Our Global Family

 

Please feel free to browse the vintage, black & white photos or the more recent color shots.  The Blog shows a few links of interest to family and friends.  You can look at either of the three albums of photos.   Reading the introduction found in the Blog will give some background information on our family and how they settled in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from Heidelberg, Germany in the late 1950's.   

The photo's comments (click 'comments' below photo) sometimes have little comments.

Uncle Albert (brother of Mother Ruth) and Aunt Sigrid were recently married in Detmold, Germany in an intimate, family ceremony.   Love is a beautiful thing.  All the best, long life and good health to both of you! Cousin Stephanie in Heidelberg, Germany e-mailed these photos.  Thanks Stephanie. 

You can easily share your photos with family or friends on the Flickr website.  Mikey G Ottawa posted a few photos including some old b&w shots from 1958 and earlier.  

 

Once you create a free account-by 'signing up', . . .you can then log-in to the account with your chosen username and password- and send photos that you wish to share . . . to the Flicker website's computers for all your friends and family to enjoy.   For free.

 

For local conditions world-wide (in english), try the site of the National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications,  Havaria Emergency and Disaster Information Services in Budapest, Hungary (RSOE) and their World Alert Map:

 

 

 

Planning a visit to Canada?  For local weather conditions across Canada, go here:

 

 

 

With radio, TV and now the Internet the world has shrunk.  Marshall Mcluhan invented the term, 'Global Village', and he meant that our world has gotten smaller as distance is no longer the barrier to communication that it once was.  Maybe 'Joe Caveman' had to shout across the valley so that his friend would know that he was not alone.  Today 'Joe Caveman' would just use his cell-phone or send an e-mail.  Here's what Wikipedia, an on-line encyclopedia says about Marshall Mcluhan:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan 

 

 

http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/  -is a tribute website hosted by Mr. Michael McLuhan (MPA).   

 

www.michaelmcluhan.com  is Mr. Michael Mcluhan's own website.  Beautiful samples of his photography can be found here.  Thank you, Mr. Mcluhan for your email.  All the best to you and yours.

Ottawa, Ontario. . .  Canada's national capital has a population of 774,072 people (Ottawa-Gatineau Metropolitan area 1,063,664 people) and I think of Ottawa as a small town with "a big city attitude" and big city attractions.  The Province of Quebec is just across the Ottawa River where we can easily see the city Hull, Quebec and the Gatineau Hills behind.  We get most of the national touring shows and attractions in Ottawa because of our status as Canada's Capital City.  Having lived in Montreal (Quebec), Vancouver (British Columbia), Calgary (Alberta) and Winnipeg (Manitoba), I now make my home here not far from Canada's National Parliament Buildings.  My cousin Rob had been visiting here from Germany and Rob took most of these photos, which I attached below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have to confess that creating and maintaining a website is new to me.  A recent visitor here left a trackback (kind of a link to a webpage) to a testing professional's website for teachers.  I noticed and unknowingly deleted the trackback.  Oops.   Sorry.   Couldn't find the site again so I am including a link to

 

http://www.assortedstuff.com/top101/ 

 

which has the top 101 items of interest for teaching professionals, and here's another resource for teachers from PBS, the American Television Public Broadcasting System: