threatening forces. They are not aggressive by nature (though they…
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A Royal Child
Read More: A Royal ChildI brought the conversation to the town gardens where I had first met her father and which we had both enjoyed for so long. But now, Jan Koning was finished.