Al Capone hideout in Canada. 🏡 ( Eastern Ontario- ➡quadeville ) 🏡☑

Al Capone Canada hideout

When asked by police what his business in Canada was,
Capone replied "I dont even know what street Canada is on"

Gota love that sarcastic, "you wont fool me copper" kinda humor.


This unique piece of history was almost lost to the trees when I arrived as it seems no one is taking care of it, or interested in preserving part of Canada's controversial past. When you first walk up the evidence of vandalism is everywhere. The place has been treated like a dump and is embarrassing to know my fellow Canadians are mostly to blame. Why someone needs to deface history to prove they were there when all there doing is adding to the breakdown and ruin of said object is beyond me/idiotic. The very thing they felt so interested in, they then chose to add to its destruction. Makes absolutely no sense to me. All this tagging/marking/vandalism does is make the actual land owner
( yes, this is private property ) want to enforce his rights so no one can come here. So, all that people are really doing by tagging is wrecking it for the rest of us, and possibly your future children.
Dont be a jerk, let others enjoy the fun too.
As the saying goes, "take a picture, it'll last longer".

Rant done.

Al Capone hide out in quadeville Ontario, Canada

From what I understand, it was just boarded up a year or two ago, but I managed to find a broken window and had to take some pics before this place was either destroyed or turned into someones home; the risk was worth the reward from my perspective.
If you go, be careful, the floor was caving in all over and the fact that its all boarded up now means there is no light, making the holes even more dangerous ( bring a flash light, my Iphones light didn't work all that well from my experience ). There is also NO cell service, so if something happens to you, your on your own. If you can, dont go alone.

 One of 4 bedrooms.

Al Capone original fireplace in Canada hideout

I decided to add some noise in the photo to give it that old time scary movie vibe something like a blair witch project effect. I had shot this on my Iphone so noise/graininess wasnt a problem, *chuckles to himself*  but with the right tweaking on PS it gives the feel like its right off a horror  movie role.

Looks to be the original fireplace. How this place didnt go up in flames already I dont know; It just goes from fireplace to wood floor, maybe Im just to used to things being to code. lol.

 2nd bedrrom

Kitchen area. The one thing I noticed was there are lots of doors at this place compared to usual houses.

 Bathroom.

Al Capone secret floor door to escape tunnels

 Hidden door to basement in kitchen, supposedly leading to underground escape tunnels. 

 Kitchen area

Al Capone getaway house in Canada

3rd bedroom

 Front entrance with boarded up window and door.

Capone hideout house in Canada

Front entrance

 4th bedroom. Ive heard people try and say this was a torture room but I have my doubts. There are wires hooked up to the wall and a mount but the cables could only hold something mildly heavy, Definitely not a human. The first thing that came to mind was old photos Ive seen of when counterfeiters dried there money on similar wire racks. I could just be jumping to that idea because of the criminal nature of Capone tho. It does also look like how they deal with old negative photos, but I have a hard time believing Capone was into photography that much.

Capone mystery device, counterfeiting?

Another shot of the mount used on the other side. It looks to be original judging by the age of the ropes. Could be wrong tho.

Back of Capone hideout house

 A shot from behind the house.

Al Capone driveway

Capons driveway. If you didn't know it was there, you'd probably drive right by. The house is not visible from the road. No signage or numbers.

Al Capone house

Famous Al Capone tree in Eastern Canada

 The famously odd shaped tree at Capons house.

Al Capones famous tree in Ontario, Canada

Very weird looking, anyone got any ideas as to why this happened? My first thought was that its been used a target practice.

If the owner by fluke of a chance see's this, I would gladly come clean up from time to time for the sake of preserving history and alleviate this herculean task off your shoulders. A bit of a thank you for letting me take these pics.

hickory tussock caterpillar + Antheraea polyphemus ( big green caterpiller ) + American dagger moth caterpillar + Monarch butterfly

American dagger moth caterpillar

American dagger moth caterpillar

hickory tussock moth caterpillar

Monarch butterfly

Antheraea polyphemus

Antheraea polyphemus

Baby muscovy ducks 🐣🐥🐣🐥🐣

Our Muscovy's have been producing eggs since spring and now, of all times, is when they decide to hatch them out; they certainly picked a funny season those silly little quackers. With fall just around the corner we still have enough time for them to grow, the only problem now, keeping walking bait away from the barn cats.
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As soon as they hatched the father duck wouldnt leave the coop, I thought it was just some nice gesture to the moma but boy was I wrong. So the next day I walked in and gave them some feed, then, out of nowhere, the male duck bends down and snaps up a little baby duck by the head.

WHAT THE!!

So after a little research I found out this can happen, the male might be trying to stay in his hierarchical position, so any new male competition is lunch, regardless of whether its his babies or not.

The interesting thing of all this is, one day, the moma duck looked like she had left the kids with the other duck, we'll call her auntie. I thought to myself (how nice), it almost seemed like some type of companion parenting, after all, it does take a village, right.

But soon I realized something was off. Whenever moma duck came around, auntie would hiss, then  start biting and I could tell auntie wasnt letting moma near her babies.

This must have been happening for a while as when I separated the babies from auntie, they chirped away very unhappily. Auntie did not want to give up those babies, she hissed at me, bit me twice and fluttered in my face with her wings. Im starting to wonder if maybe she doesnt think she's stealing them, maybe she thinks there her own for some reason?. not sure why all this happened, but very interesting to watch the drama unfold.

In the picture here is moma duck and babies. Moma is a blue eyed, all white Muscovy, with a very friendly attitude. Her sister on the other hand,......

The little yellow one was just stepped on by our new goat, it was terrifying.
I thought she was a goner. But she literately dusted herself off, pushed her wing back into place and went off hunting for bugs with the rest of the family. Not even a sign of hurt or shock. I figured Id give it a day or two to really know how she was doing and so far, she's a trooper.

The old nest. As soon as the young ones hatched she gave up on the old eggs.

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