^^^^^ Ferland’s grandpa?

Quebec City, 1916
(colourized photo)

... wooden planks?  I tried to "look it up," but so far no luck. 

Wood instead of mud after a rain.  More info here >> https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/en/citoyens/patrimoine/quartiers/vieux_quebec/interet/rue_du_petit_champlain.aspx

Part of my "looking up" was asking the all-knowing Google for corduroy roads and [wooden] plank roads/streets in Quebec City.

Seems I can't win fer losin'.

Google’s got its head in the sand. There’s all kinds of references to that street….

(or as my long-suffering high school English teacher, Mrs. Lindsay, would sternly correct."Charles, it should be "There are all kinds..." )

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Originally posted by chuckv97

Google’s got its head in the sand. There’s all kinds of references to that street….

(or as my long-suffering high school English teacher, Mrs. Lindsay, would sternly correct."Charles, it should be "There are all kinds..." )

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Ah, yes, "Charles". As one of our high school teachers, Mr. Khouri, corrected a student, "Robert! Your name is Robert. Your parents did not christen you 'Bob'!"

I found info re. the street ... some mentioned cobblestones, none [including your link* ^^] mentioned wooden planking.

* unless I'm farther gone than I think I am.  

[Fwiw, given the other options available (?), wooden planking seems a bit odd to me ... or is poetic license being applied?]   

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Originally posted by Owen

I found info re. the street ... some mentioned cobblestones, none [including your link* ^^] mentioned wooden planking.

* unless I'm farther gone than I think I am.  

[Fwiw, given the other options available (?), wooden planking seems a bit odd to me ... or is poetic license being applied?]   

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Merci.   But, but, but, I think I have a better solution .... just get you to do my "research."  

More from Old Canada Series >> my Facebook  >> BHO.

Caption is: "Grain ships loading at Churchill, Manitoba in 1955." 

[But a bit farther back in history ... 1931 I believe .... my Dad was a carpenters helper during some of the initial construction.]

And still more from O.C.S.

"Canadian pilot, Captain Stanley Tucker, with the first Ford Mustang ever built. Tucker purchased the vehicle on April 14, 1965 in Newfoundland at the end of it's promotional tour across Canada. Ford Mustangs were not officially launched until 3 days later. Ford, after realizing they had meant to keep the original car, bought back the vehicle for a significant bonus shortly after.

I think it was in '66 when a friend of a friend* won a Mustang.   He had submitted a jingle in a contest run by Players' cigarettes ... and was one of a few winners.   It was painted white/blue in the diagonal-slash (?) style of the cigarette package; he had to sign a contract that he wouldn't change the paint scheme for a year. **   As far as I know the company never used his jingle.

* ya sure!!

** that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!!

As kids, pre-1964 Mustang birthing, we’d make the rounds of all the auto lots in September to check out the new models , collecting the glossy brochures along the way. We’d tell the chain-smoking salesmen that Dad was looking to buy a new car. One year in August of 1964 we caught wind that they were going to test drive the new 1965 model Ford on the just-completed Hwy 405 that ran from the QEW to the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge. We bicycled out there and were amazed how cool the new, sleek & square-ish look of those Fords were. I went and bought the amc model car kit of it as soon as it came in at “The Hobby Shop” in downtown St. Catharines, only a stone’s throw from Garden City Arena where Rex Stimers called out the very first “20-bell save!” 
to wit, the 1964 and 1965 Fords

We met a lady [not that it matters, but maybe early to mid-60s y.o.] at a fes-tee-val a few weeks back.  As things sometimes do, her trying to show/teach me something about singing/music turned to my wife's preference for early Mustangs, whereas given my druthers I'd go for a 69-70 Cougar.  The lady had absolutely no inkling what either car looked like.  My wife is  f-a-r from being a car person (?), still she found it odd (?) that "everybody" didn't know what that era Mustang looked like.   

I guess it's not history per se.... unless a meteorite strike 214 million years ago counts as history.  It pops up periodically/regularly/??  on my Facebook page:

"There is an inland island in Canada that is larger in area than the lake in which it is situated.    René-Levasseur Island is a large island in the centre of Lake Manicouagan in Quebec.   The geological structure was formed by the impact of a meteorite 214 million years ago."

And more that's not history ... at least not yet.   CFIA cull of B.C. ostriches,  https://www.msn.com/en-ca/society-culture-and-history/general/a-timeline-of-b-c-ostrich-farm-s-battle-to-prevent-cull-of-400-birds/ar-AA1MC01S?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Have gotten most of my info from our news networks, and I expect there are things we know and things we don't know and things we know we don't know, etc.  but it now seems to boil down to A) owners asking for birds to be tested, and B) CFIA saying policy must be followed [and maybe including a little taunting/intimidation .... We'll come at a time of our choosing and you won't know we're coming. [maybe not verbatim, but I think I've got the gist.]

What do all you you-alls think?  At the risk of assuming too much  ... black? .... white?   ... gray?

I lost focus after reading Tamara Lich

Say what?!?!?    I just picked that site as a source of background info... didn't read it carefully enough to see that T.L. was involved. 

Until I get around to re-reading it, I don't see that her "involvement" (?) would go beyond commenting on it ... same as for anybody/nobody. 

Edit: I'm confused.  I skimmed thru it again and see no reference to T.L.   Or did you mean that you'd been previously reading something by T.L. and it was still taking up space in yer noggin? ... or ??? 

[Or does my not seeing reference to T.L. mean that I really am "losing it"??    ]

I have mental baggage re T.L. ,, I’ll get help for it some day..

... so maybe I'm not losing it??   

As my long-suffering high school English teacher, Mrs. Lindsay, would sternly scold,” Owen, it would behoove you to do a thorough reading of the article; "skimming" is not an option in my class!" 

Well, I'll be!!!   Thar she be in da plain Henglish and black-and-white to boot.

[Like I mentioned previously about you doing my research.... are you interested  in volunteering as my poof reader/fact checker?  I'm pretty sure CBC/CTV/Global didn't mention that T.L. had been a "performer" at a concert ... heck I don't even recall them mentioning concerts/entertainment/??]

Sorry for my folks pass ... I might get around to trying to do better. 

Fwiw, Some teacher or other, I think 'twas Mr. Ritchie, gave us explicit instruction on how to skim.   Not sure if he included instruction on when to skim.

I suppose it's more trivia that history per se??

"Before a redesign in 2019, Mac the Moose was 9.8 meters (32 feet) tall. The city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, modified the statue with new antlers that year, increasing its height to 10.36 meters (34 feet) and allowing it to reclaim the title of the world's tallest moose statue.

The changes to Mac the Moose were a response to a friendly international rivalry with the town of Stor-Elvdal, Norway, and its own large moose statue.

1984: The concrete and steel sculpture, Mac the Moose, was built in Moose Jaw and held the title of the world's tallest moose for more than three decades.

2015: A new, shiny silver moose statue named Storelgen was erected in Stor-Elvdal, Norway. At about 30 centimeters (12 inches) taller, it dethroned Mac as the world's tallest.

January 2019: Following a viral video from a Canadian comedy duo, public support grew for Mac to reclaim his title. Suggestions included adding a hat, but a more popular option was larger antlers.

March 2019: A "Moose Truce" was declared between the two towns, funded by a $25,000 donation from Moosehead Breweries.

October 2019: Construction was completed on Mac's new, larger, but lighter antlers. The old antlers were removed and placed at the base of the statue.

After 2019: With his increased height, Mac the Moose became the tallest moose statue again. In exchange, Norway's Storelgen was granted the undisputed title of the "world's shiniest and most attractive" moose."

“ Construction began on February 19, 1967, and completed in 15 months at a cost of $3.5 million.[8] The column of the tower was built from an unprecedented continual pour of concrete. Pouring began May 15, 1967, and was completed 24 days later at an average growth of 7.6 m (25 ft) per day, a rate that was praised by industry officials as an "amazing feat of technical and physical workmanship".[9]

Upon completion, the Husky Tower stood 191 metres (626 ft) tall and was the tallest structure of its type in North America.[3] It dominated the Calgary skyline, standing well over twice the height of the previous tallest structure in the city, Elveden House.[9] Developers deliberately misled the public, claiming the tower would stand 187 metres (613 ft), in the hopes of preventing competing developers from surpassing the Husky Tower's height record. Shortly after officials in San Antonio, Texas, attempted to claim the record in announcing the completion of the 190-metre (622 ft) Tower of the Americas, developers revealed the Husky Tower's true height.”

I did not know* most of ^^ details.  One year in the early 70s it served very well as a landmark for a friend and I when we were "Stampeding."   We had learned enough about the lay out of downtown and the Stampede grounds, so that each "morning  after" we could find our way back... and Bob was our uncle.  

* or 'twas in one ear and out the other.