Photobook on my three years living in Toronto, Canada 1970-73

This is the largest photobook I have made and in many ways is social history. I have enjoyed scanning slides and making the book by looking through all the letters I wrote home 50 years ago. Toronto is my second home.

Click on the cover here to get the link which  will take you to the Blurb page where you can see the whole book.  I don't expect anyone to buy it but it is free to look and enjoy.

The book is especially large as it includes most of the weekend trips we did as well as longer ones at easter and school holidays.  This included some in America as well as Canada.  

Two big American trips will be in my next book.

Toronto: living, working, travelling 1970-73 - a memoir

By Ruth Lathlean

 

 

 

Photobook Canada and USA - Rocky Mountains

Once more I have been scanning hundreds of slides from my time living in Canada from  1970 - 1973.  This book is about the two trips I made by car to the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the USA in the summers of 1972 and 1973.  Australian friends, two of whom I met in Toronto came with Janice and I in 1971and we camped nearly all the time in National Parks and Monuments.  We loved the hikes we did with the amazing scenery.  In 1972 Janice and I went to Mexico (in a separate book) I and spent time in the western USA on the way back to Canada.

Val, Janice and I did another big trip to Canada's maritime provinces and more of the USA in 1973 before we left for South America.  This will be another book.

LINK:     https://au.blurb.com/b/9785969-canada-and-usa-rocky-mountains-1971-1972

CANADA and USA Rocky Mountains 1971, 1972

By Ruth Lathlean

Hope some of you will enjoy looking at my book. All the pages are available for viewing - I don't expect anyone to buy it as the book contains my memories.

More pastel paintings

I had started this painting of Delicate Arch in Utah National Park, USA before I had my hip op. and finished it about a month ago.  As a source I used a photo sent to me by a Canadian friend who had recently visited - but I had been there myself in 1971.  I remember it as we had to start walking from the campsite very early in the morning as it was so hot.  This desert park is wonderful with amazing formations.  I really should have put a person in to give some idea of scale.






This pastel painting was only recently made from a photo I took in Ontario, Canada some years ago. I loved the peaceful feel and the colours. To accentuate this I used a very dark blue pastel paper.