The signposts are in place and we just need to follow them to our way forward with our yearning to be economically independent. There will be a cost to us; GST going up to 7% or even 10% is very reasonable one just has to be inventive and make more of our everyday foods from scratch to prevent high GST costs at the grocery stores. Mind you I have not seen any mention of that but I think it would be an excellent idea.
I like what Alberta has put forward with regard to a pipeline although I am inclined to wonder whether it wouldn't be better to send it to Port Churchill to ship around the world. It is a shorter distance - no mountains to cross all flat prairie. But that is something the people who are in the path will have to decide. Certainly Europe is eager for our oil as well as our gas. It isn't that far to Ontario then and we can get the refineries going once again to produce our own refined gas for cars. Why not refine it right there if that works for everyone and trucks can carry it on the widened Trans continental highway through Northern Ontario (hopefully it can proceed faster than the distance from Arnprior to Renfrew which has taken years). I have watched as entire lengths of the 401 are built twelve lanes wide in a summer and that is a fair distance and a wide road. We just need to go from the two lane highway with passing lanes to a four lane divided highway and surely they can get it done in a couple of summers and not a decade! Lots of jobs for sure although it is hard work but that is healthy work for sure - sitting a desk is bad for the upkeep of the body. But we could work on a pipeline through Ontario that would work as well. Myself it would probably take me an entire year to use up a tank of gas if I didn't have people stay with me like my caregiver/daughter. My one trip a week or every other week doesn't amount to much.
Yesterday cleaning all accomplished in good time actually - no dawdling over my research. However my research also progressed and I am nearly through my Blake matches at Ancestry and keen to start working on the other three siblings matches. The number of early colonial matches that blend together has reached 65 and another likely 15 that do not match one individual in the group for whatever reason. Are they the descendants of the Sedgewick family of Massachusetts - Major General Roberte Sedgwicke married Joanne Blake 6 Jan 1634/35 at Andover, Hampshire, England and they moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts Royal Colony by the time of the christening of their eldest son Samuel 31 Mar 1639. The baptism of Benjamin Sedgwicke is unknown by me and I do not know if he is older. Joanna was baptized 14 Jan 1640 also at Charlestown. William was baptized circa 1643 which was noted when he died in 1679 in Jamaica, the West Indes. The youngest son was born circa 1645 and died at sea in 1682. The father Robert died in Jamaica 24 May 1656 and Joanne returned at some point to England (London) where she died in 1667. I have not followed the tree down particularly but did note much earlier that a match with descendants of this family did occur but only very tiny matches (these current matches are running between 20 cM and 29 cM). Indeed there are 3516 trees on Ancestry for this family. I do also note that Knight appears in some of these same matches in my database. Since the percentage of Americans testing at Ancestry is very large one can anticipate that I would have a lot of matches. Time will tell but it is quite fascinating other than Joanne I have no knowledge of any of the Blakes at Andover actually leaving the country between that time and my own line coming to Canada with my father as a child of nine and his parents and two years prior to that my grandfather's brother Henry (Harry) came to Toronto where he married in 1913; the same year that my line arrived in Canada. The Blake line at Andover shrunk considerably in the 1700s from its very large family in the 1600s. The end of the 1500s saw the largest growth in the Blake families which did continue into the 1600s. It was in the 1600s that one section of the Blake family moved to the London area.
No rush, I am just plodding my way through all of this material before I start to write up the generations. I have a number of latin documents to transcribe which will soon be my project of this winter along with a number of others.
Beautiful day, just 2 degrees celsius when I woke up and the furnace came on sometime in the night as it is set to start up when it hits 19.5 degrees celsius keeping the temperature around 20 degrees celsius - my preferred temperature although I would turn it down to 18 at night but I decided I didn't like going back and forth between 18 and 22 when I had company. So 20 seems like a nice compromise for me.
Still the heavy frost hasn't come though when I will cut everything down. Busy day ahead.
Tea all drank, breakfast even eaten and on to the day.
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