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I S S U E F E A T U R E S 26 HIVE-MINDED

Bringing honeybees to the people by Tralee Pearce 33 ADVENTURES IN BEEKEEPING

A novice reports by Anthony Jenkins 41 HEADWATERS FARM FRESH 26

A pullout guide to local food producers 42 SATURDAY MORNING

A visit to the farmers’ market by Anthony Jenkins 44 HEY, CISSY

An interview with Olive Pascal by Jeff Rollings 52 FALLING OFF THE GRID 39

A house for living lightly by Don Scallen

78 ONCE A VILL AGE

58 MADE IN THE HILLS

Lost communities by Ken Weber D E P A R T M E N T S

Canada, eh! by Tralee Pearce 66 HISTORIC HILLS

July 1, 1867 by Ken Weber

14 LET TERS

Our readers write

84 GOOD SPORT

Learn-to sport programs by Nicola Ross

19 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Jeff Smith 20 MUST DO

86 HEADWATERS NEST

Our favourite picks for summer

It’s all about the hair by Bethany Lee

23 FENCE POSTS

Science Projects by Dan Needles

88 OVER THE (NEXT) HILL

When a mother dies by Gail Grant

39 COOKING CL ASS

Cured and smoked salmon by Tralee Pearce

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90 AT HOME IN THE HILLS

The livin’ is easy by Pam Purves 106 WHAT’S ON IN THE HILLS

Words to celebrate Canada by 50 local folks

A calendar of summer happenings

62 SUSANNA MOODIE’S LOST DIARIES

118 A PUZZLING CONCLUSION

New fiction from Cecily Ross by Michael Peterman

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O Canada! Canada 150 is a celebration designed to bring the country together, but in the manner of the “big ones,” it is also a time for memories, and those memories highlight one great national divide – between those of us who remember Expo ’67 (even if only there in spirit), and those who don’t. Admittedly the latter comprises 70 per cent of Canadians who were not yet born or still toddlers at the time, including millions of new Canadians who have since swelled the population to nearly 36 million from 20 million (“Maintenant, nous sommes vingt million,” as Bobby Gimby’s Expo jingle put it, an earworm permanently lodged in the brains of a generation) – an 80 per cent increase, even though the birth rate dropped by a third over the same period (to 1.6 births per woman from 2.4 in 1967). It’s all very well to mark the sesquicentennial of Confeder ation, but the new Dominion was still very much harnessed to Britain’s apron strings at the time. So it is perhaps the 50th anniversary of that big birthday bash in Montreal that is more worthy of celebration. With the world invited, it was Canada’s coming of age party, the flowering of its national identity. And a heady time it was for this country – for women (with, among other things, the launch of the Royal Commis sion on the Status of Women), for gay rights (“The government has no place in the bedrooms of the nation,” declared young justice minister Pierre Trudeau, decriminalizing homo sexuality), for biculturalism (the “Bi and Bi” commission was underway, declaring Canada a country of two founding nations and languages, though it did not forestall the FLQ from ignit ing bombs in Montreal). There was music in the street, flowers in our hair, and draft dodgers were pouring over the border. The country has not so much changed since then as mat ured. It’s not all perfect, but multiculturalism has replaced biculturalism, including woefully belated recognition of Indigenous Peoples as the true progenitors of the country centuries before 1867. Women’s equality is largely entrenched and gay marriage well established. Disenchanted Americans are still, or once again, looking to Canada. Peace and love hasn’t entirely worked out yet, but there is still much to be grateful for. I recently asked my 12-year-old granddaughter what makes her most pessimistic about the future. “Trump” was her per haps not surprising reply. Then I asked her what made her most optimistic about the future. “The present,” she said. What is it about the present? “Everything. I think life is great!” As it should be for a typical healthy, happy kid in a generally stable, secure and prosperous country. And that’s plenty of reason for a party.

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Celebrating nature Thank you to Don Scallen for his article on alternatives to grass [“8 Ways to Kick Your Grass Habit” spring ’17]. I cannot tell you how happy I was to read it. It re minded me of growing up in Hungary where I was lucky to learn the love of growing fruits and vegetables from my parents. Like his old Polish neighbour, my parents have always utilized their small piece of land to grow as much food as possible. I live in Mulmur where I am surrounded by acres of manicured lawns, and it is hard to understand this because I see so much land wasted, just like how we waste food we buy in supermarkets. I am thrilled to be able to try growing some vegeta bles, and I am definitely willing to try a few ideas you mentioned to get rid of at least some of the useless grass. It would be great to get in touch with locals who think the same and want to share their experience/views, stories, seeds and produce to share/exchange. Gabor, Mulmur What do you recommend as a replacement for grass to allow children to play – something low growing and maintenance free. Thanks for any advice. Joan Vanduzer, Mulmur Don Scallen replies: In my article, I don’t suggest that we should get rid of grass entirely. It does have its place and one function it serves well is providing space for children to play games. An option for you could be a tough, low-growing drought-resistant lawn that allegedly needs very little maintenance. See the “ecolawn” option offered by a landscaping firm in Meaford called Ecocultures. Another option is a thyme lawn. A friend of mine in Mono has one but she does need to weed grass out of it. And I don’t know how well it would stand up to heavy traffic. Thank you so much to Don Scallen for his continuing articles on our local and nat ural surroundings. I remember wondering so many years ago, after he had covered mammals, birds and fish, what could possibly be left. He continues to show your readers there are no limits to what we can learn about the bounty in our own hills. I read about “Vernal Pools” [spring ’17] while waiting for a doctor’s appointment recently, and looked around the waiting room wishing I could announce proudly to those present that I had worked with Don Scallen. A different audience, sure, but still teaching science. Murray Elliot

Doris Porter’s War Story I have had the pleasure to have known Doris (Evans) Porter since 1958 [“Doris Porter Goes to War” spring ’17]. She is one amazing lady! Always a smile, a happy face and a great story or two to tell. Doris can make the treasurer’s report of the Albion Bolton Historical Society very humorous and entertaining. Wishing her good health, more stories and lots more laughs! Anna Sheardown, Bolton

We welcome your comments! For more commentary from our readers, or to add your own thoughts on any of the stories in this issue, please visit inthehills.ca. You can also send your letters by e-mail to sball@inthehills.ca. Please include your name, address and contact information. In The Hills reserves the right to edit letters for publication.

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Botanical Reflections Thank you for the delightful piece on my Plantswoman, Liz Knowles [“A Botany of Desire” spring ’17], on the moti vation that drives her creativity and on the garden and its history. Editorial, photos and layout are wonderful – all complementary and coherent. Tralee Pearce is a delightful researcher and writes with a f luent mixture of facts and anecdotes, and grasped – somehow – the curious mixture of exploration, work and fun that describes what we do. It makes me see the Virginia Woolf quotation about reading that “one is not tethered to a single mind, but can put on briefly for a few minutes the bodies and minds of others” in a different way, that someone else can describe things that are intimate in one’s own life and reveal them as somehow new and different. So thank you for that and to photographer Rosemary Hasner for her hard work and creative eye. George Knowles, Mono

Warm and Fuzzy Bethany Lee, you read my mind! [“Headwaters Nest: Sav ouring the Simple Things” spring ’17] This year I too have embraced hygge, and not because CityLine told me to! I was so happy to learn that there is a word for what I can finally identify with as “my style.” To me it has meant surrounding myself with natural materials, fibres and foods, not painting the woodwork, walking in the woods, having the neighbours over more often for no-fuss potlucks with wine and kitchen experiments, playing music unplugged, wearing wool and, yes, board games and 1,000-piece puzzles over the holidays. It has also seen us spending more time in a quiet home, in front of the fire, cuddling on the couch, ignoring the news. Hygge is heavenly! Gezelligheid is a new one on me. I’ll have to work on that. And, oh, the wool! I’ve been rediscovering my knitting needles too, as friends have babies all around me. I’m also teaching my girls to knit and we are learning to crochet together. They love it and made a lot of people happy with handmade gifts this Christmas. We have amassed an overly ambitious (okay, slightly embarrassing) collection of yarns. Now I guess we’ll get to work for Hats On Dufferin. Thanks for another beautiful article! Made me feel all warm and fuzzy. Jennifer Payne, Mono

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mustmarvel The Caledon Garden Tour boasts eight stops with inspiration stations that include English country gardens, stone sculptures and walls, fruit trees, herbs and veggies – plus ponds and water features galore. Prepare to be green with envy and come prepped with questions for the hosts and volunteers at each stop. The self-guided tour runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, rain or shine in northwest Caledon. Tickets are at BookLore and Glen Echo Nurseries. www.gardenontario.org/site.php/caledon If you just can’t stop ogling blossoms and greenery, the Primrose Meditative Garden Tour is Sunday, June 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. www.shelburneprimroseunited. weebly.com The Hidden Gems Garden Tour reveals eight gardens on Forest Park Road (in historic midtown Orangeville) on Thursday, July 6, 5 to 9 p.m. Tickets include evening tea. Get them at BookLore, Orangeville Flowers, Dufferin Garden Centre and monthly meetings of the Orangeville & District Horticultural Society. Details at www.orangevillehort.org. Not to be left out, Creemore is abloom with Open Garden in Creemore. There are seven gardens to explore Saturday, July 22 and Sunday, July 23 from 9 to 4, and it’s free to feast your eyes on all of them. Learn more at www.creemoregarden.ca.

mustpartytogether To say there will be lots going on for Canada’s 150 Celebrations come Saturday, July 1st would be an understatement. SuperDogs in Orangeville, pioneers in Erin, bouncy castles in Shelburne, axe throwing at Island Lake, strawberries in Caledon and ball hockey in Creemore are just a few of the events and activities on offer. There will also be photo booths, trains, games – oh, and lots of fireworks, food and fun, of course! Check out our online What’s On listings for these and more birthday celebrations at www.inthehills.ca.

mustgetliterary Books stimulate the mind and feed the soul. Book festivals do all that and more. The 2nd annual Dunedin Literary Festival – dubbed “Words in the Woods” this year – is on Saturday, September 9 and features a workshop and lunch with local farmer, author and jack-of-all-trades Brent Preston, author of The New Farm. Ten years ago Brent and Gillian Flies picked up and left Toronto with their two young children in tow to live and work on a farm just outside Creemore. The New Farm is his honest, passionate and lively account of their change in careers, lifestyle and, most important, way of thinking.

Beloved author Nino Ricci, who penned CanLit classic Lives of the Saints, will be the keynote speaker. Other featured authors include Trevor Cole and Cecily Ross (for an excerpt of her new book The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie, see page 62). For more, go to www.wordsinthewoods.com. For some practical small business marketing talk, check out In The Hills Presents: A Conversation with Terry O’Reilly at Westminster United Church in Orangeville on Monday June 26. The CBC host and author of This I Know: Marketing Lessons From Under the Influence hits the stage at 5 p.m. for a session that will be lively and educational. Come for the marketing “aha!” moments, stay for the book signing and snacks. Tickets are available online at www.inthehills.ca/ITHpresents.

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he topic of science rarely comes up at our dinner table now that my kids have cleared the public school system. There was a time when we talked of nothing else. Our lives were governed by overdue science projects. One time I got a call from the principal of our little rural school asking if I would come and judge the annual science fair. “I’m flattered,” I said. “But I don’t know anything about science. You pointed that out to me just last month.” My daughter had come home furious because I had pasted a picture of a frog on her reptile project and she received a B-minus for her efforts. Mr. M. chided me in the hallway soon after. “This is your fourth reptile project, Dan. Surely by now you know that a frog is an amphibian.” “So do you really want me to judge science pro jects?” I asked. “You’re perfect for the job. You have broad shoul ders. You take abuse well. And you spend a lot of time out of the country. The best part is that you have no conflicts, because none of your kids is any good at science.” And they weren’t. My brother’s kids inherited all the left-brain science genes. It seemed whenever I called the cousins they were out classifying insects or advancing to the provincial solar car finals. If my brother called me, chances are he’d catch my kids in the middle of a whipped cream fight. By that point I’d freighted at least 50 science pro jects to the school: Styrofoam castles, waterwheels, a lie detector set, windup cars, rock collections, a dead ly trebuchet that broke a window, a Greek warship and more. Charlie, the bus driver, wouldn’t allow my

projects on the bus. I assumed this was for safety reasons, but Charlie finally told me it was because I had helped. “Don’t do their homework!” he shouted at me and banged the bus door shut in my face. “Charlie is right,” I said to Mr. M. “Lots of kids do these things by themselves, don’t they?” “I’ve never seen it myself,” he said. “But I’ve only been doing this for 35 years.”

If you’ve ever wondered why they have height, width and weight restrictions on science projects, it’s because of Eddie’s corn dryer. I always liked Mr. M. He loved kids and had a great sense of humour, which is a fatal combination for anyone in education these days. He had a bad habit of bursting into laughter at the wrong moment and it got him banished to places like our little school on the hill in the middle of nowhere. “Anyway,” he said, “you don’t have to worry about actually judging anything. I tell you who wins long before the contest, so you don’t get into trouble.” This was reassuring. Mr. M. was old enough to remember the famous project my wife’s cousin Eddie entered for the 1974 Grey County Science Fair. His father said if they were going to build something it should be useful. So they went out to the shop and welded together a corn dryer about the size of a cruise missile. It weighed a ton and they had to tow it to school behind the 1066 International. If you’ve

ever wondered why they have height, width and weight restrictions on science projects at your school, it’s because of cousin Eddie’s corn dryer. He didn’t win but he inspired new provincewide regu lations for science fairs. And the corn dryer is still in service today. “So what kind of projects do we have this year?” I asked. “There’s a satellite auto-guidance system for a rototiller. The veterinarian’s kid is doing nose swabs on everybody to identify this year’s flu virus. And another kid is building an ethanol plant. I’m not sure if that one’s going to be allowed on school pro perty because it’s basically a corn liquor distillery.” “So which one wins?” “None of those. You can choose among any of the Old Faithfuls – the vinegar and baking soda volcano, the leaf identification chart, or the poster that asks, ‘Which falls faster – the stone or the bag of feathers?’” “But what about the show-offs? Won’t they be up set if they go to all that work and don’t get a prize?” Mr. M. shrugged. “You give them each a big pur ple ribbon with a Special Creativity Award. Then I take a picture of the kid and their project, and we put it up in the hallway for a week. That gives you lots of time to get to the airport.” Mr. M. is long since retired and the little school has been shuttered for nearly a decade, but every time I go by the abandoned building I am gently reminded that a frog is an amphibian. ≈ Author and playwright Dan Needles is the recipient of the Leacock Medal for Humour. He lives on a small farm in Nottawa.

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HIVEHow a forwardthinking apiary in Mulmur is spreading the honeybee buzz, one newbie at a time. BY TRALEE PEARCE

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n a crisp spring morning in Mulmur, beekeepers Jeff Chalmers and Debbie Gray are keen to show off their budding operation, the Heritage Bee Co. On my way up their lane, I passed 10 bright blue, turquoise and lime green wooden beehives. But as the three of us set off from the broad wraparound porch on their Victorianstyle farmhouse, they turn north to a wooded area. Debbie stops and motions to a beecovered hole in a tall white pine and lets out a squeal. “Oh Jeff, look! They’re bringing pollen!” She points out the yellow blobs on the behinds of the wild honeybees disappearing into the tree. “They’re trucking it in!” says Jeff. A spectacle like that might have many of us calling pest control, but for a couple dreaming of creating an apiary on their 31-acre property, it’s a good omen. These wild bees like it here. Today, for the third year in a row, it’s as though nature is giving Jeff and Debbie the thumbs-up for their pluck. The pair – Debbie is all youthful blonde braids and glowing skin, and Jeff, with his grey hair and blue eyes, is a Paul Newman ringer – beam as they share their new life bringing bees to those who want them but who aren’t ready to become full-time beekeepers. Down the slope, those colourful wooden bee condos – they are Lang stroth hives, the choice of most bee keepers – could be artists’ sculptures created to contrast with the brownish 28

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grasses that haven’t yet turned green. In a system akin to communitysupported agriculture, or CSA, these hives “belong” to clients but remain on the Heritage Bee property, where they are managed by Jeff and Debbie. For $420 a season, the client receives about 16 pounds – roughly 20 jars – of honey, delivered in the fall. And there are perks: pollinator-attracting seed bombs for the clients’ gardens and a “VIP” viewing and honey tasting. Alternatively the pair will install hives on clients’ properties if the con ditions are suitable for bees. This “you host” system includes regular visits from Debbie and Jeff to manage the colony, extract the honey and deliver jars of liquid gold. The service, which costs $960 a season, yields about 32 pounds of honey. Yes, that is a lot higher than supermarket prices for an equivalent amount of honey, but Heritage Bee is about a lot more than sweetening your morning toast and tea. “It’s not about the honey for us,” says Jeff. For one, it’s about helping to bolster a battered bee population. A global decline in honeybees has been blamed on culprits including the varroa mite, which has hopped from Asian to North American bees; agri cultural pesticides including neo nicotinoids; and a worldwide loss of foraging territory for bees. As part of their all-natural, beefirst philosophy, Heritage Bee leaves 125 to 150 pounds of honey in each

hive to sustain the bees over the winter – more than conventional or commercial beekeepers would. Many remove all the honey they can, replac ing it with sugar water to keep the bees going when it’s too cold for foraging. If a colony doesn’t produce enough surplus in any given year to meet the client’s contracted number of jars, Debbie and Jeff will provide honey from their Mulmur headquarters – though this has never happened. Every spring Heritage Bee removes whatever surplus is left in the hives to sell in local shops. Last season 50 per cent of all Heritage Bee’s hives pro vided a surplus. “We leave most of the honey in each hive,” says Debbie. “We’ll never be high-volume producers. In our opin ion, this is more sustainable.” Indeed, Heritage Bee eschews many of the hallmarks of modern bee keeping, including treatments with synthetic chemicals, over-harvesting and the supersized bee itself. You’ve heard of heritage seeds and heritage breeds of pigs and cows. This is the bee version. “We regress the bee to the size it was a hundred years ago,” says Debbie. Though conventional beekeeping has capitalized on the ability of the larvae to grow to fit the size of the honeycomb cell their eggs are laid in – bigger bee, more honey, goes the logic – smallcell beekeeping involves returning the honeybee to its natural dimensions by using a 4.9-mm cell rather than a

above left : Beekeeper Debbie Gray removes a hive’s inner cover during an inspection. centre : Debbie and Jeff’s bees filled a narrow gap in a hive with natural honeycomb – in the shape of a heart. right : As part of a private tour of the main apiary, visitors delight in collecting freshly cut honeycomb.

BEE BATHS Bees can’t land on or drink open water. Use rocks or marbles to make landing pads in a bird bath. Heritage Bee rigs up rain barrels to produce continuous drips into bee baths. Chicken watering devices work too.

We can help with dinner tonight standard 5.4-mm cell. This is said to reduce the bees’ susceptibility to dis ease and pests and may lead to better winter survival rates, which has been Heritage Bee’s experience. Overall, the Ontario honeybee pop ulation decline appears to have level led out somewhat, with losses during the winter of 2015–2016 estimated to be 18 per cent, compared to the aver age of 31.5 per cent from 2005 to 2015, reports the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The threat of decline is a major factor in beekeeping’s arrival as the latest DIY homesteading trend. Bee keeping is the new chicken raising. Heritage Bee’s “hightouch” business, as Jeff calls it, has already surpassed its 2017 goals threefold, and the 2018 client list is already filling up. Erin neighbours Catherine Mullen and Sarah Chambers split the cost of sharing the two hives placed on Catherine’s property. While they’re excited about tasting their own honey, they’ve bought into the broader eco logical goal of restoring bee popula tions. Early in the season they were already thinking about how they will enjoy sharing what they learn with their own kids – they have five be tween them. “What a great way to show our kids what we can do for the bees and what bees are capable of,” says Catherine. For Etobicoke couple Ernie and Angela Lynch, who lived in Caledon in the 1970s, hiring Debbie and Jeff

was one of the first decisions they made about their new 40-acre week end property in Mulmur. “It fits well with what we’re doing here,” says Ernie, adding there will never be chemical pesticides or herbicides on the property. “What’s been happening to bees in North America is a big deal. People need to be more conscious of how to help them.” After checking out the wild bees, Debbie and Jeff lead me to the cluster of brightly coloured hives. I can see the one hive that has failed to survive. It’s just a single wooden tower, waiting to be built up again. Each of Jeff and Debbie’s colonies lives in a tower made of separate layers, each holding 10 removable frames that hang like vertical files. The bottom two layers are brood boxes, the “baby nurseries” that are home to the queen and her entourage. Above these boxes is the “honey super,” the frame dedicated to producing the honey for harvesting. The nine other hives are buzzing as bees fly orientation missions in and around the hives. Debbie points out they look a little drunk, flying in circles. They will quickly use colour and pattern to remember which col ony is home, she says. Gingerly lifting the honey super off one hive to look inside for the first time this year, Debbie sees it’s packed with bees building honeycomb on the trays. She calls Jeff over so he doesn’t miss it, “Look at them, Jeff!” The duo

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GLOSSARY apiary / A place where honeybee colonies are located, also known as a bee yard. Broker

crystallized honey / Raw unadulterated honey can readily harden and crystallize. This process is normal and easy to reverse. Just place the jar in a pot of warm water and leave it for a while. drone bees / All male, their sole purpose is to procreate with the “virginal” queen on her mating flight. They make up 10 to 20 per cent of a colony.

mating flight / The flight made by a virgin queen when she mates in the air with several drones in undisturbed areas, usually at a much higher altitude than where most foragers fly. These are known as drone congregation areas, or DCAs.

migratory beekeeping / To facilitate food production and monocrops, honeybee hives are transported throughout North America to pollinate crops such as almonds and blueberries. Because there isn’t enough food throughout the year to sustain local bees for these pollination events, other bees are imported for short periods.

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nectar and pollen / Nectar is a sweet substance some plants produce to attract pollinators, including bees, butterflies and humming birds. Pollen is a fine powder produced by male flowering trees and plants. When pollinators collect nectar, they also transfer pollen from male flowers to female flowers, fertilizing them to produce seed. Honeybees use nectar to make honey. Pollen is the only source of protein, starch, fat, vitamins and minerals in a colony’s diet. By weight, pollen has more protein than beef, according to Kim Flottum, editor of Bee Culture magazine. neonicotinoids / A controversial category of agricultural insecticide believed to be linked to honeybee and bumblebee population decline. The Canadian government is seeking to phase out a number of neonicotinoids, and Ontario has moved to phase out the blanket use of these insecticides on corn and soybean crops.

polyfloral honey / A term that suggests bees had a buffet of wildflowers to choose from instead of being forced to collect pollen from a single flower source to produce a specially flavoured honey, sometimes via migratory beekeeping. Considered a more sustainable way to produce honey. propolis / Sap or resinous material collected by foragers, then mixed with enzymes and used to seal cracks and smooth rough spots in the hive, and to strengthen the wax comb. Also known as bee glue. queen bee / There’s only one per hive. She’s the only fertile female and the mother of all the others, laying up to 3,000 eggs a day over a lifetime of three to five years. If she dies, is killed or is failing, fewer queen pheromones are recognizable to her colony, so the colony will attempt to raise a new queen.

royal jelly / A highly nutritious glandular secretion of young bees, used to feed the queen and young brood.

supersedure / The natural or emergency replacement of an established queen by a daughter in the same hive. swarming / A natural event that occurs when the queen and half the colony leave the parent colony to establish a new colony. You may see them hanging in a tree before they move into a more permanent space.

unpasteurized honey / Honey that is cold-processed and raw, not heated to more than 125°C and filtered. Enzymes and other nutrients that would have been lost in pasteurization remain. (The Canadian Paediatric Society advises parents to avoid giving any form of honey to babies in their first year because of the risk of infant botulism, or food poisoning.)

varroa mite / A parasitic, blood-eating mite that appears in the adult and pupal stages of honeybees. Cited as one of the major threats to honeybees because high mite populations weaken and destroy colonies and can transmit other diseases. worker bees / All infertile females, their gestation is 21 days. They live up to seven weeks during the active foraging season. Winter bees – the workers that keep the hive going over the winter – live much longer: up to six months. Worker bees comprise 80 to 90 per cent of the colony and rotate through jobs, including gathering nectar and water, housekeeping, nursing, cell building and guard duty. 30

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Newly installed colonies sit ready to grow at the main apiary.

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quickly close up the hive, as the bees aren’t happy about being disturbed, even though Debbie has used a smoker to calm them. “Bees have personalities – some are highly defensive, some docile, some are excessive groomers, which is a desirable trait,” she says. As Debbie points out the elements of this hive, she can’t help but share her sense of awe, admitting her new passion requires people to be “geeky enough to dive into research.” The topic is endless. Bees, for in stance, really do make decisions en masse, such as choosing which female egg will become the next queen when the current queen starts to fail, a judgement communicated via mes sage-laden pheromones. Bees also seem to “shop” for particular ingredients their hives need, f lying over some blooms in favour of others if they offer a particular nutrient or benefit. “I’m most blown away by their collective decision making, their dyn amics, communication and their abi lity to coexist collaboratively for the greater good of the whole colony,” says Debbie. “Humans could learn a lot from them.” Along the way Debbie and Jeff are also keen to explain the more mun dane side of apiculture to their clients,

SWEET IDEAS Debbie Gray and Jeff Chalmers’ favourite bee-friendly flora.

dutch clover / A bee-friendly lawn alternative. maples trees / Maple buds provide an early and important food source. dandelions / Another early food source. A reason not to stress about mowing them until they finish blooming.

creeping thyme / A recognized and recommended organic treatment with antimicrobial properties for controlling varroa mites and other pests and diseases in the hive.

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Bees also love anise hyssop, flowering raspberry, wild lilac, lavender, sedum, serviceberry clump (shrub) and New England aster.

keeping them on the right side of the various bodies and laws governing beekeeping. Whether the hive is on their property or yours, Debbie and Jeff handle all the mandatory regis trations, inspections, permits and labelling required by the agriculture ministry under the Ontario Bees Act and other legislation – all designed to ensure the bees are protected from disease and pests and that honey remains uncontaminated. If you own bees, you must register annually with the ministry and place hives at least 30 metres from a property line and at least 10 metres from a highway. Debbie and Jeff also stay on top of disease and pest management, all without using synthetic chemicals, which can be time-consuming. Inside the bright and pristine honey house,

where honey extraction and produc tion take place, are enormous, shiny stainless steel machines. One uncaps the honeycomb to allow the honey to flow. A giant centrifuge extractor (paid for in part by a joint federalprovincial grant through the Grow ing Forward 2 program) separates the honey from the wax. There is also a clarifying tank, where impurities are skimmed off. New this year is a ma chine to make creamed honey. “My favourite!” says Debbie. The summer will be busy. Then in the fall, “you host” clients can end the relationship, and Debbie and Jeff will remove their hives. Or the client can continue, with a reduction in their annual servicing fee, and the pair will prep and insulate the hives for winter.

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RECIPE Debbie and Jeff of Heritage Bee Co. love to eat honey raw, straight off the comb “with a mouthload of beeswax.” Here is another way to indulge.

Deb’s Raw Honey and Apple Cider Vinegar Dressing 2 tbsp or more raw, local unpasteurized honey 1 ⁄ 3 cup organic olive oil ¼ cup organic raw apple cider vinegar 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 1 garlic glove (optional) Squeeze of lemon to taste Salt and pepper to taste Combine all ingredients and whisk or shake in a bottle.

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About 10 to 15 per cent of Heritage Bee’s clients want to step up and become full-fledged beekeepers them selves, and Debbie and Jeff are in the throes of finishing the paperwork that will permit them to meet this demand. “A permit is required to sell used beekeeping equipment in Ontar io,” says Debbie, adding that harmful spores, bacteria and diseases can live for decades on old woodenware and extraction machinery. Somehow, even when they’re dis cussing bee bureaucracy, Debbie and Jeff burst with excitement. One reason may be that their enthusiasm dove tails with their still-fresh romance. They’ve been together five years after bonding over road and mountain biking, music festivals, and 1969 birth dates just weeks apart. Before marry ing – a second marriage for both – they bought a 1976 Volkswagen Westphalia they named Marigold, which they use for travel during the offseason. What sealed the deal, how ever, was that both were yearning to step back from hectic, type-A city life – he in the aerospace industry and she in venture capital sales and market ing – to try their hand at some form of animal husbandry or other rural pursuit. “Working with bees checks so many boxes: working with animals, work

ing outside, and being part of a won derful community of people who are interested in stewardship,” says Debbie. Each had a little history in Mulmur: Debbie had rented a place here, and Jeff ’s great-grandfather ran a shoe store in Shelburne. With five kids aged nine to 18 between them – as well as Marigold, whom they playfully call their sixth – they maintain a house in Toronto too. The kids join them on the farm on weekends and during the summer. Now the new True Grit exhibition at Dufferin County Museum & Ar chives has hailed the duo as commu nity stalwarts in the tradition of the farmers who came before them. And they’ve gravitated to like-minded souls. Debbie and Jeff cofounded an informal natural bee group called Bee Natural Caretakers, believed to be the first synthetic chemical-free beekeeping group in Ontario. Debbie is the current president. Though Debbie and Jeff can’t sin gle-handedly fix the plight of the honeybee, they are throwing every thing at boosting its chances close to home. They like to imagine a robust corridor of bees hugging the length of the Niagara Escarpment. “We hope that in our own little way we’re pio neering a healthier, more sustainable approach to supporting the bees,” says Debbie. ≈

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I’m a voyeur, environmentalist, labourer, nursemaid, murderer, victim and thief. I keep bees. The summer before last, I noticed an announcement for a big bee confab at the University of Guelph called the Eastern Apiculture Society Annual Conference. Public welcome. We have land in Mono and I’m drawn to the unusual like bees to apple blossoms, so I signed up for the one-day intro ductory course. The hands-on com ponent worried me though. The Guelph bee people seemed like you or me – a smattering of nutters, bores and the overly intense, but also plenty of average Joes who outnum bered the average Janes about eight to one. There is a lot of heavy lifting in bees, I’d learn. The morning classroom session was informative – your standard bee makes one-eighth of an ounce of honey in her (the workforce is exclusively fem ale) lifetime and that lifetime is brief. Six weeks. She essentially works her self to death. “Death” was on the ag enda after coffee break. Well, “Open ing a Hive” and “Bee Handling” were on the agenda, but my own horrible death from an orgy of stings was on my mind. Out in the “bee yard” novices were given pith helmets and goofy mesh hoods which we laced up oddly under our arms and around our bodies. They were easy to put on backwards – not that this happened to me – and seemed nowhere near adequate pro tection against the 50,000-plus bees said to lurk in each hive. A complete lack of protective gloves, jacket or pants seemed even more inadequate. I felt my best protection was a good pair of running shoes. continued on next page

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Hives – stacks of pastel-coloured wooden boxes – were broken into and entered. “Slowly” and “calmly” were the instructor’s watchwords and “frames” of honeycomb liberally cov ered in bees were passed around. Gingerly. With index finger and thumb, I gripped the corners of each wooden rectangle. Heavy, seething and initially terrifying rectangles. Bees crawled over my bare hands and arms. They tickled – not that I was laughing. “What happens if I drop this?” I asked the instructor. “Don’t!” was his expert advice.

keepers’ Association. I appealed to the Grand Exalted Drone (or whatever he was called) for an introduction to a beekeeper near my home and was introduced to Wayne Holmes from Primrose. Wayne is my age, has been “in bees” for 40 years and runs 100 hives. He had the laid-back wisdom of Solo mon and the steely patience of Job. I needed the former. He’d need the lat ter. He became my mentor. I was invited to his bee yard where I opened hives, kicked the tires, got familiar. Wayne sussed the entry level I needed. Rather than begin with a

I got the best damn bee suit money could buy. I didn’t want bee-resistant, I wanted bee-proof – triple-layer, ventilated and written “no-sting” guarantees in six languages, including bee. I learned a lot on the course, but the primary lesson was that I wasn’t afraid of bees. Great masses of bees. I could consider this hobby! I was given The Backyard Beekeeper for Christmas and read it avidly over the winter. It was dense with information. I was just dense. There was so much to know. The book advised joining a local beekeepers group. I thus found myself in the rustic boardroom of an Amaranth agricul tural concern attending a monthly meeting of the Dufferin County Bee 34

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small starter set (a “nuc,” for nucleus colony), he suggested I jump into the deep end with a full, thriving colony that I wouldn’t have to nurture and grow. In effect, I wouldn’t be adopting an infant, I’d become Dad to a feisty 27-year-old. Who was I to argue? I bought two “brood boxes” (nur sery chambers where the queen lays eggs and new generations emerge) and several “supers” (honey storage boxes that sit atop the nurseries). The price included all bees in residence – workers, drones and one young and

healthy queen. I installed the hive well away from my home. A Usain Bolt dash-and-a-half away, I estimated. I had a living, working hive on site. I was a beekeeper! I began frequenting bee supply places, becoming fluent in bee jargon. I bought hive tools, a screened bottom board, a queen excluder and other esoteric paraphernalia. I got the best damn bee suit money could buy. I didn’t want bee-resistant, I wanted

a thick, moving carpet of bees, egged on by a roaring buzz from their sisters in the bowels of the hive below. The bees were both curious (some) and angry (many), and began erupting from between the frames. “Smokers” (archaic bellows contrap tions filled with burning tinder) are how beekeepers deal with this. Smoke, puffed across an opening, masks the queen’s alarm pheromones and signals “Fire!” which sends workers scurrying

My bee manual informed me bees rarely follow intruders more than 30 metres from the hive. Most bees had read the manual, but not all. bee-proof – triple-layer, ventilated, with zippers, Velcro and written “nosting” guarantees in six languages, including bee. I slipped on the suit and looked like an idiot. A happy, well-protected idiot. There seems an unfathomable pride among some veteran beekeepers about being lightly protected and not being bothered by stings. At the place I purchased my bee gloves – thick, upto-the-elbow gauntlets – an arrogant expert scoffed. He went about bee keeping bare-handed for the delicacy of feel. Why he’d been stung six times that morning! A man! Well pardon my dainty little pain threshold! I don’t want to get stung. Ever! If dressing like a weak-kneed bee sissy is the price, I’ll pay it. Photos of me in full bee regalia had my grown daughters in stitches. And concerned. They consider me, com pletely without justification, a prat falling klutz and envisioned me rac ing around the yard Benny Hill-like, shrieking and trailing a swarm of angry bees. The first time I opened my hive to check that the queen was healthy and laying and the supers were filling, I was nervous. Very nervous. Hitherto, bees had been theoretical, or I’d had backup. Now I was alone and out numbered 50,000 to one. My beeproof suit was proving bee-proof, but it was hot inside. Very hot. Hives are best opened on warm, sunny days when the bees are content and many are away foraging. On cool, grey or rainy days they are hive-bound and resent visitors. Mid-morning in May, in my sauna of a suit, I wedged a hive tool between supers and pried them apart with a sticky crack. Honey residue and “pro polis” (a brittle glue bees manufac ture to seal cracks and crevices) had welded the layers together. With effort I lifted away the uppermost box. Inside the nine-frame super was

below to eat and save honey. At first I couldn’t keep the smoker lit. Soon, having overcompensated, I was gag ging on dense clouds of acrid smoke – choking, sweating, swearing and grunting as I wrestled with supers heavy with bees, comb and honey. I dropped one. Jarred, the curious bees were now angry and the angry bees were now enraged. I had honey down my suit, a throbbing pain in my foot where the super had landed, and I’d overturned the smoker, threat ening a grass fire. I came to the slow realization that my new hobby was complicated, laborious and danger ous. Welcome to beekeeping! Wayne’s advice had been “Go slow,” and when things go wrong, “Go slower.” Trying to ignore the batta lions of angry bees on and all around me, I methodically checked all the boxes in turn, seeing that the hive was healthy and well-ordered. Blind ed by sweat and unsure, I never could locate the queen (slightly longer and more tapered than her blue-collar sisters), but there were new eggs and larvae in the brood box and honey to feed them was stored in the comb. Barring the odd dropped super, all was well in my bees’ world. The whole debacle had taken 40 minutes. It felt much longer. I made a sweat-drenched, exhausted and relieved retreat. My bee manual in formed me bees rarely follow intru ders more than 30 metres from the hive. Most bees had read the manual, but not all. A few hard cases continued their angry assault on the mesh pro tecting my head and face the full way back to the house. I sat on the deck, an immobile, oneman sauna until they lost interest and left. I then removed the bee suit with nervous deliberation in case sneaks lurked in its folds, savouring revenge. After a sigh, a shower and a beer, it occurred to me that a six-buck super continued on next page

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Cured and Smoked salmon cooking with paul j. dickson of the black wolf smokehouse

rangeville’s Black Wolf Smokehouse is synonymous with Southern barbe cue, with juicy racks of ribs, mounds of pulled pork and brisket giving the menu serious swagger. Thanks to chef Paul J. Dickson, though, lighter fare such as salads and fish have elbowed their way into the party. That many ingredients pass through the tall, stainless steel smoker in the kitchen is a given, since it’s one of Paul’s favourite tools to tinker with. There’s virtually no food Paul won’t give the smoker treatment – mussels smoked in their shells and smoked beets are two recent successes. This is how a 28-year-old chef with ideas to burn likes to spend his time. “I like a bit of a challenge,” he says. “I stick to it and find my own ways of cooking.” Born in Etobicoke and raised mostly in Hockley Valley, Paul says cooking – and his dad’s skill at barbecue – was central to family life. He says he’s found another extended family in the local food

scene, counting fellow chefs and caterers as friends more than competitors. He’s keen to use area sup pliers such as butcher Bernie Jackson and Dave’s Butcher Shop. After the Orangeville Farmers’ Market gears up each spring, he makes time to swing through the stands every Saturday as he plans the day’s menu – and finds more fodder for his smoker. On a recent visit to the Smokehouse kitchen, I find Paul eager to show off what he’s learned about curing and smoking salmon fillets. Put aside what you know about the silky slices you find in the freezer aisle. Paul’s salmon is a different beast, a chunk of fish that flakes as though it’s been cooked, but with a sweet, salty bite. The fillets appear on the menu as an update to a smoked salmon appetizer and topping a meal-sized salad. As we were chatting, three salads with a bright red fillet perched on top were being run out to a table. (For drinks to match, Paul says he’d pair with either an equally bold Caesar or crisp gin and tonic.) After 24 hours in the fridge, the salt and sugar

Chef Paul J. Dickson: “I like a bit of a challenge. I stick to it and find my own ways of cooking.”

cure draws moisture from the fish and forms a gooey glaze. It seems a shame to rinse it off, but rinse you must, then let the now bright red fish air dry before smoking it at 200°F. After it cools, it’s ready to serve. Chef Paul seems to slow down at this stage, bend ing over his creation, moving accoutrements milli metres to the left and right to get the visual balance just so. During his training at Georgian College and the University of Guelph, food styling was a favour ite subject and it shows. As Paul plates one of the freshly smoked pieces of salmon with caper cream cheese, pickled red onions, gherkins and lemon, he works as if creating a miniature sculpture on the plate. “I love cooking and I look at food as art,” he says. recipe on next page

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Cured and Smoked Salmon Serves 4 (can be easily doubled) ingredients 1 cup kosher salt 4 cups light brown sugar 4 salmon fillets (for more fillets, increase the salt and sugar amounts using a 1:4 ratio) 1 part hickory and 4 parts applewood chips

To create the cure, pour the salt and sugar into a mixing bowl and blend with your hands, removing all lumps. Place a thin layer of cure on the bottom of a deep hotel pan or roasting dish.

Place salmon fillets (skin on) on top of cure. Cover in cure. If doing more pieces than shown, stack more fillets on top of this layer. Repeat until all layers are covered in cure.

Cover and place in fridge overnight, ideally for 12 to 24 hours. When completed the cure will have changed into a sticky soy sauce-like consistency and the salmon will be bright red.

Remove, thoroughly wash off the cure and pat dry.

Put uncovered salmon on a wire rack and place in a chilled area for at least four hours until a sticky film forms on the surface of the fish.

Prepare the smoker with wood chips made for smokers, a blend of 1 part hickory to 4 parts applewood. Set smoker to 200°F. Oil a grill rack using a brush or cooking spray. caper cream cheese 4 cups cream cheese 1 cup capers

Place salmon on the oiled grill rack skin side down and put the rack in the smoker. Smoke for approximately 2 to 3 hours. (Time varies depending on size and thickness of fish.) 40

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it’s Saturday morning

... and everyone’s at the farmers’ market – townsfolk, country folk and tattooed teens, toddlers in strollers, the elderly with canes, hipsters, neighbours, shih tzus and schnauzers, the chic, the casual and the “wouldn’t-miss-a week” regulars. They come rain or shine, May through October, for strawberry-rhubarb pie, fresh pork chops, 10-for-a-10spot pepperettes, mushrooms, sunflower bouquets, butter tarts, pumpkin-raisin loaves, kale, carrots and golden, red and candy-cane beets, homemade soups and handmade soaps, knitwear and jewellery. And they come to mingle with friends and neighbours. Sometimes the market gets them young. Colourful fluttering signs on one stall announce, “Kids’ Market” and “Awesome Stuff!” The awesomeness includes self-published books (“I did it with my grandma”), handmade dolls (“I googled how, then I practised”), painted sticks (“Wands!”) and homemade dog treats. Susan and Ron Des Cotes from Mono are among the regulars – along with their shelties Katy and Charlee. “I love a local market,” Susan says. “What other place brings people together that doesn’t involve politics or sports or competition? It makes it a community.” Outdoors on summer Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Orangeville Farmers’ Market is the community. TEX T AND ILLUSTR ATIONS BY ANTHONY JENKINS

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 Teenager Kiana Martin and her even younger sister Destiny and cousin Jessica sell sunflowers. Lots of sunflowers. They wear their hair plaited and long Mennonite dresses, and they look far too sweet and youthful to run a flower stall. But they do – with charming maturity and courtesy.

Moving around was difficult last summer for Dan and Leslie Gerard of Orangeville, but that didn’t stop them from shopping for spicy sausage, fresh pies – and maybe some wine. “We come for the fresh produce and the friendly vendors,” Leslie said. Dan and Leslie have been market patrons for two decades, and they’re back this year feeling a little more sprightly – with a new hip and a new knee respectively. 

 John Green is the soundtrack of Orangeville’s market. To buy local zucchini outdoors without his floating renditions of Cat Stevens, Dylan or CSNY would be unthinkable. He plays guitar and sings indefatigably from his 500-tune, mostly ’60s and ’70s songbook, and takes requests. (Most requested? Gordon Lightfoot. The kids like Johnny Cash.) In his 60s, John’s voice remains strong, but his calloused fingertips are as hard as acorns.

 Pillitteri Estates Winery from Niagara-on-the Lake is represented with ultra-hirsute charm by Palgrave’s Ethan Lavereau. He also works the markets in Shelburne and Caledon, but Orangeville is the big one – sales of perhaps 40 bottles on a Saturday. But his main intent is promotion – distinguishing the brand from the plethora at the LCBO. When we spoke, a woman from the adjoining stall thoughtfully handed Ethan a bowl of homemade minestrone soup. Breakfast. “She makes a wonderful soup,” he said, touched.

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hey, cissy “Your kids are already transgender, and they don’t know what that means, and they’re scared, and they need help.” BY JEFF ROLLINGS

live Pascal is an Orangeville kid who made good in the Big Smoke. The 31-year-old has a cool career as an animator for television, and a nice little house with her 90-year-old Italian grandmother next door. She has a packed social calendar, and recent ly travelled to Calgary with her boyfriend to attend a wedding. In her off-hours she indulges a passion for role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. She’s a confident, well-spoken person who leads with her heart and her humour. Somewhere the Mary Tyler Moore theme song plays over her credits. Olive also happens to be a transgender woman. According to a widely accepted 2016 U.S. estimate, 0.6 per cent of the adult population identify as trans gender – which works out to about 600 people in the

jeff rollings : Thank you for doing this. Was it a difficult choice?

olive pascal : A little. Only because some people in the trans community see media coverage as just cis people saying, “We’re so cool with trans people.” But it does help, I think.

jr : What does the word discrimination mean to you? op : That’s hard for me, because I haven’t really experienced it. Of course, a lot of trans people have. But I’ve never felt discriminated against for being trans, or being a woman. Discrimination to me means being made to feel like there’s something wrong with you because of what someone else believes. Sometimes it feels like you’re against the entire world, even though that’s usually not the case. It’s just a few loud people. Another reason I don’t notice discrimination a lot is because I’m oblivious. When I’m with friends who do notice it, I’ll think, “Really?” When it comes to just living, like going to a store, or getting a job, I haven’t had a problem. Yet. I’ve only been going full time as a woman for just over a year, so there’s plenty of time for that to happen. There’s some wisdom I like to live my life by – always assume someone is stupid rather than evil. They aren’t doing it on purpose. They’re doing it because they’re misinformed. There are going to be

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combined 2011 population of Caledon, Dufferin and Erin. The actual number may be lower, as transgender adults tend to migrate to large urban centres. But transgender people are born here and spend their childhoods here at the same rate as everywhere else. One of Olive’s favourite episodes of the sitcom South Park cleverly coined the term Cissy. It refers to cisgender people – that is, people who identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. So the more of a he-man or she-woman you are, the bigger a cissy you become. I sat down with Olive to talk about some of the emotional and personal issues that have come along with having a transgender identity. Hers is but one perspective in the very diverse trans community. She is thoughtful, open, funny and brave. And her key mes sage is one of hope: “It can go absolutely right too.”

a few evil people out there that just want to see other people in misery, but that’s rarely the case. The way Hollywood is portraying trans people more often is good, but they aren’t to the point where it’s normal. They are getting better though, and a lot of people get their education from movies and TV. Society in general is also becoming more comfortable with it, and that group of loud people is shrinking. At least it is in Toronto.

jr : What made you realize this was something you wanted for yourself? op : Looking back on it, it was really obvious. I’ve always been a woman. Even when I was five years old, I was friends with the girls. Eventually people at school started making fun of me for that, so I shut that part of me down, found some guy friends, and hung out with them all the way through high school. When puberty hit I started cross dressing, behind the scenes. I’d get home first and have the house to myself, and I’d wear Mom’s clothes. I was so scared of that side of me, and of anyone finding out, that I told myself it was a phase. But whenever Mom threw out clothes I’d steal them from the garbage and hide them for me to use. Eventually I’d get so scared that I would throw them away, and think, “Never again.” That happened five or six times. Then three months later I’d be doing it again.

jr : Is it fair to say it’s not something you realized, it’s just something you are? op : Exactly. It’s been at the core of my being since the start of everything. About six years ago I felt like I needed to do something to make sure. I got more informed on the Internet about what being trans means, and what I was going through. I went to a store called Take a Walk on the Wild Side, where they’ll gussy you all up. Then I went out in public and saw a movie. That’s when I knew this was something I need to do. I was so much happier, and so much more confident. It was like, this is the real me. I read an article where some transphobic person said, “Oh, your kids are only trans because it’s in right now,” and I thought, “Whoa, no one would willingly do this! Do you know how hard this is?” jr : Have you lost friendships? Are your high school friends still your high school friends? op : They are. I’m a big nerd. All my friends are nerds. Nerds know what it’s like to experience discrimination. We were all made fun of in high school. But there’s one good thing about bullying. When you’ve been bullied, you’ve got so much understanding and empathy that it’s really hard for you to be a jerk later in life.

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jr : What was coming out like? op : The first person I ever told was my mom. We got really close after I finished high school. We were on our way to Manitoulin Island. Halfway there I took a deep breath and said, “Mom, I want to have a sex change.” I know now that’s a bad term, but at the time I didn’t understand what being trans meant. Mom caught me dressing up two or three times, so she kind of already knew. She just didn’t know how far it went. We kept chatting the whole trip. While we were at the cottage, Mom saw that a women’s clothing store she likes was having a sale. I said, “Can I come?” We ended up spending the whole day shopping together. That was what sealed it for her. She said, “Olive never wanted to go shopping before.” I said, “No, we’ve just been shopping for the wrong stuff.” So I told my mom, and that was a great experience. I told my brother and sister next, and that didn’t go as well. They saw me as their nerdy brot her and my old image was so cemented into them they couldn’t believe it at first. Then I slowly told my friends. Every single friend’s reaction was, “Oh, okay. Let’s just continue on with what we were talking about before.” It was so normal; they didn’t even bat an eye. I don’t want to downplay it as though they weren’t supportive – my friends are all amazing. And I had been going a bit more androgynous with my clothing, so a lot of them saw it coming. The last person I told was my dad. I had already started on hormone replacement therapy at that point. He was really cool about it too. He said, “Oh, I thought something was up. You have painted nails.” He impressed me a lot. No one close to him was trans, so it wasn’t a world he was familiar with. The media had taught me that people were going to react badly, but in reality people don’t care. If they love you, they want to be supportive about it, and if they don’t, they react with, “Whatever. Go away. Why are you telling me this?”

jr : We’ve talked about some of the things that have gone right for you. What are some things that have gone wrong?

Olive Pascal: “There’s some wisdom I like to live my life by – always assume someone is stupid rather than evil. They aren’t doing it on purpose. They’re doing it because they’re misinformed.”

op : I needed information earlier. Education about transgender people is not going to trick your kids into becoming trans. Your kids are already trans gender, and they don’t know what that means, and they’re scared, and they need help. They need infor continued mation. It helps everyone.

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The other thing that was hard for me was finding a doctor. Eventually I found one who is part of a team that works with LGBT people. She knows about balancing hormones and all that stuff. I’d be curious to know what would happen if I went to the hospital in Orangeville.

jr : What interesting things have you noticed as a result of having lived in two different genders? op : Men’s clothes suck, jeans specific ally. Men, try women’s jeans. They’re way more comfortable – you don’t know what you’re missing. The fabric they use for men’s jeans is crap. Seriously, though? Both genders pee on the toilet seat. I don’t know how women do it, but they pull it off.

jr : I thought you might have noticed something about male privilege.

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op : I haven’t noticed that. There hasn’t been a drop in how much I get paid. In my last two jobs I was fully transitioned, and interviewed for the job as a woman. In fact, I got paid more for those jobs than when I was male. I have more experience now. jr : Sounds like moving away from Headwaters was not connected to being trans. op : Not at all. I’ve been back many times and everyone has been great. Again though, Miss Oblivious here. Maybe people are snickering behind my back, but I’m kind of okay with

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that. Don’t do it to my face. I think there are three factors when it comes to trans people leaving Headwaters. When you realize you’re trans, the first thing is to get a support group. Trans people in smaller com munities feel the people around them either can’t or won’t support them. The second thing is you need a doctor. If there were a doctor in Headwaters who said, “Hey, me. I can help trans people,” I bet they’d get a huge influx of patients. And the third thing is when a lot of trans people transition, they hide away somewhere. There’s a metamorphosis into a new person. Then they appear in a new commu nity, under a different name, and they cut all ties to their previous lives.

jr : Is there more acceptance in the city than the country? Does it matter? op : You find all types everywhere. Take that cottage trip where I went to the women’s store. The ladies that work there – this is Manitoulin Island, 30 years behind the times – were cool with it. They didn’t say, “Why are you going into that change room with those clothes?” It was the most freeing experience. I was dressed as a guy when I went in there. The only time I’ve been insulted for being trans was by a homeless guy who walked by me here in the city. He was set in the mindset of the 1970 s where you yell at transgender people. That was very early in my transition process and it made me feel terrible. Again, overall I’ve been so lucky. I know a lot of people who haven’t, and I wish I could help.

see your child be happy Emilia Perri is Olive Pascal’s mother. The owner of Maggiolly’s Art Supplies in Orangeville raised all three of her children here in the hills. From the outset Emilia embraced her transgender child. “People should only not be accepted if they’re spewing hatred,” she says. “But they should never not be accepted for their sexual orientation or their gender expression.” There were early clues about Olive’s gender identity (she was called Oliver then), but Emilia says, “I never really made anything out of it. I thought it was a phase. That’s what Olive thought too. That it was all going to be over some day, and she wouldn’t feel like that anymore.” Then six years ago the two went on vacation to Manitoulin Island. Olive revealed the full extent of her transgender experience in the car on the way there. “She came out to me on the way up, and I was, ‘Well, okay.’” While at the cottage, the two went to a women’s dress shop that was having a sale. After some awkward moments, Olive had made her selections and was ready for the cashier. When she tried to give her debit card to her mother to go pay, Emilia said, “No, no, no. You’re going to go up to the counter and you’re going to pay. You’re going to do the whole thing here. This is the way it’s going to be for you.” Emilia’s open, supportive approach has continued ever since. “They’re going through so much already,” she says. “To have a parent say, ‘That’s fine. I’m still going to love you, you don’t have to worry about that. I’m going to be with you

jr : Do you mean people living in bad circumstances now, or people who have traumatic experiences in their past? op : Both. One of my best friends is trans, and she comes from a religious family. She can’t turn to them for help. She’s afraid of them, of what they’ll do to her, and she doesn’t have any contact with them. How could you do that to your own kid, regardless of their gender? It’s awful. jr : What about life now? Being trans is only one part of your identity. op : I work my 40 hours a week. I ani mate TV shows. I worked on Ever After High for two years. That’s where I started transitioning. I began hormone therapy and had to tell my boss, “By the way, I’ll be growing boobs soon.” In my off-time I’m into role-playing games. Dungeons & Dragons helped me to come to terms with my gender identity. Dealing with imaginary characters in different situations as a woman really helped me prepare. I’ve never played a male character since. I played a male character in real life for 25 years. I’m not doing that anymore. I would suggest cisgender people try playing a game like that as the opposite gender, or even as a trans person. You can learn a lot from that kind of thing.

jr : Has transition worked out like you thought it would? Do you have any regrets? op : I regret not having started soon er. Friends who knew me both before

and after will say I was a completely different person before. If someone insulted me, my reaction would be to either get really snippy, or really with drawn. Now it’s, “Whatever, I don’t care what you think.” I’m way more confident in myself and my abilities, and I’m more productive. I’m just happier. I was miserable before. Pretending you’re something you’re not is never good. If you’re a cis person who thinks that trans people are somehow faking it, try dressing up as your opposite gender for a day and go out in public. See how scary it is. People don’t do this for fun.

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jr : What are you proudest of? op : I’m proud I transitioned. I’m proud of the life I’ve made. I hope that sharing my story might empower other people who are still on the fence because they’ve heard nothing but bad stories. It can go absolutely right too.

jr : What can cisgender people do to support trans people in a meaningful way? op : We need to be teaching about transgender people in high school health classes. It’s important stuff that a larger population than you think needs to hear. Gender is a spec trum. Everyone is different and needs different information. And don’t turn your back on family members who come out.

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on this every step of the way.’ You know how much that means to them?” By contrast, she adds, “For them to walk around and feel, ‘I hate myself,’ and then to have a parent say, ‘I hate you because you’re not being a proper person,’ it’s easy to see how they start to think, ‘What’s the point of my life? My parents hate me. My brother and sister hate me. Everyone hates me. And I hate myself on top of it. So why go on?’” Indeed, the statistics back her up. An estimated 41 per cent of the trans gender population has attempted suicide, compared with 1.6 per cent of the general population. Recent research indicates familial support is a key factor in prevention. “That’s really sad because it’s so unnecessary,” Emilia says. “Just by giving people support and love, all those people could still be with us.” Emilia has a good friend who also has a transgender child, and she says that support has been invaluable, adding, “It might be helpful to start a parent group in the area for people whose children are going through this kind of thing.” She also has a word or two of advice for those parents: “Don’t take it lightly. Kids would never make that up. This is really happening. Your child is not the gender they were born in. And it’s a great and beautiful and wonderful thing that they discovered it, and that they’re going to talk to you about it and express themselves in this way. “You’re going to be able to see your child be happy. It’s so important. Olive is happy. Every time we get together, we laugh and laugh and laugh.”

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jr : There’s a statistic that 41 per cent of transgender people have attempted suicide, compared with 1.6 per cent of the general population. And research shows family support is key to prevention.

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op : I had one day where that seemed like the answer. So I walked up to the edge, and I walked away. I didn’t stare down there very long, but I know a lot of people who have. People who have tried to jump over that edge multiple times, in fact. I still get my bad days. They come less often now. Body dys morphic disorder is a big thing. You just feel like you’ll never be able to live a normal life because you’re a puzzle piece that doesn’t belong. One thing cis people sometimes do that gets me is say, “Well, I don’t understand trans people, but I sup port them.” You understand. You know what it feels like to be human. We’re not a different species. You know what it feels like to not belong somewhere, or to be judged. It’s easy to understand trans people.

jr : You seem so strong. Does anything still scare you? op : Last night I had a genuine fear about getting beat up. I was on my way home, and there’s a bar next to the bus stop. It had a lot of middleaged guys, they’d been drinking, and they were out on the sidewalk smok ing. It seemed like they could be a problem, and I had to weave through them. I know a few people who were attacked just for walking by a bar. I had another recent scary event that I’m proud of. My friend got married in Calgary, so I f lew there, met a whole bunch of people, went to church for the ceremony, went to the reception after, and I was totally ter rified. But it all went really well. I have a long-distance boyfriend, Jonathan. That’s another big fear for me right now, meeting his family. They think I’m a cisgender woman. They’ve seen pictures, but they’ve never heard my voice. He lives in the state of Georgia in a tiny little community. I might send a copy of this article to his parents before I meet them. ≈

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his past winter, Mary and Brad Kruger paid $21 for electricity – and their total energy bill amounted to less than $200. The average yearly energy cost of running an Ontario home is $2,358, so you might be forgiven for thinking the Krugers must lead lives of privation, huddling in the cold and reading by candlelight. Not so. The Krugers’ 2,100 -square-foot house in East Garafraxa isn’t a monument to stoic privation. It’s a shining example of how people can live comfort ably on a small fraction of the energy used to heat and power a typical house. Brad isn’t an engineer or architect, but he has created a house that seamlessly combines innovative, energy-efficient design with the resourceful use of alternative energy sources. Brad’s off-the-grid trajectory began 40 years ago after he finished high school and left home. He even tually earned a pilot’s licence and worked as an aerial surveyor in the United States, conducting forest inventories and mineral explorations. The company paid for his accommodation during the eight to 10 months a year he was working. During the off-season, Brad, a disciple of David Chilton of Wealthy Barber fame, sought ways to save money. He opted for a nomadic lifestyle, wandering Mexico and the southern U.S. during the winter. Living out of his car and later a van, he slept under the stars at camp grounds and along roadsides. This was off-grid living, but in the rough. A formative step in his budding awareness of alter native energy was the installation of solar panels on top of his van to power an auxiliary battery, giving him light to read by and electricity to run a little fridge. And then in 1995, Brad met Mary. A young profes sional who worked in downtown Toronto, Mary was given to wearing high heels and fancy business garb. Yet to the horror of her parents, she moved into Brad’s van, reducing her worldly possessions to the contents of a single dresser drawer. It must have been true love. Mary was soon working for the same flight survey company as Brad and learned to operate the camera in the belly of the plane. She also adapted to Brad’s mini malist lifestyle. “We lived with nature,” she says. “Brad showed me that observing the natural world, just outside the van door, was better than watching TV.”

The couple settled into an annual routine. They’d work from January to May, summer in Canada, then travel in the American southwest in November and December. While they worked the Krugers stayed in hotels. Early on they lived in the van for the rest of the year, but soon began to long for a place to call home when they weren’t working or wandering. And so in 1996 they purchased 95 acres in East Garafraxa. They parked a school bus on the property, and it became their summer home for nearly 14 years. It was while they were living in the bus that Brad and Mary’s dream of building an off-grid home took shape. In contrast to the van, the bus was luxurious. “It was a palace. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven!” says Mary. “We had a 10-foot counter, a TV, running water from a tank on the roof, a little pot-bellied stove and a proper outdoor toilet.” The installation of a captain’s bed provided welcome storage space. Living in the bus gave impetus to Brad’s creativity. “We up graded from Canadian Tire shower bags to a shower that Brad fashioned out of a pesticide sprayer,” says Mary, quickly adding it was a new sprayer, never used for its intended purpose. They even had a landline hooked up, though not without incident. A groundhog nibbling the wire triggered a 911 call, summoning police in the wee hours one night. Bleary-eyed, with toques pulled down tight over their ears (it was a cold night), the Krugers leaped out of bed. The bemused officers left with a good story, and the Krugers became known as “the bus people.” Still, as the years passed, Mary began to yearn for a real house. Brad responded by building a shop on the property and tinkering with off-grid concepts. He doodled, experimented and read copies of Home Power Magazine, a publication dedicated to promoting the use of renewable energy. He was also guided by Canadian Wood-Frame House Construction, a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation publication that provides practical information for home builders. In 2008 the foundation went in, and Brad and Mary’s great off-grid project was launched. However, because work still took them to the U.S. continued on next page

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March, the outdoor temperature was only 6°C at 4 p.m. Inside it was 25°C , and the woodstove hadn’t been re plenished since 7:30 that morning. Crucial components of the Krugers’ passive energy strategy are shutters Brad designed, built and hung. Filled with insulation, the shutters are the gatekeepers of the passive energy flow between the exterior and interior of the house. On cool days they are manually raised in the morning to allow the sun to stream in. Then, as the sun begins to set, Brad drops them one by one to trap captured heat. On sunny summer days, when the challenge is to keep heat out, the shut ters remain closed. Mary acknowl edges the obvious drawback – sealing off the view of the outdoors. But she emphasizes that on those days she and Brad spend much of their time outside anyway, gardening or simply relaxing. The closed shutters do such an impressive job of keeping the interior cool that visitors sometimes put on sweaters and slippers. Sun and wind supply nearly all the electricity needed to power the home’s LED lights and energy-efficient appli ances. Most of the power comes from a small solar array in the yard that can be pivoted manually to face the sun. The solar panels alone cost $2,000, and the battery and associated elec trical paraphernalia pushed the total to five grand. Wind is a secondary source of elec tricity. With typical Kruger can-do attitude, Brad and Mary installed two small wind generators themselves. A 12-volt lead-acid battery stores the

The Krugers own most of the appliances found in a conventional home though all are the most energy efficient available and some they only use on sunny days. Brad designed the insulated window coverings that preserve the heat in winter and keep the house cool in summer.

electricity generated by the solar and wind units. “The battery is like the third person in our relationship,” says Brad. “We really baby it.” Indeed, the Krugers’ lives revolve around the battery’s charge. On cloudy, still days when the battery isn’t fully charged, the Krugers adjust. Their “sunny day” (i.e., non-essential) app liances aren’t turned on. “The sunny-

quickly outdoors, or indoors on rainy or cold days. The appliances they do own are all energy efficient. Their 12-volt refrig erator uses only a fraction of the pow er of a standard refrigerator. Their microwave is the most energy efficient on the market. They watch a 32-inch TV instead of a huge screen and use laptop instead of desktop computers. Their household use of fossil fuels, beyond a small amount of gasoline for the generator, is limited to propane for their stove. At their current rates of use, the propane, stored in a 500gallon tank, should last about 14 years. Energy efficiency has a behaviour al component as well. In winter the Krugers precool food and drink pur chases in a breezeway before refrig erating them. Their freezer sits in “the tower,” an unheated structure next to the house, where the freezer doesn’t need to work as hard to keep things cool. The four-level tower satisfies sever al important needs. The ground floor

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“Once our battery is full and we still have sun, it’s all free at that point and we go crazy with it… We crank the stereo full blast, we microwave, we vacuum and charge whatever needs charging.” day kettle isn’t used and we sweep instead of vacuum,” says Mary. On the day I dropped by, the couple were excited about their new crockpot. It too will be a “sunny day” appliance. When the sun does shine, it ener gizes both the battery and the Krugers. “Once our battery is full and we still have sun, it’s all free at that point and we go crazy with it,” says Brad. “We crank the stereo full blast, we micro wave, we vacuum and we charge what ever needs charging. I’ve been known to rush home when the sun comes out if there’s stuff I want to get done.” The Krugers own most of the ap pliances found in a typical home. The only major appliances they do with out are a dishwasher and a clothes dryer. Washing dishes by hand is hardly privation, and laundry dries

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the house for himself. He arrived the next day with a team of inspectors. Brad quaked. “I was pretty scared at that point,” he says. “I thought, ‘I’m in big trouble.’” With decades of experience, Giles had never seen a house like the Kru gers’. He talked to Brad and Mary at length and asked Brad for document ation explaining some of the materi als and technologies. Giles had few guidelines on how to assess such an unusual house. He left. The Krugers waited and worried. A week later Giles returned – carry ing a certificate of approval. Brad and Mary’s dream had been legitimized. Brad had thought one of the poten

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Throughout construction, the house was subject to all the building inspec tions required by Dufferin County. Brad has high praise for the county inspectors. “They treated me like their disadvantaged cousin, took me under their wing, made sure I did everything right. They could see I was trying really hard,” he says. Still, he worried about whether the county would grant the final occupancy permit. As the house neared completion last year, Pedro Cruz, a county build ing inspector, paid a visit. Well ac quainted with building codes by then, Brad knew that Cruz was likely to have problems with several things. Resigned to his fate, Brad listed them and Cruz confirmed his fears, res ponding, “Yes, it’s going to fail.” Still, Cruz was impressed by Brad’s innovations and described them to Mike Giles, the county’s chief build ing official. Giles responded with predictable skepticism and decided he had to see

tial stumbling blocks to approval would be the absence of a flush toilet. “We thought we’d have a huge uphill battle trying to explain our toilet to the building inspectors, but we were pleasantly surprised.” The Krugers originally bought a composting toilet, but when it failed to perform as well as they had hoped, or as well as advertised, it inspired Brad’s next design project. The result ing privy, a composting toilet that Mary has playfully dubbed “Brad’s Pit,” may be the crowning glory of his ingenuity. Brad’s design keeps urine and solid matter separate. Solid matter is swept into a ventilated wall with a built-in heat exchanger, which keeps the waste from freezing in the winter. A fan, working steadily, directs air and odours upward and out a vent on the roof. By the time the process finishes and the waste is collected, the couple have perfect compost for their flower gardens.

For some of their friends and rela tives, dedicated flushers, Brad’s Pit is too far beyond the pale, and they refuse to use it. Children, though, delight in the novelty, making a bee line for it when they come to visit. Showering at the Krugers’ demon strates the philosophy embedded in so much of the house: conservation, yes, but not at the expense of comfort. Brad’s shower melds water conser vation with hedonistic indulgence. “Five gallons of water is all you have,” says Brad. “That focuses attention on getting wet and getting the job done.” The water is heated by the wood stove in winter and passively in the summer as it circulates through pipes on the roof. The hedonistic aspect is a “steamer” that Brad incorporated into the design. Once the insulated shower doors are closed, it’s like a sauna. “You get warm to the bone really fast,” he says.“A great way to chase the winter blues.” But for all their common off-grid goals, Brad and Mary have had dif ferent motivations. For Mary, the committed environmentalist, it’s all about learning how to live with less. Appalled by the waste generated by a consumer society, she has long prac tised the three Rs: reduce, reuse, re cycle. “We have to find a different path for our children, our grand children, for the planet,” she says. Water is precious to Mary. For her, the home’s various water conservation features are triumphant components of the overall design. Brad concedes that his reasons for building the home were not as social ly responsible. In Wealthy Barber fashion, he has long looked for ways to minimize his living costs. “For me, it has always been about money. Attempting to motivate people from an environmentalist angle, you’re likely to fail, but when you talk dollars and cents, everybody listens.” Still, their views converge agreeably. Reducing consumption to save money also reduces environmental impact.

An old school bus was the Krugers’ summer home for 14 years – an experience that inspired their more ambitious experiment in off-grid living.

So what does Brad, a man driven by a frugal heart and an inventor’s mind, do next? He may consider selling a version of Brad’s Pit. And his passion to create may find traction in the tiny home movement, a growing pheno menon promoting the construction of livable homes ranging from a mere 100 to 400 square feet. Brad would like to build a tiny off-grid prototype. “I can take this house and shrink it to 300 square feet and make those 300 square feet spectacular, visually and living-wise.” Tiny homes with atti tude for singles and couples. More expansively, he casts his vision north to remote Indigenous commu nities where fuel and electricity costs are sky high, and ponders how his proven off-grid building techniques could help. As for Mary, she’s glad to have a home that deeply satisfies her desire to live simply and with less. “A lot of people tell me this isn’t the real world,” she says. She looks at these people quizzically, living as they often do in oversized homes, burdened by big mortgages, big utility bills and costly demands – in time and money – for cleaning and maintenance. To such doubters, Mary responds, “This is the real world.” The couple’s home enables her and Brad to live well with less and in sync with the rhythms of the sun and the seasons. That $21 electricity expenditure? It was the cost of gasoline to run the generator that charged the Krugers’ household battery on the rare winter days when solar and wind power weren’t up to the task. ≈

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This summer’s sesquicentennial celebration has struck a patriotic chord for creative types in Headwaters. From books to art and locally made flags, here are just a few ways to toast Canada in our neck of the woods.

carry on Artist Andrea Elmhirst calls felt “the oldest fabric in the world,” and explores many ways of creating the fuzzy fibre. This bag is created by first crocheting the pattern, then shrinking it. With its supple yet sturdy leather strap, the tote will likely last years beyond the 150th. Andrea sells her work online and at the annual Holiday Treasures show at the Dufferin County Museum & Archives. ($150, Andrea Elmhirst)

backyard bliss If your outdoor furniture needs a little freshening up, this 17-inch-square, washable Canada 150 pillow by Kennedy’s Flags should do the trick. As you might expect, these flag folks are busy making Canadian and Canada 150 flags and other souvenirs. Visit their retail location at the Village Green Florist in Erin. ($20, Kennedy’s Flags/ Village Green Florist)

flag waving As easy party favours for your July 1st barbecue, these 6-by-10-inch flags are made in Erin by Kennedy’s Flags. Look for the same size with the Canada 150 logo. (Canadian, $2.50; Canada 150, $7.50, Kennedy’s Flags)

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book smarts Caledon authors have been busy creating literary tributes to Canada’s big day with a trio of history-rich reads for kids. Dale O’Hara’s The Story of Caledon Then and Now is a quick jaunt through the history of the town, starting with the Mississaugas of the Credit through to modern day, along with sweet watercolour illustrations. A project of Caledon Heritage Foundation, it will be given to all Grade 3 students in Peel. You can buy it at Forster’s Book Garden, BookLore and Dufferin County Museum & Archives. ($5 donation, Heritage Caledon)

Canada A to Z by Caledon artist Virginia May and her granddaughters Norah and Shiloh Newton is a quirky reference guide, with poetry and archival photos. ($20, BookLore) Carolyn j. Morris’s Happy Birthday Canada follows a chick and a duck – lovingly illustrated by Richard McNaughton – on a crosscountry train journey from the Maritimes to the Rockies and through the three northern territories. ($12.95, BookLore)

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a folksy note For some grown-up nostalgia, Caledon singer-songwriter Max Layton’s newest folk album True The North is packed with Canadiana. Released to mark the country’s 150th, songs are inspired by artist Tom Thomson’s life and disappearance, the way English and Quebecois French can blend into love-song slang, and the British conquest of Louisbourg. ($10, Max Layton)

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maple leaf forever With its raw edges and soft focus, this 24-by-30-inch, framed felted flag by Andrea Elmhirst goes way beyond patriotism and into folk art territory. ($299, framed, Andrea Elmhirst) S O U R C E S Andrea Elmhirst, Tottenham. www.andreaelmhirst.com, Andrea Elmhirst, Fiber Artist on Facebook BookLore, 121 First St, Orangeville. 519-942-3830. www.booklore.ca Dufferin County Museum & Archives, H wy 89 and Airport Rd, Mulmur. 1-877-941-7787. www.dufferinmuseum.com Forster’s Book Garden, 266 Queen St S, Bolton 905-951-1501. www.forstersbookgarden.ca Kennedy’s Flags/Village Green Florist, 120 Main St, Erin. 519-833-9991. www.kennedysflags.com Sweet Treats by Natalie, Bolton. 905-857-8259. www.weettreatsbynatalie.ca Max Layton, www.maxlayton.com. Max Music on Facebook

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We asked 50 local folks to take a selfie and add three words to a sentence about why they care about Canada. Writer Anthony Jenkins crisscrossed the hills to do the job. He asked each person to add their words to those spoken before them, providing a link to those that followed. The result is an impromptu 150-word celebratory narrative along with a mosaic of snapshots that says “Canada” – who we are and how we feel about our nation on the sesquicentennial of Confederation.

Dustin Damery, Orangeville

Manav Puree, Shelburne

Jim McIntyre, Bolton

Edward Kim, Mono Mills

Sheree Brown, Mono

“Canada’s number one! Our cultural vastness … sea to sea … coast to coast … our freedom will

Shawn Alter, Hillsburgh

Roxanne Hostrawser, Marsville

Kieran Rogers, Orangeville

Taryn Braiden, Grand Valley

Carol Gilladers, Orangeville

inspire us all. Celebration of 150th … is a wonderful … time to party! Multiculturalism is key.

Amanda Doyle, Alton

Randy Stewart, Brisbane

Kathy Clifford, Erin

Larissa Sharko, Caledon Village

Dan Callaghan, Hillsburgh

Canada is welcoming … its beautiful landscapes … mountains and lakes … serious outdoor fun … free for everyone.

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Dawne Apple, Shelburne

Jason Perkins, Alton

Lien Nguyen, Erin

Dhiren Patel, Erin

Tyler Ironmonger, Erin

Great place to … live with family … and explore nature … walking, motorcycling, barbecuing. The best country

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Jason Reiner, Rosemont

Ted Tokarchuk, Orangeville

Pam Samra, Primrose

Gary Magder, Hockley

Sophie Seo, Palgrave

Robert Bertone, Bolton

Domenico Zagol, Bolton

Nada Pileggi, Bolton

Julie Dunn, Caledon East

A.J. White, Caledon East

Ann Dunbar, Caledon East

Judith Lott, Inglewood

Maddie Gibson, Cheltenham

Britney Fozo, Belfountain

Joe Farrugia, Caledon Village

Molly McRae, Caledon Village

Bounma Sengchanh, Caledon

Lucci Larocca, Laurel

Dave Ryzebol, Waldemar

Andy Ilch, Grand Valley

Heather Blahut, Mono

Dorothy Tovey, Violet Hill

Yong Sun Park, Mansfield

Grace Gallimore, Terra Nova

Anna Muth, Terra Nova

Scot Robinson, Honeywood

Esther Latter, Reddickville

Ruth McCauley, Horning’s Mills

Bashir Ahmmed, Masonville

Diane Worobek, Shelburne

to meet people … from Masonville area … from Horning’s Mills … and calm Reddickville. Happy birthday, Canada!

I feel privileged … to live here … live free forever … in environmental harmony … with warm inclusiveness.

No place better … than our home … because it’s free … for Buddhist belief … love of nature

for riding motorcycles … for horseback riding … for having fun … because it’s heaven! We are Canadians;

our favourite place … because we are … a great community … for making friends … and being diverse

which provides well-being … for our celebration … of the joy … in our hearts. Happy damn birthday!”

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WildernesS Author Cecily Ross channels the conflicted spirit of a literary pioneer. BY MICHAEL PETERMAN

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ith The Lost Dairies of Susanna Moodie, Creemore author imaginative. Indeed, the creative path was trod even before Atwood’s Cecily Ross adds a new perspective to the imaginative poems. Robertson Davies wrote a play involving both Moodie and responses to Canada’s most famous literary pioneer. By Traill. Entitled At My Heart’s Core (1950), it was set in Peterborough. Notably, Davies disliked Moodie and made her a rather disagreeable birth Susanna was a Strickland from Suffolk, England. She character in his drama. Few since have been as negative about her. was the youngest of six sisters, five of whom were writers, as was her Today Susanna Moodie continues to fascinate readers and creative younger brother Sam. In 1832 she reluctantly immigrated to Canada with her husband John Dunbar Moodie and endured seven harrow writers alike. She has proved to be both a treasure trove and a foremother for numerous Canadian writers. I count ing years with her growing family in among them Carol Shields (Small Cere the bush north of what is now Lake monies, 1976), Julie Johnston (Susanna’s field, Ontario. Quill, 2004), Timothy Findley (Head Moodie struggled and she endured, hunter, 1993) and filmmaker Patrick but she pined for the world she had lost. Crowe who, with Carol Shields, wrote Finally, in 1852 she wrote very person ally about her experiences, entitling her the script for a graphic novel version of autobiographical sketches Roughing It Roughing it in the Bush (2016). in the Bush. Until her death in 1885 Ross’s Lost Diaries adds impressively she considered herself “a [Canadian] to that roster. I found it a compelling daughter by adoption.” read. In it the Susanna Moodie I have I encountered Susanna Moodie when come to know and admire is presented I was assigned to teach Roughing It in with sympathy, feeling and, though the Bush at Trent University in 1972. I fictionalized, close attention to histor was relatively new to teaching Cana ical accuracy. dian Literature and was learning about The author’s uncanny ability to it as quickly as I could. I did know channel Moodie comes in part from “the bush” in question was just north her own life experience. Like her sub of Peterborough and that Margaret ject, she is an experienced writer and Atwood had written a book of poems editor, including contributions to this called The Journals of Susanna Moodie magazine. And she likewise comes in 1970. I found Atwood’s interpretation from a writerly family (including her stimulating and disturbing, magnify sister, In The Hills columnist Nicola ing Moodie in vivid and startling Ross). She even has a cheerful, scien ways, but depriving her of her personal tifically-inclined sister named Kate. voice and her sense of humour. But Ross’s inspiration runs deeper Flash forward to 1978. As a project than that. As a young mother, she lived for my first sabbatical, I began to ex immediately across from the Moodies’ first homestead in the countryside near plore what was reliable and worth Port Hope. She and her two daughters knowing in the welter of early histori explored the site with imaginations set cal and critical accounts of the writings afire by their reading of Moodie’s tales of Moodie and her sister Catharine of hardship and perseverance. Indeed, Parr Traill (Kate to her family). The one could argue that as a novelist, Ross latter’s book, The Backwoods of Canada (1836), was almost as well-known as her succeeds in dramatizing her story Author Cecily Ross offers a fresh, accessible and at times wrenchingly sister’s, and some critics viewed it as more effectively than Moodie herself emotional version of Canadian literary icon Susanne Moodie. more admirable. was able to do in her famous book – I soon became absorbed in the re writing as she was primarily for a staid search and, with colleagues from two other universities, began a search Victorian readership back home in England. that led to collections of the sisters’ letters, scholarly editions of their There is no extant evidence that Moodie kept her own diary, but we books, critical essays and biographies. One of my delights was to do know her sister Catharine Parr Traill did. So the probability of “lost provide information to Charlotte Gray as she researched her double diaries” does exist. Following that lead, Ross escapes the genteel writing biography Sisters in the Wilderness (1999). traps that constrained Moodie. The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie There are two paths that can be followed regarding the Strickland offers a fresh, accessible and at times wrenchingly emotional version of sisters. Mine is academic, historical and critical. The other is creative and Canada’s best known pioneer writer and literary icon.

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f e brua ry 17, 1 83 4 (w e s t o v e , l a k e k a t c h e wa n o o k a) It is two weeks since I was reunited with my dear sister and long-lost brother, and sitting here now in front of the Traills’ wood stove while the winter winds buffet their modest log home, I already feel transformed in some unknowable way – no longer Susanna of the Suffolk heath and broads, but a changeling I am only barely coming to know. The circum stance of my rebirth comes to me as if in a dream: Our journey north from Hamilton Township. The sledge poised on the crest of a fallen tree, the horses struggling to haul it down the other side, the driver calling out, urging them on, his whip cracking, and then slowly, slowly, the whole conveyance teetering and finally crash ing onto its side, our worldly goods spilling out, pots and blankets, axes, barrels, tools, the paraphernalia of a settler’s existence. And then the box of china – the blue-and-gold Coalport tea set Mama gave me – tumbling through the air, emblems from an other life, smashing into a thousand pieces against the immoveable frozen shield. I fell down weeping, ridiculous with exhaustion and rigid with cold after an eleven-hour bone-shattering

journey from Hamilton Township (our drivers having decided to push through and make the two-day trip to Douro in just one day). Shards of porcelain glinting in the moonlight – remnants of my old life. To think I carried that tea set across the vast ocean and over mud roads and forest tracks, that I stored the cups and saucers with such tender ness at the bottom of the flour bin all through our first winter huddled together in a lowly cattle shed. On the worst days, when the wind coming through the walls was like knives, and the sour smell of tallow and woodsmoke turned my stomach, and I thought I would give my first-born for a cup of real coffee, in tears, I would take the box out, dust off the gold crest embossed on its mahogany surface and press the cool, civilized sheen of a cup or a saucer to my rough, wet cheeks and think of Reydon Hall, of the lilacs in bloom, of the carpet of rosemary spreading between the flag stones in the back garden, of Sarah playing Mozart on the pianoforte. Foolish, foolish woman. continued on next page

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On my hands and knees in the snow, I began frantically gathering up the bits of crockery, making little piles, fitting this splinter onto that fragment like pieces in an unsolvable puzzle. But everything was destroyed, all except the sugar bowl’s delicate lid with its gold-leaf handle, which I slip ped into my pocket, a grim reminder. Moodie pulled me to my feet. “Praise God, no one is hurt and the horses have been spared. Leave the china, Susanna. It doesn’t matter.” He help ed me back to the other sledge, where the babies slept on in blissful oblivion. And I knew he was right. None of it mattered. The past. England. The woman I used to be. We were within sight of Sam’s house when the carnage occurred. And the only thing that kept me from coming completely apart was the figure of my brother emerging from the shadows like a knight errant. I didn’t realize who he was at first and watched, numb and emptied out, as this bearded, barrelchested man clad in a great fur coat took charge of the situation, calming the horses and directing Moodie and the drivers in their so-far-fruitless efforts to right the overturned sledge. But when I heard his voice, resonant with the scenes of my childhood, though deeper now and suffused with self-assurance, I knew it was him, and the broken china was forgotten. I climbed down onto the moonlit snow and went to greet him, weak with joy at the sight of my own flesh and blood at last. But Sam, dear no-nonsense Sam, with a brusqueness that makes me gasp to think of it now, merely took me by the shoulders and ordered me back into the sledge. “We’re not there yet,” he announc ed. “You’ll be staying at Westove. Kate and Mr. Traill are expecting you.” “But Sam,” I protested, as horrified that he had barely acknowledged me as I was that our ordeal was not yet over. “Sam, it’s me, Susie.” He paused and flashed me a broad grin, aware perhaps that he should make more of our long-anticipated reunion. “Sister. You look well,” he said. His smile faded imperceptibly. “Different. But good. Good.” And

then he was off, grabbing one of the horses by its bridle and heading into the trees. A man of action, not words. I had forgotten. In the end, it was only ten minutes more until I was transported into the consoling circle of my dear sister’s arms. I can barely recall it, but Moodie tells me I half swooned and had to be

Moodie pulled me to my feet. “Praise God, no one is hurt and the horses have been spared. Leave the china, Susanna. It doesn’t matter.” He helped me back to the other sledge, where the babies slept on in blissful oblivion. And I knew he was right. None of it mattered. The past. England. The woman I used to be. almost carried into the smoky comfort of Kate’s little home, into the halo of her embrace. After an orgy of greetings and tears, once our wet clothing had been removed and our stomachs filled with a sweet and spicy stew – “Veni son,” said my sister, “from my Indian friends, and juniper berries” – we lapsed into a formidable silence. Too much has happened. Too much to say. Her little son, James, awakened by the invasion of noisy visitors, sat on his father’s lap and regarded us with solemn curiosity. Addie, almost the same age as her cousin, brazenly reflected his gaze from the safety of Moodie’s arms. Kate, who has not seen her namesake since she was a

tiny baby, turned her full attention on my shy two-year-old, coaxing her onto her lap with promises of songs and stories. Sam left the cabin, re turning with an armful of wood for the blazing hearth. My little brother Sam. Who is this sturdy pioneer? What do you say after so long? But Kate, my sister Kate, is hardly changed – thinner, and if anything prettier, but still Kate. And as I watched her putting out bowls and pouring hot coffee, laughing like the young girl she once was, her cheeks red from the warmth in the room, the incredible swirling warmth, then all the months and miles, all the oceans and rivers and lakes that have been between us, melted away. We were together again. I pulled my sister’s shawl closer. It smelled of chamomile and wood smoke. While the men stood by the fire and talked of land prices and the weather, and Kate amused her niece, I looked around the cabin, at the walls hung with maps and hunting prints, at the green-and-white curtains cov ering the tiny windows, a rug woven in zigzags of colour covering the rough planks of the floor, tidy rows of jars and tins lining the pantry shelves, bouquets of dried weeds and flowers strung from the rafters, baskets dec orated with dyed quills and coloured beads, a row of moccasins by the door, a quilt, both simple and intricate, draped over the back of a pine settee. I surveyed all this and considered Kate, so competent, so resilient, whereas I ... The room seemed to wobble and then fade, and then come into focus again. And for the next hour, Kate and Sam and I revelled in our memories, in the shared language of our child hood, finishing one another’s senten ces, speaking in a code that must have bewildered Moodie and Mr. Traill, who listened in amused silence and then finally took the children to their beds, leaving my sister, my brother and me to our talk and laughter until I thought I might pass out from happiness. ≈ Cecily Ross will be a guest author at Words in the Woods, the Dunedin Literary Festival, on September 9. For details, see Must Do, page 20.

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Conservation or Commenting Authorities have a direct impact and ‘say’ on how most property owners actually own their property. If you live in Caledon, Erin, Dufferin, Mono and beyond, there is a great likelihood that your property is subject to regulations imposed by a Conservation Authority. Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) is predominant in Erin; Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), the Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC) and the Oak Ridges Moraine Plan are predominant in Caledon; Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) and NEC are predominant in Dufferin and Mono; Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) is predominant in Grand Valley, Fergus, Elora and area. The Greenbelt Act of 2005 also further inf luences conservation matters in Ontario. Regarding Conservation Authorities, there are 36 Conservation Authorities, in Ontario, that are constituted as a Non-Profit Organization, Conservation Ontario, which is governed by its own Board of Directors. Conservation Ontario, as taken from its website, describes itself as a: “… network of 36 Conservation Authorities, local watershed management agencies that deliver services and programs that protect and manage water and other natural resources in partnership with government, landowners and other organizations. Conservation Authorities promote an integrated watershed approach balancing human, environmental and economic needs …” So, you want to buy a house; or dig a pond; or build a garage or barn…how do Conservation Authorities (also known as commenting authorities) affect what you want to do? If the property you’re considering buying is ‘perfect’ except you want to add a three car garage, you need to be aware that the building permit for your garage will be subject to approval by both the municipality and the Conservation Authority, if Conservation Authority is applicable. According to the Ontario Government guide for private landowners, mineral exploration activity is increasingly taking place in rural and urban areas of Ontario. This has resulted in the potential for more prospecting and staking on land with privately owned surface rights. Land rights in Ontario include surface rights, mining rights, timber rights, sand and gravel rights to name just a few. The Ontario’s Mineral exploration community states, “in some instances the mining rights are held by the Province (the Crown). Although you may own the surface rights, the mining rights on your property may be open for claim staking by prospectors, by virtue of the Ontario Mining Act.” Property owners may verify their specific rights by performing a title search at the local land registry office. Always consult with your lawyer to inquire about specific rights when purchasing land as a title search can be complicated.

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hen the Speaker gavelled in the second order of business in the British House of Commons on March 29, 1867, every seat was filled. Not a single Member of Parliament failed to appreciate the vital import ance of the issue on the table: a tax on dogs. Yet only two hours earlier, party whips had to search hallways, coffee shops and hotel lobbies for enough MPs to finish up the first matter of that day: passing the British North America Act to create the Dominion of Canada. The honourable members, it seems, had their priorities. An ocean away in Canada West, the Orangeville Sun seemed to reflect the same mood, for its report that the BNA Act had passed got far less prominence than advertisements proclaiming the benefits of Dr. Bird’s Pulmonic Syrup (for coughs, colds, asthma and con sumption) or the announcement that Drs. Trotter and Graham would be available to attend to the dental needs of Erin residents on the first and second Tuesdays of each month. That was in March. However, by the first of July – Queen Victoria picked the official date – the idea of Confed 66

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eration or at least the idea of a party to celebrate it, had gained momentum in these hills. Posters announcing a celebration in the village of Orange ville, for example, spread throughout the area. At least one found its way to Hockley and enticed a good number of citizens to make the trek. Another made it to Buckstown – still two years away from becoming part of Palgrave – where innkeeper Bucky Dolan of the Crossroads Tavern displayed it for his customers. There is no confirmation that a poster graced the walls of William Jelly’s tavern, the heart and soul of Jelly’s Town (Shelburne), but since the official name of this drinking emporium was the British-Canadian Hotel, it’s reasonable to assume that the first Dominion Day was honoured there with a raised glass or two.

Too tired for a party? Farther south in the brand new County of Peel the idea of celebrating Dominion Day had a harder time attracting official interest. In 1867 Peel was exhausted after years of fierce political debate. In 1856 the decision had been made to separate from the

County of York, but it was followed by a prolonged squabble over which community would be the county seat. Just ten days before Canada’s official beginning, the Brampton Times was pretty much ignoring Dominion Day, preferring to offer news of a bar brawl in Streetsville and an account of the funeral of David Livingston of “Dr. Livingston, I presume?” fame. Closer to July 1, the Times featured a story of how a live frog was removed from the stomach of a woman in Terre Haute, Indiana, and devoted a mere inch and a half of column to harrumph that whereas “we are glad to note that committees [elsewhere] are making arrangements for the pro per celebration of Confederation Day, as yet [in Brampton] we hear of noth ing being done.” As it turned out, the big day was rather quiet in Brampton. But quite likely some of its citizens – those who didn’t opt for Toronto via the Grand Trunk Railway – chose to travel north to mark the occasion, a reasonably easy undertaking for there were two stage lines connecting to Orangeville. Even better, in 1867 the two lines were hotly engaged in a price war.

Orangeville whoops it up! Those who made the trip to Orange ville disembarked in sunny but some what muggy weather and joined a crowd the Sun said was “determined to celebrate with loyal hearts and joyous demonstrations.” There was a good mood here. The Orangeville Infantry Company, for the moment content to forget about Fenian invasions and imagined threats from predominantly Catholic Adjala Township, began the festivities with a display of “military motions” before marching to Broadway where they tested eardrums by firing an enthu siastic feu de joie. They were then congratulated by their commander who chose the oc casion to announce they would soon be issued new, improved rifles. Prob ably a good thing too, for in the target-shooting competition that fol lowed – invitations had been issued to the Whittingdon, Mono Mills and Alton companies – they were handily outshot by the boys from Mono Mills.

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How the birth of the Dominion was celebrated in the hills.

In Alexandra Park, Orangeville celebrated Dominion Day c.1890 with a picnic. Over the years following 1867, Orangeville developed a well-deserved reputation for offering Dominion Day festivities that ranked among the best in the province.

“O Mesopelagia! We stand on guard for thee!” Once the Fathers of Confederation agreed there was going to be a country, they gave brief consideration to a new name for it. The suggestions brought forward included Albionoria, Borealia, Ursalia, Mesopelagia and other polysyllabic mouthfuls. Popular legend has it that when none of these offerings attracted support, Samuel Tilley, a daily reader of the Bible (and a Father from New Brunswick who was really not all that keen about Confederation), proposed sticking with “Canada” and adding “‘Dominion” as in Psalm 72:8 (“His Dominion shall be also from sea to sea”). So Dominion of Canada it became. Although the British readily substituted “Dominion” for “colony,” the Canadian government began phasing out the term as early as World War II. Nevertheless, July 1 officially remained “Dominion Day” in Canada until October 1982 when Parliament declared it “Canada Day.”

Cricket and soccer games occupied the rest of the morning with the after noon being taken up by foot races, hurdle jumping, sack and wheelbar row races (participants were blind folded), as well as other amusements the Sun reservedly pronounced “more or less entertaining.”

Everybody loves a picnic Picnics dotted these hills on that very special July 1st for they were an enter tainment even the smallest commu nities could organize with relative ease. People celebrated in Hillsburgh, in Belfountain and Paisley (Caledon East). There were picnics in Rosemont and Joice’s Corners (officially Luther and later Grand Valley), even in Sal monville (Terra Cotta) where salmon were once reputed to be so thick in the Credit River they could be scoop ed out with your hands. Naturally, large centres could offer more sophisticated entertainment. Toronto and Guelph had elaborate celebrations complete with parades and fireworks. Toronto’s parade even boasted a regiment of Hussars that in the previous decade had been part of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade. But getting to these cities from the hills was expensive and time-consuming. In 1867 between Hillsburgh and Guelph, for example, there were five toll gates on the road and fully 16 hotels and taverns to

refresh – not to mention delay – the weary traveller. Local picnics were thus the dom inant theme of the day. In Bolton Village, Division No. 211 of the Sons of Temperance served tea, though patrons seeking a more aggressive libation in that community of a few hundred souls had five licensed hotels to choose from. How extensively these latter establishments were frequented on our first Dominion Day is open to speculation, but given their ratio by population (Orangeville’s 600 peo ple were served by 13 hotels; tiny Charleston, later Caledon Village, had three; Shelburne offered five), it seems they must have been popular. Indeed in Orangeville, the Sun ob served that by the end of the day, the streets of the village “presented a very animated appearance.”

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Still, we didn’t overdo it Nevertheless the Sun also went on to report that as darkness fell on that first Dominion Day, the stalwart pio neers of these hills chose the path of responsibility, as “men and women who had dallied with time suddenly thought of their homes, and all kinds of vehicles from the heavy lumber wagon to the easy, graceful carriage were called into requisition to bear them thither. The tumults of the day settled into a calm eve.” It was all very Canadian. ≈

This column by Ken Weber first appeared in the summer 1996 issue of In The Hills and was his first contribution to the magazine. In the 20-some years since, Ken has written more than 80 “Historic Hills” columns for the magazine (along with his regular last page “Puzzling Conclusion”). This fall, a selection of those columns will be published in his new book, Ken Weber’s Historic Hills. An official book launch will take place on October 15 at 2 p.m. at Dufferin County Museum & Archives. Earlier in the fall, Ken will bring together his enthusiasm for history and puzzles when he emcees a Canadian Beer & Trivia night at the museum on the evening of Saturday, September 23. For details and tickets ($20), see www.dufferinmuseum.com.

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Time Travelling on foot Stroll through the past on these heritage walking tours. BY NICOLA ROSS

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he ability to step out and enjoy nature is one of the compelling reasons people choose to live in these hills. We’re lucky that hiking trails aplenty crisscross our fields and forests, and that hiking guides line many of our bookshelves (I’ve written a few myself). But this year, the 150 th anniversary of Confederation, may be the time to switch up where you walk for health and pleasure, to think about alternating wooded pathways with the sidewalks of our towns and villages. And to soak up some fascinating local history while you’re at it. If you’ve vacationed in other cities, you may well have taken a walking tour. Most large centres offer them. In England, for example, London Walks employs 70 guides who lead as many as 22 different tours in a single day. And GPSMYCITY has made a business of its app for self-guided walks in hun dreds of cities around the world, including 24 in Canada. In other words, self-guided walking tours,

like their guided counterparts, are big business in the tourism world. But now you don’t have to travel to discover history on foot. Some inspired local historians have taken it upon themselves to show off our bit of southern Ontario. Dufferin County offers three different selfguided walking tours in Orangeville, and another in Shelburne. Folks in Grand Valley are thinking about creating one. In Caledon, Bolton boasts three different tours, and there are tours of Inglewood, Cheltenham, Caledon East, Caledon Village and Terra Cotta. A tour of Alton is nearly ready to go, and one of Belfountain is in progress. Next door to Caledon, both the villages of Erin and Hillsburgh also have walking tours. And to the north Creemore offers a heritage tour of its charming streets. Though I can’t prove it, this region may take the prize for the most self-guided heritage walking tours per capita in the country. So far I have walked three of them. Here are my reviews.

orangeville ~ rich in stories Created by Heritage Orangeville, the town’s three tours can be downloaded to your smartphone, but I suggest picking up the full-colour, 66-page booklet available at Orangeville Tourism. It’s a good size, the type is large, and it’s printed on heavy stock so pages don’t blow in the wind. Moreover, the spiral binding lets the pages lie flat. The designers of this

booklet knew what they were doing. Each walk is calculated to last about 30 minutes, though it took me the better part of an hour despite the bitterly cold, overcast weather. This says a lot for the tour and in no way suggests the organizers mistimed the route. continued on next page

far left from top : The Italianate façade of the Jackson Block at 148 Broadway, the Victorian Gothic style with Queen Anne touches of a house on Zina Street, and the Romanesque window of a York Street house reflect Orangeville’s eclectic architectural heritage. near left : The soaring spire of Westminster United Church draws the eye toward the heavens. above : The stone steer heads on the window lintels of the town hall on Broadway are a reminder of the building’s early days as a farmers’ market. IN THE HILL S SUMMER 2017

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clockwise from top : Orangeville’s Broadway was a bustling thoroughfare in the early 1900s – and the town’s architecture reflects the exuberant optimism of the pre-war era. Queen Anne influences on Zina Street row houses are a testament to craftsmanship and detail, while Beaux-Arts Classicism marks the façade of the Orangeville Public Library. The Orangeville Dairy and Dairy Bar on First Street was originally built in Art Moderne style shown here – some vestiges remain in the now much altered building. The Classic Revival style of the Dufferin County Court House was designed to impress the citizenry with the authority of the judiciary.

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The initiative to develop these routes was part of Orangeville’s sesquicen tennial in 2013. Incorporated in 1863 as a village, Orangeville officially came into being just before Confederation. This fact is part of the historical overview that sets the stage for the tours. I read it before setting off and am glad I did. I chose the Booming Broadway Tour rather than the Foun ders Tour and the Prosperous Years Tour. Starting at the Town Hall Opera House, the tour took me down and then back up Orangeville’s wide main

drag. As I learned from the booklet, Broadway is indeed a “broad way” – one-and-a-half times the width of a typical street. I’m a map person, so I found the one at the back of the booklet really helpful. But even for those not so inclined, the tour is easy to follow and the length of the write-up for each building was about right for a cold April day. Had it been a sunny June afternoon, though, I might have been happy to have a bit more information than was provided. As a bonus, for those who don’t know a dormer from a lintel, or a cupola

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from a quoin, the booklet contains a glossary of architectural terms. The booklet’s authors refer to a variety of building styles ranging from Gothic Revival to Italianate to Romanesque, and they too are defined. The information I found most memorable were the little observa tions, the quirky details that made me believe I’ve come to know Orangeville like a local – maybe even better than a local. In any case, I now have some intriguing tidbits with which to impress visiting friends. It will be fun to point out the steer heads that adorn

the lintels on the old market wing of the town hall and to explain that the library was originally funded by the Carnegie Foundation. I also loved the historic photos in cluded for comparison with how the buildings look today. Most drastic is what has become of the Orangeville Dairy and Dairy Bar at 5 First Street, now the home of Liberty Tax Service. As the booklet says, this building is (was) a “rare example of Art Moderne.” The historic photo made me want to buy it and return it to its original glory. continued on next page

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inglewood ~ caledon ’s prettiest village The Inglewood tour is one in a series of historic walking tours Heritage Caledon initiated to celebrate the town’s 40th anniversary in 2016. You can download all the Caledon tours to your smartphone if you prefer, but you’ll need your reading glasses. The Inglewood tour brochure in cludes a short write-up for about 25 different stops, most of them houses. Though not as highly produced as Orangeville’s booklet, it also provides an overview of the village’s history 72

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and some definitions of architectural terms. As I followed the route with the spring sun warming my back, I was struck by how beautiful Inglewood is. If you don’t live in this village of about 1,000 residents, a small percentage of whom live in the historic centre, or even if you do, you may seldom if ever have travelled its backstreets. Lorne and McKenzie streets are lined with simple, lovely Ontario homes with tidy gardens and trim lawns. As

the overview explains, many of the houses in Inglewood were built from local lumber planed nearby at the William Thompson Planing Mill, as wood was more economical than brick. The wood homes are lovely, but the scarcity of brick houses led me to conclude Inglewood must have been a working-class village in its early years. Six of the Lorne Street houses high lighted on the tour share a local des ign. “These cottages,” says the guide, “usually featured a front verandah, a

centre door symmetrically flanked by windows and a steep roof line with a front gable surrounding a Gothic or arched window.” Once you read the description, those features, especially the Gothic (pointed on top) or arched windows, begin to jump out at you. I began spotting similar designs throughout Caledon and beyond. These simple features were a verna cular style widely known as Rural Gothic or Carpenter’s Gothic. The tour also made me aware of

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clockwise from facing top left : A former tailor’s cottage on McLaughlin Road, Inglewood’s main street. The houses at 57, 62 and 50 Lorne Street share 19th-century vernacular features known as Rural Gothic or Carpenter’s Gothic, including a steep centre gable, a veranda stretching the width of the house, and symmetrical windows and entry door. Pictured here in the early 1950s, Inglewood’s main street retains its charm to this day and offers a tantalizing hint of what awaits on its lovely backstreets. Decorative spool work trims the veranda of a former general store.

how self-sufficient the village had once been. In the late 1800s, it boasted “several general stores, a blacksmith, a livery and wagon maker’s shop, a butcher shop, a bakery, a general hardware and tinsmith business, a barber shop, glove factory, post office, library, and a branch office of the Northern Crown Bank.”

As you wander along Inglewood’s wide, well-treed streets, the guide will tell you which building housed what business and which pioneer operated it. All in all, it was an intriguing insight into what I believe is Caledon’s prettiest village. continued on next page

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From there I walked west to the Sta tion Street bridge. (A question: Why can’t bridges today be built with even a smidgeon of the character of these century-old relics?) This brought me to what turned out to be my favourite part of the route. It’s here on this backstreet that Hills burgh’s history comes to life. Who knew there was a local connection to Gooderham & Worts, whose wonder ful 19th-century distilling complex in Toronto has been transformed into the historic Distillery District? The company, once the largest distiller in Canada, bought land here in the late 1800s and built a dam, gristmill, saw mill and cooperage. So for a time, at least some of Gooderham & Worts’ whisky barrels were manufactured in Hillsburgh.

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Millponds f lank both sides of Station Street. The upper millpond to the north is enormous. It was alive with ducks, geese and other waterfowl when I was there late last fall. I follow ed a short section of the Elora Catar act Trailway (part of the Great Trail, formerly the Trans Canada Trail). The trailway follows the line laid down more than a hundred years ago by the Credit Valley Railway Company. Hillsburgh is known for its potatoes and many a spud made its way to consumers via these railway tracks.

Before it was removed, Hillsburgh’s train station was located in this area, and I wondered if one of the nearby brick homes might have housed the stationmaster. The most impressive brick house on this great backstreet is at number 9. Built in 1892 this gracious building was once a home complete with a bandshell, wharf and cider press. Today it’s being converted into what will be one of the most beautiful and well-situated rural lib raries in the country. continued on next page

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If it’s true brick houses were more expensive to build than wooden ones, then Hillsburgh was clearly a wealthy town in its day. The main street is lined on both sides with red brick churches, homes and commercial buildings. And if a single structure can provide proof of a town’s pros perous past, then the Exchange Hotel, located across from present-day Foodland, does that for Hillsburgh. A large inn, it had a livery stable that was reached through the archway. For years, the Caledon Mountain Trout Club was headquartered in the hotel. The club used Hillsburgh’s ponds to raise trout to stock its own ponds. Renovated in 2012, the old hotel now has commercial and residential space.

he joy of these walking tours is the way they connect us so physically with our history. While most of us walk with our eyes focused straight ahead, the tours en courage us to look around and up, and to see details. They persuade us off the main drag to explore the back streets in the same way hiking gets us off the highway and into the forests and meadows. I grew up in Belfoun tain, and until relatively recently I didn’t even know Inglewood and Cheltenham had backstreets! These

walks help us get up close and per sonal with our towns and villages. In doing so they deepen our bonds with the place we call home. ≈

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The 19th century saw tiny villages spring up all over these hills, bearing sturdy names like Lockton and Elder, unusual names like Biggles and Shrigley, and pretty names like Camilla and Silver Creek. They faded away, but left a legacy that helped create the hills we know today.

n some cases the memory of those early villages – hamlets really – is reinforced by a building that still stands, a one-room school, for example, more often a church. In Silver Creek, on Kennedy Road north of The Grange Sideroad in Caledon, red brick St. Cornelius, built in 1886, rises proudly against the horizon. The United Church (originally Presbyterian) in Camilla, an 1880 structure, also still stands, just west of Highway 10 on Mono’s 15 Sideroad. There never was a school in Lockton at the junction of The Gore Road and Patterson Sideroad in Caledon, and a wood frame church that stood farther west is long gone, but in what became a thriving village in the 1880s, two of the original houses, one built before 1840, still grace the intersection. For the majority of the once-upon-a-time communities, however, places like Earnscliffe on the 5th line of Mulmur, or Tarbert just north of Grand Valley, or Shrigley in the northwest reaches of Melancthon, no such structures are left to tell their story. Even for a busy place like Craigsholme, where a hotel, store, school and post office once serviced the area at the junction of Dufferin Road 3 and the East-West Garafraxa Town Line, the village is preserved only in archival records and historical memory.

A 1933 map of Peel includes the names of early villages, many of which are today marked only by a heritage sign. In Silver Creek, St Cornelius Church [facing page] and the schoolhouse, since converted to a residence, are all that remain of the bustling village, now a scenically shaded roadway [background]. Only two houses remain in the former village of Lockton, including this one, built in 1840 or earlier. Once home to a school, church, Orange Lodge and post office, the site of Cedar Mills [below] is now a busy paved intersection.

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One of the most interesting archival records is a report on the state of local communities written in 1878 by John Foley, founder of the Orangeville Sun. It was the result of a week-long, unofficial inspec tion tour by horse and buggy. Travelling along what is now Highway 10, after pausing in the hamlet of Biggles (at Mono’s 5 Side road), Foley made his first overnight stop at Camilla, population c. 100. There he listed a hotel, general store, a gristmill, sawmill, shingle factory, wagon maker, blacksmith and two resident ministers (Pres byterian and Methodist). He stayed at the hotel and described himself “kindly treated,” but observed, without explaining why, Camilla “has ceased to be what it once was – quite a little business place.”

The next day took him east through nearby Mono Centre, where he noted the retail and service offerings were similar to those in Camilla – and expressed surprise the general store actually seemed busy. He then continued east to Relessey at Mono’s 5th Line. By now it was clear Foley’s trip was devot ed to evaluating the commercial potential of each community, for here he noted again that Relessey’s commerce was just like that in nearby Mono Centre and Camilla. (At the 4th Line he could have gone north one sideroad to Elder, population 50, where the retail and service enterprises were also similar.) Relessey’s two churches, wagonmaker, blacksmith shop and general store left Foley unimpressed for he pronounced the hamlet “not likely to become a place of any importance,” and he turned northeast to Rosemont. There he commented that even though Rosemont “once gave promise of becoming a smart business place,” the community had been bypassed by the railroads and now was limited to local trade. He underlined this observation during continued on next page

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A 19th-century map of Dufferin County shows Elder, Relessey and Sheldon – little evidence of the formerly busy villages is visible today. Elder is now a sleepy wooded intersection [top] marked by a plaque. Only Ebenezer Church (c.1870) and cemetery still stand in Relessey [above], and Sheldon’s once thriving mill property [facing] is now a private estate.

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a stay in fast-growing Alliston. At one time smaller than Rosemont, with the new Hamilton and Northwestern Railway line the community was now guaranteed “a bright and prosperous future.” Foley’s return journey took him through Sheldon, population c. 80 (commercially identical to the other small communities but distinguished by an excellent water-powered grist mill), and on to Hockley. Although it “gently slumbers in the Valley of the Nottawa,” he felt there was prospect of the village becoming a lively busi ness centre one day. Regrettably, he did not explain why, perhaps because 80

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he was focussed on his final stop, Mono Mills. In 1878, John Foley would have been well aware that less than a decade before, the Toronto Grey and Bruce Railway had bypassed Mono Mills and made Orangeville its central hub, providing a mighty impetus to the town. The original plan had been to make Mono Mills the hub, but when rumour of an impending railroad route sent property values soaring, the TG&B ran the tracks on less ex pensive land farther west. In his report Foley echoed the accepted opinion about Mono Mills’ commercial future – “the trade of the village must always be limited to the current trade” because the railroads were “diverted into other channels.”

keys to development There is no question that in the late 19th century railroads brought pro gress. On the TG&B’s route Bolton grew dramatically after the trains first arrived in 1869. Shelburne, once little Jelly’s Corners, was another beneficiary. But other factors also contributed to the development of a community in the mid-1800s, and significant among those was flowing water. Silver Creek was a good example. Silver Creek, the stream, is a tri butary of the Credit River and in the mid-1820 s Timothy Chambers used its flow to power a gristmill he built on its banks. Next up, as so often hap pened, there grew Silver Creek, the village. By mid-century it had, inev itably, a general store, a blacksmith and a wagonmaker. A post office was

communities blend By the beginning of the 20th century some of the hills’ tiny villages were being absorbed by larger, expanding communities. The 1877 Historical Atlas of Peel County, for example, shows subdivided village plans for Glasgow on the northwest edge of Bolton and for Nunnville on its southeast edge. Neither Glasgow nor Nunnville were ever incorporated and both became part of Bolton. On what is now the northeast edge of Bolton stood the tiny – and separate – village of Columbia. It had a post office from 1858 to 1913 which required changing its name to Coventry. Columbia-become-Coventry too is now part of Bolton.

granted in 1858 (officially changing the community’s name to Caldwell, a designation most local residents stu diously ignored), and by 1877 the population reached 150. There was a school and St. Cornelius church. In 1886 the church became the most prominent building in Silver Creek when it was reconstructed with red brick. There had been two earlier wooden versions, the first built in 1834 (ironically giving predominantly Pro testant Caledon Township a parish before the adjoining predominantly Catholic Albion Township got one). Silver Creek was further distin guished by having three hotels. Before railroads ran north from Lake On tario through these hills, the little community was stop number two on the oxcart trail from Port Credit to Owen Sound, so hotels were crucial. The coming of the railroad, or per haps the not coming of the railroad, to Silver Creek meant its growth levelled off, declined and ultimately faded. Had the village been located at a crucial intersection, Silver Creek as a settlement might have hung on a bit longer, because intersections also mattered.

where the roads cross In the early days of these hills, where a reasonably maintained north-south road crossed one of similar quality running east-west, it was not unusual for a tiny urban node, a service node,

to develop even if significant water power was nowhere nearby. In the era of horse and foot power these nodes were particularly successful if larger commercial centres were inconven iently distant. Lockton was located in one such circumstance. In 1845 Archibald Locke (Jr) devel oped a village plan of subdivision (this never happened in Silver Creek) and became a dry goods merchant, a postmaster and the innkeeper of the Rossney Hotel. By 1875 there were two more stores, a milliner, a soap and candlemaker, and as always, a shoemaker, blacksmith and wagon maker, together serving the surround ing farms and a local population of about 150. Lockton even boasted three doctors (possibly of dubious certifi cation). This community served its fairly prosperous neighbourhood in a man ner somewhat analogous to today’s convenience stores. Although not much different from other once-upona-time villages, Lockton’s location seemed to make it more successful and it lasted a little longer.

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a decline both dramatic and subtle Although railroads – there were three different systems in the hills by 1880 – pretty much halted development in the villages they bypassed, it didn’t doom them. Improved roads did that. Even before the automobile, better roads – especially maintained roads – meant Lockton’s consumers could make return trips comfortably to larger centres such as Caledon East or Bolton. It was only natural that the more extensive retail array, profes sional services and entertainment these centres offered were more ap pealing. Roads had a further devas tating impact on villages such as Camilla where homes and commer cial buildings hugged the edges of the thoroughfare. Even though a general continued on next page

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store and a gas station hung on in Camilla well into the 20th century, several widenings of Highway 10 not only physically split the village but sealed its fate because key buildings had to go. A more subtle harbinger of decline for some villages was the closing of local post offices. In places like Rel essey, Elder and others, the post office was usually located in the general store, a major perk for the owner. Citi zens coming to collect or post their mail ensured regular traffic, and a clever storekeeper would put out a few chairs next to a pot-bellied stove where customers could linger and gossip – often a major reason why patrons chose the village store over a larger centre to purchase goods. But by 1914, rural mail delivery was insti tuted and most small post offices in Ontario were closed (Camilla’s lasted till 1935 ; Mono Centre’s till 1969), re moving another spoke in the wheel that helped keep tiny villages rolling along. Local hotels, another gathering point, disappeared as well – they sim ply became uneconomical. (On his tour in 1878, John Foley had noted he was “kindly treated” at Hugh Currie’s hotel in Camilla. Local legend says that “kind treatment” once flowed to the hotel through underground pipes connected to a still in Currie’s barn. Foley was a known abstainer, but given Ontario’s long history with prohibition, perhaps he was subtly acknowledging an effective strategy.) However, “spirit” meant much more than alcohol at places like Currie’s hotel. In those early villages a hotel was a community centre. Camilla’s Tweedsmuir History reports as many as 12 square dance sets (96 people) could twirl at once in Currie’s, with room along the walls for those in wait. The Rossney Hotel in Lockton offered what it called a dancing academy, where people gathered from miles around for social events.

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some have gone. some remain. Once a community’s hotel was gone, a lot of its vitality and spirit left too. Currie’s, after a number of ownership changes, was lost to Highway 10 . Rossney’s burned down. According to historian Esther Heyes, once Ross ney’s was gone and the Burrell family moved their general store to Caledon East in the early 1900s, Lockton’s fate as a community was sealed. (The gen eral store is now one of the two private homes that mark the intersection where Lockton once grew.) On the other hand, it may have been spirit alone that kept alive some of the

a shifting population In the early 1900s, the opening of the Canadian West was one of several factors along with economic depression that caused a severe decline in the population of Dufferin County and, to a lesser extent, present-day Caledon and Erin. This decline was particularly represented among the sons and daughters of settlers who first farmed the marginal land of the Niagara Escarpment and who saw little future in working a soil unfriendly to traditional agriculture. Some estimates state a population drop as high as 20 per cent in Orangeville and the immediately surrounding area. Losing people was yet another reason why the tiny villages of the hills gradually faded away.

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small villages that, like Relessey, John Foley probably believed were doomed. Mono Centre, for example, where the general store (ready to close by 1950) has become a successful restaurant, never seemed to lose its spirit of com munity. Restaurants have also kept Rosemont alive and well. Although it continues to “gently slumber in the Valley of the Nottawa,” Hockley like wise continues to show the promise Foley observed in 1878. Although they are still small, these communities appear to have nurtured a core with a gravitational pull well beyond their own borders. For most of the tiny villages though, once their stores and services became redundant (or suffered a crisis, as was the case for Sheldon when fire destroyed its thriving mill in 1963), the end was in evitable. By the end of World War I, Silver Creek, for example, was almost empty. On the edge of Silver Creek it’s still possible to see traces of the gristmill that in 1866 produced 50 barrels of flour a day, but aside from the church, a few family homes and the school, now a private residence, little remains of the once bustling community. In Relessey, which began as Mac Guire’s Corners in 1840, a red brick church (built 1870) stands nostalgic ally beside a cemetery on the south east corner, but there is nothing else there. Even the Orange Lodge which absorbed Sheldon’s lodge in the 1960s is represented only by a memorial

The coming of railway determined the fate of many early communities. Those on the rail route, like Orangeville, thrived; but those that were bypassed often went into decline. Pictured is a train on the trestle bridge at Forks of the Credit, c.1886.

plaque. Without its heritage sign Lockton would go unnoticed by any one driving past. There is no store, no evidence of commerce and the build ings are gone. The blacksmith shop became a chicken coop before, like the wagonmaker’s shop, it was torn down. In the tiny villages that disappear ed, most of the first homes were log or frame and once commerce evaporated, the homes too were eventually torn down or abandoned to the elements, slowly decaying into “ghost villages.”

a legacy worth preserving On open land that once touched the west edge of Camilla there is now a pleasant subdivision, though there is no store and there are no inviting chairs next to the community mail box. Camilla, Silver Creek, Biggles and others like them will not rise again, but their legacy is worth preserving. In 1886, when Roman Catholic par ishioners undertook to rebuild St. Cornelius church, the members of Silver Creek’s all-Protestant Orange Lodge, L.O.L #185, drove their wagons to Orangeville to get the bricks. The Lodge and most of the other buildings are gone, but the church still stands on the hill and mass continues to be offered every Sunday. It is a rare and tangible testament to the generous spirit of a long-ago village that helped define the best of the community we cherish today. ≈

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ancer is a bad thing. Yet it’s amazing how much good can sometimes come from bad things Take Lisa Hogben, for example. In 2009, Lisa was 40 years old, healthy, fit and a committed runner. Then she received the news no woman wants to hear. She had breast cancer. Moreover, she had the so-called breast cancer gene, or more correctly, she had here ditary mutations to her BRCA1 gene. Lisa’s treatment, which included surgery, was a long and frightening journey. To cope, this Orangeville resident wrote a blog she called “Iron Girl” after the U.S. organization of the same name. The organization holds women-only running events and triathlons as a way to “bring women of all ages together as a community 84

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by offering a supportive, energetic and empowering environment for females pursuing a healthy and active lifestyle.” And this is where the good cancer news begins. Lisa’s treatment was successful, and as her body and mind healed, she wanted to give back. So she pulled together a group of 11 women who trained together and then participated in an Iron Girl triathlon in Grimsby. Not coincidentally, the event was a breast cancer fundraiser. Intuitively, Lisa did what experts now believe is important if more women are to become involved in sport. Rather than emphasize the race, Lisa focused on collegiality and peer support during the learning process. The women involved moved toward the Iron Girl triathlon as a group,

gaining confidence and overcoming any fear they may have harboured about competing. Lisa’s efforts brought her in contact with Jodi McNeill, owner of Running Free in Orangeville. A runner, Jodi was drawn to triathlon by Lisa’s story. Next in was Richard Pady, a talented athlete and dedicated coach who had long dreamed of a triathlon club in Orangeville. Together, the threesome, along with Jodi’s husband Norm Nadon, developed a 12-week women’sonly triathlon training program that formalized Lisa’s successful formula. In the program’s first year, some 30 participants of all ages trained together under head coach Richard. At the end of the program, they competed in the Grimsby triathlon. Now in its third year, the program

involves nearly 50 women, aged 17 to 78. As they prepare for race day, they swim, cycle and run several times a week. Called the Orangeville Women’s Triathlon Club, the organization re flects an approach to sport support ed by the research of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity. Concerned that only about half as many Canadian women as men take part in sport, the associa tion wanted to figure out how to get more women involved. When Shelley Callaghan, a manager with the organ ization, interviewed women from across the country, she discovered that lack of time and money were the easy excuses. The “secret” reason so many women failed to head out to

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the pool or tennis court was because they didn’t want to make fools of themselves. Lisa recognized that members of the Orangeville triathlon group are more interested in the support they receive and the personal connections they make during the training pro gram than in winning a race. She struggled to help me understand the group’s dynamics. “We train together. We socialize together. It’s not about the race. It’s the camaraderie,” she said. “There are so many of us that you never have to train alone.” Lisa also talked about fear. By the time the women get to the Iron Girl race, she explained, they feel supported and comfortable. Excitement overcomes their fear. Katrina Cameron’s experience with the learn-to-f ly program at the Brampton Flight Centre illustrates a similar approach to learning new skills. “I’m afraid of doing the wrong thing,” she said, “whereas the men in the program often seem to push the limits.” Katrina relies on her fellow

students to keep her going. “You have no idea how many times I’ve wanted to give up,” she said. Most sports offer beginner, inter mediate and advanced lessons, but Callaghan’s research uncovered a problem with that approach. Many women never advance beyond the beginner level, not because they don’t improve, but because they like the beginner instructor or they’ve be come friends with their classmates. When a new student enters such a “beginner” class, she may walk into a clique of more advanced students. “You know how it can be,” said Callaghan. “You put your mat down in a yoga class and your neighbour gives you a dirty look because you’ve just taken the spot reserved for Tina or Janet.” A learn-to program avoids such situations because the women move forward as a group. Tina Haller and Nikola Boadway offer a popular learn-to-run program in Palgrave. Every Tuesday evening from mid-April to the end of June, a group made up mainly of women gets together for a run. They start out jogging for one minute, then walking for two. By the program’s end, most will be able to run about five kilo metres in four 10-minute bursts, each followed by a minute of walking. At that point, they are ready to join the more experienced runners in the Palgrave Trail Running Club. The women I spoke with when I joined the learn-to group one evening were often paired with a friend or daughter. One woman had previously run a half marathon, about 21 kilo metres, yet there she was running for one minute and then walking for two. Finishing a race, rather than win ning it, is more often a woman’s goal, according to Lisa. In keeping with this non-competitive approach, her personal goal has nothing to do with making it onto the podium or record ing personal-best times. Instead, sup porting members of the Orangeville Women’s Triathlon Club is what makes her happy. “We have the big gest cheering section at the finish line of the Grimsby Iron Girl triathlon,” says this cancer survivor. ≈

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t’s 7:30 a.m. I can smell hair products and the slightly burnt whiff of the hair dryer. It’s going to be a good hair day. Grade 7 brings about new routines – nicely scented hair products, combs and styling mud. Wash, then dry, style, spray to hold. Don’t touch.

A few weeks ago it was haircut time. We went to Launch on Mill Street in old Orangeville, where Cassie has been cutting Adrian’s hair for years. All the beautiful women at the salon greeted him with a smile, remembering when he was two and needed pillows to boost him high enough for his first cuts. He is almost as tall as me now, and doesn’t need a boost. This time we had saved a couple of pictures of his favourite YouTubers on our phones to show Cassie what he wanted. A little longer on the top, so he could get some height and move ment, please. I love hair and its versatility, and how it is an absolute expression of self. Taking her time, Cassie went in with scissors, clippers, scissors again, stepping back to assess and refine. Adrian looked down the whole time, blowing the thousand sharp spikes of muted blonde hair from the black cape, and rubbing the back of his neck when he had the chance. Even tually, when Cassie was done, he glanced quickly

in the mirror before we left. At home he had more time to work on it, and two weeks later it’s growing in perfectly. When I was little, haircuts didn’t involve trips to salons or specific styles until about Grade 7. Before that? Horse clippers. Not kidding. When I was young I got my haircuts when the horses’ manes and tails were getting clipped. I was my mom’s sidekick as she built a business raising and boarding horses. The horses were spit and polished before the week ends, to be ready to travel to shows. The grooming included their haircuts. I helped comb out their manes and tails – every girl’s dream, except for the nasty burrs that required near-precision surgery to extract. Next, as barn kittens tumbled and frisked dangerously near hooves, out would come my mom’s clippers. I was allowed to oil the blades carefully and plug in the long extension cord. Some horses stood patient ly as their manes and whiskers were trimmed,

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others tossed their heads defiantly and needed calming, sometimes requiring the application of what’s called a twitch to their lip to halt their head shaking. How tidy and handsome they looked! Especially after the next step of hoof polishing. Sigh. Gor geous. My Little Pony, in real life. Then, if my hair had grown too long and was getting in my eyes, it would be my turn. I would sit on top of the stool while my mom combed my hair straight with whatever horse comb or brush was nearby. Angling the clippers para llel to the ground, she would go in for the cut. ZzzZ A NG-zzzZ A NG-zzzZANG. Three swift, straight pas ses to shear the bangs across my high forehead. Sharp shards of hair, just like Adrian’s now, fell onto my jeans and runners. I could smell the oil, the horse hair. I was so excited for a fresh cut – until I saw myself in the tack room mirror. My cowlick, cen trally located, forced the hair to pop up joyfully, creating a crooked line and revealing too much skin. I rushed back to my mom in hope of a repair. ZzzZANG. I checked the mirror again. It was worse. But year after year, the cut was repeated. I have the evidence – several photos showing my mom’s barn aisle handiwork. I think my brother was luckier. He escaped and had real haircuts in chairs in malls or barbershops. Back in the day, he always carried a small comb and could drum up a “wick ed feather.” Still, I take solace in knowing I was not the only one who suffer ed such indignities. My husband recently showed me his own Grade 7 photo. “Who cut your hair?!” I pealed with laughter at the extreme straight lines, stepping across and down his head like the coif of a Lego man. “My mom did it,” he replied, “with her sewing shears.” ≈ Bethany Lee is a freelance writer who lives in Orangeville.

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eonard Cohen’s death last fall was a personal blow. I admit to feeling a spark of anger at him for making his final exit during such a politically dispiriting time. If ever we needed his comforting, leathery voice and words of wisdom, it was during the U.S. election fiasco. As some of us ease into our later years, dealing with death becomes almost familiar. Though each passing is unique, some features remain the same – seeking solace in traditional rituals, support offered and received from family and friends, remember ing … each becomes part of the mem ory mosaic that shapes our lives. A simple “How are you?” at a cock tail party started an enlightening dis cussion with my neighbour Tammi Langdon about her mother’s recent death.

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calendar overflows. Brought up on her grandparents’ farm as an only child, Betty calls her grandfather her hero and credits her grandmother with instilling the soft side of her personality. She trained as a nurse and worked in health care, then as a flight attendant. For a long time she helped out in her husband’s dental office, and in about 1980, she started taking modelling jobs on the side. “I was always the mother,” she laughs. A strong advocate of volunteerism, Betty remains deeply involved in community causes. “I admire

Tammi counts herself lucky as she reflects on the event. “We knew it was coming and we are so grateful we had time to prepare for it. Mum had struggled with health issues for over a year, but it wasn’t until the last few months, as we came to understand her health wouldn’t turn around, that we started to say our goodbyes.” In her 80 th year when she died, Janice Marie Campbell Beecroft grew up in a rollicking, boisterous family of eight children in a small town in central Manitoba. Right out of high school she joined the Royal Canadian Air Force where she was trained as an accountant, and met her husband Fred. She later used her accounting skills to help Fred with various busi ness ventures during their nearly 60 years of marriage. For Janice, a strong-willed, inde pendent feminist with a taste for man-sized martinis and off-colour jokes, the constants in life were her husband, children, siblings, a wide network of loyal friends and her mil itary connection, each of which she faithfully nurtured. Janice had always been vociferous in expressing her abhorrence of insti

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tutionalized death. In the end, Fred’s constant care, with help from Tammi and compassionate Community Care Access Centre personnel, as well as a palliative care doctor, allowed her to take her last breaths at home, in familiar surroundings. For Tammi, the thought of her mother disappearing from her life seemed to suck the centre from her world. She ref lects, “The most diffi cult thing for me was coming to grips with the fact that the one person in this universe who was always in my corner was about to leave me. I knew I had things to think about in order to avoid thinking, ‘Shoot, I wish I could ask Mum’ after the fact, so I made mental lists, and every time we were together I asked questions. Mum and I had some wonderful, warm con versations during her last months, prompted by the knowledge that time for these discussions was getting shorter.” Tammi adds, “I wanted to know I had apologized for everything that needed an apology, and assurance I had done everything I possibly could to live up to her expectations of me as a daughter.” When Janice said she wanted to spend time with family and friends while she was still able to enjoy their company – adding wryly that she didn’t think she would feel much like chatting at her funeral – Tammi and Fred listened. A sister came to stay for several weeks, and extended family

and friends were constant guests in the Beecroft home during her final months. For each visit, Janice rallied, in full makeup and pearls. There was also paperwork to face. For this, Janice, the organized ac countant, took over. She ensured that wills were up to date, and that Fred had access to her bank accounts, her tax files, where and how she paid bills, her investments and favourite charities. Janice, Fred and Tammi were able to discuss funeral arrangements, the wording of the obituary and the changes that would soon be upon those left behind. Janice wanted all major decisions behind them when grief set in. She departed peacefully, with Fred holding her hand. As Janice had en visioned, just one phone call to the funeral home set the final events in motion. “You have to respect how she man aged it all,” Tammi said. “Though it was very difficult at the time, being able to prepare for the inevitable was a blessing. And Dad is more peaceful now that he doesn’t have to witness her daily suffering.” Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” was included in the service. “I made sure that piece was played after I gave my eulogy,” said Tammi. “I knew it would do me in, and sure enough, it did.” ≈ Gail Grant is a happily retired senior living in Palgrave.

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his story is about living above a store, a common practice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when shopkeepers and their families often made their home in the building that housed their business. Though the practice is no longer common, for 21st-century couple Kathleen Henning and Jeff Brown, who wanted to sim plify their lives while living well, reviving the old custom made perfect sense.

The three-storey building in Or angeville which now houses Henning Salon – and the Henning-Brown home – was built for Mary Ketchum in 1875-76 as part of the complex known as the Ketchum Block on the north side of Broadway. Mary was the widow of Jesse Ketchum Jr., one of the town’s early movers and shakers, and the main floor of the building may have started life as a general store. Records show the building changed hands in 1907 when it was purchased by

Robert Henry Robinson, who proudly inlaid his name in the cement step at the front entrance. Robinson and his partner Robert Allen operated a gro cery store on the premises. Perhaps it was during their time that a large coffee grinder sat in the front window. When the grinder’s huge wheel was activated, delicious coffee aromas famously wafted along Broadway. The building’s longest-term tenant was Moote & Hodgson, an appliance business that sold a wide range of

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electrical items. That business re mained in the building until Kathleen rented the space 11 years ago for her hair salon. She had operated her studio on Zina Street for several years before she and Jeff, who now manages the business end of the operation, decided to move the salon to the ground floor of the 19th-century building. The high ceil ings, original wood floors and period detail made for a warm atmosphere and the ample space offered plenty of

room for chairs and product displays. At the time, another business occu pied the second floor, and there were – and still are – two apartments on the third f loor. Kathleen and Jeff started to think about the space im mediately over their heads and how it might change their lifestyle. So after renting the main floor for a year, they approached the owner and inquired about buying the building with a view to creating a home on the second

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floor. The owner agreed, a deal was struck, and they immediately won dered, “Yikes! What have we gotten ourselves into?” It was a dramatic experiment. They sold their house and considered how to reconfigure their new living space, which was made up of dark cubbyholes most recently used as offices. Walls came down. The original pine floors started to take on a starring role. The 1,300 square feet began to feel spa cious. In the process some period

detail was sacrificed, but in exchange the couple created a 13-foot-high, light-filled open space that stretched the considerable length of the build ing. They knew right away that they had done the right thing. The two now occupy a modern loft with lots of character. The centre section contains the dining, kitchen and living areas. The whole space is painted white, but each area is welldefined to produce a visual separation while maintaining the sense of ex pansiveness.

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The loft’s two bedrooms face south onto Broadway. A mistake? Not for Kathleen and Jeff. Traffic noise quick ly became white noise, and because the street’s many restaurants are serviced from a back lane, the couple’s sleep isn’t disturbed. Curtains are drawn across the French doors of the bedrooms at night and opened during the day when these doors and their original glass transoms allow sunlight to stream the length of the loft. A dining area between the bed rooms and kitchen is accented with

darker colours and lower light, mak ing it an intimate space for dinners with family and friends. A Georgianstyle hutch-buffet built into the wall in the 1870s was retained with its ori ginal finish and hardware, an elegant reminder of the building’s history. The living area is largely defined by a sectional sofa that meets the kitchen cupboards at a right angle, effectively forming a transition between the two spaces. Purchased at Orangeville Fur niture, the sofa is white, reinforcing continued on next page

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the open feel. Kathleen decided to invest in a few expensive decorative pieces from Elte in Toronto, including throw cushions and a rug that add rich colour and texture. But she also found two interesting tables, one glass and one reclaimed wood, at Pear Home, all but next door on Broadway. At the north end, the rear brick wall was torn down and replaced with three dramatic room-wide steps that rise to a den-sunroom and a wall of windows. The ceiling height in the sunroom is reduced, but that only

serves to make it feel intimate even though it is completely open to the rest of the loft. That openness in turn makes it usable space for larger gath erings. A clever trick. Six years after Kathleen and Jeff moved into their loft, they tackled the kitchen. Having lived all that time with a small temporary cooking area, they were more than ready to plan and build a custom kitchen. They wanted modern simplicity, a space where things could easily be tidied away and just as easily reached. But they also wanted a kitchen that looked

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A spacious, walled roof garden offers a comfortable lounging area, including a gas fireplace to warm cool evenings. The built-in planter boxes supply vegetables and herbs all season long.

attractive and welcoming. The long galley-style kitchen and companion island that resulted is situated in the middle of the loft, making it the heart of the home and the first thing visitors see when they come in. Across from the island one of the small original rooms makes a goodsized pantry. Its slight protrusion into the otherwise long, straight walls adds an interesting design note. The original paned door conceals cans and bags and the business stuff of the kitchen. Another original space was retained to provide storage for clean

ing tools. The kitchen, like the rest of the home, has been a resounding success. Kathleen is the chief cook, but the kitchen works well with two people in it. The island has become the place the pair meet at the end of the workday to catch up on other things and enjoy a glass of wine – at least it is in the cold months. When the weather is warm, they now convene on the new roof garden they installed off the sunroom. It is a 20 -foot-square masterpiece of effi ciency and beauty. Huge beams were

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lifted by crane to the second floor. Cement was poured for the floor and a flame-resistant material – Hardie board – was laid in planks. Then a hot tub was lifted into place, along with two enormous boulders that act as steps to the tub. A comfortable loun ging area includes a gas fireplace that extends the sitting season. Built-in raised growing beds are home to some perennials, but most ly fruit and vegetables. Each harvest of lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, celery, herbs, strawberries and kale goes directly to the kitchen island for cooking prep. This old and substantial building has been many things in its time –

The hot tub and its natural rock steps were lifted by crane to the secondstorey roof garden.

but it has come full circle, once again serving as a business and home. Kathleen and Jeff love the conven ience. Though their private and work spaces are well separated, they are readily accessible to each other, and restaurants and shops are just steps away. Once perhaps dubbed the shop keeper’s quarters, this space has been refashioned for modern sensibilities as the ideal urban loft. ≈ Pam Purves is a freelance writer and photographer who lives in Caledon.

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COMING SOON – DAZZLINGLY DIFFERENT 45 ACRES Custom built 5 bdrm, 5 bath offering 5000+ sq ft with 2 potential in-law suites. Mixed managed forest (35 acres), conservation land & farm land. Hardwood and laminate floors. Barn, paddock area, 2-story 4000 sq ft shop w/ 10’ ceilings, hydro. $1,490,000

10 ACRE COUNTRY PROPERTY Stunning 3+1 bedroom, 2-bath bungalow, offering a finished walkout basement, 3-car garage, 4-stall barn. Open concept, eat-in kitchen, main floor laundry, master bedroom with walk-in closet, ensuite and deck. 10 acres, country views. $1,149,000

MAJESTIC ESTATE ON 2 ACRES Few properties equal the attention to detail of this incredible Carriage Trade 4 bedroom, 5 bath, 5395 sq ft home nestled on a private 2-acre oasis with acres of conservation parkland for year-round enjoyment. $2,100,000

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PRIVATE COURT LOCATION BACKS ONTO GOLF Stunning 3000+ sq ft home at end of a private court backing onto Caledon Woods Golf Club. 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, finished lower level – updated kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, etc. Fabulous backyard oasis – inground heated saltwater pool, hot tub, outdoor bar, outdoor kitchen, 12x12 gazebo with built-in gas fire table and gas fire wall, fire pit, outdoor dining area. 8 Clubhouse Court, Caledon. $1,449,000

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NATURE LOVER’S 10 ACRE PARADISE Beautiful treed 10 acres in Palgrave with incredible stream-fed pond. This 3+2 bedroom home has finished walkout basement, 3 fireplaces, multiple walkouts and large windows with exquisite views of the landscaping, pond and ever present wildlife. Your own private retreat in the country! 17142 Humber Station Road. $1,270,000

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INCREDIBLE VIEWS – PRESTIGIOUS GRANITE STONE PARKLAND Spectacular custom built home in Caledon. Having one of the most panoramic views of the city skyline in Caledon, this quality home is open concept thru-out the main level, eat-in kitchen with fireplace, formal dining room with loads of windows looking out into gardens. The great room has vaulted ceilings and a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace. A family size home with 3 bedrooms on the main level, master bedroom located in upper private loft, 4-pc ensuite, walk-in closet. Spacious main floor office allows you to work from home. Professional finished lower level boasts a games room, rec room with fireplace, sitting room and 2 additional large bedrooms, walks out to a private patio and perennial gardens. Detached 3-car garage. $1,699,995

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120 ACRES OF ROLLING HILLS Brick Cape Cod home, 3 bdrms, mstr suite, immense open concept kitchen, dining and family room walking out to deck, spectacular views. Double car garage. Winding paved driveway. Beautiful rolling hills and forest. $1,699,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

STUNNING, SERENITY, SECLUDED This log house is a gem complimented by 46 acres of rolling land, forests, river running thru, lots of trails, open fields, large paddocks, coach house/driveshed with upper level guest quarters, barn with stalls. $1,399,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

COUNTRY LOG HOME ON 1 ACRE Close to Village of Melville. Natural log features, log exterior and finishing. Open concept kitchen with quartz tops, beamed ceilings. Fp in living room. Sunroom addition. Walkout bsmt with 2nd kitchen. 2-car garage + det garage/shop. Caledon. $949,000

EXCEPTIONAL EXECUTIVE HOME 2-storey home on premium lot. Soaring ceilings, 4+1 bedrooms, main kitchen with granite, extra pantry and glass backsplash. Fully fin lower level with summer kitchen. Extensive decking and patios. 3-car garage and more. Orangeville/Mono. $1,299,000

HIDING INN HOCKLEY Former restaurant and family home. Restaurant has seating for 52 plus 16 on patio. Liquor and catering license up to date. Grounds large enough for weddings, events. Living area has 3 bdrms, kit and living rm. $769,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

GRACIOUSLY CARED FOR Treat your horses. 33 acre hobby farm, bank barn with stalls, large paddocks, groomed fields, forest, stream. Lovely stone and board & batten home, 3 bedrooms. A real charmer. Access to the Elora-Cataract Trail. $1,249,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

EXPANSIVE BUNGALOW 25.5 ACS High-end kit, flooring and details. Ready for large family. 4+1 bedrooms, potential for more. Soaring ceiling, travertine floors, Jacuzzi tub. Fin walkout bsmt/separate entry. Pond, forest, trails. Detached shop to rear and small outbuildings. Caledon. $1,699,000

LARGE LAND PARCEL Over 100 acres vacant land beside the firehall in Caledon Village in the same block as the school. Two road frontages and mostly clear lands. May be a property that could be considered in the future if the Village expands. Caledon. $1,999,000

EXQUISITE, STUNNING, NEW 5200 sq ft dream home, 46 acres, high-end finishes. Open concept kitchen, granite counters, floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, hardwood floors, 6 bedrooms + separate coach house with 4-car garage/workshop. $3,499,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

FULL 100 ACRE FARM On Trafalgar Rd, East Garafraxa. Long driveway to original charming farmhouse, set way back from road, driveshed, approx 90 acs workable level land. Large trees around home and small forest at back of property. $979,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

ATTENTION TO DETAIL Outstanding Caledon East executive semi backing onto green space. Designer décor throughout, over 3100 sq ft living space. Finished top-to-bottom with utmost of care. Extensive high-end upgrades. An entertainer’s delight. $1,100,000

YESTERYEAR’S CHARM 1.04 acres. Past the picket fence down the treed drive to this century home lovingly maintained, upgraded. Solarium to the south. Billiard and sep TV area supplement formal living room. Solda pool with spa + detached garage/shop. Caledon. $1,150,000

STUNNING RENOVATED VICTORIAN Gorgeous! 3 bedrooms, original floors, trim and doors. Private 49 acres. Board & batten hobby barn with stalls, original stone barn foundation – perfect for garden setting. Rolling open fields, towering forests. $1,599,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

STONEY LAKE ISLAND 3 acre private island with 4 season knotty pine cottage. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths. Park your yacht in wet slip boathouse. Extensive decking and docking. Solitude (except for the loons). Exclusive. $1,200,000 Wayne Baguley 519-941-5151

STATELY RESIDENCE – 26+ ACRES Private setting near picturesque Terra Cotta and Belfountain. Mature gardens, pool, forest and trails surrounding this majestic home. Updated interior with 3 year new kitchen, elegant décor, 2 master suites and much more. Caledon. $2,095,000

CUSTOM CALEDON EXECUTIVE Exceptional and elegantly appointed custom bungalow on over 7.5 acres with forest, stream and gently rolling pastoral landscaping. Attention to detail and true quality are evident throughout for the most discerning buyer. Caledon. $2,700,000

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PRIVATE AND CONTEMPORARY Winding and private drive leads to a contemporary home in Mulmur amidst 74 acres of mature hardwood forest with ponds, stream and groomed trails. 4 bedroom main home with large windows and soaring ceilings with views of private countryside from all sides. Separate 2-storey studio/workshop could easily be in-law suite. $1,250,000

YOUR OWN PRIVATE RESORT Ponds, trails, swimming dock, room to kayak & play sports on half-court. Architecturally distinct with 2-storey atrium, o/c kitchen/ breakfast area. Overlooking ponds, wildlife & manicured grounds. Southgate. $799,900

REMINISCENT OF THE MOORS Rolling hills with meandering stream, views of the Escarpment & mixed woods – 100 ac property has it all, perfect high & dry estate building site. Mins south of Creemore, Devil’s Glen, Mad River Golf. $979,000

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ENTERTAINER'S DREAM Top of Caledon Escarpment. Views to Toronto! Entertain family and friends pool side. Tennis anyone? Hot tub under the stars? Bright and spacious home. Minutes to golf, skiing, dining. 45 minutes to Toronto. $2,999,000

CHARMING MONO STONE FARMHOUSE 14.9 private acres. Two houses, barn/workshop, spring-fed swimming pond. Minutes to all country pleasures: golf, skiing, dining and shopping. $1,325,000

10 VALLEY HILL DRIVE Fabulous home on 2.77 acres in Palgrave. Cul-de-sac location. Privacy. Mixture of yard and trees. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths + 1 baths. $2,250,000

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MONO – GOLFER'S DELIGHT 4 season executive country home. 6+1 bedrooms, 7 baths. Private golf course, chef's kitchen, stunning pool/gardens, hot tub, sports court. Close to ski hills, hiking. 1 hour to Toronto. Magnificent! $1,749,000

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STUNNING 16 ACRE BUNGALOW WITH SPECTACULAR VIEWS 16644 MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD Custom kitchen, hemlock flooring, beams, several fireplaces, separate entertainment room, pool with hot tub, 6-stall barn, tractor shed, paddocks. A must see! $2,500,000

MONOPARK.CA A spectacular home set in a private 70-acre oasis of rolling hills, woods, trails, ponds, manicured lawns and lush gardens. This house has everything – an opulent marble entrance with grand winding staircase, elevator, and indoor parking for 9 vehicles. Visit the website for your on-line experience. $4,300,000 Call Matthew Lidbetter 705-443-7250 or Basia Regan 705-466-2115

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FORKS OF THE CREDIT BEAUTY Situated on nearly 30 acres – 10 separately deeded – this beautifully maintained country property is like living in Muskoka. Over 3000 sq ft of lovely living space overlooking large spring-fed pond stocked with trout. Walking trails, tennis court, detached garage and privacy galore. Minutes to Caledon Ski Club, Trout Club and Devil's Pulpit. $1,750,000

I CAN SEE FOR MILES Spectacular family estate – over 80 acres with a 9 bedroom main home, 2-bedroom cottage, 7-stall barn, arena, pool, ponds, trails. Caledon/south Erin – great value. $1,500,000

CITY AND ESCARPMENT VIEWS This amazing 14.54 acres is located just south of the Devil's Paintbrush with over 1100 feet of frontage offering total privacy. Magnificent views of Toronto and the Escarpment from the top of the hill. Beautifully maintained family home with over 3000 sq ft of living space. Finished loft above garage with separate entrance perfect for home business. $1,695,000 Latam Latam_layout 17-05-31 5:30 PM Page 1

CALEDON MOUNTAIN ESTATES Designer's own home. Magnificently private with 4 bedrooms, finished basement with walk-up. Additional garage with artist's loft, geothermal, pool. Move-in ready. $1,595,000

SUPERB MODEL, 407’ DEEP LOT This is a superb model, handsomely situated on a 407’ deep lot! One of the largest homes in the area. This 5 bedroom, 3.5-bath executive home with a 3-car garage has a splendid layout. Hardwood and ceramic on main, hardwood staircase with bird-cage wrought-iron spindles, decorative pillars, huge master with sitting area, 5-pc ensuite, walk-in closet and his closet too! 2 bedrooms share Jack and Jill bathroom. $1,175,000

FABULOUS LAYOUT, 1.31 ACRE LOT This 3+1-bedroom, 2.5-bath bungalow won’t disappoint – it has all the bells and whistles: 9’ ceilings, transom windows, gorgeous kitchen, quartz countertops, 2 gas fireplaces, pot lights, built-in speakers, remote-controlled fans, hardwood and ceramic floors, above-ground pool with wrought-iron fence and built-in deck, koi pond, gardens, interlock patio and walkways. And it backs onto the quietest neighbours ever! $989,000

VALLEY VIEW Picture the highest quality finishes and then come see them in this understated, elegant home on 2.24 acres in south-west Erin. Main floor master suite, home theatre, luxurious kitchen – privacy and views. $1,795,000

ENTREPRENEURS/ARTISTS Alton Village retail with 2-bedroom apartment, large yard and barn/shed. $579,000

HILLSBURGH VILLAGE Families/investors. Much loved family home on mature lot ready for a new owner. $475,000

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I L L U S T R AT I O N S J I M S T E WA R T

In The Hills presents

The CBC host and author’s latest book, This I Know: Marketing Lessons From Under the Influence, is a trove of practical information about how small businesses and budding entrepreneurs can craft big marketing strategies – without big agency budgets.

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Westminster Church

247 Broadway, Orangeville

Tickets $25

At BookLore, Westminster Church and online at inthehills.ca/ITHpresents

H A P P E N I N G S

of artwork created by music industry legends. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

NOW – JUL 9 : MY CANADA: A JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW Stunning

NOW – ONGOING : DRAWING LESSONS WITH CJ SHELTON Suitable for all levels

representation of our great nation and people. Regular admission. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

and abilities. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Dancing Moon Designs, 519-9422018; dancingmoondesigns.ca

NOW – JUL 9 : O CANADA

Doors open 4:45pm Event starts 5pm Book signing and refreshments follow

S U M M E R

NOW – AUG 6 : SELECTED WORKS FROM TRUE NORTH GALLERY | THE MUSIC GALLERY OF FINE ART Unique collection

CANADA 150 EVENTS

Please join us Monday, June 26 5–6pm

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Headwaters Arts celebrates Canada during its 150th birthday. Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. Headwaters Arts Gallery, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com NOW – JUL 14 : HEADWATERS ARTS ANNUAL JURIED SHOW & SALE CALL FOR ENTRY Open to all artists in Ontario

working in all media in both 2- and 3-D art forms. Headwaters Arts Gallery, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com

JUN 25 : ACRYLIC PAINTING WORKSHOP

Suitable for all skill levels. 1-3pm. $35. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca JUN 29 : CANADA 150 KICKOFF

Meet artist James Simon Mishibinijima and see his residential school paintings, enjoy musical guests and explore PAMA. 6-9pm. See website. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca JUL 1 : NOTTAWASAGA HAND WEAVERS & SPINNERS GUILD – CANADA DAY 150 Weaving and spinning demos.

10am-4pm. Free. Riverdale Park, King Street N, Alliston. Museum on the Boyne, 705-435-6991; nottguild.ca JUL 1 : RIVERBEND ARTISTS OF GRAND VALLEY ART IN THE PARK

Various media, belly dance, reiki and massage demos. 10am-4pm. Free. Riverbend Park, Water St, Grand Valley. riverbendartistsofgrandvalley.ca JUL 7 – 30 : EARTH SCAR SERIES – PETER ADAMS Inspired by the battle against the Melancthon quarry. Jul 7: reception, 7-9:30pm. Carnegie Gallery, 10 King St W, Dundas. Peter Adams, 705-888-6712; peteradamsart.com JUL 8, AUG 12 & SEP 9 : ART IN THE PARK No experience required. Guidance from start to finished painting. All equipment included. Jul 8: Terra Cotta Conservation Area. Aug 12: Belfountain Conservation Area. Sep 9: Island Lake Conservation Area. CVC, 519-941-6329; paintandcocktails.com continued on next page

www.inthehills.ca/ITHpresents #ITHpresents

ABBREVIATIONS CPCC

Caledon Parent-Child Centre CVC

Credit Valley Conservation DCAFS

Dufferin Child and Family Services

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DCMA

EWCS

NVCA

Dufferin County Museum & Archives Regular admission: $5; seniors $4; children 5-14 $2; under 5 free; family $12

East Wellington Community Services

Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority

PAMA

SBEC

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives Regular admission: $5; students, seniors $4; family (2 adults & 5 children) $12

Orangeville & District Small Business Enterprise Centre

DPSN

Dufferin Parent Support Network

SPCA

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Louie Anderson February 6, 2018

grahaM nash october 5, 2017 Jonathan roy october 6, 2017 carL PaLMer october 10, 2017 gLass tiger october 14, 2017 JuLLy bLack october 20, 2017 drivewire october 21 & December 9, 2017 braMPton concert band october 21 & December 9, 2017 heLix & Lee aaron october 26, 2017 Patricia o’caLLaghan sings Leonard cohen october 28, 2017

gordon LightFoot july 20, 2017 Jann arden october 11, 2017 Liv on october 19, 2017 Louie anderson february 6, 2018 randy bachMan march 9, 2018 roseanne barr april 22, 2018

shane koyczan november 20, 2017 acrobats oF tianJin november 24, 2017 the berenstain bears Live! march 15, 2018 Machine de cirque march 22, 2018

rose orchestra october 28 & December 2, 2017 february 10, march 24 & april 28, 2018

the PoLar bears go uP april 10, 2018

caL: rush november 1, 2017

centre stage may 4, 2018

stacey renee november 9, 2017 7souLd november 16, 2017 Fortunate ones november 23, 2017 caLuM grahaM january 18, 2018 kiM MitcheLL january 19, 2018

JAnn Arden october 11, 2017

rAndy BAchmAn March 9, 2018

conFidentiaL ProJect july 30, 2017 oLd Love august 3-5, 2017 bareFoot in the Park august 10-12 & 17-19, 2017

counterMeasure january 20, 2018

save our worLd it’s not too Late october 4, 2017

gord baMFord january 24, 2018

broadway, My way october 13 & 14, 2017

caL: Led zePPeLin january 26, 2018

bMt’s hairsPray november 9-18, 2017

unbuttoned february 1, 2018

a Passage to boLLywood november 23, 2017

Lighthouse february 9, 2018

the nutcracker December 5, 2017

Louise Pitre sings Judy garLand february 15, 2018

a christMas caroL December 20, 2017

digging roots and dione tayLor & the backsLiderz february 22, 2018 Mark Masri & rob tardik february 24, 2018

girL crush february 13 & 14, 2018 rhythM oF the dance march 20, 2018 bMt’s beauty and the beast march 29 - april 7, 2018

rosanne cash with John LeventhaL february 25, 2018 eLevation u2 tribute show march 8, 2018 tower oF Power march 21, 2018 caL: FLeetwood Mac march 23, 2018 Micah barnes april 7, 2018 John McderMott april 8, 2018 MoLLy ringwaLd april 19, 2018

canadian iMProv showcase july 28, 2017 crack Me uP coMedy october 7, 2017 & january 27, march 2, april 21, 2018 Late nite catechisM the hoLy ghost october 20, 2017 cathy Jones & Mary waLsh october 24, 2017 aLi hassan november 18, 2017 Just For Laughs april 11, 2018

roseAnne BArr april 22, 2018

www.rosetheatre.ca 905.874.2800

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H A P P E N I N G S NOW – DEC 31 : TRUE. GRIT. The pioneer ing spirit of Dufferin County. Regular admission. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

continued from page 106 JUL 12 – AUG 6 : ONE SQUARE FOOT

Original 12" x 12" works of art in various media. July 12: reception, 1-4pm. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com JUL 15 : NOTTAWASAGA HANDWEAVERS & SPINNERS GUILD – FIBRE IN THE PARK MEETING Bring a chair and weave, spin or

knit. 1-3pm. Free. Riverdale Park, Fletcher St, Alliston. 705-435-6991; nottguild.ca JUL 18, AUG 15 & SEP 19 : ORANGE THREADS Stitchery group discusses

projects and good books. 1-2:30pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangevillelibrary.ca JUL 27 & AUG 24 : ARTISTS OPEN STUDIO

All media, bring your own supplies, no solvent-based materials. 6-8:30pm. Regular admission, studio viewings free. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca JUL 30 : TEXT ART WORKSHOP Suitable

for all skill levels. 1-3pm. $35. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055, pama.peelregion.ca AUG 9 – SEP 10 : COLOURS IN BLACK & WHITE John Geeza’s mixed media

landscapes. Aug 12: reception, 1-4pm. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com

SEP 9 : TERRY FALLIS The two-time Leacock Medal for Humour winner speaks on his book One Brother Shy. 2pm. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. Dufferin Arts Council, 519-942-3830; booklore.ca SEP 10 : EDEN MILLS WRITERS’ FESTIVAL Mary Walsh, Emma Donoghue,

Heather O’Neill and more. Noon-6pm. $20; students $15. At the gate: $25; students $20. Eden Mills. Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, 519-341-4320; emwf.ca SEP 15 – OCT 8 : HEADWATERS ARTS ANNUAL JURIED ART SHOW, SALE & OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION Original

art in various media from Ontario. Sep 15: opening celebration, 6:30-9:30pm. WedSun 10am-5pm. $25 online or Headwaters Arts Gallery. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com SEP 16 : NOTTAWASAGA HANDWEAVERS & SPINNERS GUILD MONTHLY MEETING

Fibre enthusiasts welcome! 1-3pm. $5. The Gibson Centre for Creativity, 63 Tupper St W, Alliston. 705-435-6991; nottguild.ca

sale, art show, vintage arts and crafts sale, entertainment and finale concert at Westminster United. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. Dufferin Arts Council; shelagh.mj@sympatico.ca SEP 9 : DUNEDIN LITERARY FESTIVAL

Nino Ricci, Cecily Ross, Brent Preston, Trevor Cole and more TBA. 11am-7pm. Free, some ticketed events. Dunedin Hall, 8994 Cty Rd 9, Dunedin. 705-466-3400; wordsinthewoods.com 108

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8am-2pm, to Oct 28. Mill St & Victoria St. 705-435-1787; rurban.ca MULMUR FARMERS’ MARKET : Sundays, 1-4pm, to Oct 8. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 705-818-1251; betterinmulmur.ca INGLEWOOD FARMERS’ MARKET :

Wednesdays, 3-7pm, to Oct 4. Lloyd Wilson Arena, 15551 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood. inglewoodfarmersmarketblog. wordpress.com NEW LOWELL FARMERS’ MARKET : Wednesdays, 5:30-8:30pm, to Aug 30. New Lowell Recreation Park Pavilion. clearview.ca SHELBURNE FARMERS’ MARKET : Thurs

days, 3-7pm, to Oct 5. 1st Ave & Owen Sound St. shelburnefarmersmarket.ca MUSIC, MARKET & PARK IT – STAYNER :

Thursdays, 5-8:30pm, to Aug 31. Station Park, Downtown Stayner. clearview.ca

ERIN FARMERS’ MARKET : Fridays, 3-7pm, to Sep 29. McMillan Park, Erin Village. 519-855-4562; villageoferin.com

AUG 27 – OCT 14 : THE WORKS OF DAVID ARRIGO Featured at the Winter Olympics,

SEP 9 : DUFFERIN ARTS COUNCIL – COME CELEBRATE THE ARTS! Garage

ALLISTON FARMERS’ MARKET : Saturdays,

Thursdays, 3:30-8:30pm, to Oct 5. 415 Dougall Ave, Caledon. 647-209-6272; caledonmarket@gmail.com

for all skill levels. 1-3pm. $35. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055, pama.peelregion.ca

AUG 30 – SEP 24 : OFF-LEASH 3 Diana Hillman, Gail Prussky and Vickie Wild show work in various media. Wed-Sun Noon-5pm. Free. Williams Mill Gallery, 515 Main St, Glen Williams. 905-873-8203; williamsmill.com

BOLTON FARMERS’ MARKET : Saturdays, 9am-1pm, to Oct 7. Sterne St & Ann St. boltonfarmersmarket.ca

THE MARKET AT SOUTHFIELDS VILLAGE :

AUG 27 : FIBRE ART WORKSHOP Suitable

All Star Games and Super Bowl. Aug 27: reception, 2pm. Regular admission; donation for opening only. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

JUN 24 : FRIENDS OF ST. ANDREW’S STONE CHURCH SCOTTISH AFTERNOON

SEP 16, 17, 23 & 24 : HILLS OF ERIN STUDIO TOUR Award-winning tour of

great artistic diversity. 10am-5pm. Various studios throughout Erin and Hillsburgh. hillsoferinstudiotour.com SEP 24 : CAROL OFF & DOUG SAUNDERS

Carol Off, cohost of CBC’s As It Happens, is joined by Doug Saunders, The Globe and Mail international affairs columnist. 2-4pm. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. BookLore, 519942-3830; booklore.ca

community FARMERS’ MARKETS ORANGEVILLE FARMERS’ MARKET : Saturdays, 8am-1pm, to Oct 21. Second St & Broadway. Orangeville BIA, 519-9420087; orangevillefarmersmarket.ca CREEMORE FARMERS’ MARKET : Saturdays, 8:30am-12:30pm, to Oct 7. Station on the Green. creemorefarmersmarket.ca

Pipes, Celtic music, step dancing and BBQ. 11:45am-3pm. St. Andrew’s Stone Church, 17621 St. Andrew’s Rd, Caledon. 519-927-5987; stoneridge@bell.net JUN 24 : FIREWORKS IN THE PARK

Celebrate Melancthon’s birthday and Canada’s 150th! BBQ, entertainment and games. 5pm. Free, donations welcome. Horning’s Mills Community Park, Main St & 15th Sdrd. horningsmillshall.com JUN 24 : 2017 WINES OF THE WORLD

Fifty wines, ciders, beers and food focused on Canada’s 150th birthday. Proceeds to projects in the town of Caledon and Rotary International. 6-8:30pm. $60. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Caledon. Rotary Club of Palgrave, 416-884-4653; rotarywow.com JUN 24, JUL 22 & AUG 19 : RED TENT WOMEN’S GATHERING A safe, supportive

gathering with other women. 10am-2pm. $20. Red Tent Ontario, 605151 River Rd, Hornings Mills. info@debrajones.ca; redtentontario.com JUN 25 : DUFFERIN MAC & CHEESE FEST

Home Cook Challenge, Kids’ Zone, gift shop and more. Proceeds to Headwaters Health Care Centre oncology program. 11am-4pm. Orangeville Fairgrounds, 247090 5 Sdrd Mono. Lavender Blue Catering, 519-939-3663; facebook.com JUN 26 : IN THE HILLS PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH TERRY O’REILLY

Fresh veggies all season long! Pickup locations in Orangeville, Bolton and the farm. $30-$35/week. 16555 Humber Station Rd, Caledon. 647-981-6281; albionhillscommunityfarm.org

The CBC host speaks on his new book This I Know: Marketing Lessons From Under the Influence. 5-6pm. $25, tickets at inthehills.ca/ITHpresents, BookLore and Westminster Church. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. tralee@inthehills.ca

NOW – SEP 3 : STORIES FROM THE BLACK COMMUNITY OF PEEL Diverse

JUN 28 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED CAMILLA HAM & STRAWBERRY SUPPER

and growing. Regular admission. ElderHelp Peel, PDSB, PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

Delicious cold ham dinner with strawberry shortcake. 5-7pm. $15; children 6-12 $5; preschool free. 346255 15 Sdrd, Mono. 519-941-0972, highcountryunited@ auracom.com

NOW – JUN 30 : ALBION HILLS CSA VEGGIE SHARE REGISTRATION

NOW – OCT 5 (THURSDAYS) : WEEKLY COMMUNITY POTLUCK Bring family,

JUN 28, JUL 12, 26, AUG 9, 23 & SEP 6 : TECH HELP @ THE LIBRARY Bring your

friends and something for the potluck, 4-6pm. Free. 16555 Humber Station Rd, Caledon East. 647-981-6281; albionhillscommunityfarm.org

own device or learn with ours. 2-4pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca

NOW – OCT 11 (WEDNESDAYS) : BIKE NIGHT Bring your bike or classic car.

JUN 29 : CYBER SENIORS COMPUTER CLASS Beginner computer lessons.

Proceeds to help kids in Caledon. 7-9pm. Free. St. Louis Bar and Grill, 301 Queen St S, Bolton. Hurt’N Old Guys (HOGs), facebook.com

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hunt, wood-branding station*, axe throwing, The Campfire Poets. After 2pm admission by donation until the fireworks. *Additional fees. 2-10pm. Island Lake Conservation Area. CVC, 519-941-6329; creditvalleyca.ca JUL 1 : CANADA DAY 150 CELEBRATION – SHELBURNE Live bands,

bouncy castles, beer garden, fireworks, GT train and vendors. 3pm. Free. Shelburne Fiddle Park, Dufferin Cty Rd 11, Shelburne. townofshelburne.on.ca JUL 1 : KNOX UNITED STRAWBERRY SUPPER Buffet with ham and roast

beef, salads, baked goodies and fresh strawberries. 4-7pm. $15; children 12 & under $8; preschoolers free. 2976 Charleston Sdrd, Caledon. 519-927-3320 JUL 1 : ORANGEVILLE’S CANADA 150 CELEBRATION Inflatable fun zone,

President’s Choice SuperDogs CanaDogs show, free swims, vendors and more. Noon-5pm. Free. Alder Street Recreation Centre. 519-940-9092; orangeville.ca

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JUL 6 & AUG 3 : THE ART OF YOGA (16+) Bring your own mat. All levels. 7-8:30pm. Free with admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca JUL 8 : CHELTENHAM DAY Soap

box derby, duck race, pie-eating contest, tube race, beer garden, firefighters’ BBQ, band and more. 9am-9pm. Free. 14386 Creditview Rd, Cheltenham. Cheltenham Area Residents’ Association, 416-6053865; facebook.com

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AUG 12 : FOOD & FAÇADES: A WALKING TOUR OF ORANGEVILLE DCMA staff host

while sampling our best local cuisine. 2 & 4pm. $20; reserve by phone and receive start info. DCMA, 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

JUL 9 : PEEL 150: STORIES OF CANADA CURATOR TOUR & TALK Curator

Annemarie Hagan tells unusual stories of our Canada 150 exhibition. 2-3:30pm. Included with admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca JUL 9 & SEP 9 : WHOLE VILLAGE ORIENTATION Tour the farm and eco-

residence. 1-4pm. $10. 20725 Shaws Creek Rd, Alton. 519-941-1099; wholevillage.org JUL 13 : DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, GRIEF & LOSS Joan Samuels-Dennis from

Trinity Centre explores aging and mental health issues. 10:45am-11:30am. The Exchange, 55 Healey Rd, Bolton. Caledon Community Services, ccs4u.org JUL 13 : CANADA 150 LUNCH

Canada-themed games and trivia. Prizes for best costume and homemade Canadathemed decoration. 10am-2pm. $15. Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114, caledonseniors.ca

JUL 13 & AUG 10 : PROBUS CLUB OF ORANGEVILLE MEETINGS Jul 13:

Marianne Ford of Nordixx Pole Walking. Aug 10: Author David Patterson. 10am-noon. Guests free. Orangeville Agricultural Centre, 247090 5 Sdrd Mono. 519-307-1789; probusorangeville.ca JUL 14 – 16 : ORANGEVILLE ROTARY RIBFEST BBQ, beer tent, midway, car

show and entertainment. Proceeds to community projects. Fri 4-10pm. Sat 11am-10pm. Sun 11am-7pm. Free, donations accepted. Alder Street Recreation Centre, Orangeville. rotarycluboforangeville@gmail.com; orangevilleribfest.com JUL 15 : CREEMORE VALLEY CLASSICS

Vehicles, live music and special events. 10am-4pm. Free, register your vehicle. Mill Street, Creemore. Copper Kettle Classics, 705-466-6593; creemorevalleyclassics.com JUL 21 – 23 : BOLTON ROTARYFEST

JUL 8 : BELFOUNTAIN PIONEER PICNIC Horse-drawn historical tour,

Celebrate potatoes and community. 10am-4pm. Free. Victoria St, Alliston. Alliston Potato Festival Committee; allistonpotatofestival.com

refreshments, entertainment. Please no pets. 11am-3pm. Jalon Farms, 7280 Simcoe Cty Rd 9, E of Creemore. Miller’s Dairy, 705-466-2525; millersdairy.com

holes, lunch and dinner included, auctions, contests. Noon-8pm. $135. Guelph Lakes Golf and Country Club, 7874 Cty Rd 124, Guelph. 519-833-9696 x222; ew-cs.com

BBQ, fireworks, ecumenical church service and more. See website. Free; food tickets at Ballinafad Breakfast, Erin Fairgrounds, Victoria Park, Orton BBQ and Strawberry Social Box Lunch. 8am11pm. Erin Fairgrounds, 190 Main St, Erin. 519-855-4407 x221; erin.ca

AUG 12 : ALLISTON POTATO FESTIVAL

JUL 8 : MILLER’S DAIRY DAY Farm tour,

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Ribbers and food trucks, kids’ zone and music. Fri 4-11pm. Sat Noon-11pm. Sun 11am-5pm. Free. Caledon Community Complex, Caledon East. Rotary Club of Bolton, boltonrotaryfest.ca

AUG 16 : TERRA COTTA GOLF TOURNAMENT DINNER & FUNDRAISER JUL 22 : ALTON MILL WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL Chef challenges, speakers,

music, tasting stations. Noon-6pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Alton Mill & Drink Inc., 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca JUL 27 : SENIORS’ NUTRITION 101

Brittany McMullan, Zehrs’ registered dietician, explores nutrition and aging. 10:45am-11:30am. The Exchange, 55 Healey Rd, Bolton. Caledon Community Services, ccs4u.org JUL 29 : CALEDON PIT RUN 5k cross-

country run, family 1k Walk of Memories and a 1k kids’ obstacle course. Proceeds to Bethell Hospice Foundation. 9am-2pm. $10-$45. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Caledon. Lafarge Canada Inc. and Aecon, 519-927-1113; caledonpitrun.ca JUL 29 : ALBION HILLS COMMUNITY FARM GARLIC FESTIVAL Harvest your

own garlic! Games and treats. Noon5pm. Free. 16555 Humber Station Rd, Caledon East. 647-981-6281; albionhillscommunityfarm.org AUG 3 : LIGHT UP THE RUNWAY 2017 Evening stroll on runway lit with

candles. Proceeds to Bethell Hospice. See website to sign up or donate. 7-10pm. $15. Brampton-Caledon Airport, 13691 McLaughlin Rd, Caledon. Brampton Flying Club, 905-838-1400. bramptonflightcentre.com AUG 10 : STEAK BBQ & CASINO GAMES

Everyone welcome. 10am-2pm. $20, register. Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114, caledonseniors.ca AUG 11 – 13 : FERGUS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL & HIGHLAND GAMES The

longest-running and largest worldrenowned Celtic festival in Canada. Centre Wellington Community Sportsplex, Fergus. 1-866-871-9442; fergusscottishfestival.com

Owned by Terra Cotta residents, the centre relies on fundraising and donations. 10:30am. Early bird: single $165; foursome $620. Caledon Golf and Country Club, 2121 Olde Base Line Rd, Inglewood. 647-300-5580; terracottacommunitycentre.com AUG 17 : CREATIVE EXCHANGE – GRANT WRITING In partnership with the City of

Brampton and the Ontario Arts Council. 7-8:30pm. Free, register with christina. romasz@brampton.ca. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca AUG 19 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED CAMILLA BEEF BBQ Corn on the cob and

homemade pies. Silent auction. 5-7pm. $15; children 6-12 $5; preschool free. 346255 15 Sdrd, Mono. 519-941-0972; highcountryunited@auracom.com AUG 26 : COPPER KETTLE FESTIVAL

There’s an old-fashioned party brewing! Creemore Springs Brewery, 139 Mill St, Creemore. 705-466-2240; copperkettlefestival.ca AUG 27 : CARROT FEST! Farm fun, tractor rides, livestock visits, farm lunch and carrots! 11am-4pm. Pay what you can. 5812 6th Line, Erin. 519-855-4859; everdale.org SEP 4 : ISLAND LAKE CLASSIC 5K & 10K RUN/WALK Proceeds to Friends

of Island Lake. Free kids’ event. Chip timed, participation medal, BBQ. 8:30am-1pm. $40. Kids’ event free. Island Lake Conservation Area. Run Dufferin, islandlakeclassic.com SEP 9 : EUCHRE TOURNAMENT Prizes.

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A.M. Korsten Jewellers ⁄ 25 Chez Nous Thrift Boutique ⁄ 24 Creek Side Clothing ⁄ 46 Gallery Gemma ⁄ 74 Hannah’s ⁄ 50 Just Be Customized ⁄ 25 Off Broadway Clothing Boutique ⁄ 24 Scented Drawer Fine Lingerie Boutique ⁄ 25 Seconds Count Hospital Thrift Store ⁄ 25 Shoe Kat Shoo ⁄ 47

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dance Academy of Performing Arts ⁄ 25

dining art supplies Craft Happy ⁄ 24

auto Caledon Motors ⁄ 82 Go Tire ⁄ 32 Northwest Lexus ⁄ 35 Total Mechanical ⁄ 49 WROTH Auto ⁄ 81

beauty + fitness Artizan ⁄ 76 Devonshire Guest House & Spa ⁄ 51 Foxy Face Lash Forever ⁄ 25 Henning Salon ⁄ 64 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 75 Skin ’n Tonic ⁄ 24 Skin by Mosaic ⁄ 24

Barley Vine Rail Co. ⁄ 38 Forage ⁄ 38 Four Corners Bakery Eatery ⁄ 36 Judy’s Restaurant ⁄ 36 Landman Garden & Bakery ⁄ 38 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 36,75 Mono Cliffs Inn ⁄ 36 Mrs. Mitchell’s Restaurant ⁄ 18,38 Orange Bistro ⁄ 36 Pia’s on Broadway ⁄ 36 Ray’s 3rd Generation Bistro Bakery ⁄ 36 Rustik Local Bistro ⁄ 38 Steakhouse 63 Restaurant ⁄ 36 Terra Nova Public House ⁄ 38 The Black Wolf Smokehouse ⁄ 36 The Busholme Gastro Pub ⁄ 50 The Consulate ⁄ 38 The Globe Restaurant ⁄ 38

event centres + services beekeeping The Heritage Bee Co. ⁄ 67

books BookLore ⁄ 63

brewers + distillers + vintners GoodLot Farmstead Brewing Co. ⁄ 31 Grand Spirits Renewable Community Distillery ⁄ 37

builders + architects + developers +VG Architects ⁄ 92 Classic Renovations ⁄ 93 Dalerose Country ⁄ 32 Dutch Masters Design & Construction ⁄ 83 Harry Morison Lay, Architect ⁄ 54 Pine Meadows ⁄ 70 Village Builders ⁄ 91

Caledon Country Club ⁄ 74 McLean Sherwood Event Rental ⁄ 76 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 75

events Alton Mill, Wine & Food Festival ⁄ 111 Dufferin Mac & Cheese Fest ⁄ 87 Headwaters Arts Festival ⁄ 109 Heritage Music Festival ⁄ 115 In The Hills presents A Conversation with Terry O’Reilly ⁄ 106 In The Hills presents Kids’ Camps ⁄ 49 Peel 2017 Special Olympics Ontario Provincial Summer Games ⁄ 85

fencing McGuire Fence ⁄ 70 Roma Fence ⁄ 77

financial services BMO Nesbitt Burns Wealth Management ⁄ 48 Dominion Lending ⁄ 81 RBC Dominion Securities ⁄ 74

fireplace sales + service Caledon Fireplace ⁄ 92

food + catering Bolton Farmers’ Market ⁄ 119 Creemore Farmers’ Market ⁄ 119 Farm Fresh Guide ⁄ 41 Garden Foods ⁄ 29 Lavender Blue Catering ⁄ 87 New Lowell Farmers’ Market ⁄ 119 Orangeville Farmers’ Market ⁄ 25,119 Route 145 ⁄ 24 Shelburne Farmers’ Market ⁄ 119 Stayner Farmers’ Market ⁄ 119 The Chocolate Shop ⁄ 25

funeral homes Dods & McNair Funeral Home ⁄ 6 Egan Funeral Home ⁄ 73

generators Furnace & AC Experts ⁄ 48 Tanco Group ⁄ 94

farming + supplies Budson Farm & Feed Company ⁄ 50 Dawn Brook Lavender ⁄ 67

golf Caledon Country Club ⁄ 76 Mad River Golf Club ⁄ 54

farm + garden equipment Larry’s Small Engines ⁄ 83

heating + cooling Bryan’s Fuel ⁄ 83

home décor + furnishings Being There Audio ⁄ 46 Burdette Glassworks ⁄ 96 Decor Solutions Furniture & Design ⁄ 50 From the Kitchen to the Table ⁄ 31 Granny Taught Us How ⁄ 18 Heidi’s Room ⁄ 18 Olde Stanton Store ⁄ 46 Orangeville Furniture ⁄ 120 Pear Home ⁄ 24 Recovering Nicely ⁄ 47 Sproule’s Emporium ⁄ 24 The Plumber’s Wife ⁄ 57 The Weathervane ⁄ 50

home improvement + repair Accurate Intelligent Doors ⁄ 64 All-Mont Garage Doors ⁄ 56 AllPro Roofing ⁄ 2 Cairns Roofing ⁄ 6 Dufferin Glass & Mirror ⁄ 67 Headwaters Windows & Doors ⁄ 34 Karry Home Solutions ⁄ 13 KitchenArt ⁄ 95 Leathertown Lumber ⁄ 81 Orangeville Building Supply ⁄ 94 Orangeville Home Hardware ⁄ 13 Paragon Kitchens ⁄ 15 Peel Hardware & Supply ⁄ 59,71 Rubber Deck ⁄ 92 Synergy Roofing ⁄ 17 The Plumbing Expert ⁄ 96

illustration + photography Pete Paterson Photography ⁄ 56 Shelagh Armstrong Pet Portraits ⁄ 70

landscaping + gardening GB Stone ⁄ 16 GBC Design + Build ⁄ 94 Hill’N Dale Landscaping ⁄ 55 Tuckers Lawn Sprinklers and Landscape Lighting ⁄ 49 Tumber Landscape & Supply ⁄ 7

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continued from page 110 SEP 9 : ORANGEVILLE CURLING CLUB FALL DINNER & DANCE BBQ chicken,

music by Itchy & Scratchy. Tickets at BookLore and Artizan Hair Salon. 6:30-midnight. Dinner & dance $35; dance only $20. Orangeville Curling Club, 76 Fifth Ave, Orangeville. Kim Burt, dance@ orangevillecurlingclub.ca SEP 15 – FEB 3 : QUIRKY TUNES Vibrant covers and songs. Regular admission. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-9417787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 16 : GIANT ROTARY GOLF BALL DROP 1st prize $1,000; 2nd $300; 3rd

$200. Proceeds to Rotary projects. 1-2pm. $5 per ticket. Lynbrook Family Golf Centre, 285316 County Rd 10, Amaranth. rotarycluboforangeville@gmail.com, orangevillerotary.ca SEP 23 : BEER & TRIVIA WITH KEN WEBER

Canadian trivia, so come prepared! Ken writes “Historic Hills” and “A Puzzling Conclusion” for In The Hills. Cash bar. 7-10pm. $20. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. DCMA & BookLore, 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 24, OCT 22 & NOV 26 : SOUP SISTERS & BROTH BROTHERS Make soup

for Family Transition Place. Includes wine and dinner. 12+. 5-8pm. $55. Lavender Blue Catering and Café, 207321 Hwy 9, Mono. 519-939-3663; soupsisters.org SEP 26 : TEEN RANCH GOLF TOURNAMENT All levels. Proceeds to

Teen Ranch Scholarship Fund, ensuring no child turned away. Golfers and sponsors needed. 20682 Hurontario St, Caledon. teenranch.com FALL FAIRS

Showcase of Headwaters’ best, including livestock, home crafts, entertainment, pulls of all sorts, and, of course, food. See websites for more details. SEP 1 – 3: ORANGEVILLE FALL FAIR

Orangeville Agricultural Centre, 247090 5 Sdrd, Mono. 519-942-9597; oaseventcentre.ca SEP 15 – 17: SHELBURNE FALL FAIR

Shelburne & District Fairgrounds, 200 Fiddlepark Lane – Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex, Shelburne. shelburnefair.com SEP 22 – 24: GRAND VALLEY FALL FAIR

Grand Valley Agricultural Society Fairgrounds, 60 Main St N, Grand Valley. 519-216-6859; grandvalleyfallfair.ca SEP 22 – 24: BOLTON FALL FAIR Albion

& Bolton Fairgrounds, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-880-0857; boltonfair.ca OCT 5 – 9: ERIN FALL FAIR Erin Agricultural Centre Fairgrounds, 190 Main St, Erin. erinfair.ca

JUL 28 – 30 : LES MISÉRABLES (SCHOOL EDITION) Jean Valjean starts a new

kids NOW – JUN 30 : ALBION HILLS COMMUNITY FARM KIDS’ FARMING CLUB REGISTRATION Planning, planting

and harvesting vegetables, farm crafts. $90 for six two-hour sessions. Albion Hills Community Farm, 16555 Humber Station Rd, Caledon East. 647-981-6281; albionhillscommunityfarm.org NOW – SEP 24 (SUNDAYS) : DRAWING LESSONS FOR BUDDING LITTLE ARTISTS WITH CJ SHELTON For talented

JUL 4 – AUG 15 (TUESDAYS) : EVERY CHILD READY TO READ WITH BABIES

Fun, interactive activities with your baby. 0-12 months and parents. 1:30-2:15pm. Orangeville Library, 275 Alder St. 519-9410610; orangeville.ca JUL 5 – AUG 16 (WEDNESDAYS) : FAMILY CREATE ’N’ CRAFT All ages can build

and create. Drop in. 10am-2pm. Adult accompaniment. 10am-2pm. Orangeville Library, 275 Alder St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.ca

Ages 5-7. 10:30-11:30am. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.ca

JUN 26 : TWEEN CLUB DIY activities,

JUL 6 – AUG 17 (THURSDAYS) : TD TWEEN CLUB DIY, comics, games,

JUL 1 : TD SUMMER READING CANADA DAY KICKOFF Games and

activities. Noon-5pm. Alder Street Recreation Centre, Orangeville. Town of Orangeville, Orangeville Library, 519-9410610; orangeville.ca JUL 3 – 30 : MUSICAL THEATRE YOUNG COMPANY PROGRAM – LES MISÉRABLES (SCHOOL EDITION) Ages 10-17. Audition

required. Full production at end of program. $840. Theatre Orangeville Rehearsal Hall & Outdoor Theatre, 065371 Dufferin Cty Rd 3. Theatre Orangeville Academy, 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca

JUL 31 – AUG 27 : DRAMA YOUNG COMPANY PROGRAM – PETER PAN Ages

10-17. Audition required. Full production at end of program. $840. Theatre Orangeville Rehearsal Hall & Outdoor Theatre, 065371 Dufferin Cty Rd 3. Theatre Orangeville Academy, 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca

JUL 5 – AUG 16 (WEDNESDAYS) : TD KIDS’ CLUB Create, tinker and explore!

10- to 14-year-olds serious about art. Schedule an interview. 10am-noon. $120 / 4 sessions. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Dancing Moon Designs, 519-9412018; dancingmoondesigns.ca

games, crafts and more. 4-5pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangevillelibrary.ca

life pursued by police inspector Javert. $5-$15. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. Theatre Orangeville Young Company, 519-9423423; theatreorangeville.ca

art and science, ages 8-12. 1:30-3pm. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangeville.ca JUL 10, 17, 24 & 31, AUG 14 : MONDAYS @ MILL: FAMILY MOVIE See website

for lineup. 10:30am-12:30pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangeville.ca JUL 10, 17, 24 & 31, AUG 14 (MONDAYS) : FREE BUILD LEGO MONDAY Drop in

and get creative with LEGO with an adult. 12:30pm-2:30pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.ca JUL 15 & AUG 19 : PAMA FAMILY FUN DAYS Jul: Canada 150. Aug: Home. See

website. Free with admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

JUL 4 – AUG 15 (TUESDAYS) : L’HEURE DU CONTE: A FRENCH & ENGLISH STORYTIME Interactive storytime, ages

JUL 23 – SEP 16 : EXPLORE & PLAY

0-5, with French and English stories, finger plays and songs. 10:15-10:45am. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangeville.ca

Education artifacts you can actually touch. Regular admission. DCMA, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

AUG 5 : CREEMORE CHILDREN’S FESTI VAL Back to the basics of family fun. 10am-

4pm. Free. Mill St, Creemore. Creemore Children’s Festival Committee, 705-4669998; creemorechildrensfestival.com AUG 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24 & 29 : PAMA STAYCATION DAYS Drop in and celebrate

special days of the year with an adult. Included with admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca AUG 22 : TD SUMMER READING FINALE

Grand prize winners announced. 1-3pm. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-9410610; orangeville.ca AUG 25 – 27 : PETER PAN Come to

Neverland, where children never grow old. $5-$15. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. Theatre Orangeville Young Company, 519-9423423; theatreorangeville.ca

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pet supplies + services Bold Canine ⁄ 51 Global Pet Foods ⁄ 77

ponds Pond Perfections ⁄ 34

pools D&D Pools & Spas ⁄ 8 New Wave Pools & Spas ⁄ 57

professional services Coster Law, Technology & IP ⁄ 56 Wiesner Insurance ⁄ 3

real estate + home inspections Bosley Real Estate ⁄ 96 Velvet Alcorn Chestnut Park Real Estate ⁄ 104 Sue Collis, Sarah MacLean Coldwell Banker, Cornerstone Realty ⁄ 32 Nancy Urekar Coldwell Banker, Ronan Realty ⁄ 104 Ashlyn Trevelyan Coldwell Banker, Ronan Realty ⁄ 99 Marc Ronan, Sarah Lunn Johnston & Daniel ⁄ 98 Peter Bowers, Gayle Woods Moffat Dunlap Real Estate ⁄ 101 Moffat Dunlap, John Dunlap, Peter Boyd, Murray Snider, Nik Bonellos, Elizabeth Campbell, Courtney Murgatroyd Prudential Select Real Estate ⁄ 91 Verona Teskey ReMax In The Hills ⁄ 11,103 Chris Richie, Philip Albin, Sean Anderson, Dale Poremba, Jennifer Unger ReMax Realty Specialists Inc. ⁄ 30,102 Sigrid Doherty ReMax Realty Specialists Inc. ⁄ 65 Maria Britto ReMax Realty Specialists Inc. ⁄ 4 Tav Schembri Royal LePage Credit Valley ⁄ 75 Rita Lange Royal LePage Locations North ⁄ 104 Matthew Lidbetter Royal LePage Meadowtowne Realty ⁄ 102 Denise Dilbey Royal LePage Meadowtowne Realty ⁄ 105 Mark Latam, Mélodie Rose, Kevin Latam Royal LePage Meadowtowne Realty ⁄ 105 Paul Richardson

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Royal Le Page RCR Realty ⁄ 104 Basia Regan Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 16,97 Jacqueline Guagliardi Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 102 Roger Irwin, Barbara Rolph, Dawn Bennett Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 100 Susan Brown Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 80 Suzanne Lawrence Royal LePage RCR Realty ⁄ 105 Victoria Phillips, Janna Imrie Royal Le Page RCR Realty ⁄ 15,103 Wayne Baguley Slavens & Associates Real Estate ⁄ 93 Elaine Kehoe Sotheby’s International Realty ⁄ 22 Ross Singh Sutton-Headwaters Realty ⁄ 100 Jim Wallace Sutton-Headwaters Realty ⁄ 95 Sarah Aston Sutton Group – Central Realty ⁄ 9 Mary Klein, Kelly Klein, Kaitlan Klein

celebrate Canadian music. Wed 2pm. Thurs 2 & 8pm. $43. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. Theatre Orangeville, 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca JUL 1 : CANADA 150 MUSIC CELEBRATION The Justin MacDonald

Band, Ryan Masters and Falcon Jane. 7-11pm. $15; online, Headwaters Arts Gallery. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com

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JUN 24 : DUFFERIN HI-LAND BRUCE TRAIL CLUB ONE-DAY END-TO-END

jamboree, The Fitzgeralds, open fiddle championship, nondenominational service. Tickets on website or Holmes Music & Appliance Shop. Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex, Shelburne. Rotary Club of Shelburne, 519-925-3037; heritagemusicfestival.com

David O’Hearn explores lyric writing and song construction. All genres. 7-8:30pm. $35. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

seniors’ services

and student concerts. Aug 19: Nibbles and Notes Gala Kickoff. Melville White Church, 15962 Mississauga Rd, Caledon. Belfountain Heritage Society, belfountainmusic.com

Cardboard Castles Childrens Emporium ⁄ 87

tourism + travel Cruise Holidays ⁄ 51 Orangeville BIA ⁄ 24,25 Town of Erin ⁄ 50,51

tree services Maple Leaves Forever ⁄ 21

NOW – NOV 1 : CALEDON HILLS HISTORICAL HIKE SERIES BADGE

AUG 9 – 13 : HERITAGE MUSIC FESTIVAL – FIDDLE FEST Corb Lund, country

AUG 19 – 27 : BELFOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL Professional chamber music

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a trail selfie for prizes. Trails throughout the Town of Mono. 519-941-3599 x227; monohikingchallenge.ca

Internationally acclaimed Canadian singer and songwriter. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

JUL 20 : GORDON LIGHTFOOT

Brampton Christian School ⁄ 10 St. John’s-Kilmarnock School ⁄ 12

Headwaters Home Care ⁄ 82 Montgomery Village Retirement Residence ⁄ 89

NOW – OCT 31 : MONO HIKING CHALLENGE Register on website, submit

Complete five hikes in the Caledon Hills section of the Bruce Trail. Provide photo from official hike location, date, and submit to website for badge. Free. Caledon Hills Bruce Trail Club, 905-2167559; caledonbrucetrail.org

AUG 10 : SONGWRITING WORKSHOP

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SEP 15 : ED VOKURKA JAZZ VIOLIN QUINTET Unique blend of European

classicism and North American swing. 8-10pm. Free, donations welcome. CrossCurrents Café, Bolton United Church, 8 Nancy St, Bolton. crosscurrentscaledon.com SEP 24 : CONCERT AT RELESSEY CHURCH

Mark DuBois and the Mark DuBois Studio Singers. 2-4pm. $15. Relessey Church, 874615 5th Line EHS Mono. Relessey Cemetery Board, 519-941-1100; luellaholmes@aol.com SEP 29 : THE BIG BLUES PARTY! Larry Kurtz and The Lawbreakers. Proceeds to Headwaters Arts. 8-11pm. $30; online, at BookLore and Headwaters Arts Gallery. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-9431149; headwatersarts.com

Hike with bus and checkpoints. Badge for completion of 56km hike. 6:15am-9pm. $35. Mono Community Centre. 519-2176689; dufferinbrucetrailclub.org JUN 25 : RIDE DON’T HIDE 100, 50, 25km

and a family ride through the Caledon Hills. Food and live entertainment. Proceeds to community mental health. $45, register; kids ride free. Inglewood Community Centre. Canadian Mental Health Association Peel Dufferin, 416822-0713; ridedonthide.com JUN 25 : PRIMROSE MEDITATIVE GARDEN TOUR Three gardens near

Primrose for contemplation. 11:30am4:30pm. $10. Primrose United Church, 519-925-6466; shelburneprimroseunited. weebly.com JUL 6 : HIDDEN GEMS GARDEN TOUR

Eight gardens on Forest Park Rd and evening tea. Tickets at monthly meetings, BookLore, Orangeville Flowers and Dufferin Garden Centre. 5-9pm. $10. Orangeville and District Horticultural Society, orangevillehort.org JUL 8 : CALEDON GARDEN TOUR Selfguided tour in northwest Caledon. Rain or shine. 10am-4pm. $15. Cheltenham United Church, 14309 Creditview Rd. Caledon Garden Club, 416-550-4502; gardenontario.org

AUG 12 : TRAIL RIDE FOR BREAST CANCER Two-hour horseback ride

To submit your community, arts or nonprofit event: Go to inthehills.ca and select ‘what’s on’ from the menu bar. That will take you to the listings page. Select ‘submit your event’ and complete the easy form. For the autumn (September) issue, submit by August 11, 2017. For up-to-date listings between issues, click ‘what’s on’ on the menu bar at inthehills.ca. We reserve the right to edit submissions for print and web publication.

through Dufferin Forest. BBQ. Food bank donations. Volunteers welcome, no experience required. All disciplines and levels. $55. 416-407-6695; trailrideforbreastcancer.weebly.com AUG 15, SEP 19 & OCT 17 : BOLTON & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY MEETINGS Aug 15: Save the Pollinators.

Sep 19: Gardening for Birds, Bees and Butterflies. Oct 17: Invasive Species in Southern Ontario. 7:30-9pm. $5. Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. boltonhort.info AUG 22 & 24 : YOGA HIKE Includes yoga breaks. Moderate pace, some steep and rugged terrain. All levels. Ages 16+. No yoga mat required. 7:158:45pm. $16,register. Aug 22: Belfountain Conservation Area. Aug 24 Terra Cotta Conservation Area. CVC, 1-800-367-0890; creditvalleyca.ca SEP 12 : SEASONAL INSPIRATIONS PLUS FLOWER SHOW Elizabeth Matheson

creates floral designs for fall. 7-9 pm. Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. Orangeville & District Horticultural Society, orangevillehort.org

JUL 8 & 9 : ISLAND LAKE BASS DERBY

Large cash prizes. No licence required. Proceeds to FOIL projects. 7am-3pm. Island Lake Conservation Area. FOIL, CVC, 1-800-367-0890; islandlakederby.ca JUL 8 & 9 : GARDENFEST AT PLANT PARADISE COUNTRY GARDENS Guided

tours with author/owner Lorraine Roberts. 9am-5pm. Free, register. Plant Paradise Country Gardens, 16258 Humber Station Rd, Palgrave. 905-880-9090; plantparadise.ca JUL 22 : CHECK YOUR WATERSHED DAY

theatre+film JUN 23 – 25 : ALL SHOOK UP – THE MUSIC OF ELVIS PRESLEY A lip-curling

musical fantasy. $22; children 12 & under $17. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. Orangeville Music Theatre, 519-942-3423; orangevillemusictheatre.com JUL 28 : CANADIAN IMPROV SHOWCASE

Created on the spot and guided by audience participation. 8pm. $25. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-8742800; rosetheatre.ca

Data collected provides Credit River health info. 12:45pm-4:30pm. Free. Terra Cotta Conservation Area. CVC, OFAH, Trout Unlimited and Ontario Streams, 905-670-1615 x445; creditvalleyca.ca

JUL 30 : CONFIDENTIAL PROJECT

JUL 22 & 23 : OPEN GARDEN IN CREEMORE Seven gardens to explore.

AUG 3 – 5 : OLD LOVE BY NORM FOSTER Rekindled romance and the

9am-4pm. Free. 113 Mill St, Creemore. 705-466-2756; creemoregarden.ca JUL 23, AUG 20 & SEP 24 : OUTDOOR YOGA AT TERRA COTTA CONSERVATION AREA Classical outdoor Hatha yoga. All

levels, ages 16+. Bring mat. 9:30-10:30am. $14, register. CVC, 1-800-367-0890; creditvalleyca.ca JUL 30, AUG 13 & SEP 17 : OUTDOOR YOGA AT BELFOUNTAIN CONSERVATION AREA Classical outdoor Hatha yoga. All

levels, ages 16+. Bring mat. 10-11am. $14, register. CVC, 1-800-367-0890; creditvalleyca.ca

Ensemble created an hour prior creates a musical before an audience. 8pm. $30. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-847-2800; rosetheatre.ca

unconquerability of hope. 8pm. $35. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-8742800; rosetheatre.ca AUG 10 – 12, 17 – 19 : BAREFOOT IN THE PARK BY NEIL SIMON Newlyweds deal

with marriage challenges. 8pm. $35. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-8742800; rosetheatre.ca SEP 8 – 10, 15 – 17 : ALONE TOGETHER AGAIN Empty nesters deal with parents’

zany problems. $20. Century Church Theatre, 72 Trafalgar Rd, Hillsburgh. Century Theatre Guild, 519-855-4586; centurychurchtheatre.com ≈

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A High Wind on The Ridges These ten trees make up five straight rows of four trees each:

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Ice Cubes and Altitudes Allowing for some possible evaporation, the water levels should be the same (unless Archimedes has misled us for the past 21 centuries or so). Triple Duty op er at or At the Livestock Market in Tarbox Corners 7 cows (£70), 72 hens (£9), and 21 pigs( £21).

An In The Hills “One Minute!” Puzzle Challenge The tree is cut in winter when the lake is frozen. The answer is 0. After the multiplier 9, the answer is 362,880, but multiplying by 0 then produces 0. Pronounced as one letter but written with three, “eye” reads both forward and backward. She doesn’t shave.

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Ice Cubes and Altitudes Just north of Black Bank, in Mulmur, at one of the highest points on the Niagara Escarpment, a glass of water with an ice cube inside sits on a farm kitchen table. At precisely the same time at a lower ele vation near Creemore, an identical glass containing precisely the same level of water and same-sized ice cube also sits on a farm table. Both ice cubes melt com pletely, but because of a 2°C variation in temperature, the one on the table near Creemore converts totally to liquid 47 seconds before the ice cube in Mulmur.

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An In The Hills “One Minute!” Puzzle Challenge Each of these puzzles can be solved very quickly with a bit of creative thinking.

A High Wind on The Ridges In a square field atop a plain in Albion Township which maps once labelled “The Ridges,” a somewhat eccentric landowner planted 49 trees in seven straight, equally spaced rows. All the newly planted trees survived and grew vigorously, but a decade later a powerful winter wind blew down four of them. The four were removed leaving the tree plantation in the configuration seen in the diagram below.

At the point 47 seconds before the ice cube in Mulmur is completely melted, will the level of water in that glass be higher, lower or the same as the level of water in the Creemore glass?

Imagine a perfectly circular island in the middle of Luther Lake. It has a radius of 15 metres and precisely in the centre stands a tree 35 metres tall. A lumberjack cuts down the tree using an axe – not a chainsaw – leaving a jagged stump that varies in height from 36–43 centimetres. The severed tree falls in tact, but the upper branches do not make a splash in the lake. Why not?

Mental math! No calculators for this one. Multiply the numbers on a telephone pad in numer ical order beginning at 1 (e.g., 1 x 2 x 3). Is the answer greater or less than 350,000?

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What everyday word is pronounced using one letter but is written – either backward or forward – with three letters?

BEG _ _ ONE D ON _ _ BIT Insert two letters between the pairs above to form separate new words when added to the end of the word on the left and to the beginning of the word on the right. The eight letters inserted must themselves form a new word when read from the top down.

The landowner has now decided to remove all but ten of the remaining 45 trees. For reasons known only to him – and he won’t tell – these ten trees are to be left standing so they will be in five straight rows, with four trees in each row.

Wesley’s new farm was located on the west side of a trail that one day would be called Airport Road. He’d bought the land not long after the Second Missis sauga Purchase was completed in 1818. Having cleared enough land to begin raising livestock, he had come to Tarbox Corners (later called Paisley and

Gioachino Rossini

The Barber of Orangeville shaves all men in Orangeville. No man in Orangeville ever shaves himself. The Barber of Orangeville lives in Orangeville. So who shaves the Barber of Orangeville?

Use the diagram to show ten remaining trees that achieve the new configuration.

At the Livestock Market

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then Caledon East) with exactly £100 in silver coins to make some purchases. At the market he found the going rate for a cow was £10 and for a pig, £1. Also for £1 he could buy eight hens. Wesley’s plan was to go back to his farm with a mix of exactly 100 animals. With that precise number

he could avoid a tax on livestock imposed by Upper Canada’s lieutenant-governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland. Assuming he was successful at the market, namely that he spent precisely £100 at the going rate for 100 animals, how many cows, how many pigs and how many hens did Wesley buy for his new farm? our solutions on page 117

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Farmers’ Markets working to find you the freshest local food Stayner Music, Market and Park It! Thursdays 5–8:30pm from June 1 – August 31 Free concert 7–9pm; Station Park, Downtown Stayner

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New Lowell Farmers’ Market Wednesdays 5:30–8:30pm from May 24 – August 30 New Lowell Recreation Park Pavilion, 5212 County Rd 9, New Lowell

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Creemore Farmers’ Market Saturdays 8:30am–12:30pm from May 20 – October 7 The Station on the Green, 10 Caroline Street East, Creemore

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Shelburne Farmers’ Market Thursdays 3–7pm from May 25 – October 5 www.shelburnefarmersmarket.ca www.facebook.com/shelburnesfarmersmarket

Orangeville Farmers’ Market Saturdays 8am–1pm from May 6 – October 21 Beside Town Hall, 87 Broadway, Orangeville ShaneDurnford.com

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Bolton Farmers’ Market Saturdays 9am–1pm from June 3 – October 7 Municipal Green “P” Parking Lot (near Tim Hortons)

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