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F E A T U R E S 32 ACCIDEN TA L G A RDENERS

How two neopyhtes transformed acres of bramble and meadow into a painterly garden in Hockley.

by Barbara Moses 44 WHERE MOOSE AND E L K O N C E R O A M E D

Wildlife populations have evolved dramatically over the past few centuries in the Headwaters region.

by Don Scallen 55 SNOOPING ON WILDLIFE

Trail cams get up close and intimate with local birds and animals as they go about their daily lives.

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66 T ELLING TA LE S OU T LOUD

Dufferin Circle of Storytellers keeps the ancient art of oral storytelling alive in the hills.

by Anthony Jenkins 69 A F O R AY IN T O F O R AG IN G

How to find, harvest and prepare a bounty of wild foods.

by Ruth Ann Pearce 79 MICROGREENS GO MACRO

Several local growers are tapping the big new market for miniature, tasty greens.

by Janice Quirt

62 OUR VOICE S, OUR JOURNE YS

A new exhibit celebrates black history in Caledon through the stories of North Peel Community Church.

by Liz Beatty

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25 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

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Making magic in Erin

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27 FIEL D NO T E S

What to see, hike, write this spring

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1 2 0 W H A T ’ S O N I N T H E H I L L S 88 GOOD SPORT

Ultimate Frisbee

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31 F E N C E P O S T S

A halfway henhouse

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Spring’s seductions

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75 F O O D + D R IN K

A calendar of spring happenings

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The learning journey

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9 4 H I S T O R I C H I L L S 85 MADE IN THE HILLS

Headwaters fly tyers

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Preparing for “The Entrance”

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It seems like everyone knows Pete Paterson. As a commercial photographer in Toronto from 1968, he worked with authors, artists and designers in publishing and advertising. World travel brought more into focus for him – from a Tibet market to Caribbean beaches. Pete moved to Caledon in 1990 and began to concentrate on people and community events for Theatre Orangeville, Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival and others. He has been contributing to In The Hills for more than two decades with photos illustrating everything from antique biplanes to our annual salute to local heroes. Pete has also generously donated his talents to Community Living Dufferin, Facilitation Wellington Dufferin and other community organizations. In this issue Pete gets up close with local microgreens and their growers near Hillsburgh (cover and page 79) and fly fishers and their ties in Mono Mills (page 85).

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nicola ross A hometown girl, writer and columnist Nicola Ross is part of Caledon’s landscape. Since her first story on the politics of water in 1997, she has written scores of features for In The Hills, focusing primarily on environmental issues, agriculture and the best in local sports.

Hiking in particular is in Nicola’s blood. Years spent exploring local trails, wandering country roads and visiting villages prompted her to start the Caledon Countryside Alliance to help protect the area from urban sprawl. In recent years, she has shared this passion in a series of five Loops & Lattes hiking guides. In this issue, Nicola embraces the wonderful world of Ultimate Frisbee as a newbie and gets a serious workout in Orangeville (page 88). And her writers’ retreat, Write on the French, appears in our Field Notes column (page 28).

ruth ann pearce Born and raised in Oakville, a young Ruth Ann could often be found drawing on the walls of her family home. Her fondness for the arts forced her parents to get her out of the house and into the Oakville Art Society – followed by OCAD University where she earned her bachelor of fine arts. Today, Ruth Ann works as a graphic designer, fine artist and illustrator for businesses and book publishers (we love her work in A Bird Chronicle). She resides in the valley of Dunedin where she is inspired by the character of the land and its inhabitants. Previously for this magazine, Ruth Ann has illustrated news features on the opioid crisis and legalized marijuana. In this issue she shares her love of foraging with lush, hyper-real botanical illustrations (page 69).

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A reader once told us: “I hope you don’t mind, but I don’t think of In The Hills as your magazine, I think of it as my magazine.”

No, we don’t mind. In fact, there could hardly be sweeter words.

That’s the thing about telling stories. Unlike secrets, which belong only to their keeper, a story is always a gift, and once shared, it belongs as much to the listener or reader as it does to the teller. With stories, there are no returns or refunds. The genie is out of the lamp.

At In The Hills our job is to tell the stories of our community.

And in this issue these include two stories specifically about telling stories.

First, Liz Beatty explores the story behind a new exhibit at PAMA, which showcases the stories of the mostly black congre­ gation of a Caledon church. “When we first came to Canada, we did not learn anything about Canadian black history,” church leader Ronald Kelly tells her. “Nothing of the story of black people was reflected back to us.” Church members have been active here for more than a generation, and now their stories are embedded in the community record.

And then Anthony Jenkins drops in on a performance of the Dufferin Circle of Storytellers, who have been telling their tales in these parts for 25 years. Here’s how one member of the group describes the purpose of storytelling: “Words are our vehicle for having a shared experience together.”

We’re happy to say this issue is a coronavirus-free zone – except to note that as stories go, there could hardly be one more compelling and widely shared. With a few exceptions I’ve never cared for apocalyptic fiction. What taste I have for thrills runs more to mystery series in books and on screen. I am currently in the midst of a Harlan Coben crime series on Netflix – but I’ve dropped it in the past couple of weeks. It can’t compete with the real-life story of coronavirus, with its moment-to-moment developments, unpredictable plot twists and chilling suspense.

A hundred years ago, my father’s mother and infant sister were among the victims of the great flu epidemic, and that story remains an integral part of my family’s history. This current pandemic, too, will pass, and with luck our rural corner of the world will be spared the most tragic consequences of the virus itself, even as we experience the considerable side effects. No matter how it evolves though, when it’s finally all done, what will inevitably remain are the stories we’ll tell about it.

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Consider animal welfare again With respect to the photo on the cover of the fall issue [re: “Rural Road Trip: A Preview of Dufferin Farm Tour”], Lorraine Sala-Schultz wrote in Letters [winter’19] that the photo of a Holstein calf with ear tags is “no longer normal.” I would be most interested to better understand the letter writer’s qualifications for determining the normality of the processes she deplores.

Ms. Sala-Schultz begs us to consider treating cows like dogs, as both are “sentient beings,” saying that “if you had put a picture of a dog with these tags to be used as a commodity, there would be a public outpour of injustice.”

It seems to have escaped her notice that dogs are, in fact, subject to a number of processes, such as selective breeding, microchipping, tattooing, and neutering or spaying. Rather than deplorable, these activities are hallmarks of responsible pet ownership. Other more controversial procedures, such as tail docking and ear shaping, do not seem to be of concern to her, as she holds up dogs as the species by which we must measure the care of all others. It is ironic that she criticizes farmers for using the same type of responsible ownership practices for their animals as dog owners do for theirs.

The writer lumps all agricultural practices together as an “environmental disaster.” What bunk. She seems to forget not only that agricultural practices vary widely around the globe, but also that every commodity, regardless of how virtuous it may be to its consumers, exacts a cost. The agricultural industries in this country and others that are working to reduce their carbon footprint should be commended for the effort. The writer may do better to sound the alarm about the rising global demand for palm oil, which is rapidly and completely devastating places like Indonesia.

The dialogue should be about how we can all do better in adopting sensible, sustainable practices, regardless of what we choose to consume. I am disappointed that the editor would choose to publish Ms. Sala-Schultz’s letter in a magazine that purports to celebrate and highlight rural living. It does not feel like the way forward.

Tracey Croft, Mulmur

I do appreciate Ms. Sala-Schultz’s comments in Letters [winter’19] about smoking on airplanes and in restaurants, yet I cannot see the connection to animal husbandry practices in Dufferin County or in Ontario.

We care for 120 cows and 50 head of horses in Mulmur right along the escarpment, and what they contribute to the well-being of the ecosystem, soil health and biodiversity is only part of the husbandry equation. Their ability to digest cellulose, grass grown using solar energy and rain water, and convert that into protein or milk is truly amazing. By having manure available, we do not need to use commercial fertilizers or any herbicides to grow what they eat. We consider all our green land, pasture and hayfields as a water filter and carbon sink helping to offset climate change.

Tagging calves is important for identification purposes and required by law for traceability. It is no worse for them than for our human babies to be vaccinated. I invite Ms. Sala-Schultz to reach out to us via our website (pvrbeef.ca), and I warmly invite her to arrange to visit us because there is always more to the story. When you visit local farms and ranches, you get to know the whole food story. That is one reason the Dufferin Farm Tour is so well regarded.

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I picked up the magazine today at my store – just wow! The photos are truly wonderful, but more than that, the story “Settled in Mono” [winter’19] was so very much exactly how we feel about this magical place we get to call home. Writer Tralee Pearce really has a knack for picking out the stuff that counts!

Thank you so much for showcasing our little piece of heaven!

Just read “Brine Dining” [winter’19]! It’s so beautifully written.

Every single person at the Orangeville Winter Market told me they read about me in In The Hills. They are regulars at the market who never noticed me before. I was sold out by noon! That has never happened at that market. Thank you so, so much.

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Hearts in the Hills I’m three-quarters of the way through the winter issue of In The Hills and feeling nostalgic for all the places in Dufferin and surroundings that my husband and I know so well. Now we’ll have to apply as much curiosity to the east side of the province as we did during our 20 years there (10 in Orangeville followed by 10 in Tottenham). We will miss the spring gardens we established, but my husband has lovingly reminded me that we can visit the Tulip Festival and the Experimental Farm for floral shots of colour. In the meantime, the snow is getting deeper. I think it’s going to be a long one.

Our newly built, and not yet landscaped, home is literally within a stone’s throw of the Ottawa River and a ferry ride away from the Gatineau Hills. They will do when we’re missing Caledon’s rolling hills.

I taught at Macville Public School for 20 years and had a variety of drives to school, especially after we moved to Tottenham. It was great to see Mary Balinov featured as a local hero. Her children were my students: Kristian was in my Grade 4 class and Diana was ever-present. Lovely memories – and a remarkable family.

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Alan Huston, Vancouver

Music to our ears I’ve been dabbling in the winter issue of In The Hills since it arrived.

This morning, I sat down at the end of the kitchen table, and started at the beginning and finished at the end – turning each page, reading some articles in depth and others cursorily, but each page dealt with.

The message in the Editor’s Desk [“Hope Springs Eternal”] struck perfectly the tone of our times.

Given the year-end and seasonal timing, the winter issue is rich, rich, rich in every way. We in these hills live with an embarrassment of riches.

The fabric of our land and its peoples is good and strong and with conscious and vigilant tending, we’ll keep the warp and weft colourful, vibrant and enduring.

Keep up the good work.

Sheilagh Crandall, Caledon

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I always enjoy reading Dan Needles’ humorous and enlightening tales in Fence Posts (my first go-to read), but Shelagh Armstrong’s delightful and charming illustrations are the icing on the cake.

As a resident of Mulmur Town­ ship, I’ve been reading your small magazine for over 10 years and am continually surprised by how well it is written and laid out, and how often there are topics of interest to me.

Keep up the excellent work!

Thank you so much for this wonderful, informative magazine that is so full of heart. I read the entire magazine and enjoy the diversity of the articles, and the excellent information they contain. Stellar publication.

Anita Foley, Whitby

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correc tions In the photo of the Hulse family in “Ice, Rocks & Brooms” [winter’19], the name of McKenna Hulse was inadvertently omitted from the caption. McKenna is pictured on the far right.

In “The Year in Books” [winter’19], Orangeville was incorrectly identified as the home of writer Ron McCormack. The author of The Secrets of Mudge Bay lives in 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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Spring onto the trails Is there room on your wall of fame for one more hiking badge? We think so – and spring is the time to get out there and get it. We suggest trying the Pinnacle section of the Grand Valley Trail, which starts just off main street in Alton (we use the map on the Ondago app for this). Or visit the western trailhead of the Oak Ridges Trail in Glen Haffy Conservation Area in Caledon and head east along the Oak Ridges Moraine. Opt for an organized hike or set your own schedule – and earn badges to boot.

Tanya Tagaq appears on stage as part of the Festival of Literary Diversity on Friday, May 1 at 8pm at The Rose Brampton. She’ll be performing and reading from her first book, Split Tooth.

The work was described by The Globe and Mail as “a short mythobiography about a teenage girl living in a small Nunavut community in the 1970s.” The artist’s website puts it this way: “Split Tooth does with words what Tagaq’s music often does without, sweeping the reader into a space where life’s artificial constructs hold no claim.”

Then on Thursday, June 18 from 7 to 9pm, the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie sits down at the Museum of Dufferin for a chat with culture maven Nanci Malek, the museum’s events co-ordinator.

The evening is part of the MoD Talks series. Nanci says she’s keen to tap the motivations behind Sainte-Marie’s remarkable creative journey in the realms of art, music, activism, acting and writing.

“Buffy is an icon of Canadian spirit and pride – a protector of art, community and environment, and someone who speaks from the heart,” says Nanci.

“With this special talk we are hoping to be able to look behind the image on the screen and television, to read beyond the book, and to listen beneath the music to truly understand why she is so uniquely special.”

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Get out your calendar. Two acclaimed Indigenous artists are coming to town: Inuk throat singer and author Tanya Tagaq and singer and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie.

And don’t forget to sign up for the Caledon Hills Bruce Trail Club End to End – registration begins May 1 for the Thanksgiving weekend event covering the entire 72 kilometres of the Caledon section of the Bruce Trail. In the meantime the Dufferin Hi-Land Bruce Trail Club features a 5K Orienteering Hike in which hikers follow GPS co-ordinates that (should!) lead to different letters secreted away in the forest. For bragging rights, find them all and unscramble the hike’s secret three-word phrase.

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If you’d rather get away to pursue your craft, Write on the French is an idyllic writers’ retreat at the Lodge at Pine Cove on the French River. The annual event is produced by longtime In The Hills contributor Nicola Ross and features pros Marni Jackson and Don Gillmor. Write, paddle and dream, May 8 to May 13.

Caledon Library’s LGBTQ+ Book Club at the Albion Bolton branch tackles books with LGBTQ+ themes or by authors who identify as LGBTQ+ on Thursdays, March 26, April 23 and May 28 at 7pm (ages 16+). The Orangeville library’s Teen Advisory Group offers community service hours for teens who come and help plan library services and programs at the Mill Street branch Fridays, April 17, May 8 and June 12, 4 to 5:30pm.

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She’ll gather files, remove duplicates and arrange photos into folders by date, adding metadata (names, activities, places) – among other services. She’ll help with offline photos too. “Photos are part of family history, and now’s the time to scan older ones before they deteriorate,” says Meg. “At the same time, it’s important to organize and ask questions about these photos before the people who know the answers are gone.” E Visit www.megabytememories.com

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Headwaters Writers’ Guild meets twice a month on Sundays at the Mill Street branch of Orangeville Library (18+) and will host an Open Mic Night on Thursday, April 30, 6 to 8pm, where you can read your work or listen to local talent read theirs. Or hone your writing voice in a small group with facilitator Carol Good at the Writing Workshop Series at Caledon Library’s Albion Bolton branch on Saturdays, April 18, 25 and May 2, 10:30am to 1pm.

The Great War Flying Museum at the Brampton Flight Centre on McLaughlin Rd in Caledon is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year – a great reason to plan a trip.

The museum, which showcases a fleet of five historic aircraft, including the Fokker Dr.I, above left, and the Nieuport 28, above right, along with WWI uniforms, mementos and photographs, is open 11am to 4pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, weekends and holidays from May 16 to September 13. Don’t miss the big anniversary celebration on June 21 (Father’s Day) featuring historic aircraft displays, old-timey bands, heritage re-enactors and more.

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very time there’s a divorce in the neighbourhood, I get more chickens.

Anyone who owns a pickup truck knows that whenever a friend is going through a transition, they always ask you to help them move. If you also have a farm and a barn, they will ask you to bring the truck and take a pile of stuff off their hands, usually forever. Over the last 32 years I have stored mountains of furniture, fleets of cars, boats and trailers, and a ton of fine French bric-a-brac. I also get a lot of animals – dogs and cats, ducks and geese, the odd sheep or pig, wind-broke horses, and even cows. It tells you a lot about the state of farming in this country when people just drive up and drop off livestock at the gate.

It’s a reverse form of rustling. One time I came back to the farm late at night and found a sheep I didn’t recognize in the pen with a note pinned to its fleece: “Dan – This is Dolly. She’ll be very happy with you. Best, Robert.” (That was another divorce.) Dolly was getting up in years and had never been sheared.

When we finally got the wool off her, it weighed more than Dolly.

I now have 25 hens in my coop, most of them ready for the pension. I get about three eggs a day from the flock, which is obviously a total waste of time and chicken feed. The only explanation I can offer for my chicken habit is that I like them. They run toward me, not away from me. They are all so quiet I can pick them up and put them on my lap for a visit.

They even have names. I know it’s ridiculous but these birds have been loved so dearly by their former owners that I feel responsible for them.

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Every so often, someone comes back to visit or even reclaim their loved one. But that is rare. Bobby Ransier, the handyman and problem solver of this community, left me three chickens last fall and he’ll be back for them any day now. He has built a massive henhouse at the end of his driveway that he calls Club Cluck, with hot and cold running water, a sound system tuned to Classical FM, and a remote camera hooked up to his iPhone for 24-hour security. But it is not insulated, so he sends the hens up to me for the winter.

It’s a reverse form of rustling.

One time I came back to the farm late at night and found a sheep I didn’t recognize in the pen with a note pinned to its fleece.

A lot of my chickens are licensed because they once lived in town. This is yet another symptom of decay in our culture and a sure sign the revolution is at hand. It will not be long now, comrades. Chicken police from the provincial marketing board patrol the neighbourhood in big black Escalades. The township even has a chicken inspector, which is nuts.

When I was growing up in North Toronto in the 1950s we had five henhouses on our street, including our own. Of course, there were complaints, but they came from people like the high-strung plastic surgeon next door who got upset if a feather blew

onto his lawn. Nobody paid him any mind.

My cattle herd started with a drop-off. A neigh­ bour had an orphan calf that he thought was unlikely to survive, so he gave her to me. She was a belted Galloway, a heritage breed called the Oreo Cookie cow because of the distinctive white band around its belly. (You eat the middle first.) I called her The Duchess, and like a good Russian Romanov, she enjoyed ill-health for many years and produced a line of sickly ne’er-do-well calves who did their best to bankrupt the state. The Duchess was eventually carried off by a summer complaint and is buried out in the orchard beside a hundred other displaced animals who have lived out their declining years in these meadows.

People ask why I let people do this to me. “It must be hard to leave the place,” they say. That’s true, but as long as I crop the fields and keep the pasture full of animals, the property-tax people accept that I’m a farmer and are less likely to reassess my property as rural residential and double my taxes. Just to be on the safe side, when an old sheep expires, I stuff it and stand it up with wires out on the hill so it shows up on their aerial photos.

Still, if you’re thinking of dropping off a dear old friend, please don’t. There is already a very long waiting list.

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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Accidental

With trial, error, dumb luck – and joy – two neophytes transformed four acres of bramble and meadow into a painterly Hockley garden.

BY BARBARA MOSES

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re you nuts? Why are you weeding the forest?” An astonished friend asked this about 30 years ago when he came to visit our newly built Hockley home and watched my husband, Andrew Weiner, and me tearing out wheelbarrows of wild raspberry bushes on the edge of the forest.

I wish I could say this fruit-killing foray was inspired by a vision of a naturalistic garden – one that has come to follow and reinforce the contours of the landscape where open meadow meets a brooding forest bowl, lined by huge boulders with drifts of woodland perennials in the shady background and sun-loving perennials in the front.

But our task wasn’t inspired by a vision. I just hated the prickly bushes that required a half day of picking to yield a thimbleful of raspberries. I was removing something ugly – not moving toward creating some­ thing beautiful. All I could answer my friend was that it seemed like a good idea, even if I didn’t know why.

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top An inviting wave of colour and form marks the transition from field to forest in the writer’s expansive Hockley garden. left A hollow stump makes a natural sculpture of found art.

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top Rocks and gravel run like a natural stream through a section of the garden.

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right Low red-leafed sedum and variegated iris poke through chartreuse Scotch moss to create a profusion of colour even when blooms are scarce.

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As is often the case with self-taught gardeners, Andrew and I never had a master plan. Our garden simply evolved and expanded organically, no pun intended, over time. It was only when we were left with a large swath of emptiness with all the charm of an abandoned bus lot that the concept of how to fill it was born.

In my professional life as a work/life specialist, I tell people their careers will evolve meaningfully and naturally if they build on what they are good at in the environment in which they thrive. The same is true of gardens – basically, work with what you have and build on what works.

For example, we first planted the former bramble patch with several flowering shrubs (lilacs, weigela, viburnum). When what seemed like a wall of foliage began to emerge, we made a bolder statement by planting about 25 more shrubs and fruit trees. The usual suspects of sunny perennials such as sages, veronicas and phloxes followed. But the bushes looked weak as a backdrop, so in went the cedar hedgerows to create structure and a strong foil.

Like many novice gardeners on a budget, I was opportunistic. If someone gave me a garbage bag full of plants, I happily took it. Free material! Will fill in lots of holes! Note to novice gardeners: Be judicious when someone gives you a lot of one kind of plant because it’s probably invasive. Andrew and I spent far too much energy over the years trying to keep the donated ditch lilies, periwinkle and geraniums under control.

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rchitect Claude Liger-Belair had positioned our house on a meadow hillock just east of the forest to take advantage of long views over Hockley hills’ rooftops through to distant Brampton lights. A hundred-year-old beech about 40 feet from the house provided an important perspective point.

One night, shortly after the arborist had finished pruning the majestic tree, we felt the earth tremble.

We thought it was an earthquake. It wasn’t – the tree had crashed.

That is how our second garden area evolved. Across from the house it is defined by two hillocks, shaped like an asymmetrical bosom – what I call a C cup, cleavage defined by paths on both sides, and a triple-Z cup. It is a largish area, almost half an acre. Daunted by its size, we hired someone to prepare the soil and plant the garden. But he wasn’t a plantsman or a designer. Shade-loving plants were in the sun and vice versa; large shrubs in front stopped the eye. Many of the plants died, and we moved most of the rest.

We later found two masterful gardeners, Susan Feindell and Sue Edwards, to assist with weeding and jobs requiring artisanal skills we lack. But it was from that first unhappy experience with outsourcing that I found my gardening voice – realizing that if I trusted my own instincts, I could design the garden myself.

Which I did. But in stages. Because after I replanted the garden, which I’d conceived as a transition between meadow and forest, it struck me as garden interruptus, since it stopped about 400 feet from the far end of the forest it bordered.

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top Large allium blossoms float above the leafy colour of amber heuchera “Northern Exposure� and golden Japanese forest grass. centre The deep blue pool, modelled on European reflecting pools, complements the blues and pale yellows of the hostas that line the edge of the cedar wood beside it. bottom Pale blue Russian sage provides airy height and a soothing note next to the hot hues of midsummer lilies and rudbeckia.

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So we continued. And continued. Because every time we stopped – one transition garden after another – it still looked like garden interruptus, until we got to the forest’s end. Like a sentence, the garden needed a period. (The garden now runs continuously about 1,100 feet, varying from 20 to 100 feet wide.)

I wasn’t a complete gardening virgin when I started. With a typical mid-Toronto handkerchiefsized garden, I was interested in gardening. I had read natural gardening expert/photographer Ken Druse’s book The Natural Garden. My summar­ized takeaway: Think of the entire landscape of meadows and forests as “garden,” and the cultivated area as “makeup,” in the way makeup enhances the bones of an already beautiful face.

Notwithstanding, there is tremendous artifice in creating a so-called natural garden – the plants should look like they were born there. The design and feel should be the opposite of loud, attention-hijacking, “look at me” plantings, but rather blend seamlessly into the forests and meadows around them.

I dislike gardens in which each section looks like it was planted by a different person – a composition borrowed from a friend’s Japanese garden, another from a blog on hot colour trends. I wanted the garden to knit together by repeating themes that keep the eye moving. Currently in the woodland (the original sweet woodruff and Solomon’s seal were killed over several winters), there are astilbes, ferns, lady’s mantle and rodgersia, and in the sunny area, thymes, veronicas, artemisias and sedums, which show up in different combinations throughout. Colours in various forms – greys, reds, chartreuse – also repeat.

Because of the garden’s scale, each area has a sobriquet which changes with my mood. Sometimes it references what had been there (the beech tree garden), or its shape (the bosom garden). Sometimes it references location (upper middle), what is going on in the garden (the hot garden, the hydrangea garden), or how I feel about it (the neglected garden, the naïve garden, which is what I call my original garden). And sometimes it references its development over time (the former transition garden, the new transition garden, the new new transition garden). The descriptors work for me, but not so much when I sent Andrew or the gardeners to work in one of them. Go figure.

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top Streams of hostas punctuated by pinky-green Japanese and other ferns demarcate the shady edge of the woods. centre Mauve-pink echinacea and a variety of hot pink and orange lilies combine with the soft grey-green of artemisia and maiden grass to make an enchanting July palette. bottom Beyond the more cultivated gardens, the summer meadow flushes with hazy sweeps of wildflowers.

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combined the cognitive (design) with the joyful, the flexible ambivert. Me? I think I am a control freak introvert gardener trying to pass as a tolerant laissezfaire ambivert. As a friend’s then-adolescent daughter said, on observing me repeatedly digging out recently planted perennials, “Every time you go into the garden the plants send out an emergency alert: Duck!

Crazy lady with shovel coming.”

It is said that gardeners fall into two camps – plant lovers enthralled by the unique characteristics of a particular plant, and designers who consider plants “material” for painting on a living canvas. I fall into the latter camp. I am trying to paint with plants, using them to create broad brushstrokes of colour. Although we have a few unusual plants, most were chosen for their ability to maintain good form through the seasons. (No staking! I dislike high-maintenance, “I’m so pretty” princess plants.

Peonies are an exception, though I don’t stake them.)

Also critical is the colour and shape of their foliage, and how they relate in colour, form and texture to surrounding plants.

Another rule: Plants need to play nice. No more tyrants gobbling up 10 times their allotted space, spreading malignant rhizomes and wanton seeds everywhere. And no more under-assertive snowflakes. That’s the fantasy, at least. (Often, instead of accomplishing the year’s to-do list, we spent weekends digging out wheelbarrows of obnoxious aggressors.)

Foliage colour is particularly important to me, especially in the bosom garden because of the sightlines from the house. I planted it to hold its own throughout the season with contrasting foliage providing the interest – chartreuse moss and forest grass with amber-coloured heuchera, punctuated by changing blossoms of purple and blue flowers to cool down the foliage. For example, purple sedum pairs with grey thyme and chartreuse moss. The latter is especially delicious when the red-stemmed sedum snakes through it.

Gardens also need hardscaping. In our garden, the concrete pool with its stone apron was inspired by old European reflecting pools. And because I wanted something muscular to divide the pool area from the driveway, we added a dry stone wall. Andrew dubbed the current incarna­tion Wall 3.0 (because the first two walls we built collapsed). Dry stone waller Eric Landman promised this one would last decades beyond our lifetimes.

I still make mistakes. In 2018 we lost a patch of sweet woodruff by the forest edge. Being expedient and opportunistic, I transplanted nearby fleece flower ground cover (not a wood­land plant) to fill it in. It looks like a condo landscaper has just left the property. And I’m still struggling with the cleavage in the bosom garden, replanted so many times I don’t remember previous incarnations. It’s still not right.

And then there is the winterkill heartbreak. The rusty foxglove, which provided structure and the perfect weird colour, is gone, as are the large drifts of sculptural grasses we spent years developing. Over a hard winter two years ago, we lost about 300 plants, leaving huge holes still not entirely filled.

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But the love affairs continue. Some are inevit­ ably promiscuous seasonal crushes, but the longterm ones include Russian sage for silver “need-iteverywhere” foliage and architecture, knautia and allium for playful balloon-like flowers floating above other perennials, and sedums for form (and because even clumsy transplanters like me can divide and replant them).

Like most gardeners, I thrive not only on the intimacy that envelops you in the garden, but on the drama of the marquee moment. In spring, it’s the glorious explosions of pinks, purples and reds from the lilacs and flowering fruit trees, followed by hot pink peonies and the lavish colour combinations of orange poppies with electric purple Siberian irises, or soft grey artemisia with neon fuchsia carnations.

Come summer, it’s the waves of changing shades from prairie perennials, such as rudbeckia.

Just as many people say they drifted into their careers and never planned to become what they became, we drifted into creating a large-scale garden mostly instigated by the landscape.

Gardening is inspiring; however, I’ve learned it’s not for sissies. I still fret over rapacious thugs and lost treasures, but spring inevitably fills me with hope and the anticipation of many years of inspiration as the garden continues to grow, not in scale but in refinement.

postscript It is the nature of gardening articles that they are written well before publication. Photographer Rosemary Hasner documented our garden throughout last year, and I wrote my reflections last fall. But seasons change, and life changes with them.

Tragically, in early December, Andrew, my husband of 46 years, died following a sudden and brief illness.

Andrew and I had always done most of the garden work ourselves. Though we laboured side by side, my preoccupations tended to colour, design and form – and weeding. For Andrew it had more to do with the sheer joy of physical labour. With a stamina I could never match, he would spend hours walking up and down the hilly terrain with a heavy wheelbarrow, planting, mulching and taking special pride in pruning to open and shape the views, before finally returning to the house happily encrusted in soil and sweat.

As I reread my concluding paragraph from last fall, I realize that this spring, for the first time ever, I will approach the garden with ambivalence.

Perhaps more than anywhere else, it was the place Andrew and I communed most easily – creatively, often wordlessly, united in our common and meditative purpose. As the days grow warm, my fond hope is that I will return to the garden and find a place of solace, where our two spirits still reside together amid the growing things we nurtured. Time will tell.

top Perched on a hillock, the house links to its natural surroundings with clipped cedars that give way to plantings amid a cascade of field boulders. centre Spiky Veronica, fuzzy liatris and cheerful phlox provide a symphony of blue against golden rudbeckia as July turns to August. bottom A collection of aging Muskoka chairs blends into the meadow, providing a spot for rest and reflection.

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n about 1600, the wind-blown seed of a white cedar settled into a crack in the scarp face at a place that would one day be called Mono Cliffs Provincial Park. The seed germinated, drawing moisture and minerals from the small amount of organic matter in the fissure. Over time, the cedar’s questing roots sought out other cracks and fissures, finding just enough nourishment to survive. It grew, but only in tiny increments year by year.

Today, gnarled and twisted, the tree is dwarfed by the much younger cedars in the forest above the cliff.

Still, the seemingly inhospitable cliff face is a good place to be – if success is measured by longevity.

In fact, many of the cedars at Mono Cliffs and elsewhere along the Niagara Escarpment are centuries older. The oldest, dubbed “the Ancient One,” tops a mind-boggling 1,300 years! The Mono Cliffs cedar, entering its fifth century of life, may live on far into the future.

During the cedar’s 400-plus years, it has changed at a glacial pace. Not so, however, the surrounding landscape, nor the flora, fauna and people living in that landscape. When the cedar’s seed germinated, no European settlers lived in Ontario. But there were people, of course. Over the first 250 years or so of the tree’s life, First Nation people travelled, foraged and hunted on the land where it grew.

Then, as European settlers arrived in the 19th century, land was cleared, guns proliferated and the environment experienced convulsive change.

The upwelling of land between Lakes Ontario and Huron, including much of Headwaters, was once “a cool upland of deep forests,” wrote John Riley in The Once and Future Great Lakes Country. The trees of those deep forests remain familiar today: maple, hemlock, beech, birch, pine, ash and others. But a difference between then and now is the age and dimensions of some of those trees. Nearly all today’s woodlands have been cut at least once.

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Aside from the escarpment cedars, truly old trees are a rarity. Before European settlement, trees had a chance to age into charismatic giants.

These old-growth forests were verdant, leafy places providing habitat for a cast of animals that have either disappeared from the Headwaters region or been reduced to a tiny fraction of their former numbers.

The animals would have included elk, moose, wolves, martens, fishers and even wolverines, last recorded in southern Ontario in Grey County in 1889, according to Ontario’s Wolverine Recovery Strategy. And although two species of grouse once populated Headwaters, only the ruffed grouse has managed to hang on. The spruce grouse, once “plentiful in the vicinity of Orangeville,” according to the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario, 2001–2005, is now found only in northern Ontario.

The former presence of these animals can help us imagine the Headwaters landscape before intensive settlement.

Spruce grouse, for example, like to

live in forests dominated by spruce and Jack pine. So two centuries ago large tracts of coniferous forest were probably common here.

Wolverines now live only in the wildest places – northern Canada and the Rocky Mountains. They appear unable, or unwilling, to live in settled landscapes. That this formidable predator once ambled through these hills demonstrates just how wild the landscape was in precolonial times.

Similarly, the presence of elk before European settlement suggests not all southern Ontario was solidly cloaked in forest. Though elk will live in forest, they thrive in open habitats where they can find plenty of forage.

A walk through a Headwaters forest in 1720 would have been different from a hike through a woodland in 2020. In the 18th century, prudence would have guided your footfalls.

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Elk (above) prefer open spaces, and their presence in precolonial Headwaters suggests the region was not solidly cloaked in forest.

Flocks of passenger pigeons (upper right), now extinct, once formed “biological storms” in the skies above our hills. Formerly abundant in local waterways, Atlantic salmon were lost to overfishing. A concerted program called Bring Back the Salmon is attempting to restore them.

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timber rattlesnakes – the larger and more heavy-bodied relatives of the massasauga – may have inhabited the region as well.

One of these impressive pit vipers was once recorded near Rockside in Caledon. And though timber rattlesnakes are non-aggressive and not at all deserving of the fear and loathing that led to their extirpation in Ontario, the possibility of encountering one tended to sharpen the senses. So did the presence of bears and cougars, even though these animals are very rarely aggressive toward people. Walking a precolonial woodland would have been akin to walking in a city today, when sensible caution guides our interactions with cars and trucks.

Not all fauna that were once common have disappeared. Mosquitoes, for example, continue to pester us today, just as they tormented people 200

years ago. At that time, however, there was a potentially lethal twist. Malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes, was common in Upper Canada (presentday Ontario) in colonial times. The malady “was so common in the period from the 1780s to the 1840s that it was considered remarkable if any newcomer failed to acquire the disease within a year or two. Rich or poor, old or young, almost all suffered with ‘fever and ague,’” notes the Canadian Encyclopedia.

Though the overall mortality rate for the particular variety of malaria was low, the disease could still be deadly.

From 1826 to 1832, when the Rideau Canal was being built, malaria may have killed as many as 500 workers.

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The disappearance of the salmon was especially poignant because it visited great hardship on the Mississauga, the Anishinaabe people who lived north of Lake Ontario at the time of European settlement.

workers. Those who died, however, may already have been weakened by other diseases endemic at the time, including dysentery, smallpox and tuberculosis.

The reason malaria arrived in colonial Ontario is open to specula­ tion. British soldiers, formerly posted in the tropics, may have brought it here, but this theory has been dis­ puted. Also shrouded in mystery is the reason it disappeared from the province and, in fact, from most of North America. It’s a loss not mourned.

In this magazine, Chris Wedeles wrote in 2012 about passenger pigeons, which were abundant in Headwaters during the colonial period – until land clearing and an orgy of shooting led to their rapid demise. These hills were prime habitat for these birds.

In The Passenger Pigeon in Ontario, Margaret H. Mitchell reported that a nesting colony in Mulmur covered an estimated four square miles. Another

near Luther Lake was said to contain millions of breeding birds. There is simply no analogue today that can help us grasp these numbers, at least in North America.

Famed conservationist Aldo Leopold, writing in A Sand County Almanac, described the passenger pigeon this way: “The pigeon was a biological storm. He was the lightning that played between two opposing potentials of intolerable intensity: the fat of the land and the oxygen of the air. Yearly the feathered tempest roared up, down, and across the continent, sucking up the laden fruits of forest and prairie, burning them in a travelling blast of life.”

Here in Headwaters and throughout eastern North America, these “bio­ logical storms” of passenger pigeons once nourished large numbers of owls, hawks and mammalian predators such

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as wolves, bobcats and weasels, as well as hosts of insects and scavengers. All these pigeon-dependent creatures were entwined in a great food and energy web, a fecund and vibrant biology now extinguished.

The profound effect of passenger pigeons on the environment wasn’t limited to the birds themselves and the animals they fed. By “sucking up the laden fruits of forest and prairie,” passenger pigeons also influenced the distribution and abundance of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. They ate, for example, a smorgasbord of berries – dogwood, grape, winterberry, pin cherry, raspberry, partridgeberry, elderberry, blueberry – essentially every berry that grows here in these hills and beyond. We can only guess at how our flora might be different if passenger pigeons were still around to distribute seeds through their droppings.

Atlantic salmon, too, must have greatly influenced the ecology of

the Credit and Humber watersheds in Headwaters. The sheer biomass of these fish, wriggling upstream from Lake Ontario to spawn in the autumn, was astounding. References to their abundance fill early journals.

Their ecological links must have been similar to those of Pacific salmon today – connections that nourish bears, otters, eagles and a multitude of scavengers, such as ravens. The decline and eventual extirpation of Atlantic salmon from Lake Ontario by the end of the 19th century deprived predators and scavengers of huge amounts of nourishing protein.

Ecological connections include human beings, and the disappearance of the salmon was especially poignant because it visited great hardship on the Mississauga, the Anishinaabe people who lived north of Lake Ontario at the time of European settlement. The Mississauga traditionally encamped along the Credit and Humber rivers during the salmon runs. The harvested

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A walk through a Headwaters forest in 1720 would have been different from a hike through a woodland in 2020. In the 18th century, prudence would have guided your footfalls.

salmon helped fill their winter larders.

And as the market economy took hold, the Mississauga began selling part of their catch to settlers in the growing communities of 19th-century Ontario.

As early as the late 18th century, however, the Mississauga were becoming concerned about the future of their salmon fishery, and in 1829 they petitioned the lieutenant governor of Upper Canada to respect their negotiated fishing rights along the Credit River. Settlers were trespassing, taking great quantities of fish and treating the Mississauga with contempt. The urgency and desperation expressed in the petition was heartbreaking: “We sold a great deal of our land to our great father the King for very little and we became poorer and poorer. We reserved all the hunting and fishing, but the white men soon grew so many that they took all: when the rest was gone we kept the ten mile creek, the twelve mile creek and the river Credit.

The two first are gone from us, but we are wishing to keep the Credit. We reserved one mile on each side of the Credit, where we now live … We now want the fish in our river, that we may keep our children at home to go to school, and not go many miles back to hunt for provisions.”

The petition included this simple request: “Now, Father, once all the fish in these rivers and these lakes … were ours; but your red children only ask you to cause laws to be made to keep these bad men away from our fishery at the River Credit.”

The colonial government responded with laws to protect the fishing rights of the Mississauga along the Credit.

Alas, those laws were ignored.

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hope of wresting a living from the land in traditional ways, by hunting, fishing and foraging. Like the Atlantic salmon, the other animals the Mississauga relied on were also undergoing catastrophic declines as precolonial forests and wetlands were converted to agriculture, and a full-blown slaughter of wildlife took place.

Carver Simpson, who lived on a farm in East Garafraxa, may have been a typical hunter. Simpson’s journals for 1878 and 1881–82 suggest, as was probably the norm for young farmers in that era, he had an impressive reper­ toire of skills. The tasks and projects he completed, and casually mentions in his journal, were remarkably diverse.

Though farm life kept Simpson busy, he did find time for recreation – and one of his favorite pastimes was hunting. Caledon Lake was a favoured destination for shooting waterfowl.

In Simpson’s era, before any prevailing environmental ethic, everything was fair game. The young

man recorded shooting crows, ducks, partridges (grouse), blackbirds, skylarks (horned larks), snowbirds (snow buntings), hawks, sparrows, meadowlarks and woodpeckers. Once he even shot a “tomtit,” which was likely the little bird we call a chickadee.

Taxidermy was one of his skills and he stuffed the tomtit, as he did many of the animals he shot and trapped.

He also shot passenger pigeons.

Though he referred to them as pigeons, an excellent sketch – Simpson could also draw – shows the unmistakable image of one of those now extinct birds. In September 1882, he shot five.

The date is notable. It comes 10 years after a man named Robert Reid, in Camilla at the time, recorded the final “large flight” of passenger pigeons in Dufferin County. And the 1882 date precedes by 17 years the most recent reference I could find to passenger pigeons in Headwaters: “a flock of ten seen on Easter.” The observer, named Calvert, recorded this sighting in Orangeville in 1899.

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Black bears seem to be moving back into these hills. These forest dwellers have been spotted at locations throughout Dufferin County, as well as in Erin and the northern reaches of Caledon.

Simpson also shot and trapped mammals, including rabbits, groundhogs, squirrels, weasels, mink, foxes, skunks and muskrats.

The presence of these mammals in late 19th-century Dufferin is unremarkable. They were common then and remain common today.

What is notable, however, are the animals not mentioned in Simpson’s journals – no beaver, no wolves and, astonishingly, no deer.

Simpson was a keen observer of wildlife. He recorded incidental sightings of birds and animals he shot at and missed, as well as others too distant to shoot. He also noted an unsuccessful bear hunt undertaken by some friends. It’s unlikely Simpson saw deer, beaver, and wolves in the East Garafraxa countryside and failed to mention them. Far more likely is that these animals were simply gone.

Simpson doesn’t mention coyotes either, an omission easy to explain.

At the time, these western relatives of wolves were unknown in the area. But

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the same time as a bounty on bears.

Various wolf bounties continued for nearly 200 years until repealed in 1972. The bounties, coupled with land clearance and the loss of prey animals, yielded the result Fothergill desired.

Wolves became scarce and their lack of mention in the pages of Simpson’s journals suggests they were gone from southern Dufferin County by 1879.

As for beavers, also absent from Simpson’s journals, the European traders’ rapacious demand for furs fuelled overharvesting in the 18th and 19th centuries. Beavers were eliminated in many places, probably including Simpson’s bailiwick in these hills. And deer? It’s hard to fathom that these common animals were either rare in or completely absent from this region 150 years ago. But so it seems, as biologist Gaston Tessier, writing for the Canadian Wildlife Federation, noted, “In colonial times, people regarded all natural resources as inexhaustible. Because of this attitude, deer populations came to the brink of disaster in the 1800s.”

An example of the profligate slaughter of wildlife of the time was described in A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada, published in 1855 by British writer, historian and scientist Charles Richard Weld. The activity Weld witnessed, euphemistically called a “squirrel bee,” was conducted in the woods near Lake George, New York. The objective of the “bee” was simple: Go to the woods and shoot anything that moves. Here, according to Weld, is the grim tally: “1 wild cat, 7 red foxes, 29 raccoons, 76 woodchucks, 101 rabbits, 21 owls, 42 hawks, 103 partridges, 14 quails, 39 crows, 4,497 gray, red, black, and striped squirrels, 25 wild ducks, besides unnumbered pigeons, jays, woodpeckers, &c.”

Little wonder that the Headwaters region – and much of eastern North America – was impoverished of wildlife by the time Carver Simpson began writing journal entries in 1878.

Since Simpson’s time there has been a modest rewilding. Attitudes toward wildlife have undergone a sea change.

Most of us, including hunters, have embraced a conservation ethic that values the lives of other creatures.

Even predators, once demonized,

are now generally accepted. Hunting and trapping regulations ended the wholesale slaughter of wildlife. The maturation of existing forests in these hills and the return of marginal farmland to woodland has improved habitat. And Headwaters’ rivers are running cleaner, thanks among other things to pollution control and protected tree cover in their valleys and on their floodplains.

Deer and beaver are thriving. Fishers are returning. Turkeys, once extirpated, but reintroduced in the 1980s, have done so well that some consider them a nuisance. Ravens once again nest on Niagara Escarpment cliffs. Various hawk species, formerly shot at every turn, are becoming common. Bring Back the Salmon, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, as well as many other partners, is attempting to restore the Atlantic salmon runs to Lake Ontario streams.

Black bears, too, seem to be moving back into these hills. Once a rarity, bear sightings have increased in recent years. These forest dwellers have been spotted at locations throughout Dufferin County, as well as in Erin and the northern reaches of Caledon.

(There are also occasional reports of cougar sightings, though none has ever been verified by photo, track or scat.)

Still, the living landscape around the 400-year-old cedar at Mono Cliffs Provincial Park is a mere shadow of what it was before colonization. The diversity and sheer quantity of wildlife is much reduced.

It is entirely possible that the Mono Cliffs cedar will survive and cling to the escarpment face for several more human lifetimes. In coming years, reforestation, population growth, climate change and conservation initiatives will affect the ecology of Headwaters, for better and for worse.

The cedar will continue to bear silent witness to further dramatic transformation.

Don Scallen is a naturalist and retired science teacher. You can read more of his observations about local flora and fauna in his “Notes from the Wild” at inthehills.ca.

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The creatures who share our Headwaters home may be watching us, who knows, but night and day, through all seasons, in all weathers, some of us derive great pleasure from watching them.

Don’t call us outdoor nosey parkers. We’re curious animal lovers with motion-sensing cameras.

On the trails on our property, through meadows and woods in beautiful Mono, my wife, Kathryn, and I would regularly encounter intriguing tracks.

From time to time we’d flush a grouse, spot a harem of wild turkeys driven by a puffed-up tom, or startle a shuffling porcupine into slo-mo retreat.

Much more seldom we’d be gifted a sublime view of a doe and her spotted fawn. We’d freeze. And if we were downwind, mother and daughter – who always kept close – would continue munching, blissfully unaware of our presence. A David Suzuki moment. Then we’d be sensed, or seen, and in an instant the pair would vanish, disguised in dapples, two strides into the forest. We wanted to see more.

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outdoors. They are set up on a metal stand or bound to a post or tree, their lens focused on a trail, pond, stream or clearing where unsuspecting wildlife might travel or congregate.

Solar-powered and activated by motion, these cameras take still shots or short videos of whatever trips them, even at night. All activity is recorded to a less-than-postage-stamp-sized chip which can be downloaded into any computer for viewing. Who knows what went bump in the night, way out back? With a trail cam aimed in the right spot, you do.

Trail cams originated in the 1980s when university students in Missouri were seeking a tool to study whitetail deer in the wild. The technology has improved considerably since then and is now widely used not only by nature researchers but by hunters hoping to learn the patterns of transitory game, as well as by curious folks like us.

We had never owned, nor aspired to own, anything in camouflage.

Until our trail cams. They cost a couple of hundred dollars each, are weatherproof (mostly) and usually sport the grey-green-brown camo splotches so beloved as outerwear by hunters and skateboard punks.

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That is, until recently. Kathryn had created a pond on the edge of a meadow. It is a gorgeous thing, rimmed with ranks of wildflowers, rocks and spreading ground cover, and filled with lily pads, water hyacinths, and soon, approving frogs.

She relocated the trail cams to grab glimpses of the creatures who came to drink. We saw stills and videos of deer, porcupines, thirsty skunks, furtive coyotes, raccoon families washing their food (and, one night, mom aggressively driving away a prowling cat), even a languid marten, we think, who went for a moonlight dip. Our pond cam images of an unaware menagerie became a regular delight.

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claw – and beak. The heron flew into the shot spectacularly. Furling a big wingspan, it strode purposely around the pond before stepping in.

There it stood, patient and motionless on long legs. Waiting.

Then, quick as you can say “lunch,” the big bird stabbed its stiletto beak into the water and came up with an unlucky frog, legs still kicking.

The heron lingered, casually wandering the pond, repeating its predations again and again. We counted six frogs eaten in the one sitting – well, standing. Our frog pond became the heron’s buffet.

And not just once. It returned the next day. I was displeased. Highly displeased! Kathryn immediately posted “Pond Enemy No. 1” warnings on her Instagram account.

If I can I find a trail cam with a remote-controlled death laser, it’s going on my Christmas wish list. I know the heron has to eat, but these were our frogs.

Although train cams are constantly improving, there are still frustrations. The motion sensitivity is often too acute. For every meandering deer, ambling skunk or skulking raccoon, we seem to get tenfold of waving grasses and fluttering leaves.

Nominally waterproof, the cameras – some, and some just sometimes – can cease to function when wet, or work erratically. The odd time, the colours have been scrambled and we’ve watched pastel creatures prowling a purple forest under orange skies. At night the camera’s flash can startle and drive off midnight prowlers, or keep them at a distance, recording only glowering eyes glowing in the darkness. A pair of owls, perching by our pond in the wee hours, had huge reflective headlights for eyes.

One time we were treated to a coyote in close-up, his snout curiously sniffing at the camera. Courting grouse, mincing skunks, oblivious deer, inquisitive ravens, armadas of turkeys, wide-eyed squirrel pups, porcupines, rabbits, pheasants, owls, raccoons and one gluttonous heron – these are the candid cavalcade of creatures that have delighted us via our trail cams – we now have three, so far.

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I have served as Chair of both the Brampton and Caledon Community Foundation (BACCF) and the Central West Local Health Integration Network (CWLHIN). Serving on both boards, particularly in capacity of Chair, I have come to know first-hand the great needs that exist in our community.

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Our Voices, Our Journeys A new exhibit celebrates local black history through the personal stories of a Caledon congregation’s pioneering contributions to Headwaters.

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espite the bitter February afternoon, Bishop Ronald Kelly exudes extra­ ordinary warmth, beckoning me through the side door of North Peel Community Church in the south Caledon hamlet of Sandhill. Inside I meet Pastor Claudette Kelly, his wife of nearly 50 years. The two have come straight from Black History Month celebrations at two schools in their hometown of Shelburne. The Kellys and their predominantly black church congregation of about 60 have been contributing to the celebrations for years.

The couple’s work and congregation, which includes Canadians from as far afield as Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana and Lebanon, are the subject of a new exhibit at the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives in Brampton. Titled Our Voices, Our Journeys: Black Communities in Peel and unveiled in February during Black History Month, the groundbreaking exhibit spotlights the history, leaders and contemporary stories of North Peel Community Church, one of many diverse black communities in Peel. Though the evolving exhibit was launched in just six weeks, it reflects a story five decades in the making.

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Founding the Church “I’ll let her talk first,” Bishop Kelly defers, a gentle­ man of course, but perhaps more so signalling he and his wife are a team in every way. Pastor Kelly describes their journey to this house of worship, which was formerly St. Mark’s Anglican Church, built in 1871.

The saga began with her first trip to visit friends in Canada from her home in Manchester, Jamaica – a much-needed respite after the tragic death of her father in 1964. Within a decade, she and Bishop Kelly were married and had settled in Brampton where they started a family and focused on what had always been foundational for both – building a community of Christian faith. As their ministry grew they sought a permanent home base, their own church. But finding the right, affordable spot wasn’t easy.

“Then the real estate agent told us about this property, but it was not ready for church services,” chuckles Bishop Kelly. “You’d walk in and see the sky through the ceiling. No heat, no water. But from then on we never stopped. We kept working and working.”

That was in 1983. The Kellys sold their Brampton house, bought the decommissioned church and moved their young family into a trailer on the property.

Bishop Kelly went to school to learn the required building trades, then led the young, enthusiastic congregation in rebuilding and expanding their new home. Indeed, the hands of both the Kellys and many still in this community built the room we are sitting in.

Local Caledon farmers supported the church community from the get-go, helping mow the lawn and contributing to church garage sales held to raise funds for the repairs. “I remember Harvey Cook and his brother came over to help scrub the old wood floors in preparation for the first wedding held here,” says Bishop Kelly. Cook was a farmer who owned the surrounding land. Before he sold his farm and moved, he ensured the church got another small piece of property for the additional parking required by the growing congregation.

The Church Today A lot has changed since 1983. Brampton is now almost next door. There’s a street light at the Sandhill crossroad, along with much more traffic on nearby Airport Road. Bishop and Pastor Kelly are not so young anymore, but still remarkably energetic. And

a new beginning A preview of some of the images and artifacts from Our Voices, Our Journey.

The North Peel Community Church in Sandhill was originally built in 1871 as an Anglican church. A stained glass window is one of a trio above the pulpit that survived years of decay and exposure before the derelict church was purchased by Pastor Claudette and Bishop Ronald Kelly (top right) as a home for their growing congregation.

With the enthusiastic labour of church members (including a young Pastor Kelly cutting brush with a machete) and help from the surrounding farm community, the church was renovated and an extension added to house offices and Sunday school.

To help raise funds for a new roof, the Sunday school published a cookbook of Caribbean recipes – one of the everyday objects that tell the story of the church and its people.

indeed, the church is beautifully renovated with a new roof, new windows, new carpeting, new comfortable seating and two floors of Sunday school, meeting and administrative space. And as ever, there are plans to do more. But what matters most to the Kellys is not the physical building. Nor is it the accomplishments that advance only their group. What matters most is service – to their faith and the community.

Many original members, including their children and now grandchildren, are still with the congrega­ tion. Even some members who have moved away continue to support the church, which has a thriving youth ministry. And this sense of community extends well beyond their church.

For 19 years North Peel Community Church has run summer camps open to all youth in the region. They are active in local food drives. They are leaders and collaborators at The Exchange in Bolton, a community hub that brings together Caledon residents to respond to community needs. They even agreed to put a Canada Post community mailbox on the church property to connect with nearby neighbours. Still, it’s the commitment to share Canada’s black history within the Headwaters region

that has recently sparked a new way for the church to make big difference.

“When we first came to Canada, we did not learn anything about Canadian black history. Nothing of the story of black people here was reflected back to us,” explains Bishop Kelly. This void inspired the Kellys to bring Black History Month lessons and celebrations to local schools. “What we knew of history, we carried with us, and it’s a rich history that should be preserved for our children.”

Two years ago Bolton resident Kevin Junor, the church’s district elder, led an initiative to take things further. An active captain in the Armed Forces reserves and the Toronto Scottish Regiment’s first black regimental sergeant major, Junor reached out to Caledon town council. He proposed expanding the town’s black history celebrations and education, sharing the church’s vision of profiling black trailblazers, inspiring future leaders and using the past as a roadmap to help young people become successful. The town endorsed the idea, and the church’s congregation created a new Caledon Black History Month presentation. And this proved to be just the beginning.

PAMA Gets Involved This past year, in response to the Caledon presentations, PAMA’s team consulted the town for assistance in creating an exhibit about local black history, part of the museum’s new focus on building regional engagement. The town connected the team directly to North Peel Community Church. “We met with church leaders and helped produce this year’s Black History Month exhibit in Caledon, which tells the story of an array of black leaders across Canada and internationally,” explains Sam Cronk, PAMA’s senior curator of history. “But then we proposed something different. We asked – maybe you could tell your story at PAMA.” The idea represented a dramatic pivot for both organizations. Our Voices, Our Journeys soon took shape as an exhibit space for featuring contemporary first-person stories from Peel’s diverse communities.

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one man ’s story On his flight to Canada, 10-year-old Kevin Junor carried a 15-pound dictionary once owned by his grandmother and treasured by his family as an heirloom from their Jamaican homeland.

Junor, a Bolton resident and longtime church member, became the first black regimental sergeant major of the Toronto Scottish Regiment. Among the images in the PAMA exhibit is a 1998 photo showing him in full dress uniform on the day of his appointment, accompanied by his wife, Dianne, father Victor Hutchinson, and children Channing (left) and Shana.

An English manufacturer was inspired to make and market a toy soldier of Junor after he saw him on parade in England, sending Junor a certificate authenticating it was him.

The hand-carved walking stick Junor holds at left also includes his likeness. It was crafted and presented to him with gratitude in Sierra Leone where he was deployed as a senior military advisor in 2007.

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to partner with a community in Peel that hadn’t really taken part in museum exhibits before.

“A lot of people don’t feel they belong in museums.

They feel they won’t see themselves in what’s represented here,” explains Erin Fernandes, PAMA’s marketing co-ordinator. “We’re trying to change that, making PAMA a community hub for all, helping give diverse groups a voice, recognizing how important they are and how we’re all connected across the region.” Both the church community and PAMA agreed that much of Canadian black history has been marginalized. And they saw the joint venture as a step toward changing that.

Cronk and Fernandes believe the cornerstone of such change is building trust. “Nothing about us without us – that’s our mantra,” says Fernandes.

Cronk jumps in: “We want our community partners to know they are co-creators in these experiences.”

All this was also a radical idea for North Peel Com­ munity Church leaders. This congregation embodies service to others. They are proud of and grateful for the work they do, but acknowledging their own history – and the chance to document and celebrate their specific story – was something entirely new.

“You know, it was seamless. It truly was,” says

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Junor, describing the process of sharing their stories and ideas for images and artifacts. He notes that while museum staff are the exhibit experts, the staff emphasized, “This is your story through your lens.”

The Exhibit At 9 Wellington Street East in downtown Brampton, a doorway leads into a beautiful stone exhibit space on the second floor of what used to be the town jail.

This is where photos, artifacts and simply told stories bring to life the congregation’s journey – chronicles of immigration, family life and what it took to build a thriving faith community in Caledon. More stories will come in the months ahead.

One glass cabinet near the entrance is hard to miss.

It showcases “Church Hats,” from ornate widebrimmed designs to intricate fascinators. The caption explains the flourishing, centuries-old tradition: “From a young age, women in this congregation wear dress hats at church events as a sign of respect.”

Farther along, next to an image of Junor, a huge dog-eared dictionary is displayed under glass.

The caption explains how, as a 10-year-old, Junor carried this cherished 15-pound book on the flight from Jamaica to Canada. His mother believed that the dictionary, which had belonged to her mother,

anchored them to the family and home they were leaving behind.

And nearby, a fading colour photo shows a young Pastor Kelly cutting brush with machete in hand.

She’s working alongside other congregation members as they prepare to lay the bricks for the first addition on the church’s east side. Another larger picture captures both Kellys today in their Sunday best. The nearby summary of their long journey ends with a message from Bishop Kelly to young people: “It can be challenging when others don’t know your culture.

But don’t be afraid to join a new community, you can make a difference, help in your new community.”

I tell Cronk and Fernandes how moving, how eyeopening, I find this exploration of these everyday heroes, my Caledon neighbours. For PAMA staff, however, the ultimate measure of the success of this new venture is in the response of their co-creators.

A beaming Junor, who took his daughter and granddaughter on a Family Day visit to the exhibit, sums up that response: “A museum is where you go to see something else, someone else.

In this case, we walked in and we saw us, a picture of the church, of Bishop and Pastor Kelly. These are people I can sit down and talk to, and now their story is being told here.”

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church hats The women and girls of the of North Peel congregation continue a tradition of wearing formal and often fanciful hats to church services. The three hats shown here are all from the collection of Pastor Claudette Kelly.

Junor’s daughter took pictures and tweeted them out. “People responded, ‘Oh my gosh, this is wonderful. This is excellent!’” he says. “I think moving forward we’re going to see more of our young people stepping out, saying I want to tell my story and on a platform that says my story is worth telling.”

Next Steps Back at North Peel Community Church, my tour of the renovations undertaken over the years ends in the nave. Now a designated heritage structure, the church building is weathertight, fresh and obviously wellloved. It’s clear that it was lucky to find its second congregation. It’s also clear this is a community that always finds something new to strive toward.

“We’re in the process of planning another expansion behind,” says Bishop Kelly gesturing toward the rear of the first addition. “After all, we have a lot of young, inspired men and women in our church. All we can do is offer the platform, and let them go.”

Our Voices, Our Journeys: Black Communities in Peel will be on exhibit at the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives until fall 2021. PAMA is located at 9 Wellington Street East in downtown Brampton. See www.pama.peelregion.ca.

Writer and broadcaster Liz Beatty hosts and produces the award-winning North Americana Podcast (northamericanapodcast.com), which unearths surprising stories that connect Americans and Canadians. She lives in Brimstone.

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toryteller Dick Byford and I were sitting in pews bathed in the pale pastels cast by the warm October light streaming through the Gothic windows of the historic Corbetton Church at the Museum of Dufferin. Dick and I were involved in a conversation. A conversation. Not a story.

“Although I’m flexible,” said Dick, “a story told is a path you want to go down. A conversation can go anywhere.”

A story has a beginning, a middle and an end, and storytelling is an oral art. Storytellers speaking to listeners around a campfire or dinner table, or from a stage, as Dick was about to do, craft their words carefully, controlling where the images, insights and emotions inspired by those words will take their audience.

“I love to read, but hearing a story told and reading it are worlds apart,” added Dick. “The spoken word, the inflections, can develop more emotion than the written one. It’s the difference between sending a girl a note saying ‘I love you’ and telling her.”

Seventy or so souls spent the afternoon in the church raptly listen­ ing to stories. The event marked the 25th anniversary of the Dufferin Circle of Storytellers, and engaging tales from the mundane to the magnificent filled the church’s high blue vault and the hearts and imaginations of those below. This is what well-told stories do, said Nancy Woods, the group’s founder.

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Nancy retired to Mulmur after a career as an English teacher – and storyteller – in Toronto schools. “There is something captivating in someone telling you a story,” she said. “It puts you in listening mode. Listening is an endangered activity. Students needed help in the discipline.”

She assumed there would be storytellers in these hills, and she was right. The group “just sort of gathered,” she said. It was 1994.

The members – currently about 15 – began meeting monthly and decided to give themselves a name. “I know I really wanted to include ‘circle,’” Nancy said.

Retired children’s entertainer Eric Nagler of Mulmur is thought­ ful and quietly passionate about the storyteller’s art. It is an ancient one that crosses cultures and itinerant storytellers were the original entertainers, valued repositories of ancient tales. “The storyteller was the answer to questions of puzzlement,” said Eric. “Why does the sun rise? Why are there stripes on a chipmunk’s back? People knew how to listen and had a responsibility to pass it on.”

“A group feels the storyteller is the centre of the event, but actually we are creating something between us,” he added. “The storyteller is just the facilitator. Honesty. Express your heart.

Words are our vehicle for having a shared experience together.”

Where do stories come from? From anywhere and everywhere.

From personal experience, family history, observed scenarios, overheard anecdotes. They can be true, pure fiction, or lifted from a favourite author’s canon.

Orangeville’s Dick Byford, also a retired teacher, likes to quote the words of writer Thomas King: “We’re all stories.” For Dick, this means that everyone’s life is a story, and he loves to hear – and tell – people’s tales. In fact, he is a walking repository of tales, from the adult fiction of Roald Dahl, to the Canadian tall tales of lumberjack “Big Joe Mufferaw,” to personal stories, such as his queue-for-hours-for-standing-room-only passion for the Rocket Richard-era Montreal Canadiens.

For the anniversary event Dick chose a story he called “Getting to Know You.” With permission from the woman who lived the story, he touchingly related the tale of her journey to Europe to

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Jennifer Johnson is a retired Toronto librarian now living in Mulmur. The story she told was personal, funny, sentimental and rich in visual images. In “First Love: A Girl from Galt’s Story,” Jennifer described herself as a seven-year-old tomboy loaded with toy weaponry meeting a boy with “the most gorgeous mop of black hair over two limpid blue eyes.”

Eric’s story – “What Possessed Me?” – was a strong and thoughtprovoking reflection on his trip to Bosnia in 1999, soon after the end of the war there. “They dropped four million shells in three years, or was it three million shells in four years?” he puzzled, sparking him to ask with respect to a number of similar ghastly absurdities from that brutal civil war, “What difference does it make?”

Retired land surveyor Chris Sexton splits his time between Thornhill and a property north of Terra Nova. In “A Story about a Song about a Story” he tells a historical tale amusingly related in an Irish lilt and partially sung to his own 12-string guitar accompaniment. “Frankie and Johnny were lovers. He was her man. And he was doing her wrong.” The story behind the lyrics was apparently true, and with some licence, it morphed into the classic ballad about a fatal love triangle long ago in St. Louis, Missouri.

I was struck by the breadth of subject matter in the eight tales told over two hours (with a break for refreshments), and by the diverse manner of the telling – sentimental, humorous, uplifting, poignant, ironic.

Delights ranged from mundane (the joys of having a toilet in the basement as a kid, so you didn’t have to take off your winter boots; the momentous occasion of buying a first bra at Zellers) to the moving personal remem­brance of a grandmother’s story about lifting the spirits of “her boys,” the wounded World War I soldiers she was nursing, with a simulated Christmas snowstorm on a hospital ward on Malta.

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I was also intrigued by the differing preparations of individual storytellers. Some memorize their stories from written scripts, others work from an outline in their mind, allowing flexibility for the mood or attention span of a particular audience. Still others write and rewrite their story, absorbing it as it evolves, and some just “let it go,” improvising from the kernel of an idea. The Circle meets monthly at a member’s house to rehearse their tales with one another, polishing their presentation and listening to critiques and suggestions for refinements.

“My storyteller’s thing is life lessons, usually about my own missteps,” Chris told me, smiling and still flushed from his 10 minutes on stage. (All the stories told at the event were about this length or a little longer.) “In its highest form,” he added, “storytelling is more than entertain­ment. An anecdote, but it has a message, a lesson to be learned.”

In Dick’s experience, “storytelling forces you to sort out your thoughts, to be deliberate in thinking through an issue, to take a topic and see what you can do with it.

I could have told my story in two minutes.

Listeners have to get some information about me, about the subject and, I believe, some insights about themselves. That takes time.”

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But is time the friend of oral storytellers? Is there hope for the future of the patient art of storytelling and listening in this digital age, with its 280-character tweets, Instagram moments and abbreviated text messages?

In the view of many, the answer is yes, though the format is evolving. The spoken word, whether for entertainment or enlightenment, seems to be in the midst of revival, driven by podcasts and audiobooks: traditional novels, short stories and poems read – or performed – by A-list actors and sometimes the authors themselves.

As of 2017, 61 per cent of Canada’s traditional book publishers also featured a line of audiobooks, nearly quadruple the number in 2015. In the first six months of 2018, audiobooks accounted for about 4 per cent of adult book sales in Canada. Though small, this percentage represented a 100 per cent increase over the entire previous year.

There has also been a huge increase in digital platforms where enthusiasts can purchase or listen to the spoken word. Subscription services, such as Audible and Kobo, and smart speakers, such as Alexa and Google Home, offer both audiobooks and podcasts.

It’s all about ease and multitasking – listening to Hamlet through earbuds while cleaning the house, or running errands in the car while tuning in to André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name, narrated by Armie Hammer, who starred in the Oscar-nominated film version.

But the tradition of storytelling remains at its most charming and personal when it is lovingly nurtured by the likes of the Dufferin Circle of Storytellers.

“You can tell a story on YouTube, or via podcast or audiobook, and reach a million people, but you’re speaking to a camera or into a microphone,” Eric Nagler commented as a satisfied crowd departed through the church’s broad, open doors into the lowering autumn light. “You can tell the same story in a small auditorium and reach a hundred people, and that’s when you start connecting … There is very little that is more connecting than telling a story to a live audience.”

Nancy Woods had the final, quiet words for those who might consider storytelling: “Listen to your heart. Tell a story you love, because it is going to be with you for a long, long time.”

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The Dufferin Circle of Storytellers welcomes volunteers, new storytellers and invitations to perform. This autumn, the storytellers will once again tell tales at Corbetton Church on the grounds of the Museum of Dufferin in Mulmur. Mark the date on your calendar: Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2 p.m.

But you needn’t wait till fall to enjoy their stories.

A storytelling open mic evening is planned at the Terra Nova Public House in Mulmur on April 23 after dinner (about 7:30 p.m.).

Bring your own stories.

The Circle’s third annual High Tea and Tales event takes place Sunday, May 24, at 2 p.m. at Mrs. Mitchell’s restaurant in Violet Hill. Tickets go quickly.

And Dick Byford and friends tell stories monthly at the Dufferin Oaks Long Term Care Home in Shelburne.

For more information, email dufferinstorytellers@gmail.com or call Pina Di Leo at 647-389-2568.

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n alarm blares at 4 a.m. My mother pulls my 12-year-old self out of a warm bed on a cool spring morning and we pile into our 1995 fire-engine red Pontiac Grand Am. We drive to the (then) forested edges of Oakville and hike inward with our big black dog, Ed.

We are hunting for fiddleheads.

The morning sun, rising in the fog, gives us enough flickering light through the forest canopy to reveal the young, emerald green fronds of an ostrich fern stretching up out of the ground.

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The same evening, my mother prepares a meal I already feel connected to – creamy lemon and fiddlehead fettuccine. We share dinner and smile at each other as we reflect on our experience hunting and gathering. On that fateful spring morning my mother taught me that we did not have to rely solely on what came from the grocery store.

We could find an abundance of food all around us.

As the years have passed I’ve shared this knowledge with my husband, Michael, and together we’ve shared it with our two young sons, Kingsley and Sterling. We live in Dunedin, a lush valley near Creemore, surrounded by like-minded individuals. Our neighbours, Peter and Dawn, share our enthusiasm for harvesting, processing and consuming foraged food. We discuss what we discover, and plan our next outings over a bottle of wine. (And because art is my spirit – I thought what better way to integrate my passions than through the illustrations I created for these pages.)

Foraging is defined as the “acquisition of food.” Since the beginning of civilization, living beings have always foraged to survive. But in today’s world many of us feel we no longer have the time, knowledge or understanding to head into the woods and find food. But that’s changing. I see a shift as more people rediscover a personal and profound connection to their natural environment. If you have been intrigued by the quiet wild food and foraging movement, but haven’t yet ventured forth, allow this beginner’s guide to initiate you into finding and cooking spring’s local bounty.

An important pointer before you start: You must stay safe. Do not ingest anything you are not able to identify. In other words, when in doubt, throw it out! This is especially true when it comes to one of my favourites, morels. Beware the toxic “false morel” (Gyromitra esculenta) with its irregular, squashed-looking, dark brown cap. If sliced lengthwise, this imposter is filled with cotton-like fibres. I’ve also learned to stay away from areas that are likely to have been sprayed by chemicals, are highly trafficked or near roadsides. They’re called wild foods for a reason.

Also, don’t forget that a good forager behaves ethically and responsibly. She never takes more than she needs. This ensures regrowth as well as limiting waste. One rule of thumb is to harvest only 5 to 10 per cent of any particular patch of a given species. When harvesting, give each plant you take a shot at regrowth by not removing the whole thing (with the exception of root vegetables). And foraging on private land will require you to get permission from the landowner. If you’re curious about foraging on public land here in Ontario, look for Crown land use policies at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry at ontario.ca.

I hope the tips and images on these pages will help inspire you to do more of your own research and head out into the wild, the trails, fields and forests that surround us, with a newfound sense of curiosity. See what you can find.

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c ommon da ndel ion · l ion’s t oo t h pis s - t he - bed · bl ow b a l l The common dandelion (with its colourful aliases) has long been considered a pesky weed. Growing up, I’d see neighbours in their yards with bottles of pesticide, spraying each plant until it burned up and died back. My parents always left ours alone, confident our dog, Jake, would pluck off the sweet golden flowers for a snack long before they took over our grassy yard. In many cultures the dandelion has been used for centuries as a treatment for stomach and liver conditions. identification Hard to miss. Slender hollow stalks bear a solitary flower head comprising numerous tiny yellow flower tubes on a round disk.

Their long leaves are green with a jagged-tooth shape. location The common dandelion can be found from March to September in lawns, fields and along roadsides. to eat Leaves are tender in early spring and can be eaten fresh, steamed or sautéed. Mature greens can be added to smoothies, blanched or sautéed with garlic and oil. The dandelion root can be used in tea or roasted and ground as a coffee substitute. For tea, steep fresh cleaned or dried root in boiling water for two or three minutes and add a little honey to taste. The bright yellow flower can be eaten fresh in salads, battered and fried, preserved in oil or baked into bread.

MORE than just a grocery store y el l ow morel c ommon morel · t rue morel My first experience with the common (or true) morel was just four years ago. That life-changing wild food find means I can no longer go for an ordinary trail walk, hike or even run in the springtime for the rest of my days. My gaze constantly darts back and forth, hunting for the desirable fungi – which often causes me to fall over my own two feet.

Morels have a meaty texture and a rich, nutty flavour. A true wild food gem, they have a symbiotic relationship with trees, so it is nearly impossible to recreate ideal growing conditions.

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identification Look for the telltale honeycomb texture. The pale brown or yellowish brown caps are attached to fleshy, brittle white stems. Sliced in half lengthwise, a true morel is hollow from the tip of the cap to the bottom of the stem. location In some years morels will pop up all over the place and in others they will be scarce. They are generally found in orchards, near decaying trees, burn sites and south-facing hills. Keep an eye out in areas where you can find pine and spruce trees. Collect them in breathable baskets to avoid moisture buildup.

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to eat The entire fungus is edible. You can dry, pickle, preserve, freeze, eat fresh or ferment them. My favourite method (so far) is to butter poach them and serve with a filet of pan-fried salmon. For more ideas, visit foragerchef.com.

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Creamy lemon fiddlehead and morel mushroom fettuccine Inspired by my childhood, this is a dish that combines two delicious foraged treats. serves four ingredients

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r a mp s, w il d l eek s Finding and collecting ramps is one of my never-miss spring traditions. They are easy to spot and have a pungent smell, so kids find it easy to help. I have taught my fiveyear-old how to gently dig deep around the plant, just enough to uncover the beautiful white bulb from its deep rich soil. Ramps are found across eastern North America.

High in vitamin C, they were once used to treat scurvy after long harsh winters. identification Smooth vibrant green dual leaves emerge sometime in April. They grow close together on the forest floor, their roots many inches beneath the surface of the soil. They have a green or burgundy colour mid stem and a fleshy white bulb. location You can find them basking in hardwood deciduous forests where the sun filters through. To ensure the survival of a patch of plants, harvest lightly, leaving most behind. Use a knife (not a shovel, which will damage other bulbs in a clump) to cut from just beneath the bulb, leaving the roots anchored. to eat The entire plant is edible. Ramps can be substituted in any dish where you would use leeks, garlic scapes or onions. Eat them raw, sautéed, roasted, charred or minced into butter or pesto. To enjoy this wild edible year round, try drying, pickling or fermenting.

After flowering, the texture of the bulb becomes woody, but they’re still good for pickling.

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1 Clean morel mushrooms by using a brush to remove any debris. If necessary lightly rinse with cold water and gently pat dry.

2 Clean fiddleheads by washing them several times in cold water, removing as much of the reddish brown husk as possible.

3 Bring a pot of water to a boil and cook fiddleheads for 10 minutes or until fork-tender. Drain and set aside.

4 Bring another pot of water to a boil with a pinch of salt. Cook pasta, drain and set aside.

5 In a large saucepan melt butter on medium heat, sauté fiddleheads for 2 to 3 minutes, then add garlic and morel mushrooms.

Sauté for another 1 to 2 minutes.

6 Add cream, Parmesan cheese, lemon juice, lemon zest, salt and pepper.

7 Once the sauce starts to thicken, remove from heat and add cooked pasta. Toss and serve. Enjoy!

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fiddl ehe a d fern · os t ric h fern Like robins, these little green scrolls of magic are classic harbingers of spring. They’re also packed with unique fatty acids and antioxidants, making them nutrition superstars. Fiddlehead is a common name for the edible first emerging coils of fern plants in April. What I’ve learned is that it’s the ostrich fern variety I’m on the lookout for. identification The ostrich fern usually has six to eight fronds with a featherlike appearance that emerge from a single crown.

The fronds are covered in a brownish husk holding in the young growing shoots. (For useful information, search “fiddleheads on woodlots” at ontariowoodlot.com.) location Ostrich ferns are most commonly found deep in forests near water with shade and dappled light. They like the damp, rich soil and cool conditions these areas afford. to eat The entire fiddlehead is edible – but never eat them raw.

You’ll need to fully cook fiddleheads to destroy their shikimic acid, a compound known to cause upset stomachs. Remove as much of the brown husk as possible and wash multiple times before you steam or boil them. I like to add them to stir-fries or pastas. You can also pickle and preserve them.

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The brunch beat We crave our beloved breakfasts at local diners and pancake houses, but sometimes a more leisurely Sunday brunch is in order. Not all local spots offer it, so we’ve rounded up six of the best. At Hillsburgh’s Fanjoy, chef Pam Fanjoy builds her eggs Benedict on housemade focaccia. Her Middle Eastern breakfast of eggs and sausage get a kick with hot sauce, green onions and pistachios. Rustik Local Bistro on Broadway in Orangeville offers duck confit burritos and a crab omelette. Violet Hill’s Mrs. Mitchell’s serves something for everyone – think turkey burger on a pretzel bun or French toast made from thick-cut cranberry-raisin bread. Chez Michel in Creemore has a full-on Sunday brunch buffet with a mind-boggling range of choices from waffles to a prime rib carving station. Rosemont General Store turns out killer eggs Benedict with home fries on both Saturdays and Sundays. We’re fond of their blueberry buttermilk pancakes as well.

In Mono, the Paddock Room at Adamo Estate Winery features a prosciutto-laden Benny with hash browns, bacon jam, sour cream and green onions.

Oh, and fresh oysters on the side, if you fancy.

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Vanessa Kreuzer and Terry Doel of Lavender Blue Catering are known for their refined-yet-homey catering fare, wedding spreads and take-home freezer meals. Le Finis, their sophisticated new café on Broadway in Orangeville, doubles down on end-of-meal sweet treats perfect for casual get-togethers, after-theatre debriefs and special date nights.

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“We wanted Lavender Blue to finally have a front entrance that reflects our quality and customer experience, while also truly becoming part of Orangeville’s town centre. We support so many local initiatives that it always felt a bit strange that we were not more central,” says Vanessa, the self-described paperwork chef.

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How local growers are tapping a surging demand for the tiny, tasty stems that pack a nutritional punch.

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or a window into just how a trendy food can work its way into the mainstream, look no further than the tale of one of Headwaters’ newest crops – microgreens. Sure, you’ll find the lacy, crunchy greens at both earthy farmers’ market stands and fine restaurant menus, but you’ll also find them at everyday grocery stores and inside the bun of a classic burger at local mainstay Champ Burger in Primrose.

Those burger toppings are grown a few miles away at Mansfield’s Big Thunder Farms. Thanks

to year-round availability, nutritional trends and straight-up visual appeal, enthusiasm for earlystage pea shoots, radishes, arugula and other greens harvested when they’re just days old is growing rapidly. They are a compact, reliable crop in many experimental vertical farming projects and at innovative university agriculture programs across the country. While Statistics Canada has agricultural data for microgreens only from 2017 – and they remain a sliver of a greenhouse produce market dominated by tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers – farmers reported increasing

their yield to 919 metric tonnes in 2018 from 164 metric tonnes the year before.

Popularized by California chefs in the 1980s as a trendy health food, microgreens have always been a niche product (not to be confused with sprouts, which are the very first stage of growth before any leaves emerge, and eaten with their seed still attached). But they may one day be a staple, especially if local growers – including Farmstead Fresh near Hillsburgh, Mono’s Am Braigh Farm, Thompson Acres in Grand Valley C O N T I N U E D O N N E X T PA G E

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You could try to grow greens outdoors, but Stacy Thompson of Thompson Acres warns that even if animals don’t munch on them, they could easily destroy a crop of the delicate morsels just by walking through them.

She adds that it’s a nuisance to have to wash and dry tiny greens that have been splattered with soil from rain or watering. To go the indoor route, you’ll need growing lights or a sunny window area, trays, soil and seeds.

Here’s how to do it: 1 Fill trays, low-profile pots or containers with an inch of moistened, good quality potting mix.

2 Sow seeds densely on the surface of the soil. (Peas need to be soaked for 24 hours before planting – changing the water once or twice.) Seeds should be so close they’re almost touching. Gently press down to ensure good contact.

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Unlike outdoor crops, microgreens can be grown indoors year-round with basic equipment: shelves, lights and soil. And they’re efficient. Microgreens take eight to 14 days to mature. Seeds are sprouted or germinated in soil trays and then grown until they reach the cotyledon stage, which is when the tiny pair of leaves that emerge from the seed before the first set of full leaves appear. Microgreens are cut and bagged when they are about two to four inches high. Then the whole process begins again.

3 Hydration is key. Place the containers or trays in a sunny window or under grow lights. Mist regularly or sit the tray (with holes drilled in the bottom) in another tray and water from the bottom to keep soil moist but not wet.

A never-ending season Microgreens are the only crop Marcel Pijper and Josh Scheerer grow at Farmstead Fresh (formerly Nature’s Nurturing), their year-round organic business near Hillsburgh. They currently grow sunflower, pea shoot, broccoli and radish greens (as well as wheatgrass, but only for juicing) 365 days a year in five 8-by-40-foot insulated shipping containers, where they can control the temperature, humidity, lighting and watering.

4 Scissor harvest at two to four inches when plants reach the cotyledon stage in about eight to 14 days, depending on the variety and your growing conditions.

5 If a few seed coats are still sticking to the shoots at harvest time, pull them off by hand.

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“Being on top of all the different stages of production isn’t for every­ body, but we both enjoy it,” Marcel says. “There is nothing better than to see a beautiful tray of microgreens on harvest day, knowing that you’ve grown those with your own labour.”

What’s more, the rapid seed-to-sale time means they can adjust to demand and feedback quickly and, for instance, plant more trays of a variety with the best sales. Since becoming Farmstead Fresh in 2019, the pair – they live together with their families on the farm – now focuses on wholesale customers, producing 8.5 tonnes of microgreens last year.

They mostly sell to independent grocery and health food stores in the GTA (including the two Big Carrot locations) and locally to Harmony Whole Foods Market in Orangeville, Foodland in Hillsburgh and Heatherlea Farm Shoppe near Belfountain. They also supply several local restaurants, as well as Bio Raw, a Toronto-based company that uses microgreens in prepackaged vegan salads.

Marcel says their busy season starts in the clean-eating month of January and tapers as fresh local produce starts to appear in June.

A winter staple Local farm gate and CSA producers are tapping into cycles particular to their markets. In Mono, Jamie Richards of Am Braigh Farm has been leaning on microgreens as a fresh greens bridge during the winter months for about 10 years now, producing about 4.5 kilograms a week. At his farm gate shop you’ll find a mild brassica mix and spicier radish and wasabi varieties, along with pea and sunflower shoots and wheatgrass. “In addition to being a great garnish or salad, microgreens and shoots can sub in for a vegetable when favourites like broccoli and cauliflower aren’t in season,” he says.

Likewise, Stacy and Trevor Thompson of Grand Valley’s Thompson Acres started to offer the diminutive salad greens in their CSA baskets in 2016 because the crop can be started early in the traditional growing season – and because the couple appreciated their nutritional benefits.

The visual appeal of microgreens’ beautiful hues and delicate leaflets are part of the allure as well, says Stacy, who adds them to salads, stir-fries, soups and sandwiches – or eats them all on their own.

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Farmstead Fresh’s Marcel Pijper, holding just-planted pea shoot microgreens, and Josh Scheerer in one of their five shipping container facilities in Hillsburgh. At top left is Farmstead Fresh wheatgrass. At bottom left, broccoli microgreens at harvest.

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“Our kids, ages 12 and 13, take them in their lunch to school,” she says. “At first they were a little hesitant but they are used to trying everything we grow or raise.” Stacy is partial to sunflower microgreens, Trevor likes spicy arugula and the kids enjoy the milder pea microgreens.

How much they produce depends on the time of year. During the CSA months of June through October, they might grow about a dozen 21-by-11inch trays at a time (every two to three weeks) for about 20 weekly customers.

During the winter months the lucky Thompson family consumes one or two trays of their own microgreens every few weeks.

Microgreens for all Jonathan and Sarah McCausland of Mansfield’s Big Thunder Farms came to growing microgreens for personal health reasons – which eventually inspired them to shift their whole organic farming business toward the juicy stalks. About five years ago Sarah was involved in a head-on collision, which affected the use of her right arm. Prior to the accident Jonathan C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 8 3

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and Sarah, both vegetarians, took high-quality supplements to round out their diets, but with Sarah, a teacher, not working, they needed a more affordable option. Thankfully taste was no issue.

“I still remember the first micro­ green I ever tried – a tiny fuchsia beet, and the taste was absolutely phenomenal!” recalls Jonathan. “We started eating pounds and pounds of microgreens, like we were horses eating hay.”

Coming from a family of produce growers and retailers, Jonathan found it easy to set up a simple 1,200-square-foot area at home with a vertical shelving system in which he can irrigate the microgreens from below. A year later he started selling microgreens at the Shelburne and Mulmur farmers’ markets and customers started buying them religiously – some stocking up on pounds upon pounds for health reasons, like the local doctor who has been a loyal customer for several years.

Other patrons ask for more obscure varieties not typically found in grocery stores or restaurants, such as flax or black seed micros.

While they still take special orders, Big Thunder Farms now focuses on wholesale, retail and restaurant clients instead of farmers’ markets. Sarah is back teaching and Jonathan juggles growing, packaging and delivering microgreens with taking care of their four-year-old daughter. He grows hundreds of pounds of microgreens each month, and says he has never met an order he couldn’t fill.

One steady order has been the Shel­ burne No Frills. From the beginning, the store has championed Jonathan and Sarah’s food philosophy, even after a change in ownership. “We love working with them,” says Jonathan.

“We all want people to have access to microgreens who typically would not – at a reasonable cost.” Jonathan also encourages people to grow their own, even in a basement with some lights or on a sunny windowsill. (For a quick how-to, see page 80.)

Nutritional powerhouses Michael Paparamborda, a holistic nutritionist-in-training, is making the most of this ready availability of local microgreens in his year-old Orangeville practice, The Holistic

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“They’re highly nutritious and people don’t need to eat a large volume to get the benefits,” says Michael, adding that diets high in plant foods like microgreens have been shown to reduce certain heart disease markers.

He prefers to eat microgreens raw, adding them to smoothies and veggie dips and topping cooked foods with them as hardworking garnishes. (See one of his favourite recipes on page 81).

No wonder Michael is smitten. This nutrient-dense food has been found to impart four to 40 times more vitamins and carotenoids than the mature plants, according to a 2012 USDA study that tested 25 varieties. To put that into perspective, a quarter cup of broccoli microgreens is equivalent to two heads of broccoli. (Of course, there are other great reasons, including fibre content, to eat the fully grown version.)

Eateries on board If you’ve eaten out in Headwaters recently, you’ve likely encountered local microgreens on your plate – where all that matters is taste.

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Rustik and Steakhouse 63 in Orange­ ville, and Ray’s 3rd Generation Bistro Bakery in Alton. Big Thunder Farm’s microgreens have done turns at Mono Cliffs Inn in Mono, Terra Nova Public House in Mulmur, and Healthy Cravings Holistic Kitchen and Beyond the Gate in Shelburne – and they’ve been adding crunch to Champ Burgers for about three years now.

“When I started growing them, most people hadn’t heard of them,” says Big Thunder’s Jonathan, clearly pleased at the breadth of customers he’s reaching.

Chef Freddy Chartier of Beyond the Gate especially loves deeply hued varieties such as purple radish and purple basil. He enjoys how a variety such as micro radish adds a mustard bite, and he seeks out yellow stalks of micro corn for a hit of colour.

“In France, we always put herbs such as chives, chervil, basil and tarragon in a salad,” he says. “I like to switch in microgreens instead, like micro broccoli. Or make a tomato and mozzarella salad with micro basil – delicious!”

Janice Quirt is a freelance writer who lives in Orangeville.

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Headwaters Fly Fishing Club keeps the art and craft of handmade ties alive.

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Fly fisher Brian Vickery ties a Woolly Worm at a recent meeting of the Headwaters Fly Fishing Club. Tools of the trade include bobbins, wool yarn and scissors. At left, one of the tying manuals on display.

ly fishing has a language all its own. For instance, the feathers used to create the lures at the heart of the sport are called “hackles.”

Most commonly they are the shorter cape hackles from the neck of commercial fowl or the longer saddle hackles from the fowl’s back.

A “wet fly” isn’t wet, it’s intended to dip below the surface, imitating water-born insects in their nymph stage. A “dry fly” is designed to skitter across the water like the grown insect. And in this world, a CDC is not a public health agency monitoring coronavirus, it’s a sassy French abbreviation for cul de canard, a buoyant feather near the oily preen gland on a duck’s rear end.

So at a gathering at the Mono Mills Community Centre on a recent February night when fly tyer Brian Vickery asks, “Who’s got some chenille and a bobbin?” there are no raised eyebrows. The dozen assembled members of the Headwaters Fly Fishing Club need no translation for the fuzzy pipe-cleaner-like material, nor the metal tool that feeds out a spool of thread.

Bags full of tying materials are laid out on a table alongside a display of some classic flies that Brian, who lives in Ballycroy (near Palgrave), borrowed for the occasion. There’s a Dark Montreal with red and brown hackles and a pointy red and yellow Mickey Finn. Some ties, like the Woolly Bugger and the Woolly Worm, imitate a range of insects, larvae and worms, each able to lure a variety of fish, from brook and lake trout to salmon. Others, like the tarpon fly Brian holds up, are designed to lure particular species. “Mine never look that good,” a man in a green cap and plaid shirt calls from the crowd.

There are two divergent schools of thought on the craft. Accuracy is king for fly tyers who tie thread to mimic the ribs of an insect or carefully paint a realistic mayfly, stonefly or caddisfly face on the eye of the hook. Others think, “Fish don’t give a hoot,” says Orangeville resident Graham Goss, who may use electric yellow hackles and deep purple thread on a hot-pepper-shaped body to create a critter you’ve thankfully never seen in real life. As Graham C O N T I N U E D O N N E X T PA G E

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snaps opens his fly case, Everett resident Istvan Nemenyi scans it and notes Graham’s œuvre is indeed impressionistic. Graham says a fish only needs to see two fluttering wings – unrestrained tufts of a hackle – to think it’s seeing food. “I don’t aspire to realism, I just want to catch fish.”

Either way, Brian – who is also a staff pro at Mount Albert’s venerable 110-year-old fly fishing outfit, the Franklin Club – displays an additional talent for understatement as he observes tying flies is “a matter of wrapping thread and keeping it tight.”

In a flash, he gathers components, clamps a gleaming steel hook in a vice and ties the Woolly Worm – a fuzzy caterpillar-looking creature. In constant motion, he wraps polymer thread around the hook as a base. He places a red hackle along the shaft, its end tufting out at the hook’s bend. Later, holding a brown hackle, he runs his fingers against the grain along its spine, creating spikes.

He lays it over the red hackle and secures its tip.

He fashions the body using beige wool, leaving gaps between the thread to keep it fluffy. After securing a last brown hackle, its fuzz haloing the fly’s body, he uses a whip finish to tie off. “That is never coming undone,” he says. Last, he coils bright yellow thread below the eye as the flashy “attractor head” and seals it with a dab of another member’s clear Sally Hansen Hard As Nails.

For Graham this practice can be addictive. “It’s the fly fisherman that’s hooked,” he says. “It can really take over your basement.” (It can also take hold of your wallet if you’re eyeing collectibles. A box of flies tied by late industry great Megan Boyd of Scotland went for £22,000 recently.)

The folks here understand this about one another. The club, founded in 1997, meets twice a month from October to April.

Every other meeting is a “tie-in,” in which a member shares his or her favourite ties and techniques. They come, they tie, and they talk. “We could all be sitting at home watching a video, but we like each other’s company,” says Istvan.

Find the Headwaters Fly Fishing Club on Facebook. They welcome new and novice fly fishers and tyers.

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Inspired by Frisbee and played without referees, this field game is all about the sporting spirit.

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ltimate Frisbee is a game I was going to like even if I didn’t take to playing it. Who wouldn’t be wooed by a sport that eschews referees, coaches players on sporting behaviour, and came about because a bunch of Yale University students discovered that the metal pie plates made by the neighbouring Frisbie Pie Co. flew like, well, Frisbees.

Ultimate, as the sport is usually known, is described as a cross between football and basketball. Football because ultimate is played on a similar, though smaller, field and players score by throwing the disc to someone in the end zone, and basketball because players can’t run with the disc in their hand.

When I arrived at the Orangeville Fairgrounds on a glorious Wednesday evening last July to join a casual pickup game, I asked organizer Darryn Stevenson what makes a good ultimate player. A 21-year teaching veteran in the phys ed department at Orangeville

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Darryn’s observation about making a good cut stuck with me. This ability became particularly obvious because we were playing one on one. This means each player on one team chooses a player on the other team to defend against. The idea is to prevent the player you are covering from being in the open where they can catch the disc.

Sometimes the person I was defending against was faster and fitter than I am, so I couldn’t keep pace. The Orangeville league is co-ed and has players from as young as 16 to older than 50, though most are at the younger end of this range. One

youngster I was defending against would be in the clear in the end zone, ready to catch a pass, while I was still galloping down the field trying to catch up. Then I was paired with a young woman. She was experienced but didn’t run that far or that fast. She didn’t deke here and there. Nonetheless, she was forever in the open. Sometimes she’d be in the end zone, but more often she’d be somewhere midfield where she would catch the disc and pass it to someone in the end zone.

Her skill reminded me of a 1999 article in the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell, titled “The Physical Genius: What do Wayne Gretzky, Yo-Yo Ma and a brain surgeon named Charlie Wilson have in common?”

Gladwell’s analysis of what distin­ guishes a superstar is a fascinating read. Though the young woman I shadowed was not ultimate’s “Great One,” she possessed the skills Darryn had mentioned: speed, agility and

good hands. Gladwell wrote, “The puzzling thing about physical genius, however, is that the closer you look at it the less it can be described by such cutand-dried measures of athleticism.”

Sure, my shadow was athletic, but she was more. She could make “a good cut.” Gladwell added, “What sets physical geniuses apart from other people, then, is not merely being able to do something but knowing what to do – their capacity to pick up on subtle patterns that others generally miss.

This is what we mean when we say that great athletes have a ‘feel’ for the game, or that they ‘see’ the court or the field or the ice in a special way.”

I had fun playing ultimate. It was like being a kid again. I ran up and down the field trying to stay with the person I was defending against or to get into the open myself. But I didn’t have a natural skill. No good cuts for me. The one time someone passed the disc my way, I failed to catch it. But it was a great

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where to play The Orangeville ultimate league runs outdoor sessions at the Orangeville Fairgrounds in the spring and summer, and at the Princess of Wales Park baseball diamond in the fall. Individuals and teams can sign up online at Active Diversions activediversions.com.

To see ultimate played at the national level, check out this year’s Canadian Ultimate Championships.

The Canadian High School Ultimate Championships take place in Brampton on May 2 and 3. And from August 9 to 16, Brampton will also host the 2020 national junior, open and women’s division championships. For more, see canadianultimate.com.

Ultimate champion Monica Kerr-Coster defends against an opponent at a recent indoor pickup game in Erin.

workout and the other players were fun – and understanding. I felt comfortable despite being a beginner.

While on the sidelines, I listened to their banter: “What an amazing catch!” or “Look how fast so-and-so is.” Comments like these are pretty standard in sport, but for ultimate players the banter must be positive.

Unsporting behaviour, both on and off the field, is verboten. Ultimate’s “spirit of the game” policy states the onus is on players to be honourable and fair. There are no referees, and if players or teams display unsporting behaviour, they may be asked to attend spirit-mentoring clinics. Players and teams are evaluated on the basis of their spirit of the game, and ultimate lessons teach sporting behaviour as well as ultimate skills.

The game’s spirit is what drew Monica Kerr-Coster to ultimate nearly 30 years ago. A Caledon resident and owner of The Noodle Gallery at Alton Mill, Monica says she also loves

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A HEALTHY CORE, A Healthy You ultimate because “everyone on the field has to be active.” Inducted into both the Toronto Ultimate Club Hall of Fame and the Ultimate Canada Hall of Fame, she was nicknamed “Iron Mon” in the early days because she was often the only woman on her co-ed team and would have to play the entire game without a break. To alleviate that situation, she successfully encouraged other women to play. She also coaches kids, formerly in Toronto and now in Caledon and Erin.

Monica clearly has Gladwell’s feel for the game. She has played in 14 Canadian ultimate championships, reaching the finals eight times and twice coming away with a gold medal.

In addition, her club was selected to play in the 1997 World Ultimate Club Championships, and in 2012, she was a member of the Canadian national team that competed at the World Ultimate & Guts Championships in Japan. She also led her team to the USA Ultimate club championship seven times and was twice honoured with the individual Spirit of the Game Award.

On the Canadian Hall of Fame website, a photo shows Monica in full layout position. She’s about a foot off the ground, grasping the prized disc in her outstretched hands. “I’ll go the extra mile,” she says. But what she really means is that she’ll go the extra inch or two she gets by flying through the air like a baseball outfielder.

Walter Morrison, the World War II fighter pilot who later developed the plastic disc so popular today, also knew something about flying.

He called his invention the WhirloWay, then changed the name to Flyin’ Saucer and then to Pluto Platter.

But the discs didn’t catch on until Wham-O, the American company that also sells hula hoops and other toys, began marketing them as Frisbees in the late 1950s. (The spelling was changed to avoid trademark issues with the pie company.) Since then, Wham-O alone has sold more than 300 million of the colourful flying discs that attract thousands of ultimate players worldwide.

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Here are just a few of the options you’ll find at Kids’ Camps In The Hills at inthehills.ca Little Campers (4–6)

At Headwaters Fitness & Racquet Club in Amaranth, staff know the four- to six-yearolds in their Kinder Camp need some quiet time in the afternoons to balance all the beginner racquet work. “Camp for little ones is a great opportunity to get them ready for school, expose them to sports and activities,” says Caitlyn Lariviere, general manager of the club. “They learn to try new things, be active and to step outside their comfort zone. The development we see in just one week of camp is amazing.”

Eureka Kids Camp in Erin specializes in youngsters as young as four with two-, three- or fiveday program options to right-size your child’s experience. Everdale Farm Camp in Hillsburgh teaches kiddos as young as five about how veggies are grown. And at Art with Jada

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Summer Day Camps in Orangeville first-time campers from age five are treated with lots of care as they paint, cartoon and craft.

School-Agers (6–12) This is the age where campers can specialize in a favourite pursuit. Budding artists can build their skills via single-day or weeklong art camp sessions at Maggiolly Art in Orangeville. Golfers can work on their swing at Shelburne Golf & Country Club, Amaranth’s Lynbrook Golf Summer Camp and Caledon’s Glen Eagle Kids’ Jr Golf Camp. Young theatre lovers can audition for Theatre Orangeville’s Young Company at age 11 (and participate until age 17). And community stalwart Teen Ranch, known for hockey, dirt biking and soccer camps, now offers a Ninja Warrior camp packed with obstacle courses, bouldering and rock climbing.

Have a generalist? Children dabble in a bit of everything at Orangeville’s Camp Aliquam and Mono’s Compass Camp. And they take steps toward independence at Albion Hills Field Centre Camps, where day camp runs at the same time as the overnight camp. “These early experiences at camp help solidify skills like exploration, curiosity, sense of self and connections with our natural world,” says supervisor Diana Wilson. “We love seeing our day campers grow and prepare for our overnight camps, which build confidence and independence through outdoor adventure and leadership.”

Teens (13–17) Kids don’t have to age out of engaging summer activities if they find the right perch.

New this year at Island Lake’s Eco Camp is the Counsellor-in-Training (CIT) weeklong

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At Hillsburgh’s Kids Inc. Camp the Leader-inTraining (LIT) program participants (who are entering Grades 8, 9 or 10) develop leadership skills while helping out at camp and leading games. And the Palgrave United Community Kitchen’s Dirt2Delicious LIT program, for kids ages 14 to 17, runs prior to the regular camp session. “Successful LIT participants can earn their volunteer hours by helping out at one of the camps for younger kids,” says Amy Darrell, Dirt2Delicious camp co-ordinator. “We also teach them to tap into their entrepreneurial spirit as they learn how to create a product to sell at a local farm event.”

Teens in need of volunteer hours can also help out at the artistic camps at Ballinafad’s Raise-an-Artist Project. The Conservation Youth Corps (CYC) with the Credit Valley Conservation Authority enlists highschoolers – who are at least 14 years old and returning to high school in the fall – in serious restoration and stewardship work at its sites across the watershed, mostly in Caledon.

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Academy of Performing Arts Art with Jada Eco Camp Engineering Science Quest GoYoga Orangeville

Glen Eagle Golf Club

Island Lake Rowing Club

Palgrave United Community Kitchen

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Orangeville Tennis Club

St. James Anglican Vacation Bible School

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Town of Orangeville (Camp Aliquam)

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Help with daycare costs The teacher strikes this year have left many of us struggling to find care and activities for our kids.

Many community resources have popped up (thank you, from the parents and caregivers in the community!), and daycares have welcomed many kids into day programs and found ways to help our kids, making life a little easier. The cost, however, is not so easy. The Ministry of Education is providing financial support to those who have incurred expenses due to labour disruptions. An online portal walks you through eligibility and a short application form. www.ontario.ca/supportforparents —

Equine movement therapy Drive down the pretty rolling hills of Airport Road and eventually you’ll come upon Caledon Equestrian School. There’s lots happening at this farm, including The Pegasus Program for kids and adults with special needs.

Run by a certified therapeutic riding instructor and dedicated volunteers, the program provides movement therapy to physically and mentally challenged students. If you’ve experienced the bond between horse and rider, and the social interaction that happens at a farm focused on the love of horses, you’ll know what a boost to the mind, body and spirit they can be. Sundays noon to 4pm. www.caledonequestrian.com/the-pegasus-program 92

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’m looking at Adrian’s smooth forehead as he bends over his math homework at the kitchen table. Another semester is almost under his belt. He’s working on quadratic equations, unworried. His pencil goes across the page in tiny staccato movements.

I can almost see the numbers tumbling behind my son’s eyes, falling into place.

There is something about the numbers on the page that, even looking at them upside down and through the looking glass of time, feels satisfying in the small math-y corner of my brain. I remember that feeling and prompt him: “Aren’t these equations satisfying?” He looks at me like I’m a bit off, and then goes back to his equations.

How do we learn? What makes something stick in our brain? Some learning, like forming a decent ability to apply math skills, requires the average learner to accept a formula and apply it over and over. If you use the formula, you will come to an answer – a correct one! How often in life can we practise an activity with such elegance and ensured success? I feel a small smile when I see Adrian go from question to question on his page, knowing that deep inside that logical part of his brain, he is discovering that formulas in math, and perhaps in life, will work.

Some formulas can work in less exacting worlds – to a degree. Playing with the formulas of language and sentence structure, for instance. Place the elements of language together correctly using the formula and you will create a grammatically correct sentence. Most can master this task.

However, how do you become a master of language, characterization, the ability to evoke emotion, and convince a reader they are in another world? There

is no formula for conveying meaning as much by what is left unsaid as by what is said – that takes experimentation. That kind of learning is hard to define and it requires time. Like fine art or music or even sport, mastery can take the famous 10,000 hours or more, and truthfully, a lifetime. Stepping away from formulaic solutions can make us afraid and uneasy. We’ll make mistakes.

As I watch Adrian’s pencil continue across the page, I’m thinking about the messiness of learning in this period of his life. Along with his teenaged friends, he is at the experimentation stage, with more at risk than a poorly constructed sentence or a flopped piece of art. They are testing themselves.

What do I like? What do I want to do with my free time? My money? What do I put in my body? How do I convince someone I am right for the job? What do I tell my parents and what do I withhold? Who am I? These are the kinds of questions that take time to answer, and the answers can change over time.

The solutions are often untidy. They can cause

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arguments. I won’t argue with Adrian over the quadratic formula – it’s proven, and it’s clean and easy once you’ve mastered it. But how to act in this world, what are the consequences of those actions? These are the questions he is wrestling with right now. These learning moments have caused some tears, for all of us.

In the car, over the dinner table, or as a door slams in my face and the headphones slam over his ears.

Often he makes decisions that require me to breathe in, breathe out, count to 10 and, most importantly, step away. (Not all decisions are his yet. On some his father and I have been explicit – not acceptable in our house, no negotiation, and while we have his back and will discuss his feelings, the answer is still a hard no.)

When Adrian started high school, he asked which subject would be the most difficult for him. I responded, “None of them.”

“You are learning to learn,” I said.

“It’s not the subject matter. It will be about relationships, prioritizing, making decisions.” He looked at me (no, wait, he rolled his eyes at me).

“But which subject?” he asked again.

“None,” I said. “You’ll see.”

So here we are, entering the “relationships,” “prioritization” and “making mistakes and learning from them” stage of life. It will be a lifelong journey. I’m still making imperfect choices and messy mistakes, and I sometimes long for black and white, formulaic solutions. As I watch Adrian grow, I repeat to myself over and over that there is no one formula for living, and the minute I try to impose one, all of that essential creativity and intuition will be lost.

Ultimately, it’s what makes life interesting, the lessons in understanding that are messy and memorable, that make you want to exult, or cry and repent, “I’ll never make that mistake again!”

Adrian is in that sweet spot where formulaic learning and experiential, experimental learning are coming together in his growing brain. I can only imagine the potential behind that beautifully smooth forehead, ready to explode in a million syn­ aptic leaps into his own, perfectly imperfect learning journey.

Bethany Lee is a freelance writer who lives in Mono.

Sunflower School director Heather Jackson, RECE, is leading a number of story readings at the Museum of Dufferin this spring. Books such as Bear and Wolf by Daniel Salmieri (soulful illustrations) on April 2, and Spots

by Helen Ward (rhyming and fun) on May 7 make for a treat of a morning. After the program (10am to noon), all participants are welcome to explore the museum. This is a free program for children aged two to four years accompanied by parents/ caregivers. No sign-up necessary. www.dufferinmuseum.com

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High school e-learning High school kids who like to learn online, or wish to learn over the summer, can consult their guidance counsellor to see if the provincial Learning Management System is for them. A number of school board approved, online credit courses are available for students from Grades 9 to 12. The system is teacher-mediated and tools such as chat, discussions, blogs, whiteboards and quizzes help keep students on track. courses. www.elearningontario.ca

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For the first time ever, commence­ ment for the 2020 grads of Orangeville District Secondary School will be held in the spring (June 25), rather than fall. That means two commencements in one year (2019 and 2020).

Donor graduation awards are important for students as they begin their postsecondary journey, but due to the double-up, some donors cannot contribute to both commencements, so ODSS is hoping the community will step in to help with the transition year. If you are interested in recognizing the achievements of a young adults, please contact Kathy.Trimble@ugdsb. on.ca for more information.

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BY KEN WEBER

The front page of the Erin Advocate on July 17, 1909 published a list of names many local citizens had been waiting for. These were the students in Erin Township who had passed the high school entrance examinations written a month before. Every community newspaper in these hills ran the exam results on the front page, but in Erin that year it’s safe to assume the list provoked a particular feeling of satisfaction, maybe even a whiff of smugness. Thirty candidates had passed. Some passes were always expected at the public school in the village itself (there were five), but this time even tiny one-room schools like S.S. #3 Binkham and #8 Greenock had scored a success.

HISTORY 1930 EXAM

“Give an account of the part taken by John A. Macdonald in bringing about Confederation.”

There was reason to be proud.

Positive results had been delivered for several years in a row now in Erin Township, raising public confidence in the township’s teachers and schools.

That had not always been the case.

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For 75 years Ontario students had to pass demanding provincial exams to get into high school.

Preparation was rigorous and it was widely believed rural teachers weren’t up to the job. passes at such schools were hard to achieve. And not just in Erin. Few rural schools in the province had the resources or, more important, a teacher with the background and training to get students ready for the challenge.

How challenging?

These exams were no walk in the park.

Consider this question on the 1875 geography exam: “Name the inland counties of Ontario lying to the west of the meridian of Toronto and give their chief towns.” It’s a straightforward test of specific knowledge – but only if a teacher had taught it (or a student had gleaned it from a textbook, if the school had one).

On the arithmetic exam in 1901, candidates were presented with questions such as: “A man invests 1/2 his fortune in land, 1/4 in bank stock, 1/8th in debentures, and loses the remainder which was $8,000 in speculation; how much was his fortune?” To find that fortune takes skill, but prerequisite to the skill is knowing how to calculate fractions.

And what of this question in Cana­ dian history that tests the ability to support a hypothesis in writing? “Show as carefully as you can that in both parliamentary and municipal matters, Canada is governed by the people.”

These were all to get into Grade 9!

Were rural school teachers up to it?

When the provincial government passed legislation in 1871 that made

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schooling compulsory – and free – up to age 12, elementary school teachers held a First, Second or, the majority by far, Third Class Certificate. Also very common were interim teaching permits granted to someone who had completed Senior Fourth (Grade 8).

When The Entrance was inserted into the system, the differences in these qualifications were illuminated significantly. Consider for example how a student at, say, S.S. #1 in Mono Township might have fared on the entrance exams in 1875 (the year of the inland counties question), assuming he or she applied to write it.

The teacher at S.S. #1 Mono in 1875 would most likely have held a Third Class Certificate at best. The basic qualifications for that certificate – aside from good moral character – were to read intelligibly, write “a plain

hand,” spell the words of an ordinary sentence, solve simple and compound problems in arithmetic, and know the general outlines of a global map (which few rural schools anywhere had). It’s difficult to imagine how such a teacher could have adequately prepared students to answer questions like the examples above.

Qualifications mattered A teacher holding a Second Class Certificate had proven competence in fractions, advanced arithmetic, grammar and language usage, bookkeeping, civics and specifics of political and physical geography.

This telling difference in qualifica­ tions showed up in East Garafraxa schools in 1881, for example. Teachers in four of the township’s six one-room schools held Second Class Certificates.

In each of the four, a student passed the entrance exams that year. Two of those students attended schools the county education inspector ranked as “inferior” in resources and facilities, a situation that suggests the students’ success was largely a tribute to the quality of their teachers.

Dufferin County’s Flurry of Improvement In 1881, the year it became a county, Dufferin began an aggressive campaign to improve rural school buildings, and by 1886 there were only six log schools still in use. Resources were increased dramatically.

The education inspector’s 1886 report, for example, listed 142 blackboards in the county’s schools and 29 globes. And it described a significant upgrade in teacher qualifications – 23 out of 87 teachers in the jurisdiction had attended Normal School (as colleges for teacher training were known), and only one teacher in the entire county still held an interim certificate. Without comment, the report included information that the average male teacher received $459 per annum, while female teachers with identical qualifications were paid $299.

SPELLING 1875 EXAM

“Correct where required the spelling of the following words: Artic, Professor, Candidites, Necessary, Majestracy, Anser, Develope, Ettymology, Dictionary, Grevious, Tremduous, Extraordinary.”

That same year in Melancthon Township only two teachers were qualified at the Second Class level.

Still, the township boasted six successful candidates, all of them taught by the two key teachers.

(Of Melancthon’s 11 one-room schools at the time, the inspector rated eight as “very inferior.”)

A First Class Certificate added algebra, botany, zoology and natural philosophy to the qualifications, but pretty much until the end of the cen­ tury teachers at this level in Dufferin County were found only in Orangeville.

And arguably, the difference showed.

In July of 1887 the names of 56 success­ ful candidates from Orangeville’s three elementary schools appeared in local papers. All the teachers held First or Second Class qualifications.

The playing field slowly levels Although the entrance examinations had a looming and somewhat dreaded presence in Ontario classrooms, it was also a driving force for improvement, highlighting the importance of teaching qualifications and training, as well as the value of resources (such as maps – in 1902 the 208 students in Grand Valley’s school had access to 13 maps and a globe). And with community newspapers providing impetus by regularly publishing the names of successful candidates, over time the province’s rural schools rose to the challenge. Erin Township’s 1909 pass rates were a case in point (and

except for a pause during World War I, they continued to rise). Dufferin County, too, showed a jump to 111 in 1884 from 39 passes in 1881, continuing to rise until The Entrance met an unlamented end in 1949.

By that time the success rate of candidates from rural schools compared to urban centres, while not precisely equal, was no longer an issue. The year before The Entrance was abolished, Ontario’s Department of Education had instituted a new set of provincial exams, this time for Grade 13 students.

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GRAMMAR 1875 EXAM

“Write the plural of baby, enemy, journey, calf, muff, canto and penny; the feminine of abbot, hart, and uncle; the masculine of madam, duck and bride; the comparative and superlative forms of late, dry and gay; and the third singular present indicative, the present participle, and the past participle of deny, teach and lie.”

“The Departmentals,” as they came to be called, included questions like this one from the 1958 history exam: “What disadvantages in the economic system of laissez-faire had become apparent by the end of the nineteenth century?”

Ironically, as students prepared for the new set of province-wide exams, concerns were raised about whether teachers in the province’s smaller, rural high schools were up to the task.

Caledon writer Ken Weber is author of the internationally best-selling Five-Minute Mysteries series.

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The importance of the lowly pill dispenser increases as we move through the transitional stages from the end of our career, usually in our 60s, to the joyous freedom of our 70s, and onward to the borrowed time of our 80s and beyond.

In the beginning, the dispenser may simply be a handy storage spot for the supplements and pharmaceuticals required to help us through each day. (Good, I remembered to take my meds.) Somewhere along the way it morphs into the calendar that helps us keep track of the days of the week.

(Aha! If Tuesday is empty, today must be Wednesday.) And then it becomes the beacon that tells us how fast life is passing by. (How can it be empty?

Didn’t I just fill that thing?)

Somehow I thought growing old would take longer.

After two knee replacements, newly mobile Caledon farm manager Jim Pipher is grateful to live in a country with universal health insurance.

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Brenda and her two siblings grew up on a 100-acre mixed farm in Oakville where she learned early the value of hard work.

Now, at 75 and living at Caledon’s Whole Village, a co-operative farming ecovillage, Brenda finds herself living a life similar to her childhood, and one that in no way fits the traditional definition of retirement.

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Bronte Creek Provincial Park. “It was always their favourite excursion,” she recalls. With her somewhat alternative approach to teaching, even back then Brenda was ahead of her time.

In mid-career Brenda seized an opportunity to spend two years in Lesotho, the mountainous king­ dom completely surrounded by South Africa. There she lived in a traditional round hut while training Bathoso teachers and helping design their training curriculum. This immersion in another culture, she says, taught her both humility and how to listen.

After returning to Canada she earned a master’s degree in education, and led educational and political tours to Nicaragua, Mozambique, Cuba and Grenada.

Have you noticed that as the decades tick by, getting fitted with replacement parts has also become something of a rite of passage? In Canada, nearly 59,000 hip replacements and more than 70,000 knee replacements were performed over 12 months from 2017 to 2018. And cataract removal is the most common surgery performed in this country, with more than 350,000 procedures annually.

Do you remember hearing when you were a kid that cataracts had to be “ripe” before they could be surgically removed? I have always found that an unsettling and somewhat revolting term. Isn’t it time we changed it? Could the word “mature” work?

But I digress.

Cataract surgery is performed at the discretion of the surgeon, and the timing of the surgery is not necessarily related to “ripeness” or “maturity.” But when cataract removal is coupled with corrective lens implantation, custom­ ized vision correction often means glasses and contact lenses can be tossed.

And is there an increasing number of shining bright smiles in your group of friends? I’ve heard more about posts, partials, pegs, plates,

crowns and implants in recent years than ever before.

You could say that surgeries like these are milestones in the lives of older boomers, just as getting a driver’s licence was when we were in our teens.

Back then we couldn’t wait to experi­ ence the freedom and independence of getting behind the wheel. Now it’s the titanium joints and customized vision correction that provide that freedom and independence.

Jim Pipher, a Caledon farm manager, has experienced that renewed freedom – twice. He went through successful knee replacement surgery 14 years ago.

Although his days of playing hockey and baseball are well in the past, at 78 and living on his own he has remained active, golfing and skating regularly.

He was determined to postpone surgery on his other troublesome knee as long as possible. So he underwent two arthroscopic procedures to clean up the interior of the knee joint, and a number of cortisone shots enabled him to live pain-free for about six months.

But Jim knew what was coming. To prepare, he began a diet regimen and exercised to strengthen the muscles around the knee. He underwent his second knee replacement surgery last September.

“I was told that the procedure had improved considerably in the years since my first knee replacement,” he said. “But other than the use of the ‘game changer,’ an ice-filled compression machine designed to keep the swelling down, I found the initial recovery period just as difficult.”

Jim spent three nights in the hospital before returning home under his daughter’s care for a week.

Then he hired a personal service worker who visited every Tuesday and Thursday for a few weeks.

“If I had it to do over again,” he said, “I would book into Orangeville’s Lord Dufferin Centre for the first few weeks post-surgery. Its Bridging You Home program offers a certain amount of care, plus on-site physiotherapy.”

Despite the long recovery, Jim has nothing but praise for the care he received during his replacement surgeries, and considers himself very fortunate to live in Canada with OHIP coverage.

As the first generation to have such replacement parts available to us, I agree, we’re damn lucky.

Furthermore, when it comes to dealing with creeping crepitus, the future may be even brighter. Stem cell therapy, for example, is touted as a possible treatment for a host of ills, including arthritic joints and other age-related maladies. The therapy, which aims to regenerate damaged tissue, is currently banned in Canada (with a few exceptions) because it is still considered experimental.

However, it is already offered in some other countries, including Mexico, and the situation here may change as clinical trials continue.

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Gail Grant is a happily retired senior who lives in Palgrave.

Activist Brenda Dolling has always been a woman ahead of her time.

In her mid-50s Brenda retired from teaching and ramped up her political activities. She knows freedom isn’t free. In 1998 she spent a night in jail after being arrested at a demonstration calling for a national housing strategy. Again, she was ahead of her time: a federal housing strategy was finally introduced in 2017. In 2000 she ran unsuccessfully for the federal New Democratic Party.

During those years Brenda concluded it was unsustainable to continue living in a house on her own, so she researched alternatives. In 2001 she joined a group working to create Whole Village, with its commitment to sustainability, land stewardship and communal living. She takes particular pride in the 23,000 trees planted on the Whole Village property since the community’s inception.

Resilient, energetic and politically engaged, Brenda says she’s learning all the time. With a hearty laugh she repeats one of her father’s favourite puns, “If I have my way, I will die out standing in my field.”

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A couple spruces up an Erin house, creating a dreamy space for their two daughters to grow up in.

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Woodland and floral motifs take up entire walls, there’s an enchanted garden out back, and two flaxen-haired princesses tumble about, indoors and out. At any moment you half expect a cute little tailor mouse or a bag of magic beans to appear.

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It’s all by design and the handiwork of Lia, a vintage fanatic and style maven.

Since taking possession in 2015, she’s transformed formerly generic 1990s interiors (lots of wood, taupe and dark granite) into a rustic-meets-midcentury-modern style for the couple and their two daughters, Lacey, 4, and Willow, 1 – and Hank, their beloved 8-year-old goldendoodle.

Alex and Lia moved to Erin when Lia was pregnant with Lacey to be closer to Lia’s family, who had made the weekend home they bought in 1994 south of Erin a permanent residence in 2002. Because Lia had spent time there, first on weekends as a teenager and then after graduating from university, the move felt like C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 10 0

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facing page In the dining area in Lia Parsley and Alex Panetta’s Erin home, warm woods, pale walls and modern lighting and seating add up to a rustic-yet-modern vibe. above Lia and Alex with daughters Lacey, left, and Willow.

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top Tidy hedges and hostas frame the storybook Erin home Lia and Alex chose as their new nest. bottom The couple opened up the kitchen to the dining and living areas. White tiles, Shaker-style cabinets and open shelving keep it inviting. top right This corner in the living space reflects Lia’s eye for mixing collectibles like a vintage James Dean poster from an estate sale with a modern armchair and a chunky throw. bottom right Kid-scale spaces abound, including this tent and shearling set-up – perfect to curl up in with a book or a stuffed toy.

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returning to a hometown. In Erin, Lia and Alex have created a strong family-focused life that centres around neighbourhood get-togethers, time spent at the local Tin Roof Café, Lacey’s preschool and dance classes, and a loving, helpful family blissfully nearby. Alex, VP of sales at a media tech company, commutes to Toronto every day, making family time on the weekends all the more special. And Lia loves the country roads they take to get “just about everywhere,” along with the quieter pace of life, especially

compared to her years of big city living.

“Living in the country sets a tone for my day that is relaxed and at ease regardless of what’s thrown at me,” she says. “City life was inspirational for the hustle, and country life is inspiring for the space to breathe, think and create.

As an introvert I’m much more suited to a quieter life at a home base, with occasional city ‘pop-ins’ to feel the pulse of the people.”

Thoughtful renovations include painting out all the interior walls, doors and trim, save for one exposed beam in the dining room, in warm

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whites and pale mauve-greys. The couple also removed the popcorn ceiling on the top and main floors, a labour of love that paid dividends in extra light and a sense of height.

They enlisted local general contractor Lorne Sinclair in 2016 to renovate the kitchen in bright Shaker style and open it up to the children’s play area and living room.

Their next project, planned for this summer, is to redo the bathrooms.

Downstairs will have a modern glass shower and large single vanity.

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Upstairs, Lia is going for throwback fun with penny tile and brass fixtures.

Style-wise, Lia’s background has come in handy. She started an online vintage clothing store in Austin, Texas, where they lived in 2012 for Alex’s work, and she continued it after moving back to Toronto. (The business is currently on pause while Lia focuses on family. However her Instagram account @liaparsley bursts with style.)

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rug in pastel mauves (“the best of the 1980s!” Lia observes) in the living room was a downsizing gift from her mother and originally graced the family home in Toronto. Lia purchased the pastel desert sunset runner in Lacey’s nursery at an estate sale in Austin well before the pair even had children. She carefully tucked it away, knowing it would serve as the inspiration for a kid’s room one day.

A faded burgundy Persian rug in the master bedroom from Guelph’s Rug & Weave is another cherished piece.

“I love texture, warmth and cozy

elements,” says Lia. “I feel that a great rug is the starting point to any room.”

The living room features two other great finds – a large James Dean poster picked up at a Toronto estate sale and elk antlers from an antique store in Austin. Lia bought their mid-centurymodern wood bedroom set on Kijiji from a couple who had used it their entire adult lives. “I always remember to oil it and try to keep it knick-free to honour the previous owners.”

Speaking of former owners, Lia and Alex have the talented carpenter who lived in their home before them

to thank for some of the fairy tale details. He hand cut all the decorative trim and performed many upgrades, including the additions such as the now-spacious dining room. The end result is board-and-batten Cape Cod style with a dash of Victorian gingerbread ornamentation.

Lia and Alex also gladly inherited a number of mature plantings in the front yard. Azalea bushes offer an “unbelievable show every late spring in fuchsia, orange, peach and yellow – it’s planted like a rainbow,” says Lia. The pair also eagerly anticipates the

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first blooms on their pear tree – a true sign that winter is over for another year. It promises to be a storybook setting for the girls’ first outdoor Easter egg hunt this year. (Until the landscape outside comes alive, earthy centrepieces by good friend Krystal Young of Snowberry Botanicals in Erin punctuate the indoors with lots of greens and subtle hints of colour on special occasions.)

Not surprising for a house with two little ones, the kitchen, living room and toy area get the most traffic. Lia’s advice for young families is to keep

the play space as simple as possible to maintain an element of serenity even in the midst of chaos. This means banishing less visually appealing toys elsewhere (here, it’s a basement space downstairs). She also recommends durable materials. The couple chose quartz over marble for their kitchen countertops: “We’re not about the patina and wouldn’t want the extra worry with marble.”

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and new. She admits she completed the nursery mood board for Willow, her youngest, mere hours after finding out she was pregnant.

In both girls’ rooms, typical closets have given way to whimsical alternatives. In the toddler’s room, where they removed the closet to make way for a bigger bathroom, Alex carved a branch Lia found into a chic hanging clothes rod. “It’s really amazing to see how much her

bedroom resembles the picture in my mind. I knew the wallpaper I wanted (from Anthropologie), I had the idea for the branch closet, and everything else fell into place organically.” In Lacey’s equally clever closet is a French country ivory and gold hutch.

It belonged to Lia’s grandmother, who was stylish but also extremely thrifty – a trait she passed on to her granddaughter.

The goal for both rooms was to be playful yet refined. Lia plans to

repurpose the mid-century credenza in Lacey’s room as dining storage later on. And although Willow’s room is small, Lia envisions a small desk and single bed in there one day soon.

“For both, I wanted to evoke a bit of childhood magic, a special place for them to retreat each night that’s filled with family memories and imaginative vignettes.” Each appears to be sprinkled with more than a little happily-ever-after fairy dust – so mission accomplished.

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MULMUR CONTEMPORARY Newer custom built passive solar 5 bdrm home on priv rolling Mulmur hills acreage. Engineered for maximum comfort & efficiency. $1,229,000

LORETTO HILL TOP ESTATE Views for miles from anywhere in this bungaloft home with fully finished lower nanny suite, det office building and newer pool. $1,295,000

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TOTTENHAM INVESTMENT 105 acres close to new developments. Has large sections of workable land, bush and stream. $4,000,000

BEETON WOODED PARADISE Renovated bungalow w/ walkout on 4 private acres + large 3 car garage/shop with completely self contained apartment. $1,495,000

PRE-DEVELOPMENT LAND Large parcel of 200 acres surrounded by developer owned lands close to Beeton. $6,500,000

INVESTMENT PROPERTY 50 acres plus a house, barn and pond located close to new housing developments in south Tottenham. $2,000,000

POTATO FARM LAND 93 acres partially tiled with an irrigation permit close to Alliston in the heart of the growth area between Beeton and Alliston. $1,995,000

ALLISTON EQUESTRIAN FARM Quiet private enjoyment awaits on this 26 acre parcel of paradise with Century home. $1,500,000

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BEETON PRE-DEVELOPMENT LAND Highly coveted area for investment. 100 acs in the development corridor btwn Beeton & Alliston not on the Oak Ridges Moraine. $1,650,000

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6084 TENTH LINE, ERIN Nestled in the tall trees with 2.83 acres, on one of the prettiest lines in Erin. A 'jaw dropping' renovation, this gorgeous country bungalow will tick off all your boxes. Open-concept design with large windows letting in tons of sunlight. Fully finished basement with 2 bedrooms and walkout to lovely private lot! The new double-car garage and mudroom will keep everyone organized.

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19 MILLWOOD ROAD, ERIN A spectacular family neighbourhood, walking distance to schools and everything in the Village.

Over half-acre lot with inground pool. This home has a great flow with lots of natural light. 4 huge bedrooms, updated bathrooms, main floor family room and laundry room. Basement has finished recreation and craft room plus plenty of storage. Double-car garage, beautiful mature trees.

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HORSESHOE HILL LAKE, CALEDON 106 acres of pure country bliss! South views over dock and 40-acre private lake. 2nd house.

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MAPLE LANE FARM, MONO 71 acres with 1837 stone house + elegant 2-bedroom guest house. Private setting. Pond.

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RARE FIND IN BELFOUNTAIN Unique property privately situated in Caledon with over 2 acres of land including mature trees, gardens and over-flowing spring-fed pond. Existing homestead being sold ‘as-is’ with 2-story home, detached double-car garage and separate cabin. $849,900

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54 ACRES WITH AMAZING VIEWS Charming brick farmhouse offers large, open rooms for your family and entertaining needs.

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WELCOME TO LEGACY PINES Bungalow, 2+1 bdrms, 3 baths, great rm w/ hrdwd flrs, vaulted ceiling & fp, dining rm w/ coffered ceiling & hrdwd flrs, eat-in kit w/ granite tops, mstr w/ 4-pc ens & dressing rm, fin bsmt.

Access to golf & tennis. Caledon $899,000

CUSTOM BUILT EXEC RETREAT 4+1 bdrms, 4 baths, great rm w/ walnut floors, cathedral ceiling, window wall & fp, kit w/ quartz tops & w/o, master w/ hrdwd flrs, w/i closet & 5-pc ensuite, fin w/o bsmt w/ kit, rec rm & bath.

1-acre lot, 2-car garage. Caledon $1,499,000

EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE BUNGALOW 4 bdrms, 4 baths, living rm w/ hrdwd flrs & walkout to above ground pool & deck. Kit w/ granite tops & island, master has 4-pc ens & hrdwd flrs.

Fin bsmt w/ sep entry, bath, games & rec rms.

131x245 ft lot & hot tub. Caledon $1,419,000

INCREDIBLE INGLEWOOD LOCATION 4 bdrms, 3 baths, fam rm with fireplace, hrdwd flrs and open to kit with granite tops and island.

Master with 4-pc ensuite and walk-in closet. Fin bsmt. 172x377 ft lot, 2 sheds, hot tub, 32x14 ft outbuilding and generator. Caledon $1,499,000

FAMILY RETREAT ON 10 ACRES 5 bdrms, 6 baths, fam rm w/ fireplace & hrdwd flrs, dining rm w/ vaulted ceiling, master has hrdwd flrs, fireplace & 6-pc ensuite, fin walkout bsmt w/ kit, rec rm, games rm & bath. Inground pool & nanny suite. Caledon $2,488,000

COUNTRY GETAWAY 3 bdrms, 5 baths, fam rm w/ hrdwd flrs, fireplace, vaulted ceiling, walkout & open to kit, master w/ 5-pc ensuite & walk-in closet, fin walkout bsmt w/ rec rm, games rm, den & bath. 12 acres, inground pool & 3-car grg. Caledon $1,749,000

23.66 ACRE LOT OF LAND Just north of Hwy 9, pretty treed lot with mix of natural forest, reforested sections and pond.

Exceptional building site for custom dream home in nature’s paradise. Use your imagination, consider the possibilities. Mono $679,000

9.66 ACS IN THE HILLS OF MULMUR Open field & hrdwd forest. Trails through woods, trails in the area for snowmobiling & some of the best fishing nearby. On a sideroad with limited traffic & lots of privacy. Build your dream home with space for extra. Mulmur $449,000

4 JOSEPH COURT, CALEDON EAST Listing price $1,350,000

LOT 16, AIRPORT ROAD Listing price $1,775,000

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4500 SQ FT OF SUSTAINABILITY, HISTORY & CRAFTSMANSHIP 7 acres with Shaws Creek running through the forest. The centre is a 1854 restored Ontario bank barn timber frame, the interior organized around it. Central wood-burning heater and fireplace, two-story great room and open loft spaces. The kitchen is 300 sq ft with a high cedar-clad ceiling opening to elliptical clerestory windows and a wall of glass looking out to your private outdoor sanctuary. $1,999,000

CUSTOM BUNGALOW ON 2 ACRES IN KING TOWNSHIP This gated and fenced property features 4+1 bedrooms, 3 baths and renovated kitchen. Finished basement with kitchen for recreation or in-laws. Attached triple-car garage and large 50’x32’ workshop with separate office space. Inground pool with waterfall and outdoor entertainment area. $1,995,000

EXECUTIVE FOUR-SEASON LIFESTYLE Private paved drive to this luxury residence on 10 acres! Features walking/riding trails through mostly deciduous forest. Spring flowers, sensational summer sunsets, incredible fall colours and winter skating on the pond! Includes a self-contained main floor in-law suite or home office with 2nd kitchen. Country features enhance this special offering. 10 minutes to Hwy 400 or 45 minutes to Toronto Pearson Airport! $1,395,000

A TREASURE OF CHARACTER AND STYLE EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK An irresistible classic on an historic 66x165 ft lot in the heart of Alliston. Hardwood, solid wood trim, stairs, moulding, pocket doors, covered porches, 2 gas fireplace, 1 wood fireplace and intricate details create bright open living spaces. The 2-story theatre with balcony takes this home to the next level! Perfect media room or studio space. The possibilities are endless. $895,000

10-ACRE HOBBY FARM CLOSE TO SCHOMBERG This two-family home has almost 8000 sq ft of living space. Main floor boasts large foyer, eat-in kitchen with solid surface countertops and walkout to deck. Lower level features 2nd kitchen with walkout, multiple living areas and potential bedrooms. Stunning wine cellar/wet bar room. Detached 3-car garage with loft. Approx 15x30 ft shop with roll up door and concrete floor. $1,995,000

EFFORTLESS LUXURY SET ON 2.5 ACRES Long sweeping views to the southwest complete with a custom bungalow and 40'x60' heated shop.

The total package! No details spared, gorgeous hardwood, custom maple kitchen with heated floors open to the cathedral great room with views that wow year-round. Master ensuite with heated floors, lower level bedroom, full bath with heated floors, sauna, family room with woodstove and games room. Just 5 minutes to all the amenities in Alliston. $1,295,000

A TRUE RETREAT IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS "Grey Stone" is 7624 sq ft of luxuriously handcrafted resort-style living space offering unlimited freedom on 73 (hiking) acres of escarpment just minutes to skiing, snowmobile trail at end of driveway, paved road, brown trout pond. Has 6 bedrooms (2 masters/ensuite), 5 baths, an indoor pool, and salt-water hot tub. The opportunities are endless. This is a must-see Collingwood property! $3,200,000

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12 SCENIC ACS NEAR NOBLETON Great opportunity in the heart of horse country.

Spring-fed pond, raised bungalow & mature trees. Equestrian complex w/ 20 soft stalls, 70’x 156' indoor arena, sand ring & 9 paddocks. 15 mins to Caledon Equestrian Park. $1,695,000

100-ACRE ESTATE FARM On a private road in Adjala overlooking Hockley Valley. Ontario farm home restored with carriage house and bank barn all in excellent condition.

Over 80 acres sandy loam soil with mature hardwood bush. 2 road frontages. $1,895,000

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CALEDON EAST CENTURY HERITAGE HOME ON CUL-DE-SAC A unique piece of history, beautifully upgraded while keeping original character, 9 ft ceilings, pine plank floors, high baseboards, solid wood trims, crown moulding and extensive landscaping with two patios and firepit in south-facing backyard oasis with Caledon Trail access. This 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath has an elegant kitchen with Pro Series 6-burner gas stove, copper sink and Elmira cookstove, a family room, den and huge master with fireplace. $1,168,900

CALEDON 30 ACRES WITH MODERNIZED FARMHOUSE On the escarpment with a newly paved 260 ft driveway, a 2-car attached garage, parking pad for 6 cars, plus a detached 4-car garage. This 2.5-storey, 1915 century home is totally updated with 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and 3rd floor master suite, while keeping the character of yesteryear with new high baseboards, wide trims, oak hardwood, slate floors in kitchen and a finished bsmt. Perfect for a hobby farmer, horse enthusiast, or as a retreat paradise on the escarpment. $2,189,900

CHARMING TERRA COTTA – BACKING TO CREDIT RIVER The Credit River is clear and ever-flowing, and towering trees form a backdrop to this circa 1895, 2-bedroom, 1-bath home with detached single-car garage and carport on a 122x184 ft lot in a village setting. There is a living room with a fireplace, oak cabinets in an eat-in kitchen and a south-facing sunroom which overlooks the deck below, manicured perennial gardens and river.

See virtual tour at maryklein.com. $889,900

CALEDON TAMARACK SUBDIVISION On 3.57 mature acres with 4-car garage, inground pool, cabana, hot tub and decking. This 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath has family room with gas fireplace, newer maple hardwood on main level and a “cook’s delight” updated open-concept kitchen with heated travertine floors, quartz countertops, centre island with breakfast bar, 6 burner gas cooktop, built-in desk and bar areas, perfect for entertaining! An ideal commuter location. $1,348,900

ORANGEVILLE WEST END 3+1 bdrm, 3.5 bath w/ fin w/o bsmt 4th bdrm & rec rm backing onto conservation. Hrdwd, crown mouldings, granite countertops, ss appls plus upgrades: shingles 2012, triple glazed windows 2018, furnace 2016, c/vac. $768,900

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CALEDON ACRE WITH POND This 3+2-bdrm, 3.5-bath bungalow with walkout basement & 3-car garage has hardwood flooring, 2 fireplaces, oak kitchen with stainless appliances, and a bright basement rec room Tons of potential; bring your ideas! $998,900

CALEDON 1.14 AC BUILDING LOT Land survey & site plan available for 2300 sq ft bungalow with w/o bsmt or enlarge sq footage up to 3200 sq ft. Hydro at road. Restrictive Covenant on title for construction of a onestorey dwelling only on property. $648,900

MONO 4.25 FORESTED ACRES Custom built with 3 bdrms, 2.5 baths, w/o basement & det 2-car garage with heated bay on quiet country cul-de-sac w/ ravine, stream, trails. Beamed ceilings, fp, Georgian oak floors & walkout to 2-tiered decking. $938,900

MULMUR Brand new 3-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom bungalow with finished walkout basement and 3-car garage on 24.58 acres with pond and forest. $1,228,900

ORANGEVILLE Walk to downtown from this location for upscale, 3-bedroom century home on mature 75x158 ft lot with ornamental pond and waterfall feature. $898,900

ERIN Customized "Homes of Distinction" 3+1-bedroom, 3-bathroom bungalow with a 3-car garage and finished basement on mature lot. $1,189,900

CALEDON EAST CUL-DE-SAC South-facing 3744 sq ft custom passive solar designed 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath on premium lot with ornamental pond backing to green space. $1,198,900

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12210 COLERAINE DR, BOLTON Sold January 2020 $2,400,000

12226 COLERAINE DR, BOLTON Sold January 2020 $2,400,000

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19134 HURONTARIO ST, CALEDON VILLAGE Featured as the Home of the Week, Toronto Star, February 29, 2020. Circa 1873, 2700 sq ft stone house. 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3-car garage, 25x50 barn, 10 acres. $1,199,000 Jacqueline Guagliardi spr20_layout 20-03-05 1:14 PM Page 1

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39 OLD CARRIAGE RD, EAST GARAFRAXA 1.8 acs, 4 bdrms, 4 baths, 2-car grg, partially fin bsmt, priv yard, lrg principal rms. $1,199,000

17219 HWY 50, PALGRAVE Step outside the box and consider the possibilities for this property. Office, clinic, retail, financial, repair and so much more. Of course this is a successful turn-key restaurant/pub.

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129-ACRE ESTATE – EUROPEAN STYLE AND QUALITY Spectacular renovated home with total privacy, self-contained main floor guest suite, and practical dual heating system. Expansive windows blur the line between outside and in.

This 129-acre gated property offers a tennis court with cabin, 4-car garage, groomed trails, and 100 acres of income generating tile drained farmland, an hour from GTA. Newer insulated 860 sq ft workshop; ideal for income or pastimes. $2,995,000

48-ACRE ORGANIC HOBBY FARM Open-concept farmhouse privately set on paved road north of Orangeville with updated windows, 5 paddocks & 7-stall barn with hydro & water. Land is mostly arable (hay) & approx 25 acres are tiled. $875,000

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1/3 AC DOWNTOWN ORANGEVILLE Resplendent 4 bdrm, 3 bath, Century home tastefully updated coalescing original character & ambiance with modern function.

Recent updates incl furnace, shingles, baths, driveway. Detached workshop. $950,000

CALEDON-PALGRAVE Located in an exclusive estate subdivision sits an absolutely stunning bungalow on 3.75 mature acres. 3400 sq ft custom-built home with gourmet kitchen, huge pantry, marble counters, breakfast bar, wine fridge, top-of-the-line appliances, walks out to covered patio. 4 bedrooms, 4 washrooms. Master bedroom features stunning ensuite & custom built-in closets. All bedrooms have ensuites, hardwood flooring throughout. Amazing great room, vaulted ceilings. Too many features to list. It is truly a must see home. Please call for a private viewing! $1,799,000

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HOCKLEY VALLEY COUNTRY ESTATE 88 acres of rolling hayfields and hardwood bush with majestic views overlooking Hockley Valley.

Exceptional property with main house (5 bdrms/7 baths) plus century stone house (4 bdrms/2 baths). Professionally landscaped with 2-acre vineyard and renovated barn for events. $4,350,000

CALEDON COUNTRY GETAWAY ON THE GRANGE Reproduction custom country home situated on 42 rolling acres with a private setting overlooking a picturesque spring-fed pond. This 4-bedroom, 4-bathroom country home with a wood-burning fireplace is a perfect getaway from the city. $2,499,000

PEACEFUL OASIS IN HOCKLEY Westerly views of the Mono countryside with stunning pool, cabana and outdoor seating areas.

Spacious light filled, fully renovated chef’s kitchen. The great room offers hardwood floors, floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace with soaring ceilings. $1,399,000

SWALLOW HILL IN MULMUR 82-acre property high in the hills of Mulmur. 5000 sq ft custom built home designed by Jamie Wright with incredible south exposure overlooking 50m swimming pond. Scale and use of natural light is impressive. Great rm boasts soaring ceilings, massive fir beams & flr-to-ceiling granite fp. $2,899,000

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5+ PRIVATE ACRES WITH POOL 6-bdrm bungalow w/ fin w/o bsmt on 5.4 acs. A multi-level deck for entertaining, 2 kits, 2 laundry rms, 4-car garage, hrdwd flrs, large windows, ample parking on driveway. Fenced inground saltwater pool, cabana & shed. $1,595,000

LUXURY CUSTOM BUILT Over 6500 sq ft new home on over 1.5 acs. 10’ ceilings on all 3 levels. 3-car grg + lrg workshop for add’l 2-car parking. 500+ sq ft recreation, 2 kitchens on main floor. Easy access to hwys, close to Orangeville, Brampton. $2,495,000

RAVINE LOT 1.3 ACRES 4 bdrm, custom built w/ natural stone finish & landscaped. Crown mouldings/baseboards & wainscoting. Chef’s kit w/ granite counters.

Covered terrace w/ hot tub, stone f/p, outdoor bbq. Grt rm w/ 18’ coffered ceilings. $2,350,000

POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT LAND 98+ acres in a prime location includes a det home & 3 barns. Property is attached to the Palgrave Estates. Regular source of income as property is being farmed. Great investment opportunity for future growth. $4,995,000

35 ACRES + 5000 SQ FT WORKSHOP 6-bdrm bungalow w/ multiple walkouts, skylights, o/c, bright & spacious. Property also includes a huge 400 sq ft workshop w/ 4 oversized bay doors, polished cement floor. Heated & insulated.

Property sits on over 35 acres! $1,895,000

BREATHTAKING VIEWS Views of Inglewood Valley make this custom home unique. On 2.86 acres in desirable south Caledon, surrounded by luxury estate homes.

Library/den, sunroom, chef’s kitchen w/ beamed ceiling, Sub-Zero/Wolfe appliances. $2,495,000

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY Rare corner lot on 4.7 acres with multiple permitted uses & potential for future development is a great investment opportunity. Water line, gas line and hydro on property. Seller maybe willing to provide vtb. $2,999,000

25 ACRES – POOL – WORKSHOP Stunning property on 25 acres w/ 3000 sq ft shop. Large kit, screened porch overlooks i/g pool. Large mstr w/ ens, his & hers w/i closets.

Main floor office. Formal dining rm w/ access to kitchen & great rm. Newly fin bsmt. $2,695,000

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MISSISSAUGA ROAD, CALEDON Masterpiece w/ views on 25+ acs. 5000+ sq ft home, 5 bdrms each with ensuite, designer kitchen w/ granite & built-in cabinetry. Hrdwd throughout, gym, wine cellar, 3-car grg, pool complex w/ outdoor kit & more! $3,850,000

BEECHGROVE SDRD, CALEDON Gracious country living with room for all!

Meticulously updated 4-bdrm red brick, century farmhouse with board & batten & stone addition on 59 acres. Bank barn, arena, paddocks & 2 swimmable ponds. $1,899,000 OAKVILLE LAKE ONTARIO Quality craftsmanship steps from Lake Ontario and the shops of Oakville. Restored and renovated to the highest quality, this magnificent home boasts an entertainer’s kitchen and formal dining plus numerous walkouts to your large, private yard. Sun-filled with a spa-like master suite and finished recreation room in addition to main floor living. $2,875,000

MONO CENTRE RD, MONO Coming soon to MLS. Recently constructed perma-chink log home on 44 acres, 4-stall barn w/ tack & feed rms, coverall hay storage, sep in-law suite, paddocks, run-ins, apple trees, grapes, close to hiking, fine dining.

3RD LINE E, MULMUR Terrific views at this private equine paradise!

Updated 3-bdrm, 2-storey home with walkout basement on 24.62 acres. 7-stall barn, paddocks, hayfield, hardwood bush with trails complete the outdoor package. $1,129,000

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QUALITY SOUTH ERIN CUSTOM Recently built by a luxury home builder for his personal use; this incredible home offers 2 family living with a main residence and fully self-contained luxurious 2 bedroom in-law suite for those accustomed to high standards. All mechanics and finishes of the latest technology offering energy efficient living. Nestled on four acres with 4-car garage and additional 3-bay shop. No expense spared. $2,450,000

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AMAZING OPPORTUNITY IN QUAINT ALTON Two deeded lots, totalling 8+ acres in this highly desirable village. Great commercial potential.

Prime Queen Street E location, ample parking. Shaws Creek runs through the properties.

Live and work from home in one of Alton's original mills or build on the second lot – first time offered in 41 years. $1,225,000

MONO TREASURE 25 acres, pristine and private with 2 ponds! 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom bungalow. Large solid workshop/loft. Perfect for hobbyist, home business or studio/gym. Groomed trails through mature forest and open meadows. Call today and beat the spring rush! $1,320,000

NEW CALEDON CUSTOM Surrounded by trees on a priv lot, this custom built home offers main flr living. Luxurious mstr suite, 3-season sunroom. Sep self-contained in-law suite w/ priv entrance. New energy efficient mechanics, top finishes. $1,999,000

INCOME PROPERTY Legal Acton duplex with a 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom unit; both with a separate garage and private backyard. Convenient to GO and shopping. Maintained to the highest standard. $879,000

TERRA COTTA BUILDING LOT Steps from the Credit River, 2.4-acre village lot conveniently located in southwest Caledon minutes from Highway 410 and Georgetown. $550,000

VIEW! POND! 3-acre Erin building lot with incredible countryside views. Perfect building location overlooking your own private pond. Build your dream home! $519,000

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THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A PROPERTY SO THOUGHTFULLY CREATED AND LOVINGLY CARED FOR Situated on an escarpment just outside the Village of Creemore, this property commands magnificent countryside views. The 3-bedroom main barnhouse was created by deconstructing a family barn, then repurposing the unique elements with architect James Campbell. The main barnhouse is situated on the property along with a 3-bedroom Victorian guest house, a multi-purpose barn, potting shed and a workshop. The 24 acres of land contain a spring-fed stocked swimming pond, a lovely mature forest, meadow/grassland habitat for birds; seasonal streams; trails for hiking, riding, or snowshoeing; plus lovely perennial gardens. $3,500,000 Ross Hughes spr20_layout 20-03-05 5:45 PM Page 1

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RossHughes.ca 519-938-2225

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s c h o o l s + e d u c at i o n Brampton Christian School 22 Headwater Hills Montessori School 93 St. Andrew’s College 135

s e ni o r s ’ s e r v i c e s Avalon Retirement Lodge 21 Chartwell Montgomery Village Retirement Residence 136 Headwaters Home Care 56 Lord Dufferin Centre 103 Sorrento Retirement Residence 37

MONO EXECUTIVE HOME 4+2 bdrm & 5 bath! Lrg bright eat-in kit w/ granite countertops, island, ss appliances, marble backsplash, homework desk & walkout to fully fenced backyard is a dream w/ ample space to work & gather. Bright open living rm w/ fireplace, formal dining rm, family rm, laundry & 2-pc bath finish main flr. Upper level has 4 bdrms incl master retreat w/ 5-pc ensuite, w/i closet & dressing rm. Fully finished basement w/ 2 bdrms, 3-pc bath & open rec rm. $1,199,000

t o ur i s m + t r av e l Cruise Holidays 43 Orangeville BIA 60 61 Town of Erin 42 43

tree services Maple Leaves Forever 40

ACTIVE ADULT COMMUNITY Absolutely stunning bungalow in maintenance-free Briar Hill, a vibrant active adult community!

Minutes from Alliston, surrounded by golf course, adjacent to Nottawasaga Inn, and close to all amenities you could desire. Home will wow you as you walk in and are met with beautiful open-concept living and massive windows. Endless views from one of the last homes in Briar Hill with unobstructed views. 2+2 bdrm, 3 bath. $829,900

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INVESTMENT – WIARTON Legal duplex as single-family home w/ in-law suite or rental income. 4 bdrms, 2 storey. Adjoining bungalow 2-bdrm apt. Many upgrades. Sep utility meters, furnaces, HWT & priv areas for each unit. Views of Colpoy's Bay. MLS $349,000

41 ACRE DREAM WEAVER – ERIN Build your masterpiece on this flat property.

Existing drive leads to fertile farm fields and mature treed forest beside Speed River. Close to town shops, services. Seller willing to consider a VTB to qualified buyer. Survey. MLS $699,000

HOBBY FARM – ORANGEVILLE Updated 3+1-bdrm, 2-bath bungalow. Sep 1-bdrm, 2-bath in-law suite. Heated 4-car grg & 34’x60’ shop w/ 2-16’ doors. 12-stall horse barn, 10+ acs in fenced pasture, a 60’x120’ indoor & 100’x200’ outdoor riding arena. MLS $2,199,000

ERAMOSA RIVER – ERIN Build your forever home with an existing driveway leading to a building envelope surrounded by mature trees on 10 acs. Meadow areas gives room for organic gardens & a forest to provide privacy. Close to GO service. MLS $449,000

14 ACRES – CAMPBELLVILLE 3+1-bdrm, 4-bath log bungalow. Mature forest & ponds. Bright, spacious open concept, soaring ceilings. Fin lower level. 3 car and sep 2-car heated grg. Natural gas. Back-up generator, 200 amp service. Paved road. MLS $1,990,000

FRINGE BENEFITS – ACTON 3+2-bdrm, 2-bath brick bungalow w/ comfort of municipal services. Updated eat-in kit w/ breakfast bar, ss appls. Carpet-free main flr, laundry & access to a grg. Fin w/o bsmt in-law suite. 9stall barn w/ water, hydro, loft. MLS $1,099,0000

A RESORT ON PIGEON LAKE 3-bdrm, 3-bath Viceroy style log home w/ quality & impressive finishes. O/c living. Fin bsmt w/ heated flrs, access to 2 sep grgs for 6 cars w/ 12' & 17' ceilings + 14' doors. Owned access to lakefront & 14 acs. MLS $1,199,000

2+ ACRES – SOUTH RIVER 4-season BNB business or family heirloom. Waterfront on South River & Forest Lake. 4 sep living quarters w/ 8 bdrms, 5 baths, 4 kits + bunkie on the edge of Algonquin Park. Fishing, hiking & snowmobiling. Natural gas. MLS $939,900

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MULMUR – “EASTVIEW” 30 acres perched on the Escarpment with stunning views for miles. Renovated bungalow has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, centre island, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.

Wood-burning fireplace and pool for your enjoyment. $999,000

MULMUR – "DEERVIEW" Fabulous property boasting a spacious family home with o/c great rm, 2 ponds, tennis court & pavilion + spectacular views! Private setting on quiet country rd. Conveniently located 10 mins from Creemore & Mansfield Ski Club. 15 mins from Mad River Golf Club. $1,100,000 Adjoining properties. Possibility for family compound. Contact Basia for more information.

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CaledonTownandCountry.com Roger Irwin, Broker Dawn Bennett, Sales Representative

905-857-0651

ARCHITECTURALLY STUNNING – EXCLUSIVE Timeless modern design on 3.23 acres backing onto a huge healthy pond with otters & swans.

Over 6000 sq ft of finished living space, this home is perfect for entertaining large or intimate parties. Perfectly suited to athletes or simply weekend warriors – it has a tennis court, volleyball court, salt H20 pool, hot tub, extensive outdoor kitchen w/ heater & misting system. One-of-akind property! To see more photos of this home, go to www.dawnbennett.com. $2,890,000

WELCOME TO “FOREST VIEW” – EXCLUSIVE This award-winning custom built 3-storey home sits privately on 3.5 lushly treed acres surrounded by hundreds of acres of conservation. Spectacular post & beam great room with 32ft ceiling at its peak, over 6000 sq ft of finished living space, finished lower level, detached 3-bay garage/workshop with 1000 sq ft guest suite above. Breathtaking!

To see more photos, go to www.dawnbennett.com. $2,589,000

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arts+letters NOW – APR 5 : INSPIRED BY ... The

artistic process is unpacked. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Free. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Headwaters Arts Gallery, 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com NOW – APR 12 : MERYL MCMASTER

Large-scale outdoor photography by this Indigenous artist. Regular times and admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

reception, 6pm. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm.

Museum of Dufferin, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

APR 7, MAY 5 & JUN 2 : DAC MAR 28 : PASSIONATE HEART:

LUNCHEON & SPEAKER SERIES

CONTEMPOR ARY DANCE AT THE ALTON

Lunch and inspiring presentation by local artists. Noon-2:30pm. $30, register. Mrs Mitchell’s Restaurant, Violet Hill. dufferinartscouncil.com

MILL Stories of friendship, loneliness,

entrapment and redemption. 2-4pm. $15; $20 at the door. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca APR 1 – 30 : SIKH COMMUNIT Y EXHI­ BITION Contemporary Sikh art created

in the GTA. Regular times and admission.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

NOW – MAY 24 : PRESENCE IN ABSENCE

A multimedia exhibition of Black stereotypes. Regular times and admission.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – MAY 24 : JAGDEEP R AINA: CHASE

Textiles and paintings explore memory and community. Regular times and admission. With Art Gallery of Guelph.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

feedback. 1:30pm. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. headwaterswritersguild.com

APR 2 : PAMA CREATES Geometric

Collage. All materials provided, no experience necessary. 10amnoon. Regular times, $15, includes admission, register. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca APR 5 & 19, MAY 3 & 24, JUN 14 &

APR 8 – MAY 3 : IN THE MIX! Controlled technique set free with spontaneous abandon. Apr 11: reception, 1-4pm. WedSun 10am-5pm. Free. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Headwaters Arts Gallery, 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com APR 11 : SAFER SPACE STUDIO Drop

in and create art. No experience required, materials provided. 2SLGBTQ+ Collaborative of Peel and Rainbow Salad. 2-4pm. Regular admission.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

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MEETINGS Bring your writing for positive

CLUB FOR ADULTS Discover your inner

creativity. Materials provided. Apr 14 & May 12: 2pm, Caledon Library, 20 Snelcrest Dr, Caledon. Apr 21 & May 19: 7pm, Caledon Library, Caledon Village, 905-857-1400. caledon.library.on.ca APR 14, MAY 12 & JUN 9 : BOOKS & BEERS @ STR ATENGERS – AGES 19+

Discuss your favourite books. 7pm. 212 Queen St S, Bolton. Caledon Library, 905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca APR 15 : COFFEE, CONVERSATION & BOOKS – FREYA BARKER Ordinary

people with extraordinary stories.

7-8pm. Free. Perked Pierogi, 17 Main St S, Grand Valley. Grand Valley Library, 519-928-5622; townofgrandvalley.ca APR 18, 25 & MAY 2 : WRITING WORKSHOP SERIES Strengthen your

writing voice with Carol Good. Attend all dates. 10:30am-1pm. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 122

WORKS, 2001 - 2020 The symbolic

and sometimes uncanny Canadian landscape. Regular times and admission.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca NOW – ONGOING : 20/20 Can we

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NOW – SEP 6 : SIMON HUGHES: CCS Caledon Community Services

DCAFS Dufferin Child

CPCC Caledon Parent-Child Centre

DPSN Dufferin Parent

CVC Credit Valley

EWCS East Wellington

Conservation

Community Services

and Family Services Support Network

MOD Museum of Dufferin – Regular admission: $5; seniors $4; children 5-14 $2; under 5 free; family $12 PAMA Peel Art Gallery, Museum and

Archives – Regular admission: $5; students, seniors $4; family (2 adults & 5 children) $12

NVCA Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority OAS Orangeville Agricultural

Society Event Centre SBEC Orangeville & District Small Business Enterprise Centre

TANYA TAGAQ PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FOLD (FESTIVAL OF LITERARY DIVERSITY)

MAY 1, 2020

“Tagaq’s surreal meld of poetry and prose transmutes the Arctic’s boundless beauty, intensity, and desolation into a wrenching contemporary mythology.” – New Yorker Improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling novelist, Tanya Tagaq is one of Canada’s most original and celebrated artists. Order of Canada recipient, JUNO and Polaris Music Prize winner, and Giller Prize Longlisted author, Tagaq headlines the 2020 Festival of Literary Diversity in Brampton. Musical and literary worlds come together in a unique performance that includes a reading from Tagaq’s work Split Tooth.

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MAY 9 : OR ANGEVILLE Saturdays,

CLUB – GRIEF WORKS Dialogue about

8am-1pm. Second St & Broadway. orangevillefarmersmarket.ca

death, dying and bereavement. 2-3pm.

Free. Hospice Dufferin, Shelburne Public Library, 201 Owen Sound St. 519-925-2168; shelburnelibrary.ca APR 20, MAY 11, JUN 15 : STORY TELLING SERIES Reading, Q&A, different

speaker each month. 1:15-2:15pm. Free.

Community Living Dufferin, Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St, Orangeville. 519941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca APR 20, MAY 18 & JUN 15 : DUFFERIN PIECEMAKERS QUILTING GUILD MONTHLY MEETINGS Speakers, social

events and hands-on activities. 7:309:30pm. $45/year; guests $9/meeting.

OAS Event Centre, 247090 5 Sdrd Mono.

519-941-1202; dufferinpiecemakers.org APR 21, MAY 19 & JUN 16 : OR ANGE THREADS Stitchery group discusses

projects and good books. 1-2:30pm.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca

MAY 2 & 3 : SPRING OPEN HOUSE

MAY 24 : DUFFERIN CIRCLE OF

Open studios and live music. 10am5pm. Free. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca

STORY TELLERS – HIGH TEA & TALES

MAY 6 – JUN 7 : WHAT’S THE BUZ Z?

A sumptuous array of artistic pieces.

May 9: reception, 1-4. Wed-Sun 10am5pm. Free. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Headwaters Arts Gallery, 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com MAY 7 : 100% CERTAINT Y BOOK CLUB: TO THE RIVER Dialogue about death, dying and bereavement. 1:30-3pm.

Free. Hospice Dufferin, Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St, Orangeville. 519941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca MAY 8 – 13 : WRITE ON THE FRENCH

APR 22 : GET TING CR AF T Y Make a

RIVER Expert guidance from Don Gillmor,

craft inspired by our new CreativeBug database with staff guidance. 2pm. Free.

Sorrento Retirement Residence, Caledon Library, 150 Queen Street S, Bolton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

Marni Jackson and Lindy Mechefske in superb Lodge at Pine Cove. Hosted

by In The Hills contributor Nicola Ross.

Reserve online by Apr 5. 8am-5pm.

705-898-2500; frenchriver.com

APR 23 : DUFFERIN CIRCLE OF STORY TELLERS – OPEN MIC EVENING

Bring your own stories. Call or email Pina Di Leo. 7:30pm. Terra Nova Public House, Terra Nova. 647-389-2568, dufferinstorytellers@gmail.com APR 23 & MAY 28 : LGBTQ+ BOOK CLUB – AGES 16+ Discuss books with LGBTQ+

themes or authors. Mar 26: The Great Believers. Apr 28: The Miseducation of Cameron Post. May 28: Boy Erased. 7pm.

Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca APR 24 : O P E N SOUND DAY OF THE POETS 3 KICK- OFF Collaboration between

croc E moses and Richard-Yves Sitoski.

7-9pm. Maggiolly Art, 158 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-0559; facebook.com APR 25 : DAY OF THE POETS 3 Celebration of poetry and music. Book giveaways and open mics. 10am-5pm. Free.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St, Orangeville.

519-941-0559; facebook.com APR 28 & MAY 26 : LET’S ... TEAR IT UP, CUT IT OUT & DECOR ATE Deborah Ann Morris leads this collage class. All levels, materials provided. 6:30pm.

Caledon Library, 35 Station St, Alton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca APR 30 : HEADWATERS WRITERS’ GUILD OPEN MIC NIGHT Email hwg5. writers@gmail.com to book a reading spot. 6-8pm. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca 122

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Host, journalist, producer, author and more. 2-4pm. $20. Museum of Dufferin, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com MAY 15 – 17 : ART FOR THE GARDEN Ten artists in various media. See the list on our website. 10am-4pm. 796343 3rd Ln E, Mulmur. 519-925-2304; redhengallery.com MAY 20 : LEAVING A LEGACY THROUGH WRITING Tips and inspiration with Johanne Levesque. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca MAY 20 : COFFEE, CONVERSATION & BOOKS – DEBR A JONES Work-life balance

with a focus on healers. 7-8pm. Free. Jelly Craft Bakery, 120 Main St E, Shelburne.

519-925-2168; shelburnelibrary.ca

An afternoon of stories. Call or email Pina Di Leo. 2pm. Mrs. Mitchell’s Restaurant, Violet Hill. 647-389-2568, dufferinstorytellers@gmail.com JUN 7 : OR ANGEVILLE FOOD BANK WRITE-A-THON Live music, readings, writers. Email harryposner@rogers. com for writer registration. Free with cash donation to the Food Bank. 9am5pm. Pia’s on Broadway, 117 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-0559.

MAY 16 : CREEMORE Saturdays, 8:30am-12:30pm. Station on the Green. creemorefarmersmarket.ca MAY 17 : MULMUR Sundays, noon-

4pm. MOD, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. mulmurfarmersmarket.ca MAY 23 : ALLISTON Saturdays, 8am-

2pm. Mill St & Victoria St. rurban.ca JUNE 6 : BOLTON Saturdays, 9am1pm. The Royal Courtyards, 18 King St E. downtownbolton.ca JUNE 26 : ERIN Fridays, 3-7pm.

McMillan Park, 109 Main St, Erin. villageoferin.com NOW – MAY 31 (SUNDAYS) : PEGASUS AT

JUN 10 – JUL 5 : WE ARE THE NORTH!

CALEDON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL Special

Civic, provincial and national pride. Jun 13: reception, 1-4pm. Wed-Sun 10am5pm. Free. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Headwaters Arts Gallery, 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com

needs riding program. Volunteers needed.

Noon-4pm. 13441 Airport Rd, Caledon.

905-707-6635; caledonequestrian.com

JUN 17 : COFFEE, CONVERSATION & BOOKS – MARINA L . REED Empowering

others to live authentic lives. 7-8pm.

Free. Euphoria, 154 Broadway, Orangeville. Orangeville Library, 519941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca

community FARMERS’ MARKETS OPENING DAYS APRIL 4 & 18 : OR ANGEVILLE WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET 9am-1pm. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway. orangevillefarmersmarket.ca

NOW – JUN 2 (FIRST & THIRD TUESDAYS) : RESUME SUPPORT One-

on-one meeting to improve your resume.

5-8pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. CCS – Jobs Caledon, 905-584-2300 x 230; ccs4u.org NOW – JUN 7 : WISH YOU WERE HERE! Postcards explore how Dufferin

County shared its experiences.

Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Museum of Dufferin, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com NOW – ONGOING (WEDNESDAYS) : SENIORS’ CARPET BOWLING – AGES 55+

A noncompetitive and fun environment.

10:30am-noon. Free. Riverview Terrace, 121 Glasgow Rd, Bolton. CCS, 905-584-2300 x 273; ccs4u.org

APR 11 : CREEMORE EASTER FARMERS’ MARKET 9am-1pm. Creemore Legion.

NOW – ONGOING (WEDNESDAYS) :

creemorefarmersmarket.ca

CYBER SENIORS Learn computers in a

SUMMER FARMERS’ MARKETS

relaxed one-on-one setting. Free, call to register. 1pm. Bolton Library, 150 Queen St S. CCS, 905-584-2300 x 273; ccs4u.org

MAY 7 : SHELBURNE Thursdays,

3-7pm. 1st Ave W & Owen Sound St. shelburnefarmersmarket.ca

NOW (ONGOING THURSDAYS): YOGA CL ASSES AT THE EXCHANGE Poses

to help calm, relax and rejuvenate.

All levels. 4:45-5:45pm. Free, register.

The Exchange, 55 Healey Rd, Unit 10, Bolton. 289-966-1715 x 276; ccs4u.org NOW – ONGOING : TEMPER ANCE & TEMP TATION Journey through the prohibition era in Dufferin County.

Bus or self-guided tours available at temperanceandtemptation.ca.

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NOW – ONGOING : OUR VOICES, OUR JOURNEYS: BL ACK COMMUNITIES IN PEEL

The 75th Commemoration of WW2

The Fight for History Tim Cook

Stories of resilience and purpose.

Regular times and admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca MAR 27 & APR 24 : CALEDON SENIORS’ CENTRE MONTHLY DINNER Everyone

is welcome! $12, call to register.

5:30-7pm. 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton.

905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca MAR 28 : LOW INCOME TA X CLINIC Single

income up to $35,000 or couple income up to $45,000. Call for appointment.

9:30am-3:30pm 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton.

905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca MAR 28 : COMMUNIT Y INFORMATION SESSION & WORKSHOP Meet your community organizations. 10am-3pm. $10. Caledon Village Place, Caledon Village. Caledon Agricultural Society, 519-927-5730; caledonfairgrounds.ca

How Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time

MAR 28 : CREEMORE WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET Fresh greens and

45 Years After the Fall of Saigon

root vegetables. Breakfast available.

9am-1pm. Royal Canadian Legion Br 397, 27 Wellington St W, Creemore. 705818-1251; creemorefarmersmarket.ca

The Devil’s Trick John Boyko

MAR 29 : HEADWATERS WINTER HARVEST DINNER SERIES Dinner featuring local fare. Proceeds to Farm to School, and food and farm programs in Dufferin and Caledon. 6pm. Millcroft Inn & Spa, 55 John St, Alton. Headwaters Food and Farming Alliance, hffa.ca MAR 30 : OR ANGEVILLE BLOOD DONOR

APR 4 & 18 : OR ANGEVILLE WINTER

APR 1 – ONGOING : SENIORS’ HEALTH & WELLNESS PROGR AM Therapy, activities and info sessions. Mon: 10:30am-12:30pm.

Snelgrove Apartments, 12065 Hurontario St N, Brampton. Register, 905-584-2300 x 273. Wed: 1:30-3:30pm. Stationview Apartments, 25 Stationview Pl, Bolton.

Register, 905-453-1300. Thu: 10am-1pm.

Lunch available for $2.50. The Exchange, 55 Healey Rd, Bolton. Register, 905-5842300 x 230. Fri: 9:30-11:30am. Riverview Apartments, 121 Glasgow Rd, Bolton.

Register, 905-453-1300. Fri: 1:30-3:30pm.

Jane St Apartments, 60 Jane St, Bolton.

Register, 905-453-1300.CCS, ccs4u.org APR 1, MAY 6 & JUN 3 : TECH HELP @ THE LIBR ARY Drop in for help with your device.

2-4pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca APR 2 : UNCOVERING HISTORY: AN INTER AC TIVE SCAVENGER HUNT

Challenges and puzzles. Arrive for your timeslot. $5, includes regular admission, register. 6:30-9pm. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

MAR 30 : RESEARCH YOUR CAREER

The little-known story of Canada’s involvement in the Vietnam War

Methods to enhance your job search.

Free, register. 1:30-4pm. 18 King St E, Bolton. 905-584-2300 x 230; ccs4u.org MAR 30, APR 6 & 27, MAY 4 & 25, JUN 1 & 29 : COOKING WITH JACALYN Nutritious meals to help prevent health issues. All levels. 5:30-7:30pm. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville.

Dufferin Area Family Health Team, 519-938-8802 x 314; dafht.ca MAR 31; APR 28 & MAY 26 : SOUP SISTERS & BROTH BROTHERS

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519-939-3663; soupsisters.org

APR 6, MAY 4 & JUN 1 : BOLTON & DISTRIC T PROBUS CLUB Topics TBA. 10-11:30am. Albion Bolton Community Centre, Bolton. 905-951-2871; probus.org APR 7 : OPENING TO THE MYSTERY: AN EVENING WITH JAKE MCARTHUR

Stories to make you laugh, cry and question. 7pm. Free. Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-8571400; caledon.library.on.ca APR 7 – 10 : COMPUTER BASICS Learn Word and email. Four sessions. 10am1pm. Free or $15, register. 18 King St E, Bolton. 905-584-2300 x 230; ccs4u.org APR 8 – ONGOING (WEDNESDAYS) : ENGLISH HELP CAFÉ Beginner

and intermediate classes open to Canadian citizens, persons on work or visitor visas or awaiting permanent residency. Free, register: 905-584-2300 ext.257. 6-8pm. CCS Jobs Caledon, 18 King St E, Bolton. ccs4u.org APR 8 : FINANCIAL LITER ACY WORKSHOP

APR 2 : AUTISM ONTARIO R AISE THE FL AG CEREMONY Promoting awareness

on World Autism Day. 9-9:30am. Free.

Orangeville Town Hall, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-942-0163

Tips, habits and decisions with Mollie Cavan from Scotiabank. 7pm. Free.

Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca MAY 9 : MAKE A MOVE FOR HEADWATERS

CLINIC The demand for blood never

takes a holiday. 2-7pm. Best Western, 7 Buena Vista Dr. Canadian Blood Services, 1-888-2DONATE; blood.ca

MARKET Local vendors and products.

9am-1pm. Orangeville Town Hall, 87 Broadway. Orangeville BIA, 519-9420087; orangevillefarmersmarket.ca

APR 2, 9 & 16 : DON’T GET FOOLED

HEALTH CARE CENTRE A day of yoga,

Learn how to fact and source check things you see on the Internet. 7pm. Free.

Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

Pilates, meditation and Zumba. All ages and levels. $150, register. 9am-5pm. Mount Alverno Luxury Resorts, 20706 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon. janicecockburn@gmail.com

APR 3 : GREEN ENOUGH Actionable steps for sustainability. 7-9:30pm. Free.

Shelburne Library, 201 Owen Sound St. 647-987-8830; izabelabusby.com

APR 9, MAY 14 & JUN 11 : OR ANGEVILLE

APR 3 – 5 : OR ANGEVILLE LIONS HOME & GARDEN SHOW Vendors showcasing home and garden

& DISTRIC T PROBUS Apr 9: Missions in Nicaragua. May 14: One Writer’s Journey. Jun 11: Lyme Disease. 10amnoon. New Hope Community Church, 690 Riddell Rd, Orangeville. 519307-1789; probusorangeville.ca APR 11 & MAY 10 : WHOLE VILL AGE ORIENTATION Tour the farm and

eco-residence. 1-4pm. $10. 20725 Shaws Creek Rd, Caledon. 519941-1099; wholevillage.org APR 15 : BASIC MEDITATION TECHNIQUES Shona Lauzon presents

this beginner’s workshop. 7pm. Free.

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www.theatreorangeville.ca Celebrate Spring at Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives

Simon Hughes, Canadian (1973-) Coronal Mass Ejection, 2013, oil and acrylic on linen, 198.12 x 243.84 cm Collection of Dana and Shaun Mayberry

Upcoming Exhibitions

Programming Highlights

• Jagdeep Raina: Chase • Our Voices, Our Journeys: Black Communities in Peel • Simon Hughes: Works, 2001-2020 • Sikh Heritage Month Community Art Exhibition

• Celebrate Sikh Heritage Month all April • Archives Week Events April 2 and 4 • May is Museum month (free entry) May 16 and 17

www.pama.peelregion.ca Visit pama.peelregion.ca to learn more

www.altonmill.ca

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APR 16 : THE INDIGENOUS NET WORK DRUMMING CIRCLE An evening

of shared traditions and songs.

7-8:30pm. Regular admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca APR 17 : KNOX UNITED EUCHRE Everyone

gets a prize, food provided. 7:30-10:30pm. $20. Knox United Church, 2976 Charleston Sdrd, Caledon Village. 519-927-5714

Kilbourn, presented by Zoe Lepiano. $5; students free. 7:30-9pm. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-0352; cedhs.ca APR 30 : CALEDON SENIORS’ CENTRE AGM & ELEC TIONS Free

lunch at noon followed by meeting.

Noon-3pm. 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton.

905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca APR 30 : INSUR ANCE FOR

APR 17 – 20 : 2020 HOME & LIFEST YLE SHOW One-stop shopping and advice

Creative Writing Retreat 9th Annual ‘Write on the French River’ a stellar cast of instructors M AY 8 – M AY 13

Body &Soul Yoga Retreats

with Renee Holden a truly gifted instructor M AY 21 – M AY 23 S E P T 27 – S E P T 30

Executive Venue

Corporate Retreat with an atmosphere that will inspire your team and encourage communication

Wedding Destination

Plan Your Wedding surrounded by the granite, water and trees of the magnificent Canadian Shield

www.frenchriver.com DI SCOV E R TH E FR E N C H R I V E R

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for the home. Fri 5-9pm. Sat 10am-6pm.

Sun 10am-5pm. Free. Albion Bolton Community Centre, Bolton. 416-5087056; homeandlifestyleshow.ca

SMALL BUSINESS Tips with Nicky Hoogendoorn-Degroot and Ken Kraker. 1:30-3:30pm. $15. Tony Rose Sports Centre, Orangeville. SBEC, 519941-0440; orangevillebusiness.ca MAY 2 : ALLISTON & DISTRIC T

APR 18 : CALEDON HORSE TACK SWAP

Caledon Village Place, 18313 Hurontario St and Caledon Fairgrounds, 18297 Hurontario St, both in Caledon Village.

Free; vendors pay a fee. 10am-3pm.

519-927-5970; horsetackswap.ca

HUMANE SOCIET Y GAL A Paws 4 the Cause with DJ Jake O’Keefe and The SideWinders. Proceeds to this no-kill shelter. 6-11pm. $65. The Gibson Centre for Creativity, 63 Tupper St W, Alliston.

705-458-9038; allistonhumane.com

APR 18 : SPRING R ABIES & MICROCHIP

MAY 3 : HIKE FOR BETHELL HOSPICE

CLINIC No appointments, dogs leashed,

Hike the Caledon Trailway. T-shirt, entertainment and BBQ. Registration $25; minimum pledge $50; children 12 & under free. 9am-noon. Lloyd Wilson Centennial Arena, Inglewood. 905-8383534; foundation.bethellhospice.org

cats in carriers. Rabies vaccine, at least 3 months, $30; microchip $30; cash only. 10am-1pm. Premier Equipment, 8911 Wellington Rd 124, Ospringe.

Upper Credit Humane Society, 519833-2287; uppercredit.com

MAY 7 : DREAM DUFFERIN – APR 18 & MAY 30 : BOLTON KINSMEN

INTER AC TIVE TR ADES NIGHT IN

TOONIE SALE Used clothing $2 each.

DUFFERIN Hands-on demos, local skilled

All proceeds to the community. 10am1pm. Albion Bolton Community Centre, Bolton. 416-904-4841; boltonkin.com

tradespeople, speaker Jamie McMillan of KickAss Careers. Dufferin Board of Trade and the Workforce Innovators Network designed by Build a Dream. 3-8pm.

Tony Rose Sports Centre, Orangeville.

519-941-0490; dreamdufferin.ca

APR 21 : SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF: IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS Learn to deliver an amazing customer experience with Chris Hughes. 11:30am-1:30pm. $25. Tony Rose Sports Centre, Orangeville. SBEC, 519-941-0440; orangevillebusiness.ca APR 26 & MAY 24 : UPPER CREDIT HUMANE SOCIET Y EDUCATIONAL OPEN HOUSE Tour the shelter, visit the animals. 16 & under with an adult.

Noon-2pm. 5383 Trafalgar Rd, Erin.

518-833-2287; uppercredit.com APR 29 : CALEDON EAST & DISTRIC T HISTORICAL SOCIET Y MEETING

History of the Dingle Schoolhouse and renowned local artist Rosemary

MAY 9 : WOMEN IN AVIATION Ladies – take a 20-minute flight over the Caledon Hills. Seminars. 10am-4pm. Free.

13691 McLaughlin Rd, Cheltenham.

Brampton Flying Club, 905-8381400; bramptonflightcentre.com MAY 9 : MOTHER’S DAY PL ANT & BAKE SALE Preorder flowers, hanging baskets,

urns, herbs, tomatoes. Call 519-9252397 or email gailbrown.pharm@ yahoo.ca. 8-11am. Primrose United Church, 486281 30 Sdrd, Mono. 519925-2233; shelburneprimrose.com MAY 16 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED GAR AGE SALE Recycle, reuse, reasonable

prices. 8am-noon. High Country United Church, 346255 15 Sdrd, Mono. highcountryunited. weebly.com

Dufferin, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

MAY 21 : BOLTON ROTARY CHARIT Y GOLF CL ASSIC Lunch, cart, dinner with wine, on-course food holes, prizes. Net proceeds to local charities. Early bird registration Apr 15 by 4pm. 10am-5pm. $200, Glen Eagle Golf Club, 15731 Regional Rd 50, Caledon. boltonrotarygolf.ca MAY 22 & 23: MEGA MULTIFAMILY INDOOR YARD SALE One-stop

shopping! Fri 5-8pm. Sat 8am-noon.

553281 Cty Rd 16, Orangeville. orangevillechristianschool.com MAY 23 : GR AND VALLEY LIONS DUCK R ACE Breakfast 8am, race 2pm, children’s

activities and entertainment. Free, cost to buy duck. 8am-4pm. Hereward Park, Grand Valley. 519-943-5471; grandvalleylions.com MAY 23 : WOMAN TO WOMAN: HOW BEAUTIFUL WE REALLY ARE! Inspiration

and music with Joy Foster. 1-3pm. $110.

Windrush Estate Winery, 3030 Con Rd 3 Adjala. 705-984-3852; kimberlite.ca MAY 26 : GOLF 4 BETHELL HOSPICE AT HOCKLEY VALLEY RESORT Registration

and breakfast 7:30am, shotgun start 8:30am, lunch 1:30pm. Registration $195; lunch only $50. All proceeds to Bethell Hospice Foundation. 7:30am2:30pm. 793522 3rd Line Mono. 905838-3534; foundation.bethellhospice.org MAY 28 : BACK YARD BIRDS THROUGH THE SEASONS Lunch and learn,with

TRCA. $4, call to register. 11amnoon. 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905951-6114; caledonseniors.ca MAY 28 : SENIORS’ SPRING HOEDOWN LUNCHEON Country-style meal, toetapping entertainment, prizes for outfits. $12 cash at the door. Location TBA. Caledon Library and CMOW. 11:30am2:30pm. 905-857-7651; cmow.org MAY 30 : TECHNOLOGY: LEARNING HOW TO LEARN Skills to figure out

unfamiliar technology. 2pm. Free.

Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca MAY 30 : KNOX UNITED ITALIAN DINNER & SILENT AUC TION Variety of items. 5-10pm.

$15. Knox United Church, 2976 Charleston Sdrd, Caledon Village. 519-927-5714 MAY 30 : R AINBOW FLING Drag show, DJ Terrance Anthony, food by Lavender Blue.

Proceeds to Celebrate Your Awesome. $15, reserve, online at dufferinmuseum. eventbrite.com. 7-11pm. Museum of

JUN 5 : WINES OF THE WORLD 2020 Sip and savour 50+ wines, local craft beer and cider paired with delicious food.

All proceeds to Rotary Club of Palgrave projects. 6:30-9:30pm. $60. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Palgrave.

Rotary Club of Palgrave, rotarywow.com JUN 7 : DIAMOND IN THE HILLS FASHION SHOW Lunch, prizes, auctions, fashions

by Georgetown’s Studio 49. All proceeds to Bethell Hospice Foundation. 11:30am3:30pm. $135. Arlington Estate, 8934 Huntington Rd, Kleinburg. 905-8383534; foundation.bethellhospice.org JUN 12 – 14 : CALEDON FAIR Friday truck and tractor pull, Saturday demo derby and BBQ, Sunday jamboree, heavy horse pulls, Welsh pony show and cattle show. Caledon Fairgrounds, Caledon Village. Caledon Agricultural Society, 519-927-5730; caledonfair.ca JUN 13 : BID EUCHRE TOURNAMENT

Lunch following tournament play. $15, call to register. 9:30am-2pm. 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca JUN 14 : CORN FLOWER FESTIVAL Show & Share, authentications, view the new gallery. 10am-4pm. $10. Museum of Dufferin, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

www.foundation.bethellhospice.org

JUN 18 : MOD TALKS: BUFF Y SAINTEMARIE A trailblazer and tireless advocate.

7-9pm. $30, call to register or buy online at dufferinmuseum.eventbrite.com.

Museum of Dufferin, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com JUN 20 : NATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEO PLES’ DAY 2020 A celebration of Indi­gen-

ous culture and the summer solstice. Free.

Alexandra Park, 11 Second St, Orangeville. dufferincountyculturalresourcecircle.org JUN 20 : CALEDON DAY Kids’ Zone, food and product vendors, entertainment, tech fair and fireworks. 2-11pm. Free. Town of Caledon, 905-584-2272, x 7322; caledon.ca JUN 21 : RELESSEY MEMORIAL SERVICE

Celebrate our 150th anniversary with Steve Brown and Naomi Bristow. 2:304pm. Relessey Church, 874615 5th Line EHS, Mono. Relessey Cemetery Board, 519-941-1100; luellaholmes@aol.com

www.foundation.bethellhospice.org

JUN 21 : GREAT WAR FLYING MUSEUM 50TH ANNIVERSARY Aircraft displays, bands, heritage re-enactors and more.

11am-4pm. Brampton Flight Centre, 13691 McLaughlin Rd, Cheltenham.

Brampton Flying Club, 905-8381400; greatwarflyingmuseum.org C O N T I N U E D O N N E X T PA G E

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JUN 24 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED HAM

MAR 28 & 29 : FAMILY FUN AC TIVITIES

& STR AWBERRY SUPPER Cold ham

Art projects inspired by Meryl McMaster.

Regular admission. 1-4:30pm. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

dinner with strawberry shortcake and homemade tarts. 5-7pm. $15; children 6-12 $5; preschool free. 346255 15 Sdrd, Mono. highcountryunited.weebly.com

MAR 30 : POSITIVE COMMUNICATION JUN 26 : ST. JOHN’S ANGLICAN STR AWBERRY SUPPER Ham dinner,

local strawberries and real whipped cream. 6-7:30pm. $15; 12 & under $10. 3907 Hwy 9, Orangeville. 519941-1950; stjohnsorangeville.ca JUL 1 : CALEDON CANADA DAY STR AWBERRY FESTIVAL Entertainment, BBQ, car show and strawberry pancake breakfast. 8am-4pm. Free. Caledon Fairgrounds, 18297 Hurontario St, Caledon Village. Caledon Agricultural Society, 519-927-5730; caledonfair.ca JUL 7 : HEADWATERS GOLF CL ASSIC

Play an exclusive course while supporting the hospital. 8am. Devil’s Pulpit Golf Club, 3035 Escarpment Sdrd, Caledon. Register. Headwaters Health Care Foundation, 519-9412702 ex 2303; hhcfoundation.com

TO END POWER STRUGGLES AND ENCOUR AGE CO - OPER ATION Engage

with your children through positive communication techniques. Free, register. 7-9pm. Princess Margaret Public School, 51 Wellington St, Orangeville. 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca MAR 30; APR 27; MAY 25 & JUN 29 : T WEEN CLUB: AGES 8 -12 Drop in to

this club dedicated to all things tween.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 4-5pm.

519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca MAR 31 – MAY 28 (TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS) : READY TO READ WITH EVERYONE Songs and activities for

www.headwatersracquetclub.com kids SUMMER CAMPS

Friendship Gardens

Check out our comprehensive listings of summer camps in the hills to find a fit for kids of all ages and interests. inthehills. ca/kids-camps-in-headwaters

Headwaters Health Care Centre

NOW – JUN 7 The meaning of colours through hands-on fun.

Regular times and admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

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You are invited to join the wonderful team of volunteers who keep the award-winning gardens blooming and the trees growing for patients, their families and staff at your community hospital.

To volunteer or make a tax-deductible donation, visit friendshipgardens.ca

www.friendshipgardens.ca

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NOW – JUN 15 (MONDAYS) : OR ANGE­ VILLE TR ADITIONAL SCOUTING

Camping, wilderness survival, bike safety, winter activities, first aid, carpentry, arts and crafts. 7-8:30pm. $120. Mono Amaranth Public School, Hockley Road.

519-572-7024; traditionalscouting.ca NOW – JUN 25 (THURSDAYS) : CLUB ART @ THE LIBR ARY Drop in and explore your creativity. All ages and skill levels.

Children 10 & under with an adult.

6-7:30pm. Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca MAR 26 – MAY 14 (THURSDAYS) : THE INTERMEDIATE STAGE – SPRING SESSION – GR ADES 5 - 8 Create honest characters through improvisation, memorization and personal experience.

6:30-8pm. $195, register. Nancy & Doc Gillies Rehearsal Hall, 065371 Dufferin Cty Rd 3, Orangeville. 519942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca

5 and under at Orangeville libraries.

Tue: 10:15-11am, 275 Alder St. Thu: 10:15-11am, 1 Mill St. Free. 519941-0610, orangevillelibrary.ca MAR 31 – MAY 28 (TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS) : READY TO READ WITH BABIES Songs and activities for

ages 1 to 12 months at Orangeville libraries. Tue: 1:30-2:15pm, 275 Alder St. Thu: 1:30-2:15, 1 Mill St. Free. 519941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca APR 1 : ART & TOTS – 18 MONTHS+

Splash into spring with this month’s story by Ann Jonas. 10:3011:30am. $10, register. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca APR 2 & MAY 7 : THE SUNFLOWER SCHOOL – AGES 2- 4 Drop in and

explore. Apr 2: Bear and Wolf. May 7: Spots. Free, no drop-offs. All children with an adult. 10am-noon. Museum of Dufferin, Hwy 9 & Airport Rd. 1-877947-7787; dufferinmuseum.com APR 4 : HANDS - ON HISTORY: FAMILY CHALLENGE Find hidden clues to

ensure stories aren’t lost forever. $5, includes admission, register. 10am-4pm.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

MAY 23 : FAMILY MOVIE MATINÉE – A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (G) Bring your

APR 4 : ALONG THE BUNNY TR AIL: FAMILY WALK AT BOLTON MILL PARK

Queen St bridge to King St. Games, crafts and giveaways. 10am-2pm. Free. Bolton Mill Park, 40 Humberlea Rd, Bolton.

Rotary Club of Bolton, boltonrotary.ca APR 4, 5, 10 – 12: : DOWNEY’S FARM EASTERFEST Wagon rides, baby farm

own snacks. Not supervised. 2-4pm.

Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca JUN 20 : FAMILY MOVIE MATINÉE – THE LION KING (PG) Bring your own snacks. Not supervised. 2-4pm. Free.

Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca

animals, magic and puppet shows, Easter egg scramble and mini hunt.

10am-5pm. $15. Downey’s Farm Market, 13682 Heart Lake Rd, Caledon.

905-838-2990; downeysfarm.com

outdoor

APR 11 : EASTER ROUNDUP Egg hunts,

TR AIL CHALLENGE Walk the 1,200km

hayrides, petting farm, trampolines, skating and more. $2 pony rides, $10 trail rides, $10 60’ giant swing. Proceeds to Teen Ranch Scholarship Fund. $20/ vehicle, please carpool. 1-5pm. Teen Ranch, 20682 Hurontario St, Caledon.

519-941-4501; teenranch.com APR 13 : SPRING SUNCATCHER AC TIVIT Y

Create your own stained glass-inspired suncatcher. Regular admission. All children with a parent/guardian. 10am-3pm.

PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca APR 14 : THE “HOW” IN SHANKER SELFREG Crystal Carbino explains the Shanker method of self-regulation. Free, register: bit.ly/self-reg-dufferin. 6:15-8:15pm.

The Mehrit Centre, County of Dufferin.

Monora Park Pavilion, 500 Monora Park Dr, Mono. 519-940-8678; dpsn.ca APR 15 : FOUR GO WILD IN WELLIES – AGES 3-5 A playful look at the joy of inventiveness and curiosity.

6pm. 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton.

905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca APR 17; MAY 8; JUN 12 : TEEN ADVISORY GROUP Community service hours while

having fun with friends. 4-5:30pm.

Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca APR 18 : FAMILY MOVIE MATINÉE – ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2 (PG) Bring your

own snacks. Not supervised. 2-4pm.

Free. Orangeville Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangevillelibrary.ca APR 19 : SUNDAY FUNDAYS Explore

your neighbourhood with cityscape art. 1-4pm. Regular admission. PAMA, 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca MAY 7 : CR AF TING TOGETHER FOR MOMS & KIDS – AGE 10+ Make a potted cherry blossom tree with Cricut. 7pm. Free.

Caledon Library, 150 Queen St S, Bolton.

905-857-1400; caledon.library.on.ca

APR 1 – AUG 1 : THE GREAT DIVIDE

trail. Email your steps weekly. 9am-6pm.

Shelburne Library, 201 Owen Sound St. 519-925-2168; shelburnelibrary.ca APR 9, MAY 14 & JUN 11 : CALEDON GARDEN CLUB MEETINGS Apr 9: Aquaponics. May 14: Improving Bee Habitats. Jun 11: Lyme Disease.

7-9pm. Cheltenham United Church, 14309 Creditview Rd, Cheltenham.

905-838-3541; gardenontario.org APR 14, MAY 12 & JUN 9 : OR ANGEVILLE & DISTRIC T HORTICULTUR AL SOCIET Y GENER AL MEETINGS Apr 14: Incredible Insects. May 12: Understanding Your Soil. Jun 9: Pocket Woodland Design.

7-9pm. Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. orangevillehort.org APR 15 : HORSEBACK RIDING WITH HOUNDS Follow a pack of English

foxhounds around Creemore. 10amnoon. $50. Toronto North York Hunt Club, 416-920-8645; tnyh.horse APR 15, MAY 20 & JUN 17 : CREEMORE HORTICULTUR AL SOCIET Y MEETINGS

Apr 15: Forage Bee-Friendly Plants. May 20: The Gardener documentary. Jun 17: Small Trees for Small Spaces. 7-9pm. St. Luke’s Anglican Church Hall, 22 Caroline St W, Creemore. gardenontario.org APR 26 : CALEDON VILL AGE TENNIS CLUB REGISTR ATION All levels, summer camps, competitive teams and more.

2-4pm. Caledon Village Place, 18313 Hurontario St. caledontennisclub.com MAY 2 : MONO TENNIS CLUB OPENING DAY BBQ Meet our staff, register for the season. 10am-2pm.

Mono Centre. petergibson599@ gmail.com; monotennisclub.com

Sweat the Small Stuff How to deliver an amazing customer experience The small details in your business can make a big difference and help you create memorable experiences for your customers. This lunch and learn is a must for business owners in the hospitality, retail and tourism sectors. You’ll discover simple and effective ideas to help you maintain your loyal clientele while attracting new shoppers and catering to tourists. Learn why the warm cookie and the hot towel work.

Get ready to laugh, learn and be inspired by Chris Hughes of BC Hughes Tourism Consulting.

Tuesday, April 21 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Tony Rose Memorial Sports Centre, Banquet Hall $25 includes lunch by Lavender Blue Catering

Register by Friday, April 10

www.orangevillebusiness.ca orangevillebusiness.ca 519-941-0440 Ext. 2286 sbec@orangeville.ca

MAY 3 : HIKE FOR HOSPICE DUFFERIN

Three distances 1, 3, 5km. BBQ lunch. Noon3:30pm. $20. Monora Park Pavilion, 500 Monora Park Dr, Mono. Hospice Dufferin, 519-942-3313; hospicedufferin.com C O N T I N U E D O N N E X T PA G E

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MAY 6 : VEGGIE GARDENING 101: AGES 10+ Improve your skills. Each child 16 &

under with an adult. 7-8pm. $5, email to register. St. Luke’s Anglican Church Hall, 22 Caroline St W, Creemore. Creemore Horticultural Society, gardenontario.org

APR 25 & MAY 2 : ACHILL CHOR AL SOCIET Y SPRING CONCERTS Canadian

and Celtic folk songs, Les Misérables, WWI tunes and more. Apr 25: Christ Church Anglican, 22 Nancy St, Bolton.

May 2: Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 3-5pm. $25; youth 13-17 $10; children $5. achill.ca

MAY 6 – 10 : CL ASSIC AT PALGR AVE PHASE 1 Hunter/Jumper equestrian competition.

8am-4pm. Free. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Palgrave. 905-8805344; caledonequestrianpark.com

APR 25 & 26 : HAYDN’S LORD NELSON MAY 9 : MONOR A L AWN BOWLING OPEN HOUSE All ages, equipment

provided. 1-4pm. Monora Lawn Bowling Club, 50 Monora Park Dr, Mono. 519943-1076; mlbc.hillcrestps.com MAY 13 – 17 : CALEDON NATIONAL CSI2* International Hunter/Jumper

equestrian competition. 8am-4pm.

Free. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Palgrave. 905-880-5344; caledonequestrianpark.com

MAY 30 : GET OUT ON THE WATER

MAY 20 – 24 : CL ASSIC AT PALGR AVE PHASE 2 CSI2* Second International

Hunter/Jumper equestrian competition.

8am-4pm. Free. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Palgrave. 905-8805344; caledonequestrianpark.com MAY 23 : CREEMORE SPRINGS

On-land instruction and a paddle on the lake. 9am-noon. Free. Island Lake Rowing Club, 673178 Hurontario St, Orangeville. islandlakerowing.com APR 1 & 15 : HEADWATERS FLY FISHING CLUB MEETINGS Share favourite ties

and techniques. All levels welcome.

7:30pm. Victoria Parks Community Centre, Caledon. facebook.com JUN 6 : OR ANGEVILLE & DISTRIC T

TUR AS MOR Noncompetitive cycling

HORTICULTUR AL SOCIET Y ANNUAL

on gravel and nongravel roads. Local food and entertainment. 9am-4pm.

139 Mill St, Creemore. 705-466-2240; creemorespringsturasmor.com

plants. 3km E of Hwy 10 at First Ln. 8-11am. Hockley Holding Garden, 307209 Hockley Rd, Mono. orangevillehort.org

MAY 23 : TREE IDENTIFICATION Identify

JUN 6 : CREEMORE HORTICULTUR AL

PL ANT SALE Interesting and colourful

perennials for the area. Experts on site. 8:30am-noon. Creemore Station on the Green, 10 Caroline St E, Creemore. gardenontario.org

MAY 23 : UPPER CREDIT HUMANE

JUN 6 : WILDFLOWER IDENTIFICATION

SOCIET Y THRIF T SHOP PL ANT & GARDEN

Dawn Renfrew leads a forest walk. $10, register. 10am-noon. Little Tract, Dufferin County Forest, 938130 Airport Rd, Mulmur.

Dufferin Simcoe Land Stewardship Network, 519-941-1114; dslsn.org

and labelled potted plants appreciated.

Drop off May 22, 4-6pm and May 23, 9-10am. Proceeds to the shelter.

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Classes CDI3*/1*/Y/J/U25 CPEDI 8am-4pm. Free. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Palgrave. 905-8805344; caledonequestrianpark.com MAY 30 : FRIENDSHIP GARDENS PEREN­ NIAL PL ANT SALE Excellent perennials

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Central Asia, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. 7:30pm.

SOCIET Y PL ANT SALE Locally grown

TRIBUTE TO THE GREATEST SONGWRITERS OF ALL TIME Micah Barnes honours the greatest artists. 7:30pm.

APR 24 : CL ASSIC ALBUMS LIVE: DAMN THE TORPEDOS Note for note, cut for cut.

APR 25 : THE ROSE ORCHESTR A: 20/20

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National Level Hunter/Jumper equestrian competition. 8am-4pm. Free. Caledon Equestrian Park, 200 Pine Ave, Palgrave.

905-880-5344; caledonequestrian park.com JUN 20 : EDIBLE WILD Karen Stephenson identifies edible and medicinal values of plants. $20, register.

10am-1pm.

MASS The New Tecumseth Singers and The Dufferin Concert Singers with the Waterloo Chamber Players Orchestra. $20; 16 & under free. Apr 25: 7:30-9pm.

Grace Baptist Church, 354 Victoria St E, Alliston. Tickets: Lloyd’s Papermoon and South Simcoe Arts, Alliston. Apr 26: 3pm. Westminster United Church Orangeville, 247 Broadway. Tickets: BookLore 519-942-3830. 519-9275370; thedufferinconcertsingers.com

Support Dufferin’s talent. $15, at Caravaggio IDA or any Primrose United member. For more info call 519-9252397 or gailbrown.pharm@yahoo.ca.

2pm. Grace Tipling Hall, 203 Main St E, Shelburne. Primrose United Church, 519-925-2233; shelburneprimrose.com APR 27 – 30 : OR ANGEVILLE & DISTRIC T MUSIC FESTIVAL Performance

opportunities in all disciplines. Register online or at Westminster. Mon Wed 9am-6pm. Tue Thu 1-9pm. Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-941-4334; odmf.ca MAY 1 : TANYA TAGAQ Improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling novellist. Festival of Literary Diversity, 8pm. 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton.

905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

VISIONARIES Vivaldi, Bach and Beethoven’s

music has endured the test of time. 7:30pm.

APR 14 : OR ANGEVILLE BLUES & JA Z Z FESTIVAL – VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP

Meet the organizers and team leaders.

7-8:30pm. Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. orangevillebluesandjazz.ca APR 18 : CALEDON CHAMBER CONCERTS

Trio D’Argento (piano, flute and cello). $35; students 16 years & under $15, at BookLore, Howard the Butcher and Forster’s Book Garden. 7:30-10pm.

St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-8802445; caledonchamberconcerts.com

MAY 9 : OR ANGEVILLE COMMUNIT Y BAND CONCERT Quality music with the junior band joining us. $15; seniors $10; children $5, at BookLore or from a band member, or $20; $15; $10 at the door. 7-9:30pm. Orangeville District Secondary School, 22 Faulkner St. orangevillecommunityband.ca MAY 11 : OR ANGEVILLE & DISTRIC T MUSIC FESTIVAL GAL A CONCERT The

best performances and scholarships. $15; children 12 & under $5. 7-9pm.

Westminster United Church, 247 Broad­ way, Orangeville. 519-941-4334; odmf.ca MAY 23 : SONGS FROM THE MOVIES

APR 25 : CHRISTOPHER NORTON

WITH OR ANGEVILLE SHOW CHORUS

WORKSHOP Composer discusses

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how to improve technique, sharpen rhythmic awareness and cultivate better tone production. 2-4pm. $10.

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905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca APR 10 : AF TERNOON FILM CLUB – BERNIE A mortician separates himself

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APR 23 – MAY 10 : THE NEW CANADIAN CURLING CLUB Hilarious group of

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grandparents scheme to entice him to stay. Fri 8pm. Sat matinée 2pm, $16.

Sat dinner theatre. 18365 Hurontario St, Caledon Village. 519-927-5460; caledontownhallplayers.com

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Our online-only Notes from the Wild column features the observations of resident naturalist Don Scallen – he’ll help you spot some of the season’s busiest bunnies, songbirds and salamanders.

unlikely athletes face off against local prejudice. Thu Fri 8pm. Sat 7pm. Sun Wed 2pm. Apr 24: Opening, 8:30pm. May 6: Relaxed performance, 7pm. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville.

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A bookshop’s owners and clients are aliens. Fri Sat : play only, 8pm, $20.

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Inglewood Community Centre, 15825 McLaughlin Rd. 905-838-2874; inglewood schoolhouseperformers@leene.ws MAR 27 – 29 : TOO CLOSE TO HOME Unexpected romance and unresolved issues. Fri 8pm. Sat 7pm.

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MADE IN DAGENHAM The 1968 Ford

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Begin with a Calculated Guess We make it Relessey with 9 words [eel, rye, ere, eye, lye, lee, see, sly, yes] over Cataract [act, arc, art, cat, car, rat, tar, tat] with 8.

The Editor’s Note Edson’s father’s sole (and single) sibling’s sister-in-law is Edson’s mother.

Deadlock at the Alton Fair Board People in a crowd instinctively touch their wallet or purse when warned of a pickpocket, thus revealing its location on their person.

Did He Say That!

“Just watch me.” Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

More Than You Think …16 more. There are 40.

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a Puzzling Conclusion

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Did He Say That!

A well-known statement by a former prime minister can be found in the diagram below. From the letter ‘J’ in the centre of the diagram, move from square to touching square until you have found the statement, followed by the prime minister’s name.

Begin with a Calculated Guess The hamlets of Cataract in the Town of Caledon and Relessey in the Town of Mono each have eight-letter names with three identical vowels.

The challenge is to make two lists of ordinary, three-letter English words, one list for each hamlet name. Before you begin, however, try to estimate which hamlet is likely to produce the most three-letter words.

(Plurals, proper names and abbre­ viations like “att.” don’t count, and remember, the words should be “ordi­ nary.” For example, “ser” may be ordi­ nary in the Game of Thrones world but not here in the hills!)

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After the completion of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway from Weston to Owen Sound in the early 1870s, the Alton Spring Fair experienced a dramatic increase in the number of visitors including, unfortunately, a pickpocket or two.

At a meeting of the Fair Board called to discuss the problem of this thievery, four board members voted in favour of a motion to post a warning sign at the fair entrance.

Four other members of the board voted against the motion, arguing that such a sign would project a negative image of the fair.

The chairperson had to vote and break the tie. He cast his vote with the nays, pointing out that, in his opinion, a warning sign at the entrance to the fair would benefit pickpockets more than the fair’s visitors.

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Why would the sign be a benefit to the pickpockets?

Which list is longer?

What are the words on your lists?

More Than You Think There are more than 24 squares in this diagram.

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Overheard at Glen Eagle

The Editor’s Note

After they’d just played a par five hole, two golfers were discussing what might have been (as golfers are wont to do).

Harry said to Tom, “If I had taken one less shot and you had taken one more, we’d have shared the hole.”

Tom said “Yeah, and if I had taken one less shot and you had taken one more, then you’d have taken twice as many shots as me.”

How many more?

How many shots did each actually take?

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