In the corfid home page list of links Florian has a link to what was a great site written by Torontonian Yuri Amatnieks
in which Yuri back in 1999 for the "Canary Yellow Canoe Tour" (actually the first Massey Hall convention) gave a plethora of
useful info including maps (of Orilia and where Gordon's Walk Of Fame star is located) for first time visitors to Toronto
and/or Canada. Florian's link still tries to link to the very obsolete original location at:-
http://members.home.net/amatniek/lig...nov99tour.html
but I recall that home.net went down the tubes eons ago and latterly Yuri had it at his later rogers.com address.
A google search for Yuri's full name certainly brings up several results incuding a misleading geneology page and the original
"Our Story - Cathy & Yuri Amatnieks page at":-
"http://members.rogers.com/amatniek/ourstory.html"
and clicking on the "cached" link produces a cached page from last October plus at the foot of the page a link that used to
take you to:-
"To Amatnieks-Donovan Home Page " at:-
http://members.rogers.com/amatniek/index.html
but clicking on either that link or the link to the "current" page produces that annoying "this page cannot be displayed
error page or worse (in my case a spurious and iutetrly useless trojan calling itself "error asistant" insists on sticking
its unwelcome and distinctly unhelpful nose in).
So I tried the wayback machine at:-
http://www.wayback.notlong.com
and pasted in the old rogers.com URL as shown above
this produced a choice of 11 archived pages and I chose one from 10 April 2004
which opened:-
http://web.archive.org/web/200404100...niek/index.htm
and there I scrolled down to a find the link to :-
Gordon Lightfoot In Toronto which was at:-
http://members.rogers.com/amatniek/l...rontotour.html
which should therefore be archived at:-
http://web.archive.org/web/200404100...rontotour.html
but unhappily the wayback machine despite a further search for that exact Lightfoot page reported back
0 pages found for
http://members.rogers.com/amatniek/l...rontotour.html
Sorry, no matches.
at first I was inclined to give up but not deterred I tried an earlier (2002) archived page and hit pay dirt
except that Yuri's images including the essential maps are all anoyingly missing
I have made a notlong link to the wayback archived page so try this:-
http://yuri.notlong.com
Oh well I will now post this on the Newsgroup which Yuri frequents to see what is up or down as the case may be!!!
John Fowles
Hoping to meet up with a few friends later this week
[ May 15, 2005, 01:06: Message edited by: johnfowles ]