m FREE Coldwater Planet COLDWATER STEAMPUNK FESTIVAL EDITION II - JULY 2021 Orillia’s Summer of Love: Hippie Van Sculptures

Roll into Downtown By Nathan Taylor Reprinted from Orillia Matters with permission. treets Alive has parked its latest art This is Normand’s second time taking S project on the main street. part in Streets Alive, a program of the Hippie vans and peace signs have been Orillia and District Arts Council. He placed along Mississaga Street as Streets created a bicycle for the Pedal Power theme Alive celebrates the legacy of the Mariposa in 2019. Folk Festival. “It brightens the street. It’s really for “I’m so amazed and so thrilled with everyone’s enjoyment,” he said. “I hope the work these artists put into this Orillia keeps doing these kinds of projects project,” said Streets Alive founder Leslie because it does promote the city and it Fournier. “They went all out in colour makes it look nice.” and creativity and elements that they Stepping up as presenting sponsor of the added to just the basic panel. It’s so much hippie van project seemed like a no-brainer more than just paint.” for Orillia Volkswagen, said Plaza Auto Group president Robert Stein. “It’s a Volkswagen bus. It’s the original seed for Volkswagen,” he said. “It’s the hippie bus. Everybody loves and knows the hippie bus.”

what we’re doing in Orillia, which is with that. huge,” she said. “We’re such a creative Fournier said she hoped to announce the community and I think the rest of winner during the Starry Night studio tour Ontario is catching onto that.” in August, if it happens this year. As usual, members of the public will be More information about Streets able to vote for their favourite sculptures. Alive can be found on its website and The plan is to release a souvenir guidebook Facebook page. in July, and public voting will coincide

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It’s so much more than an art installation, too. “It’s like a shift for people’s mental health as well as just being able to get outside Coldwater local Phill Holder’s entry into this and enjoy Streets Alive,” Fournier said. year’s Streets Alive. “The biggest message I’ve been hearing is, ‘Oh, my gosh. We needed this so badly. We needed this uplifting project just to feel that It’s an opportunity for his company to there’s hope again and life will be getting “give something back to the community” back to normal.’” and support local artists, he added. It was a rewarding experience for “They can show off their talents to people Normand and Susan Quintal, the artists who live here and everyone who comes to behind the hippie van sponsored by Plaza our community,” he said. Auto Group’s Orillia Volkswagen, the Shining a light on local artists is what presenting sponsor for this year’s project. it’s all about, said Christine Hager, board “I don’t usually show what I do. I show secretary with the Orillia and District my children,” Susan said. “It’s kind of Arts Council. humbling when you look around. There are “It creates tourism and it creates so many awesome vans.” some awareness outside the city of

Message from The Chair and Vice-Chair...... 2 ARTIST PROFILE: Adam Dagenais...... 5 Grampa Grumpy Pants...... 2 Bad Times — It Could Be Worse...... 6 What is ARTIST PROFILE: Caitlin Leigh...... 3 Poison=Medicine=Poison...... 6 Suffrage (Story 2) 1895...... 3 Inside? Sawbones Society...... 7 Melissa’s Cosplay Etiquette...... 4 ARTIST PROFILE: Erika Doner...... 4 ECO Corner...... 7 So Many Stories to Tell!...... 5 Puzzles...... 8 THE COLDWATER PLANET J U LY 2 0 2 1 PA G E 2 Grampa The Coldwater Planet is an independent FREE monthly summer news publication Grumpy with a focus on the 2021 Coldwater Steampunk Festival News and area Arts & Culture. Pants Takes Do you know of an Arts-related event, or other light-hearted musing of cultural interest? Please contact us! (We reserve the right to Aim at publish. Space is limited.) Thank you! Let your imagination and creativity collide: Go Galactic! Travel back in time to the Victorian Era, and create an alternative future! Publisher: Litterbugs Fueled by the Industrial Revolution and Steam-powered technology, the Coldwater Steampunk Festival takes you to the stars this year! and Other

[email protected] 705-715-6950 Message from the Chair Slobs www.steampunkfestivalcoldwater.com By Columnist Stan Joskowitz Note: Opinions expressed are solely my own and do Editor-in-Chief: Suzy Burtenshaw and Vice-Chair (co-founders) not express the views and opinions of my employer, this publication, sponsors, or creators. Editor & Graphics: Heather Keery y now hopefully you know the 2021 event is free and accessible to everyone. Coldwater Steampunk Festival will Steampunk is part of the maker movement oldwater is Graphic Design Wendy Killaire, B go forward with a modified format due and cosplay fun with a focus on arts and Ca beautiful & Layout: 3 Dog North Design to COVID-19. Modifications will include history, reading, recycling, repurposing, quaint historic Printer: McLaren Press both online and intown programming and reusing. village. If we had beginning August 5th through August The Coldwater Steampunk Festival is a pride in our town Monthly Sue Creighton 22nd. For three Saturdays, August 7th, registered not-for-profit corporation. Our we wouldn’t treat Contributors: Stan Joskowitz 14th and 21st we will have new Street Art, mandate is to support local and emerging it like a garbage Columnists: Melissa Small live music, T-shirts, and buttons for sale, artists and performers. Please consider dump. That is Sarah Pickard plus crafts for kids and a LEGO display. investing in youth, this is how the beloved exactly what Renee Oettershagen Sadly, no vendors, stages, or crowds. Steampunk Festival was born. We are we do. That’s right, when I take walks Pick up the August issue for this year’s currently looking for new board members, on my gouty feet I can’t believe how festival program or visit the website. The volunteers, sponsors, program, and funding much trash abounds. Mostly fast-food Coldwater Steampunk Festival exists to partners. There is a place for everyone. wrappers, coffee cups, lids, candy and provide opportunity for youth in the arts Please come on board! cigarette packages, butts, plus dog poop and to attract outside dollars into the If you would like to donate, we have and covid masks. A lot of drivers toss village of Coldwater. The result is a unique a community bank account set up at TD garbage out the window as they blow- costumed event attracting thousands of Bank in Coldwater: 2280-#5209147 or through town. We don’t have McDonalds attendees, visitors, and tourists since etransfer: coldwatersteampunk400@gmail. here, but we have their garbage. 2011, has put millions of dollars into the com.Thank you. Most dog owners are responsible local and area economy (TREIMS). The and pick up the crap but not all do. Steampunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of Look for the 2021 Festival Program in the August edition of The Coldwater Planet I’ve seen steaming mounds of fresh dog science fiction that incorporates technology dirt right under the dog poo stations on and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century Main Street. The little brown bags are industrial steam-powered machinery. Such provided for free and a receptacle is right technologies may include fictional machines there, yet the scofflaw is too lazy and like those found in the works of H.G. Wells sloth-like to use them. The E-coli germs and Jules Verne. end up on sidewalks, roads, shoes, and in our lovely Coldwater River. Gross! www.facebook.com/ Smarten up whipper snappers! What ColdwaterSteampunkFestival about the stooges who place poop in the bag, tie it off, and discreetly deposit it on YouTube Channel: lawns, bushes, ditches, forests, nature Coldwater Steampunk Festival TV areas, etc.? There is no dog sh*t fairy who magically scoops up the goody bags Land Acknowlegement and whisks them away. If you are good We will begin this event The 2021 enough to actually pick it up and bag Coldwater Steampunk online festival it, you should be good enough to put it by acknowledging that we are meeting in its proper poopy place: the garbage!! on aboriginal land that has been This is a public heath issue as well as inhabited by Indigenous peoples environmental, you knuckleheads! from the beginning. As settlers, we’re Sorry Gramps has a gouty toe and is grateful for the opportunity to meet very grumpy. here and we thank all the generations of people who have taken care of this land for thousands of years. In particular we acknowledge the Anishnabek nation, specifically the Ojibway/ Chippewa peoples of Rama First Nation. The Coldwater heritage mill acknowledges that its original owners were the Ojibway of the Coldwater Narrows Reserve and that the land it resides on is the traditional territory of Anishnabek (ah-nish-nah-bek) Nation, specifically the Chippewas of Rama First Nation Chi Miigwetch (thank you very much) and everyone have a safe and wonderful day!

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Artist Profile: Caitlin Leigh By Suzanne Burtenshaw aitlin Leigh but I knew there was so much more to me”, She began painting to express herself Caitlin Leigh’s inspiration comes from Cis a self- conveys Caitlin, “It was time to stop hiding and release those negative feelings, learning how to quiet the mind, spending taught artist, from the world allow myself to be seen”. “I honestly believing that colors, mixing them time in nature, star gazing or looking up d i s c o v e r i n g needed to break apart the belief system I and the way they make her feel, is healing. at the moon. “When I connect to natural more about had created about myself and let my true “I paint artwork that tells a story, speaks elements, ideas come to me. It is as if herself every self shine through”. to the viewer, and helps with my healing they are what I need to tell my story.” She day. She grew From the minute Caitlin Leigh started journey,” states Caitlin. Using symbolism says, “They are there to bless me with the up in the believing in herself, a big picture dream through flowers, colors, animals and more, growth and understanding I am seeking.” small town of and ideas on how to get there came flooding Caitlin expresses the changes in life she All art is signed “heART & SOUL”. Shanty Bay, through. “The idea of becoming an artist foresees or has gone through. Caitlin imparts, “My inspiration comes just outside was not the first thing that came to me, Gravitating towards anything she can from deep within my soul. I am grateful to of Barrie, as there was nothing, I had painted over paint with stars, Caitlin reflects on being be able to share with others and see where Ontario. Living there most of her life, the years to show. My first thought was a child and looking out at the stars with this journey takes me in life”. Caitlin tells, “As a young child, paint an exploration hub for kids, that involved her dad. She does her paintings in three Caitlin’s art can be purchased at the fascinated me”. “The colors, the different all art forms. I visualized somewhere kids steps: (1) blending backgrounds allows her Just Breathe store in Coldwater. shades, the way they mixed, and the way could go to see what they felt naturally to explore colours and different shades; (2) each color made me feel”. drawn to, music, dance, singing or painting. splattering stars by holding her brush over Growing up she was incredibly quiet A place for kids to use art to heal, or find a tree branch to metaphorically release and shy, keeping to herself or the small their voice, as this was something I needed energy she has been holding on to and to bubble of people she felt safe around. “I as a child,” she explains. help her (3) focus on the rest of the more always felt like I was hiding myself from Caitlin knew first she needed to do her detailed parts of a painting. the world for fear of rejection or fear that I own healing if this dream was ever to “I am brought to understanding, would never be good enough”, says Caitlin. become a reality. “I needed to build my enlightenment and pure joy the minute my She remembers her younger self thinking, confidence, explore my creative side, and brush touches the paint,” claims Caitlin, “Just because you enjoy art or painting find my overall connection to self,” she “It’s as if I am lost in another world, a does not mean you would ever be good acknowledges. Once on her healing journey: world where I can discover who I am.” enough to become an artist so (outside of connecting to nature; enjoying little things After her first big painting Caitlin school), why try more than you have to?” in life; the artist within her was born. “In noticed changes in her life. She was Caitlin Leigh had taken art classes 2020, one month into COVID-19 lockdown, beginning to feel happier and moving throughout high school, but it wasn’t until I started painting. I felt isolated and alone, closer towards the path to discovering her later, in her mid-20’s that she had her “ah- even with a beautiful two-year-old son, and big picture dream. “I feel the energy my ha” moment and wanted to explore her an amazing fiancé who supports me. It was paintings represent,” she believes, “and by creative side. a lot to feel all at once, so I wanted to shift sharing them with others, I hope they too, “Some would call it a spiritual that, and uplift my spirit as well as others”, will find healing within them, in their own experience, some would call it a breakdown, remembers Caitlin. life experiences.”

Suffrage (Story 2) 1895 By Paul Rollinson NOTE: This is the first of 4 stories by local Historian Paul Rollinson, that are meant to be the START of 4 longer stories. You can submit a section for any story or complete the story. Paul will then edit and create a “Choose your own adventure story” which contains his beginning and your submissions. n a large summer kitchen in an ample it is to arrange these matters) had exposed wine consumption has very little to do with women voted for our cause in 1825? 70 IVictorian House on a breezy summer some of the rough edges beneath the finery how effective or even how favorably we are years ago! We are being supported by afternoon, overlooking Laughlin Falls at and politesse of the group. seen. The fact that you are following this Thomas Phillips Thompson of the unionist the junction of the Coldwater River and “I really feel, Marte, that joining with course for us is entirely based on your -how newspaper. We are winning the battle!” The North River, this tale begins. The Toronto Women’s Temperance League will do I put it- distaste of how male company “This is a nice wine Mara what year is it? appropriately adorned middle-to-upper- be less than fruitful.” has soured your outlook on life.” “Please don’t give me that, Clarina. You class women of the group formally known as “That may be because you tipple a little “Now who is being catty Clirina? If we couldn’t afford it anyway.” the Toronto Women’s Literary Club, but now more wine than the rest of us Clirina. As infight, we lose. We need to put our faults “Enough!” Ruth interjected “I..... the Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement a group they could be very influential with and opinions to one side and advance! Keep As mentioned previously, this vignette Association, are taking tea and other liquids the section of the population that is tired advancing toward the goal! Shine our light could be continued to complete a full story of for an ad hoc meeting of its members. of listening to men orate, and propagate on our strengths, not our weaknesses or our itself or you may somehow join it with 1 or The long, wearisome voyage by train and violence against women, trying to put us in frailties Mary Shad and the abolitionists more of the 3 other stories to round out the stagecoach to reach the summer cottage the space they want us to be.” have joined us; Dr. Stowe has joined our Steampunk Choose Your Own Fantasy. residence of Mara McMestress (whose job “That is unfair and quite catty Marte. My group. Can you forget that 27 Mohawk

The short story about the Miikaans from last year’s Steampunk writing contest was inspired by a YouTube video. Jeff Monague, a respected chief, language historian and knowledge keeper did the video and lives near Coldwater. My curiosity was nudged and that inspired me to get Jamie Hunter, also a well-respected historian and archeologist, to talk about the Miikaans on one of the short YouTube videos I did for Coldwater Steampunk 2020. He had done work on researching the original trails from the 17th“ Century. Trails that had existed for millennia prior to European arrival. Unfortunately, the editing got a bit messed up at the end, but Jamie’s information was spot on. Jamie noted that it was impossible to know exactly where these trails were today due to geographical and cultural changes over the last 400 years. Last fall I read a book by Helen Humphries who did a lot of work finding some of the 18th century orchards as she was hunting for a specific kind of apple. Helen used the names of places and streets that still exist and had some success. Last winter I spent a lot of time thinking and connecting the dots and feel I now have a sense of where some of the original Miikaans existed- -some of it still dirt trails, but they are the best possibilities. On June 21st, 2021, I checked out a location which I suspect fit the pattern of how these trails fit into the larger picture of geography, culture, and seasonality. It worked! I will keep the Coldwater Planet informed of my semi-scientific research. ”

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3 Ask for pictures — This is just so the to you being charged. Most cons and events Bring a handler, someone who can guide cosplayer can decide if they want their have no fight rules. Most conventions and you through crowded or tight areas. Cosplay picture or video taken. They do not have events have some form of weapon check. 9 Stairs/Escalators/Rough Ground/etc.: to let you get a picture so please be polite Find them and register your prop. It is for Many cosplayers do not see the dangers Etiquette when asking. If a cosplayer says no then the safety of all attendees. This gives the posed by these everyday items. Costumes it means no. If the cosplayer is taking a con or event a chance to turn away real or are not your everyday wear. Your response By Melissa Small break, find them later. When it comes to realistic weapons. Please for the safety of time is reduced, and movement is either children in cosplay, always get parental/ all cosplayers please take your props and restricted or more restricted than normal. elcome again guardian permission first. Remember they weapons to weapons check. Many cons / Escalators are extremely dangerous; they to Melissa’s W are minors. events are moving to the no prop weapon can easily catch bits of costume and pull Cosplay corner. I 4 If you are cosplaying in public, please policy. (AKA New York Comic Con has no the cosplayer off balance. Be exceedingly thought this time I remember to be kind to everyone. You are weapons policy and more are following). careful on escalators. See number seven would speak about representing a character. Your actions as 6 Do not be a creeper — This ties in with for information on a handler. A second set Cosplay Etiquette. someone’s favourite character may have guideline number three. I have seen the of eyes never hurts. If possible, scope out First cosplay is consequences you cannot see. Do not creeper type at almost every con / event I the area before putting on your costume. for FUN. I know swear. There are minors out there who are have attended. It is the person who sneaks By doing so you can reduce the effects of sometimes things watching. Remember to pack your niceness around behind the cosplayers taking terrain with foreknowledge. can get crazy at a con or event but first and and be kind to everyone. The only exception pictures or videos from far away. Please do 10 Let us have a brief word about alcohol foremost this is for Fun. If it stops being is guideline number two. not do this. ASK the cosplayer for pictures and drugs (legal or otherwise). Save this fun, it is time to take a step back and re- 5 Props and weapons — DO NOT bring and then move on. If you like interacting stuff for personal/private space. Remember evaluate what you are doing. Here are some real weapons to cons or events. IE: metal with a cosplayer, ask them if you can hang there are other people and minors all guidelines I have found over the years: swords, guns, bow, arrows, etc. This will around for a while. Respect their answer. around. It is just bad manners. These are get you arrested. Props and weapons add 7 Hydration — Make sure you drink lots public events and you and or your cosplay 1 Deodorant — I know it sounds funny, to the costume but can also be a lot to carry of water—I mean water, not pop, not energy character could be someone’s role model but in a packed con or event it can be around with you. Consider how long you drinks, not fruit juices—I mean water as and they will remember your actions. overwhelming. BONUS: It helps to keep are planning to wear the costume before you will be sweating in your costume, and Some general thoughts that not only your costume longer. bringing props. Do not pick up anyone else’s you do not want to end your day in the E.R. apply to cosplay but to life in general. If 2 Cosplay is not Consent — If someone prop or weapon without their permission. So, drink water. Eat as well. Bring snacks you see a person bugging or harassing makes you feel unsafe at an event or con People work extremely hard on their props, with you. Apples are a great snack for this. someone, please FIND someone in charge FIND the Staff, and/or attract attention. and you would not want it to break. Also, 8 Large or restrictive costumes — If or authority. Do not just walk away. To Do not be afraid to speak up and it does just because you have a toy as a prop does you are wearing a large or bulky costume. quote my doctor “Above all be kind.” Just be not matter what you are wearing or where not mean you need to wave it around or Do not go charging through the crowds in a nice person. If you cannot say something you are. It is not ok to touch/interact with have fights in public. These are public it. If you have difficulties moving in your nice then do not say anything at all. Stay someone without their consent. This is events and even though it is a fake weapon costume, stay out of crowded areas. You safe my friends. called assault. it can still hurt someone which could lead most likely will get knocked out of the way. Artist Profile: Erika Doner y name is which is a personal take on impressionism. the strange beauty of the world. It is our MErika Doner, I work mostly with acrylics but am dabbling responsibility to maintain and help the and I was born and with elements of collage using natural planet from whence we came to flourish! raised in Orillia, elements, such as birch bark, pressed My future plans include moving out to Ontario. I make flowers, and dried leaves. My artistic the country to homestead. I’d love nothing art as an outlet to content is generally pretty vague, and up to more than a place to paint with some express myself in your interpretation. cute goats, chickens, and lovely gardens! a way that cannot I cannot say if there is a true meaning I am committed to creating beauty in any be accomplished to my art, it is purely a product of my corner that I can and am currently open through words. I imagination and passion. Alongside art, for a few commissions. I am lucky to have am deeply inspired connecting with plants has been very many paintings hanging in the homes of in my painting by therapeutic, and a tonic for my soul. wonderful people. my subconscious, I work professionally as an urban Please contact me at erikadoner@gmail. strong emotions, gardener in Toronto, absolutely love plants com, or through www.erikadoner.com if you and nature. When in a frenzy, I find that and I love being a steward of the earth. are interested in a piece. 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So Many Stories to Tell! Article submitted by David Town. in Waubaushene and its even more tragic League finals every year for six years (including the settlement of Coldwater and aftermath in 1888 to the revolution in track winning three championships. This is one the debate in Orillia that established the and field science spawned by one athlete of the best books you will find describing first residential schools in Canada), police from Coldwater in the 1890’s. Few people hockey in the era of the “rover”, with no and crime events, the history of prostitution know that a local historian writing about forward passes and no substitutions. One in Orillia, riots, politics, prohibition and this region works in Coldwater. David do-or-die game was played right here on the even the dead cow that triggered the sharp Town, the chiropractor at the Coldwater Coldwater rink with 350 fans showing up decline of industry in the region. Chiropractic Office, has been researching at the old rink that had just a 150 standing- “I was knocked out by your writing. and writing about this region’s history for room-only capacity. They confronted a riot You are a tremendous writer,” commented over 20 years now, having published 17 in Penetang and barely fought their way Mike Hill of Orillia, “I’m looking forward to books. out of town. They were attacked by hostile reading whatever else you come up with”. His books focus primarily on Orillia, fans in their dressing room in Whitby Towns books are available at the but many of the stories encompass events and 17-year old Dick Reid was knocked Coldwater Chiropractic Office and at in the Coldwater region too. For instance, unconscious for fully 15 minutes, but he Manticore Books and the Museum Gift “The Incredible Younkers” book follows dragged himself back onto the ice just two Shop in Orillia. See a description of each of his area has so many stories to tell. in detail the exploits of a group of hockey days later to play a key roll in the next his titles on his websites at davidftown.com From the fierce battle over Coldwater’s T players from Orillia just before World War series-deciding game. and townchiro.com. Most of his books are mill in the 1830’s to the tragic drowning I, when they went to the Ontario Hockey Town’s books cover native issues reasonably priced at $10.

Artist Profile: Adam Dagenais oin creature designer, Jsculptor and painter Adam Degenais this Steampunk Festival for a 2-hour live- stream YouTube session. Watch, comment, interact and ask all the questions you want as he brings to life an alien creature made from clay - right before your eyes. This live demo is meant to shed light on the sculpting and masking-making process, as well as some of the basic tools of the trade. Most importantly, it will show that anybody can create a creature or monster of their own. A nerd, video game player, and pop culture enthusiast, Adam will openly chat about what inspires him; how he got started; and anything else Sci-Fi or Steampunk related. So, pull up a stool. Dim the lights. Get your notebook ready. This is a stream you don’t want to miss! THE COLDWATER PLANET J U LY 2 0 2 1 PA G E 6

Bad Times — It Could Be Worse By “Nerdette” Sue Creighton n Ontario, the the military. These were like prisons, traitorous. ‘Use it Up. Wear it Out. Make Polio is spread by mouth and throat Irate of new and anybody who left one was denied all it Do,’ the price board’s advertisements secretions, and feces-contaminated COVID cases and further relief. urged...The common phrase ‘Don’t you water...such as might be found in a public deaths is slowly As for families, their relief was doled know there’s a war on?’ was universally swimming pool. Terrified parents kept their declining. But we’re out locally. This meant that they weren’t used to dampen enthusiasm.” children out of pools. months away from allowed to move to another community, Mackenzie King also introduced a forced When American microbiologist Jonas herd immunity, even to look for work. Families remained savings plan that could work only in a Salk created the first polio vaccine in 1954, so we still need trapped where they were, stuck in poverty. wartime emergency. And even children — these same parents were grateful that they to be careful and So a kid in that situation would have been finally receiving an allowance — were could now protect their children. Thanks to patient. Yes, many of us have experienced lucky to get even a one-cent allowance. expected to spend it all on war bonds. They their cooperation — and that of generations hardship — and we’ve all had to put up Next, these children came of age during accepted that this was necessary to win the of parents since — polio has been eradicated with inconvenience — for nearly 16 months World War II. Along with the stresses of war, an investment in their future. from every country except for Pakistan and already. However, my parents’ generation the war itself came even more economic People were just as stoic elsewhere. The Afghanistan. Of course, if a lot of them had suffered these things for nearly 16 years. problems. Sure, after almost 10 years, Nazis made so many bombing raids on spurned this vaccine instead, we’d probably First, they grew up during the Great the Depression was over at last, and new London, Londoners were forbidden from still have polio outbreaks...and children in Depression. After the stock market crash jobs were being created. But people still turning their lights on at night. Everyone iron lungs. of October 1929, many people lost their continued to do without. understood: creating an easy-to-see target Except for a relief camp workers’ protest jobs. Prime Minister R. B. Bennett (who This was because Prime Minister W. L. would endanger the entire community, not in 1935 (which was completely justified), refused to see how serious the situation Mackenzie King was afraid that a post- just themselves. my parents’ generation endured all this was) responded by raising the duty on Depression spending spree would lead to This willingness to look beyond hardship and inconvenience with very everything from butter and eggs to textiles inflation (as had happened after the Great immediate gratification for the greater little complaint. Even the children knew and kitchenware in an attempt to help the War). So he introduced rent and price good continued even after the war. During that, during extreme times, the last thing Canadian market. controls, severe taxes, and the rationing the 1950’s, poliomyelitis (a virus destroying a country needs is people working against At the same time, he saw the of food, liquor, fuel, and other products. motor neurons in the spinal cord) caused each other by rejecting safety rules, or unemployed masses as idle wastrels Silk — and later, nylon — were earmarked paralysis in children. Up to 15 per cent of refusing to make the same sacrifices as who didn’t really want to work. So in for the war effort, to make parachutes. these children died. everyone else. 1930, when he was forced to create the (Women trying to keep up appearances Those no longer able to breathe on I’m beginning to see why they called Unemployment Relief Act to provide aid would paint a thin black line down the back their own needed to be put in a Drinker themselves “the greatest generation”. And to the jobless, he insisted that people of each leg, to make it look as though they respirator: the “iron lung”. Encasing the now — during our own remaining months would have to work in order to receive were wearing seamed stockings.) entire body except for the head, it alternated of hardship and inconvenience — we would relief. But by 1933, 30 per cent of the The buying of new things was positive and negative air pressure within all do well to emulate them. Canadian labour force couldn’t find jobs. discouraged. “The propagandists’ task,” the tank, providing artificial respiration by Thousands of homeless men were forced Pierre Berton wrote in 2001, “was to contracting and expanding the walls of the into more than 220 “relief camps” run by make any form of extravagance seem child’s chest.

Poison=Medicine=Poison Bottle Collecting by Stan Joskowitz diseases like syphilis or gonorrhea masked the symptoms, banished the chancre sores and lesions, but the disease remained. The person would think they were cured so they could continue to infect others. Eventually the disease would cause acute suffering, insanity and death. In those times most ordinary people lived and worked in crowded, unsanitary conditions. Housing was damp and cold. Heating, cooking and lighting involved the burning of fatty candles, wood, coal, oils and gasses. Nearby industries belched coal smoke and soot. The air was very polluted. Long hard hours of grueling work, poor handling and storage of foodstuffs, and We know strychnine as an ingredient sharp points, and vertical lines. These contagious epidemics led to the population in rat poison. In the old days it was a colourful bumpy bottles offered tactile ne hundred years ago compounds used being perpetually sick and suffering bouts very important heart and respiratory clues to hint at their dangerous contents. Oas medicine were mostly poison. There of coughing, pain, diarrhea, etc. stimulant used by doctors to restore heart A person groping for his meds in a poorly were no antibiotics so germs were attacked Opium preparations such as codeine, rhythm and breathing in dying patients lit room could feel the shape and know it with a variety of toxic chemicals and herbs. demerol, morphine and heroin were widely and opium overdoses. was poison. For skin conditions, lice, parasites, body available and used liberally by young and As you can see, households and medicine As the 20th century progressed, it was crabs, or scabies, the sufferer would rub old alike. The opioids were truly effective cabinets were teeming with dangerous realized that these fancy, ornate bottles the affected parts with “blue ointment” and against the above mentioned maladies. poisons. Most of these chemicals were actually attracted curious children rather leave it on overnight. Teething infants and coughing children stored in glass containers. than repelled them. These creams and ointments contained were given “soothing syrups” comprised of There was a need to make these Poison is no longer found in interesting generous amounts of mercury. It would opiates and cocaine. Runny nose, sniffles, bottles look forbidding. Glass makers and containers. It is now available with warning surely kill the offending agent, but if not allergies and the like were labelled pharmaceutical companies provided poison labels and childproof lids. Antique poison used carefully it could eventually kill the “catarrh”. Most catarrh inhalers and cures bottles in the shape of coffins, skulls, and bottles are highly collectable today, especially user. “Blue ointment” in the case of venereal contained cocaine. Disinfectants for cuts, bones. Most in cobalt blue, some in green the colourful embossed varieties. Early paper etc. were mercurial, iodine or carbolic acid. and amber. All textured with bumps, ridges, label poisons are also sought after.

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