Canada History

Montreal has all of these cool murals painted on sides of buildings. Here are a few I encountered this week.

Yay! Fall is just around the corner! I love how Jesus created Fall to delight us with so many colors! I get kind of tired of greeeeeeeen the rest of the year.

This weekend's excursion was to a historical village called Upper Canada Village. It's 2 hours west of Montreal. It's a working village meant to represent 1866.

There are craftsmen producing items from their trade. This is the carpenter.

This is the schoolhouse. I found it very practical that the benches are under the windows instead of in rows. That way the students get more light from the windows.

Here's the broom maker.

This is the sawmill.

I found the mechanisms of this mill fascinating. Running water from below turns the crank which makes the HUGE saw go up and down to cut logs into lumber. The saw is just to the right of center. You can see the sawdust falling from the cut.

We learned more of Canada's history by visiting this village. I love learning about Canada's history and seeing where it crosses over with the history of the USA, especially being so close to the border.

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