Resimleri Kingston Havaalanı

Stone monolith, about 3 m. tall.

Snake Island used to have a few tall elm trees before the cormerants arrived. That is Kingston in the background.

Old Crystal Springs Public School with 2 rooms, used until 1950 serving an area from Lake Ontario, to Bath Road and west to Collins Bay. Replace by RG Sinclair P.S. with 5 class rooms. About 20,000 people live in that area now. Now a private residence.

Bath Road at Bayridge Drive

This scenic rocky head of land was given the name "N..... Head" a hundred years ago. It was considered pollitically incorrect, so it is not called that any more.

The man made lake at Little Cataraqui Conservation area.

This stream starts as a spring right before your eyes. It drains a seasonal lake 0.5 km due south. In the summer, it is a pasture. The Rideau Trail passes just behind this spring.

Sunset in Kingston Harbour, Sept. 1 2012, looking west. Near Snake Island.

This may be a gentle grade for hikers on the K&P hiking trail, but it was a lot of work for heavy locomotives 100 years ago. You can see more in the spring and fall with the leaves off the trees.

Trinity United Church in Elginburg, built as a Wesleyan Methodist church in 1863. It is very similar to one built in Sydenham in 1867 and one in Westbrook in 1861.

Hawthorn Cottage built as a home in 1866, now a branch of the Frontenac County Public Library. Does this look like a public library?

Holy Name Catholic Church built in 1889 with sand stone from Sunbury across the Rideau Canal from Joyceville. They still operate the quarry there. The bell was made in West Troy N.Y. by Menely in 1898.

Record low water levels expose the flat rocky beach in Reddendale. (Evertt Point) View looking east. There were shore batteries here during the war of 1812 and it engaged a fleet of American invaders on November 11, 1812, the Americans severely damaged the unarmed Simcoe off Amherst island and it was run aground about 200 m. east of this spot, in 9 feet of water. The Royal Artillery's 6 pdr. cannon drove off the American invaders from this point.

This huge glacial erratic boulder was brought here during the last ice age, from many kilometers to the north east.

Full moon on Bath Road, Sept 1 2012.

Royal Kingston Curling Club, founded in 1820, It moved here in 2006. It has 6 sheets of ice and about 650 members.

The maple sugar house at the Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area.

Methodist Church, built 1878, now used for other purposes. It is probably built of Napanee brick brought in by the new railway at that time. That is when brick replaced stone in the area.

After a blizzard in February 2013.

It is easy to forget that noisy polluting steam engines once chuged along this trail over 135 years ago. Looking east.

Feed old cars in the left end, get steel mill ready scrap at the right end. Kimco Steel takes your old car, they remove the engine and transmission, tires, gas tank and the American Pulverizer chews up any car into little bits in 35 sec. with 2,500 hp. Looking west. They have their own railway spur to take the scrap to any steel mill of their choice.

Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation area after an April ice storm.

Four hundred million year old grey limestone sits on top of 1.2 billion year old red granite. The limestone extends to the Gulf of Mexico and to the Rocky Mountains. The granite goes to the Arctic and Atlantic. There is 800 million years of missing geological history, it was a period of errosion. The granite is part of the Frontenac Arch, which is a band that cuts across the St.Lawrence River here. Looking north.

This is the start of the K&P Trail built on the Kingston and Pembroke Railway bed. The K&P went from Kingston City Hall in 1875 to Godfrey, and only reached Renfrew in 1885, but it kept it's name, K&P. The tracks were purchased by the CPR in 1901, and the the last of the tracks were lifted in 1986. This part of the trail is just an access arm to the railway bed. The free public parking lot is at the west end of Dalton Avenue, easy to find.

Water seepage freezes upon contact with -22 C air.

You can access the K&P Trail here. There is a spacious parking lot on the south side of the highway. It is ideal for hiking, cycling, jogging, horse back riding.