TUESDAY MAY 7TH, 2013

May the 7th be good to you.  a Glorious day out here on the lake.  Lots of blue sky and sunshine.  We had a high of 26 back in 1982 but in 1989 Old Man winter returned with wet flurries pretty well all day and it built up on the car windshields and a bit on the ground.  I was interviewed by CTV Barrie on a Barrie City Hall matter last night but it didn't make it to Prime Time. They just showed me waving my arms wildly speaking to council when I had built up a full head of steam. I was hoping it would lead to a TV reality series called CURMUDGEON ON CALL.

ON Our Tour today...

In 1824 Beethoven's 9th Symphony was presented for the first time.  The Top of the 9th turned out to be a real winner for him.
In 1865, New Brunswick rejected the idea of Confederation, but the Tide started to turn the next year.
The same year The Canadian Land and Emigration Company acquired 10 townships in what was called Upper Canada and later formed the towns of Minden and Haliburton.
In 1906 The Ontario Hydro was formed giving Power to the People.
In 1915, a German Submarine sank the Cunard ocean liner the Lusitania.  For a short time she was the worlds biggest ship.  When war broke out she wasn't suitable for troops so she carried Military cargo but on May 7th she was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with a loss of 1198 Lives.

Lusitania in 1907

In 1920, 7 young Artists held their first exhibition of their paintings, at the Art Gallery of Toronto and their 

work attracted a lot of attention.  They believed that the rugged topography of northern Ontario summoned a new spirit and perhaps symbolized a new age.  Working with a lush palette and a voluptuous sense of form, they created a new vision of Canada's Landscape and shared it with the world.  "THE GROUP OF 7".  I have always felt that Gordon Lightfoot has done a similar thing in song. Tommy Thompson did not live to see the formation because he died in 1917.  They did pick up 3 more artists along the way to actually become a group of 10.

Arthur Lismer's September Gale, Georgian Bay

1945 on this date..In a RHEIMS FRANCE schoolhouse Germany Signed the armistice ending WORLD WAR II . It was V.E. DAY.

In  1950, Guy Lombardo' and his Royal Canadians "THIRD MAN THEME" had just Peaked at No. 1 on the pop music charts and even on Old Lang's Signs as well.
In 1985 The Edmonton Oilers won their 2nd Stanley Cup with a 7-3 win over the Chicago  Black Hawks.
In 1993 Bill 86 in Quebec under Robert Bourassa allowed Interior English Signs if they were smaller than the french signs.  That was big of them, but of course today PREMIER TREASONEAU is trying to wipe out English altogether.

BIRTHDAY PEEPS ON THIS DATE.

ACTOR Gary Cooper (1901-1961) "High Noon" etc., Teresa Brewer (1931-2007) "Put Another Nickle In", John Oates of Hall and Oates is 64 today, Darren Mc Gavin (1922-2006). He was 61 when he did his most Memorable Movie "A Christmas Story".  He was also well-remembered for his TV series "Night Stalker".  It was sort of the forerunner of the X-Files types of TV shows...THE TREW Is Out there.
Also born on this date was Poet Robert Browning (1812-1889) Football's Johnny Unitas (1933-2002),
Tschovsky (1840-1893) Brahms in 1833, and Alexandre Ludwig (21). The Young Canadian starred in "Hunger Games".  Gaby Hayes, Roy Rogers  sidekick in 41 movies (1885-1969), Eva Peron (1919-1952) and Percy Faith was born on this date in 1908 in Toronto.  This is his Greatest Hit and one of the Greatest Instrumentals of all time.



What  beautiful song for a beautiful day.

and finally...

I was at a Garden  Centre and I asked for something kind of HERBY...They gave me a Volkswagon with No Driver.

mornin' everybody....mornin'