Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2025

Over a dozen articles for June. Enjoy! [Photo © Ian Coristine/1000IslandsPhotoArt.com]

From the Editor, June 2025

Looking forward to summer 2025? Me too! Some days, I think that summer has arrived and then it gets cold and rainy . . .

Writing a Tribute to Brian

In June 2009, I received an email from a man named Capt. Brian Johnson. He asked if I would like to publish some of his writings. . .

Memories of Brian Johnson

It was the spring 2012 and my first year on the "Canadian Empress". There were three captains and Brian was one of them . . .

The American Boat Line

[Editor’s note: This is the last of the series of articles that Tom King has been writing about the

The "Grindstone Islander", The Story of our First Barge

This barge laid the cable to provide electricity for Grindstone Island in 1954 . . .

Manley L. Rusho

Carleton Island Royal Shipyard (1778-1788)

In August 1778 Governor-General of Canada Frederick Haldimand and the Royal Corps of Engineers selected a strategic site . . .

Dennis McCarthy

A 1987 Vacation to Gananoque

Just then email request to help identify the subjects of some just discovered 35mm slides of a 1987 vacation in the Thousand Islands.

Sherry L. B. Johnson

The Day President Taylor ‘Skipped Town’

After receiving word, residents of Oswego and Syracuse anxiously awaited to greet President Zachary Taylor to their communities.

Keys to the Margolis Gallery

“Susan, three weeks ago I received the keys to an empty gallery.” Of course I wanted to know more!

A New History of Food and Meals on the Upper St Lawrence Covers the Past 150 Years

. . .For one thing, I surely have gained an unbounded respect for the ingenuity and determination of 19th and early 20th century cooks. . .

Sandra Moore Rennie

A New Interview and a New Boldt Castle Novel!

I grew up just twenty minutes from the Thousand Islands—the setting for all my stories—in upstate New York . . .

The 2025 River Art Show at Arts Hub Brockville

This June, as majestic tall ships sail into Brockville’s historic harbour, a different kind of beauty will be anchoring just steps away . . .

Summer Memories, Poetry

Butterfly wings and tire swings, At my Grandma’s place . . .

Kim (Bo) Stone Kalil