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Canada Day Parade, Courtenay, July 1, 2019
Shakesides 2013 - Photo carried in the Canada Day Parade 2019
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Parade9Gordon
Parade10Josie
Parade11Judy
Parade12Lawrence
Parade13Marilyn
Parade14JimJoy
Parade15DavidKris
Parade16AllisonGordon
Parade17AngelaKate
Parade18BrianLucianoGordon
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Parade20Jim
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The Saga of the Shakesides Windows
The windows prior to June 2016
Graffiti fix Feb 6, 2016
Front June 2016
Front Basement Feb 1, 2016
Front Window February 1, 2016
Plain boards - Nov 18, 2015
Back - October 10, 2015
Vandalism - February 25, 2016
The windows June 10 to July 26, 2016
Artist at work July 25 2016
At Work July 26 2016
BackJuly26 2016
Front July 26, 2016
Side July 26, 2016
Side July 26, 2016
Back July 26, 2016
Canada Day 2016
Front June 2016
Front Basement July 26, 2016
Front Window July 26, 2016
Front Window June 2016
House Back July 26, 2016
Detail house back July 26, 2016
House Front July 26, 2016
'Mack' on front porch - AGM June 11, 2016
Painting July 25, 2016
Detail painting July 25, 2016
Front June 2016
West side of house July 26, 2016
The windows July 27 to August 6, 2016
Town painted front window July 27, 2016
Town ladder and turned boards, July 27, 2016
Town truck and turned boards - July 27, 2016
Lower Window - July 31, 2016
Front window - August 6 2016 - Im (sic) Sorry ... Only cowards fear the light (candle) Be on your heart
Shakesides, including windows, Mack Laing’s Birthday, February 6, 2018
GraffitiFeb6 2018
GraffitiFeb6 2018BackDoor
GraffitiFeb6 2018FrontDeck
GraffitiFeb6 2018FrontPorch
GraffitiFeb6 2018FrontWindow
GraffitiFeb6 2018Side
GraffitiFeb6 2018Sideb
GraffitiFeb6 2018UnderFrontPorch
Invasives Removal and Plant Restoration at Shakesides
– Summer 2015 to present
2016 Invasives Clearing
Fawn Lily Planting - May 30 2016
Fawn Lily Planting - May 30 2016
April 27 2016 - Front Corner Before
August 3 2015 - Back before
August 14 2015 - Back before
August 8 2015 - Front before
August 17 2015 - Front Before
October 10 2015 - After
Aprilc27 2016 - Corner after
November 2015 - After
October 2015 - Clearing Himalayan Blackberry & Ivy
FrontNov 2015
Fall 2015 - Garbage
Fall 2015 Garbage2
May 2016 -Garbage
March 2016 - Garbage pile
March 2016 - Restored marsh
October 2015 - Restored marsh
Waiting - May 2016
April 2016 - Trash
Walnut tree - October 2015
HappyBirthdayParty2015
MackLaingBirthdayCake2015
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GroupBirthday2015
2016 Birthday 1
2016 Birthday 2
2016 Birthday 3
2016 Birthday 4
2016 Birthday 5
2016 Birthday 6
2016 Birthday Fred Kate
2016 Birthday Gordon Fred
2016Birthday Louis Paul Fred
2016 Birthday Mack Angela
2016 Birthday MLHS Toast
BirdPosters
Cake
Cartoons
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PartyFeb6 2018
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Stanhope House - Details
Stanhope Floor Plan
Aladdin Guarantee
Aladdin Reddi Cut Ad
Stanhope Details
1- View of bank before clearing - October 1922
2- Homesite 1922
3 - Homesite 1922
4 - Land Clearing October 1922
5 - Camp, Land Clearing December 1922
6 - Homesite 1922
7 - Homesite 1922
8 - Homesite 1922
9 - Homesite 1922
10 - Homesite 1922
11- Mack Laing' s first lesson in falling lumber October1922
12 - Digging basement with Allan Stewart March 1923
13 - Carpentering, HomeBuilding May 1923
14 - House June 1923
15 - Home Completed October 1923
16 - House Completed (from rear) Autumn 1923
November 2015 -Lamium Cleared
17 - Beginning the Road - June 15 1929
18 - Big Bang, 10 stitcks dynamite, Stump Going Up - March 7 1938
19 - Boring a big one - March 2 1938
20 - Clearing after 100 Sticks (dynamite) with Eugene Croteau
21- Cutting New Road - 1929, Mack Laing
22 - Cutting New Road -1929 with Eugene Croteau
23 - Cutting New Road - Not All Stumps Are Blown
24 - New Road, Creek - April 26 1929
25 - Stump Blasting, New Road - June 14 1929
29 - Clearing maple for barn site May 1942
30 - Clearing - Feb 25 1943
26 - Mack Laing bucking burley maple - March 2 1937
31 - Last Clearing, N end of lot - Feb 23 1943
27 - March 8 1938 - J McKenzie, Tom Wright
28 - March 8 1938 - J, McKenzie, Tom Wright
Shakesides 1950
Ethel Laing with a branch of Nooksack filberts
Baybrook Farm Road - 2013
Baybrook - Apr 28 1935
Baybrook - 2013
Mack Laing's boathouse on Goose Spit
Laing in front of first fire in new home - Baybrook, Oct 11 1923
Baybrook from shoreline - January 2014
Mack in tent while building house
Hamilton Mack Laing at 95
Laing as Militia Ranger during WW II
Laing with 52 lb tyee salmon - Comox, Sept 23 1955
Laing with spring salmon - April 26, 1929
Mack Laing - Baybrook Nut Farm
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Riding motorbike in desert 1915 , climbing bank (Laing)
Hamilton Mack Laing's Birth Certificate
Laing in front of first f fire at new home Baybrook, Oct 11 1923
Laing with Juvenile bald eagle Comox Sept 1922
Mack Laing Baybrook Nut Farm
Laing July 1981
Laing with nut tree branch
Wedding photo Mack and Ethel Laing -1927
Brant geese at Baybrook
Brant geese in Flight
Wash Day at Baybrook
Baybrook - BrooklynCreek and bridge - 2013
Picoides -1988
Mack Laing Park Plaque
Baybrook midden - front
Baybrook midden side
Baybrook midden from shore
6 am August 6 2015
Excavator crossing bridge
Arrival of Excavator 8 30 am
Demolition 2
Excavator at ready
Demolition 3
Demolition 4
Demolition 5
Demolition 6
Demolition 7
Demolition 8
Demolition 9
Demolition begins
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Demolition12
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2 pm Aug 6
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Gordon Olsen
Shame
Baybrook Ceremony August 6, 2016Press
Baybrook Memorial August 6, 2016
Baybrook Poster August 6, 2016
Long View from Baybrook 'mound' - August 6, 2015
Deer at Baybrook - August 6, 2016
Owl
Bird Feet
Crows Feeding
Feathers Bittern
Raptor Feet
Songbird
Various Birds Mouse
Bohemian Waxwings Framed