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I’m at it again!! ….in support of Smiths Falls Girls Hockey!!
But it is a secret, so check back next month and see what the Bantam AA Cubs are wearing as they represent Region C - ODWHA at the OWHA Provincial Championships !!

The secret is now out and being well worn - A really nice Hoodie with a custom Cubs Logo by Crystal Image Studio!

Look for the 2012 Haliburton Highlands Destination Guide! Just in time for various outdoor and travelling shows throughout the GTA.
Crystal Image Studio is very proud to been offered the opportunity to design the Destination Guide for 2012. I worked with the team at Parker Pad & Printing to create the best possible product to promote the Highlands and by golly I think we did it!! The guide has been designed to have specialized covers for specific times of year and /or shows. The guides will be available at the Haliburton Highlands Tourist Information Centre and most businesses throughout the area. Come see why we use the phrase “a natural work of art”
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Linda

Camp Can-Aqua is off to the Toronto Outdoor Adventure Show!
Friday, February 24 - Sunday, February 26, 2012 @ the International Centre, Toronto sporting a new look created by Crystal Image Studio. . . be sure to drop in and take a peak!

New 10ft Display Wall pictured above takes seconds to put up. It is printed dye sublimation on a soft fabric and remains attached and flexible to the expandable wall frame itself. The colours are true and brilliant.

It comes in an easy to store hard case with wheels which can also be covered in printed fabric to become the podium.

Goal of this project - to fill the wonderful camp with kids this coming season! It is an amazing Summer Camp for children!
More about Camp Can-Aqua - www.canaqua.ca
Linda
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Development of this logo has been a fun process. Working with Mike Jaycock makes my job so, so much easier. The day I received the email from Mike that asked “here’s what I have come up with so far - it is rough but here it goes” - “The IncrEdible Haliburton County Farmers’ Market”
I took the new name and ran with it! Meeting with the group instilled a warm, down-to-earth sense of excitement for their event - their logo is intended to do the same.
The warm inviting colours offer comfortable welcome. The inner arch adds more warmth - is that a loaf of homemade bread… yumm!! Check out the background - some Haliburton trees, lakes and rivers! That was a bit of an accident but later developed further to be as mentioned. It started out as an old cracked paint sign - the group seen more and it was developed to give the sense it was able to be both the old farm sign and trees, rivers and lakes of the County.

Linda
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Fresh from the press to Cacher’s Toy Box, a Limited Edition Geocaching 2012 Calendar. It is the Geocacher’s “must have” for 2012. It is full of great geocaching photographs featuring cache containers, geocaching groups and a lot of fun caching photos. The calendar also features holidays and Geocaching events. A great, fun way to keep track of all the geocaching events in 2012.

Get your 1st Limited Edition GeoCalendar from www.cacherstoybox.ca before they are gone!!! Makes a super Christmas Gift

Linda
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Crystal Image Studio donated the graphic design for this “I Love Cubbies” fundraiser for Smiths Falls Girls Hockey. 1″ Silicone Wristbands printed in their official brand colour with their own special heart …

Proud to support ! Buy yours today, only $5. follow the link to Goalline website for details.
smiths falls girls hockey wristbands

Planning a trade show booth or display to promote your products or services? In addition to your take home promotional materials at a Trade Show such as rack cards, flyers, brochures and business cards, CIS is also proud to announce we can now provide Roll up banners and other signage and trade show booth display items at very reasonable prices.

Roll up banners are one of the most popular types of exhibition stand displays on the market today. There are numerous benefits, one being they are highly portable and lightweight making them suitable for exhibitors travelling by air or wanting to carry their display materials in the back of a car.

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Great Grandfather Evander William Francis McRae was born in Canada and became a Union Soldier in the American Civil War. His Civil War service records indicate that he was 18 years old when he volunteered for the Union Army. On December 5, 1863 he travelled to Rochester, New York and enlisted in the 8th New York Cavalry. According to his enlistment papers, Evander had gray eyes, dark hair, and a dark complexion and was five feet, three inches tall. Prior to the war, he listed his occupation as a “painter”. During his service in the New York 8th Cavalry he served under several Generals including the famous General George Armstrong Custer during the final Appomattox Campaign. The 8th New York was very engaged in battles including the Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. They also played an important part in the raid on the Weldon Railroad in June 1864 and on October 9, 1864 Evander’s regiment fought at the Battle of Toms Brook, later named the “Woodstock Races” due to the speed that the Conferates ran away. Great Grandpa McRae was wounded twice during his service in the 8th. He and the rest of his regiment were honourably discharged June 27, 1865 and he returned to Canada.

He became a resident of Caldwell’s Mills, Con. 1 lot 17 Lavant Township, Lanark County at the bottom of McRae Hill on Campbell Side Road which is north of Hopetown, Ontario. Today the area is better known as Clydes Forks near Flower Station. The McRae farm is now a Hunting Camp belonging to Lornie Campbell. I met Lornie this week through a friend, Norval Wilson while in Hopetown. This is where my grandmother Pearl McRae was born in 1906 to Evander McRae and his 3rd wife, Annie Delauriers. Pearl’s brother, Charles was also born there one year prior.

I will try to clear up the mysteries of the somewhat confusing families of Evander and Annie and the many others involved. Research to date indicates Evander’s first wife possibly named, Christy Bisson died young, widow Evander married Adellia Easton in 1878 and they had four children, Agnes McRae, William Alexander McRae, Jessie McRae and Louia Anne. Some of us remember William “Old Uncle Bill” we called him and some other nasty names now that I think of it. Some bad kids at the farm (I mention no names) attempted to make him stumble down a couple steps at our grandparents farm.

Evander married again to Jane Ferguson - they had no children but she also died young. He then married another widow in 1900, known as Annie Sauve. Now it gets more complicated. Annie, born Annie Deslaurier oldest daughter of Joseph Deslaurier and Susannah Dodge of Black Donald Mine, Renfrew County. Annie by 1900 when she married Evander already a widow herself. She and her first husband had five children before he died of stomach cancer in 1895. Her first husband, Etienne Jean Baptiste (John) Sauvé was also a widow when he married Annie. Now you see John Sauvé had been married before and had eight children with his first wife, Marie Noberine Decoeur. Now just to confuse things a little more for us genealogists, Joseph Deslaurier, brother of Annie married Marie Zeraphie Albertine (Sarah) Sauve, step-daughter to Annie in 1895, she was the John Sauvé and his previous wife and to add to the confusion, in 1907 Evander’s son, William married Annie’s daughter, Louise. And who says life was not confusing back in the 1800’s? The first census I located Evander McRae and wife, Annie together was the year after their marriage in 1900. In the 1901 census of Lavant Township, Lanark County it revealled, Evander, Annie, Louisa and Nellie Sauve (Sovie - children from Annie’s first marriage) farming the property. In the 1911 census of the same Louisa and Nellie were moved away from home and Annie & Evander had new family of their own. My grandmother,Pearl and her brother Charles McRae.

Some time around 1918 the family moved into the village of Lanark. Evander passed away in 1924 just two years after his youngest daughter, Pearl had married Russell Echlin and they had their first son, Elmer Echlin. Evander was buried in Hopetown Cemetery and no permanent gravemarker was ever placed there until this week. Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Graham Quick the installer of choice from Belleville, Ontario arrived to install the marble US Civil Soldier customized gravemarker for a soldier, Evander William Francis McRae. A private in the 8th New York Cavalry during the American Civil War.

It took approximately two years to find his gravesite, collect his military records, find a reasonable installer, get all the permissions and signatures. The installer was a bit of a problem due to the cost of installing which put the project on hold for a while. Until Norval Wilson, Caretaker-extrodinaire of the Hopetown Cemetery put me in contact with Graham Quick of Belleville. Graham was thrilled with my story and proud to be part of the project, so offered a great quote. I put out the call for funding assistance and the call was answered. Thank you to: (Evander’s Granddaughters) Joyce Moss(Carl) of Smiths Falls and Violet Rathwell of Perth; (Great Grandchildren) Linda Middleton (Don) of Harcourt, ON, Bruce Echlin (Sandra) of Perth, Keith Echlin (Janice) of Port Elmsley and Bill Echlin (Peggy) of Pictou, NS. the installation was very feasible. Also thank you to Don Middleton for thinking of and purchasing the Canadian Flag for the Installation, it is a lovely touch.

It was truly a very easy process, the application was mailed to the US Veterans Affairs with all papers on August 30th and the stone arrived one month later. I think you can agree, it looks amazing and seems very suiting to a soldier.

It was a proud day!
Linda Middleton

Printed promotional materials are effective in promoting virtually any business to potential clients. And now you can add even more to that with Microsoft Tags.

Similar to QR Tags (Quick Response Tags) Microsoft Tags can provide more information to the owner of a Smart Phone. They can offer static information such as website, address, telephone # and email address. I find QR tags visually unattractive although it is claimed at present they work across more platforms of phones than the Microsoft Tags, like an technology I am sure this could change overnight.
Microsoft Tags are less instrusive looking and they can hold some pretty cool information. When the viewer scans the tag it can add your information to their address book, automatically dial your number (need a Pizza Now? - Scan this code with your SmartPhone), it can show your potential client a video (want to see dogsledding in Haliburton Forest) Although Video is a little trickier to deliver to a wide variety of phones it is still doable.

The best part for me is - the Tag can be customized. No need for ugly, regardless of  the function of the Tag it can be customized to suit. Here is a sample I prepared for promoting DogSledding in Haliburton County. Potential client goes from paper, billboard, signage or even screen to video in seconds. . . this Tag system has great potental! To read more about it check out: http://tag.microsoft.com/home.aspx