• memories of welland canal area

    From August Abolins@2:221/360 to All on Tue Jan 28 23:22:33 2020
    For any of you that might be interested in the "memories" of the Welland
    Canal region, check out..

    https://WellandHistory.ca

    It is a site that I first started building in 2010 for a couple a ladies
    that prefer to be known only as S & B. ;)

    It is still running on the original design from 10 years ago. But since
    then, it has been "split" into 3 sections due to the accumulated data.
    I've only added a random banner image to the MAIN site a few years ago
    to dress it up a bit.

    1. MAIN SITE = WellandHistory.ca (this one loads slow, so be patient)
    2. TALES (normal loading speed)
    3. EVENTS (normal loading speed)

    Each section has independent Search. A minimum 4-character search
    yields better results. Search skims through all articles, photos and
    user comments.

    The ladies transcode the newspaper articles from the original material,
    full citations maintained, and send then to me. I add any photos and
    adjust any editing.

    The picture Gallery in the MAIN (albiet slow) section is the most popular.

    It may be prudent to eventually move the Gallery into its own section,
    but that will have to wait for now.

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    Enjoy!
    ..A

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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Wed Jan 29 07:09:54 2020
    Aug wrote --

    https://WellandHistory.ca

    That is a really nice site.
    Bookmarked and will return when I have more time.
    I liked the comment about people forgetting their history. Too many
    people (young and older) think if something happened before they were born it has no meaning.... ==sigh==
    There is a local history FB page which often has pictures of old
    Huntington, which I save in my collection. So many of those places are gone.
    Several years ago I started recording, mostly for my own knowledge,
    using city directories what used to be where. With these photo's I'm able to see what that site looked like.
    Arm chair historian Joe
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