Corkery Cemetery is at 1573 Corkery Road, Ottawa.
The cemetery dates back to the late 1830s when a church had already been built on this section of land. That church building burned down in the 1860s and the replacement was built across the road. According to the monumental inscriptions published by the Ottawa Chapter of the Ontario Genealogical Society, more than 400 individuals have been buried here.
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N 43° 39.3494 W 079° 21.9507
This benchmark is in the church at 315 Queen Street East.
Vertical marker #692 was placed here by the City of Toronto, Department of Public Works, Surveying Division. The benchmark is in a north face near the northeast corner of the Berkeley Street Wesleyan Methodist Church. In the COSINE provincial database, the benchmark is listed as 12219740692. However, no details are included.
The benchmark is immediately beside two older, municipal benchmarks (BM No 38 and BM No 38(80)).
N 43° 39.2002 W 079° 21.715
This benchmark is in the church at 425 King Street East.
Vertical marker #722 was placed here by the City of Toronto, Department of Public Works, Surveying Division. The benchmark is six bricks above the ground level on the northeast corner of Little Trinity church. In the COSINE provincial database, the benchmark is listed as 12219740722. However, no details are included.
The benchmark is above an older, municipal benchmark (BM No 26).
This artistically decorated box is southwest of the intersection of Front and Berkeley.
This utility box (east of what was once Consumers Gas Company's Purifying House No. 2) invites you to purchase some ice. The hand-painted box closely resembles the familiar ice machine found at many retail locations such as gas stations and variety stores. Today, this industrial building is home to the Imperial Oil Opera Theatre.
Corkery Cemetery is at 1573 Corkery Road, Ottawa.
This cemetery is also known as St Michael's Roman Catholic Cemetery. There must be an interesting story behind this zinc memorial. All that survives in Corkery is a single piece, set flat on the ground, of a zinc monument. As early as 1979 when a survey was undertaken by members of the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, this piece was already separate.
According to the register for the parish of Fitzroy Harbor, Sarah Curran married Reuben James Draper McKay on 11 August 1885. The spouse R J Draper has no monument elsewhere in this cemetery. Please contact me if you know what became of Reuben James Draper McKay.
According to the Ontario death registration (1889 #002257), Mrs R Draper, born in Huntley, died of consumption.
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more than 250 burials
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Respect private property.
According to the cited web site, the former school building hosted community meetings after it caesed to be a school. By 2015, the building has become a private residence. The former school yard nearby also now has restricted access, being used for training by a federal government agency. Please respect the private property.
This Radio Shack store is in the Jensen's Shopping Center.
Jensen's Shopping Center is on the south side of Highway 111, between San Pablo and Larkspur. The store hours are 09h00-22h00 for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; 09h00-21h00 for Thursday, Friday Saturday and 10h00-19h00 for Sunday. The telephone number is 760-346-4626.
PALM DESERT-HIGHWAY 111 73603 HIGHWAY 111 PALM DESERT, CA 92260, Monday - Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM Thursday - Saturday: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM Sunday: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM N 33° 43.23 W 116° 22.86
This Burger King outlet is in the Jensen's Shopping Center. Jensen's Shopping Center is on the south side of Highway 111, between San Pablo and Larkspur. Burger King restaurant #8743 opens daily at 06h00, closing at 22h00. The drive thru is open until midnight. The street address is 73547 Highway 111, Palm Desert. The telephone number is 760-346-5644.
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The ruins are near the centre of Coco Cay.
The ruins are near the centre of the island of Little Stirrup Cay, now known as Coco Cay. Interestingly, the ruins are some distance from the shore.
Little Stirrup Cay is the most northerly island in the Berry Islands chain. Presently, visitors to Coco Cay must travel here by tender boat from cruise ships belonging to the Royal Caribbean family of cruise ships. I assume that the site is maintained by staff from Royal Caribbean.
The following text is taken from an interpretive sign on site. These ruins represent a series of possible adaptive reuses that date from the Anglo-Colonial period to c1990s. The thick stonewalls and the narrow passageways suggest an early military use. It is known that the British Royal Navy stationed warships around the Berry Islands to intercept slave ships attempting to smuggle African slaves to markets in the American South and Spanish Caribbean. The ruins may therefore have been a way station for these naval patrols and could have provided accommodations for a small land-based force of 4-6.
The fake pirate burial is a sad distraction from the historical ruins.
