When I was a child, there was a potato chip factory in St. Catharines. It was beside our community swimming pool. We passed it on the way to downtown shopping all the time. The smell was glorious to us children. The Lever's Potato Chips factory was around for quite a few years. A St. Catharines Standard article tells us exactly where to look on Grote Street for the original site - the ServiceMaster business is where the factory was. One of the Levers daughters says that if you go downstairs there, you can still smell the oil.
Front and centre in the Globe and Mail today is the conflict between the Canadian Health Agencies and the Food producers over the warning labels on potato chips. A potato chip bag will indicate the contents are high in trans fats, sodium and sugar. The various warning symbols under discussion include red circles, yield signs, exclamation marks and magnifying glass. I knew that potato chips are a poor food choice. We would guess the bad choices to be chicken nuggets, french fries, pop, and fast-food hamburgers. I didn't realize that white rice is in the group: this was in a huffingtonpost.ca article Ten processed foods to remove from your diet now. It made me realize that people probably need significant warning labels.
Our first picture is in Queenston - the Soaring Brock's Monument. Our bottom 2 pictures today come from Niagara-on-the-Lake's "Paradise Grove and the Commons". This is one of the old forest stands in Ontario with an Oak Savannah located here. Oaks have been planted along with native wild flowers and the natural habitat is naturally regenerating. The oldest oaks date from before the War of 1812. The Commons walk towards NOTL comes to Fort George and to Butler's Baracks, two historic sites of the War of 1812.
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