CCDH, formerly the National Heritage Digitization Strategy, is a cross-sectoral coalition of memory organizations committed to expanding digital access to Canada’s cultural heritage. We strive to build an inclusive community of practice; enabling and coordinating collaboration, capacity, and resources to advance shared priorities.
I may have posted this link before. It's an interesting find. I will send it to the Ontario Barn Preservation group and... I wonder if it would be a good source/place for my own rural and urban exploration photos. Unbuilt heritage.
Tis the season for driving along country lanes and finding apple trees loaded with fresh fruit, never picked. Kind of sad those trees that grow forgotten along the road. Once they would have been picked, the apples used in pies or eaten right off the tree. Now people just drive on by and only notice them in passing. Yet those are our history, our heritage.
Next time you see an apple tree stop and pick a few. Some may be bug eaten, but some of the brown patches are only places where it rubbed on the tree branch and not anything you can’t just peel away. It may be the best apple you have ever had, if you give them a chance. Of those I picked almost all were edible, not bug eaten as I expected they would be. One was especially delicious. It’s a shame I don’t know what kind of apple tree it came from.
Would you grow an apple from seed? Have you ever grown a plant from seed? Why not try one, even something tropical or exotic and have it grow by your writing space. Keep your seedling company and let it inspire you with something fresh and growing where you work.
Heritage exploration on the Prairies. From ghost towns to hospitals and everything in between, our focus is documenting sites through historical research, photography, videography, and drone footage.
We specialize in abandoned photography across Saskatchewan.
I have a deep connection to forgotten spaces - remnants of the past in the vast expanse of the Saskatchewan landscape. Chasing Yesterday Photography embodies a quest for memory, history, and the beauty found in the forgotten, all intricately tied to the endless skies of the prairie. It’s about the stories waiting to be discovered and shared.
The museum consists of ten heritage buildings, communities in the former townships of Cornwall and Osnabruck, which were dismantled and then flooded in July 1958 for the St. Lawrence Seaway and Hydro Electric project being implemented. The Lost Villages Historical Society. Long Sault, Ontario
our history was changed forever when the Lost Villages were submerged in 1958:
Ancient lands of the Mohawk People—obliterated.
Locales where United Empire Loyalists forged a new future—lost.
Fertile farmland, abundant orchards, old growth forests—drowned.
An 1813 battlefield, where the Battle of Crysler’s Farm was waged—submerged.
The thundering and once-famous Long Sault Rapids—silenced.
Loved ones at rest in their graves, including my grandmother’s “mama,” whom she lost to tuberculosis at age 14—never to be visited again.