Small town living after my year in the big city

Pine Point Beach, Deep River ON
watercolour and crayon
©2025 Charlene Brown

A job offer at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories brought about my next move  ̶  to Deep River  ̶  in the fall of 1964.  For the first few months I didn’t even know there was a beach at Pine Point, even though we all skied at a small hill near there. 

This painting is based on pictures I took at the beach during the following summer. (The mountain in the background is Mt. Martin which is on the Quebec side of the river and is barely high enough to be classified as a mountain, so I’ve given it a little added elevation and a more rugged skyline.)

After that summer, during which we spent most of our free time here on a surprisingly warm stretch of the Ottawa River, I made a really Big Move to the next place I lived – which I’ll write about next week.