much of his love for this country: “Sudbury Saturday Night”, “Big Joe Mufferaw”, and “Canada Day, Up Canada Way”, to name a few. “I listen to it a lot,” she said of “The Hockey Song.” “I wanted to learn more about him.” Connors’ performing residency at the old Heritage Hotel in Carleton Place meant that her grandparents were able to see him perform there before he became famous. She had, naturally, the youngster’s curiosity as to how he got his nickname. Turns out that “he always stomped his left cowboy boot,” when he performed, and so, one night when he was being introduced, he was called “Stompin’ Tom” and the name stuck. Down on the farm Just as E.L. Doctorow got the inspiration for his 1975 novel Ragtime by noticing the old bricks on his house, so too did Dyllan McParland not have to travel too far to find inspiration for his exhibit on his family’s Maple View Farm. Unlike many 13-year-olds, who want to sleep in, he is up at 4 a.m. some mornings, and usually up by 5:45 a.m. He is busy helping his dad with the calving season right now, and it helps that he wants to be a farmer too. “I have chores to do in the morning,” he said. “So, I have to get up and do them.” He is currently bottle-feeding a calf, and also has to feed some of the other 150 cows on the farm too. He wanted to look at the 1,100-acre farm’s history as it was recently the recipient of a 100-year legacy farm plaque, which now hangs proudly by the roadside, even though his family has been farming in the area for more than 150 years. He found out that his great-grandfather, at age 19, bought the farm in 1916. “I’m the fourth generation coming up,” he said proudly. One-room schoolhouses Rory Stinson got her inspiration for looking into the history of oneroom schoolhouses because of some extra-curricular reading she was doing: Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird. That, and her grandmother. Stinson began reading the beloved novel before Harper Lee died last month, and finished it after she died, and the book was set in the Deep South at a time when such
schoolhouses were the norm. But it was her grandmother, who pointed her towards her time at the Ballantyne schoolhouse near Joyceville. She was amazed that students would have to walk any where from a mile to five miles to get to school, and that a classroom would hold between 20 and 30 students – often with brothers, sisters and even cousins in the same classroom. “There is one down my road, where my papa went to,” said Stinson of the Wayside school, on what is now Wayside Drive just east of Perth. “They learned differently,” back then, she said. Her grandmother will sometimes try to help her with her homework, but is amazed at the level of work that is expected of Stinson and her contemporaries. One aspect of school life that has changed for the better is that it is no longer mandatory that girls had to wear dresses – even while playing sports, which must have made it very hard for girls to slide into third base during a game of ball. Great goalies Natasha Cooper holds famed National Hockey League goalie Patrick Roy in high regard. So much so that she did her history project on him, and found that he was more that just a jock. “I’m a goalie,” she said proudly of her position with the Smiths Falls Cubs PeeWee house team. “He was the best goalie in the NHL. We created the butterfly style,” of goaltending. “I knew he was really good,” she added, but for all of his innovation on the ice, Cooper, who wants to be a pro goalie, was amazed at some of Roy’s backstory. “When he was a kid, he didn’t start out as a goalie,” she said of her research. He was put in goal one game when the regular goalie could not attend. He also dropped out of school to play for the Granby Bisons in Quebec, and was beset by mental health problems. “He got into a lot of fights,” she said. Northern Dancer It’s not surprising that a young woman with four horses at home would want to do a project on perhaps the most famous Canadian horse of them all – Northern Dancer. “He’s the one who inspired Canadians,” said Vanessa Young of her project. “Canadians were not proud of being Canadian,” then. He was only a “very little horse,” but he won the Kentucky Derby in two minutes flat, the first Canadian horse
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INSPECTION Inspection of Approved 2016 – 2017 Annual Work Schedule Mazinaw-Lanark Forest The Bancroft District Office of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) has reviewed and approved Mazinaw-Lanark Forest Inc. (MLFI) April 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017 annual work schedule (AWS) for the Mazinaw-Lanark Forest. Availability The AWS will be available for public inspection at the Mazinaw-Lanark Forest Inc. Office and the MNRF public website at ontario.ca/forestplans beginning March 15, 2016 and throughout the one-year duration. Ontario Government Information Centres at Bancroft and Kemptville District Offices provide access to the Internet. Scheduled Forest Management Operations The AWS describes forest management activities such as road construction, maintenance and decommissioning, forestry aggregate pits, harvest, site preparation, tree planting and tending that are scheduled to occur during the year. Tree Planting and Fuelwood Mazinaw-Lanark Forest Inc. is responsible for tree planting on the Mazinaw-Lanark Forest. Please contact Matthew Mertins, Planning and Operations Forester, for information regarding tree planting job opportunities. For information on the locations and licence requirements for obtaining fuelwood for personal use, please contact the MNRF Bancroft District Office. For commercial fuelwood opportunities, please contact MLFI. More Information For more information on the AWS or to arrange an appointment with MNRF staff to discuss the AWS or to request an AWS operations summary map, please contact: Tim Reece, R.P.F. Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Bancroft District Office 106 Monck Street Bancroft, ON K0L 1C0 tel: 613-332-3940, x248 fax: 613-332-0608 office hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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