Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Granby, Quebec
7:35 am
The temperature is +20 C, with a high predicted of +31 C. There is a high heat and humidity warning in effect.
From the Environment Canada website:
High heat and humidity warning in effect. Today A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 31. UV index 8 or very high. Tonight Cloudy periods. 60 percent chance of showers this evening. Low 19. Normals Max: 20°C Min: 10°C
We had breakfast in a village called Dunham. I had crepes with fruit and syrup. Delicious.
1:00 PM Geocaching
I tried for 2 caches in the area where we were photographing headstones in some cemeteries containing distant (dead) relatives. The first cache seemed to be missing but I made an entry for the second which was a quick find.
- GCX16Z Information touristique Dunham
- We had a delicious crepe at a restaurant across the street earlier this morning without realizing that there was a cache across the road. But we had some time on our hands during the noon hour waiting for a person to arrive at a nearby museum so we decided to seach for a nearby cache. The find itself was easy, which suited me fine.
My global total is now 981 and my Quebec total is 14.
6:50 PM
The hockey game begins in an hour.
We had a good day with the genealogy as we located two cemeteries, photographed another cemetery and visited a local museum/archives facility which specialized in genealogy records.
Here is a photo of the site.
This same view was on a recent Canadian stamp.
7:30 PM History
I finished reading the first three chapters of "Picturing the Land" while waiting under a tree (left side of the above photo).
Here is an update of one of the tables I created on June 5. The new entries are in a brighter background.
| Canadian Artists | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Name | Description |
| 1810 - 1871 | Paul Kane | Famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West. |
| 1815 - 1872 | Cornelius Krieghoff | Considered one of the most popular Canadian painters of the 19th century. |
| 1871 - 1945 | Emily Carr | West coast artist who's art was inspired by First Nations people. |
| 1877 - 1917 | Tom Thomson | Associated with the Group of Seven. |
| 1881 - 1969 | Frederick H. Varley | One of the Group of Seven. |
| 1882 - 1974 | A. Y. Jackson | One of the Group of Seven. |
| 1885 - 1970 | Lawren Harris | One of the Group of Seven. |
| 1890 - 1945 | Franklin Carmichael | One of the Group of Seven. |
| 1898 - 1992 | A. J. Casson | Joined the Group of Seven in 1926 (replacing Frank Johnston). |
| 1913 - 1931 | Group of Seven formed (7 original members, 10 when it disbanded). | |
| 1933 | Canadian Group of Painters formed (28 members). | |
I should have had both Paul Kane and Cornelius Krieghoff in my original list. I am familiar with both of them and their work, yet their names never occured to me when created the first list.