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I have had an interest in photography since my 20s, when my friend Phil Balsam helped me pick out a used 35mm Minolta at Toronto Camera on Yonge Street, Toronto. I never mastered film, avoiding slides and wasting years paying to make prints. A whole important part of my life was lost with the Polaroid camera, not because it took bad pictures but because I gave most of them away to the subjects. I still have a 35mm Rollie with which I took most of the photos of my young daughter.
It took quite a while for me to learn on a digital camera and quite a while for digital cameras to take good pictures. Once I got away from focussing on pixels and back to understanding that great lenses are needed to take good photographs, I have felt liberated and able to concentrate on what I love about photography–seeing and remembering the world as I experience it.
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01 December 11 at 6:08am
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[...] Click here for a history of The Canadian Encyclopedia. [...]
21 May 12 at 7:48pm
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My grandmother and grandfather were Joseph Howe's cook and chauffeur. He picked them off the dock of a an immigration ship from Ireland
05 June 12 at 3:06pm
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At Michael Levine's suggestion, I'm interested in speaking with you further about a website I am proposing to develop for cbc.ca. I am an Executive Producer with CBC Radio. As you may have heard, CBC Radio is no longer producing radio drama (eg. "Afghanada") as a consequence of the latest round of budget cuts. The history of radio drama is rich indeed, and in many respects established the groundwork not only for Canadian broadcast drama, but for Canadian English-language theatre as well. I'd like very much to discuss possibilities of co-hosting a site or of cross promoting materials. I have left a voicemail message with your colleague Chantal Gagnon as well. Looking forward to speaking with you. Greg
04 July 12 at 3:58pm
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Jim: The essay on TCE is excellent. We've not talked since a coffee or lunch when you were just launching the project (presumably in the early 80s) but I'm honoured to have had a tiny part in it, have used it often, have sent students to it often, and congratulate you on the achievement. Gerry
11 September 12 at 5:26pm
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Dear Mr Marsh, Thanks for this fine retrospective. I believe one part of it is in error - and I quote: In 1973, for example, he created the Alberta Energy Company, onehalf of which was owned by the province. When the province decided to sell its 50 per cent interest, instead of offering it to another oil and gas company, it offered 7.5 million shares to Albertans. For a period of time in November 1975 representatives from brokerage firms presented themselves in shopping malls around the province offering everyone the opportunity to buy shares.[38] The Alberta government owned 49% of the company and sold the remainder to the people of Alberta at the time of its creation - and so Lougheed has his own "national oil company" two years before Petro-Canada was created. Lougheed wanted to have his "own" oil company, though he gave its president full reigns over the enterprise. By selling 51% to the public - and the Alberta public bought it all up in a flash - he was able to make it appear as though the company was other than a tool of government policy. In Alberta Views I recently wrote a thorough review of the history of royalty rates in Alberta, going back to 1931. Lougheed effectively tripled them during the 1970s, using the distraction of rising oil prices and the perceived threat posed by big oil and Ottawa as a distraction from his much needed repatriation of at least some the power over the oil industry back to the legislature in Edmonton. He used the Alberta Energy Company, royalties, new taxes and many other tools to try to diversify the Alberta economy, and our current oil sands production is also part of his doing. Thanks again for your work on this piece and on the TCE. Much appreciated, highly valued, and constantly used by us workaday public historians. Truly, David A Finch - Historian 403-277-7448
17 October 12 at 3:09pm
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greetings cousin (I think). Jim, I am contacting nieces and nephews of the late Jean Marsh of St. Sabine Quebec, as per her notarys request of me. She died Sept.27/12 of Ca.I hope this form of comm. is appropriate. My Mom Rita, is well at 92, living here in Ajax, On. Her estate is still being verified (Quebec law) and her will too. The Notary needs your address to send you info. I am helping out. could you reply me with such as I will forward it to Quebec. Unknown right now the contents of Jean's estate. If you are Jean Marsh's nephew please reply the info. THX. Steve R. Cresswell.
22 October 12 at 8:20am
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Hi How amazing to hear from you! I am at 9708-92 Street, Edmonton, T6C 3S4. I never met my Aunt Rita but would love to hear more about her. I spent a summer with Aunt Jean in Quebec when i was ver young, Jim
02 November 12 at 4:42pm
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Hi Jim, Another cousin to make your aquaintance! I am the daughter of Muriel McKinnon (nee Marsh), your Dad's sister. I live in Calgary, with my family. It would be lovely to meet for coffee or lunch when we are in each other's city! Sandra
02 November 12 at 9:46pm
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Hi Sandra! How great to hear from you. I remember how nice Aunt Muriel was to me when I was very young on Perth Avenue. I had a pet cat and named it "Cuzio" as I misheard her talking about Shakespeare in her school--obviously Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet. As I disappeared from the Marsh clan after my father was committed, it all seems a mystery to me now. I would love to meet you and will let you know if I head to Calgary. Please do the same! I will let you know when I post my photos of family that I have collected and scanned. All the best, Jim
21 October 12 at 2:52pm
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Hi James I am your cousin, heard about your web site through Steven Cresswell ,also one of our long lost cousins. I was Reg and Ruth's daughter. My eldest brother Bill and myself use to chum around with Marion. I often thought about our family members and wondering what became of them. Kudo's to you for the numerous medals you have obtained throughout your lifetime. So happy for you that you have done so well for yourself. If you would like to pass on my email address to Marion , I do not have a problem with that. It would be great to be able to share some family photos with each other. Is Marion residing in Toronto, I know that she had married? My family met up with her when my Dad passed, over 35 years ago now. How are Johnny and Sally doing , where are they residing? I remember the many times we visited with your family on Perth Avenue. Out of all the cousins, I guess you could say we were the closest. Regards
25 January 13 at 12:05pm
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Dear Mr. Marsh, I'm taking online courses in the Library Information Technology Program which are being offered by the Nova Scotia Community College. One of the courses I'm taking is called Information Services 1, and my instructor for this course has asked me to write an evaluation of The Canadian Encyclopedia website. This my 1st assignment for this course, and it's due on Wednesday, January the 30th at 10 A.M. What I would like to know is, what do you hope to achieve as the editor-in-chief of this website, and what are your plans for the furture of this site? Also, what do you feel is the purpose of this website? I assume your're very busy, so your answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions for me concerning this assignment, please send me a message at casselmantracy@yahoo.ca, and I'll try my best to answer them. Thannk you very much. Ms. Tracy Casselman
25 May 13 at 5:09pm
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21 June 13 at 12:36pm
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22 September 13 at 1:12am
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25 November 13 at 10:25pm
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Come on, you know better. You do not get a single point in Canadian football for a failed field goal--you get a single point for successfully kicking the ball into the opponent's end zone, whence the opponent cannot or will not return it. It does not have to be a field goal try to count as a single, and as the numerous failed field goals which have resulted in huge returns, some for TDs, can testify, a failed field goal can leave the kicking team much worse off in the Canadian game that it ever would in the American one.
25 December 13 at 3:41am
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When I was young, in the sixties, I knew an elderly man in Iroquois, along the St. Lawrence - Arthur Carman, a newspaper reporter, in his 80s then - who remembered the red and smoky sky the night parliament burned. Theu could see it in Iroquois. He hooked me on Canadian history at eight years old. it's only as I get older that it occurs to me that his fascinating memories are the stuff of history themselves. Regards, Susan Start, Prospect Hill Farm, Woodstock, Ontario
28 March 14 at 11:39pm
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Very interesting story ... which caught me in a google search with the words "Canada's mini-Stalingrad." I came across the word ' Ortona ' 30 years ago in pipe band when a photo of Pipe Major Edmund Esson appeared on the bulletin board at our pipe band hall. I only remember the black beard, the solemn faces of the Canadian soldiers with the name of this strange city emblazoned across the bottom of the photo. I was readying for Seminary; the word was very close to ' atonement .' The Canadians paid dearly for Ortona, a physical atonement was surely given, ' and their names liveth ever more. ' I was on the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada website and watched one of the movies that can be downloaded - photos, pics, videos shows rubble, destroyed blocks, dust, the savagery of this battle. A mini-Stalingrad it was. Thanks so much for sharing this. Cheers, Mick Stewart Webmaster, Pegasus at War * 1939-45 Webmaster, D-Day Dodgers WWII Research Group (facebook)
07 June 14 at 1:43am
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My grandfather John Wesley Reid was awarded a DSM for the sinking of U-224
19 June 14 at 5:18pm
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03 July 14 at 5:25am
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08 July 14 at 4:35pm
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Hello James, I would like to know where the very nice photo of Maple Leaf Stadium comes from, and whether it is in the public domain. I have seen it on web sites with the note "courtesy of CCA", but have been unable to find it based on that alone. I am interested in using the photo in a book I hope to publish. I'll be grateful for any information you can provide. [By the way, I believe that must be the 'Western Gap', not the Eastern.] Regards David
15 November 14 at 9:30am
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Very interesting story indeed. I would like to pay my respect for all casualties, especially the Canadian.
12 January 15 at 7:30am
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