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Early morning with great light in a garden of color . . .
Great weather translates into great photos,
especially with the variety of South Dundas backdrops available
almost everywhere one glances in our community. This shot, captured at
Mariatown Park early this week, was only lacking a few viewers taking up the chairs,
although it was quite early and quite crisp on this morning . . .
43rd Year Headlined as The Great Escape opens Thursday, June 4th . . .
4-Show Summer Season of Comedy . . .
Tuesday, May 26th - Morrisburg’s Upper Canada Playhouse is one of the most successful and long-standing professional theatres in the country. The popular company has headlined its current 43rd season as The Great Escape and invites audiences to get away from the trials and tribulations of the day and escape to a world of laughter and music.
For the past several seasons The Playhouse has expanded its season to offer audiences entertaining experiences throughout the entire year with live concerts before and after its flagship summer theatre season as well as a Christmas family show.
In advance of their current upcoming summer season, audiences have enjoyed such live concerts as The Doobie Brothers Tribute: Listen To The Music, The Plowboys: This Is Country Music and Leisa Way’s: I Beg Your Parton.
The Playhouse also hosted the renowned theatre for young audiences DuffleBag Theatre, with their production of Robin Hood and they will return to The Playhouse in November with their version of Peter Pan. The season concludes its holiday family production of Everything I love About Christmas.
The Playhouse is currently gearing up for its entertaining 4-show summer series of hilarious comedies with new stories, new characters and new situations written, directed, acted and designed by some of the most talented artists in the country.
First up Thursday, June 4th to Sunday, June 28th is Norm Foster’s new laugh-out-loud comedy, Danny & Delilah, about how friendships can be found in the unlikeliest of places. Danny, a retired widower and grumpy Maple Leafs fan, isn’t sure what to think when his daughter brings home a Pakistani student who needs a place to stay. Having little in common at first, they manage to connect. Added to the mix is neighbour Muriel who has cast a romantic eye on Danny. It’s an uplifting new show by Canada’s favourite playwright.
Next up Thursday, July 2nd to Sunday, July 26th is The Beaver Club by Barb Scheffler, one of the hottest new comedies to hit the theatre scene. Join four hilarious ladies as they pile into an old car and head out on a riotous cross-country trip from Toronto to Dildo, Newfoundland. It’s a raucous trip filled with chaos, confessions and laughter at every turn and the funniest trip you’ll take this year.
The hilarious Michael Parker comedy Whose Wives Are They Anyway? follows Thursday, July 30th to Sunday, August 23rd with a huge cast of characters caught in a cover-up that’ll keep audiences in stitches. When David and John take a golfing weekend at a hotel without their spouses, they unexpectedly run into their new boss who insists on meeting their wives. In a panic John persuades the receptionist Tina to be his wife and David forces John to be his. Chaos ensues when their real wives show up!
The season wraps up Thursday, September 10th to Sunday, October 4th with The Long Weekend, one of Norm Foster’s most-produced and hysterical comedies. Max and wife Wynn invite best friends Roger and Abby to their beautiful new summer home. What’s meant to be a relaxing holiday weekend turns into a battle of wits as their pasts catch up with them, gloves come off, old scores get settled and so-called best friends discover how they really feel about each other. Foster at his best and funniest.
Leisa Way and the Wayward Band return Tuesday, October 20th to Sunday, October 25th with Get Down Tonight, their new concert of 70’s hits. It’s a high-energy concert of the greatest hits from Disco to Folk to Rock.
The season concludes Thursday, December 3rd thru Sunday, December 20th with public and school performances of Everything I Love About Christmas. A snowstorm on Christmas Eve leaves college student Susan stranded in a bus station unable to join her family for the holidays. But miracles do happen when an act of kindness, some mischievous elves and a witty Santa set off a chain of events to come to her rescue. A musical and magical Yuletide adventure for the whole family.
Buy Tickets here:
https://purchase.uppercanadaplayhouse.com/Events
Book by phone here:
(613) 543-3713 or 1 (877) 550-3650
The Hub opens in Iroquois . . .
Mayor Broad cuts opening day ribbon . . .
Monday, May 25th - South Dundas Mayor Jason Broad explained that one of South Dundas' newest projects has come full circle, idea to completion, and now serves our youngest residents and their families, supports youth in need of a variety of services, and provides historic information concerning the community to all. Mayor Broad snipped the ceremonial ribbon in opening 'The Hub' to the supportive hand-clapping of a near full house attendance, a gathering place intended for the youth crowd, ages 12 - 25 years an onward. The Hub will offer the services of both Beyond 21 and Youth Wellness Ontario with resources, supportive guidance and direction services to South Dundas yout.
The Hub is located in Iroquois in the one-time St. Cecilia's Separate School, sharing that foot-print with the Dundas County Archives and a day-care centre planned to offer 49 new day-care spaces over the coming years.
The Glengarry Inter-Agency Group, currently operating care at Iroquois Public School, and the Early Years programs at South Dundas's Municipal Centre, proposed the partnership to council recently.
In a social media post by the municipality today Mayor Broad said, “The opening of the Iroquois Hub is an important investment in the future of our community. By bringing health, wellness, employment, and social supports together in one welcoming location, we are making it easier for young people and those beyond 21 to access the services they need, when they need them. This Hub will help ensure that youth across South Dundas have the resources, guidance, and opportunities to thrive and reach their full potential.”
Witnessing the big toys at our parks . . .
One of the greatest experiences in visiting our parks is watching the young people,
stopping what they are doing and staring as the ships quietly pass on the St. Lawrence River.
They remain mesmerized, by the thought someone brought along some of the big toys . . .
Marketing our community . . .
An overcast day on the river . . .
When the sun sneaks into the mist on a very cold St. Lawrence River morning,
Boxing Day2025 at Morrisburg
Relax (meaning): See above . . .
It is indeed a spectacular stroke of good fortune that our community can so shout out such
natural appeal. Last evening at 6:59pm the Captain Henry Jackman moved into the spotlight
that was the setting sun, around the point at Mariatown. I had just set our dinner plates
on the table when she passed our frontage, excused myself, grabbed the camera
and raced to the waterfront a bit west of our place. We've seen this set-up
every fall since we moved to our current home. These sunsets and these
ships will recreate this scene time and again before the St. Lawrence
Seaway closes for the season. And you're welcome to visit anytime!
Bring your camera, take in our updated restaurant scene, and
chase the big gals climbing the waterway to inland ports . . .
There are few locations in Eastern Ontario that can provide exposure to the natural beauty
and diversity as well as does the Upper Canada Migratory Bird Sanctuary . . .
The Algotitan running into an afternoon Fall storm east of the Iroquois Lock, South Dundas . . .
The last of the fall colors captured while on a road trip thru
Williamstown and the Long Sault Parkway . . . . . .
Every once in a while we find captures that we've set aside for editing 'later'!
According to the camera data we set this one aside years ago. The camera used in the shoot is gone!
The data provides model info, dates, gps locations and more, like July 25th, 2019 at 7:21:10 a.m.
And we were using a Canon camera with a Canon 24-105mm lens.
Our parks along the river are something so special . . .
The Trillium Class CSL Baie Comeau slips past our front yard, highlighting the last
of the fall colors and dragging the cold temperatures of the Great Lakes
into the eastern ends of the St. Lawrence Seaway . . .
The sun had just dipped below a building cloud bank on the western horizon
when the Algoma Innovator slipped quietly by Mariatown's Duncan Park,
making her way to the Iroquois lock and then on to Cleveland, Ohio.
