Winter In The Hills 2014 by In The Hills Magazine

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Local Heroes

Our annual celebration

Great Lakes Lessons

An interview with author John Riley

Year in Books and Music Communing with Spirits Hockey on the Alton Millpond

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You gotta love winter (right?) Snow on Halloween is certainly not unprecedented, but when it came this year before small ghouls and goblins were barely snuggled back in bed with their candy-fuelled dreams, well, memories of last year’s long, deep (and powerchallenged) winter were still too fresh not to send a shiver of dread through the hills that was far more chilling than anything the spooks of All Saints’ Eve could serve up. It will be gone by noon, I thought the next morning as I surveyed the snow-capped pumpkins. It wasn’t. And the ground is white again as I write this – covering the sodden mess of my still-unraked leaves. It all suggests that predictions of another rough winter may be all too accurate. If so, the only solution is to summon the can-do fervour of a good Canadian and … embrace it. We hope our winter issue will help you do just that. The story of the Alton Millpond Hockey Classic, our cover story by Tony Reynolds with fabulous photos by Joanne Crease, is surely as pure a celebration of the joys of a Canadian winter as there possibly could be. This community festival of snow, ice, family, friendly competition and hot chocolate is a reminder of why we continue to love our iconic game, not as it is on television screens, but as it plays on the nostal gic reels of our collective imagination. In her Good Sport column, Nicola Ross also introduces us to a new way of enjoying winter outdoors – winter cycling, astride the relatively new fat-tired bikes that allow enthusiasts to get out on the trails all year round. Shopping and cooking are hardly winter-exclusive acti vities, but with the holiday season upon us, they certainly amp up. So this issue offers plenty of inspiration for both gift giving and menu planning – from new books and CDs by local authors and musicians, to a tantalizing recipe for Christmas rum cake, to easy, locavore-style holiday enter taining in Made In The Hills, a new column by Tralee Pearce. As always, we hope this issue will also provide you with all kinds of other good fireside reads to warm a frosty eve, including our annual salute to local heroes, the amazing people who make our community such a special place to live; a meaty interview with John Riley, author of the awardwinning ecological history The Once and Future Great Lakes Country; and amid the long shadows of winter, a reflection on our relationship with the spirit world by Monica Duncan. Okay, then, let it snow!

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I S S U E F E A T U R E S 21 Local Heroes

People who’ve made a difference by Jeff Rollings 34 The Once and Future Great Lakes Country

An interview with author John Riley by Don Scallen 34

42 Millpond Hockey

Alton’s pond hockey tournament by Tony Reynolds 48 The Year in Books

New offerings from local authors by Tracey Fockler 58 The Year in Music

The latest from local musicians by Scott Bruyea 62

Riders prepare for the Pan Am by Cecily Ross A short story by Nancy Rorke 70 Body, Mind, Soul, Spirit

Communing with the spirit world by Monica Duncan

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12 Letters

Our readers write 15 Artist in Residence

Winston Uytenbogaart 16 Must Do

Our favourite picks for winter 19 Fence Posts

A hymn to small halls by Dan Needles 56 Made In The Hills

Holiday entertaining by Tralee Pearce 62 Good Sport

Fat biking by Nicola Ross

75 Cooking Class

Chef Phil Dewar’s rum cake by Cecily Ross 78 Historic Hills

One-room schooldays by Ken Weber 80 Headwaters Nest

A week without screens by Bethany Lee 82 At Home in the Hills

A timely salvation by Pam Purves 96 What’s On in the Hills

A calendar of winter happenings 106 A Puzzling Conclusion

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a Salute to John Rumble Three cheers for In The Hills for recognizing the truly significant achievements of John Rumble and his team from so many years ago [“The Caledon Horse That Could” autumn ’14]. History told by those who actually made it is a treasure we should all appreciate. The foun dations of Canada’s success in the equestrian sports today were built by the likes of John Rumble. A great sportsman and a gentleman of the highest order. Good luck to the eventers at Pan Am 2015! Gary van Bolderen, Caledon East

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What a delight it was to come across Bethany Lee’s new puppy story [“Headwaters Nest” autumn ’14]. Actually, my mom found it while she was sitting on the back deck of our new house in the country watching our puppy Zoe chase crickets in the grass. Zoe is [Beth any’s puppy] Blixen’s sister and has turned our lives upside down and right side up. It’s been an adjustment for sure, but worth every warm snuggle – she is the most loveable and lightning-fast little pup. Izabela (web comment)

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must As the holiday season approaches, members of the Achill Choral Society are tuning up their vocal cords again to present The Glory of Christmas, the annual concert series that has delighted audiences for years. In addition to carols and seasonal favourites, this year’s program includes Puccini’s soaring Messa di Gloria. The first concert takes place at 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 23 at St. Timothy Church in Orangeville. At 7:30 p.m. on Saturday,

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November 29 the choir sings at Christ Church in Bolton, and for the series’ finale, choir members will raise their voices in song at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 30 at St. James Church in the village of Colgan. Tickets are $25 for adults ($10 for youth, $5 for children 12 and younger) and can be purchased at the door or in advance at various retail stores, as well as from choir members. Call 705-435-1091 or see www.achill.ca.

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Fed up with the shopping malls? Give them a pass, and get into the community spirit of the season at some of the many Christmas fairs, bazaars, and art and craft sales that are a seasonal tradition in these hills. From Friday, November 21 to Sunday, December 7, Dufferin County Museum & Archives hosts Holiday Treasures, its annual juried arts and crafts show and sale (www.holidaytreasures.ca). And at the Alton Mill Arts Centre, artists and artisans are celebrating the season with a variety of shows geared to gift givers (www.altonmill.ca).

You can also stock up on all kinds of homemade Christmas goodies, preserves and handmade crafts at holiday fairs in local halls, churches and schools. On Saturday, November 22, for example, the Horning’s Mills Community Hall hosts the Christmas Market in the Mills, and on Saturday, December 6 the Caledon Agricultural Society’s Christmas Craft Show and Sale takes place at two locations in Caledon Village. To find out more about these events and many others, turn to the listings in “What’s On” on page 96 or online at www.inthehills.ca/events.

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If decorating your home in seasonal splendour is on your Christmas to-do list, you’ll find plenty of inspiration on Saturday, November 29 at the Creemore Holiday House Tour. Attend a breakfast seminar on holiday decorating, tour six houses fitted out for Christmas by local designers and decorators, and browse the holiday marketplace at Station on the Green, as well as the shops of the village’s historic downtown. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets $25, available from local retailers and online at www.creemoreholidayhousetour.com. A portion of the proceeds will go to local charities.

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Traditional Christmas pantomimes are raucous affairs, and Snow White and the Famous Seven is no exception. Written and directed by Jo Phenix of the Century Church Theatre Guild, this rollicking musical comedy brims with songs, dance, romance, laughter – and plenty of opportunities for audiences of all ages to channel their inner rowdy by cheering the heroes and booing the villains. The fun starts at Hillsburgh’s Century Church Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 21. Additional evening performances take place on Saturday, November 22, and Friday and Saturday, November 28 and 29. Matinées start at 2 p.m. on November 22 and 23 and November 29 and 30. Tickets are $12. For information, go to www.centurychurchtheatre.com or call 519-855-4586.

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Hymn to the small hall

n 1853, a group of elders met in the tiny community hall in our little village to dis cuss the growing problem of youth vandal ism in the neighbourhood. Teenagers had far too much time on their hands during the long, dark winters and they needed diversion. The elders had the bright idea of forming a Literary and Debating Society. At the first meeting of the Society, the member ship debated the question of whether “the cow is superior to the horse.” The debate erupted in a fistfight, which turned into a riot, and the little hall was wrecked. The elders met again and this time they suggested the debating club be reconfigured as an agricultural society and urged the membership to put on a fall fair. Then they set about to build themselves a new town hall. Duntroon has smashed up, burned down and worn out three halls in its history. The fourth one we have now is lasting better than the other three because building materials are improving and young people aren’t using it quite as hard as our ancestors did. But it still needs constant attention to keep it going. The small hall is the centrepiece of many rural Canadian neighbourhoods today. Each one of them has a gatekeeper, the formidable Hall Committee Secretary, a whisky-voiced virago who has ruled the building since before anyone can remember and has never taken a dime in compensation. Hall food is famously simple and rugged: grey roast beef, pale peas, mashed potatoes and pie. This

is a tradition that goes back to our grandmothers and their grandmothers before them who knew that food was dangerous and could kill you. Food went into the oven to make it safe to eat. The longer it sat there, the safer it got. The only thing on the tables that didn’t have the bejeezus boiled out of it was the whipped Jell-O salad with the pink and green marshmallows.

I consider myself fortunate to live in a neighbourhood that still knows how to do practical things like design a flying outhouse. The hall of my childhood was an Orange Lodge in the hamlet of Rosemont. I sang in choirs on that hall stage, performed in plays, learned to dance, had my first swig of rye in a stubby Coke bottle out in the parking lot, got kissed for the first time under the horse chestnut tree in front of the hall. We had an amateur theatre troupe that performed at every Strawberry and Fowl Supper put on by the church ladies. The neighbours were a wonderful audience and they didn’t mind seeing us do the same play over and over again. One of them remembered riding horseback to the hall one winter during the Depression to perform his own small but memorable part in a play on that stage. He hoisted an axe on his

shoulder, went to the door and announced, “I’m goin’ out to split some peas for the split pea soup!” That brought the house down, and he was called Split Pea Thompson for the next 50 years. Life expectancy in North America has actually fallen down the world ranking over the last 50 years and psychologists tell us this is because we have become increasingly isolated by our phones and our screens and our stuff. We have lost sight of the fact that we are social animals and need to belong to a group. Researchers have studied what happens when like-minded people take up a good cause and gather in overheated halls to raffle off pies and perform silly skits in front of the neighbours. They have found it makes them less anxious, boosts serotonin levels, increases energy and gives them greater resilience to stress – exactly the sort of effects associated with powerful antidepressant drugs. I consider myself fortunate to live in a neighbour hood that still knows how to do useful and practical things like race chickens or design a flying outhouse. We listen to live music, put on plays, and we pile plates high with boiled Canadian food that nour ishes the soul. The community hall is one of the very last places where we are allowed to get together and make something out of nothing, just for the fun of it. It is a setting where real friendships are made, strong links are forged, and we are granted what poet Robert Frost once called “a momentary stay against confusion.” Above all, they give us a wonderful sense of place. ≈

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Helen Keller wrote, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” If there’s a theme to this year’s Local Heroes, it’s the act of reaching out. In one way or another, all these wildly diverse but no less extraordinary people have reached out – and lifted up – with empathy, or with an aim to dispel ignorance, or with advocacy for the injured, the disabled or the bereft. All have gone above and beyond in their contribution to a community that is “full of the overcoming of it.” And all demonstrate with distinction just how brave, bold and beautiful our neighbours can be.

Scotiabank Team Community Program Scotiabank Party Girls Hilda Cartwright, Danila Maric and Lucy Sanzo.

Bank Heist If you’ve ever dreamed of making off with all the money at the bank, these people are for you. They’ve got the perfect cover too – it’s an inside job. Added together, Danila Maric, Hilda Cartwright and Lucy Sanzo and have worked at Scotiabank for more than a century. Together with some of their coworkers, they volunteer to operate Scotiabank’s Team Community Program. Last year Orangeville’s First Street branch contri buted an eye-popping $326,000 to support local charities and not-for-profit organizations. What’s more, all three branches of Scotiabank in the region (two in Orangeville, one in Bolton) participate in the program. It works like this: The bank matches funds raised by its employees for local causes. The limit is $1,000 per employee who volunteers for any given fundraising project, up to a maxi mum of $5,000 raised by teams of five or more employees. It’s important to note that the Scotiabank volunteers must help raise the

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money that will be matched. One way this is achieved is through the bank selling tickets for an event at the local branch and/or at the door on the day. Organizers need to approach the bank well in advance. The volunteers then con firm whether they can be available, draw up the paperwork, and get approval from the manager. Danila says, “The money actually comes from Toronto.” She credits manager Janet Eichholz with the growth of the program at her branch. “She’s a big supporter of the community,” Danila says. “She has been the backbone behind encourag ing us to do as many as we can.” Affectionately known by some as the Scotia bank Party Girls, their commitment to the cause is impressive. Lucy says, “We once had three events in one day. We’ve often done two. But if there’s a conflict, sometimes we have to turn one down.” Volunteers at the various branches often attend each other’s functions to provide coverage. Hilda wishes she had even more hours to give to the program:“It’s why you’re here in this world. It’s a privilege to get to do these things.” Beyond the positive community impact, Lucy emphasizes there’s a personal reward.

“I’ve always been shy,” she says. “Attending these functions brings me out of my shell. I like to help, but it’s helping me too.” All of them remember at least one event that brought tears to their eyes, at fundraisers for causes ranging from Bethell House Hospice to cystic fibrosis to organ transplants in Haiti. Danila says, “I do feel it helps out the com munity. And it’s nice when people say, ‘You guys are amazing.’ I wish the other banks would step up with programs like this.” Plus, she acknowledges, “Usually the bank gets some publicity, through announcements at the event, the logo on flyers or newspaper coverage. I’d much rather the bank does this than spend money on advertising.” So the ingredients for a successful bank heist are simple: Infiltrate the organization. Have a good heart, a passion for community service, and a committed team. A liking for party snacks and a big fake cheque come in handy too. Thanks to some community-minded party girls, we really are richer than we think.

Visualize This It’s Watson’s day off. He is so happy to greet visitors that his exuberant wagging sweeps everything off a shelf by the front door – before he leans in hard for a cuddle with the newcomer. This goofiness is a far cry from the button-down professionalism this black Labrador retriever-golden retriever cross displays when he’s at work as a guide dog paired with Orangeville’s Laura Jotham. Together, the two are on a mission to educate people as to how guide dog teams function and to dispel the myths surrounding people with visual impairments. Laura, a 21-year-old York University student, was born with retinopathy of prematurity. As a result, she is completely blind in her left eye and has only 10 per cent vision in her right. With no peripheral vision and no depth perception, she says what she sees with her right eye is akin to viewing the world “through a straw.” She hasn’t given one of her smart, funny talks to a community group in a while, but only, she quips, because she has “saturated the market.” Indeed, Laura has made the rounds, speaking to Rotary and Lions clubs, the Canadian Federation of University Women and virtually every elementary school in the area. She has also been a book in the Headwaters Human Library. Most memorably, Laura delivered a convocation address at the University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry. “It was quite an honour,” she says, “speaking to all these grads who were going to be optometrists and ophthalmologists.” Less high profile but more fun are her visits to elementary schools. An oft-asked question: “Does Watson get in the pool to help you swim?” A key part of Laura’s message is a rule that’s easy to understand, but hard to follow. When Watson dons his harness, he switches from off duty to on duty – and while he’s working, it’s critical that he focus only on her. As a result, there should be no interaction with anyone else. “It’s hard for everyone,” she says. “It’s hard for me to be the person who always has to say, ‘Don’t touch the dog.’ And Watson’s well trained, but he likes the touching too. Really, it does everyone a favour if he’s just ignored.” This is not to say that Watson can’t be a conversation starter. “A great thing about the dog is the social aspect,” Laura says. “I also have a white cane, but when I use it, no one says ‘It’s so cute. Can I pet it? How old is it?’” Watson was placed with Laura through the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides program, which covered the $25,000 cost of not only raising and training him from puppyhood, but also preparing Laura to take over once he was two years old. The foundation also provides continuing support if it is needed. Laura’s goal is to effect a subtle but significant attitude shift. When interacting with those with visual impairments, she says, others don’t judge, but they are often hypersensitive – afraid they might offend. “The objective,” she says, “is to get people to put the person first and the vision second. So instead of thinking, ‘Oh, there’s a blind person,’ I want them to think, ‘Oh, there’s a person who is blind.’” Watson is six years old, and service dogs generally retire between the ages of eight and ten. “I don’t like to think about it,” Laura says, adding that a veterinarian will make the call when it’s time for him to hang up his harness and for a new dog to take his place. Watson will remain with Laura as a family pet. “He will get a lovely pension,” she says. “Whatever comes my way, I can handle it if I’ve got my best friend with me,” Laura says. Watson, back from a rummage outside, wags his tail in agreement.

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Ministry of the Present Reverend Harvey Self is a warm, upbeat man with an intense gaze and finely tuned listening skills. As minister of Tweedsmuir Memorial Presbyterian Church in Orangeville, he employs these traits – and more – to deliver what he calls a “ministry of the present.” Born in Cornwall, Harvey was a self-described “military brat” while his father, also a Presbyterian minister, served 20 years as a chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces. After earning a BA in history at Queen’s University, Harvey says, “I went straight from university to the ministry. I felt a sense of calling.” He graduated from the University of Toronto’s Knox College in 1981 with a master of divinity and did threeyear charges in British Columbia and Leaskdale, Ontario. Following in his father’s footsteps, Harvey’s next stop was with the Canadian Forces, where he served as chaplain at bases in Petawawa, Goose Bay and Esquimalt over a period of nine years. By then, Harvey and his wife, Jayne, had young children and he was looking for a place to put down roots. In 1996 that search brought him to Tweedsmuir in Orangeville, where he has remained ever since. One reason Tweedsmuir is such a good fit is its location, right across the street from Branch 233 of the Royal Cana dian Legion. The two institutions share a long-standing relationship, and as part of that, Harvey serves as a nondenominational chaplain for the branch. The position is voluntary, undertaken at the request of Legion leadership, and Harvey says a large part of his job is “to provide moral support for the president.” Beyond regular events and extensive time commitments around Remembrance Day, he has also conducted 47 memorial ser vices for veterans over the last 18 years. One particular service stands out in his memory. When Cpl. Matthew McCully of Orangeville was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2007, his family approached Harvey to lead a memorial service that was attended by more than a thousand people. The crowd was so large that it spilled out of the church and into the adjacent Legion parking lot. “It was a privilege to work on Matthew’s funeral and mem orial,” says Harvey. “It tied together everything I believe in.” Harvey says another big moment in his career was linked to Matthew. Seeking to help shape his church’s response to the Afghanistan conflict, Harvey accepted the position of moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada in 2009. As moderator, Harvey was the public face of the Church, both in Canada and internationally. Despite his leadership prowess, the heart of Harvey’s passion is people. In addition to his work with the Legion, there are hospital and nursing home visits, weddings and so on – the many human connections that make up his “ministry of the present.” “Wherever people are at,” he says. “Celebrations. Funerals. It’s about bringing the ministry to where it’s needed.” After a long career of caring, what has he learned? “You have to do ministry based on the things that stir you the most. For me, that’s God’s love for every person. If you work with people, you better make sure you love them.”

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Ted Forrest

Bike Buddies Colin McArthur and Ted Forrest.

Bike Buddy Nothing is more calming for the soul than the feeling of the sun on your face and the sights, sounds and smells of a trip along a trail. Ted Forrest, the inspiration behind Erin’s wheelchair bike program, makes this experience a reality for those who might not otherwise get the chance. Retired from a career in the printing industry, Ted was an avid recreational cyclist. Six years ago he discovered that Wellington Terrace, a long-term care facility in Fergus, has wheelchair bikes that enable residents to tour the nearby trail system with volunteer riders. Ted signed up as a rider and has been volun teering there ever since, picking up and deliver ing some residents right to their rooms. “I like to joke that it’s the first time I’ve been allowed to ride my bike in the house,” he says. After a while, Ted says, “The penny dropped,” and he thought of introducing the concept to participants in ARC Industries East, which provides work and support for adults with intellectual disabilities. ARC, which had recently opened a new facili ty close to the Elora Cataract Trailway in Erin,

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welcomed the idea. Ted then partnered with Erin PhysioFitness and set about raising the $7,500 needed to pay for a bicycle, helmets and shipping, as well as to set up a small reserve for maintenance. At the time, the Erin Rotary, Optimist and Lions clubs were looking for a project they could carry out together. “None could do $7,500 on their own, but they could all do $2,500,” says Ted. “I was invited to make a presentation to all the groups and walked out of each with a cheque. Then we ran a general campaign to raise funds for the second bike.” The general campaign was supported by the Erin Legion and local residents, and the bikes were delivered in 2013. The program operates two mornings a week and has proven highly successful, with what Ted calls a “good core” of six volunteers and three ARC staff, who all took training. The training was mostly common sense and “revolves around compassion,” Ted says. Then there is the full slate of happy passen

gers. “The passenger is king,” Ted adds. “If they decide it’s too cold, or too windy, or they don’t want to go any farther, we immediately turn back.” Volunteer riders also carry a two-way radio so they can reach the ARC office if nec essary. Though the normal route is along the rail trail, the bikes also made an appearance last year in the Erin Santa Claus parade. Ted’s sights are now set on expanding the program to include seniors and other wheel chair users. The goal is to “see the bikes get used for more hours,” he says. As things unfold, he would also like to establish a process that allows potential passengers’ family members and friends to take them out for rides. Not content just to oversee the program, Ted is also one of the riders and has clearly made a host of friends in the ARC community. “It’s very rewarding,” he says. “I’ve taken non-com municative people out, and along the way they’ll start singing. Eventually it became my fix just as much as theirs.”

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The Connector Bob Burnside says, “I’m always optimistic. I always think the next person I meet will be my best friend; I always think the deal will go well.” This positive attitude served him well in his role as founder of R. J. Burnside and Associates, the Orangeville engineering firm that has grown to include 320 employees at 11 locations across Canada and a 12th in Barbados. It has also served Headwaters well. In his humble, behindthe-scenes way, Bob has devoted himself to the community. A longtime Rotary Club member, he has chaired three major fundraising campaigns for Headwaters Health Care Centre, and represents south Dufferin on a provincial source water protection committee. He is a director of the Gideon National Trust Fund and was the first chair of the board of Highlands Youth for Christ in Orangeville. He’s also on the board of Heroes Camp, a basketball program for at-risk youth. Bob’s most recent project is the video Every Town Needs a Doc, an affectionate tribute to Orangeville entrepreneur and community leader Doc Gillies. “I wanted to peel back what Doc did and look at how you might replicate that,” says Bob, who financed the production and offered broad direction on the content. (The video is available on Vimeo.) Surprisingly, Bob doesn’t describe himself as a born leader. “I often do things because there is a need at the time,” he says. When the café at Centre Fellowship Church was strug gling, for example, Bob, who knew nothing about the food business, pitched in to help return it to a sound footing and ensure its survival. Bob believes that his strength lies in the wide network of talented people who surround him. “I’m good at being able to say, ‘Here’s who you should talk to.’ My friends call me the Connector.” He attributes much of his success to his father, Arnold, who once served as reeve of Amaranth Township and warden of Dufferin County. “My parents were divorced and I mostly grew up with my dad,” he says. “He taught me how to deal with people and that interactions always need to be a winwin for both sides. If there’s a short straw, don’t be reluctant to take it. That approach has made me a lot of friends.” The help and support of his wife, Nancy, has also been crucial. “I once had 39 nights out in a row,” he says somewhat sheepishly. “The deal always was, I had to be home by 5 o’clock and stay there until 7:30 to help with the kids. Then off I’d go.” Bob retired in 2000, and the firm is now run by his son, John. For a time Bob remained as chair of the board, but a few years ago he stepped away from the business completely. This has given him more time for both community service and pursuing personal interests, such as family genealogy and travel. Bob’s community work has been recognized with num erous awards, including the President’s Award from the Greater Dufferin Area Chamber of Commerce and the Dr. David Scott Award, bestowed by Headwaters Health Care Centre. “I’ve learned my risk tolerance is high,” Bob says. “I’ll tear into things.” For this community, his tearing into things has been, as his father said, win-win.

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Headwaters Human Library Books Everyone Has a Story For people who serve as “books” in the Headwaters Human Library, the courage to talk openly about the differences among us is second nature. Over five years, the free annual event has attracted nearly 50 books, that is, individuals willing to share the story of their particular niche in the diverse local community. They do this in halfhour one-on-one conversations with “readers” who are members of the general public. The goal of the Human Library is to demon strate the wide spectrum of humanity who reside in Headwaters and encourage dialogue and under standing among them. Book titles have ranged from “Born in the Wrong Body” to “Atheist,” from “Don’t Call Me Retard” to “Filipino Immigrant,” from “Transvestite” to “Aboriginal Woman.” Jacob Dixon, Kristine Stanway and Khwaja Ajib are longtime bestsellers who have partici pated in both the main Human Library events and satellite events that have been held in each of Dufferin’s high schools. Jacob not only serves as a book titled “Beyond the Freak,” he has also ap peared as the pierced poster boy in the program’s advertising. For Kristine, a constable with the Ontario Pro vincial Police whose title is “Gay Female Police Officer,” participation is both personal and pro fessional. And for Khwaja, owner of Dufferin

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Glen Golf Club, his book “About Islam” provides a chance to dispel myths and prejudice about the Muslim faith. Khwaja also appeared in an autumn 2009 article in this magazine about the Human Library. For each of the books, there was some initial apprehension. Khwaja says, “I was nervous at first. For the first 10 minutes I felt very alone. But after 15 minutes I felt very comfortable. I was surprised by the warm welcome I got. Everyone has been very kind, and no one came with an agenda. I started to really enjoy it.” Jacob describes his experience with the Human Library as therapeutic. “When I was first ap proached, I was more in a shell. I thought, What do I have to offer? Meeting everybody, I was blown away that there were so many amazing books. Then people wanted to read me. And every con versation is so different.” Jacob’s readers have ranged from the man who asked if he got his piercings to pick up women, to a little girl who demanded to know what he plans to do when he grows up, because with a face like that he obviously couldn’t be an astronaut or a fire fighter. “I really like the younger minds,” Jacob says. “They’re more open, they ask questions.” One of Jacob’s most difficult readers also proved to be one of his most meaningful. Opening the conversation with “No offence, but I want my kid to never look like you,” the woman went on to explain how difficult it is for parents to send their children off to high school. “With your style,” she said, “I’d be worried about depression and drugs and bullying.” When Jacob told his own mother

about the conversation, he was surprised by her response. “My mom said ‘Yes, I was scared every day. But I believed in you.’ My parents were always very supportive,” he adds, “but I wasn’t thinking from their side.” Kristine made news in January this year when her police cruiser became the filling in a transport truck sandwich on County Road 109 near Grand Valley. The accident happened during a state of emergency that had been called due to winter weather. At the Human Library, Kristine sees her exper ience as a two-way street. While sharing her own story, she is also learning about everyone else. She says her readers had a lot of common questions, such as, “When did you know you were gay?” “How did your parents take it?” and “How did it play out with your co-workers?” “For me,” she says, “all of those things were positive. It was good to be able to tell people that.” The coworker question often serves as a bridge to another set of oft-asked questions about poli cing: “How did you get into it?” “How long have you been doing it?” and “What has been your most exciting call?” In fact, all the books say that during their sessions with readers the questions flow in both directions. In effect, the book and reader are reading each other. One of Kristine’s most intense experiences came about in just that way. “I had one girl, maybe 17 years old. It was a very bizarre conversation. I think she may have been high.” As the conversation unfolded, Kristine says, “It turned out she had been moved from group home

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to group home. At one point she started crying.” Kristine says many of her readers are there to seek personal advice, and she has been impressed with the overall attitude. “There’s been no negativity at all. It’s always very positive.” Khwaja agrees, noting there has been “a lot of enlightenment.” As a Muslim imam, in the early Human Libraries he fielded a lot of questions about 9/11 and ter rorism. Over the years that has shifted more to questions about being an immigrant and the treatment of women in Islamic culture. “There has also been more looking at com parable ways of life and comparing cultures,” he says. One of his most memorable exchanges was when a mother brought in her 14-year-old son. The boy was from Israel, and Khwaja recalls, “He had questions about the conflict in the Middle East. So we had a conversation about what the similarities between our religions are.” Employing one of his trademark lines, Khwaja says, “I told him if we all just take the Ten Commandments and run with it, everyone’s good.” One impact of the Human Library has been the ripple effect in the wider community. For example, after one of their parishioners read Khwaja at a Human Library event, St. John’s Anglican Church, east of Orangeville, invited him to deliver a 45-minute talk about Islam at one of their gath erings. Both Jacob and Khwaja, along with fellow longtime book Gerelyn Tabsing, have presented panel discussions to community groups. Kristine, too, has had discussions with several people considering policing as a career, some of whom may well have gone on to enter the force. Khwaja concludes, “If we spent a bit more time talking to each other, we could sort out a lot of things.”

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A Very Special Friend Nineteen years ago, Erin resident Chricket Yule didn’t exactly set out to create a long-term recreational program for kids with special needs, let alone one that has galvanized her community and sparked lifelong friendships. Chricket was first inspired to improve the lot of one par ticular teenager, the daughter of a close friend. Barb Perkins confided in Chricket that her teen daughter, Becky, was aware enough to recognize that she was missing out on the hang-outs and sleepovers her peers enjoyed. “We just thought, wouldn’t it be great to start a friendship circle for Becky?” Chricket recalls. She and Barb knew of three similar teens in the area and together they cooked up a six-week program of activities overseen by qualified care givers. “It was pretty evident from the smiles on their faces how much they thoroughly loved being together,” Chricket says. “It was just for them. They were able to pick up on that.” Fast-forward almost two decades and the “Special Friends of St. Andrew’s” (the group uses the Hillsburgh Presbyter ian church’s basement and kitchen) is a year-round fixture in the community, supported by the local Optimist, Rotary and Lions service clubs, by individuals who drop coins into cans at area businesses, and by innumerable bake sales and car washes. Special Friends now comprises a Saturday drop-in pro gram and a summer day camp. The program also serves as a respite for parents and caregivers. Activities include pyjama parties, hikes, Christmas parties, field trips to Blue Jays games – even a limo ride after one participant noted he would likely never get to experience one. To illustrate the program’s impact, Chricket recalls a parent telling her that a pyjama party was their child’s best day ever because “he’d never had a sleepover. He’d never been in his pyjamas watching a movie with his friends. That has always stuck with me.” Becky moved away a few years after the group was formed, and Chricket, a retired teacher who is a “shade over 60,” has co-ordinated the program ever since. Membership is fairly constant, as participants don’t “age out” of the program. The 11 current members are from 18 to 53 years old. Their challenges include developmental delays, autism and Down Syndrome, but they are “high-functioning,” says Chricket. To see Chricket in action, trying to pose for a photo with Scott McDougall (who has been a Special Friend from the start) is to glimpse her devotion. Scott, now 33, has developmental delays and is nonverbal. He is also bright eyed and fleet footed, not much interested in sitting still for the camera. Chricket knows how to com municate with him, holding his hands in hers, her voice upbeat and respectful. At the same time, she cheerfully tells the photographer that Scott alone will determine how much time there is to snap a shot. This ability to take a backseat appears to be a trademark. In conversation she is sure to thank her husband, Mac, and their three adult children. She is quick to shift the spotlight to the staff, St. Andrew’s, the service clubs and the community. “I just plan it from my kitchen table,” she says. Well, that’s some kitchen table, Chricket. —T r a lee Pe a r c e

Special Friends Chricket Yule and Scott McDougall.

Ronnie Inglis The Inglis Patients Over her more than 35 years in health care, Ronnie (Veronica) Inglis touched many lives. And today, her impact and leadership are as strong as ever. Growing up in Cornwall, Ontario, Ronnie says, she was fas cinated by medicine. “As a child I was always dissecting dead mice and rats.” Ronnie moved to Orangeville in 1972 to work as a register ed nurse at what was then the Dufferin Area Hospital. By 1984 she was head nurse in the ER, and a few years later, she was appointed program manager for the entire emergency department. In the years between then and her retirement from Headwaters Health Care Centre in 2005, she would go on to oversee various units and programs, including the critical care unit, the chaplaincy program and the dialysis department. She also led numerous other initiatives, such as the organ donor and retrieval program. In 1989 Ronnie set out to develop a sexual assault treat ment program, which became a reality in 1991 and includes 24-hour coverage by specially trained nurses. Not content to stop there, Ronnie’s next step was to work with a list of community partners to organize the Sunrise Centre, a secure and separate area of the hospital and the first in Ontario to accommodate women, men and children. In the centre, victims of sexual assault and domestic violence can feel safe as they are interviewed by police and treated. Ronnie started raising funds for the centre with charac teristic determination: “I said if I have to sell cookies on the corner, I will.” That wasn’t necessary, and the centre opened in 2003. Given Ronnie’s long career, it isn’t surprising that many vivid recollections – some good, some bad – are etched in her memory. Two that touched her heart involve drowning and kids. One young person survived; sadly, the other didn’t. But both families were so grateful for the comfort Ronnie offered during the crisis that they sought her out later to express their gratitude. Ronnie sums up her contribution as the essential purpose of any nurse: “Do everything you can to alleviate suffering. Not just for the person on a stretcher, but for the family or anyone else who is impacted during a health crisis.” Honoured this year as Orangeville’s recipient of the Ontario Senior of the Year Award, this nurse extraordinaire is as active as ever. She serves on a number of hospital boards and committees, and makes regular trips to Australia to grab every possible moment with her two grandchildren. And though she confides that she doesn’t like to cook, she helped serve 80 people Christmas dinner last year at St. Mark’s Anglican Church. “This year,” she says, “we’re hoping to include all the ambulance, fire and police staff who are on duty that day.” True leaders are sometimes their own worst critics, and Ronnie is no exception. What has she learned about herself? “Sometimes I wasn’t strong enough. I should have tried harder. I didn’t always win.” If only the rest of us could be half as strong, try half as hard. What a wonderful world it would be. ≈

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John Riley at home in Mono: “I like to think we may now be exploring the beginnings of a sustainable, steady-state economy… Economists are beginning to ask, ‘What does growth mean? Is it purely material or should it be measured instead by our quality of life?’”

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In The Once and Future Great Lakes Country, scientist John Riley offers a sweeping ecological history of the land we call home – and the human impact on it. In an interview with In The Hills nature writer Don Scallen, the Mono author discusses his award-winning book and his cautious hope for the future.

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have often fantasized about travelling back in time – to explore this land as it was before European settlement. What a grand adventure that would be! To watch vast flocks of passenger pigeons darken ing the sky. To hike oak savannahs among herds of elk and to fish sparkling streams teeming with trout and Atlantic salmon. To discover first-hand how Native people lived. The wonders would be legion. Mesmerizing, as well, would be a visit to more recent times, to watch settlers wrest a living from this landscape and to witness directly the tremendous changes that occurred in Southern Ontario as farms and communities were established. In the absence of a time machine, John Riley’s The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013) is the best option. A longtime Mono resident, Riley embeds the local history of Dufferin County in his sweeping ecological and economic history of the entire Great Lakes watershed. Riley is the senior science advisor for the Nature Conser vancy of Canada. He served on the Niagara Escarpment Commission for a decade and has worked in various capa cities for the Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario Nature and the Ontario Geological Society. The Once and Future Great Lakes Country has been lavishly praised. This year, for example, it won the Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award, which honours the best book on the province’s regional or local history. If that doesn’t impress, consider that Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro loves it. In fact, she recommended it to listeners last year during an online chat with fellow literary luminary Margaret Atwood. Riley’s book is supported by robust research. Forty-seven pages are necessary to document the sources he consulted during its writing. An illustration of his effort? Riley acquired

and read the entire 73-volume Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, reports written by Jesuit priests between 1610 and 1791 as they chronicled their attempts to convert the Native people of Canada to the Christian faith. The Once and Future Great Lakes Country paints vivid pictures of what the ecology of this area was like hundreds and even thousands of years ago. The accounts of the once abundant and diverse plant and animal life are wholly fascinating. Inseparable from this ecology of Great Lakes country were the Native people. Riley examines in depth their intimate relationship with the land, as well as the tragedy of their decline after the arrival of the Europeans. Riley also describes how the landscape was stunningly transformed during the European colonial period. The con tradictory nature of our relationship with the land figures prominently. We prosper from its exploitation, but are left impoverished by habitat loss and diminishing biodiversity. Nevertheless, Riley is cautiously optimistic about the future of nature in Great Lakes country. He identifies a host of government, non-profit and private initiatives that are heal ing the natural landscape. Author Michael Crichton offered this view of history: “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” In The Once and Future Great Lakes Country, Riley describes our historical tree. Firmly rooted in a remarkable past, it has grown strong on nature’s capital. With knowledge of the trajectory that got us to where we are today, perhaps we won’t blunder blindly into the future but will instead be inspired to exercise the careful stewardship necessary for this region to continue to thrive. I recently sat down with Riley to discuss his book. What follows are some highlights of that interview. continued on next page

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ds Why is Great Lakes country so special? jr Great Lakes country is the largest temperate freshwater system on Earth, containing almost 20 per cent of the globe’s surface fresh water. Nowhere else on Earth is there so much fresh water in the planet’s livable temperate zone. To the north is the mineral-rich boreal country of the Canadian Shield, and in the south its lower lakes with their warm and fertile plains, moraines and shores. It is an extraordinary endowment of immense geopolitical importance – shared amicably by two countries – and its natural capital will continue to make it a magnet for human endeavour. Early explorers heaped praise on Great Lakes country. French explorer Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac’s report home in 1701 was rhapsodic: “This country, so temperate, so fertile, and so beautiful it may justly be called the earthly paradise of North America.” This glowing assessment was echoed by others. With European settlement all efforts were soon turned to profiting from that paradise, especially its rich low lands. This “earthly paradise” now supports a population of 45 million and an annual economy of more than one trillion dollars. ds You refer to the Headwaters region as the “Ontario Island.” Why is that? jr This is what geologists and arche ologists often term the height of land we call Headwaters country, where the glacial ice thinned first and the great forests grew most densely. ds Elba Cave in Mono was a truly remarkable find. How did its discovery help us understand the fauna of post-glacial Headwaters?

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jr We discovered the bones of 19 dif ferent mammal species in Elba Cave. There were bones from marten and caribou – the caribou long gone from this area, the marten more recently – but among them was another fascin ating surprise. Howard “Doc” Savage, who set up the archeology lab – the bone lab – at the University of Toronto, identified two femurs from an extinct species of giant pika, which is a small mammal related to rabbits and hares and extant now as a sibling species of high-elevation Rocky Mountain habitats. The really interesting thing was to get accurate dates for these bones, which dated the giant pika to 9,000 years ago. We then pulled a core sam ple from a nearby lake, one of the few natural water bodies in Mono, and

the pollen in the sample painted a picture of open talus slopes like those at the treeline in the Rockies. The pollen told us that the Headwaters region, during the time of the pika, was open spruce-jack pine barren similar to the sub-Arctic today. ds Can you tell me about the role of the passenger pigeon in pre-colonial Great Lakes country? jr Passenger pigeons exercised an ecological influence that can only be compared to the influence of the bison on the western grasslands. In the 1860s a single flock of pigeons near Lake Ontario was estimated at 3.7 billion. The water weight of this single flock was equivalent to the water weight of 10 million people. Where they landed, they broke tree limbs and opened up canopies. Their feces killed entire woodland understoreys and reset the species composition of habitats. Along with a superabundance of passenger pigeons, Southwestern On tario had tremendous herds of elk and deer and flocks of turkey. It was an abundant landscape. ds Did Native people inhabit the Headwaters region before the arrival of European settlers? What do we know about their settlement patterns in the province? jr One of the really interesting things about the Ontario Island seems to be the absence of Native habitation. If you look at maps of all known arche ological sites in Ontario, there shines the Ontario Island, unoccupied. This area was dense, heavy, old-growth forest. Native people may have trav elled through this region and cer tainly hunted here, but this wasn’t a place to live. You can’t work stoneladen till soils with a wooden hoe. And you don’t want to cut down maple and beech with wooden implements. It’s too much work. So Natives located on lower lands close to lakes and rivers for access to fish and aquatic vegetation they could weave into mats and use for other purposes. But importantly, the large Native villages were in the zone where soils had been sorted as the water of the Great Lakes went up and down over the last 14,000 years. This was the situation in Huronia, for example, where there were loose soils as a result, which could easily be worked. The Natives were great horticulturists, selecting northern strains of corn, beans and squash for their hardiness. I argue that Natives were much more expert at horticulture and farming than the newcomers from Europe. Most of the Native peoples in South

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ern Ontario were urban dwellers. They lived in organized towns and villages and managed their landscapes very actively, including the use of fire to create openings. In Southern Ontario there were at least 100,000 to 125,000 Native people at the time of contact, principally the Huron at 30,000, the Neutral at 40,000 and the Petun at 10,000 to 20,000. And then, farther north in the Canadian Shield, there were another 100,000 plus. There are “unknowables” in this story. Smallpox was brought to Mex ico by the Spaniards in 1520. It wasn’t until 1615 that Champlain came to Huronia, and by that time, smallpox had been loose for almost a hundred years in North America. So questions arise about how many Natives may have perished long before Cham plain’s arrival. ds Am I correct in assuming that smallpox was one of the reasons the Europeans were able to exercise dominion over the Natives of North America? jr Without doubt, European disease was the critical element in the collapse of Native cultures. The Europeans who arrived in the “New World” had already acquired a general immunity to the mumps, measles and smallpox and other Eurasian diseases they brought with them. The Natives had not. Beyond that, the Europeans had the advantage of hard metals that confer red great advantage in farming and clearing trees. And of course, their new metal weapons played a major role as well. These weapons flowed unevenly to the Native people of Great Lakes country. The Dutch and English read ily traded weapons for furs with the Iroquois south of the Great Lakes. The Jesuits north of the lakes insisted that there be no trade in weapons with the Hurons and Petuns, except

above : Bones of many mammal species from the last 9,000 years were found in Elba Cave in Mono, including the now-extinct giant pika (actually a small rabbit-like animal), a sibling species of the pika shown above, found in the Rocky Mountains today.

for those few who converted to Christianity. Proud of their heritage, most refused to do this and were thus denied the weapons the Iroquois had. In the 17th century, this power im balance between the Iroquois and the First Nations of southern Ontario exacted a terrible price. All the Huron, Petun and Neutral in southern On tario were killed, expelled or abducted by the well-armed and well-organized Five Nations of the Iroquois from south of the Great Lakes. Ecological ly, the widespread Native land care ceased as of that date. ds Can you offer some reflections on the settlement of Great Lakes country by the Europeans? jr The first European settlers went for the landscapes that had been opened up by the Natives – the meadows, prairies and the open oak woods of Southwestern Ontario and the Great er Toronto Area. They got those lands under cultivation pretty easily with out the sweat equity that later im migrants were subjected to. Other areas, including much of the Head waters region, should never, ever have been cleared. Here in Mono, for ex ample, the harvest of rocks in our fields is quite spectacular. The prospect of land ownership lured immigrants. Consider that a lot of new Canadians had the opportun ity to own land for the first time in their lives, or even for the first time in the history of their families! In Britain, continued on next page I N T H E H I L L S W inte r 2 0 1 4

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at the same time, people were being pushed off the land. Here we were carving up the land into workable parcels for ownership by a new middle class, supported by agriculture. This was unprecedented in scale both south and north of the Great Lakes. Trading in land – acquiring it, sev ering it, developing it and selling it – became the greatest industry of that era. And it is still the most lucrative business in our economy, still the anchor of our economy. Forensics tells us to “follow the money” but my book “follows the land” instead – in the “New World,” land and money were the same thing. ds What did we lose as the land was developed? jr Great Lakes country was changed dramatically. Ninety-four per cent of our upland forests were cleared and put under the plough, 70 per cent of our wetlands were drained or conver ted to agriculture and 99.9 per cent of our grasslands and oak woodlands were lost. These are big numbers. The dominant fish and wildlife were re moved. Habitat loss and fragmenta tion were the prime causes of nature’s decline here, as they are globally. ds What did we gain from the exploitation of nature and the development of the land?

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jr Land and nature are what fuelled, in the 1800s and 1900s, a land-owning middle class, public education and the Industrial Revolution. The result was the world’s most egalitarian, democratic and merit-based society, all of it subsidized by the liquidation of nature’s capital.

ds Can you speak to the phenomenon of the development of city states and their impact on the rural hinterlands surrounding them? jr In common with the rest of the world, city states are emerging here that transcend political boundaries. Here in Great Lakes country, demo graphers have christened its biggest city state “Tor-Buff-Chester” (for three of its cities: Toronto, Buffalo and Rochester). From space, Tor-BuffChester is like a giant incandescent lightbulb stuck in the side of the planet, radiating heat and greenhouse gases. This city state is closing in on a population of 20 million. If Tor-BuffChester continues to grow at its cur rent rate for the next 50 years, the population could well double to 40 million. Southern Ontario alone, over the next 20 years, will welcome 3.5 mil lion additional residents according to official government projections. The vast majority will settle in the GTA. This population growth and the development it drives will have signi ficant environmental consequences. What the growing city state wants, it takes – cheap land, water, energy and aggregates; fields to spread its waste on; roads to bring it stuff; big agro to feed it; places to play; greenbelts to make it feel righteous. ds With the struggle to stop the Melancthon mega quarry fresh in the minds of Headwaters residents, what can we expect from the aggregate industry in the future? jr Each Ontarian now consumes ten tonnes of aggregate every year. Simple math shows that aggregate extraction will continue to change the country side of Southern Ontario. The city

view – happens at the same time as the bad. The countryside of southern Ontario is much better off than it was a century ago. By 1910, the tree cover in Mono had been reduced to only 10 per cent. Now it’s pushing 40 per cent. Ask old-timers about the most notable change in the landscape in their lifetime and some will say, “I can’t see the view anymore for all the trees.” If you drive the backroads here, you can spot places where in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, sand dunes were blowing across fields and roads. Tree planting has turned this situation around quite markedly. Our streams and rivers are clearer and cleaner, and our soils are richer and better cared for. We enjoy one of the world’s most egalitarian, best-educated and richest societies, most of it the product of our drawing down the region’s natural capital. This is good news, the divi dends of a profligate history.

ds Beyond the demands of the city states on the resources of rural areas, what other environmental challenges is Great Lakes country facing now and in the future? jr A major negative change will be the loss of so many of our native trees to non-native, invasive pathogens. Losing a species is a big deal. On our property, we’ve lost all our magnifi cent pre-settlement beech to beech bark disease. This is very sad. Butter nut are succumbing to butternut can ker and ash to the emerald ash borer. Now, the hemlock adelgid, an aphid-like insect native to East Asia, has arrived north of the lakes. It has killed vast tracts of hemlock in the Appalachians and threatens to do so here. And we’re not totally on top of the Asian long-horned beetle, which prefers our sugar maples but will ingest any broadleaf tree. ds What can we take solace in? What good news is out there about the environment? jr Nature is an impartial master and the good – from a human’s point of

ds The phenomenon of “rewilding” is part of this improvement. Can you tell me about that? jr I’m really thrilled by things like the return of the turkey. While writ ing the book in Mono, I had 30-odd turkey feeding right outside my window. On two occasions I watched a golden eagle attack them. Perhaps when eagles were more abundant prior to European settlement, they regu larly preyed on turkey in Great Lakes country. A cougar was seen nearby the same winter. ds How can we further enhance nature’s prospects in the future? jr The species that we haven’t elim inated entirely, we can help. We have already helped the turkey, Canada goose, beaver, deer and many others. The term “assisted migration” is gaining currency. We need to look creatively and sympathetically at all the native species that were here or that are now much less abundant, and say, “Why don’t we help them?” Nature can’t do it alone on a dimin ished landscape. Consider our warm ing climate. Without our help, many species of plants and animals from Southwestern Ontario won’t be able to make it across the 401 or through the GTA. We have limited the scope of natural movement and hence div ersity on the landscape, but we can do something about that. Restoration is taking hold. Brave people all over Southern Ontario are taking charge. Oak savannahs and especially native grasslands are being constructed all over the place. There are land trusts and naturalist groups

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and an incredible fabric of volunteer activities improving things on the non-urban landscape. We need to grow our outdoor edu cation systems. “No child left in doors” should be our clarion call. We need to take kids thoughtfully into nature and explain the specifics of animals and plants and the relation ships among them. We need to explain that these organisms are rightful occupants of our landscapes. They have ways of behaving and interacting and supporting each other. Students should not be told “Don’t touch it!” or “You can’t do that!” Rather, they should be encouraged to engage actively in nature. There was a time in Ontario and the Headwaters region when students got their hands dirty every spring planting trees. Nowadays, many youth and land owners are taking this even further, “rewilding” nature by helping native species succeed again in the Head waters region. School boards could also commit to getting every student out at least once in their school careers to a dump, a recycling facility, a water treatment plant, a farm, a food terminal, a farm ers’ market. Experience is always the best teacher. School boards should also have curricula on how energy and products move into and out of their communities. ds There is a plethora of seemingly progressive legislation on the books, as well as policies to protect land – the Greenbelt, the Niagara Escarpment, the Oak Ridges Moraine. Is this enough?

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jr I’m a fan of the Niagara Escarp ment Plan. It was Canada’s first envi ronmental land-use plan 30 years ago, and it is even more environmentfriendly and user-friendly today. Will the protective legislation for the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Green Belt yield similar positive results? I’m hopeful. We need to have deliberately conserved landscapes partitioning our expanding urban areas. When they were adopted, each of these pieces of legislation was passed unanimously at Queen’s Park, so we can stand up with pride and say, “We did something right!” But of course, we will all need to “stand on guard” for them when they are reviewed in 2015. ds I understand that Dufferin County has submitted its first official plan. What environmental protections would you like to see in that document? jr Yes, Dufferin has submitted to the province its first official plan! The province insisted that all its growth

policies be adhered to in the plan, but not all its natural heritage and environmental policies. So a priority now is to map Dufferin’s natural heritage features, develop appropriate protective policies and amend the official plan accordingly. Dufferin, and the entire Headwaters region, de serve to have strong and clear natural heritage policies in its land-use plans – the green infrastructure and natural features we want to see endure. Pro vincial policy requires official plans to do this, so let’s get it done as a statement of how Dufferin plans to stay green for the next generation. ds Can we retain our prosperity in a future with a slowing economy? jr I like to think we may now be exploring the beginnings of a sustain able, steady-state economy. Others might call it a protracted recession. Maybe in some ways they are the same thing. Economists are beginning to ask, “What does growth mean? Is it purely material or should it be meas ured instead by our quality of life?” ds If we don’t achieve a sustainable, steady-state economy and continue our rapid pace of growth over the coming decades, what will the Headwaters region look like a century from now? jr If Tor-Buff-Chester continues to grow at its present pace for another 50 years, it will rule its countryside hinterland absolutely. Will there be any countryside left at all? Or will what remains be gated and guarded? Will there be any of nature’s special places left? If you project the pace of resource use over another century, the picture is grim. We need to think about what it takes to live, farm, build and socialize in Great Lakes country for the next thousand years, not just the next elec tion cycle. Perhaps we can draw on the lessons of the Native nations who showed they could sustain an eco nomy for a thousand years. The Great Lakes country is our very special endowment. We need to treat it with the utmost care. ds Can you share a parting thought about writing The Once and Future Great Lakes Country? jr If the book causes people to puzzle more creatively over questions of the past, present and future of this special part of the world, I will have accom plished my objective. ≈ Don Scallen is a naturalist and recently retired elementary school teacher.

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A view of the 2012 tournament from across the pond, with the Alton Mill in the background on the right.

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or most of the season the pond at the Alton Mill lies cloaked in winter drab. The dry leaves of summer’s bulrushes shiver and rattle, the frosty wind eddies across the ice, and the snow collects in windrows like frozen waves on a beach. But on one Saturday every January the pond is awash in bright colours, its ice scratched by the blades of a hundred skates, and its shoreline bustling with a cheering crowd. That’s the day of the Alton Millpond Hockey Classic. In fact, this day begins long before January. The planning committee starts meeting in the fall. Then, when conditions are right, a volunteer shovel brigade clears the ice surface, taking care to avoid slushy spots among the rushes. Once the batter boards are hammered into place around the peri meter of the rink, folks from the Alton fire station add the finishing touches, flooding the ice in hopes of creating a surface somewhat smoother than what nature provides. All that hard work pays off. The event got its start when Alton Mill co-owner Jeremy Grant and Doug Beffort, a municipal coun cillor for the area, put their heads together and came up with the idea of holding a hockey tourna ment on the pond. Since then, the hockey classic has become a celebration of all the best about winter in the hills.

But Jeremy pointed out that the roots of this newly established tradition stretch back more than a hundred years. “Altonites Betty and Mike Starr – he’s on the Heritage Caledon board – gave me a copy of a photograph of people skating on the millpond that’s dated 1890,” he said. “There’s a long history of people using the pond for recreation.” For Jeremy, the photo provides a tangible link be tween the past and the present. “The shot gives me shivers and goosebumps every time I look at it,” he said. “Imagine. All those people lived, loved, played, worked … are all gone now. But the pond lives on.” For the first Alton Millpond Hockey Tournament in 2010, two men’s teams competed for the Millpond Cup, a creation of Alton artist Barry Metson. The Caledon Notables, a ragtag group from around the area, defeated the Alton Firefighters to win the cup and bragging rights. In the years since, the name of the event has changed to the Alton Millpond Hockey Classic, the format has expanded to include women’s and kids’ teams and some of the rules have been tweaked. Men’s teams, for instance, must include one guy in his 30s and two in their 40s, with no limit on the number in their 50s and older. continued on next page

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top : The historic photo of Alton showing skaters on the pond (far right) that inspired the Alton Millpond Hockey Classic. bottom left : Young players joined in the tournament for the first time in 2013. bottom centre : The Inglewood Railroaders (in red) squared off with the Caledon Quarrymen (in white) in the men’s competition last year. bottom right : In 2012 the Alton Beavers men’s team (in black) took on the Belfountain Blues.

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bigger changes are expected this year, as The Millcroft Inn has offered its pond for the event as well, so even more players and teams can participate. Since 2013, Randy Ugolini has cochaired the planning committee with Jeremy. “Each year it has become more of a kid-centred event,” said Randy. “Last year, we had four boys’ teams and two girls’ teams, along with the men’s and women’s games.” As it is for many who join the festi vities, the day is a “real family affair” for Kim Carrigan, who is also on the planning committee. In 2014, she played on the Group Therapy team, made up of local women who play in a few fundraising tournaments every

winter. Perhaps in a nod to the even ing’s activities, the image on their hockey shirts includes a wine glass. For the classic, Kim said, “We split the group into two squads – black shirts versus white shirts.” Kim play ed in the women’s game, one of her daughters sang the national anthem and “The Hockey Song” with the Alton Public School choir, and her other daughter played on the Atom girls’ hockey team. Her husband help ed shovel and tied skates. “The men’s teams don’t bother with a lot of hockey gear, but the women get all suited up, so it’s quite a trip from the mill,” she laughed. “Some times it takes two or three people to help one woman down the little hill to the ice surface.”

Janice Giroux also sat on the plan ning committee last year and played on the Group Therapy team. “We played two years in a row,” she said. “The team comes from all walks of life, all ages – mums, a retired hockey player. Some of us have never been on skates, but we’re all out to have a good time and raise some money for a good cause. Nothing beats playing on the pond. It’s cool to be outside, back to the roots of the game.” For many of the adults and most of the kids, playing outdoors on nat ural ice is a new experience. Janice’s daughter, Emma, 10, has been playing organized hockey in local arenas for three years. “I like it a lot,” she said of the outdoor experience. “It’s really fun. You meet a lot of new people. I

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top right : In 2013, Alton women’s team Group Therapy (in white) matched skills against the women’s team from Inglewood (in blue). bottom right : Caledon Village Quarrymen captain Jake Haines proudly holds aloft the 2013 Millpond Cup. The trophy was designed by Alton artist Barry Metson.

don’t remember the score, because we didn’t really play a game. I hope I can play again this year.” “The kids really get a kick out of it,” said Janice. “They talk about it a lot. ‘Remember the time we played on the pond?’ And they’re looking forward to the next time.” The score matters in only one game, when the Millpond Cup is up for grabs. There’s even a professiona l of ficial on the ice – former NHL lines man Ray Scapinello is a Hockey Hall of Famer who holds the record for the longest on-ice career of anyone in the league. “Scampy” dons his striped shirt every year, though he rarely assesses penalties. One of his most important duties is to carry a bucket of pucks to replace the ones that get lost in the

snowdrifts that surround the rink. For the kids there are games, but they also have fun taking part in drills with the rep hockey players who come out. Last year, Kim said, members of the Golden Hawks, Caledon’s Junior C team, laced up and ran drills and skill competitions with the younger players. “The six-year-olds – and the coaches – were thrilled to be playing with the big guys,” she said. “It was all fun, with a few playful bodychecks into the snowbanks.” Kim recalled one year when the paperweight snowflakes were falling so fast that she felt as if she were “eating snow on the way up the ice.” “It’s exhilarating,” said Janice, “be ing out in the cold, fresh Canadian continued on next page I N T H E H I L L S W inte r 2 0 1 4

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winter air, passing the puck. Actually,” she laughed, “the ice is so rough it’s hard to get the puck across the ice, so the game slows down to our level. It’s a lovely day, a real family event. Noth ing feels any more Canadian than standing beside a frozen pond sing ing “O Canada” and “The Good Old Hockey Game” with neighbours and friends, then watching a game on the big screen.” The big-screen game is shown in the evening at the Hot Stove Lounge Pub Night, a popular feature that was a sellout last year. In addition to bringing together the Caledon community, the event is a fundraiser for the Alton Millpond Rehabilitation Project. Players pay a registration fee to enter, and spectators are encouraged to throw change into buckets. Proceeds from ticket sales

for the pub night and from auctions and draws also add to the fund. “There were 12 mills along Shaw’s Creek (the waterway that flows through Alton), with dams and ponds,” said Jeremy. “Over the years, all but two dams and ponds have disappeared, and our pond has progressively silted in. We’ve estimated there are between 5,000 and 10,000 cubic metres of silt in our pond, and that really alters the ecosystem.” Damming the creek to create the pond that powered the mill resulted in a “bathtub effect” that raised the temperature of the water in the pond, he added. These warmer tempera tures have adversely affected the pop ulation of brook trout, a coldwater species native to the creek. The rehabilitation plans include modifying the dam to create a pas

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From Vimy to Victory: Canada’s Fight to the Finish in World War I by Hugh Brewster In the same award-winning format as his previous books, On Juno Beach, At Vimy Ridge and Dieppe, Hugh Brewster continues the series with From Vimy to Victory. Archival photos, letters, paintings and maps reveal a multifaceted view of the final campaigns of the Great War. All the titles in this series are visually stunning, but it’s Hugh Brewster’s gift for storytelling within the factual events that makes them so special. We meet a soldier saved from a midnight shelling by the ghost of his dead brother, the 19-year-old private who single-handedly took out a deadly machine gun pillbox, as well as brave women serving as nurses and ambulance drivers. Hugh Brewster’s previous books include RMS Titanic and Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. He lives in Mulmur. (scholastic, $19.99)

Coming Ashore by Catherine Gildiner When we last left young Cathy McLure (the tree-climbing, civil rights-pursuing, smart-mouthed child/young woman of Gildiner’s previous memoirs, Too Close to the Falls and After the Falls), her first love had turned out to be married, and the FBI was on her doorstep. What to do? Well, she’s 21 and it’s the late 1960s, so…swallow a groovy green pill, write an hallucinatory essay on Milton’s Paradise Lost and get into Oxford, of course. But clomping through the halls of Oxford in platform heels and miniskirt is just the beginning of Cathy’s adventures. The next few years will see her brush shoulders with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and young Bill Clinton, teach at a high school in a burned-out ghetto in Cleveland, move to Toronto – only to have a run-in with the FLQ – and fall in love. Catherine Gildiner is a bestselling novelist, columnist, screenwriter and clinical psychologist. She lives in Creemore. (ecw press, $27.95)

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The many accomplished authors on these pages all have roots in the Headwaters region, but a glance at their collective output reveals that may be the only thing they have in common. Which, of course, is great news for the omnivorous reader. On this literary landscape, serious nonfiction works are neighbours with lighthearted children’s fare; heartfelt memoirs rub shoulders with gardening lore. To highlight just a few, there are works of Canadian history – a hefty history of the fur trade by Barry Gough and photo-rich accounts from the Great War by Hugh Brewster. Parents and grandparents will find delightful bedtime companions in Mary Scattergood’s fair ies and Sean Cassidy’s woodpeckers. And the latest from Catherine Gildiner, Coming Ashore, picks up the threads of her engrossing memoir series at the formative age of 21. This year some of this literary bounty is being formally recognized by the Caledon Public Library in its new Read Local Caledon pro gram, launched in October. A bookish version of the booming eat-local trend, Read Local Caledon invites Caledon and area authors to join a new catalogue of books designed to celebrate and promote their work. Writing can be a very solitary occupation, says Mary Maw, the library’s manager of communications and programming. “We’re hoping to get the word out: We want to get to know you.” The program features new spine stickers on participating books, a series of events bringing local book lovers together, and prominent online bios of participating authors on the library’s website. (Guide lines for qualifying authors can also be found there.) To date, 29 contemporary authors are represented in the collection, including some covered here, such as economics and ethics writer Andrew Welch, and Heather Scavetta, who shares her experiences in the world of meditation and psychic workshops. So far the collection includes 124 titles, with contemporary authors joining such grand fathered literary stars of Caledon as the late Farley Mowat and Robertson Davies. “We want to celebrate our talented homegrown authors and give them a platform to increase their recognition in our community – online, in the catalogue and on the shelf,” says Ms. Maw. As the offerings in our annual review suggest, that catalogue is sure to swell in 2015, and with it the certainty that these hills offer fertile ground for the creators and lovers of the written word.

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The Elusive Mr. Pond

A Woodpecker’s Tale

The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest

by Sean Cassidy

by Barry Gough

Award-winning Orangeville author and illustrator Sean Cassidy has delighted us with stories of roosters, frogs, mice and porcupines. This time, it’s woodpecker’s turn – and what an adventure! Pierce is a young woodpecker ready to fly and find his own dinner. Fretting Mama isn’t so sure, even though he’s grown too big to sit on her lap. Determined Pierce sets off, and after a series of mishaps – with his loving Mama secretly watching over him every step of the way – he finally finds the perfect meal. Included in the book are fun facts and activities, as well as a challenge. Can you find the 13 shadowy woodpeckers hiding in the illustrations? Sean Cassidy’s previous titles include Good to be Small, Wake up, Henry Rooster! and Kazaak! (fitzhenry & whiteside, $18.95)

In his extensive memoirs, Sir Alexander Mackenzie credits himself with opening the northwest to fur trading and settlement. Unfortunately, he left out one very important fact. His success relied on the information and detailed maps of Peter Pond, the man who travelled there before him. Barry Gough sets out on his own exploration to reveal the truth about the barely literate, American ex-soldier who charted the first canoe routes, Aboriginal tribes and trails in the Athabasca region. Maps, letters and Ponds’ own short memoir uncover a fascinating portrait of a rough, aggressive, possibly murderous man and his determination to expand the North West Company’s fur trading empire. Historian Barry Gough, author of Juan de Fuca’s Strait: Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams, divides his time between homes in Victoria B.C. and Mulmur. (douglas & mcintyre, $34.95)

A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey

More than That by Sheena Blake How much can a child be loved? A whole lot, it turns out. More than there are stars in the sky and grains of sand on the seashore. The little girl in Sheena Blake’s delightful picture book positively glows with the soul-deep knowledge that she holds a special place in the hearts of her parents, grandparents, uncles and aunties. During her studies at Humber College, Orangeville’s Sheena Blake received the New Venture Funds award. With the proceeds she and Toronto illustrator Andrea Farrow produced this book. Blake also founded Discovering Diversity, a public school program to motivate and empower youth. (discovering diversity, $10)

Regency-era London isn’t quite what it seems. Dukes and duchesses may display their daughters in a frenzied marriage-mart of parties and balls, but unbeknownst to the Haute Ton, malevolent creatures stinking of dark magic swirl amongst the waltzing couples. Emma Day is bored. Bored with balls, snide girls, stammering boys, and a certain gorgeous viscount who kissed her senseless and now snubs her entirely – that is, until she stumbles upon the body of a debutante covered in an icy layer of frost. Emma and her two cousins are quickly drawn into a new reality of witches, warlocks, animal familiars and the mysterious Council. Mono’s Alyxandra Harvey is the author of the bestselling Drake Chronicles. A Breath of Frost is the first book in her new series for teens, The Lovegrove Legacy. (walker books, $19.99)

Whatever Life You Wear by Cecilia Kennedy Best friends Carly and Ashley are desperate. Carly needs a break from her alcoholic mom, and Ashley’s self-absorbed parents are sending her on a trip to England, forcing her to miss an important equestrian trial. The only thing to do is trade places. Easy-peasy. Turns out, not so easy. Ashley experiences how lonely Carly’s hardscrabble life is, while Carly, pretending to be a rich Caledon estate kid must use all her smarts to keep up the charade. And, as they soon find out, they aren’t the only ones pretending to be something they’re not. Whatever Life You Wear skillfully portrays the pressures of teen life, as well as the risks and rewards of revealing your authentic self. Cecilia Kennedy is a longtime educator who taught for many years at Robert F. Hall Secondary School in Caledon East. She lives in Brampton. (red deer press, $12.95) I N T H E H I L L S W inte r 2 0 1 4

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Mining Exploration

The Value Crisis

The Life and Times of Duncan R. Derry

From Dollars to Democracy, Why Numbers are Ruining Our World

by Douglas L. Derry

by Andrew Welch

Excerpts from Duncan Derry’s journals chronicle the life of an English immigrant’s early years in Canada, his success with mining giant Rio Tinto, and the founding of his own exploration company as an economic geologist. His work took him to Canada’s far north, South America, India, Greece, Egypt and Australia – every continent except Antarctica. Also included are personal notes depicting his family life, lectures given to the Royal Institute at the University of Toronto, and a selection of his watercolour paintings. Caledon’s Douglas Derry is a corporate director, biographer and Duncan Derry’s son. (poplar lane press, $40)

Caledon’s Andrew Welch loves numbers. Growing up, he admired the dependability of adding, multiplying, grouping and playing with their infinite possibilities. As an adult, living in a world of global warming and economic meltdowns, he believes we have become conditioned to accept decisions based on the cold logic of numbers, even when they conflict with our ethics. As systems, human values and number values are completely at odds, and as a society, he argues, we must change our way of thinking if we are to survive. Andrew Welch founded his first software company in 1984. He now operates Intellact, a consulting and IT service. (aanimad press, $20)

F is for Feelings by Goldie Millar and Lisa A. Berger The inability to express an emotion, especially a negative one, can be unbearable. For a child with limited vocabulary, these unexpressed emotions may lead to depression, tantrums or other forms of acting out. Goldie Millar and Lisa Berger’s clever alphabet book teaches children that feelings are natural and important, and provides them with the words they need to describe their experience in the world. Bright illustrations by Hazel Mitchell depict scenes of children afraid on the first day of school, bravely facing a dark room, confused over a puzzle, determined to swing across the monkey bars, and so on. Included are tips and activities for caregivers to help keep kids mentally healthy. Goldie Millar lives in Bolton. Lisa Berger lives in Schomberg. Both authors are clinical and school psychologists. (free spirit publishing, $11.99)

The Power of Love A Mother’s Miraculous Journey from Grief to Medium, Channel and Teacher by Heather Scavetta After a car accident took the life of one of her 17-year-old twin daughters, Heather Scavetta made the brave decision to do more than just survive; she determined to live a meaningful life. Through meditation and psychic workshops, she and her husband, Tony, learned to feel energy and opened their minds to a new reality. Death isn’t an ending, it’s a transition into the next state of being. Once they understood how to recognize the signs, they experienced messages and even visitations from their daughter, Elizabeth. The couple founded the School of Miracles out of their home in Caledon where they teach courses in meditation, psychic development, mediumship and Reiki. (iuniverse, $14.95)

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A Memoir by Velvet Haney In graphic novel format, Velvet Haney revisits the bittersweet memories of her childhood. The simple drawings dramatically portray life in the early ’60s as Velvet, one of six kids, is raised by a single mother in the slums of Toronto. Velvet Haney owns a summer home in Caledon. (hilborn: civil sector press, $29)

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Adie, a New York artist in a troubled marriage, inherits a rundown century home on 100 acres in backwater Ontario. Little does she know, a hunter wanting access to her land will change her life forever. Belwood’s Sonia Day is a writer and gardening columnist for The Toronto Star. Her previous titles include Middle-Aged Spread: Moving to the Country at 50 and The Untamed Garden. Deer Eyes is her first novel. (belwood publishing, $17.99)

After many years of research, Ben Tripp made a startling conclusion. Instead of a single impact, multiple asteroids collided with Earth and brought on the Ice Age. With this theory he explains many of the natural mysteries of our planet and the near universe. Ben Tripp has a master of applied science in engineering and has worked on large optical telescopes and test equipment for CanadArm. He lives in East Garafraxa. (ben tripp, $28.99)

Chickadees at Christmas by Carolyn j Morris Carolyn Morris wraps up her series starring 15-year-old Billy and his friend, Gus, with an old-fashioned Christmas in the country. Homemade gifts, cooking from scratch and a new litter of puppies are just a small part of this gentle tale for both young and old. Beeton’s Carolyn Morris is a teacher and speaker. (railfence books, $12.95)

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Keep Quiet by Julie Hall “People see an abandoned chair in the street and think, ‘It has the potential to be something beautiful.’ People see a homeless kid on the street and think, ‘Don’t make eye contact.’” Keep Quiet’s honest portrayal of two teens trying to make a better life for themselves on the streets of Toronto is a wonderful illustration of friendship and compassion. Julie Hall is an Orangeville high school student with a passion for writing and music. (blurb, $15)

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by John D. Ellis After years of running a Christian healing retreat centre and working as a personal minister, Orangeville’s John Ellis had an epiphany. Trimming the branches of past trauma gains only short-term relief. You have to go for the root in order to move on. With this book he hopes others can leave “unforgiveness” behind and find peace. (essence publishing, $20) Tracey Fockler works at BookLore, an independent bookstore in Orangeville, where she also facilitates a book club.

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It’s never been easier for a committed locavore to toast the holidays in style. Locally made nibbles and elegant cheeses will fuel your guests. Gorgeous handcrafted wood boards and rich-toned pottery on which to serve them all are plentiful. We’ve found a trove of gift-worthy items too, from affordable hostess offerings to big-ticket treats – and we know there’s much more out there! Here’s to a season of searching out the best our region has to offer – and sharing widely with family and friends.

a spread to remember Betzy Wood Art cutting board by Mono wood artist Nathan Betts ($170-$200, From the Kitchen to the Table, www.betzywoodart.com).

Woolwich Dairy’s Chevrai Cranberry Cinnamon ($8.99, Fromage and major retailers) and Elite Cranberry & Port ($7.99, Owls in the Attic and other retailers, www.woolwichdairy.com) in a dish by Orangeville potter Martha Jackson Pagel ($15, Dragonfly Arts).

Roxie’s Boozed Up Christmas Cake relies on a treasured Guyanese recipe ($8.99, Inglewood General Store). Beth Grant’s beaded tray ($98, Dragonfly Arts, www.bethgrantglass.com) and beaded knife ($32, Farmhouse Pottery).

Spiced walnuts by Chef Pam Fanjoy ($10, Friendly Chef Adventures) in an Al Pace bowl ($26, Farmhouse Pottery).

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Al Pace candle stand ($58, Farmhouse Pottery) and Randy Leitch’s beeswax candle ($13, Orangeville Farmers’ Market, www.leitchshoney.com). Al Pace cup ($28, Farmhouse Pottery) and cinnamon biscotti by Chef Pam Fanjoy ($3.15, Friendly Chef Adventures).

Sheldon Creek Egg Nog, made at their Loretto farm, is in production now. Cheers! (Recommended retail price $4.95, at area shops including Spirit Tree Cidery and Dave’s Butcher Shop).

Betzy Wood Art’s tapas coasters ($38 for a set of four, www.betzywoodart.com) fit atop wine glasses for easy mingling. Erin native Arron Lowe’s wineglass ($35, Owl’s Nest Gallery), Woolwich Dairy’s Chevrai Sriracha ($8.99, Zehrs) and fresh baguette ($2, Four Corners Bakery).

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Recipe Contest art for the tree Pottery ornaments by Mulmur potter Jackie Warmelink add a rustic vibe to Christmas décor ($15 each, Dragonfly Arts, www.jackiewarmelinkpotter.ca).

Share your best homemade fare with In The Hills online – and win a meal out on us! Cozy homemade stews. Hearty soups. Warm bread fresh from the oven. Five kinds of holiday cookies. As the air chills, we all know which of our favourite recipes will warm us up.

the no-brainer hostess gift Caledon’s Jennifer Clark has you covered with her locally made dry soup mixes that make a perfect lunch the day after. Her Soup Girl flavours range from Spicy Coconut Lentil to Smoky Split Pea ($8 each or in gift baskets ranging from $19 to $33 at shops including Heatherlea Farm Market, Rosemont General Store and The Naked Vine, www.localsoupgirl.ca).

And while you may think indulging with your family is reward enough, In The Hills wants to sweeten the pot:

Welcome to our first annual Winter Recipe Contest. Tell us all about that slam-dunk shortbread recipe you dust off every December. The classic curried chicken you make with the best local ingredients. Uncle Ron’s famous hot sauce. Or that challah recipe that’s been in your family for years.

We’ll draw a winner on March 2, 2015 – you’ll get a $100 gift certificate on us to a Dining Out Guide restaurant of your choice (see pages 72 & 74). All the recipes will live on the In The Hills recipe archive – along with others from the area’s top professional chefs – so you can share them with friends and family in the years to come.

Here’s how to enter. Good luck to all!

Dig out the winner lurking in your recipe box – it must to be original or personalized by you.

Fill in our online recipe form, with as many of your insider tips as possible – ideally include a photo.

Follow along, rate and comment on the recipes at inthehills.ca/recipes

www.inthehills.ca/recipes instant décor Bowl by Shelburne potter Rosemary Molesworth ($140, rosemoles@rocketmail.com) filled with artificial seasonal décor ($7.95 – $11.95, Orangeville Flowers, real holiday greenery also available). For retailer details, see page 103. Tralee Pearce is an associate editor of In The Hills. Want to suggest a locally made item she should check out? Contact her at tralee@inthehills.ca

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THE BREMEN TOWN PLAYERS Forever & Ever

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The Bremen Town Players have been on a journey, cavorting and concocting a brand of original music that is like the kick of a mule’s hind hoof through a glass window. Solid and forged like a Gerhard Marcks statue, their music is joyously punchy and eminently melodic. The youthful energy of their live concerts is reflected in this new CD with the help of Juno-nominated engineer Darryl Neudorf. The band recorded it at Operation Northwoods, Neudorf’s studio in Mono. Justin McDonald’s vocal and guitar power are always at the tiller of the Players, but Steph McDonald and Lyndsay Wright lean in to create a satisfying vocal blend until the ladies shove him aside and take over the lead in “Up North.” Cory Bruyea’s backbeat is tasty and relentless as he keeps the project steadily pulsing with rock solid patterns and distinctive tom ostinatos. The half-minute groove at the outset of “Devil in the White City” alone is worth every second!

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When I was in my teens, I had a friend whose father painted as a pastime. I would often get sidetracked during my visits as I became spell bound watching landscapes bounded by water, trees and rocks materialize as a result of some sort of transmutation from mind via brush to canvas. When I hear music I am similarly affected – filled with wonder that a slip of an idea can transform into such a splendid reality. Yet it’s a reality taking place constantly throughout our hills, and the extent and quality of the work is stirring. That’s why, when I was invited to take up the quill from Lisa Watson, who for years has passionately reviewed the music scene for this magazine, I jumped at the opportunity. It is now my joy to share the highlights of the excellent music that continues to percolate so vigorously through our community. Many of the CDs can be sampled or downloaded with this article at www.inthehills.ca. Downbeat starts right now.

JOSÉ CONTRERAS José Contreras JACOB’S CATTLE Songs from My Father’s House Jacob’s Cattle is the latest musical project from stalwart jazz guitarist Roy Patterson who has been involved in the Toronto jazz scene and played with many of Canada’s jazz elite since moving from Down East in the late 1970s. Along with bassist Paul Donat (now a humble resident of Orangeville), Mike Billard on drums and the fabulous Burke Carroll on pedal steel and Dobro, Patterson has gone in a splendidly new musical direction. This CD is a country-flavoured instrumental disc inspired by the imprints of the music Patterson heard on the radio while growing up in rural Nova Scotia. Each tune is carefully crafted and beautifully recorded at Studio Pierre Marchand in Montreal with 12 intoxicating and purposeful perform ances. The liner notes elaborate on the genesis and background behind each track – a delightful tangent from most of today’s downloaded music. This sophisticated gem should be listened to in its whole on a sunny Sunday morning – and then press repeat like I did. 58

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José Contreras’ splendidly crafted musical creations have always impressed me in the context of his band By Divine Right. Songs such as “Supernatural,” “I Love A Girl,” “I Will Hook You Up,” and too many others to mention here, can make you groove, smile and ruminate every time they’re played. Producer Lee Maslin, who has known and worked with this musical artist for some time, has instigated something unique and different this year with the release of Contreras’ first solo record. While nestled in his Caledon recording studio, Contreras re-imagines a selection of his original songs and expresses them in a new and personal configuration. We experience that distinct voice, now accompanied only by guitar and piano, with vocal assists and minimal overdubs tastefully infused. The result is a new perspective on every song – which I found to be like delightfully eavesdropping on the original creation of his music.

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THE AURAS The Auras From the first track of their most recent EP, The Auras envelop you in musical colours of heavy love. And indeed I was lifted up and astral projected somewhere back into the past to a party that Randy Newman’s “Mama” told me not to attend. When I want that feeling of those psychsound swirls again, I’m going to click on “Love Just Spirals On” and “Honey Flower.”

BRUCE LEY COLLECTION ONE The Peacock, The Deer, and The Moon

Good friends Bruce Ley and his wife, Candice Bist, have created a trilogy of CDs, with this first having a soul, rock, blues sound. The second will have a country, roots, folk sound, and the third will be lyrical jazz. So far, this labour of love is a beautifully crafted merging of deep-think and a long career of musical talent. Some of Canada’s biggest and talents are featured here, along with more modest ones. Bruce’s longtime associate Steve Kennedy is now playing with Lighthouse and Lisa Watson (hey, that’s me) is retired from a short local career. Bruce’s piano has always enchanted me and the writing in general is warm and relaxed. This magazine’s new music reviewer and drummer exquisite Scott Bruyea, along with so many of our musical friends and family, play and sing along and I know I’m not alone when I say thanks Bruce and Candice for your big hearts. Favourite tracks: “It’s Complicated” and “Broken Hearted Fool.” —lw

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ED ROMAN Letters from High Latitudes When you’re a tunesmith with as much instrumental dexterity as Ed Roman, it’s possible to toy with any musical genre and have the result turn into something multifaceted yet masterful. On this CD, Roman, who is currently based in Shel burne, layers his thoughtprovoking lyrics over jazz, reggae and Latin stylings as he sees fit, creating a funky, playful and totally melodious adventure that defies categorization. Great guitar work is prominent throughout this disc and feature artists have been chosen with aplomb, notably Tobias Tinker, who plays a buttery-smooth flugelhorn solo on the bluesy “Rosetta Stone,” and Ansgar Schroer, whose flawless harmonica mastery must be heard on “Tinker.” All told, this is an ear seducer.

MICHAEL MOON Earth Alignment

OLDE Olde I Olde is the newest band added to Toronto’s heavy music label Hypaethral Records, but do not let their name belie the level of power and energy that will be cranking from your speakers when you listen to their first album. Local resident Cory McCallum, who plays bass guitar with Olde, graced me with one of the original vinyl pressings and the eight tracks are aggressive and heavy with crushing guitar riffs throughout. The group, consisting of Ryan Aubin, Greg Dawson, Chris Hughes, Doug McLarty and McCallum, are approaching this genre with a seasoned perspective, resulting in arrangements that are tight, precise and, did I mention, superbly heavy. No track exceeds five minutes – Olde gets down to their musical business sharply. Black Sabbath is an obvious influence, but Olde would musically push Ozzy and Tony into a small corner until they petitioned for release.

Headphones only, svp – recorded at 432 hz to capture the whole range of sound – all acoustic, no electronics, a wash of healing harmonics. Most recently appreciated at this year’s Weekend in the Woods wellness event in Hockley, Michael Moon has been tuning into solfeggio frequencies for a few lifetimes, judging from the magic here. Vibrational medicine seeps its way into our cells, our DNA, and is transformational. And there’s a subtle flow with a variety of texture that feels like a really good scratch. Get into the zone with such fabulously named tracks as “Liquid Dawn,” “Neritha’s Dance,” “Call of the Devas” – ooooooommmm, baby. —lw

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Fat bike enthusiast Rosemary Hasner takes a spin on the frozen ice of Island Lake with her dog Jackson.

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For these “fatty” enthusiasts, the coming of winter no longer spells the end of the ride.

magine a tutu-clad hippopo tamus carrying a f lowered parasol pedalling around a circus ring. Now picture the bicycle on which she teeters. If a col ourful two-wheeler with fat, perhaps white, knobby tires comes to mind, then you’ve conjured up a pretty good image of what’s firing the latest trend in mountain biking circles. Fat-tired bikes look ridiculous, but their pop ularity is rising as fast as a magician can slip a card up his sleeve. Hardcore cyclists unhappy about hanging up their bikes when the snow flies are behind this phenomenon. They’ve discovered that the combina tion of four-inch-wide tires, which are about twice the width of mountain bike tires, and very low tire pressure – about 8 psi compared with 30 psi for a mountain bike – allows fat bikes to roll over the white stuff. Add metal studs and you have traction, even on ice. The first fatty models built to han dle these extra-wide tires rolled off the assembly lines of two American boutique manufacturers more than 62

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five years ago. Tyler Hollema, who lives in Rosemont and is now riding his fatty for a third season, was an early adopter. “It came about as sort of a contest between Johnny [Yeaman] and me,” Hollema said. “We always wanted to be the last one to hang up our moun tain bike for the year and my fatty let me do that.” Tyler loves having the option of riding all winter, though he misses the nimbleness of his moun tain bike. “But if I could get a lighter fat bike with suspension, maybe I’d switch,” he said. A few pricey new models offer sus pensions similar to those of mountain bikes, and their weight has dropped from more than 40 pounds (about 20 kg) to as low as 21 pounds (about 10 kg), but the only cushioning on most fat bikes comes from the squi shy tires. These shortcomings might change quickly now that Specialized and other mainstream bicycle man ufacturers are producing their own models. They’re aware that what looked like an activity limited to a

handful of cyclists crazy enough to spend upwards of $1,200 to get out on the trails when it’s 20 or more degrees below zero could become a main stream market. Rosemary Hasner, who took the photos on this page, is so keen on her fatty that she insisted I had to write about this new trend – now. “You are going to love it,” she said, assuring me that after one time out I’d be hooked. Of course, she didn’t know that my road bike had left the shed only twice in the past two years and the last time I’d been on a mountain bike was three years ago, when I’d come away from the experience with a dislocated finger. So on an overcast day in early Oc tober, I was invited to join Team Van Go for their regular Wednesday evening ride. I showed up at Dufferin County Forest just north of Mansfield to find more than a dozen cycling enthusiasts zipping around on their new fat-tired toys. The resplendent autumn orange and red maples were no competition for the brightly col

oured bicycle frames and similarly toned “accessories.” With minimal ado, we set out along a trail carpeted with leaves. Nice, I thought. But almost immediately, Johnny Yeaman, Team Van Go’s leader, deked into the forest – and so began a mad dash along a sinuous narrow track between handlebarcatching maple trees. When I came to the first of many tree roots that criss-crossed the path, I stiffened. These obstacles look in nocent, but often cause the wheels on mountain bikes to slide out from under you. Much to my surprise, my “summer” fat tires, with no metal studs, held as they passed over the slimy roots. They held the next time too, and the next. When I crossed a bridge-like structure made of small logs, I didn’t lose traction, and when I pedalled hard up a hill, my fat tires stuck to the trail, making the climb easier. Hmm, I thought, I can see why this sport is gaining momentum as a year-round activity. Emily Gibson gets out most Wed

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nesday nights with Team Van Go, but this was her first time on her new fatty. Unlike her partner, Tyler, Emily is cautious on a mountain bike. “I don’t like going downhill or skidding – skidding makes me stiffen up,” she said. Her experience that night mir rored my own. “I went over stuff that would normally have intimidated me,” she said. Emily’s decision to invest in a fatty to boost her confidence seemed to be paying dividends, and she proudly showed off her intensely red Salsa Mukluk, a smart-looking 2013 demo that cost $1,300. She has spruced it up by adding purple brake cables, han dlebars and seat post. Recognizing that it’s hard to look cool while astride a bicycle fit for the Ringling Bros. circus, fat-bike enthu siasts enjoy playing up their gawki

ness. Karen Yeaman, who is both an accomplished cyclist and Team Van Go’s fashionista, was also debuting her fatty that night. Made by Surly, her bike is steely grey. She has added yellow cable clips and threaded a yellow ribbon through her “drilledout” tire rims, giving them an eyecatching checkerboard appearance. “I’ve ordered white tires,” she said. Over time, I think that fat tires would help me, like Emily, gain a level of confidence that has been missing the few times I’ve negotiated a twist ing single-track trail on a mountain bike. Speeding around the forest with Team Van Go was enjoyable, and having the option of another outdoor winter sport appeals to the Canadian in me. I might even catch on to cycling in the dark, though that’s another story. But what really won me over was thinking about the fun I’d have decking out a fatty. Beaded spokes and handlebar tassels, anyone? ≈ Freelance writer Nicola Ross lives in Belfountain.

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n a brilliant, warm day in late September, the Caledon Pan Am Equestrian Park in Palgrave hosted its final event of 2014. The Canadian Show Jumping Tournament is an annual affair that draws jumpers to Caledon from across North America to compete for more than $200,000 in prize money. But this year, the highprofile event was more than that. It was also an opportunity to showcase the newly upgraded 98acre (39.6-hectare) site that will host the show jumping competition at the 2015 Pan American Games next July 21, 23 and 25. To anyone sitting in the fall sunshine to watch some of Canada’s top horses and riders negotiate the tournament’s spreads and combinations, it would have been clear that the park is right on course for the Games – thanks to about $11.5 million in im 64

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provements financed jointly by the federal govern ment, which contributed 56 per cent of the funds, the Town of Caledon, the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and Equestrian Manage ment Group, the private company that operates the facility in partnership with Caledon and the TRCA. In addition to building a new spectators’ pavilion, the money has been used to upgrade the water sys tem, grade the site, install state-of-the-art synthetic footing in five competition rings, and add warm-up rings, training areas and temporary stabling. All that remains is to construct two buildings that will house an indoor riding ring and the temporary stabling that will be put in place for the Games. EMG managing partner Craig Collins says both will be complete by late February. “The jumping rings are fantastic. We’re doing great. We’re way ahead of schedule,” says Collins,

who is also the volunteer organizing chair for the equestrian events. Like nearly everyone connected with the Games, he believes this is money well spent, both for the sport and the Headwaters region. In August, delegates from the Fédération Équestre Internationale, the governing body for international equestrian events, inspected the site. “They were ecstatic,” says Collins. “We’re all set to go.” Mono resident Terrance “Torchy” Millar, a vet eran of the Canadian jumping team and its chef d’équipe for 14 years, says, “Caledon will be left with a really top-class facility for the equestrian sport.” For this he credits EMG. “The upgrade is terrific. The park is very well run. They’ve done a great job.” The Pan Am dressage tests and two of the three phases of the eventing competition will also be held at the park, but show jumping is the highlight of the equestrian events and the discipline at which horses

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left : Chris Sorensen of Caledon East executes a picture-perfect jump at the recent Canadian Show Jumping Tournament at Caledon Equestrian Park.

and riders from Canada – and the Headwaters region – excel on the international stage. Ever since the Canadian show jumping team won gold at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and, more recently, Eric Lamaze brought home both the individual gold medal and a team silver medal from Beijing in 2008, this has been our sport. And riders and horses from Headwaters and surrounding areas continue to dominate. Headwaters riders who have represented Canada internationally include Yann Candele of Caledon, Chris Sorensen of Caledon East, Jay Hayes of Mono, and Erynn Ballard, whose hometown is Palgrave. And in addition to Lamaze, Mac Cone and Beth Underhill live in neighbouring King Township. Then there are the owners. Sue and Ariel Grange of Lothlorien Farm in Cheltenham own Dixson, ridden by veteran equestrian Ian Millar. Indeed,

top : Mac Cone of King clears an oxer by a hair on Vannety.

this past September, the 67-year-old Millar rode Dixson to the world’s richest show jumping prize at Spruce Meadows near Calgary. Another area resi dent, Jennifer Rogers of Erin’s Little Brook Farm, is part owner of Candele’s mount, Showgirl. Rogers and five other individuals, among them Eric Lamaze and Candele himself, pooled their re sources last fall to purchase Showgirl as a mount for the Canadian team member. Though Showgirl was 14 when the group bought her, younger top-quality horses can command prices as high as $8 million to $10 million, and Rogers sees sponsorship arrange ments like her group’s as the way of the future. “It makes the investment manageable. More and more people need to come together and co-operate like this to support the sport,” she says, adding that so far the arrangement is “working brilliantly.” “Canada has fantastic individual riders, plus we

bottom : It’s not just the jumps but the time between that counts. Ian Millar and Dixson made clean rounds fast enough to win the World Cup Grand Prix.

have one of the most consistent teams in the world,” says Sorensen, who has represented Canada in Calgary, Brazil, Germany and, most recently, at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France. “An extremely high proportion of top horses and riders are coming out of [the Headwaters] area,” he notes. Terrance Millar concurs: “There has been an explosion of interest in sport horses here. It’s hard to drive down a local country road without seeing horse barns and indoor arenas dot ting the landscape.” Despite this, the general public’s interest in show jumping often seems muted at best. At September’s Canadian Show Jumping Tournament in Palgrave, the parking lot was half empty, the grandstand nearly vacant. Most people in the sparse crowd continued on next page I N T H E H I L L S W inte r 2 0 1 4

Mono’s Jay Hayes and Riva soar over a jump at Caledon Equestrian Park. Hayes has been a member of the Canadian equestrian team since 1985.

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wandering the grounds on what was a perfect fall weekend were wearing riding clothes or leading horses. It seemed that very few had come out simply to enjoy the spectacle. And yet the event offered plenty of edge-of-your-seat tension. Ian Millar, riding Star Power, won the $35,000 first phase of the Caledon Cup com petition on Friday. Then on Sunday in phase 2 – the $50,000 World Cup Grand Prix – Millar, this time aboard Dixson, took second place in a taut jump-off against the clock behind Irish rider Conor Swail on Ariana, a horse also owned by the Granges. Sorenson and Bobby were third. Millar’s combined first- and secondplace finishes sealed his victory in the

race for the cup. Jay Hayes, who has been a member of the Canadian equestrian team since 1985 and whose family-owned com pany now produces the FEI-sanctioned two-star Orangeville Show Jumping Tournament every August, has called Headwaters the “epicentre” of show jumping. But, he points out, when Ian Millar won the big prize at Spruce Meadows this year, “You could turn on the TV and watch Canadians lose at golf and tennis, but only CBC car ried the Spruce Meadows competition live. And when we checked the major dailies the next day, there wasn’t a word about an icon like Millar.” Every little village in Holland or Germany or Ireland has its own horse show and they’re well attended, says

Hayes. The bigger shows are jammed with spectators. “I hope EMG does a good job of bringing the sport to the public’s attention,” he adds. “It needs to be more spectator-friendly.” Nevertheless, despite the low atten dance at some show jumping events, most observers believe Canada is set to make a great showing on the inter national stage. “Horses have an emotional appeal to so many people,” says Terrance Millar. “Canada’s golden age of jump ing began after we won gold in Mexico City in 1968. It lasted about 15 years, then it all began to drop off. “Now,” he says, “the sport is getting stronger than ever.” Sorensen notes that Own the Po dium funding has allowed the team

to develop as never before. “Normally, Canada would struggle to put togeth er a team of four horses and riders. Now we have seven or eight to choose from. It’s a great position to be in.” And having the opportunity to compete in front of a hometown crowd at the Caledon Equestrian Park next summer may turn out to be the thrill of a lifetime. “To have a facility of this calibre is a big step forward,” says Sorensen. “It’s going to be a lot of fun to have the Games here at home, es pecially since this time we are serious contenders.” ≈ Former pony clubber and lifelong horse lover, Cecily Ross is a freelance writer who lives in Creemore.

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a s h ow j u m p i n g p r i m e r Here is what audiences can expect to see next summer at the Pan American Games show jumping event. The Pan Am Games are a regional qualifying event for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, so there is a lot riding on them for the Canadian team. Because Brazil is the host country, its show jumping team automatically qualifies for the Olympics. The American team has also qualified, leaving two Olympic berths open for other teams from the Americas. It’s complicated, but finishing in the top two at the Pan Ams would ensure an Olympic berth for Canada. A third-place finish would also give Canada a berth – but only if the U.S. or Brazil, or both, finishes ahead of them. And if Canada finishes fourth, the team would qualify only if the teams finishing ahead of them include both the U.S. and Brazil. Canada’s Pan Am show jumping team of four horses and riders will be chosen shortly before the Games. In the team competition only the scores of the top three team members count toward medals. The goal of each team is to negotiate the course cleanly within a specified time and without accumulating penalty points – faults – for knocking down obstacles, which range in height from 1.45 to 1.6 metres. Knocking down an obstacle incurs four faults, as does refusing a jump. Three refusals result in elimination. Exceeding the allotted time for completing the course incurs time faults. july 21 – The preliminary session, a ride against the clock over 12 to 14 obstacles. Faults are converted to seconds and added to a horse and rider’s time. july 23 – The team final, two rounds over 12 to 14 obstacles. The first round must include a water jump. Teams tied after the two rounds compete in a timed jump-off over six obstacles, whose difficulty may be increased. july 25 – The top 30 riders in the team competition vie for individual medals. Scores from the team rounds carry over to this two-round event. The first round involves 10 to 12 obstacles. The second is on a different course consisting of 8 to 10 obstacles. In case of a tie, horse-and-rider teams compete in a timed jump-off over at least six obstacles, whose difficulty may be increased. pa n a m t i c k e t s

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This story by East Garafraxa writer Nancy Rorke won first place in the adult short story category this year in Caledon Library’s Click, Create, Celebrate writing, film and photography contest. Nancy turned to creative writing as an adult, and founded the Headwaters Writers’ Guild 11 years ago. Her fictionalized account of the final meeting between Louis Riel and Father Alexis André is based on her extensive research and reading on the life of Riel. A leader of the Red River and North-West rebellions, the charismatic and controversial champion of the Métis people was hanged for treason on November 16, 1885. To see the winning entries in all categories of 2014 Caledon Library contest, search Click, Create, Celebrate at www.caledon.library.on.ca

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he night wind rattles my window. The smoke from the fire catches in my throat, and I choke, and its bitter taste reminds me of everything I cannot undo. I stare at the logs in my cell, trying to focus on the present, although the past, like death, is always in my thoughts. Lord, I cannot sleep. Death stalks me. She hides in my cell, and she watches me. Her icy hands caress my face, and she awakens me if I close my eyes. Is it Your will that I die? Will my death mean anything? How will my family survive without me? “Are you insane?” I flinch. I did not see Father André enter my cell. Lord, why do they keep asking me this? How many times must I tell them that I hid in in the asylum after the Red River uprising because I was afraid Macdonald would send assassins to kill me? “Louis, who do you think you are?” Father André raises his eyebrows and pats his sparse white hair. Another question. I pace back and forth. “Louis …?” “I am Louis David Riel. I am on a spiritual path. And I listen to my Lord and I follow his instructions.” O my Lord, for even as a drop of rain cannot separate itself from the ocean, I can not separate myself from You. Father tugs at his unruly white beard. “You say God speaks to you?” “It is not who hears God, but who is willing to listen.” He stares at me and raises an eyebrow. “But Louis, I don’t understand. I am an old priest and I cannot hear God.” “I am not insane, although staying in this petite room and shackled with a ball and chain would make anyone insane.” Yet Lord, I cannot deny that it is a form of madness to believe that I could make a difference in a corrupt world. “But I tried to fulfill my God-given mission.” Father shakes his head. “So now you believe that God gave you a mission. Did God tell you this?” I sigh. “Yes, and the Bishop gave me a letter that states it is my God-given mission to help the Métis, and I carry the letter in my breast pocket.” “So you’re not insane, you’re just fulfilling a God-given mission.” Lord, it is difficult to explain You to a priest who should know You better than I do. “Yes, I am fulfilling my mission.” Lord, only you know how much I have suffered to help my people. I put my faith in You, but sometimes I wonder if it is Satan who talks to me, or if it is my pride that believes that only I can help my people. Am I wrong? “And you are going to die because of it.” O Lord, one moment I am a hero, and the next moment I am on the way to the gallows. How did this happen? Did I misunderstand You? “Louis.” “But it was my God-given mission to help my people. I am the only Métis who can read and write in both languages. But even though you deny it, you knew that Macdonald’s friends were stealing our land in the North-West. With no buffalo and the loss of their land, my people would have starved to death. What else could I have done?” He sighs. “You could have stayed in Montana.”

Lord, I am tired of explaining why I am the “chosen one” to help the Métis. “You need to forgive and to forget.” “I have forgiven my persecutors, even Macdonald, who broke all his promises to us.” I am so tired. “Do you have any regrets?” Father’s piercing blue eyes stare into mine. I am to be hung … I look down at the floor. “Louis.” “I regret the death of Thomas Scott, the Orangeman, who plotted against us. And I regret that my Cree brothers who helped us fight in the NorthWest will be hung.” O Lord. I regret the death of my new born son. I have cried ten thousand tears. I regret that my wife, Marguerite, is bedridden. Please help my family. Father sits expressionless. “Some people are calling you a traitor; some are begging Macdonald to spare your life. Even Masson, the LieutenantGovernor of Quebec, has pleaded with Macdonald to commute your sen tence. But Macdonald told him that you shall hang though every dog in Quebec barks in your favour.” Lord, why is it that my life cannot be spared? I point my finger at Father. “Even your beloved church didn’t speak out against the atrocities committed against the Métis. They crucified us.” Father shakes his head. “But you have renounced your accusations against the church.” “History will call me weak and say that the fear of death forced me to do it. But I willingly did it for my family. I do not want them to suffer, or for the church to excommunicate them, because of me.” “Do you want to say confession?” Smoke leaches through my cell. It lingers in my mouth and lungs, bit ter, like my imprisonment. O my God, I never thought I would die and Marguerite would become a widow. I waited too long to marry. “Louis?” “Macdonald will murder me to morrow. I am a political prisoner. I was a threat to the Orangemen who were stealing our lands, and they wanted me dead.” “It’s too late.” Father’s voice softens, and he raises his hand and places it on my shoulder. “Macdonald’s mercy means death.” “I’m sorry, Louis.” He looks down at his feet, and his hand sweeps his forehead. I sigh. The constant pounding of the hammers distracts me. “It won’t be long before the scaffold will be ready.” Father flushes, and he turns his head. “If the trial had taken place in Win nipeg, instead of Regina, the twelve jurors would have been Frenchmen

and Métis, instead of the six Orange men jurors who decided to hang me.” “But, Louis.” “I am called a half-breed and, as a Métis in Canada, I have no rights. Yet without the Métis, the Wild West would not have settlers. And am I insane, because I would not let the insane government steal our land?” Father turns to look out the win dow, and then he turns to face me. “But, Louis, if you had pleaded in sanity …” “And just because my religious beliefs differ from the church is no reason for Father Fourmond, at the trial, to say that I am insane.” “Maybe, Louis, he was trying to save your life.” O my Lord, I fought for the rights of my people, both in Red River and the North-West. If the Métis stop fighting for their rights, my death will be for naught. God, possibly I am a prophet. I have suffered enough. I am a flawed human being, but I did the best I could. I never lost faith in You, even as I wait to be hanged. I lovingly forgive my oppres sors, as I ask you to forgive me. Lord, please bless my family. Do not let evil touch them, and please do not let the shame of my death stain their lives. Please do not let my suffering and my death stop them from finding happiness. “Confession?” “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned …” After he gives me absolution, he weeps. “Courage, Father,” I say. I wipe away his tears. The smoke catches in my throat and I cough. Hail Mary, Mother of the Son of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. – Father André sits at his desk, and stares at the blank piece of paper. Fin ally, he starts to write. November 16, 1885 Dear Madame Riel: I offer my deepest sympathies to you for the loss of your beloved son, Louis. He told me that he didn’t want to live his life in an asylum or penitentiary. He thanked God for sparing him this. He accepted his death with joy and gratitude. Never have I seen a more radiant face than his as he prayed while he marched to the scaffold. The beauty of his soul was reflected in his face; divine light seemed to shine on him. I have come to believe he is a saint. I have asked the Lord to forgive me for thinking otherwise. Yours in Christ, Father André. ≈

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body, mind, In the dark and wintry days of Christmastide, with its millennia-deep roots in Christian and pagan traditions, ancestral spirits and lost loved ones seem to draw especially close.

now swirled around the kitchen door and the sweet smell of a maple wood fire filled the house. It was Christmas

Eve and the old Cataract cottage was festive – red candles stood ready in their polished brass holders, little white lights sparkled in the fragrant cedar swag on the stairs. In a few hours family members would begin to arrive. There was just enough time left to finish my bak ing – sweet-topped egg bread, a traditional starter dish my grandmother used to make and a staple at our Christmas feast. I had learned the recipe from her years earlier – eggs, milk, butter, sugar, flour – after a stroke left her unable to work with her hands. After she died I was determined to continue the ritual, serving her bread at Christmas and keeping her spirit present with the extended family. Back at the breadboard something was terribly wrong. The honey-scented dough would not fold and was brick tough, cold and unyielding. I looked up at the clock and panicked, tears of frustration welling up. The table was not ready, the wine not set out in the snow to chill. I could just hear my grandfather’s annual benediction upon the bread. This year it would be a resigned, “It’s dry!” I dusted the flour off my hands onto my specialoccasion apron, a frilly white eyelet cotton that had been my grandmother’s favourite. Looking up at the tiny ceramic canary hung on the wall, a gift from her kitchen, I whimpered, “What now?” As though a dimmer switch were suddenly dialled up to high, all the lights in the room seemed to brighten with a thick intensity. Heat filled the kitchen as well as a profound sensation of motherly love. Startled, I looked about and then stared hard down at the dough. 70

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I felt a cool hand gently brush my cheek. “You didn’t proof the yeast,” I heard. Now calm, I methodically began reassembling the recipe from the beginning. The opening dish was saved, and since that day I’ve never again forgotten to proof the yeast. Was this a ghost of Christmas past?

*** To date, we can say we have a reasonably good grasp on the relatively simple four-dimensional world of space and time. But is that all there is? Current theories in particle physics propose there are many parallel dimensions, seven, eight or even more. Perhaps in these are the playground, the mindplace, where shamans, spiritualists and mediums have always travelled – meeting their loved ones in a parallel universe of love.

Serenity House The front door of the clapboard house is festooned by a large metal spiderweb. Outside, Lori Kinrade’s big white German shepherd Lacey snuffles at the faded remnants of a flower bed. A cat seated just inside the door yowls hello as a sprightly Lori invites me into her sanctuary. Perfumed by the inky smell of old books, her tiny perfect office feels like it would fit right in at Hogwarts, with floor to ceiling shelves of leatherbound tomes, crystals everywhere and creaking f loor. The room is a deliciously comfy cave, an overflowing repository of stories. Lori is a medium. She tunes in, offering commu nication with those who have crossed over, or she senses and scans the environment for what might reside there. Investigating locations for strong impressions, she also helps to clear misdirected spirits or energies. “I was seeing spirits before I

could speak,” begins Lori, then laughs, adding, “I had a really sleepless childhood.” In fact, until Lori was old enough to understand her perceptual abilities, a passing parade of bedside visitors gave her nothing but night terrors. Once she could name this transparency of the worlds, the extra sense that is her gift, she also learned this “seeing” goes back several generations in her family. At some point she discovered her mother read tea leaves, but no one in her family wanted to talk about it. Lori’s talent is primarily directed to helping fam ilies come to terms with losing loved ones. She is especially gratified by helping children similarly en dowed with the “vision” to get a good night’s sleep. “The Caledon area is ripe with ghosts,” she says. Her ghost-hunting expeditions have conducted stake outs at Belfountain Conservation Area, the Badlands and the Boston Mills Cemetery, and those gathered have encountered energies and photo graphed odd effects of mist and strange lights. “We did a session at the Orangeville Opera House,” says Lori. Lori describes using a variation of the old-time spiritualist’s table turning, a table on wheels which moved rapidly around the stage under the light touch of a single finger, propelled, she says, by the energetic umbrage of a spirit perse cuted long ago. “The spirit told us that he had stolen something, but insisted he was not a bad man. He was trying to feed his family.” The ghost met a rough summary judgement, and claimed he was hung. “We helped him cross,” says Lori. The stage became peaceful once more. “We also met an old woman, a presence who had no intention of leaving,” she continues. “She was a caretaker of sorts, had lived nearby, and felt that we should respect the place and leave our shoes by the door.” “I’ve tried to live a ‘normal’ life,” says Lori, describing the years she tried to keep her second sight at bay. But denial of her gifts kept getting her

soul, spirit But for some denizens of the hills, such communion with the spirit world is a natural part of everyday human experience.

into trouble. She says the spirits would send her “accidents,” laying her up for prolonged periods, but giving her lots of time to think. “I was even run over by my own car when Lacey my dog jumped into the driver’s seat at the vets.’” Since then, Lori has found her spiritual home and acceptance. She is now vice-president of the Spiritualist Society of Barrie – a generous place where Lori says she can be all that she is without being unduly challenged by skeptics. “There is no peace when you are not living your truth.”

The School of Miracles “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” That quote from Willa Cather is enshrined on the wall at Caledon’s School of Miracles. For Heather Scavetta, the paranormal is just normal. It wasn’t always this way. She once had what she calls a “perfectly normal” happy life. But one day, looking out over the hills of her Caledon farm, she had the uneasy certainty that something seismic was on its way. Just months later Heather, her husband Tony, and Elizabeth, one of her 17-year-old twin daughters, were gathered together on New Year’s Eve. On the television in the background controversial psychic Sylvia Browne was making predictions for the year ahead. Elizabeth and Tony were engaged in a debate, Tony proclaiming something to the effect that the world of psychics is hokum. His daughter disagreed with some passion: It’s real, Dad!” Later that night, a car accident took Elizabeth’s life. Tony and Heather’s world abruptly collapsed. But Heather is a fighter. From her own work as a nurse and having counselled others, she knew that she and her husband needed help. They searched “high and low” for answers, as she puts it. But “the rational

world yielded no comfort.” Casting a wider net they learned to meditate. It was during this time that Heather, gutted by grief, hit her lowest point. She cried out for help. “That is when everything changed,” she says. “I started to receive beautiful visions from my daugh ter every day. I could see them play out before me, colours I had never seen and animals and land scapes, as well as imagery from heaven.” A convert to Catholicism, and with no previous context for her newfound experience, Heather didn’t self-edit what was happening. “The spirit world is real,” she says, “and God exists.” A sense of mission unfolded for both Heather and Tony. Once a skeptic, Tony also began to experience his daughter’s presence. He is so changed he now teaches at the School of Miracles, which the couple felt compelled to establish to share their awareness. Not “psychic” by birth nor having inherited their extra sense, Heather and Tony feel that opening the doors of perception can be learned, that it’s a beautiful gift and that “contact” involves healing and growth on many levels. Interest in these things seems to be evolving, Heather points out. You can’t turn on the television without coming across dramas and reality-based shows such as Medium, Rescue Mediums, Ghost Whisperer, The Listener and John Edward’s Crossing Over. It only follows that people would want to learn about their unusual experiences or reach out to loved ones who have passed, she says. When I arrived to interview Heather, a class on mediumship was just breaking up. Excited students, women and men, young and old, were lingering after the session, eager to share their paranormal experiences and their desire to contact the spirit world. There was a common thread to their stories that Heather later confirms. Spirits come to tell us, “I’m here and I’m okay,” she says. And, in that, her students and clients come to realize all the love that surrounds them. “I had a perfect love with my

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daughter when she was here,” says Heather. “And I have perfect love with her still.” Keen to spread her message more broadly, Heather has recently published a book detailing her exper ience of the loss and redemption of her daughter. Called The Power of Love: A Mother’s Miraculous Journey from Grief to Medium, Channel and Teacher, it is available at local bookstores and libraries or online. (See mini-review on page 51 of this issue.)

*** Several years after the Christmas of almost-botched baking, I met a woman who reads tea leaves. Not only did she accurately describe my life as it has evolved in the ensuing decade, the gentle whitehaired woman stopped speaking abruptly, cocked her head sideways and smiled. “You know, dear, your grandmother – Betta – she visits you in your kitchen.” Then she exclaimed, “Oh! She’s touched you. She’s showing me she’s brushed your cheek with her palm!”

Ghostbusters The Irish settlers of the Headwaters region brought with them a natural affinity for spiritualism. The Irish had a long-held belief in the banshee, the spirit who foretold death. And the séance became a 19thcentury parlour entertainment. More recently, the 1984 comedy Ghostbusters was based in part on events that transpired in the household of selfdescribed third-generation spiritualist, actor Dan Aykroyd. If you have a chilly visitor, an unwelcome spectral guest, “Who ya gonna call?” I recall as a student living in an old house where night after night I’d be awakened at 3 a.m. by foot steps marching back and forth through my bed room’s open doorway. After several nights of this continued on page 73 I N T H E H I L L S W inte r 2 0 1 4

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hef Phil Dewar is the living embodiment of a cuisine that he invent ed, an innovative style of cooking he calls “Carib-fusion.” “I take traditional island f lavours and ingredients and give them a con temporary presentation,” says the 28year-old Jamaican native, who has lived in Orangeville since high school. There are lots of examples on the menu at Soulyve, the spicy little Mill Street eatery Phil has owned and op erated for the last five years. There’s the reggae wrap with its jerk-flavoured fillings rolled inside a roti wrap instead of a tortilla shell, or plantain bruschetta, made with wedges of plantain instead of bread. He borrows French and Italian tech niques in the preparation of his pep pery Jamaican soups. In the spirit of his best-of-bothworlds cooking, we asked Phil, a gra duate of Humber College’s culinary

program, to share with us his recipe for Jamaican rum cake, an extravagant confection that brings a whiff of the Caribbean to that dependable holiday favourite, fruit cake. “Around Christmas, this is a tradi tion in the islands,” Phil says. “Every one looks forward to their Granny’s rum cake.” There are many different versions using different spices and fruit. But the one thing they all have in common is lots and lots of rum. Phil explains that Jamaican rum cake (also called “black cake” because of its dark colour) is a reverse example of his Carib-fusion – an indigenous take on English fruitcake or plum pudding brought to the Indies by the British colonizers and adapted over time using local ingredients. Instead of candied fruits and nuts, rum cake is made with such dried fruits as dates, prunes, raisins and currants that have been soaked in liberal am ounts of rum for anywhere from a

few days to a couple of weeks. Ac cording to Phil, some cooks freeze leftover quantities of the soaked fruit for use the following year. Rum cake is darker and more dense than its British forebear, and the fruits are puréed to give it a rich, moist texture. Gravy browning sauce is us ually added to deepen the colour of the cake. Phil emphasizes his recipe is merely a blueprint and urges home cooks to experiment with f lavours and fruits. He suggests using dried cherries and apricots, cranberries and nuts, fresh or ground ginger, cloves and star anise. He grinds the spices himself, but pre-ground work well too. For a different texture altogether, try adding the soaked fruit to the batter without puréeing it. “Just play with the recipe,” he says. “Have fun.” The recipe can be doubled if des ired. Be sure to beat the eggs for a full 10 minutes until they are very light

“Just play with the recipe. Have fun,” says Soulyve’s Phil Dewar of his Caribbean rum cake ingredients.

and frothy. Once the batter is assem bled it should be fairly thick – a wooden spoon stuck in the mixture should stand up on its own. Bake the cake for two hours in the middle of a 300°F oven over a broiler pan filled with water on the bottom rack for a moist heat. At Soulyve, the cake is served with a chocolate-Scotch bonnet sauce and toasted-nutmeg crème Anglaise – Carib-fusion again from a man who has embraced the traditions of his birthplace and used them to enrich his adopted home. ≈ recipe on next page

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Rum Cake ingredients 1 lb dried fruit (dates, prunes, currants, raisins, dried cherries), chopped 1 cup Appleton dark rum 1 cup Appleton white rum 8 eggs ¾ cup flour ½ tsp each ground cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice ¼ tsp star anise ¼ tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder Zest of ½ lime ¾ cup dry bread crumbs ½ lb butter ¾ cup sugar ¼ cup gravy browning sauce 1 cup heavy cream 1 tsp almond extract Up to two weeks ahead, place chopped fruit in an airtight jar. Cover with rum and let stand for at least 24 hours and no more than two weeks. The longer it soaks the more potent your cake will be.

Preheat oven to 300°F. Fill a broiler pan with water and place on bottom rack of oven. Line an 8-inch round baking tin with parchment paper or grease well with butter.

Process the fruit and rum in a blender or food processor into a coarse purée.

Beat the eggs using a stand mixer or hand mixer until very light and frothy, about 10 minutes. Set aside. In a large bowl, combine flour, ground spices, salt, baking powder, lime zest and bread crumbs. Set aside.

In another bowl, cream butter and sugar until the sugar is dissolved and the texture is light and creamy, about 5 minutes. Add beaten eggs to butter mixture, mixing well.

Then fold in fruit, browning sauce, cream and almond extract, stirring until combined.

Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Mix well. The batter will be thick.

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Students outside SS #5, East Luther (Colbeck School) in 1908, the year it was built to replace an earlier wooden schoolhouse. The school served Grades 1 to 8 until 1918 when Grade 9 (Continuation School) was added.

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“Your Christmas concert must be first-rate. Nothing less!” During the 1800s, teachers in local one-room schools faced a list of expectations and responsibilities so onerous, it’s a wonder so many carried on.

n a profession that was already more than daunt ing in the 19th century, winter presented an extra set of challenges. The annual and absolutely obligatory Christmas con cert was one of them. So when Albert R. Robertson signed on to teach for the 1891-92 year at Finnerty School, S.S. #12 Albion, he must have known that like every new teacher in a rural school, he would be pretty much on probation until his first Christmas concert was deemed satisfactory. The concert was an event much anticipated at country schools and always well attended. Finnerty, at least twice that decade, had been obliged to relocate to a nearby barn because the school was too small to accom modate the overflowing audience. What made concert preparation especially stressful for teachers such as Mr. Robertson was the inevitable rural school population bulge that developed after the harvest was in and the fall ploughing done. Older boys and girls in a school section would return to class to continue an edu cation that in most cases had gone on pause when seeding began in April. The increase was often dramatic. In November at Finnerty it was not unusual for the pupil count to spurt from just 20 students to 40 and more. For the teacher, the sudden addition of older students meant established routines were interrupted, and for 78

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the new arrivals, the switch from the relative freedom of outdoor activity to the regimented environment of the classroom often stirred a brew of discipline problems. According to Albion historian Esther Heyes, Mr. Robertson was warned by the trustees that he would need a cudgel to control the boys from certain families. Whether he actually used one was never recorded. Still, its existence must have had some inti midation value, for cudgels, yard sticks, harness straps and birch canes appear regularly among the purchas es recorded in school minute books throughout these hills. Mr. Robertson not only had to re start the curriculum for these return ers – and inevitably remediate a num ber of them – he also had to redevelop and expand the concert program because it was mandatory that every pupil have a part. But the winter chal lenges did not end there.

Potatoes in the Ash Pit There were some basic, seasonal issues – such as identifying potatoes. At schools with the luxury of a real stove (not just a big iron kettle of the type used in one of the early Erin Township schools), many students dropped raw potatoes into the ashes in the morning to have them cooked by noon. Like all teachers, Mr. Robertson knew enough to require the students to carve their initials into the skins to preclude

For Women Teachers, Even More Challenge In the mid-1800s, few one-room schools in the province had women teachers because women were not expected to enter the professions. Once that reality changed, there was still considerable reluctance to hire women for fear they could not maintain discipline. However, once trustees realized they could get away with paying women teachers about half the salaries of men, the gender count shifted dramatically. By about 1880, women teachers were in the majority. Almost all took positions while single. Once married, they were expected to resign. Women con tinued to earn lower salaries than men in Ontario until well into the 20th century.

spats over whose potato belonged to whom when lunchtime came. Simple, but it was yet one more task. A more onerous challenge was lighting the fire each morning and keeping it going. That job often fell to older students, a privilege that some times enabled some creative mischief. In 1869 at The Maples, S.S. #6 East Garafraxa, for example, in addition to dry, burnable wood, trustees saved money by mixing 20 cords of green wood into the winter supply. It’s diffi cult to imagine students ignoring the opportunity to fill the school with smoke, especially if a spelling test was imminent. On the other hand, earlier in the century, there was the case at Erin Township’s very first one-room school. The teacher and his family lived rentfree in the school, a privilege that enhanced his $100-a-year salary, and probably motivated him to keep a fire going at all times once the cold weather arrived.

A Counterweight to Winter Stress? But cold weather also had a plus side in the one-room schools. Outhouse mischief was far less common in freezing weather and, for obvious reasons, there was a sharp decline in that time-honoured schoolday avoid ance technique: the extended out house visit. A drop in temperature brought other benefits too. Just south of Finnerty at the Dingle School, S.S. #11 Albion, surrounding swampland brought in mosquitoes at plague levels in late spring and early autumn, so the first frost provided welcome relief. (Mos quitoes were an issue in many country schools. The Branch School in East Garafraxa was even called “Mosquito School.”) At Finnerty, along with suppres sing mosquitoes, cold weather had a dampening effect on a rather peculiar discipline issue: students spitting to bacco juice into the inkwells! “The

A Rural vs. Urban Attitude? Here in the hills and other rural areas it was expected and indeed planned that many students would be out of school and “on the farm” at crucial points in the harvest cycle. The concept of truancy was therefore interpreted very liberally and always adjusted to immediate demands. However, in urban areas like nearby Toronto, schools performed a kids-offthe-street function in addition to the more lofty goals of education, a reality perhaps illuminated by Don Jail statistics from 1892 which listed 90 pupils, 14 years of age and under, charged with truancy.

chew” was a common antidote to the dust at threshing time, and some of the “returners” tended to keep up the habit. Still another example of seasonal relief arises from an account of the early days at Rockside School, a sim ple log building in Caledon Township. On warm spring and fall days, an older pupil regularly carried in a pail of drinking water to be shared via a single dipper. This was a normal practice in every one-room school, but when a pupil at Rockside once managed to share his (or her) im petigo with the entire school, every one must have been grateful for the arrival of winter when the need for a drink was less urgent.

Religion: The All-Season Challenge All the one-room schools in these hills were “public” in the 19th century, a fact that, given the Orange vs. Green undercurrents that prevailed here, sometimes posed considerable tension for teachers with Catholic students. The provincial curriculum mandat ed Bible study (King James Version), along with a daily dose of Protestant hymns, and these hymns along with Bible readings often figured promin ently in the Christmas concerts. Nevertheless records reveal little evidence of strife in school sections, especially where population distri bution had been influenced by reli gious preference. Mono and Mulmur Townships, for example, were mainly Protestant and trustees naturally sought out Protestant teachers. Mr. Robertson, at Finnerty School in more Catholic Albion Township, had mostly Catholic students. However, where the population was more reli giously diverse, there was more po tential for stress. At Mono Mills’ first log school, for example, highly regarded teacher Thomas McLaughlin was a Roman

Catholic. Early in his tenure he found a note one morning that instructed him: “You are not to teach any of our children your Roman numerals! The Protestant numerals are what we want in this school!”

But Really … Was It All That Bad? There is little doubt that teaching in a one-room school was no breeze in the 1800s. What with limited equipment, discipline issues, fluid student popu lations, outhouses and mosquitoes, these professionals had a lot on their plate. And some of them didn’t last. In 1853, the Common School Regu latory Act provided specifically for “worn out teachers” [sic]. Yet, sur viving stories, the diaries and the memories – if not the official records – suggest that for many teachers, the experience was more positive than otherwise. A stellar example was that of muchloved William Judge who began teaching at age 16 in the 1860s and taught for 70 years at six different schools in and around Palgrave. And there is the example of Mr. Stuart of Kilgorie School, S.S. #15 Mulmur, whose love of teaching and confidence in his skills made him notorious throughout the hills for challenging the school inspector, knowing he had the full support of his students and their parents. But what of Mr. Robertson’s first Christmas concert at Finnerty School? The records don’t say. He left the school after just one year. Maybe the concert didn’t measure up. Or maybe his use of the cudgel, or lack of it, was a factor. Or perhaps it was the annual salary. He was paid $310. ≈

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In the spirit of giving… Many of us spend much time giving to others within our families and communities at this time of the year. Here is a way to get your little ones involved. Operation Christmas Child is accepting shoeboxes packed with hygiene items, toys, and school supplies for needy children worldwide. Drop-off takes place at Covenant Alliance Church, 3 Zina St. in Orangeville on November 21, 3–7 p.m. and November 22, 9 a.m. to noon. 519-940-9479; www.samaritanspurse.ca

Parading tractors If you haven’t been to the Tractor Parade of Lights in Orangeville, it’s a real local gem. Boys and girls just love seeing the big machines trundling through downtown, all bedecked in hundreds of lights. Grab blankets and a thermos, or buy some hot chocolate or cider on the go – it’s a great night! The parade starts at 6 p.m. on Friday, November 21 and travels south on First St. from Hansen Blvd. before making its way along Broadway. Orangeville’s more traditional Santa Claus parade takes place earlier on Saturday, November 15, beginning at 5 p.m. and travelling the same route.

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ave you ever threatened something only to want to swallow back your words once they had escaped? It happened to me a few weeks ago with my son Adrian – “If you mouth off like that once more, all screens are off for the week!”

“I don’t care – do whatever you want!” he spat in my direction. The screens went black. I was filled with an uncertain dread about what

I’d promised and now had to enact. In our house there are a lot of screens. I have a personal phone and a work phone, both fully hopped up with all forms of voice mail, text, email, BBM, social media and Internet. I can work and socialize around the clock with these by my side. There is a bigscreen TV and a medium-screen TV. There are a number of laptops and various other smart things. Adrian does not have a phone yet, but he does have his own iPod and Nintendo, and can run all the systems better than I can. He’s lobbying for a smartphone for his tenth birthday. The way we work and live now, screens are on. For many of us, there is very little, other than a prolonged power outage, that turns them off. We ensure we have backups to our backups to keep life running. During the big ice storm last winter, what was the most requested “comfort” in the town where I work? A place to recharge gadgets. Kids are calmed with screens from a young age now – on car trips, while dinner is being made, after dinner, before bedtime. Active

Healthy Kids Canada reported a few years ago that Canadian children and youth en gage in a whopping average of 7 hours and 48 minutes of screen time per day. So what happens when you take the screen away from the child? I was about to find out. At first there was some dramatic flopping around. I could hear extended sighs, projected for my benefit. Long periods of silence were punctuated by physical shifts on the couch resulting in slithery poses with skinny legs and arms splayed in all directions. Starfish! Octo pus! Eel! More sighs. The twitchy inactivity went on for what felt like hours. What had I done? Dread rested at the top of my throat. Then I heard some tinkering in the bowl that holds dominoes. Adrian set up a course in the front window that was quite dramatic and resulted in the final domino falling back into the bowl. Next came Mastermind, then Battleship. I love these games! Over the week we got into some serious battles in the morn ings, pushing the time envelope until every one had to rush off to work and school. The

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puppy cocked her head to one side as we laughed at the patterns and “stra tegies” (read “cheats”). She took to stealing Mastermind pegs and dom inoes. I found a few under my pillow. There were a few bored moments, with more couch posing. But there were also pillow fights and wrestling matches in the basement. He made a call to his grandparents that lasted more than a minute. He drew and planned and made crafty things. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly he had stepped away. The funny thing was, he didn’t ask for any screens back. Adrian is definitely an active kid, in various organized sports, a bike and scooter rider, but he also loves video games, movies and YouTube. In Canada, over 30 per cent of children and youth are considered overweight or obese, according to the Childhood Obesity Foundation. Even outside the “no screens” edict, I try to find a balance of active play and screen play. That week, he played ball and rode his bike and goofed around with the dog as he usually does, but it was the in-between times that were different for him, that involved being more creative, interactive and ... bored. The difference for me was a lot more mental work. In the car, I usually lis ten to the news or maybe make lists in my head, or sort out problems while Adrian plays a game on his iPod. Instead, his ideas free-flowed. We dis cussed various bullies, war, traffic, best movies. He talked, talked, talked. We had several dance parties (which basically involve turning up the radio really loud). I had to be “on” for him much more than usual. I do love how creative Adrian is on the computer, what he can build vir tually in Minecraft, and how adept he is at using technology. Is technology an evil? No, it’s a reality – a part of our lives. We need to love it, use it, and then be able to set it aside to go outside, to move and play and inter act with the world. After the initial electronic drought, he was lapping up old-fashioned games and social activities. I thought about previous generations’ calls to “Go outside and don’t come back until dinner!” The dreaded week without screens? It was a huge success, and I am con sidering doling out this punishment again very soon. ≈ Bethany Lee is the online editor of www.kidsinthehills.ca, a sister site of www.inthehills.ca.

You light up my life Christmas in the Park in Orange ville is a wonderful tradition that you must see! Families come year after year to “ooh” and “ahh” at over 50,000 bulbs, unique displays, Santa visits, carolling, readings, ice sculptures in the heart of the town – all free. The display of lights would make the Griswolds wish they lived in Kay Cee Gardens! December 5 is the kick-off night from 7–10 p.m. and the display is open nightly from December 6 to January 2 from 5:30–10 p.m. Kay Cee Gardens is nestled between Bythia and John streets in Orangeville. www.orangevilleoptimists.ca

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And from our furry friends… Popovich Comedy Pet Theatre brings a feathery, furry performance by Gregory Popovich and his performing cats, dogs, geese, white doves and parrots! The tomfoolery all takes place March 12 at the Rose Theatre in Brampton. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets $39; children $25. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905874-2800; www.rosetheatre.ca

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a TimelySalvation An abandoned stone church in Caledon is blessed with a second life.

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Lena Lemieux began her search for a stone house in the mid-1990s, but those she saw either lay in ruins or had long since been renovated and restored. In both cases they were out of her financial reach. But serendipity has a way of inter vening in home hunts, and Lena’s search was no different. By complete f luke she stumbled across an aban doned stone church in one of Caledon’s hamlets. The location wasn’t what she had envisioned, but the church was beautiful and under threat of demoli tion. Deconsecrated three years earlier,

the building had been up for sale ever since and was deteriorating. Young, naïve and undaunted, Lena had the building inspected and was told it was salvageable. At a price of $67,000, the deal for the building and the surrounding quarter acre seemed too good to pass up. Lena’s first step was to apply to the Town of Caledon to have the church designated a heritage building so it could never again be threatened with destruction. During this process, she learned that her future home was probably the only limestone church

in the Caledon area. Then reality set in. To make the building a home, it needed a new roof, windows, insulation, wiring, plumb ing, a kitchen, a bedroom … With a team of family and friends, Lena be gan the work by stripping the building to its stone walls. Two false ceilings were pulled down, and two oil burn ers and a coal burner were removed. The gutting took a year and a half. During the demolition, the team made an “archeological discovery.” Original stencils of Church of Eng land symbols remained on one of the

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walls. Lena has preserved the plaster in this area and hopes it will serve as a model for future stencilling on the new walls. A major task involved replacing the original stained-glass windows. Along with the pews they had been removed earlier for use in another church. Martin Windows and Doors, a small, family-run Quebec company, design ed and built handsome new windows and installed them within a year. More recently, Todd White of Pine Ridge Contracting replaced the rose window that graces the gable above

the main entrance. With the windows in place, the team inserted an internal skeleton of fir beams crafted by John Post of Post Farm Structures. These beams, which increased the strength of the original stone building, support the secondstorey loft bedroom and a staircase. Five years and about $100,000 later, what had started as “a little jewel” of a church became a little jewel of a home. In fact, over those five years, which involved serious blood, sweat and tears, as well as despair and injuries,

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Lena had to keep reminding herself, “It’s a little jewel. It’s a little jewel.” And it is entirely likely that the build ing’s ghostly sanctity was disturbed by the oaths muttered during con struction. The advantage of a church over a stone house was the scale of the in terior spaces. Ideal for open-concept modern living, the central part of the 1:28building P is one large open space that once housed a raised chancel, which accommodated the altar and the choir, and the nave where the congregation gathered. Sixteen-foot ceilings add to the sense of space. The former chancel is now the kit chen, while the living and dining areas occupy much of what was the nave. When Lena first moved in, the transformation from church to home was far from complete. To reach the loft bedroom, she climbed a 20-foot ladder. And though the bathrooms and kitchen were in working order, she knew she would be living in a construction site for a few more years. Her intent was to maintain the visual integrity of the church while

above : The altar has given way to a heavenly cooking space. inset : Antique scales dressed up for Christmas. right : The church aisle now leads to a kitchen – divine in its own way.

converting the space into an efficient and comfortable residence. She spent much time sourcing fixtures and Victorian pieces to suit a building erected in 1867. Identical milk glass church fixtures were found in very different locations: one in Quebec and one online. And searching out furnishings of the right scale for the unusual space was a time-consuming but enjoyable challenge. An oversized Irish armoire, for example, was dis covered in the Niagara area. A large and whimsical iron light fixture hangs in the kitchen. Fuelled by oil and attached to a winch so it can be raised and lowered for lighting, continued on next page

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it sheds a lovely, soft, flickering light throughout the main space. A dominant feature of the central room is an impressive oak staircase that winds up to the master bedroom and bathrooms. The design was inspir ed by a set of oak rails Lena picked up when the old Tip Top Tailors building in Toronto was being gutted for re development. Railmaster Stairways of Guelph duplicated the rail motif in the stair design and used the heritage pieces as a railing to separate the kitchen from the living-dining space. 86

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As in many old churches, congre gants entered through double oak doors. The neo-Gothic doors were weathering badly and needed constant refinishing, so Lena decided to move them into the vestibule to separate the living area from a space that now accommodates a small bedroom and office. This means the main entrance is now recessed, creating a charming covered area – very European in feel. And the original doorway is marked by a set of iron gates, built and de signed by local iron worker Pat Flick

to mimic Gothic-style church fencing. The result of Lena’s hard work is a small masterpiece of re-imagining. The home is warm and atmospheric, a place ideally suited for snow and Christmas and the smell of baking. It has provided great joy to Lena – and to her neighbours, who often drop by to reminisce about when they attend ed services there. All are thankful the building was saved and has achieved a second, possibly eternal, life. ≈ Pam Purves is a freelance writer and photographer who lives in Caledon.

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PHENOMENAL STONEWORK 3 bedrooms plus loft. Open concept kitchen, eating and living area with cathedral ceiling and skylight. Separate, detached in-law suite. Great location in Belfountain, Caledon for skiers, hikers, cyclists and nature lovers. $749,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

LIVE HERE, LIVE WELL Hockley Valley custom home. Views from every room, designer flourishes in stone, granite and wood from the onsite heritage barn. Lush private gardens, walkways, trails, forest and stream on 35 acres. $2,288,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

5200 SQ FT OF FABULOUS 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, open concept kitchen and great room with cathedral ceiling and floor-to-ceiling fireplace, 8'x18' pantry, sunroom, 3 decks. Massive walkout basement. Great views. 46+ acres. $3,600,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

FINE CRAFTSMANSHIP Pillars, archway, walkways, waterfalls, pond, folly and home feature incredible stone craftsmanship. 3 bdrms, library with hidden door, master suite with 5-pc, walk-in closet & adjoining loft, rec room with w/o to solarium. $899,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY 60+ acres formerly operated as Bailey's Pick Your Own. Very scenic rolling land, pond, stream and 10 acres of hardwood bush. 3-bdrm bungalow, in-law suite, 3-bdrm trailer. Metal drive shed. King St, Caledon. $2,499,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

A WORK OF ART Many unique features in this 3 bdrm on 38+ acres with 2+ acre pond, barn and paddocks. Open concept kitchen and living room with amazing view. Dining room with tree trunk entrance. Third floor loft/bdrm with 360° views. $1,499,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

HIKE, RIDE, ROAM - 88 ACRES Spacious 3-bedroom bungalow in private setting with pond, stream, fenced pastures and paddocks, horse shelters, bush with trails, veggie garden, hay fields and 28’x56’ barn. On the Halton Erin Townline. $1,599,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

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33 AC HOBBY FARM, CALEDON Pond, paddocks, 4-stall barn, 2500+ sq ft house, 25 acres crops. $1,249,000

13+ ACRES & POND, CALEDON 3000 sq ft, 5-bdrm bungalow, fin bsmt w/ w/o & heated shop, home theatre. $1,199,000

68 ACRE HOBBY FARM, CALEDON Century home renovated, approx 2500 sq ft, 4 bdrms, drive shed, i/g pool, pond. $999,000

BUILDING LOT, CALEDON 3-acre lot with approved driveway. Build your dream home. $299,000

ELEGANCE IN HILLSBURGH Approx 2800 sq ft, 4 bedrooms, glass solarium, 1.5 acres with pond. $899,000

36 AC HORSE FARM, THE GRANGE 15 acs paddocks, run ins, 9-stall barn, coverall, det garage, 4-bedroom house. $899,000

EXTENSIVELY RENOVATED, MONO 3+ acres, meticulously landscaped, 2 recent additions, 4 bedrooms. $869,000

COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTIAL, ERIN Approx 2500 sq ft on 2 flrs, main flr offers up to 4 offices, 2nd flr 1-bedroom apt. $699,000

FORKS OF THE CREDIT, CALEDON 1 acre, 4 bdrms, open concept w/ cathedral ceilings, very private, geothermal. $625,000

22 ACRE HORSE FARM, ERIN 2000 sq ft, 3-bdrm house, fin basement with w/o, 40x40 barn, paddocks, pond. $925,000

COMMERCIAL BUILDING, ERIN Formerly offering food service with liquor license, 2 buildings, renovated, loft. $399,000

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BUILD IN CALEDON 15 acres with CVC approved building envelope. 3/4 treed with a stream. $399,000

HAWKRIDGE FARM, CALEDON Superb country estate of unmatched scenery. 10-bedroom main house + 3 other houses. Tennis, pool, sporting clays, trout pond, streams, stunning views. 150 acres. $19 million

450 ACRES, CALEDON One of the largest privately owned land holdings in Caledon. Architecturally significant main house + 2 other houses. Dramatic views. Stunning gardens and pond. $12.8 million

100 ACRES, KING 6-bedroom home + gate house designed by Stephen McCasey. Tranquil pool, gardens, pond. 5 minutes to top schools, golf, Aurora, Richmond Hill. Total privacy. $7.95 million

600 ACRES, THE BLUE MOUNTAINS Rare opportunity to acquire extensive acreage in The Blue Mountains. 9-bedroom house. Rolling countryside. Development potential. Strong income. $7.665 million

TREETOPS, CALEDON Celebrity’s own house of timber and glass. 1800s log guest house, stable, studio guest house, tennis. Pool with outdoor kitchen and pool house. Pond. Views. $6.75 million

PRIVATE LAKE, HOCKLEY VALLEY Gracious residence overlooks 10-acre trout pond. Spectacular country retreat in the hills of Mono. 100 acres. Caretaker’s residence. Lakeside picnic house. $4.475 million

TRALEE, CALEDON Set on 110 acres. Multiple dwelling units, offices, stable, indoor arena and beautiful grounds including multiple ponds. Extensive trail network and superb rolling paddocks. $2.45 million

HACKETT LAKE, KING CITY Private Kettle Lake. 75 ft deep. Stone main house. Gate house. 2 additional guest houses on the lake. Pool, 3 docks. All privately set on 110 acres. Inquire

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DESIGNER 5-BDRM HOME. 50 ACRES. HOCKLEY. $1,675,000

STONE HOME, ERIN Well-known landmark in the Hills of Erin.1865 stone 4-bedroom home is perfectly sited on 99 acres of rolling fields, woods and stream lands. Barn. Tremendous value! $1,400,000

MAPLE RIDGE FARM, WELLINGTON Elegant 1889 stone house + 2-bedroom coach house. 84 private acres. 2 ponds. Horse and cattle barns. Granite terraces. Arena and workshop. $2.25 million

95 ACRES, HOCKLEY VALLEY Dramatic hilltop setting. Forever views. Modernist home designed by Crang & Boake. Hidden solar panels create significant income. Pool and cocktail gazebo. $1,395,000

1864 STONE CASTLE, CALEDON Important residence totally renovated. Deluxe kitchen and baths. Gym, rec room. Beautiful peaceful grounds. Minutes to skiing, golf, hiking. Prime location on The Grange. $2,250,000

HORSE COUNTRY, HOCKLEY VALLEY Renovated 4-bdrm farmhouse. Indoor and outdoor arenas, 10 stalls, set up for 7 more, 8 paddocks. In the heart of the Pan Am Games equestrian venues. 48 acres. $1,425,000

27 ACRES, CALEDON Fine details, luxurious hardware and fixtures, natural light, 5-bdrm home. Meadows, mature woodlands and the Centreville Creek running through the property. Pool. Tennis. $1,799,000

GRANDE FARM, HOCKLEY VALLEY Deluxe indoor arena and stable. Views, pond, rolling pastures. 15 minutes to the Caledon Horse Park. 2 staff apartments. 50 acres. Productive hay fields. $1,790,000

DARBY HILL FARM, TERRA COTTA 1872 stone house + 2nd house placed on a private rolling 90-acre farm. Trout pond. Century barn. Workshop, office, garage. Perfect Terra Cotta location. $2,499,000

HIGHEST POINT IN ERIN Spectacular 46-acre country estate with endless views. Wrought iron gates open to a long winding driveway. Pool, fountains, outdoor kitchen area + cabana. $2,599,000

THOMSON LAKE, HILLSBURGH Country retreat once owned by a famed Canadian industrialist with its very own 21 acre, river-fed lake controlled by two dams. Trails. $2,995,000

NATURAL STONE, ERIN Exceptional quality stone house on 50 acres. Chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen. Main floor master bedroom with private gym. 2-storey great room. Mix of open meadow, forest. 4-bay garage. $1,575,000

THE FARM UP COUNTRY, HOCKLEY VALLEY Exceptional 25-acre property. 4-bedroom home crafted from two integrated century homes. 5-hole golf course. Pond. $999,000

STONEHILL FARM, HOCKLEY VALLEY Views! Views! Views! 90+ acres. Original board and batten farmhouse with new kitchen, bathroom and Muskoka room. Large swimming pond. Immaculately restored bank barn. $1,275,000

BRIDLEWOOD FARM, CALEDON A property for a discerning family w/ a taste for the best in country living. Fully restored 5-bdrm farmhouse. Swimming pond w/ waterfall. 11-stall barn w/ tack rm, paddocks. 57 acs. $2,295,000

148 ACRES, HOCKLEY VALLEY BC Cedar clad 3+2 bedroom home is perfectly sited to capture endless vistas. Trails traverse the hills. Hiking, cross-country skiing and horseback riding. Pool. $2,775,000

RESTORED VICTORIAN, MONO Deluxe renovated country home + detached office. Car collectors drive-in workshop. Pool. Pond. 47 acres. $1,399,000

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2.16 PRIVATE ACRES All brick bungalow w/ in-law suite w/ heated/ insulated shop. Pride of ownership! Fresh kit w/ ss appliances. Main flr fam, liv & dining rms. Multiple w/o’s to back & side decks. Lower lvl w/ rec rm & in-law suite. $518,000 Marc Ronan*

2 FAMILY OR IN-LAW 3+3 bedroom bungalow on 2+ acres in south Adjala. Huge principal rooms, large bedrooms and kitchens on both main and lower levels. Main level laundry with inside access to oversized 2-car garage. $629,900 Marc Ronan*

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CENTURY FARM HOME 26 acs nr Hwys 400/27. Great location on paved road. Character & charm. I/g pool. Property with bank barn, drive shed, pond, mature trees and some workable land. Great setup for hobby farm or contractor! $899,900 Marc Ronan*

FABULOUS PARK LIKE SETTING Gated entrance to beautiful grdns, rock waterfall, prof landscaping, heated greenhouse, mature trees and meadow. Custom bungalow features multiple w/o's. Perfect set up for home occupation or extended family. $949,900 Marc Ronan*

ULTIMATE PRIVACY! Trails, swimming pond, pool, woods, winding paved drive. Sprawling walkout bungalow and detached barn, paddocks – could be set up for horses! $975,000 Marc Ronan*

EXCEPTIONAL DESIGN Impeccable attention to detail, highest of quality finishes and features for the discriminating buyer. Custom built retreat. Timber frame construction. Great setup for home-based business. $1,762,000 Marc Ronan*

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NORMERICA POST & BEAM 2.3-acre property with southern views that carry for miles. Cathedral ceilings, open concept living spaces and 2500 sq ft exterior 3-car workshop/garage. $1,275,000

CREDIT SPRINGS ESTATES Many thoughtful design features in this executive home on prestigious cul-de-sac. Large kitchen and professionally fin lower level with walkout make for easy entertaining. Tasteful, well constructed & energy efficient. $824,900

BRAND NEW IN MONO CENTRE New construction in Mono Centre. Tarion warranties apply. Functional layout, 3 good sized bedrooms. Master with ensuite. Mature treed lot. Rustic barn-like shed. Just steps to the park. $485,000

MONO CLIFFS PARK Charming 1.5-storey Century home in historic Mono Centre. 1/2-acre lot backing directly onto the Mono Cliffs Park. 2 bdrms, 1 bath, oversized baseboards and crown moulding. Country charm! $419,000

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THE GORE ROAD, CALEDON A long winding tree-lined driveway will take you into your private 30-acre oasis. Two fully renovated homes; one bungalow, one two storey. Each with privacy from each other. Live in one and rent the other or alternatively have your family close by. Walking and riding trails abound. 45 minutes to Toronto. $1,690,000

KENNEDY ROAD, CALEDON One acre lot to build your dream home! Have it all. Tranquil countryside, yet close to schools and amenities in the village of Caledon. Easy access to Hwy 10 & 410. $269,900

DUNBY ROAD, MONO Peaceful 10-acre setting overlooking Hockley Valley. 3-bedroom bungalow with walkout doors to large deck overlooking perennial gardens. Gorgeous mixed forest with trails for hiking or snowshoeing. $589,000

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IMPRESSIVE UPGRADES A wonderful setting on just over 1 acre in the trees. Sprawling, brick bungalow extensively upgraded. High-end kitchen with slate flooring and centre island. Baths redone, quartz countertops. Fabulous master suite with his and hers, walk-in closets and heated Travertine floors in the ensuite. Finished basement with separate entrance. Sparkling inground pool. Erin. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website. $789,000

52 ACRES - TORONTO SKYLINE VIEWS Captivating views, surrounded by the most prominent estate properties in the area. Minutes to Devil’s Pulpit Golf Club. Open concept custom home cleverly built on a new foundation of an existing barn with hot water radiant floor heating and 4-car tandem garage overlooking a pond. Finished, walkout lower level with 2nd kitchen. 2 large paddock areas with run-ins. Caledon. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website. $1,499,000

PRIVATE AND PRISTINE Tranquil, rolling, 10-acre property with a large, ranch bungalow overlooking a pond. Gated driveway, 2-car garage plus an amazing detached 4-car garage/workshop with guest suite on the 2nd level, heated, air, the works! Finished, walkout basement. An indoor pool could be converted to other uses and is very well done. Situated on the edge of Bolton in Caledon. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website. $1,495,000

CUSTOM ESTATE WITH COACH HOUSE ON 25+ ACRES A Georgian manor styled estate home with separate, 4-car ‘coach’ house. Quality workmanship. Reclaimed, Hemlock floors, huge windows with natural views. Finished walkout basement. The coach house has heat and air cond with workshop area and open kitchen/living area plus 3-pc bath. A private, country oasis. Caledon/Mono border. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website. $1,280,000

EXECUTIVE HOME ON 4 ACRES Wonderful views and overlooks a private pond. Gated entry with winding drive. A large home with fin w/o bsmt & wet bar. Multiple fireplaces, huge multi-level solarium style area across the back of the home. Caledon. $995,000

CUSTOM HOME TO BE BUILT Almost 6 acres on a hidden hilltop with potential views. The photo depicts an example of a home to be built with several other plans available. Price depends on upgrades but is based on this model. Caledon. $1,475,000

RARE OFFERING 2-adjoining properties with 2-deeds & 2-residences. Fabulous century home, i/g pool plus a multi-level barn. 8.16 acs. Caledon/Adjala border. Home on 4.12 acs alone $890,000 Entire 8.16 ac pkg, 2 homes & barn asking $1,349,000

BEAUTIFUL EXECUTIVE HOME Impressive, 2-storey home on a wonderful treed & private lot. Extensive living space with potential for a home office, extended family or nanny area. Fin walkout lower level. Stunning i/g pool. Oversized, 3-car grge. Orangeville. $1,295,000

RARE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY Current income apartment building in the heart of Caledon East village within walking distance to all amenities. Large lot, ample parking. All 6 units have 2 bedrooms. Future new development & revitalization in the area. $1,200,000

COUNTRYSIDE VIEWS Open concept, custom home with vaulted ceilings, loads of windows and unique living areas. 3rd floor master suite with balcony. Over 8 acres of rolling lawns & inground pool. Mono. View the ‘drone’ tour on our website. $689,000

OUTSTANDING CALEDON ESTATE Approx 93.24, picturesque acres with sprawling, ranch bungalow and multiple outbuildings including a 6-stall barn, all in pristine condition. Swimming pond with dock. Caledon. $1,699,000

COUNTRY GETAWAY Beautiful log home with detached 4-car garage/workshop on almost 25 acres. A wonderful hideaway from the hustle & bustle. Heated floors, granite counters, finished walkout lower level. Caledon. $949,000

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CALEDON EAST 25 TREED ACRES, 2 CLEAR PONDS A very special property with 13-year stone bungalow. 3200 sq ft on main floor plus finished lower level. Heated garages for 5 cars. Greenhouse. Pool. Quality everywhere. Amazing great room with double doors to covered patio overlooking one of the ponds. Private, quiet and scenic – a most relaxing setting. Only 5 minutes to Caledon East on paved road. $1,595,000

489 ACRE SHANGRI-LA - ERIN A unique opportunity to own one of the largest parcels of land in Erin. 4 farms linked by internal road. 2 newer luxury homes, 2 farmhouses, 6-car showroom, summer kitchen, 14 outbuildings, cattle feedlot. 350 acres in crop, 4 ponds. $7,999,000

MULMUR 32 ACRES, 2 HOUSES Bungalow at end of a cul-de-sac road with 4-stall barn, numerous fireplaces, fin w/o lower level. Superb views of nearby escarpment. Riders will love the easy access to trails and low-travelled roads. $789,000

HOCKLEY VALLEY 50 ACRES On paved road. Unique older home with several additions. Completely hidden from view. 5 bedrooms, 3 fireplaces, forested property with beautiful clearing all around house and pond. $659,000

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VICTORIAN HOBBY FARM Lovingly restored with wrap-around porch and views of gardens, paddocks and fields. Wood fireplace in the kitchen, spacious dining room and upstairs 3 bedrooms and laundry room. 8000 sq ft barn with 4 horse stalls, open pole barn and separate workshop on 4.25 acres in Mulmur. $779,000

THE OLD BANK Art deco style in New Lowell. Built in 1918, now used as a wonderfully updated home. Terrifically versatile. Could be a fantastic 4-bedroom home, weekend getaway or 3-bedroom apartment with shop front. High ceilings, character, iron balcony, huge original windows and the original bank vault with original steel door and combination lock. $275,000

2 ACRE BUILDING LOT - ERIN Private, quiet and clear with treed background. Gently rolling, perfect for walkout basement. Long western views. Excellent location near trailway. Reasonable development charges. $235,000

29 AC FARM - EAST GARAFRAXA Welcome to Graystone horse farm. Mill-stone Cape Cod w/ 4 yr new geothermal furnace. Hybrid wind/solar powers water and 50’x70’ horse barn. Heated cottage/ workshop. 14 acres fenced. $949,000

84 ACRE HOBBY FARM - ERIN Serene setting close to riding trails. Modest and spacious 5-bedroom home with large kitchen, new propane furnace. 80’x40’x14’ high barn/workshop. 50 arable acres. 3-season guest house. $929,000

99 ACRE FARM - HALTON HILLS 1926 brick home with new roof, windows, soffits and eaves. Excellent farmland with 74 workable acres near Georgetown and Erin. Zoned Protected Countryside and Natural Heritage System. $1,099,000

CAPE COD VICEROY - ERIN Meticulously maintained by original owners of 15 years. Functional floor plan with large principal rooms, granite counters in kitchen. Private, mature treed setting adorned with abundant gardens. $625,000

MUSKOKA IN ERIN - 23 ACRES Private picture perfect paradise with skating/ swimming pond and walking trails for the whole family. Immaculate brick bungalow with cherry hardwood floors, screened sunroom and detached 2-car garage. $599,000

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Wrap up one of these retreats for Christmas.

Body&Soul Retreat with Renee Holden May 21 – 24, 2015 Relax, re-boot and restructure your body and mind at this 4-day yoga+ retreat. Join Caledon’s Renee Holden at the fabulous Lodge at Pine Cove where the combination of Renee’s instruction, nature, riverside accommodations in exquisite cottages, paddling, fine food and great wine will help you shed the effects of the long, dark, cold winter.

Spring clean your body and your soul.

Write on the French River

Creative Writing Retreat May 8 – 13, 2015 Whether your interests tend toward fiction, non-fiction or memoir, this 6-day retreat is your chance to hone your skills with 3 of Canada’s foremost writers while enjoying deluxe food and accommodations at The Lodge at Pine Cove. Be inspired by Don Gillmor (non-fiction, fiction & children’s lit), Oakland Ross (non-fiction, fiction) and Susan Scott (non-fiction, memoirs).

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NOW – NOV 28 : BRUSHED BY ART TV SHOW Meet local artists, second

season with Jennifer McKinnon. Rogers Community Cable TV 63. 519-855-9639; Turnofffatestudio.ca NOW – DEC 14, JAN 11 – MAR 1 : SEEING WITH NEW EYES – DRAWING

Improve skills with CJ Shelton. 1-3pm. $30 session/$100 for 4. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-942-2018; dancingmoondesigns.ca NOW – JAN 4 : CHRISTMAS IN CALEDON SHOW & SALE AT HEADWATERS ARTS

NOW – FEB 16 : WAIST MANAGEMENT: A HISTORY OF UNMENTIONABLES

Exhibition of body-modifying under garments. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – FEB 22 : PEEL COLLECTS: DOLLS FROM AROUND THE WORLD A mini look

DEC 6 & 7 : ALTON MILL OPEN HOUSE & ART BATTLE Open studios, art shows,

at fashion, stories worldwide. Regular admission. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

workshops. 10am-5pm. Dec 7: Art Battle – raucous afternoon of competitive painting. 1-3pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca

N OV 21 – DEC 7 : HOLIDAY TREASURES ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW & SALE Treasures made by Dufferins’s

Art gifts priced moderately. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com NOW – JAN 4 : GRIND OVER MATTER

NOV 22 & 23 : BEAUTY SURROUNDS US

NOW – JAN 4 : PIECES OF ME Smallformat art. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-940-0199; thebartlettgallery.com NOW – JAN 18 : TRANSFORM, DISTORT, WARP, EXPLODE! Lizz Aston explores

crossroads between traditional craft and contemporary art and design. Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca NOW – JAN 25 : PULLING THE THREAD

Functional, decorative objects; how domestic practices influence artists. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

N OV 29 & 30 : ’TIS THE SEASON

Handcrafted gifts by Kai-Liis McInnes and friends. Alpaca,leather goods, original cards, etc. Sat 10am-5pm. Sun 10am-4pm. Rosemont Hall, 995722 Mono Adjala Town line.519-925-0421; kai-liis@sympatico.ca

finest artists and craftspeople of Dufferin County. 10am-4pm. $3. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; holidaytreasures.ca

Floyd Elzinga, metal artist, and Jeremy Guy, stone sculptor. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-9400199; thebartlettgallery.com

D EC 8 – 31 : A MAGGIOLLY CHRIST MAS 11 local artists, various media.

Dec 12: reception, 4-8pm. Maggiolly Art Supplies, 158 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-942-9560; maggiollyart.com DEC 13 : POLYCHROMATIC SCREEN PRINTING Silk screening and painting

Land and skyscapes, sacred sites: photos by Ila Sisson. 10am-4pm. Free. Touched by Light Gallery, 633206 Hwy 10, Orangeville. 519-216-3115; touchedbylight.ca

combine to make watercolour-like images, with Lizz Aston. 10:30am-3:30pm. $80, incl materials. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

N OV 28 – 30 : FARMHOUSE POTTERY CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE Handmade

DEC 16, JAN 20, FEB 17 & MAR 17 : ORANGE thREADS Relax with your latest

stoneware, jewellery, hot cider, coffee & pie. Daily to Christmas, 10am-5pm. 307114 Hockley Rd, Mono. 519-941-6654; pacepottery.com NOV 28 : STOPPING BY THE MILL ON A POETRY EVENING Local writers share

poetic jewels. 7-9pm. Free, register at Caledon Library. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

N OV 28 – DEC 7 : ART OF GIVING CHRISTMAS SHOW & SALE

8 gifted artisans. Nov 28: Santa Baby opening, 6–9pm. 10am-5pm. 5890 4th Line, Hillsburgh. 519-855-9639; turnoffatestudio.ca

project, informal conversation about books. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca JAN 10 & 11 : LUCILLE WEBER STUDIO & ART GALLERY GRAND OPENING

Vibrant art, jewellery, glass, pottery and textile accessories. Noon-5pm. 15612 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood. 647-400-7591; lucilleweber.com JAN 17 : MOVING WATER WORKSHOP

Paint water that looks like it’s moving, with John David Anderson. 10am-4pm. $70, register. Victoria Parks Community Centre, Mono Mills. 519-307-0210; orangevilleartgroup.com

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Beautiful circular designs (mandalas) with CJ Shelton. 1-3:30pm. $60. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-942-2018; dancingmoondesigns.ca JAN 24 & 25 : FIRE & ICE Skating,

igloos, ice sculptures, raku, blacksmith demonstrations, indoor art activities, BBQ. noon-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca JAN 26 – MAR 2 (MONDAYS): INSPIRED: ADULT ART WORKSHOPS Create 3 projects

inspired by our art collection. 10:30am12:30pm. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca JAN 31 : CELTIC ILLUMINATED LETTER ING WORKSHOP Create illuminated

initials, word or name in Celtic knotwork style with CJ Shelton. Materials supplied. 10am-4:30pm. $135. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-942-2018; dancingmoondesigns.ca FEB 8 – MAY 3 : EXCHANGE: PAMA ARTISTS SELECT Invited artists explain

their choice from the PAMA collection to create a mini-installation. Details on website. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055, pama.peelregion.ca FEB 11 – 22 : CREATING FUTURES: THREADS OF HOPE TEXTILE ART SHOW

Touring show of Canadian stitchers and quilters. Feb 14: reception, 1-4pm. Online bidding for all artwork. See catalogue. Funds to Stephen Lewis Foundation – Grandmothers’ Campaign. Wed-Sun 10am5pm. Donation. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Orangeville GoGo Grannies, 519-941-9966; omas-siskonakw.org

Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

community NOW – NOV 26 (TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS) : GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT, ADULT GROUPS

Individual grief counselling, holistic, complementary approaches to healing. Free, register. Tues 7pm. Wed 2 & 7pm. Bethell Hospice Community Programs. Alma, 905-951-3534; bethellhospice.org NOW – NOV 29 : ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH SILENT AUCTION Donations

accepted. 9am-1pm. 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-9635; stjamescaledoneast.ca NOW – DEC 11 (THURSDAYS) : HOW TO UNDERSTAND OUR MIND Exploring

the mind, different parts and how they function. 7-8:30pm. $10/class; $40/5. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada, 416-762-8033; kadampa.ca NOW – DEC 18 (THURSDAYS) : MEDITATION CLASSES Practical ways to

improve quality of life and inner peace. $10/class or $40/5. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. Kadampa Meditation Centre Canada, 1-866-523-2672; kadampa.ca NOW – DEC 31 : WE REMEMBER: STORIES OF SERVICE AND SACRIFICE Peel soldiers

who served overseas and families who helped at home. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – DEC 31 : WELCOME TO PEEL: A CELEBRATION OF OUR PEOPLE AND OUR STORIES Experiences and contributions to

every generation. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – JUN 1 : THE GUARDIAN: THE EARLY YEARS Selected photographs

document Bramalea’s development. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

N OV 21 : MOONLIGHT MAGIC & THE TRACTOR PARADE OF LIGHTS Sales,

FEB 14 : MANDALA MAKING FOR COUPLES Make beautiful circular designs

(mandalas) with CJ Shelton. 1-3:30pm. $60 pp. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-942-2018; dancingmoondesigns.ca FEB 21 : ART SPA! THE COLOURS OF YOUR SOUL Balance by working creatively

with CJ Shelton & chakras. 10am-2pm. $85. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-942-2018; dancingmoondesigns.ca FEB 28 : TUNE UP YOUR COMPOSITIONS WORKSHOP Solve composition

problems with Kal Honey. 10am-4pm. $70, register. Victoria Parks Community Centre, Mono Mills. 519-307-0210; orangevilleartgroup.com MAR 12 : CONNECTIONS ART & BOOK CLUB Discuss I Always Loved You by Robin

Oliveira. Free, register, pick up book at Brampton Library, 905-793-4636. Peel

Toronto & Creemore offices www.canadagives.ca

visits with Santa, horse-drawn carriage rides, tractor parade. 6-9pm. Downtown Orangeville. Orangeville BIA, 519-9420087; downtownorangeville.ca

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N OV 22 : CHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN CHURCH BAZAAR Bake

sale, nearly new sale, craft table.9:30am1:30pm. 43 Nancy St, Bolton. 905-8570433; ccbolton@interlog.com

N OV 22 : BETHELL HOSPICE CHRISTMAS BAZAAR Baked goods,

toys, woodworks, ornaments, jewellery. Proceeds to Hospice. 9am-3pm. Inglewood Community Centre, 15825 McLaughlin Rd. 905-838-3534 x2251; bethellhospice.org

N OV 22 : CHRISTMAS MARKET IN THE MILLS Handcrafted local gifts,

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N OV 22 : COMMUNITY WOMEN’S CIRCLE CHRISTMAS CRAFT SHOPPE & BAKE SALE Baking, preserves, artisan

vendors. Table rental, $20. 9am-2pm. 6046 Old Church Rd. 905-584-9974; caledoneastunitedchurch.ca

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NOV 29 & DEC 13 : REUSTORE AUCTION

pickles. 11am-5pm. 19781 Main St, Alton. 905-872-4657; marthasplace.ca

Cool new items. 10-11am. The ReUstore, 109 Industrial Rd, Bolton. 905-857-7824.

N OV 22 : ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHRISTMAS FAIR & BAZAAR Gift baskets, wreaths,

decorations, baked goods, crafts. 10am3pm. 83 Trafalgar Rd, Hillsburgh. 519-8559784; st.andrewshillsburgh@gmail.com NOV 22 – APR 25 (EVERY OTHER SATURDAY) : ORANGEVILLE INDOOR WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET Fruits,

vegetables, meats, unique products. 9am1pm. Town Hall, 87 Broadway. 519-9420087; downtownorangeville.ca NOV 24 : ORANGEVILLE DINNER SERIES Fundraiser for Food & Water

First. Details on website. 6:30pm. $55. orangevilledinnerseries.com NOV 24 : AN EVENING WITH LINDEN MACINTYRE & MICHAEL WINTER

Celebrated authors discuss their new books. Tickets at ticketscene.ca. 7-9pm. $20; students & military, $10. Avening Community Centre, 178 Mill St, Creemore. 705-466-3400; curiosityhousebooks.com NOV 25 : HEADWATERS FOOD & FARMING ALLIANCE FALL FOOD EVENT

Future plans and fresh local culinary delights. See hffa.ca for details. 4-7pm. $10 donation to food bank. Amaranth Town Hall, 374028 6th Line. Headwaters Communities in Action, 519-925-0347; headwaterscommunities.org NOV 26 & JAN 28 : CALEDON EAST & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETINGS Nov 26: Ken Weber –

Humorous Reflections on Small-Town Life in the ‘50s. Jan 28: Bill Rea – Caledon Citizen. 7:30-9:30pm. Visitors $5. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-0352; cedhs.ca

N OV 29 : ST. CORNELIUS SCHOOL CHRISTMAS MARKETPLACE 40 local

vendors. Christmas trees, raffles, face painting. Proceeds to St. Cornelius school. 9am-3pm. 16066 Innis Lake Rd, Caledon. 416-605-8324

N OV 29 : CREEMORE HOLIDAY HOUSE TOUR Visit six homes decorated

Celebrating this year’s food & farm achievements and sharing local food! November 25 from 4–7pm Amaranth Town Hall Register online at www.hffa.ca Cost: $10 Foodbank Donation

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for the holidays, breakfast seminar, marketplace. 10am-4pm. $25. Station on the Green, Creemore. 705-888-2860; creemoreholidayhousetour.com

N OV 29 & 30 : COACH HOUSE CHRISTMAS SHOW Antiques, vintage

linens, stemware, china, home décor. Sat 10am-5pm. Sun 10am-4pm. $1 donation to OSPCA. Marsville Community Hall, 191282 13th Line. 519-855-4345; mapleglen. antiques@gmail.com

N OV 30 : CHRISTMAS IN THE VALLEY Craft vendors, etc. 10am-4pm.

Donation to Concern Food Bank. Grand Valley Community Centre, 90 Main St N. Tornado Air Cadets, 519-928-2096. DEC 3 : MONO MILLS UNITED CHURCH CHRISTMAS CAROL SING Request a carol

in advance, or just come and sing. 7-8pm. 60 Richmond St, Mono Mills. 519-938-8779. DEC 4 : BETHELL HOSPICE VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SESSION Become part of

our team. 10-11:30am. Free, register. 15835 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood. 905-838-3534; bethellhospice.org DEC 4, JAN 8, FEB 5 & MAR 5 : LEADER SHIP FORUM FOR BUSINESS WOMEN

See website for speakers. Noon-2pm. $22.60, register. Caledon Community Complex, Caledon East. Leadership Forum Non-profit Organization, 905-951-1217; theleadershipforum.ca

D EC 5 : CALEDON SENIORS’ CHRISTMAS DINNER & DANCE Turkey

dinner with trimmings followed by dancing. 7pm. $20; non-members $25, reserve. Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca

D EC 5 : DAREarts HOLIDAY CHEER IN THE COUNTRY Sips, savouries,

sweets, musicians, artists and children’s art cards. 7-11:30pm. $75 pp donation. Chateau Windrush, 3030 Conc 3 Adjala. 905-729-0097; darearts.com

D EC 5 – JAN 2 : CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK Over 50,000 bulbs, displays,

Santa visits, carolling, readings, ice sculptures. Dec 5: 7-10pm. Dec 6-Jan 2: 5:30-10pm. Free parking & admission. Kay Cee Gardens, 29 Bythia St, Orangeville. orangevilleoptimists.ca

D EC 6 : CHRISTMAS IN CALEDON VILLAGE CRAFT SHOW & SALE Gifts,

home decorating, food items, at Caledon Village Place and Knox United Church. 9am-3pm. Caledon Agricultural Society, Cheltenham United Church, 905-838-2204

D EC 6 : COMMUNITY LIVING DUFFERIN CHRISTMAS SALE 25 vendors

& artisans. 9am-2pm. 065371 Cty Rd 3, W of Orangeville. 519-941-8971 x126; communitylivingdufferin.ca

D EC 6 : CREEMORE CHRISTMAS MARKET Crafts, meats, baking, treats.

9am-1pm. Creemore Station on the Green, 10 Caroline St E, Creemore. 705-466-6001; creemorefarmersmarket.ca

JAN 12 – APR 27 : BEGINNER TAOIST TAI CHI CLASSES Locations in Orangeville,

Enjoy delectable treats. 10am-3pm. 68 Main St N, Georgetown. 905-702-8661; uppercredit.com

Mono, Erin, Caledon East & Shelburne. See website. Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi International Centre, 248305 5 Sideroad, Mono. 519-941-1422; taoist.org

DEC 7 : WHOLE VILLAGE ORIENTATION

Tour the farm & eco-residence. 1-4pm. $10. Whole Village, 20725 Shaws Creek Rd, Caledon. 519-941-1099; wholevillage.org

D EC 7 : READING OF DICKENS’ CHRISTMAS CAROL Reception follows.

7-9pm. Donation to food bank. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-9635; stjamescaledoneast.ca DEC 10 : CALEDON BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION SUPPORT GROUP Trained

volunteers and survivors share stories, coping strategies and laughter. 7-9pm. Free. 4 Queen St N, #202, Bolton. 905857-4068; caledonbcf.org DEC 13 : CHEZ THRIFT AUCTION Cool

new items. 11am-noon. Free. Chez Thrift, 301 Queen St S, Bolton. Catherine Adair; 905-857-7824

JAN 13 : PERSONAL FINANCE 101 Ken

Krakar makes personal finances easy to understand. 7-8:30pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca JAN 15 & 22 : WORKSHOPS FOR HORSE LOVERS Best practices, common

pitfalls, with Lindsay Grice. 7-9pm. $50. Westside Secondary School, 300 Alder St, Orangeville. Dufferin Centre for Continuing Education, 519-941-2661 x15; ugdsb.on.ca JAN 24 : HOT STOVE LOUNGE PUB NIGHT NHL game on big screen TV, pub

food, drinks. Proceeds to Alton Millpond Rehabilitation Project. 6-11pm. $15 advance. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519941-9300; altonmillpondhockey.ca JAN 25 : WALK FOR MEMORIES Raise awareness, funds for local Alzheimer’s care, education. 9-11:30am. Min.$20 donation. Orangeville Mall, 150 First St. Alzheimer Society of Dufferin County, 519-941-1221 x102; walkformemories.ca

Winter Weddings at Uniquely Beautiful & Oh So Romantic! from $99* per person Includes: Specialized winter dinner menu Wedding bar & wine service with dinner Complimentary 2 night stay for the happy couple Special discounts from preferred vendors First year anniversary overnight stay with full breakfast *Per person, plus tax and gratuities, subject to availability. Valid November 1, 2014 - April 30, 2015.

JAN 28 : HEALTH AND WELLNESS: ALZHEIMER AWARENESS Becky McCreath

discusses differences between normal forgetfulness and when to see a doctor. 1-2pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca

D EC 13 : INGLEWOOD FARMERS’ MARKET HOLIDAY BAZAAR Local foods,

goodies & gifts. 10am-3pm. Inglewood Community Centre, 15825 McLaughlin Rd. Eat Local Caledon, 647-500-6117; eatlocalcaledon.org

D EC 18 : CHRISTMAS LUNCH & SMILE THEATRE Roast beef, veggies,

dessert, entertainment. 11:30am. $18, reserve. Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca

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sing, Christmas story. 7pm. Primrose United Church, NE corner of Hwy 10 and 30 Sdrd, Mono. 519-925-2233 D EC 24 : TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH CAMPBELL’S CROSS CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE 8:45pm: Christmas carols.

9pm: communion service. 3515 King St, Caledon. 905-838-1623

D EC 24 : WESTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH COMMUNION CANDLELIGHT SERVICE 10-11pm. 247

Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-0381; westminsterorangeville.ca

D EC 24 & 25 : ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH CHRISTMAS SERVICES Dec

24: 7 & 11pm. Dec 25: 10am. 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-9635; stjamescaledoneast.ca

FEB 7 : SCENIC CAVES – ROMP TO STOMP FOR CANADIAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION Suitable for all

ages & abilities, team or individual. 3k/5k snowshoe walk, 3k snowshoe race, 1k L’il Romper Dash. Snow date: February 8. Early bird rate til Dec 12. See website. 260 Scenic Caves Rd, Collingwood. 705-4460256, sceniccaves.com

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FEB 14 : SWEEHEART CURLING SPIEL

Mixed spiel, ladies’ skip. Three 6-end games. Incl. lunch & dinner. Wear pink or red – prizes for best-dressed team. 9am. $160/team. Shelburne Curling Club, 110 O’Flynn St. 519-925-2397; shelburnecurling.ca FEB 17 : HORNING’S MILLS HALL PANCAKE SUPPER Sausages, soup,

dessert. Proceeds to hall upkeep. 5:306:30pm. $10; 12 & under, $5, at door. 14 Mill St, Horning’s Mills. horningsmills.ca FEB 22 : FERGUS WEDDING SHOWCASE

The local guide for the practical bride. Proceeds to Cystic Fibrosis Canada. 11am4pm. $7. Centre Wellington Community Sportsplex, 550 Belsyde Ave E, Fergus. Fergus & District Kinsmen, 519-843-4852; ralphbasset.com

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MAR 1 – MAY 31 : OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS On loan from the Canadian

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theatre+film NOW – NOV 22 : COOKING WITH GUS

Cookbook author Gussie has a chance at her own TV show, but with stage fright, comedy follows. Thurs-Sat 8:15pm. Nov 15: 2pm matinée & 8:15pm. $16; matinée $13; dinner & show $30. Caledon Townhall Players, 18365 Hurontario St (Hwy 10), Caledon Village. 519-927-5460; caledontownhallplayers.com NOV 21 : FAMOUS PEOPLE PLAYERS

Black-light theatre amazes and inspires. 8pm. $39; children $25. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

N OV 21-23, 28 – 30 : SNOW WHITE AND THE FAMOUS SEVEN Cheer heroes, JAN 13, FEB 10 & MAR 10 : ORANGEVILLE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY MONTHLY MEETINGS Jan 13: Low-Maintenance

Lawn Alternatives. Feb 10: Pruning: Get Ready for Spring. Mar 10: Photography in the Garden. 7-10pm. Visitors welcome. Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. orangevillehort.org JAN 18 : MONO WINTERFEST

Snowshoeing, x-country skiing, skating, tobogganing, food, crafts. Noon-4pm. Free. Mono Community Centre, Mono Centre. Mono Recreation, 519-941-3599 x227; townofmono.com JAN 24 : ALTON MILLPOND HOCKEY CLASSIC Fun-filled community hockey

tournament and kids’ games. Proceeds to Alton Millpond Rehabilitation project. 8:30am-2pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca JAN 27 : TRANSFORMATION OF LUTHER MARSH Wayne Townsend speaks on

marsh transition from forest, farmland, bootleggers’ paradise to treasured wetland. 7:30-9pm. Donation. Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. 519-9422972; uppercreditfieldnaturalists.org JAN 31 : GREAT CANADIAN PONDSPIEL

Teams or individuals welcome, all day, or just try it out. Free. Island Lake Conservation Area, 673067 Hurontario St S, Orangeville. Orangeville Curling Club, orangevillecurlingclub.ca FEB 16 : MONO FAMILY SKI DAY Free day

of cross-country skiing, equipment rental. 9am-4pm. Monora Park Pavilion, Hwy 10, N of Orangeville. Mono Recreation & Mono Nordic Ski Club, 519-941-3599 x224; townofmono.com FEB 24 : UPPER CREDIT FIELD NATURALISTS MEMBERS’ NIGHT Displays

highlighting activities, talks by members. 7:30-9pm. Donation. Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. 519-942-2972; uppercreditfieldnaturalists.org 100

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boo baddies in this traditional English pantomime. $12. Century Church Theatre, 3 Hill St, Hillsburgh. Century Theatre Guild, 519-855-4586; centurychurchtheatre.com NOV 22 : VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS GALA FUNDRAISER Seasonal food,

black tie optional. Proceeds to Theatre Orangeville. 5pm. Best Western, 7 Buena Vista Dr, Orangeville. 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca

N OV 27 – DEC 21 : EVERYTHING I LOVE ABOUT CHRISTMAS Susan

Barnes gets stranded getting home for Christmas; hilarious characters help her out. $42; matinées $35. Theatre Orangeville, 87 Broadway, 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca NOV 29 : SHAUN MAJUMDER Newfound

land slice-of-life material and incessant wit. 8pm. $40. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

H A P P E N I N G S

NOV 29 : YUK YUK’S NIGHT Great food and laughs! 7:30-11:30pm. $59. Hockley Valley Resort, 793522 3rd Line Mono. 519942-0754; hockley.com

FEB 19 : CRACK ME UP COMEDY – JAY MARTIN 8pm. $15; $20 at the door. Rose

D EC 7 : A CHRISTMAS CAROL AT THE ALTON MILL Classic tale of greed,

FEB 21 : GIRLS’ NIGHT – THE MUSICAL

Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905874-2800; rosetheatre.ca Five friends relive their past, celebrate life to popular ’80s & ’90s hits. 8pm. $55. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

ghosts & salvation. Tickets at humberriver shakespeare.ca or at door. 2-4pm. $20; children $10. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Humber River Shakespeare Co., 416-209-2026; altonmill.ca

MAR 26 : Crack Me Up Comedy: Mayce Galoni 8pm. $15; $20 at the door. Rose

DEC 10-12, 14, 17-19 : THE ART OF BELIEV ING Madcap characters hit a big-city high-

Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-8742800; rosetheatre.ca

brow auction. Dinner theatre by Erin Little Theatre. Dec 10-12, 17-19: 7pm. $39.95. Dec 14: 1pm. Matinée/luncheon $29.95. David’s Restaurant, 20 Shamrock Dr, Erin. Reserve, 519-833-5085; erintheatre.ca

music

DEC 11 : CRACK ME UP COMEDY – AL VALIULIS 8pm. $15; $20 at the door. Rose

unless noted. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-8742800; rosetheatre.ca

NOV – MAR: LIVE MUSIC AT ROSE THEATRE All performances at 8pm,

N OV 26 : NATALIE MACMASTER’S CELTIC FAMILY CHRISTMAS Vibrant

JAN 9 – 24 : THE WEDDING SINGER After his fiancée leaves him, Robbie tries to make every wedding as disastrous as his own. Times on website. $20. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. 519942-3423; orangevillemusictheatre.com

melodies, rich Cape Breton sounds.

JAN 22 : LATE NITE CATECHISM 2: SISTER STRIKES AGAIN! Just when you thought

alternative country music supporting the hall. 6:30: dinner. 8pm: show. $25; $30 at the door. Dinner $12. Horning’s Mills Hall, 14 Mill St, Horning’s Mills. horningsmills.ca

it was safe to go into the classroom! 8pm. $47. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca FEB 8 : FROM PAGE TO STAGE – DAN NEEDLES AND TREVOR COLE Two

Leacock Award for Humour winners take you through their works’ journeys. Wine, cheese, book signing. Proceeds to Theatre Orangeville New Play Development Fund. 2-4pm. $25. 87 Broadway. 519-940-9372 x2804; theatreorangeville.ca FEB 12 : VETERANS OF SNL – ROB SCHNEIDER, CHRIS KATTAN & TIM MEADOWS Three legends of NBC’s

NOV 28 : ROCK AROUND THE ROSE SOCK HOP Dance party with Rock ’n’ Ray

Michaels and The Retro Rockers. NOV 29 : THE FRED EAGLESMITH TRAVELLING STEAMSHOW An evening of

DEC 3 : DANÚ Virtuosi play flute, tin whistle,

fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki, vocals.

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D EC 7 : HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

Brampton Festival Singers and several guest artists. 3:30pm. D EC 12 : COLM WILKINSON An evening of entertainment with one of theatre’s most beloved voices. DEC 20 : MATT DUSK Toe tapping music by

Juno Award-nominated crooner. JAN 9 : APRIL WINE 40-plus years, 15 studio albums – quintessential Canadian rockers.

Saturday Night Live join for one epic night of stand-up comedy. 8pm. $55. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

JAN 15 : JOSH Innovative mix of pop, hip-hop and traditional Indian, Pakistani sounds.

FEB 18 – MAR 8 : LETTER FROM WINGFIELD FARM Vintage Dan Needles’

JAN 17 : REPLAY THE BEATLES Multiple

humour about one man’s attempt to embrace a less complicated life. Fri, Sat 8pm. Sun, Wed 2pm. Thurs 2 & 8pm. $42; matinées $35. Theatre Orangeville, 87 Broadway. 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca

To submit your community, arts or non-profit event, go to inthehills.ca and click what’s on on the menu bar. That takes you to the listings page. Click submit your event and complete the easy form. For the spring (March) issue, submit by February 6, 2015. We reserve the right to edit submissions for print and web publication. For up-to-date listings between issues, go to inthehills.ca and click what’s on on the menu bar.

JAN 16 : THE ULTIMATE MJ EXPERIENCE Joby

Rogers’ all-out celebration of the King of Pop. costumes, multimedia show, not your typical Beatles tribute show. JAN 29 : BOWFIRE Jazz to classical, Celtic to rock, uniquely combines strings, choreography, vocals. FEB 1 : ALAN DOYLE New material and

Great Big Sea hits. FEB 26 : PLAYING FOR CHANGE LIVE

Inspiring, connecting and bringing peace through music. FEB 27 : CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE – CCR: CHRONICLE, VOL. 1 Recreated live, greatest

hits of Creedence Clearwater Revival. MAR 6 : COLIN JAMES Juno-Award winner

sings pop, blues and swing. MAR 13 : THE PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND New Orleans jazz embodies a

joyful, timeless spirit. MAR 17 : JOHN MCDERMOTT Sensitive

renditions by one of the famed Irish Tenors.

MAR 25 : VIENNA BOYS’ CHOIR Choral

music from medieval to contemporary to experimental.

2-4pm. $10. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 591-941-0381; westminsterorangeville.ca

MAR 26 : CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE – LED ZEPPELIN II Recreated live, the first

JAN 16 : BRAMPTON FALL FAIR’S GOT TALENT FINALS Top ten performances

Led Zeppelin album has been certified platinum multiple times. NOV 22 : TOM COCHRANE WITH RED RIDER & CHANTAL KREVIAZUK BENEFIT CONCERT Hors d’œuvres, wine, silent

compete for cash. Buffet dinner. 6:3011pm. $30. 12942 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon. 905-843-0210; bonnie@duskteam.com JAN 31 : BARRY ELMES QUINTET

auction of Lexus IS 250. Proceeds to three hospitals of William Osler Health System. 6pm. $250. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-454-6556; oslerfoundation.org

Drummer, composer, record producer and Canadian jazz award winner 8pm. $30; students $15. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway. Orangeville Concert Association, 519-942-3423; orangevilleconcerts.ca

N OV 23 : CALEDON CHAMBER CONCERTS – HANDEL’S MESSIAH

FEB 21 : FEBRUARY BLUES & JAZZ FESTIVAL BASH Live music TBA, cash bar

With the Georgetown Bach chorale and chamber orchestra. 2:30-5:30pm. $30; 16 years & under, $15. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-880-2445; caledonchamberconcerts.com

NOV 23, 29 & 30 : THE ACHILL CHORAL SOCIETY – THE GLORY OF CHRISTMAS

Carols, favourites, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria. $25; youth $10; 12 & under, $5. Nov 23: 4pm. St. Timothy RC Church, 42 Dawson Rd, Orangeville. Nov 29: 7:30pm. Christ Church Bolton, 22 Nancy St. Nov 30: 7:30pm. St. James RC Church, 2118 Adjala/ Tecumseth Townline, Colgan. achill.ca

N OV 30 : THE SINGING CHRISTMAS TREE Headwaters’ Concert Choir presents

seasonal favourites. Tickets at BookLore, The Citizen, call or text. 4-6pm. $20; 16 & under free. Brampton Fairgrounds Banquet Hall, 12942 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon. 647529-6752; robertbhennig@gmail.com

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D EC 6 : ORANGEVILLE COMMUNITY BAND FREE HOLIDAY CONCERT

In the Orangeville Mall.10:30am12:30pm. 150 First St, Orangeville. orangevillecommunityband.ca D EC 7 : A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS

Debbie BeChamp and Company present traditional, contemporary & country favourites. 2-4pm. $25. Century Church Theatre, 3 Hill St, Hillsburgh. 519-8554586; centurychurchtheatre.com

D EC 7 : ORANGEVILLE COMMUNITY BAND CHRISTMAS CONCERT Seasonal

favourites. 7pm. $15, 2 for $25; students & seniors $10; under 12, $5. New Hope Community Church, 690 Riddell Rd, Orangeville. orangevillecommunityband.ca

D EC 7 : CLAUDE SANCTUARY CONCERT – ORANGE PEEL CAROLLERS

Sing-a-long traditional English village carols. 7:30-9:30pm. $10 at ticketscene. ca; $15 at door. Claude Church, 15175 Hurontario St, Caledon. 416-668-4390; claudechurch.com

NORDIC CENTRE Superbly Natural!

Groomed Cross-Country Classic and Skate Ski Trails Snowshoe Trails and Guided Night Snowshoe Hikes 420 ft. Suspension Bridge Warming Hut with Hot Food and Beverages Rentals and Lessons Fabulous Panoramic Views Gift Shop and Gift Certificates High Altitude Snow Conditions

FEB 22 : GENTICORUM Quebec’s tradi

tional acoustic trio. 7:30-9:30pm. $20 at ticketscene.ca; $25 at door. Claude Church Parlour Concert, 15175 Hurontario St, Caledon. 416-668-4390; claudechurch.com FEB 28 : MADAWASKA STRING QUARTET

Classical repertoire. 8-10pm. $30; students 16 & under, $15. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. Caledon Chamber Concerts, 905-8802445; caledonchamberconcerts.com MAR 8 : SULTANS OF STRING DUO

Chris McKhool (violin) & Kevin Laliberté (guitar). 7:30-9:30pm. $20 at ticketscene. ca; $25 at door. Claude Church Parlour Concert, 15175 Hurontario St, Caledon. 416-668-4390; claudechurch.com

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MAR 13 : REBECCA CAINE & ROBERT KORTGAARD Opera and musical theatre

soprano accompanied by acclaimed pianist. 8pm. $30; students $15. Town Hall Opera House, Orangeville, 87 Broadway. Orangeville Concert Association, 519-9423423; orangevilleconcerts.ca MAR 21 : PIANIST IMRE PATKAI

Wedding Specialists • Colour Highlights • Updo’s • Make-Up Perms • Chemical Straightening

Program includes Waldesrauschen and Gnomenreigen by Liszt. 8-10pm. $30; 16 & under, $15. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. Caledon Chamber Concerts, 905-8802445; caledonchamberconcerts.com

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519.415.4545

www.artizanhairsalon.ca

S anta Claus Parades

ORANGEVILLE : NOV 15 Parade, 5pm.

ORANGEVILLE : NOV 21 Tractor Parade

of Lights, 6pm. Hansen Blvd & First St. orangevillekin.ca ALLISTON : NOV 22 Tree lighting, 5pm.

Parade, 6pm. Victoria & Mill St. adcc.ca

Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel Yuletide Greetings, Feliz Navidad Happy Holidays

ERIN : NOV 29 1:30pm. McCullogh Dr &

Main St S. erin.ca GRAND VALLEY : NOV 29 7pm. Main St & Community Centre. townofgrandvalley.ca

Program includes carol sing. 3-4:30pm. Free, donations appreciated. 6046 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-9974; caledoneastunitedchurch.ca

BOLTON : DEC 6 11am. Queensgate on

D EC 21 : A FIDDLER’S CHRISTMAS FEATURING THE BLACK FAMILY Informal

CREEMORE : DEC 6 noon. Mill St.

afternoon of fiddle and step dancing.

sceniccaves.com

& food. 6:30-11pm. $35; $40 at door. Best Western, 7 Buena Vista Dr, Orangeville. 519-941-9041; objf.org

D EC 14 : CALEDON EAST UNITED CHURCH CHRISTMAS CONCERT

SCENIC CAVES

No matter how you say it, I hope you and your family enjoy this holiday season.

Hwy 50 to Centennial. boltonkin.com SHELBURNE : DEC 6 5pm. Main St.

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continued from page 101 NOW – DEC 16, JAN 6 – JUN 30 (TUESDAYS) : GROWING TOGETHER WITH THE CPCC

Families & children (0-6) share a meal, activities around healthy foods, active living. 4:30-7:30pm. Free, register. 25 Stationview Place, Bolton. Caledon ParentChild Centre, 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org NOW – DEC 16, JAN 6 – JUNE 30 (TUES DAYS) : ADJUSTMENTS AFTER BIRTH POSTPARTUM SUPPORT GROUP Support

following the birth or adoption of a child. Free group & child care, register. 10am-noon. Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org NOW – DEC 23, JAN 6 – JUN 30 (TUES DAYS) : LET’S GET TOGETHER: SHARING THE JOURNEY OF RAISING A CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS Connect with other fami-

lies to explore parenting a child (0-6) with special needs. 5:45-7:15pm. Free, register. Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org NOW – DEC 3 (WEDNESDAYS) : POSITIVE DISCIPLINE FOR EFFECTIVE PARENTING

Discipline, working together, parenting styles, tools. 7-9pm. Free, register. Princess Margaret Public School, 51 Wellington St, Orangeville. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca NOW – DEC 28 (SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS) : PAMA DROP-IN FAMILY ACTIVITIES

Make and take home creative projects inspired by PAMA’s exhibitions. 1-5pm. $4.50; seniors, students $3.50; family $10. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. PAMA, 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – MAR 18, (THIRD WED) : TEEN MEET & MUNCH BOOK CLUB Ages 13-17,

discuss favourite books, snack. 4:305:30pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca NOW – MAY 28 (THURSDAYS) : THEATRE ORANGEVILLE YOUTH SINGERS (T.O.Y.S.)

Ages 8-16. See website for performances & rehearsal times. $400. St. Mark’s Anglican Church, 5 First Ave, Orangeville. 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca NOW – JUN 15 (MONDAYS) : RCSCC CRESCENT 253 BOLTON SEA CADETS

Open to all youth 12-18. Bring birth certificate, health card to register. 6:309:30pm. Albion Bolton Community Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-5331960, caledonnavyleague@hotmail.com NOW – JUN 26 (LAST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH) : THE VILLAGE CAFE @ EXCHANGE Families & children (0-6)

join in a program about healthy food and bodies. Crafts, activities. 9:30am-11am. Free, register. Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-8570090; cp-cc.org

N OV 21 & 22 : OPERATION CHRIST MAS CHILD Pack a shoebox with hygiene

items, toys, school supplies for needy children worldwide. Drop off at Covenant Alliance Church, 3 Zina St, Orangeville. Nov 21: 3-7pm. Nov 22: 9am to noon. 519-940-9479; samaritanspurse.ca 102

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N OV 22 : CANDY CANE FAIR Pictures with Santa, entertainment, vendors. Proceeds to new hospital equipment. Free entrance & parking. Headwaters Health Care Centre, 100 Rolling Hills Dr, Orangeville. 519-941-2410 x2268; hhccauxiliary@headwatershealth.ca

N OV 22 : DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW: A CANADIAN JINGLE BELLS Illustrator Werner Zimmermann

draws and reads from his latest book. 11am-noon. Free. BookLore, 121 First St, Orangeville. 519-942-3830; booklore.ca NOV 23 : FUSION: CLUB ART FUNDRAISER

Live music, painting, great food, raffle, cash bar. 3-8pm. $25. The Barley Vine Rail Co, 35 Armstrong St, Orangeville. 519-9431149; facebook/Club-Art-Orangeville NOV 25 : DISCOVERY CLUB : KRAZY KERNELS Children 8-12 play popcorn-

themed games, make their own popcorn flavour. 6:45pm-7:45pm. Free, reserve. Caledon Library, 6500 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca NOV 25 : HOW TO TALK SO KIDS WILL LISTEN REFRESHER SESSION Discuss

what strategies are/aren’t working. 7-9pm. Free, register. Parkinson Centennial Public School, 120 Lawrence Ave, Orangeville. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519940-8678; dpsn.ca

H A P P E N I N G S

vary. Free, register at Brampton Library, 905-793-4636. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOV 28 – 29 LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

Wolfgang Wolf seeks revenge. Can Woody and friends thwart his plans? Fri 7pm. Sat 2 & 7pm. Sun 2pm. $15; children $8. Grace Tipling Hall, 120 Main St, Shelburne. tiplingstagecompany.com

N OV 29 : CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CHRISTMAS FAMILY FUN FESTIVAL

Bouncy castle, entertainment, crafts, hockey shot radar speed testing. 9am-2pm. Free. 553281 Veteran’s Way, Orangeville. 519941-3381; orangevillechristianschool.com

N OV 29 : CALEDON PARENT-CHILD CENTRE CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PARTY

Lenny Graf (Treehouse TV) entertains, Santa visits. Advance tickets only at CPCC locations. No strollers. 9:45am-11:45am. $8; under 1 year, free. Caledon ParentChild Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org

N OV 29 & 30,DEC 6, 7, 13 & 14 : PHOTOS WITH THE GRINCH Make a

unique holiday memory. Noon-4pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca

DEC 2 : SKILLS FOR SINGLE PARENTS

Workshop explores feelings, co-parenting, dating. 7-9pm. Free, register. Island Lake Public School, 50 Oak Ridge Dr, Orangeville. Dufferin Parent Support Network, 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca

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D EC 3 : CRAFTING WITH ELVES

Christmas crafts for preschoolers. 10am-1pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St and 275 Alder St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca D EC 4 : ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS

Stories, festive songs, finger plays, rhyming fun. Ages 5 & under. 10:15-11am. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St and 275 Alder St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca D EC 4 : HOLIDAY STORY TIME: WHAT DO SNOWMEN DO AT NIGHT?

Fun winter adventures snowmen get up to when you aren’t watching! 7-8pm. Free. Caledon Library, 15825 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood. caledon.library.on.ca DEC 5 : GAMERS’ NIGHT – HOLIDAY VERSION Hot chocolate, holiday stories,

gaming the night away! 6:30-8pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 20 Snelcrest Dr. 905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

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D EC 5 : VISIT SANTA AT THE LIBRARY

Christmas stories and songs with Santa himself. Preschoolers to age 6, with adult. 10:30am. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca

D EC 5, 6, 12, 13 & 14 : PETER PAN JR Meet the Lost Boys, mermaids, indians and infamous Captain Hook! $15; students & seniors, $12. Grace Tipling Hall, 120 Main St, Shelburne. 519-925-2600 x0; lpstageproductionsinc.com

NOV 27 & MAR 31 : KING’S COLLEGE SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE See the school

in action. Private tours available. 9-11am. 16379 The Gore Rd, Caledon. 905-8807645; kingscollegeschool.ca

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D EC 8 : DISCOVERY CLUB – HOLIDAY STYLE Make a special gift, then build

NOV 27, JAN 29 & MAR 26 : KIDS’ BOOK CLUB Discuss favourite books, create your

a “book tree.” 7-8pm. Free, register. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

own masterpieces. See website, locations

D EC 10 : SNOWFLAKES – A HOLIDAY STORY TIME Stories of snowflakes,

puzzling

solutions

Adjusting a Game of Checkers in Marsville (Our solution; there may be others.) Jump 5 over 8, then over 9, over 3 and over 1. Jump 7 over 4. Jump 6 over 2, then over 7. Jump 5 over 6. Has Genevieve Missed the Curfew? It is now 11:57 p.m., so in four minutes Genevieve will be one minute late. Mr. Judge’s Word Circle The added letter is ‘D’. Clockwise from the north east segment (ECO): CODE, DUSK, HARD, WIDE, FEED, DATA, IDEA, LADY To Inherit the Farm The brothers decide to switch horses. From a Bridge in Creemore The very tiny toad will never reach the edge.

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Think Out of the Box and in a Hurry A It will be midnight again. 2 Eleven – all except February. 3 Once. 4 “Are you asleep?” 5 The letter ‘v’.

correction The solution to the puzzle “At a Lumber Camp in Melancthon” in our fall 2014 issue contained an egregious error. In final production, an incorrect draft of the solution was substituted. With our apologies to puzzle enthusiasts, here is the correct answer:

snowmen, candy canes, craft to chocolate provided. 7-8pm. Free. Caledon Library, 17247 Shaw’s Creek Rd, Belfountain. 905857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

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D EC 19 : WESTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH CHILDREN’S CONCERT

7-8:30pm. Freewill offering. 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-0381; westminsterorangeville.ca D EC 22 – APR 26 (SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS): WINTER DROP-IN FAMILY ACTIVITIES Make projects inspired by

PAMA’s exhibitions. 10am-3pm. Free with admission. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

D EC 24 : COME TO THE CRADLE CHRISTMAS SERVICE 3:30pm: Live

outdoor nativity. 4pm: service. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-0381; westminsterorangeville.ca

D EC 24 : FAMILY CANDLELIGHT SERVICE Nativity, dancers, carols.

7-8pm. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-0381; westminsterorangeville.ca

holiday entertaining retailers from pages 56-57 Dave’s Butcher Shop 75 Alder St, Orangeville. www.davesbutchershop.ca Dragonfly Arts 189 Broadway, Orangeville. www.dragonflyarts.ca Farmhouse Pottery 307114 Hockley Rd, Mono. www.pacepottery.com Four Corners Bakery 28 Queen St N, Bolton. www.fourcornersbakery.ca Friendly Chef Adventures 98 Main St, Erin. www.thefriendlychef.ca Fromage 23 Mill St, Orangeville. www.fromageorangeville.ca

From the Kitchen to the Table 125 Broadway, Orangeville. www.kitchentotable.com Heatherlea Farm Market 17049 Winston Churchill Blvd, Caledon. www. heatherleafarmmarket.ca Inglewood General Store 15596 McLaughlin Rd, Caledon. 905-838-4386 The Naked Vine 12612 Hwy 50, unit 11, Bolton. www.thenakedvine.com Orangeville Farmers’ Market 87 Broadway, Orangeville. Indoor market every other Saturday from Nov. 8 to Apr. 25. www. downtownorangeville.ca

Orangeville Flowers 78 John St, Orangeville. www.orangevilleflowers.ca Owls in the Attic 75 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-415-6957 Owl’s Nest Gallery 48 Main St, Erin. 519- 833-0065 Rosemont General Store 508563 Hwy 89, Mulmur. www.rgstore.ca Spirit Tree Cidery 1137 Boston Mills Rd, Caledon. www.spirittreecider.com Zehrs Orangeville, Bolton, Alliston

JAN 26 – 31 : WINTER PROGRAM REGISTRATION AT CALEDON PARENTCHILD CENTRE Free interactive adult/

child programs such as Infant Mother Goose, Play & Learn, School Here I Come. 9:15am-4pm. Free, register. 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org JAN 2 : GAMES GALORE! Drop in for

gigantic Snakes ‘n’ Ladders and snacks. 10:30-11:30am: ages 5 to 7. 1:30-2:30pm: 8 & up. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.on.ca JAN 5 – MAR 9 (MONDAYS) : YOU & YOUR BABY The basics for new mothers

of infants 0 to 6 months No childcare provided. 1-3pm. Free, register by Dec 13. Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org JAN 7 : PUPPET-MAKING WORKSHOP

Encourage and support storytelling using puppets. 10:30-11:15am. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca JAN 15 – MAR 31 (TUESDAYS-THURSDAYS) : ORANGEVILLE & DISTRICT MUSIC FESTIVAL REGISTRATION Syllabus &

forms at the church or on website as of January. 10am-4pm. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519941-4334; odmf.ca JAN 19 : DIRT TO DELICIOUS PA DAY PROGRAM Cooking, baking, games,

crafts. 9am-4pm. $40. Palgrave United Community Kitchen, 34 Pine Ave. 905880-0303; palgravekitchen.org JAN 19 : PAMA KIDS’ P.A DAY: INSTRUCTOR-LED DROP-IN FAMILY ACTIVITIES Explore Aboriginal culture

and its connection to the land. 10am-3pm. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-7914055; pama.peelregion.ca JAN 25 : CELEBRATING FAMILY LITERACY DAY: DR. SEUSS-A-THON Thingamajig

activities and whatchamacallit snacks. 1-4pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca

FEB 12 : VALENTINE’S FAMILY FUN NIGHT Crafts, stories, face painting (small

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a Puzzling Conclusion

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Adjusting a Game of Checkers in Marsville

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Mr. Judge’s Word Circle

Marsville’s first postal service opened in the spring of 1873 at McCormack’s store and created a bit of a dilemma for William McCormack, the store owner and new postmaster. He had to make room in his store for the much wanted new service, but in doing so he knew he would disappoint some customers by taking away one of the tables where they played checkers. McCormack’s strategy for appeasing them was to devise a one-person board game that could be played on an upturned nail keg in a tiny space at the back of the store. He resized a checkerboard, painted numbers on nine checkers and set up the game with this opening position.

Despite the fact that teacher, William L. Judge, had to walk some 22 kilometres every Monday morning to get from his home near Caledon East to S.S.#9 Albion in Palgrave, he always had a Monday morning word puzzle on the blackboard before his students arrived for the day. Word Circles were a student favourite and an example follows for you to try. In the small centre circle enter one letter of the alphabet. Add that same letter to each of the three-letter groups in the segments, then rearrange the letters in each segment to make eight everyday, four-letter words.

What idea turned the challenge into a real race?

Has Genevieve Missed the Curfew? On a warm summer night in the early 1880s, Genevieve was walking along Broadway in Orange ville when she suddenly realized it must soon be time to go home. Her parents had given her a strict curfew. “Home before midnight! Not after!” they had said. Genevieve knew it was well after 10 p.m. because that’s when the arcstreetlights on Broadway were turned off and she had watched that happen a while ago. In near panic she turned to the only other person on the street and pleaded, “Sir, can you tell me the time, please?” The man, a retired mathematics teacher, slowly took out his pocket watch. “It’s some where between 11 and midnight,” he said. “In 13 minutes it will be as many minutes before 1 a.m. as it was past 11 p.m. seven minutes ago.” If it takes Genevieve four minutes to get to her home from where she stands on Broadway, will she make it before curfew?

From a Bridge in Creemore

To Inherit the Farm An eccentric Albion Township farmer gives each of his two sons a new saddle horse and tells them to race from Lock ton to Mono Mills. The son whose horse loses will inherit the farm. After riding aimlessly the two suddenly have an idea and gallop madly toward Mono Mills.

by Ken Weber

How the game was played: To win, a player had to remove eight checkers by “jumping” any checker over any immediately adjacent checker to land in an empty square. The jumped checker was then removed (e.g., jump 5 over 6 and remove 6; or jump 5 over 1 and remove 1). Horizontal, vertical and diagonal jumps were all permitted. After eight checkers were gone, the one remaining checker had to be in the centre square.

Two young boys watch a very tiny toad squatting on a flat rock. The rock is a perfect circle with a radius of 80 centimetres and the toad is sitting precisely in the centre. The boys watch the toad make a series of jumps to get to the edge of the rock and are fascinated by the fact that each jump is exactly half as long as the previous one. The first jump, for example, covered 40 centimetres and the second was 20 centimetres. At this rate, how many jumps will it take before the toad reaches the edge of the rock?

Could you have been a winner in Marsville?

Think Out of the Box and in a Hurry Time yourself. How quickly can you offer a correct answer to these simple questions?

If rain falls at midnight tonight, how do you know it will not be sunny in 72 hours?

How many months in our calendar have 30 days?

Confederation conundrum: How many times can you subtract 7 from 1867?

What question cannot be answered “yes” without telling a lie?

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