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He kept his men busy, too.

he moved them forward so boldly and so cleverly that the british who had been planning the capture of the fort never thought of attacking him but made sure only of defending themselves all this was but a feint to put the british off their guard elsewhere suddenly while lvis kept up the show of force montcalm himself left secretly for montreal saw vaudreuil who like bigot was still all bows and smiles and left again with equal suddenness for fort frontenac now kingston on july twenty first from this point he intended to attack oswego At the entrance to the Thousand Islands there was a point, called by the voyageurs Point Baptism, where every newcomer into the upper countries had to pay the old hands to drink his health.

The French regulars, 1,300 strong, were all new to the West, and as they formed nearly half of Montcalm's little army, the baptism of so many newcomers caused a great deal of jollity in camp that night.

serious work was however ahead fort frontenac was reached on the twenty ninth and here the report that villiers with the advance guard had already taken from the british two hundred canoes and three hundred prisoners soon flew round and raised the men's spirits to the highest pitch Montcalm at once sent out two armed ships, with twenty-eight cannon between them, to cut off Oswego by water, while he sent a picked body of Canadians and Indians into the woods on the south shore to cut the place off by land.

The part that says, welcome to Canada.

And a lot of them, they think a great idea of retiring is up on the Thousand Islands.

And it's beautiful.

It's great, at least for five months a year.

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Marie.

But yet, is there any sort of, hey, let's create a collaboration that's Ministry of Education or Ministry of Universities and Colleges-led to create an AGRI, an Alberta Gambling Research Institute-like body here in Ontario, right? Ogre, the Ontario Gambling Research Institute with Windsor and Brock and Algoma and Carlton, you know, thinking about Eastern Ontario and the Thousand Islands land-based casinos.

No, that's never happened.

And it's embarrassing because we, on one hand, as taxpayers will say, well, we need to have a very strongly funded ministry of university and colleges.

And what happened in the course of the first couple months is that by the time we rolled around to the end of October, August, groups around the state had heard about it and asked to join on.

So this includes up through Oswego and up to the Thousand Islands, including Watertown, the Adirondacks, over to Utica, Albany, up to Saratoga, down into the southern tier, Cooperstown and Odeonta and Binghamton.

So we had 47 groups by the end of August that participated in the first two events.

Moving ahead, groups over in Boston heard about it.

Yeah, so on Bannering Days, we want to pick high traffic areas.

We work over the New York State Thruway, I-90, which also is the mass turnpike.

Because now, one of the things I didn't finish saying is that we go from Buffalo to Boston, Thousand Islands to Rhode Island, because we include Rhode Island in this.

and um and so that if you're driving along a highway uh in a municipality whether it's like i said binghamton or oswego or whatever you should see that under the major traffic areas in rochester we do them along 490 which has a lot of traffic uh bill does them over uh over 490 um but we've also done the thruway um and so so we want to have the most amount of cars if you have 50 cars go under in an hour going two ways.

We got stuff.

St. Lawrence River, it's the Thousand Islands area, like where Thousand Islands Dressing was created because there's a thousand islands on the St. Lawrence.

Right? Yes.

And Philly, you know, like Philly's Cream Cheese, you'd think Philadelphia.