Hazy sunset, Ottawa River, Ottawa, 7 July 1988. Kodachrome slide with characteristic magenta cast contributes to moody tone of sun setting on a day with sky hazy from smoke of wildfires in northern Quebec and Ontario. Sun hangs like an orange ball in a magenta sky above a forest tinged dark blue in the haze […]
Memories in film: Battle for a Capital
The Canadian War Museum presented “Battle for a Capital”, a mock battle of the American Revolution and the creation of the Canadian-American Boundary, 1775–1783. In 1988, some 700 American and Canadian re-enactment enthusiasts gathered at Major’s Hill Park on Saturday, July 2 and at Jacques Cartier Park on Sunday, July 3, attracting about 50,000 spectators. […]