![]() ![]() Lawrence River to the Canadian Maritimes. In the spring of 2017, we are again heading down the St. This time around, we will be circumnavigating Newfoundland. By the Winter of 2017, plans were well underway for another passage to the East coast. We then crossed the Gulf of Maine, sailed down the New England coast to New York City and up the Hudson River and back to Lake Ontario. For more visit Gallivanting 2009 In the spring of 2011, we took Gallivanting up through Lake Erie and into Lake Huron. For the next 5 summers, we sailed Georgian Bay and the North Channel. In the spring of 2009, we launched and headed down the southern shore of Nova Scotia. For more visit Gallivanting 2008 After a most enjoyable summer, we hauled out in Halifax, Nova Scotia and returned home for the winter. We continued to sail Lake Ontario, until the winter of 2008, when we again decided to set sail for the Canadian Maritimes. In 2003, we traded up to a Niagara 35, a 35 foot sailboat that would be a little more comfortable on longer passages. It was wonderful and in hindsight, a great way to adjust to retirement. We departed Toronto in June and returned in September. In 2002, I retired from the Water Survey of Canada and to mark the milestone, I decided to sail Déjà vu to Newfoundland. ![]() For the next few years we sailed Déjà vu on Lake Ontario and thoroughly enjoyed it. In the fall of 1998, we became the proud owners of a C&C 27, a 27 foot sloop named Déjà vu. We started taking boating courses and looking at the listings of “boats for sale”. In those days we were busy with jobs and playing golf, but by the mid-1990s our interest in sailing and sailboats reached a new high. In the 1990s, we sometimes sailed with friends who had sailboats. A career with the Water Survey of Canada meant that you also spent a significant amount of time in a boat. Growing up in Newfoundland meant that you spent a good portion of your childhood in a boat. I secured the domain for gallivanting.ca and started the migration from deja-vu.ca. Frontpage 2002 was no longer supported and my boat’s name was no longer Deja Vu. In 2017, I decided to give my website a facelift. Over the years the site grew and expanded to include our sailing activities and our travels. After many, many hours logged on the computer, I somehow managed to deliver on deja-vu.ca. After getting a service provider and securing a domain, I starting building a website using the domain name deja-vu.ca. When I retired in 2002, my partner in life, Linda, presented me with a copy of Front2, a sort of web building software for the technically challenged. As I neared retirement, I often suggested that when I retired, I would not only research my family history, but build a website to share my family history. As I grew older, I became more and more interested in my family history. My maternal ancestry is with the Stone family of Trinity Bay and has been traced back to Thomas Stone who came to Newfoundland in the late 1700s. I have researched my paternal ancestry back to Pierre Lejeune dit Briard who came to Canada from France around 1650. My mother grew up on Random Island in Trinity Bay on Newfoundland’s East coast. My ancestors on my father’s side were Acadian French, while my mother’s ancestry was English. My father also grew up in Stephenville Crossing. My name is Wayne Young and I grew up in Stephenville Crossing on the West coast of Newfoundland. ![]()
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