Welcome to dunn.ca

Please explore my websites…

The Ferryman ferryman.ca This labour of love currently tells the story of 115+ ferries that I have used or visited, complete with copious photos. It started by focusing on those of the Ottawa and Saint Lawrence rivers in Eastern Canada, but has now expanded to cover anywhere in the world, and continues as an active work-in-progress.

Flora • Fauna • Fungi dunn.ca/nature My own photos of animals, birds and plants, with special emphasis on the area around North Otter Lake, South Frontenac, Ontario where we have a second home.

Keith's photos - the older albums draiggoch.ca/photos Photos that I'm happy to share with the world. Mainly travel, but also some other events.

Keith's photos - the newer albums draiggoch.ca/ps/ps_list_all.php More of my photos - this time presented with my own coded album system.

Some other special sites…

These links are to sites that mean something special to me. They are external websites, and although some contain my photos and other material, I have no control over, or responsibility for, their content.

Tierra Viva Gardens tierraviva.ca Cinthya has had a passion for ecological, low-impact farming, and we have been proud as a family to help support her as she grows. She now has an 8 acre organic farm near Saint-Augustin, Quebec, and sells her healthy vegetables and eggs at a weekly stall in Valois on Saturdays during the spring, summer and autumn.

Isabelle Delage www.isabelledelage.ca Isabelle's an old friend, writes folk songs and sings them with a sweet voice. As well as performing solo, she plays with her group Plain Folk, and organises many musical events. Isabelle was instrumental in setting up the Tilted Steeple Coffee House in Morrisburg, Ontario soon after moving there, after many years of helping run the Side Door Coffee House in Pierrefonds, Quebec.

Pixelles pixelles.ca Pixelles is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering more women be a part of the computer gaming industry. Family member Jen is a programmer in the gaming industry, a passionate proponent of encouraging women and for a number of years has been a director of, and very active in Pixelles.

Macdonald Farm Community Engagement Centre www.mcgill.ca/macdonald/alumni/giving/cec Do carrots grow on trees? Many people have a limited or downright wrong knowledge of where our food comes from. The CEC is a project to build an educational centre to help teach our youth (mainly) about agriculture. We have been supporting this project since 2012 and construction should start soon on the Macdonald Campus of McGill University. It's a serious and worthy project, but its progress has often been one step forward and two steps back. Blame Covid, McGill bureaucracy, and asbestos.

West Island Community Shares - WICS www.communityshares.ca WICS is a charity which supports over 40 community groups in Montreal's West Island. We have worked with them for many years, both as representatives of a supported organisation and as donors, and are impressed by the work they do to help the less fortunate in our local community, as well as local environmental and cultural charities.

Montreal Aviation Museum www.mam.quebec A small but fascinating and well run museum specialising in all things aeronautical relating to the Montreal area. I wish I had the time to be more involved. And as it happens it's housed in the old farm buildings right next to the Macdonald Farm CEC.

Stewart Grant www.stewartgrantmusic.com Stewart is a fine classical musician - oboist, conductor, composer. I've known him since 1999 when my son started playing tuba for the West Island Youth Symphony Orchestra which had just hired Stewart as musical director. Over the years I have helped set up his concerts many times, and in several different countries.

The Lakeshore Chamber Orchsetra www.lakeshorechamberorchestra.ca This is our local amateur classical orchestra. Founded in the 1970s by a teacher at our sons' school, it is now directed by Stewart Grant.

La Sinfonia de l'Ouest sinfoniadelouest.ca This is a new professional classical ensemble based in Montreal's West Island, founded and directed by Stewart Grant.

North and South Otter Lake Association – NSOLA nsola.org A small WordPress site that I currently manage for NSOLA - the association of residents and cottagers around North and South Otter Lake, in South Frontenac, Ontario. Probably only of interest if you live around there.

From the old days…

I am no longer associated with these organisations, but I gave each of them a lot of my life - coding, management, websites, photography, graphic design. They've all evolved since I moved on, but there is still a lot of me left in them, in various ways.

Dr Tax Software www.thomsonreuters.ca/en/dtprofessionalsuite/products/dtmax.html I coded tax software for Dr Tax for far too many years, until the company was taken over Thomson-Reuters.

West Island Youth Symphony Orchestra - WIYSO osjwi.qc.ca In its 30+ years of life WIYSO has consistently outperformed expectation. We were deeply involved for 10 years while two of our sons played tuba and French horn in the orchestra.

Association des orchestres de jeunes du Québec - AOJQ en.aojq.qc.ca The main product of the AOJQ is the biennial festival that brings together a number of youth orchestras for three intense days of rehearsals and performance under internationally renowned conductors. My involvement in the AOJQ grew from the work I did for WIYSO.

About ...

I registered the dunn.ca domain in 2012 because I wanted a nice easy email address for me and my family, and because I wanted somewhere to tinker around on the web. And if you've read this far and are wondering about draiggoch.ca — that was a suggestion from my fantasy-reading family that pre-dated dunn.ca. Red Welsh dragons look great, but the only Welsh connections I have are very distant.

There are plenty of Dunns in this world. In England they used to make hats, in Montreal, smoked meat. Unconnected with either, we are the ones with our family home in Valois, Québec, with family members in North Otter Lake Ontario, Beaconsfield, Verdun, Quartier des Spectacles and Eastbourne.

Contact any of us by emailing to our firstname @ this domain. Or you can contact me directly here.