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Lismer got it right. There is La Cloche, and then there is the rest of the world

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Jon Butler opens his exhibition of photographs, on display in the RBC Tower on Bay Street. Part of Contact Festival. Jon Butler uses his camera to have a Group of Seven moment in God's Country La Cloche Spirit: The Equivalent Light, opens in Toronto. Part of Contact Festival   Jon Butler at one time was an integral part of the Thomson News Corporation. Publisher. Newspaper Executive.  Nowadays, he lets others write the news, while he pursues beauty with his camera in Northern Ontario.  On Monday evening Butler opened an exhibition of photographs he took in the La Cloche region of Georgian Bay.  The show launch was held in the lobby of the  Royal Bank's Bay Street Tower as part of the month long Contact Photography Festival.  Three Ontario and Federal cabinet ministers, a over 50-art lovers attended the opening sponsored by Vale's Base Metals, a Toronto based mining company. The La Cloche area, known for the beauty of its quartzite mountains, crystal clear lakes