Liz (Janet) Tobin almost ready to decamp from X

Our crews are active at a multiple alarm structure fire at 140 Centennial Parkway N.

@ATwoSpiritBear1 @SpiritBear @BearsSpirit @WarwickshireCRO @cblackst Sorry it had been a while since @ATwoSpiritBear1 has been in touch. Could you send us an address so that we can send a small package to @BearsSpirit for Juniper Spirit Bears. We have to downsize and move by next Spring.

@SpiritBear @BearsSpirit @WarwickshireCRO perhaps our caregivers, families & friends could make a trip to Ottawa & visit this new play space. Even better perhaps they could meet @cblackst & maybe some of the independent senators.

@AStreetNearYou I am recently back from a very quick trip to the UK. It has made me realise how important I think it is to start remembering #SecondWorldWar names , memorials & narratives. It could be a similar & improved format from your fantastic work to date.

#OnThisDay 27 September 1925 the Hensingham war memorial in #Hensingham,Whitehaven, #Cumbria was dedicated and unveiled. This memorial includes 36 #FirstWorldWar names #warmemorials100 ift.tt/gQKxqB1

@WarwickshireCRO @heritageopenday @ATwoSpiritBear1 hopes that he/they are not boxing above their weight . Might need a parachute for a hasty exit at closing time.

One day to go until our @heritageopenday behind the scenes tours! Who's coming? Chambearlin is hiding out in one of the places you'll visit on your tours - our strongrooms! Can you spot him? Let us know in the comments! #WheresTheBear #Chambearlin #HeritageOpenDays #Archives

@LizzieHelenMay Hoping for informative finger posts as I navigate my way round Great Yarmouth UK next Friday. On a very short trip to revisit some family history.

@postcarddaily I am more in favour of celebrating the mothers and other women of Confederation. Warwick and Rutter had some interesting women on their family tree stretching back to the 1860's.

"The Fathers of Confederation - 1867", by Canadian Post Card Co., no. 11943-C. The image is based on Robert Harris' iconic 1884 painting, lost in the fire at the Centre Block of Parliament in 1916. The card appears to have been one of a series printed for the "1867 Restaurant" - the name Shell Oil gave the family restaurants at its 1960s-era highway service stations. At the rear of the image, which is an inauthentic pastiche of attendees at the Charlottetown and Quebec conferences of 1864, we see Sir John A. Macdonald, standing, flanked by Sir Hector-Louis Langevin and Sir George-Étienne Cartier. There are also the two John Hamilton Grays (PEI and New Brunswick), in case anyone should conclude that "J. H. Gray" was carelessly included twice.

@postcarddaily @AStreetNearYou have you had an opportunity to visit the restored locomotive?

"Model of London and South Western Railway Locomotive" at the Science Museum, London. No. 62 in a set (presumably for that Museum). Unused postcard. I don't know what became of this model, but an 1893 LSWR locomotive from the Museum, also designed by William Adams, was recently fully restored and given to the Swanage Railway in Dorset, where it is once again in service after 75 years as a museum piece. swanagerailway.co.uk/locomotives-st…

@WarwickshireCRO @heritageopenday @ATwoSpiritBear1 checked for #WheresTheBear and we think you are hiding in plain sight right beside the front door. We hope you wave a 🐾 to all 🐻 visitors!

Chambearlin is so excited for the @heritageopenday tours in a couple of weeks time, that he's decided to hide out a bit closer to home in anticipation! Can you spot him? Let us know! #WheresTheBear #ExploreYourArchive #Chambearlin #Archives #Mascot #HeritageOpenDays

I was in the audience that evening along with my sidekick @ATwoSpiritBear1 . We had the privilege of talking to both presenters after the event. As we migrate from Twitter we will take the memory with us.

dailynews.mcmaster.ca/events/in-conv…. One of the best events I have attended at McMaster.

@postcarddaily There's also a WWI link to Close Avenue at @AStreetNearYou with some interesting details about several of the fatalities. More info at Lives of the First World War website as well.

"Close Avenue - Toronto, Can.", Warwick Bros. & Rutter no. 4025S. The second in our series of obscure Toronto streets that somehow got their own Warwick postcards.* This time, we're in the west end, in Parkdale. Close Avenue runs N-S from Queen St. down to Springhurst Av. and the railway tracks. (It's right between the much more familiar Jameson Av. and Dunn Av.) The remaining houses on Close Avenue are virtually all on the west side of one block ... which happily turns out to be the block in this image. Rather than having to rely on @StevenW24515280 this time, I took the word of the postcard's sender, who wrote to her daughter Mabel Simon in Ohio: "Do [you] know this picture. It [is] from King up. I thought it very good." And it turns out that this is indeed looking north from King St., with 128 Close Avenue at left. maps.app.goo.gl/1J1JUW68quK4uL… *The previous Toronto street, clear across town, was Leuty Ave. in the Beach: x.com/postcarddaily/…

@DebsaDelight Our pre 1921 era house was situated at a 90 degree angle to the current configuration! The entire neighbourhood was built along & on top of a creek. It meandered through an industrial area to Lake Ontario. The current municipal review is digging up all kinds of new details.

We’ve just taken a carpet up in our 1921 house to find original ?art deco tiles and some 1950s Brutalist? lino next to each other. Cool!

@CraigBaird There were lots of references to the Princess Pats when the Lives of the First World War website was live between 2014 -2018. I added a few as they are an interesting regiment. @AStreetNearYou continues to accept details about casualties etc. within the CWGC time frame.

Sources: Canadian War Museum: buff.ly/BNWVgjF Government of Canada: buff.ly/xfvHknQ Canadian Encyclopedia: buff.ly/sC6CQ3a Macleans: buff.ly/IbKoXsx

On Aug. 4, 1914, after Germany refused to withdraw from neutral Belgium, Britain declared war. Since Canada had dominion status, it entered the war with Britain. This is the story of Canada's mobilization for the First World War. 📸 LAC PA-016778 🧵 1/12

@RevdPye @GilesMacDonogh @pirateirwin @militaryhistori @MargyMayell @alanhinkes @MalcolmCGodfrey @theskibeagle @oldtoonloon @EdnaKB2 @AntoineVanner We are now on the brink of environmental disaster as well and still don't seem to have learned the lesson. I will at least credit the Earl with my fondness for Twinings Earl Grey.

3 Aug 1914, Sir Edward Grey (1862-1933), Liberal MP, as he was looking out from his window at the Foreign Office, with first of gas lights along the Mall being lit, said to a friend, ‘the lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime’. #WW1

@HertzBarry @canadianstage I think your son's reaction was definitely the best part . According to my preschool report book around 1946 to 1948 I was sometimes unusually vocal as well in the school's front garden in North London UK. My dream was probably to perform on Hampstead Heath!

Wonderful evening last night @canadianstage Dream in High Park, which is truly one of the most unique spaces and set-ups in the city. Great time for the whole family. (Except for — or perhaps especially — the part where my three-year-old yelled, “Bye, Romeo!”)

@DebsaDelight As my paternal grandmother told me when I was about 5 years old. "War is always a terrible waste". She remembered WWI & the deaths of her brothers & other relatives along with many young men from their Norfolk village.

“The war to end all wars” was declared on this day in 1914 My grandad died. My mum’s stepdad was in for 4 years and came back to a life selling matches. My husband’s two great uncles died and his grandfather seriously wounded and in hospital for 6 months. #WW1 #Lestweforget

Gardening advice for children 1948 style. I have a copy a "Child's Garden of Verses " by Robert Louis Stevenson. A gift from my parents, & I still remember the names of most of the flowers in our garden. My pocket money sometimes depended on horticultural chores!

Celebrating #SundayYellow with Coreopsis which always attracts bees. Lots of seed heads so hopefully more plants to follow. There have been occasional Black Monarch butterflies visiting the flowers but never when my phone camera is handy @LucyLondon7 & global gardening friends.

@jamesinealing @DebsaDelight & @postcarddaily could you post this to your followers to help James out please. My brain is fried by the heat in Southern ON CA this morning but I will post to some private Facebook groups.

This made me laugh when I went to buy some groceries today. Since we are in the middle of a heatwave I'll put them in the back of the kitchen cupboard for an autumn treat.