We made the move to retire in Morrisburg, Ontario in 2008 and now wake up every day with a striking and ever changing view over the beautiful St. Lawrence River. The objective of this web site is to present the best results from our interests in local history and digital photography, with a special emphasis on the St. Lawrence region. John Gleed & Rosemary Laurin |
We have included photo galleries for each season of the year, for the boats on the St. Lawrence and for the historic & beautiful buildings around the community. We have also included galleries based on two of our passions: Flowers & Food. Two major new sections of this site present a pictorial presentation of the rich history of the region: - St. Lawrence Seaway History; - Morrisburg Before the Flood. Also see our new Flowers 2012 Gallery. |
We will be continuously adding our best new photographs, adding new galleries and adding new "Virtual Tours". If you have ideas on what you would like to see, we would love to hear from you. |
Please come back often so you can see new pics. Note that you can purchase high quality prints of the photographs in the galleries by going to the Purchase link. |
NEWS
March 2013 Take a look at the new Seaway Construction section in Seaway History. This section includes maps, pictures and narrative about the massive construction project to create the St. Lawrence Seaway as it exists today (1954 to 1958). It includes separate sections for the St. Lambert & Cote Ste Catherine Locks, the Beauharnois Locks, the Cornwall-Massena Locks & Dams and the Iroquois Lock & Dam. This is still a work in progress (Cornwall-Massena under development now). |
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November 2012 Plan to attend the Upper Canada Playhouse Christmas Auction on Saturday November 17th at the Morrisburg Meeting Centre. Three limited edition framed prints from stlawrencepiks.com will be included in the great selection of auction items. |
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October 2012 We have released a completely new Flowers Gallery containing all our best flower pictures from 2012 - including trips to Barbados and British Columbia. We have also included summer pictures from gardens around Morrisburg. |
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July 2012 We have released a completely redesigned version of the Morrisburg History Section of the site. It includes four new subsections:
We have also added quite a few new pictures - including Lock 23 Flood Day. |
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June 2012 We have just released a major new section to the stlawrencepiks.com website. The new Seaway History section presents a Pictorial History of the St. Lawrence River from Montreal to Lake Ontario, from the first efforts to improve river navigation to the present. The current version has focussed on the period before the construction of the current St. Lawrence Seaway system in the 1950s and includes more than two hundred photographs with descriptions. |
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May 2012 You can now go to the McIntosh Country Inn on Highway 2 in Morrisburg to see a good collection of stlawrencepiks.com pictures printed in large format on fine art paper (up to 30" x 24"). They are mostly from the Morrisburg History Gallery and are located in the lobby and the dining room. |
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October 2011 I have used a dawn photograph from Loyalist Park (just west of Mariatown on Lakeshore Drive) as the cover picture for my novel "Earth's New Beginning". My book has been released as an ebook and as paperback. The paperback is available from Amazon.com .... Amazon.ca .... Amazon.uk .... Barnes & Noble .... Books a Million and the eBook from |
