Summer In The Hills 2014

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Lots of talk, but where is it?

The value of farmland

Ballet on horseback Pan Am dressage hopefuls prepare

Headwaters House Tour

A sneak preview

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the Internet is Us My daughter’s 97-year-old grandmother, Rita, is per­ plexed by how the books get to her Kindle from the slim little black box in my son-in-law’s hands. “Are all the books in that box?” she asked. The question has nothing to do with senility, she is as sharp as a whip. It’s more a measure of the chasm that has opened up in just a few years since she last had reason to check in on technology.

In fact, actually using the Kindle posed no real challenge for this survivor of the London Blitz with a deeply ingrained do-it-yourself attitude. She quickly found her way around it, enlarging the type to just a few words per screen. For an avid reader who is physically limited and whose eyes have failed beyond the help of large-print books, it has been a lifesaver.

The Internet has also helped her communicate via Skype with her sole surviving sibling in England, a sister she would otherwise likely never have seen in person again.

These are just small stories about how the Internet helps preserve the day-to-day humanity of one elderly woman in Orangeville, but multiply them by magnitudes in scope and content, and it becomes clear why the United Nations deems access to broadband Internet a basic human right, comparable to health care, shelter and food.

The U.N. report describes the Internet as “one of the most powerful instruments of the 21st century ... by acting as a catalyst for individuals to exercise their right to free­ dom of opinion and expression, the Internet also facilitates the realization of a range of other human rights.”

Of course, there is a dark side to the Internet, but then there is always a dark side to the history of human endea­ vour, and it must not be allowed to overwhelm the vast opportunity the Internet provides to liberate and expand human potential.

Still, as Jeff Rollings writes in this issue in “The Need for Speed,” this vast opportunity remains theoretical for a large number of citizens in the hills who struggle with dial-up, or no service at all.

It has been well over a decade since the federal govern­ ment promised to make broadband Internet available to all Canadians. Now, as Jeff reports, in the populist way of the Internet itself, rural communities here and elsewhere are taking the matter into their own hands.

We believe theirs is a task critically important to the social and financial well-being of rural Ontario – and it is urgent.

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20 FLIGHT OF THE TIGER

12 LETTERS

An iconic Tiger Moth is restored

by Tony Reynolds

Crème brûlée with Patrick Venables

by Cecily Ross

15 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Douglas Brown

28 THREE DIAMOND SPARROW

Aloft with glider pilot Jock Proudfoot

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Our favourite picks for summer 19 FENCE POSTS

34 BALLET ON HORSEBACK

Dressage riders prepare for the Pan Am

by Cecily Ross 46 NOSY IN A NICE WAY

70 HEADWATERS NEST

The patter of little feet

by Dan Needles

Scars of honour

by Bethany Lee

40 GOOD SPORT

72 AT HOME IN THE HILLS

Dragon boating

by Nicola Ross

A European manor in Erin

by Pam Purves

A preview of Headwaters House Tour

by Yevgenia Casale

92 WHAT’S ON IN THE HILLS

A calendar of summer happenings

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On the eve of the Great War

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102 A PUZZLING CONCLUSION

Where is our long-awaited rural broadband?

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60 THE VALUE OF FARMLAND

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The case for preservation

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Seeds of Food Security

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Congratulations to Tom Eisenhauer for acquiring this wonderfully water-rich farmland and preserving the proud history of Honeywood/ Mulmur and its surrounding water table. (“Dufferin’s New Landlord” spring ’14). Formerly Ontario’s only Arctic char farm founder (just south of Honeywood), my father and I experienced firsthand the 1,000-litresper-minute, nourishing cold springs. They were cleansed by nature and meandered across northwest Mulmur. Proximity to market and capital investment for safe and expensive farm equipment will bring employment and needed income for entrepreneurial Melancthon residents and Dufferin County.

Dr. Peter Benedict PEng, PhD, from Muskoka, Toronto, and 50-year former farmer at Falling Brook Springs, Mulmur Thank you for this informative article. I was not able to attend the NDACT meeting in Shelburne on April 5, and this gave me much of the news. I have long anticipated hearing about the future of the former Highlands’ lands within our community. While I still have some con­ cerns, I will say that the greatest ones I held around the safety of our water and the division of our community have softened into relief.

Shelley Hannah, Wasaga Beach (formerly Mulmur)

Re: Sowing the Seeds of Food Security (spring ’14). I am an Anishinaabe/Ojibwe woman in Ontario.

1. Nowhere have you promoted information about protecting seeds of old plant life foods indigenous to Canada, the United States, Mexico, or Central America.

Our old corn, bean and squash seeds need protection, but so do many others.

2. When is your target date to start doing so?

3. Our First Nations thrived on plant life which evolved within the North American climate zones. Why are you only promoting seeds of plants of heirloom varieties sold in grocery stores?

4. If you are ecologically minded, why are you doing this?

Phylmarie Fess / Manidoonaateshing-ikwe, from growing zone 5b

For he’s a jolly good fellow

Aabir Dey, Ontario regional co-ordinator of the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security, responds:

Our little gang of Orangeville High School grads of ’49 to ’52 are still meeting twice a year since your article “Friends of Their Youth” appeared in the magazine last autumn.

At our last gathering we paid tribute to one of our regular attendees, the once notorious Billy Waters. It seems in December our professor emeritus of economics and busi­ ness from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management was named a member of the Order of Canada “for his engagement in broadening access to higher edu­ cation for students in Toronto and for his generous support of musicians and arts organizations alike.” We are so proud!

Jim Welsh and the Orangeville High School Gang

Thank you for your thoughtful comments and questions.

Learning about seeds from the perspective of indigenous cultures is one of the priorities for our program this year.

Today’s farmers and gardeners are indebted to the seed saving and adaptation conducted by indigenous cultures for millennia in Canada and all over the world. We want to honour and respect these efforts.

Our program is just beginning to work with different indigenous groups and organizations across the country. I am interested to hear your perspective on how we can best include and involve indigenous cultures in our work, and also to share with you the steps our program has taken so far. If you would like to speak further, I can be reached at aabir.dey @ everdale.org or 519-855-4859 x 103.

Also, Seeds of Diversity Canada maintains a seed library at Everdale where we store samples of varieties of all kinds of seed from all over Canada, and then grow out and share those varieties with other growers so they are continuously in circulation in the country. Information on the crops and varieties being kept at this collection is available at seeds.ca.

Thanks again for your comments and I hope to hear from you.

Bruce Trail birthday Thanks so much to Nicola Ross for her article on the 50th anni­versary of the Bruce Trail (“An Audacious Idea” spring ’14). I think it is excellent and cap­tured the sense of my approach to the whole hiking business. By doing so you have shown it can be an activity that most people can enjoy.

When a “novice” walks into a place like Mountain Equipment Co-op, it can be very intimidat­ing and that is the feeling I hope people can avoid.

Sometimes it is just a walk in the woods, it’s not an expedition hike.

I have passed on the online link to the article to all the board and some friends, and we’ll have a few hard copies available at our 50th AGM. Thanks again for such a positive article about hiking and the Bruce Trail.

Jean Kerins, President, Caledon Hills Bruce Trail Club

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of praise Inglewood Farmers’ Market

Thank you for the excellent article about local food by Nicola Ross (“Local Food: A Look Back at a Decade of Progress and the Challenges Still Ahead” spring ’14). At the mention of the Inglewood Farmers’ Market – “the little market that could” – I wish by dint of writing to you to praise the intrepid vendors of that little market, which is still in its infancy. Without these persistent people, there is no market.

For the first five years, Roxanne gave us space and safety. There was con­ sistent music by Ross, Randy, Kay Dee and others. There were Paul’s straw­ berries, Debbie’s honey products, Zak’s veggies, Barb’s preserves, Diane’s plants, Crystal and Kelly’s produce, Neil’s jams, jellies and humour, Julie’s mushrooms and optimism, Mel’s veggies and fruit, Pat and Gord’s beef, John and Miriam’s pork, Bert and Karen’s lamb, Jen’s soup, Steve’s chutney, Rusty’s bagels and garlic, Walter’s perogies, James and Jessica’s sweet corn, Sue and Owen’s veggies and sundries, Pie Man’s pies, Cupcake Girl’s goodies, Al’s fudge, Sausage Girl’s sausages, Bonnie’s native plants.

I haven’t named everyone, I’m sure, but all still are praised.

Started by the entrepreneurial genius of another Karen, it’s the stubborn spirit of these vendors, who must persist through all weather and very low profit margins, that truly supports this endeavour. Although not all these vendors continue at Inglewood, an enthusiastic group remains to entertain and feed.

Spring has sprung! A new season has arrived!

Rusty Ephemeris, Caledon

beyond the fitness fad Great article! (“Beyond the Fitness Fad” spring ’14) As a physiotherapist I see a lot of clients with “sitting-induced” problems. After they are done with physiotherapy and able to train, I’d love to be able to scoot them over to a holistic lifestyle coach such as Nikola Boadway. She is great at motivating people and very well educated.

Katrin Happel (web comment) Thank you very much for article on personal fitness trainers by Nicola Ross which captures what I stand for beautifully. I am very grateful for being featured as one of the trainers and for having the chance to train Nicola a little bit.

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In the puzzle “An In The Hills Two-Minute In-Your-Head Chal­lenge” (spring ’14), question 8 asks: If you write the numbers from 1-20, you will write the number 1 twelve times.

The answer on page 104 says, no, it is 11. But truthfully, it is 12.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 • • • • • • • • • • • • Ed Vandersterre, Mono The editor responds: Mr. Vandersterre is correct, of course. We appreciate his gentle politeness in pointing out what was truthfully a sloppy error on our part.

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A highly selective guide to the picks of the season.

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experience Learn, heal, shop, recharge, explore and be pampered as you get back in touch with the elements of nature at A Weekend in the Woods on August 16 and 17.

Creative self-discovery is the theme of this not-for-profit event where guests are invited to experience everything from acupuncture, massage, yoga and Reiki to past-life regressions and music by award-winning musician and composer Michael Moon.

The event takes place in the heart of Hockley Valley. Day and weekend passes, as well as overnight packages, are available.

Early-bird prices are in effect until July 23. To find out more, call 519-943-1490 or visit www.weekendinthewoods.com.

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As the clock ticks down toward opening day of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Para Pan Am Games next July, the excitement is building. And when the equestrian events get underway at the newly renovated Caledon Pan Am Equestrian Park in Palgrave, the Headwaters region will be squarely in the spotlight.

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The doors of the renovated Banting homestead in Alliston are now open to visitors. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin and co-winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine, was born on the 107acre property which is now owned by the town of New Tecumseth and named Banting Homestead Heritage Park in his honour.

The house and outbuildings are operated as an interpretive and education centre by the Sir

Some 20,000 volunteers are needed to help things run smoothly for the 7,000 athletes and 250,000 visitors to arrive for the Games. Thousands of volunteers have already signed up to play a role in the biggest sporting event ever to take place in the GTA – and you can too.

For information about volunteering and to fill out the volunteer application form, log on to www.toronto2015.org and click on “Join In.”

Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation, which helped spearhead the campaign to preserve this important link to Canadian and world history.

Fascinating exhibits showcase the discovery of insulin, which has saved countless people with diabetes from certain death, as well as Banting-related artifacts and memorabilia and information on managing the chronic disease.

Buildings on the site at 5116 Sir Frederick Banting Road are open until November 4 on Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on the first and third weekends of the month – Saturdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays 1 to 4 p.m.

Admission is free, though donations to the Banting Legacy Foundation are appreciated. For information, call 705-440-7126 or go to www.bantinglegacy.ca.

William Avery “Billy” Bishop poses with his aircraft in August 1917.

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Here is a chance to enjoy a play that has become a Canadian classic.

Billy Bishop Goes to War, the alternately hilarious and poignant tale of Canada’s legendary World War I flying ace, has delighted audiences and critics alike since it opened in 1978. Through story and song, the two-hander recounts Bishop’s story from his humble beginnings to his glory days as a military hero and beyond.

Director Danny Harvey’s production of the award-winning play, written by John Gray in collaboration with Eric Peterson, will be mounted at the Rose Studio Theatre in Brampton between July 4 and 19. Performances take place from Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Saturday matinees start at 2 p.m. Tickets are $32 and can be ordered online at www.rosetheatre.ca or by calling 905-874-2800.

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Enjoy a family afternoon in the country on Sunday, August 24, when Landman Gardens and Bakery stages Savour Fair, a celebration of local food and art. Sample food from local chefs, farms and producers, visit farm animals, and take in the art bazaar, farmers’ market and kids’ games.

Proceeds from the event, which takes place from 1 to 4 p.m., will help support local post-secondary students who are studying agriculture.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for children and $60 for families. The Landman farm is located just north of Grand Valley. For information, call 519938-6163 or go to www.landmangardens.ca.

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he writer Sharon Butala once observed that country people understand how the world was built. “It didn’t appear whole and shiny the morning they were born,” she said. “Their mothers and fathers built it step by step every day.”

My wife, Heath, is a country person. The way in which she looks at the world wasn’t built in a day either. She belongs to a tradition of life on the land that reaches all the way back to the Druids of North Wales and it guides her on every subject from plant­ ing a seed in the ground to sealing the contents of a jar of jam. She makes weather predictions based on the movement of a leaf or the way a plume of smoke curls away from the chimney. Some of these obser­ vations are mystifying. I know spring is on its way when she comes into the kitchen and exclaims, “My, my, the house is cold! It must be warming up.”

I know the heavy snows of winter are coming when she announces that “the swamps are full.”

Many of my neighbours are just like her. Eighteen summers ago, I went over to my neighbour Archie to ask him if I could buy a couple of weaner pigs to fatten in the barnyard for the freezer. Archie just shook his head and said in that dry way he had, “I don’t like to sell a man weaner pigs. Every time I do it, his wife gets pregnant.”

You could never tell with Archie if he was just having you on. I found myself assuring him that, in our case, this really would not be a problem. We had three kids on the ground at that point, which is what Archie would have called “a large Presbyterian

family.” I explained to him that the purpose of the pigs was to help get my children out of bed on lazy summer mornings and away from the television set.

After I made my case, he shrugged, hauled two sixweek-old piglets out of the pen, and put them in the crate on the back of my Ford truck.

When I got home I told Heath about the conver­ sation and she saw nothing odd about it. She told me a story about her favourite teacher in high school,

“Don’t scoff at Archie,” said Heath.

“Looking after babies, even baby rabbits, is one of the best fertility treatments you can take.” an art teacher who made a special connection with her and often came out to visit her family farm. One spring morning, the teacher dropped by the store where Heath had started working and Heath noticed something was bothering her.

The teacher confided that she and her husband had been married for several years, but still had no children. This was before the days of in vitro treat­ ments and there were very few options apart from adoption or accepting life without children. That weekend, Heath turned up at the woman’s house on

a country road just outside town. She opened the door of her ancient Rambler and pulled two orphan lambs out of the back seat.

“I think you’ve just got to quit fretting,” Heath said. “I want you to bottle feed these lambs for a month and try not to think about anything else. I find lambies take your mind off everything.” Then she handed her a little porcelain elephant with its nose turned up. This was an ancient symbol of good luck to the Romans, who lived just up the road from her family back in Wales about two thousand years ago.

At the end of the summer, Heath’s friend made another visit to the farm, this time to report that the treatment had been successful. She was pregnant.

She kept the lambs as pets and because there was no ram and therefore no baby lambs, the spinsters lived to be the two oldest sheep in Simcoe County.

A few years later, she and her husband came to our wedding.

“So don’t scoff at Archie,” said Heath. “Looking after babies, even baby rabbits, is one of the best fertility treatments you can take.”

I put the little pigs in the barnyard and the kids all ran out to play with them for the afternoon. They played with them every morning for the rest of the summer and hardly turned the television on once.

I know this conversation took place 18 summers ago, because our fourth child, Hannah, just celebrated her 17th birthday this spring. Archie never sold me weaner pigs again. ≈

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Flight of the For three vintage aircraft enthusiasts, slipping “the surly bonds of earth� in their restored Tiger Moth was an unforgettable experience.

by Tony Reynolds

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fter two years of painstaking restoration, the de Havilland Tiger Moth was ready to fly again. As the plane was rolled out onto Watkin Martin’s airfield near Grand

Valley on a sunny day in August 2013, she looked as new as she did in 1940 when, still smelling slightly of paint and oil, she was fresh from the Morris Motors assembly line in Cowley, Oxford, England. RAF T-5414 was the 30th Tiger Moth off that line.

Pilot Danny Garyfalakis did the honours. “It was surreal,” he recalled. “I’d never been a test pilot before, and it was a big test for me … to fly an air­plane for the first time.” Danny had logged a lot of time in the cockpit of Tiger Moths, but his know­ledge of this particular aircraft was especially inti­mate. “I trusted the airplane,” he said, “trusted the people who put it together.

“The day was beautiful … I walked up to the plane, looked at the sky and knew that everything was right.”

With Danny at the controls in the rear cockpit, Andy Scott stood in front, ready to swing the propeller and start the engine. “Switches off,” he said, “gas on.”

Danny confirmed. “Switches off, gas on.”

The carburetor filled with fuel. Andy flipped the switches on the outside of the plane. “Contact.”

Danny reached for duplicate switches just outside the cockpit, flipped them and confirmed. “Contact.”

Andy pulled the propeller hard down and the Tiger Moth started immediately. He stepped aside as Danny let the engine warm up and then throttled up to a cruise RPM. With wheel chocks in place, the plane didn’t move, except for the vibration of the engine and the buffeting from the prop wash. The only sound was the distinct tractor sound of the four-cylinder Gipsy Major engine. continued on next page

Mike Dennett, Andy Scott and Danny Garyfalakis with their Tiger Moth, the culmination of two years of meticulous restoration work.

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Danny checked the magnetos, left and right. With Andy and Mike Dennett holding down the tail, he ran the engine up to full RPM and back to idle. Then, with all checks complete, Danny gave the signal to remove the chocks.

“I taxied down the runway and everything felt right,” he said. “I turned around to go back to the start.

At the top of the runway I throttled up. Then gave her full power. As the tail lifted, I could feel in the stick that her wings were tracking straight … past the point of no return and she lifted off.”

The first 30 seconds is when things can go wrong, but the flight was flawless. “It was like she could hardly wait to get up in the air again,” said Danny.

When Danny landed, Andy took his turn, then Mike took his. And as they shut the plane down, making only a minor adjustment to the rigging be­ fore putting the aircraft away, the three couldn’t wipe the grins off their faces. They had done it. Two years of painstaking work and daydreams had culminated in a perfect flight.

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“One of the best days of my life was the first day I soloed a Tiger Moth. The great­est day of my life was when I soloed my own.”

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Danny Garyfalakis, Andy Scott and Mike Dennett met through their shared passion for f lying and for vintage aircraft. Danny had pulled over to talk when he saw Mike flying a radio-controlled model plane in a field near Mono Centre. He met Andy at the Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation. In fact, all three were, and continue to be, involved in the club, now called the Edenvale Classic Aircraft Foundation, which makes its home at the Edenvale Aerodrome on Highway 26 between Stayner and Barrie.

Danny, who owns Hockley Valley Honey Farm, is about to get the air­ craft maintenance engineer papers he has been working on. Andy is an aircraft maintenance engineer. “I earn my living turning wrenches on regional jets,” he said.

To support his vintage habit, Mike works in sales and engineering for an industrial automation supplier based in Mono Centre. Before that he worked in the aerospace industry. At

the Edenvale club, the three exercise their passion with other like-minded enthusiasts, including many former RCAF and Air Canada pilots. The three worked together on main­ taining, restoring and flying classic aircraft, including the club’s own de Havilland Tiger Moth and Fleet Canuck. Now their focus is more on their own Moth.

“Because I had more of my own time than most of the other members, I could do a lot more flying during the week,” said Danny, “but I hadn’t flown the club’s Tiger Moth. One day, Dave Hadfield [brother of astronaut Chris Hadfield] checked me out in the plane, and after that I starting taking a lot of people up for historical flights.”

A great many vintage aircraft en­ thusiasts gather every year at the Geneseo Airshow, which bills itself as the “Greatest Show on Turf” and takes place at the National Warplane Museum’s field at the Geneseo Airport in western New York State.

The airfield has grass landing strips,

The Heyday of the Tiger Moth

Tiger Moths 15 EFTS (Elementary Flight Training School). Courtesy Wings Museum UK.

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where planes such as the Tiger Moth can land. Instead of a tail wheel, British-built Tiger Moths have a skid that would be filed off in a shower of sparks on a paved runway. The skid not only gives the tail of the plane a place to set down, but it also acts as a brake – the only brake.

Separately and together, Danny, Andy and Mike have been going to Geneseo for years. That’s where they met Marilyn Cleveland, whose first name is emblazoned in yellow script on the nose of their Tiger Moth.

A ndy wa s f i rst to ge t to k now Marilyn. “I met her husband, Dick, at the show and got ‘drug’ home like a stray dog. We got along really well.

As a matter of fact, I have stayed with them many times since the ’80s, occasionally dragging in another ‘stray dog.’”

Marilyn and Dick were very invol­ ved in the Geneseo show. After Dick died in 2000, Marilyn continued to volunteer – and to take the Canadians under her wing during the show.

The three found their Tiger Moth, a DH.82a built for wartime service, a few hours beyond Geneseo at the Van Sant Airport in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Andy had seen an ad continued on page 24

During World War II, de Havilland Tiger Moths – the distinctive dual cockpit biplanes that were the foundation of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan – were a familiar sight in the skies over the Headwaters region.

The nearby village of Malton, with its fledgling but rapidly growing airport, was one of many Canadian airfields where thousands of would-be pilots from Canada, Britain, the Commonwealth and beyond received their first flight training in Tiger Moths.

Inexpensive to build and easy to maintain, the Tiger Moth has been called the Model T of aircraft. The plane, which first flew in 1931, was adapted from the earlier de Havilland Gipsy Moth to make it easier for the pilot in the forward cockpit to escape in an emergency, particularly when wearing a parachute.

But the design process was hurried because there was keen competition to provide training aircraft for Britain’s Royal Air Force.

“There had been no complex calculations, no drawings; just a group of men in a little shed and a dismantled Moth Trainer,” wrote Alan Bramson in The Tiger Moth Story (Cassell & Company, 1964).

Many of those who trained in Tiger Moths came to love the versatile little plane, which may explain its continuing popularity.

Instructors liked it too, because, although flying one is straightforward, a sure hand is needed to fly it well. “You have to step up to the bar,” said Andy Scott, one of three men who recently restored their own British-built Tiger Moth. “It doesn’t come down to meet you.”

Most Tiger Moths were manufactured in Britain, but they also rolled off assembly lines in many other countries, including Canada.

The British-built planes were assigned the model number DH.82a, while those built in Canada bore the number DH.82c – because the

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specifications were adapted to meet Canadian conditions. The Canadian-built planes, for example, boasted heated cockpits, cockpit canopies that could be jettisoned, a larger engine, wheel brakes and a tail wheel rather than the skid typical of the British models. These changes added weight to the Canadian models, which were said to be less nimble than their British-built counterparts.

In Britain the wartime role of Tiger Moths went beyond training.

During the early part of the war, the plane was vital to communications, and when most of Europe fell to German forces, Tiger Moths became spotter aircraft, looking for German warships approaching Britain. Each plane was issued a pair of homing pigeons that could carry word of the pilot’s position if he were forced down or crashed.

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in The Moth, the magazine of the worldwide de Havilland Moth Club.

He called Danny who checked online.

Mike was as enthusiastic as the other two, so they decided to take a look.

“The plane hadn’t flown for many years, but it was complete,” said Andy.

“We could see that it wasn’t rigged properly. It was dog-eared and tired, but its bones looked sound.”

They learned that the plane had crashed a few times – “had been rol­ led up in a ball,” as Andy put it. “She had been rebuilt in ‘bitsa’ – bitsa this, bitsa that.” But the three decided there was nothing to fix that they couldn’t handle.

They toyed briefly with the idea of flying the plane home, but decided instead to trailer it via the Geneseo Airshow to Stan Vander Ploeg’s air­ field near Grand Valley. “We stored the plane there and started rebuilding, taking parts home to work on,” said Andy.

The wings ended up in Andy’s basement and the fuselage just fit into Danny’s garage, where the work con­ tinued. Eventually, they took the plane in pieces to Watt Martin’s place where they completed the final as­ sembly and rigging.

Parts of the plane hung on the walls as they removed them. They fixed what they could and replaced what they couldn’t. “We were overwhelmed at first,” said Andy, “but we did things one step at a time. It took a long time, but eventually the tide turned and the plane started to come together.”

Parts were often a problem. There are several hundred Tiger Moth owners around the world, but the community is tight-knit and not necessarily eager to co-operate with those who just want to fix and flip a vintage plane. “We had to convince them that we saw ourselves as the custodians of a piece of history,” said Andy. Achieving that was one of the many ways in which Watt Martin’s help proved invaluable.

Watt was an aircraft mechanic who had worked on the planes of the Edenvale club since the group’s days in Collingwood. Over the years he had rebuilt between 20 and 30 vintage aircraft, both Gipsy and Tiger Moths.

He owned two Gipsy Moths, one wooden and one metal, as well as a Canadian-built Tiger Moth, and a vast storehouse of parts. He was also in the midst of rebuilding another from a wreck he had bought for $50 years earlier.

Danny also located parts among enthusiasts around the world. One particular part, an engine purchased

Mike Dennett proudly sports his Marilyn T-shirt. As part of the restoration, Mike and his partners carefully researched RAF paint schemes, using camouflage colours punctuated by yellow bars containing RAF roundels on the tips of the upper wings.

“You feel the sun on your face, you feel the moisture as you get close to the clouds, and when you come back down, you smell the crops in the field.” from a collector in New York, came from Paramount Pictures in Holly­ wood. A spare for the German Rumpler bombers used in the movie Lawrence of Arabia, the engine was nearly new. Although it had been manufactured during World War II, it was rebuilt in the 1970s and had less than eleven hours’ test time, none in the air. So far, this engine has con­ tinued its role as a spare, but the three hope to swap it into the plane.

With his lifetime of experience, Watt knew all about the construction of a Moth. “If he didn’t know it, it wasn’t worth knowing,” said Andy.

“It was a privilege to work with him.”

Watt died this spring, and Danny, Andy and Mike readily acknowledge he played a huge role in ensuring the restoration process went smoothly.

One of the trickiest parts of the re­ assembly was getting the flying wires right. These flexible steel connectors, which link the upper and lower

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By the time we got the balance closer, we realized the length was right.”

As the months went by, the Tiger Moth came back to life piece by piece.

Wanting their restoration to be as authentic as possible, the three care­ fully researched official paint schemes used by the RAF during World War II. The camouflage colours – dark earth and dark green – were applied to the top and sides in soft flowing bands to make the planes less visible to enemy aircraft f lying above. The bottom surfaces were bright yellow so the

planes could be seen more easily by other pilots in training.

But student pilots continued to have trouble picking out the planes, so later in the war some squadrons introduced their own variations on the colours. Danny, Andy and Mike selected one of these, adding a bright yellow band to the fuselage just behind the cockpits and on the two upper wingtips. In the centre of each band are the RAF roundels in use at the time.

Finally, after putting in about 2,000 hours’ work over two years, the three pushed the plane out into the sun­ shine for her test flight. continued on next page IN THE HILLS Summer 2014

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“It’s the quintessential open cockpit rag-wing biplane,” said Mike. “It’s a sweetheart; light on the wing. You fly a thousand feet up and you can’t be in a hurry to get where you’re going be­ cause it cruises at 75 miles per hour.

But it’s so much fun. You feel the sun on your face, you feel the moisture as you get close to the clouds, and when you come back down, you smell the crops in the field.”

Not long after the test flight, Andy and Danny f lew the plane to the Geneseo Airshow. They refuelled in St. Catharines before entering the U.S., and because there are no grass strips near the border crossing, U.S. Customs came to meet them when they landed in Geneseo.

Marilyn Cleveland, who was on hand to greet them, was surprised, flattered, and a little teary-eyed when she saw her name on the nose. She soon donned a leather bomber jacket, headgear and goggles, got into the forward cockpit and went for a ride.

The new Tiger Moth was also a big hit at the Tiger Boys Fly-In in Guelph.

“It felt great to be the prettiest girl at the dance,” said Andy.

This season, Andy, Danny and Mike have several f lights planned,

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Purchased in Pennsylvania, the “dog-eared and tired” Tiger Moth was trailered to an airfield near Grand Valley, then divvied up among the three men’s homes as they worked on various parts. below : Marilyn and friend.

and because only two can be in the plane at once, they take turns, with one of them driving the car. But they may soon have another solution.

Andy and Danny have already pitched in to buy another Tiger Moth. To be more precise, they have bought two, and between the two, they hope to have another one in the air one day.

Once you catch the bug, it’s clearly tough to stop. Watt Martin summed up the appeal of these aircraft suc­ cinctly when he said, “You know, one of the best days of my life was the first day I soloed a Tiger Moth. The great­ est day of my life was when I soloed my own.” ≈ As part of his research, freelance writer Tony Reynolds felt he had to go up in the Tiger Moth. Sure enough, he reported afterward, the experience was entirely exhilarating.

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My maiden flight with glider pilot Jock Proudfoot

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hen Orangeville’s Jock Proudfoot invited me to soar with him in a Grobe Twin II Acro, I knew it was an invitation for which most people would give their gold fil­ lings. But I also knew that if I were meant to fly, I’d have been born with wings on my back. Still, Jock, retired after 30 years as an international flight pilot with Air Canada, was the one pilot I’d trust to take me off the ground in an engineless plane.

Our flight was scheduled. On a glorious sunny day Jock’s wife, Sandy, drove me to the York Soaring Association near Arthur, where Jock was already on his second hour-long flight of the day. Awaiting his return, I watched with trepidation as gliders and 28

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small aircraft bumped and jumped on the grass run­ way in front of me. When a tow plane approached the runway sideways, literally at a 45-degree angle, I almost had a heart attack. This wasn’t what I had expected.

Sandy directed me to a dimly lit office where a man handed me a sheet of paper and a pen. “What am I signing?” I asked. He leaned back in his chair, staring across the desk at me as if I were a week-old offering from a fishmonger, a cigarette balancing precarious­ ly on the edge of his lips. “You’re signing that your family won’t sue us if there’s an…accident,” he said.

I scribbled on the paper. When he began rummaging through a side drawer, I slipped out, glad to breathe fresh air in the form of a gentle, warm breeze.

Jock had landed. The 58-foot wingspan on the two-seater, fibreglass glider, owned by a ten-person syndicate of which Jock was one, was impressive even to me. I felt twinges of excitement when Sandy told me to climb into the rear seat. Jock harnessed me in, then sat on the edge of the wing and patiently pointed to the dials.

“The air speed indicator reads in knots,” he said.

“The variometer is the vertical speed indicator and it’s ten times more sensitive than the ones in ordi­ nary airplanes.” He was unable to imitate the sound, but warned me that the electronic variometer audi­ bly indicates if the glider is rising or sinking.

“And this…” he pointed to a circular dial on the right, “tells you the altitude.” He rubbed his hand

Former fighter pilot Jock Proudfoot, shown here in a tow plane, now pursues his passion for flight in his glider at the York Soaring Association. Jock is a rare Three Diamond pilot, each diamond an internationally recognized symbol for an outstanding powerless flight.

on a small metal handle on the inside edge of the fibreglass, where I instinctively wanted to hold on.

“Don’t touch that,” he said quietly but firmly.

“Doing so could cause the canopy to fly off.”

A moment later, Jock was sitting in front and I was looking at the back of his head as the Perspex canopies were lowered. Jock was shown, and approved, the towline. The left wing was manually raised and we rumbled down the runway tethered behind the little tow plane. In mere moments, the world fell away and we were being pulled though the air. I had an astounding rush of exhilaration. It felt as if tiny effervescent bubbles were exploding throughout my body. My brain was clear and totally focussed on the departing earth, when Jock spoke.

“What’s our altitude?” he called back to me.

I gulped hard. He didn’t say there was going to be a test! Altitude. Far right. “Fifteen hundred feet,” I called, and prayed I was right.

“We’re going up to 3,000 feet,” he said.

I looked around for something marked “para­ chute,” but found nothing.

“What’s our altitude now?”

“Umm…2,000 feet” “When we reach 3,000 feet, you have to pull that yellow toggle to release us from the tow plane,” said Jock.

“What!?” Everything below was becoming smaller and everything up here noisier. Engineless aircraft, gliders push against the air as gravity pulls them toward the ground. If the air under the glider is a thermal – that is, warm air which pushes upward – then it pushes the glider up. By finding and riding these thermals, a pilot keeps the glider airborne. I fixed my eye on the dial. Almost 3,000 feet. Almost, but not quite.

“Pull the toggle,” called Jock. As I reached for it, there was a thump. The towline had been dropped, and Jock said, “We’re free! We’re up here flying with no engine! We’re free!”

I heard a loud rumble as warm thermal air rushed past the tail section, making a surprisingly loud noise – not at all the smooth, silent soaring I had expected when watching from the ground. I looked at the back of Jock’s head for a sign, wondering if the glider was about to fall apart. But Jock only said, “There’s a red-tailed hawk.” I didn’t see it. “There’s the Arthur sewage treatment plant,” he said. My

eyes followed where his finger was pointing.

“You meant those ponds, those little things that look like swimming pools?”

“Yes.” “And there’s Grand Valley,” he said, pointing out the village where I had lived for eight years. I strained to see the picturesque village, but couldn’t pick it out of the landscape.

Suddenly, Jock flipped the glider to the right. I looked down as we pivoted on the point of the wing, and got a splendid view of the gorgeous local countryside. The wind continued to rumble against the tail section; the electronic variometer had kicked in.

Round and round we went as the variometer screamed and wailed. I began to think about the time my family sailed to Canada from Scotland. My seafaring uncle had warned us that if we felt seasick, to stand on deck and breathe deeply. As it turned out everyone on the ship was seasick and we stood shoulder to shoulder at the deck rail, vomiting as one into the Atlantic Ocean.

I began to feel very hot, yet cold, and my eyes seemed to swim in different directions. I looked at the back of Jock’s head. It was bobbing around, looking left, then right, then up, full of energy – reminiscent of an inquisitive, cheerful little sparrow.

In addition to his years with Air Canada, Jock spent seven years in the air force as a fighter pilot and flight instructor, and also spent a year flying for the U.N. in Egypt. Now, Jock was the caged bird that had just been released. He was babbling away continued on next page IN THE HILLS Summer 2014

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looking at this and looking at that. I hear him say “Grand Valley” again, and I looked but still couldn’t see it.

Suddenly my stomach flipped up to my throat. My eyes spun like ball bear­ ings in a pinball machine. I groped, unsuccessfully, for a paper bag that wasn’t there. Jock was reciting aero­ nautical poetry, an epic ode to flying, with all the animation, fervour and passion he could muster, which was plenty. My arms were lifeless at my sides. My eyelids refused to open.

“See those clouds?” I didn’t dare attempt to answer. “Let’s go over to them,” twittered Jock excitedly. He was happy. Even from the rear, Jock was more animated than I’d ever seen him on the ground. I breathed deeply and tried to focus on the horizon.

Above the noise of the variometer, Jock chirped about thermals and clouds as the sun beat down on the canopy and fried my brain. I felt as if my body temperature were 200°f, certainly hotter than any human had ever survived.

When I was four years old, I had my tonsils removed. I was strapped down to the hospital bed. Each day, just out of my reach, a bottle of cold, fizzy pop was placed on the bedside table.

I watched the condensation running down the outside of those bottles and felt utterly parched. Inside the glider, fresh air felt just as elusive. I didn’t dare reach for the tiny window to open it. It was right next to the metal gadget that could cause the canopy to fly off. If I bumped it and released the canopy, the sparrow would have a heart attack. Better when we land that I’m the one found bright red and stiff than for Jock to have a coronary because I pitched the canopy.

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never looked so alive. He was em­ anating joie de vivre. If I could have seen his aura, it would’ve been an ongoing display of fireworks. Jock Proudfoot was born to fly as sure as sparrows are.

I was weightless, floating. The only thing keeping me in my supine seat was my seatbelt. My tongue began to loll. I was drooling. I felt truly ridi­ culous, yet unable to pull myself to­ gether. “Well,” said Jock. “You get the T-shirt! You’ve been up here for a full hour.” It wasn’t possible! We couldn’t have been airborne for more than 10 to 15 minutes! “Do you want to go down, or would you like to stay up a while longer?”

I inhaled deeply. Carefully, I parted my dry, fused lips and mumbled something incoherent. Jock laughed.

“Great! We’ll stay up,” he said with gusto. I didn’t mind. I now dreaded landing more than being airborne.

At least up here I could be ill in private. On the ground people would crinkle their noses if they saw me dragged out of the glider, retching and moaning. Now I wanted to stay up here forever.

Rivulets of sweat raced each other down my back. I thought about the time I flew with my dog and a child

on Air Canada from Toronto to Van­ couver. I asked if we could see the cockpit, and in those days a generous pilot could allow you to do so. The purser introduced us to Captain Jock Proudfoot and his crew who were surprisingly willing to tolerate us gawking stupidly at the tiny window and maze of instruments.

I informed Capt. Proudfoot that my beloved dog was in the baggage compartment and I didn’t want him overlooked in the event of any mech­ anical malfunction or crash landing.

In Vancouver, we touched down so smoothly that we’d been on the ground for several seconds before anyone was sure we’d landed. It was years later before I met Sandy and discovered we were neighbours, living only a mile from each other.

Now Jock was saying we’d been up for one and a half hours, and were going to descend and land past those black Angus bulls in the field below.

I licked my parched lips and looked down at the rapidly approaching bulls, dreading the bouncy landing I’d seen the other gliders make, afraid my stomach would fully succumb.

You’d have to thumb-squeeze the information out of Jock, but he’s a rare Three Diamond pilot, each dia­

mond being an internationally re­ cognized symbol for an outstanding powerless flight. But if ever he earned his diamonds it was on our landing.

The wheels touched evenly on the ground, bit into the sod, and we rolled to a smooth, straight stop as if we’d just landed by way of Rolls Royce.

Ours was a landing in a class of its own. Even I recognized that.

Having survived the flight, I should set the record straight. Had Jock even suspected I was feeling queasy, he would have landed immediately. I knew that. A single bleat from me or a wave of my limp hand would have done it. He will no doubt be surprised to learn I wasn’t in fine fettle during the flight! But I knew if I caused the flight to be cut short, I’d be discarding a fabulous experience with one of the best pilots in the world.

Jock had offered me the opportun­ ity to do what most people dream of, and I was determined to see that flight through to the end. I’m glad I did. Thirty-six hours after we landed I stopped listing, the buzzing left my head, and I had a phenomenal adven­ ture to remember. ≈ Dorothy Pedersen is a freelance writer who lives in Grand Valley.

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Leah Wilson and Rendezvous perform an extended trot at the Caledon Pan Am Equestrian Park last year.

The fact that the Pan Am equestrian events will take place at the Caledon Pan Am Equestrian Park in Leah’s hometown makes realizing her dream seem tantalizingly close. But she would pursue her goal no matter where the Games were held.

Leah has been riding since she was nine years old and competing internationally since she was 16.

Longlisted for the Canadian dressage team from 2004 to 2011, Leah won a silver medal at the 2007 North American Junior and Young Rider Championships.

For the past few years, she has set aside her compe­

titive goals to concentrate on building her coaching and training business. But this year, she says, “I’m going full steam ahead with competition.”

With her most promising horse, eight-year-old Rendezvous, Leah, who owns and operates Aislinn Dressage Inc., a training centre near Orangeville, joins a handful of elite dressage riders from the Head­ waters region, all of them determined to represent Canada next summer on the pan-American stage.

Other Headwaters’ hopefuls include 48-year-old Tom Dvorak, a veteran dressage competitor from

Tom Dvorak and Viva’s Salieri W execute a shoulderin during the Palm Beach Dressage Derby in Florida.

Megan Lane and Caravella perform a full pirouette at an event in Wellington, Florida, earlier this year.

Hillsburgh; 54-year-old Nancy MacLachlan of Terra Cotta; and 23-year-old Megan Lane, who is from Collingwood but now based in Loretto.

Starting this summer, these riders and others like them from across the country will begin the long and expensive process of trying to earn one of four berths on the Canadian dressage team.

A sport unlike any other international event, dressage is often called “ballet on horseback” for its combination of grace, beauty, concentration and athleticism. The Fédération Equestre Internationale

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has defined dressage as “the highest expression of horse training.”

But unlike Grand Prix jumping and crosscountry competitions, dressage remains, in North America at least, a somewhat rarefied event little known to the general public. This is understandable, says Leah, who acknowledges that watching a traditional dressage test is not particularly exciting for the uneducated observer. “It’s a disciplined sport,” she says. “You have to understand the diffi­ culties of the moves to fully appreciate it.”

Tom Dvorak, a trainer and coach who, along with his wife, Ellen, operates Friday Hill Farm near Hillsburgh, rode for Canada at the 1990 World Equestrian Games and at the 1996 Olympics. At both the 2007 Pan Am Games in Brazil and the 2011 Games in Mexico, he placed fourth in the individual events and has a silver medal from the team event in 2007.

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interna­tionally ever since. “People are more educated in dressage there be­ cause it’s a European tradition.”

But, he adds, the sport is definitely growing in popularity here, a fact he attributes largely to the introduction of freestyle dressage to international competition at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

In freestyle, or Kür, the program is performed to music. As in figure skating’s free dance, the music and choreography are chosen and created by the competitor, although certain elements and move­ ments must be included in the performance. Unlike the more structured dressage tests, Kür is an impressive, crowd-pleasing spectacle.

Megan Lane recently commissioned Kür compos­er Joost Peters, who has collaborated with musicians such as Elton John and Sting, to create a freestyle program for her and her own mare, Caravella. “Caravella loves to dance,” says the young head trainer at Deer Ridge, a dressage training facility near Loretto.

“In Florida the stands were packed every night [for Kür],” says Tom, who

spent three months this past winter in Wellington, Florida, on the inter­ national dressage circuit. “Since we’ve introduced freestyle, dressage has become a lot more fun to watch.”

The Pan Am dressage events take place next summer on July 11 and 14.

Teams from North and South Amer­ ica, each consisting of four horses and riders, will complete in team, indivi­ dual and freestyle tests, and medals will be awarded in each category. At the 2011 Games, 12 teams competed, with the United States taking home gold, Canada silver and Colombia bronze.

During a dressage test, which can last up to seven minutes depending on the level, horse and rider perform a series of movements (see sidebar on page 38) marked on a scale of 1 to 10 by at least five judges, and sometimes as many as seven. The competitors try to maintain the illusion that the horse is executing each movement on its own, without signals from the rider. In fact the rider is using his or her seat, legs and hands to invisibly communicate commands. As Leah Wilson says, “You have to understand the difficulty of the moves. It is very refined.”

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This fall, Pan Am hopefuls like Leah, Tom, Nancy and Megan must declare their intention to try out for the Canadian team. To make the team, they must accumulate at least four qualifying test scores, usually with a minimum of 68 per cent, at recognized international competitions.

“That doesn’t sound like much,” says Leah, “but in the dressage world it’s a pretty good score.”

Only three qualifying dressage shows will be held in Canada over the next year. The first took place at the Equestrian Park in Palgrave from June 6 to 8. Another will be held in Newmarket from June 19 to 22, and a third is scheduled for Alberta at the end of June.

The Palgrave event, billed as the “CornerStone Spring into Dressage” competition, was hosted by Corner­ Stone Farms. Based in Mono, it has been organizing dressage events for 22 years. According to CornerStone’s Barbara Mitchell, 56 horses, some from as far away as Australia and Brazil, were entered at the international level.

The show was also a test event for the Equestrian Park’s recently com­ pleted Grand Prix dressage ring, part of an $11-million upgrade to the facility in preparation for the Games.

Leah, Tom, Nancy and Megan, as well as other Canadians, will also be competing there. But to achieve the four scores necessary to make them eligible for the Pan Am team, they will almost certainly have to travel to Wellington, Florida, next winter.

There, a qualifying dressage show will be held nearly every weekend from January until April.

In the runup to the Pan Ams, Leah, Tom and Megan will train and com­ pete on more than one horse. Tom, for example, hopes to qualify on both Viva’s Salieri W, owned by Carla Bahr, and Ribot, owned by Augustine and Christine Walch. And in addition to Caravella, Megan is grooming two other horses, both owned by sponsors, whose support is often essential for elite riders. If Megan earns a berth on the Canadian team, the horse she teams up with at the Games will be the one that racks up the highest scores in the qualifying competitions.

“The marks will decide,” she says.

All four acknowledge it’s a big commitment in terms of both time and money. But it’s also a huge party.

“It’s like being at a resort with 3,000 of your best friends,” says Leah of the Wellington circuit. The community just west of Palm Beach has become the epicentre of international dressage and jumping, attracting top riders from around the world. “It’s like Disney World for horses,” she says.

When, and if, they earn four quali­

fying scores, Canadian dressage con­ tenders must submit them to Dressage Canada, the sport’s governing body, which has the final say in choosing the Pan Am team. According to Christine Peters of Dressage Canada, the final selection may be made after a “trial” show featuring the top eight riders.

Nancy MacLachlan, who owns and operates MacDay Farm with her hus­ band, Dr. Alan Young, knows the competition will be stiff. An experi­ enced international rider who com­ peted for Canada at the 1995 Pan Ams in Argentina, as well as the 1998 and 2002 World Championships, Nancy is grateful to Julia Fogel, owner of Deniros Tyme, for providing her with an opportunity to test her mettle on the 16-year-old gelding with the strong dressage pedigree.

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The sport is definitely growing in popularity here … largely due to the introduction of freestyle dressage – Kür – at the 1996 Olympic Games.

But she is realistic about her chan­ ces. “You’ve really got to be on top of your game to make the team,” Nancy says. Still, she also knows that unlike in many other athletic disciplines, age is actually an advantage for dres­ sage riders. “It may hurt more, but we keep getting better at it,” she says.

Tom, who has 30 years’ experience in the sport, concurs: “Dressage riders age like red wine. We can be competi­ tive until well into our 60s. I do things better now than I did 20 years ago.”

Tell that to Megan, who, at only 23 years old, is a rising star in Canadian dressage circles. She has been com­ peting since she was five and has won eight medals at the North American Junior and Young Rider Champion­ ships. This August she will compete in Europe for the first time at the World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France. Like Leah, Megan has a dream – of competing in the Pan Am Games and, who knows, maybe the Olympics some day. “I feel like the stars are really aligned for me,” she says.

It will take more than luck, however, for the Headwaters’ hopefuls to real­ ize their dreams. The Games are still more than a year away, and it will be a year of hard work, of riding, training and showing. Theirs is a big dream continued on next page

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The horse walks, trots or canters with its hindquarters tucked underneath and most of the weight in its back end.

The horse appears to be moving uphill.

Pirouette

Usually at a canter, the horse makes a full or half circle on the spot with its hind end in place.

Extended Gaits

The horse lengthens its stride showing great power and thrust in the trot and canter, and stretch and relaxation at the walk.

Half Pass

The horse trots sideways and forwards on the diagonal, its legs crossing over one another.

Flying Change

At a canter, the horse changes its leading foreleg, and at the same time, the hind leg. Failure to change the hind leg is a serious fault. This move may be performed in succession on every second, third or fourth stride, but the most skilled teams can perform the move on every stride.

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Piaffe

A high-stepping movement done on the spot, with the horse stepping up and down in place or nearly in place.

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padd ling w ith Two Caledon women are among those transforming Canada into a dragon boating powerhouse.

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ast July, CBC reported that Canada owned the podium at the World Dragon Boat Racing Championships in Szeged, Hungary, winning an astoun­ ding 30 gold medals in the standardboat classes. To place this achievement in perspective, it’s worth noting that second-place China, the country where dragon boat racing began, went home with just seven first-place finishes.

Dragon boat racing? In hockey-mad Canada? Surely the CBC report was a mistake. If you think so, you would be right. Canadian crews did not win 30 gold medals – they actually came away with 42, as well as 14 silver and 8 bronze. Total medal haul? Sixty-four, nearly four times that of China.

What may be most surprising is that this achievement was no fluke. No one involved in the sport was surprised

by Canada’s dominance. This country already had a well-deserved reputation as a dragon boating powerhouse, top­ ping the overall gold medal count at the World Championships in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2011. And although Canada did not capture the 2013

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Nations Cup, awarded to the country that tops the standings in premier classes, Canadian teams placed second.

Only China and Canada have cap­ tured this honour three times.

Yet dragon boating doesn’t even make the list of the top ten sports in which Canadians older than 15 com­ pete. According to Statistics Canada, golf is the most popular, followed by ice hockey, soccer, baseball, volleyball, basketball, downhill skiing, cycling, swimming and badminton.

A variety of factors have come to­ gether to transform Canada into a perennial threat in the dragon-boating world, says Chloe Greenhalgh, execu­ tive director of Dragon Boat Canada.

“Dragon boat racing came to Canada at Expo ’86 in Vancouver, when the Chinese brought over six boats, and caught on with corporate Canada al­ most immediately,” she says.

Canadian corporations saw dragon boating’s potential for team-build­ ing exercises. “Anyone can paddle a dragon boat,” explains Greenhalgh, and this country became an early adopter because the sport attracted

deep-pocketed participants who were willing to help build the sport’s in­ frastructure. Add Canada’s healthy supply of skilled paddlers, and the thousands of lakes and rivers that dot the landscape, and the country’s haul of gold is not as surprising. “And now, we have excellent coaches as well,” Greenhalgh adds.

Many centuries before Québécois fur-trading voyageurs began paddling their way along Canadian waterways in enormous canoes, the Chinese were in their dragon boats. In fact, they have raced these long, narrow, f latbottomed vessels without letup for

more than 2,000 years. The practice dates back to the same period as the ancient Olympic Games in Greece.

Dragon boat racing is part of China’s annual Duanwu Jie, or Dragon Boat Festival, which takes place around the time of the summer solstice, when the sun – the dragons – are said to be most potent. Unlike Canada’s worthyof-slaying, den-dwelling dragons, such as Kevin O’Leary, China’s mythical dragon is largely benevolent. With the head of an ox, the antlers of a deer, the mane of a horse, the scales and body of a snake, the claws of an eagle and the tail of a fish, the Chinese dragon takes to the air and is closely associ­ ated with weather, particularly waterrelated events such as rain, hurricanes and floods.

Today, some 50 million Chinese take part in the ritualistic sport of dragon boating. In Canada the number of participants is considerably lower – an estimated 85,000, according to Dragon Boat Canada. Among the Canadians is a pair of paddlers from Caledon: Anne Cooper-Worsnop, who has called Inglewood home for the last

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three years, and Cheryl Innis, who grew up in Palgrave and married into one of Caledon’s original farming families.

Both Cooper-Worsnop and Innis came to the sport later in life and paddled recreationally before intensi­ fying their involvement. As is the case for many women, Innis got involved after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

In the minds of many Canadians, dragon boats and breast cancer are strongly linked. This association came about because of the work of Don McKenzie, a Vancouver medical doc­ tor, researcher and avid paddler. Dur­ ing the 1990s, McKenzie used dragon boat racing to test his once-contro­ versial theory that strenuous exercise could reduce the incidence of lymph­ edema, a debilitating condition that can result from breast cancer treat­ ment. When McKenzie’s three-month study ended, the 24 cancer survivors who took part were not only lym­ phedema-free, but also “fitter, heal­ thier and happier,” according to the International Breast Cancer Paddlers’ Commission.

Two dragon boat crews battle it out at a recent regatta at Heart Lake Conservation area, while the Outer Harbour team (above) put their hearts into the race for the finish line.

The women kept the team going, called it Abreast In A Boat, and invited other cancer survivors to participate.

And so began what has become an international movement. There are about 50 breast cancer teams in Canada and about 150 teams world­ wide, says Eleanor Nielsen of the Paddlers’ Commission.

A breast cancer survivor herself, Nielsen started Dragons Abreast, a Toronto-based team. Since she start­ ed the crew in 1997, more than 40 of its members have died. “It has been hard,” she says, “but it is a reminder to all of us to live life for the day and be there for each other.”

Innis has also experienced the grief of losing team members who had become friends. “One year, five mem­ bers of my team died,” she says. “They were people who had gone on the continued on next page

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same journey as I had, and they didn’t make it.”

With a broad swath of her blond hair highlighted in pink and purple to denote her battle with breast cancer, Innis says the sport helps her cope with the losses. “I just pound it out. Dragon boating is a complete escape. When I’m in the boat, I only think about paddling. I don’t, I can’t, deal with anything else.”

And to offset the lows, there are also highs. Like Cooper-Worsnop, Innis will compete in Ravenna this September, a prospect that buoys her spirits. When the competition is over, she and her husband will stay on in Italy and enjoy a holiday.

But dragon boating enthusiasts aren’t limited to cancer survivors.

People engage in the sport for many reasons. “I do it for the love of being on the water,” says Cooper-Worsnop.

“I’m a total outdoors person. I love the cross-training and love the cama­ raderie of being on a team.”

Cooper-Worsnop was so taken by the sport that, like Innis, she decided recreational paddling wasn’t enough.

She wanted to be competitive, so two years ago she tried out for the Port Credit-based Outer Harbour Senior Women’s A team for those over 40.

Dragon boating includes various classes. There are, for example, Senior A, B and C teams for women and for mixed crews older than 40, 50 and 60, as well as open classes usually made up of men, though women may also join.

Not your average 48-year-old, Cooper-Worsnop did much more than just make the team. In early September this year, she will partici­ pate in her second international event

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when she heads to the Club Crew World Championships in Ravenna, Italy. The biennial event for club-level teams is organized by the Interna­ tional Dragon Boat Federation and alternates with the World Champion­ ships for national teams.

Cooper-Worsnop’s chances of com­ ing home with at least one gold medal are high. At her first Club Crew World Championships in Hong Kong two years ago, her team was second only to Montreal’s Senior A team.

The Outer Harbour crew, made up of 20 paddlers, a drummer and a steer, who steers the boat with a long oar, are a hard-working bunch. Their coach gets them on the water for five hours a week at 5:45 a.m., with warm­ ups starting even earlier. “The morn­ ing sunrise is always a pleasure,” Cooper-Worsnop says.

Team members are also expected to improve their fitness and strength by completing various exercises, such as a six-kilometre run or a 1,250-metre sprint followed by another sprint of 750 metres. Several times a season, their coach assesses the paddlers’ progress by scheduling tests that include a weigh-in and two minutes of bench presses and bench pulls, as well as pull-ups. In the allotted two minutes, Cooper-Worsnop can do an unbelievable 15 full pull-ups, a more difficult version of a chin-up. No wonder she lost 30 pounds in her first four months on the team.

Innis paddles for a Senior Women’s B crew whose members are older than 50. Three times a week she makes the long drive from Caledon East to Pickering where the crew trains. Inbetween, she trains twice with a per­ sonal trainer, fits in a couple of Pilates

At the recent regatta, the Outer Harbour team removed their craft’s dragon head for a marathon involving three tight turns. right : Team member Anne Cooper-Worsnop at the drummer’s post in the bow of the boat.

classes, works on her strength and flexibility, and pitches in on the farm.

When I tried my hand in CooperWorsnop’s dragon boat, I was com­ pletely engaged in keeping time with the paddler in front, and ensuring my paddle stabbed the water correctly and my torso rotation generated power and a nice clean finish. With ten pairs of forward-facing paddlers who sit side by side powering the 12-metre-long boat, it surged ahead with each stroke.

Under a coach’s watchful eye, everyone had her head down, con­ centrating hard and willing their fatiguing muscles to go the distance as the hour-long practice wore on. All the women had Ravenna, Italy, on their minds, and so did I. I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d found the sport at which I could become competent enough to achieve my lifelong goal of representing Canada internationally.

Dragon boating is that accessible.

Cooper-Worsnop’s Outer Harbour team has achieved its best results in the 500-metre race, a sprint that is over in about two minutes. The crew’s next best distance is the gruelling 2,000-metre marathon, which differs from rowing races because the boats complete the same 500-metre course four times. This means the crew must turn their long craft three times, a manoeuvre requiring considerable finesse. For the spectators cheering from the shoreline, the spectacle is dramatic.

In an article in the National Post, Brendon Larson made the case that the non-native Norway maple depict­ ed on the new $20 bills might better represent multicultural 21st-century Canada than the iconic, native sugar maple. Despite this country’s recent Olympic successes in hockey and because the 2015 World Dragon Boat Nations Championships will be held in Welland, Ontario, perhaps Canada should have replaced the hockey scene on our old $5 bills with dragon boats rather than the now-mothballed Canadarm. ≈ Nicola Ross is a freelance writer and sports enthusiast living in Belfountain.

To find a dragon boat team, go to the Dragon Boat Canada website, which includes a list of teams: www.dragonboat.ca To see the sport in action, take in the Canadian Dragon Boat Championships from July 4 to 6 at the Welland International Flatwater Centre, where crews will warm up for next year’s World Dragon Boat Racing Championships. The international event will be held on the Welland course. Billed as one of the best race courses in the Americas, it will host the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am canoeing and kayaking sprints.

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Over 20 years, Headwaters House Tour has transformed the art of genteel snooping into half a million dollars of hospital funding.

BY Y E VGENI A C A S A L E

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t’s being nosy in such a nice way,” concludes Peggy Shannon as she wraps up our private preview of one of the homes on this year’s Headwaters House Tour. We had just finished walking through a boldly contempor­ ary, 3,200-square-foot home in Mono, designed by the architect who lives there.

Peggy is one of the Headwaters Health Care Auxiliary volunteers charged with locating homes for the annual tour, now celebrating its 20th year.

Over that time the tour has raised more than half a million dollars for the hospital. This year’s tour takes place September 20.

A recent transplant to the hills, Peggy had wanted to become involved in the community. Last year her neighbour, Rosemarie Eger, suggested she join the auxiliary as a house tour volunteer. Rosemarie has been on the tour committee for several years and was glad for the extra help. Despite how easy the auxiliary makes it look, putting the tour together is not for the faint of heart.

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never know existed. The sleek wood, glass and concrete structure is hidden behind a winding road and sits on a ledge overlooking a breathtaking view, just beyond the private forest that separates it from the road. Even on first impression you can’t help but feel you’ve arrived somewhere special.

As Peggy locks up the house, she reflects on tours past, “I notice it’s a lot of mothers and daughters or husbands and wives going out and really enjoying their time together, definitely happy, and looking at beautiful, interesting homes.”

Planning and organizing the tour is a year-long process. This year’s planning committee is about 25 members strong. On the actual day of the tour the volunteer roster will balloon up to 100. The volunteers serve gourmet lunches, oversee parking, and ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for both the homeowners and their hundreds of visitors.

Peggy, Rosemarie, and the other people hunting for houses to include on the tour have very specific criteria: homes have to be unique, located within a comfortable driving distance from each other, and offer sufficient interest and architectural diversity.

Once the team identifies potential houses, they have the immense task of convincing homeowners to open their sanctuaries for the enjoyment of hundreds of strangers – mindful that most people move to these hills because they are extremely fond of their privacy.

“The key is to find people who are willing to open their homes for fundraising. A lot of times it is people who have a connection with the hospital and understand the importance of supporting it,” says Cathy Campbell, who spent many years on the committee doing exactly that.

“They’re not doing this so people can go through their house and be nosy, they’re doing this to raise funds for the hospital, which are desperately need­ ed,” adds Janie Kirk.

As a past committee member, Janie was the one who set the stage for what the tour is today. She came on board in much the same way as Peggy, but 20 years earlier. “I wanted to get involved so I went to one of the auxiliary’s executive meetings and they were talking about a house tour. At that point it was really ‘somebody has a nice house, let’s all

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A Preview of the Tour This striking wood, glass and concrete home in Mono is one of the seven or eight houses to be featured on this year’s Headwaters House Tour.

It was constructed to blend seamlessly with the landscape and leverage the sun in ways every home deserves to but often doesn’t. Its thoughtful siting and extra-wide roof overhangs mean the sun never enters when it’s least needed and is always there when it’s wanted most.

The open floor plan and partial-height walls allow natural light to penetrate deeply from the floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides of the house. Painted the purest of white, the walls in summer take on a green tinge and in winter they become bathed in soft blue tones. Wherever possible, recesses add convenient shelf space and offer shadows ample room to flirt with light.

go for lunch.’ Then it branched off to two or three houses and they’d get their friends to come. It was a house tour, but on a very small scale.”

The words “house tour” immediately got Janie’s attention. “My mother used to take me on the house tours put on by the Junior League of Hamilton and they blew my mind. We went every year! But I mean we’d line up for two and a half hours to get into a house on the Lakeshore in Burlington.”

Initially, Janie tread lightly, careful to not offend any of the senior auxiliary members. But when she eventually spoke up and they agreed, she arranged for a meeting with the Junior League. Then she assembled a team of 20 volunteers and set to work.

“Everything we did was based on how the Junior League did it. We got a chef and brought in corporate sponsors for the first time.”

Janie continued to be one of the core tour org­ anizers for the next seven years. Sometimes they featured three big homes, sometimes they focused on five “little gems.” She explains, “Our goal was to offer homes that people could feel inspired by.”

Flashing forward, Peggy says she was fairly ner­

vous at the start of last year’s tour. It was her first outing as a tour volunteer, one of the 70 who would help guide visitors through the homes.

She admits she was a bit unsettled by the thought of being responsible for the safety and security of someone else’s property as 800 strangers walked through. But her doubts soon dissipated. “It just ran so well. There were parking people and house captains. We volunteers arrived at eight in the morning and the house captains briefed us on the history of the house and what made that particular house unique. They placed us in strategic areas in the house. It didn’t feel like 800 people had been through the house at all.”

She was also impressed by how respectful the visitors were. “They take off their shoes and carry them. Some of the people who have been on the house tour before bring slippers because they know the drill. That put my own mind at ease.”

That’s not to imply things always go as smoothly as it appears to the casual observer. What takes place behind the scenes really makes you wonder how

Making a difference all year long This will be the 20th year the Headwaters Health Care Auxiliary has hosted the Headwaters House Tour. Though organizing the tour is a big job and raises money for hospital capital costs, it is definitely not the only thing the auxiliary does.

This year the auxiliary is also celebrating 60 years of doing all the little things that make hospital visits more humane for all of us – while saving the hospital about $250,000 in wages each year.

The auxiliary consists of about 300 active members. These are the men and women who welcome you when you come in, offer directions, bring you warm towels, hold your hand, offer a kind word and sympa­ thetic ear, bring you ice or tea, and so much more. They do all the things the nurses and doctors don’t have the time to do, but on which we depend for warmth, comfort and some semblance of sanity during what is often a stressful or even traumatic experience.

The hours that the volunteers dedicate may be their own, but they are vital for the hospital in more ways than you may realize. Auxiliary hours are carefully documented and submitted to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and count toward the calculations that deter­ mine how much provincial money gets allocated to the hospital.

As auxiliary volunteer Nancy Stewart is quick to point out, “The province does not fund the capital cost of acquiring equipment in the hospital. So that’s where this fundraising is going and it is an absolute necessity.”

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these dedicated volunteers pull off such an amazing experience year after year.

Past organizer Cathy Campbell has no shortage of stories of mishaps and logistical challenges – everything from volunteers who take instructions a little too literally to sponsors who deliver on critical elements a hair shy of too late.

There are other stories too – like the time a septic system backed up three days before the tour, f looding the house. Luckily that time they were able to sub in another home at the last minute.

The same cannot be said of the year when one homeowner became seri­ ously ill and had to pull out just four

days before the tour. Cathy had worked diligently to locate homes close to each other and this particular house was critical for the “lag time” it offered.

“It had a tiered garden and miniature trains outdoors, and all that kind of stuff. It was wonderful and visitors would have spent 45 minutes in that house, at least!”

Without the built-in loitering oppor­ tunity, “people were zipping through the houses like mad and arriving for lunch at exactly the same time.” With more than a hundred people beyond the hall’s capacity, the organizers had to close the doors to manage the demand. “So we had a little problem that year,” recalls Cathy ruefully. continued on page 50

When, where and how to tour The Headwaters House Tour takes place on Saturday, September 20, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The self-directed tour will feature seven or eight houses ranging between north Caledon and Mulmur. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online at headwatershousetour.com, or at various local retailers, also listed online. The ticket comes with a map and brief description of each house. The ticket price includes lunch at the Orangeville Agricultural Centre between noon and 2 p.m.

In addition to the on-site auction at the ag centre, this year organizers have introduced an online auction – a way to support the hospital even if you are unable to attend the tour. Bidding is open from August 11 to September 21 at 32auctions.com/housetour. Appropriately, one of the prizes is a three-day motor home rental from Motor Home Travel.

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In spite of the hiccups, though, vis­ itors always seem to take the quirky events in stride, and walk away with fond memories. One year it rained solidly for several days leading up to the tour and all of the homes were on dirt roads. “It’s too bad we didn’t have a car wash as a sponsor that year. You could tell the cars that had been on the tour because they were all covered in mud.” Cathy and Janie chuckle as they retell the story. “At least on the actual day the weather was beautiful, dry and sunny.”

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receive the map for the self-directed tour, including a brief description of each home, when you buy your ticket.

The ticket price includes lunch at the Orangeville Agricultural Centre, where there is also a chance to bid on the silent auction items.

Caterer Laura Ryan, who is also mayor of the Town of Mono, has been on the house tour committee since 2011. Her role is to source food dona­ tions from local businesses and as­ semble them into a gourmet offering served on china plates. When Laura took over the responsibility from for­ mer Orangeville restaurateur Virginia Ridpath, she made the decision to move away from boxed lunches. They were convenient because visitors could

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For many people the tour has be­ come an annual tradition. “I remem­ ber sitting down at lunch one year and the people beside us told us they were former neighbours who no longer lived near each other. Every year they get together for a couple’s weekend.

The men go golfing and the ladies do the house tour,” relates Nancy Stewart.

Before joining this year’s commit­ tee Nancy was a regular on the tour, usually going with friends. Last year though, she went with her husband.

“He really enjoys driving and it’s a very pretty drive through the country

to get to all the homes.”

For the visitors, the house tour isn’t only about the hospital or even the homes themselves. It’s also about the stories. Every home comes with one.

Maybe it’s the fact that it was the home of the first veterinarian in the area or the first two-storey log home in the township. Or maybe it is the mundane plastic lawn chair that seems so out of place amid the haute décor of the house we got to see on the preview of this year’s tour. Of course, there is a story about its sentimental value. But you’ll just have to attend the tour to find out what that is.

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Imagine what would happen if Ontario Hydro or Bell Canada decided some parts of the region were too remote or difficult, or too sparsely populated, to warrant service. There would be outrage. Yet that very situation exists in numer­ ous areas across Headwaters when it comes to high speed Internet.

Has broadband become an essential human service, like electricity and telephone?

Even more, has it become a human right? The United Nations thinks so. In May, 2011, a U.N. commission issued a report declaring broadband

access a basic human right, comparable to health care, shelter and food.

There is now hardly a business of any sort, from home-based to corporate giant that is not Internet dependent. In the workforce, manufacturing jobs are being replaced by knowledge workers – many online. Medicine is heading toward online access to specialists and in-home monitoring, especially important to an aging population. Distance learn­ ing has opened up enormous educational options for people of all ages. And two-way video, such as Skype, is revolutionizing everyday communication.

High Speed and the Country Entrepreneur both neale and gosse have had to deal with an ongoing series of obstacles simply to maintain what most urban headwaters residents take for granted: reliable, robust internet connectivity.

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avid Neale and Brad Gosse operate Internet-based businesses from their high-speed-challenged homes in the Town of Mono.

Neale, an active Air Canada pilot, is a smart man who spotted a niche and started Crewsware.com 13 years ago. The website delivers personalized scheduling for Air Canada pilots and flight attendants travelling around the globe, allowing them to connect with each other as they do.

Subscribers to the service include about 85 per cent of Air Canada’s pilots, and 20 per cent of its flight attendants. Neale says the business generates annual revenues in the “high six digits.”

Brad Gosse is the creator of hundreds of popular marketing and digital products for business owners. His self-published book, Chronic Marketer, cracked Amazon’s Top 40 list in 2012. The enterprise employs two people in the Philippines full time, a third in the United Kingdom, and a fourth in the United States. Given the vast distances, Gosse’s entire operation exists only online.

Both Neale and Gosse have had to deal with an ongoing series of obstacles simply to maintain what most urban Headwaters residents take for granted: reliable, robust Internet connectivity.

They have both tried a variety of different delivery methods. Satellite service, which at one time was touted as the solution for rural residents, proved to be unacceptable due to slow speeds and inherent lag times. Neale, who uploads data to a server he owns in a high security facility in Miami, says, “The signal had to travel 36,000 kilometres to the satellite, then back to earth. Our server would constantly time out and drop the connection.” Brad Gosse says, “I tried satellite for two days. It was useless.”

Other approaches have also come and gone. The best solution to date was provided by a small company serving rural customers, but before long the company got bought out by a bigger provider and shut down. Neale and Gosse were back to square one.

Ironically, a fibre optic cable runs along Highway 10, within a kilometre or two of both their homes, and has more than enough capacity for their needs. While the cable is owned by Ontario Hydro, access is managed by Rogers Communications.

Gosse says that when he and Neale approached them to ask about getting hooked up, they demanded $35,000 to run the line, plus a five-year, $1,800 a month commitment. Thinking it might be worth it to have the issue resolved once and for all, they were prepared to go ahead, but at the last minute Rogers demanded an additional $35,000 payment, and the two decided it was just too expensive.

Gosse went so far as to spend $20,000 on a 100-foot tower in his backyard, which is pointed at a WiMAX wireless signal 23 kilometres west of his house. Neale uses what he calls “a cell phone in a box” a system wired into his computer that connects via cell phone infrastructure.

Neale and Gosse acknowledge that, while their respective solutions aren’t perfect, they are getting by. The big problem now is the size of data packages available. Neale’s package is capped at 10 gigabytes per month – the most he can buy using his cell phone-based system. He consistently exceeds the limit and must pay expensive rates for overages, meaning his Internet bill runs in the range of $250 monthly. “I’m always telling my wife, ‘No YouTube videos,’” he says.

Gosse, meanwhile, deals with graphics and more data-heavy content. While the package for his tower signal system is 100 gigabytes, he regularly triples it, leading to bills in the order of $700 a month. By contrast, in urban Orangeville Wightman Telecom charges $43 a month for comparable high speed with unlimited data.

But, even that pales in comparison to many other places around the globe, some of them perhaps surprising. Romania, for example, has one of the most developed fibre optic networks in the world. There, speeds are up to a hundred times faster than here, meaning David Neale could conceivably hit his data cap within half an hour to an hour of downloading. What’s more, a typical residential customer in Romania can expect to pay about $15 Canadian a month.

It’s important to note that neither Neale nor Gosse’s volumes are especially large, and might easily be exceeded by a regular residential customer with a couple of data-hog teenagers in the house. Gosse says, “It seems like a ridiculous amount to have to spend to live in the country.”

Perhaps the most critical aspect of Neale and Gosse’s ongoing Internet dilemma is what it means for the future of their businesses. Neale says, “I can’t grow. A major American airline was interested, but I decided to put it on hold. ‘Can I do it?’ turned into a problem.”

Gosse says he is considering moving to California. Pointing out that he can run his business from anywhere in the world, he’s growing increasingly fed up. “I won’t say it’s all about Internet service,” he says. “There are other factors, like the winters here, but the constant aggravation of Internet service could become the deciding thing.”

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Furthermore, emerging technolo­ gies, such as 3D printing, are vastly increasing the volume of data being transmitted at any given moment around the globe. A recent study found that iPhone 5 users typically transfer four times as much data as iPhone 3 users, and cellular equip­ ment makers anticipate an average transfer volume of 1 gigabyte per cus­ tomer per day by 2020. Then there’s the so called “Internet of Things,” where everything from cars to re­ frigerators to baby monitors to door locks are being hooked up to the web.

An estimated 26 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020.

But the Internet revolution goes beyond even those practical consider­ ations. In No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Sur­ veillance State, published this spring, author Glenn Greenwald describes

how deeply the Internet penetrates our collective psyches: “Especially for the younger gener­ ation, the Internet is not some stand­ alone, separate domain where a few of life’s functions are carried out. It is not merely our post office and our telephone. Rather, it is the epicentre of our world, the place where virtually everything is done. It is where friends are made, where books and films are chosen, where political activism is organized, where the most private data is created and stored. It is where we develop and express our very per­ sonality and sense of self.”

Nevertheless, for many people in Headwaters, the potential of the Internet remains more futuristic fantasy than daily reality. While some preparations are underway to meet the exponentially expanding digital demands, there is still a very long way to go.

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t the national level, politicians have been playing an on-againoff-again game with broadband since it was first raised as a federal priority by then industry minister John Manley in 2000. In the ensuing years the issue has moved repeatedly from political priority to political wilderness, only to be raised again a few years later. Successive regimes have dribbled money at the develop­ ment of broadband – most recently a $305-million, five-year commitment in the February 2014 budget – but serious investment in a national net­ work has remained elusive. Mean­ while, rural Canadians continue to face high prices and poor service.

Dufferin County warden and Mel­ ancthon Township mayor Bill Hill has no illusions about the state of Internet access in the region. “Rural Ontario is not serviced well with Internet,” he says. “There are thirdworld countries that have better ac­ cess than Southwestern Ontario.”

Hill represents Dufferin at the Western Ontario Wardens’ Caucus.

The group includes upper-tier mun­ icipalities covering an area from Dufferin to Windsor, including Wel­ lington. One of their key initiatives is something called SWIFT, or South Western Integrated Fibre Technology,

essentially developing a fibre optic network that would serve the whole region.

A 2013 Broadband Feasibility Study conducted by the caucus identified lack of choice, high prices, poor ser­ vice and little competition as prob­ lems across the region, and recom­ mended construction of the SWIFT network as a solution. The project would be structured as a public/ private partnership and operated as a not-for-profit share corporation, with public sector oversight of private operations. Hill says the public money is to “ensure there is good rural acces­ sibility,” and to keep a lid on costs for users. “The target is $100 per month.”

The proposed network will serve 14 counties in the region, including sparsely populated rural areas, with as few as four people per square kilometre. Of a total cost currently estimated at $243.5 million, munici­ palities would shoulder $20 million and private partners would put up $61 million, leaving investments of $81 million each for the province and Ottawa. An $81-million contribution by the feds would be more than a quarter of their entire five-year com­ mitment to broadband for the whole country. continued on next page

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The Western Caucus is not break­ ing new ground – the Eastern Ontario Wardens’ Caucus is well ahead of them. With a total investment of $170 million, the Eastern Caucus is on track to complete development of EORN, or the Eastern Ontario Regional Network, this year.

Ironically, one of the reasons for the comparative delay in the Western Caucus is because in the east there wasn’t much existing competition, making implementation simpler. In the west, there are more than 20 dif­ ferent private providers, so logistics become complicated.

Warden Hill cites Toyota’s massive operation at Woodstock, Ontario, as an illustration of why expansion of digital infrastructure is so important.

To obtain contracts to supply the Toyota plant, bidders must be able to demonstrate their ability to furnish robust, lightning-speed digital com­ munication suitable for operation within Toyota’s own highly advanced networks. No technology? No contract.

Led by Grey County, the SWIFT project is currently in the business plan development stage. If all goes according to schedule, the network will be operational by 2019.

Another organization, the South­ west Economic Alliance, is working to support the wardens’ efforts. Ron

Munro, Dufferin’s representative on SWEA, says that while the wardens are responsible for policy, SWEA deals with on-the-ground implement­ ation. Of the overall project, he says, “It’s no different than a hundred years ago when we needed roads. The cost was beyond private enterprise, and needed public money. But there was a benefit, in that once you had roads, people anywhere could contri­ bute to the economy.”

SWEA is contributing to the SWIFT business plan by undertaking detailed surveys in each county using hired staff who will interview individuals, businesses and institutions about their capacity requirements and gaps.

“We’re going to get a whole bunch of those to paint the picture,” Munro says, though from his experience as project lead for Dufferin.biz, the county’s economic development web­ site, he has some idea what the surveys will show. “Companies are paying a fortune and still not getting very good service,” he says. “Some of the manufacturers are paying $25,000 to $30,000 a year.”

Munro stresses the urgency of get­ ting on with the system development.

He’s heard that some businesses have left Owen Sound for Stratford in pur­ suit of higher speed service, and he’s worried some Orangeville companies are likewise becoming itchy.

broadband is “part of the social infra­ structure,” says wilson. “in five years, the internet will be essential – for health care or education or social services or business.”

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For a significant chunk of Town of Mono residents – some say as many as 65 per cent – it’s still an everyday reality. But a grassroots effort is un­ derway there to develop a local, com­ munity-owned high speed network.

Mono Sustainability Advisory Committee members Paul Lansing and Craig Wilson have been leading the charge.

Mono has proven to be a challenge when it comes to providing high speed, in large part because its uneven topo­ graphy and heavy tree cover make delivery of wireless signals difficult or impossible. Similar complications exist in sections of Mulmur and Caledon.

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While there is a tendency to view the need for high speed through the needs of business, Lansing and Wilson stress the wider implications. Broad­ band is also “part of the social infra­ structure,” says Wilson. “In two or three years the Internet will be essen­ tial in your life, whether it’s health care or education or social services or business.”

As a result, they see the widespread delivery of broadband to Mono as critical to ensuring the town remains a desirable location with a prosperous rural economy into the future.

MSAC has issued two requests for proposals aimed at laying the ground­ work for a community-owned “ultra” high speed network, using fibre optic and wireless technology. The goal is a service that provides superior value to that of major name competitors, while feeding any profits back into

the willingness of cale­don residents, many of whom already have high speed internet, to support a tax increase for the purposes of broadband, seems doubtful.

the community, all accomplished without a tax increase. Ultimately, says Wilson, the committee would like to achieve “100 per cent pene­ tration of very high speed Internet for every business and residence located in Mono.”

Lansing says the first RFP is for “a market study which will assess what people want, and at what price.” In addition to Internet, there is potential to provide telephone, television and other services as well. Several firms have responded to the RFP and the committee is in the process of selec­ ting one to recommend to Mono council for approval.

The second RFP is for network design assistance and the selection of appropriate technology to serve the identified needs. It will also have to address the complex topography and thinly spread population. As for speed, Lansing says, “minimum 10 megabits per second, up to 1 gigabit.” Four firms have responded to the second RFP. The concept isn’t new. In the 20th century, rural communities across North America established co-opera­ tives to supply electricity. And last year, Olds, Alberta, population 8,500, be­ came “the first ‘gig town’ in Canada,” with the opening of its communityowned fibre optic network called O-Net. A project of the non-profit Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development, the network offers blazing fast speed for as little as $57 a month. An O-Net official is quoted as saying, “Because we’re a community-owned project, we get to balance out profitability versus what’s best for the community.”

O-Net’s speed is the same as that of Google Fiber, a high-profile pilot project in densely populated Kansas City, and it far exceeds that available in most other major urban centres.

Google claims that, among other things, it allows the streaming of five high-definition movies at the same time.

Community leaders in Olds saw the $14-million network as a necessity not only for attracting new business, but also for keeping the businesses they already had.

Back in Mono, Lansing and Wilson have an ambitious schedule, and say they are aiming for “sometime in early 2016 for delivery of service into someone’s house.”

This would place them three years

ahead of the SWIFT project, though Warden Hill doesn’t see any conflict between the two initiatives. He ex­ plains that both are non-profit and, by design, SWIFT will permit existing infrastructure to be integrated into the broader network. Wilson empha­ sizes the Mono project is all about “the last mile.” While the wardens are working on the backbone of the system, or superhighway, he says, “our effort is specifically, once you’re off the highway, to get you home.”

While in Dufferin and Erin the story is about what is going on, in Caledon it’s about what isn’t.

Excluded from rural broadband funding programs by virtue of its location within urban Peel Region and the GTA, Caledon nonetheless has comparatively remote, sparsely populated patches. Mapping under­ taken by the province in 2011 parti­ cularly identified a large swath along the northern boundary of the town as an “unserved broadband area.”

Manager of economic development Norm Lingard says the Town is in the early stages of preparing the terms of reference for a gap analysis, which they hope to have completed this fall. At this stage, he says, “It’s unclear what telecommunication infrastructure exists,” so it’s impossible to speculate on what kind of strategy might be employed.

Economic development officer Ben Roberts highlights another wrinkle.

Several years ago Caledon Hydro was sold off. “When a municipality has its own hydro,” he says, “it’s easier to use the poles for other purposes. Now if we want to use the poles, there will be a fee.”

Though the gap analysis should provide a better understanding of needs, Lingard still sees a major bar­ rier – money. “The challenge is get­ ting funding,” he says. When broad­ band projects have been undertaken in other locations, “the municipality makes a significant capital invest­ ment.” The willingness of Caledon residents, many of whom already have high speed Internet, to support the required tax increase seems doubtful.

As for upper levels of government coming to the rescue, Roberts says, “We keep looking at funding oppor­ tunities, but being within the GTA is sometimes a disadvantage.” continued on next page

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nother factor relates to the pocketbook of all country pro­ perty owners, whether they use the Internet or not. Does lack of high speed mean your property value takes a hit?

Local realtor Patrick Bogert, who handles country property, says Inter­ net access is a “question every single time we show a house.” As for the level of importance placed on high speed, Bogert says, “It depends on the buyer. For example, if it’s a couple retiring, sometimes it doesn’t make much difference to them. However, if it’s a weekend place for professionals, having decent Internet service has to

be taken into account.” Electronicsdependent children in the household can also make high speed a musthave.

Though so far Bogert has never had a sale fall through because of a lack of high speed, he says he knows others who have. He is mystified at the poor reach of Internet service in the region generally: “It’s not the boonies here. I just can’t understand why it hasn’t been sorted out. People expect it.”

And among his buyers, it’s not just young people who are tethered to their electronic gadgetry: “Every­ body’s doing it. There are lots of seniors on Facebook.”

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SWIFT South Western Integrated Fibre Technology Broadband A transmission medium that allows many signals to be transmitted simultaneously at high speeds.

High Speed A generic term that usually refers to any Internet service faster than dial-up.

Dial-Up The slowest option for Internet connection, dial-up is a method that employs analogue audio frequency signals. It requires no infrastructure other than existing telephone lines, making it the only option in some remote or rural areas. In most locales dial-up has been superseded by faster technologies.

The United States Federal Communications Commission estimates only 3 per cent of the U.S. population was still using dial-up in 2013.

Satellite Internet access via satellite is another option for users in remote areas. However, while it is technically defined as “high speed,” transmission rates are slow compared to other technologies. As well, latency – the time it takes the signal to reach the satellite and a response to return to earth – is a significant performance limitation.

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Cable Connection Many urban dwellers with access to cable television also use their coaxial cable connection to receive Internet. Though speeds are typically faster than DSL, slowdowns can occur if many people in a given neighbourhood are using the system at the same time.

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ven those of us who feel secure about the high speed Internet we already have may be ill-equipped for what’s around the digital corner.

Copper telephone lines can handle only so much data, so it won’t be long until those using DSL find themselves in the same boat as those who are on dial-up now.

While cable and some other ap­ proaches have demonstrated it’s tech­ nically feasible to achieve speed simi­ lar to fibre optic, none have so far been able to deliver it in widespread, realworld applications. As Mono’s Craig Wilson says, “Unlike the telephone – a technology that has remained basic­

ally unchanged for a century – with the Internet there is radical evolution.

There’s a continuous draw to reinvent the service delivered to end users, from dial-up to DSL to ultra high speed.”

Ron Munro puts it more succinctly: “In 15 years, who the hell knows, but if we don’t do this soon, we’ll be so far behind.” ≈ A nerd from the 1980s, when screens were monochrome and networking meant exchanging floppy disks, Orangeville writer Jeff Rollings now nervously scoffs at the youngsters and their newfangled gadgetry.

“unlike the telephone – a technology that has remained basically unchanged for a century – with the internet there is radical evolution. there’s a continuous draw to reinvent the service, from dial-up to dsl to ultra high speed.”

WiMAX Sometimes referred to as “Wi-Fi on steroids,” WiMAX is a longrange wireless signal delivery system commonly used to serve rural customers, including some in the Headwaters region. Though speeds comparable to a cable connection can be achieved, most users actually receive much slower service due to such factors as topography or distance from transmission towers.

Fibre Optic Cable Considered the gold standard for both speed and volume of data, fibre optic cable transfers data at the speed of light using glass or plastic fibres. Complex and expensive to install and operate, fibre optic cables have mostly been employed in long distance, high-demand scenarios.

In recent years, however, prices have come down and the technology has begun to be used in residential applications.

The Last Mile The final leg that delivers Internet service to customers. The term “mile” is metaphorical. The last mile is the most expensive part of a network to install and operate because there are many small connections compared to the larger backbone of the system.

Kbps, Mbps, Gbps The speed at which data can move through a computer network is expressed in units of bits per second (bps). Equipment is typically rated using the larger units of Kbps, Mbps and Gbps: One kilobit per second (Kbps) equals 1000 bits per second (bps).

One megabit per second (Mbps) equals 1000 Kbps or one million bps.

One gigabit per second (Gbps) equals 1000 Mbps or one million Kbps or one billion bps.

Bits are often confused with bytes. While bits are a measure of interface speed, bytes are a measure of data storage. Internet companies generally price their service packages according to volume of bytes, for example, a 100-gigabyte package is a measure of volume rather than speed. One byte is made up of 8 bits.

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the Value of Farmland

BY R ENE VA N AC K ER

On April 5, as the long winter delivered another startling blast, more than 200 people struggled through the storm to attend a meeting in Shelburne, hosted by NDACT and Food & Water First. The topic was the preservation of Ontario’s prime farmland and the event offered the opportunity to meet Tom Eisenhauer, whose company, Bonnefield Financial, recently purchased the Melancthon quarry lands with the promise to keep them in agriculture.

Other speakers included champion anti-quarry broadcaster Dale Goldhawk and Steve Peters, a former Ontario minister of agriculture and now executive director of the Alliance of Ontario Food Processors.

But, perhaps surprisingly, the man who in many ways stole the show with his com­ bination of passion and hard numbers was crop scientist Rene Van Acker, a professor and dean of external relations at the University of Guelph. Here is the text of his speech.

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he Food & Water First movement is showing real leadership in taking the next step in the evo­ lution of Canada’s food culture. The fact that Canadians are increasingly interested in what they are eating cre­ ates a real change in our population in terms of what is important to them.

The environmental movements of the late ’70s and early ’80s were born of a need to rally against industrial excess and its relationship to the planet, or lack of relationship to the planet. And although this movement made a real impact, in many ways it has waned. It is not that the founding principles are any less important now,

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It is interesting, therefore, to see how the evolution of Canada’s food culture is reaching into the environ­ ment. Food & Water First is an ex­ cellent example of this reach and it makes perfect sense – truly perfect sense because food is both very per­ sonal to individuals at the same time as it links us inextricably to our environment. Food is of the land, we are the food we eat, therefore we are of the land.

The circle of our existence on this planet completes itself most intimate­ ly and most obviously through food.

And herein lies the fundamental value of the land, and of farmland in particular. It is not an optional item and it is the exact opposite of frivo­ lous. It should not be ignored and ab­ solutely not mistreated. It is in no way our luxury or right to do so. This is perhaps the most important thesis for our generation, and defending it is not only noble but fundamentally necessary. Food & Water First, in its defence of farmland through its em­ phasis on food, is a very modern, fundamental and practically relevant environmental leadership movement.

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In Canada we classify farmland on a scale of 1 through 7, with class 1 farmland being the best and class 7 the worst (it cannot be farmed at all).

The limitations on farmland that determine classes include, for exam­ ple, limitations in terms of excess water, depth to bedrock, drainage capacity, soil structure (which may impact drainage and root growth) and topography. All these character­ istics are fundamentally impacted by aggregate extraction.

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ces. So absolute prosperity is directly related to the amount of rain-fed agricultural land. This is something for us to think about. And there are things happening around us right now that should make us even more aware of how precious our rain-fed farmland is.

California’s historic drought reached a new milestone in January of this year when the newly released U.S. Drought Monitor showed that excep­ tional drought now covers 9 per cent of the state, a new and unprecedented high. We cannot take agricultural productivity for granted, and that productivity is rooted in quality rainfed farmland.

And what happens when we elimin­ ate farmland? For example, in Ontario 18 per cent of the class 1 land is alrea­ dy urbanized. Where do we get new farmland? Well, in Canada, and real­ ly for the vast majority of the world, the answer is nowhere. By and large, new farmland does not exist, certainly not in Canada, and definitely not in Ontario.

And we cannot just recreate farm­ land by pushing topsoil back into place after extracting aggregates. Farm­ land is not just topsoil. It comprises soil horizons: the A horizon (typic­ ally topsoil), the B horizon (structural layers including materials evolving into soil, perhaps), and the C horizon which forms a foundation layer for the soil including parent material (from which soil is built over geological timeframes, i.e., tens of thousands of years).

These horizons form a complex structure that allows for drainage, root growth and nutrient exchange, all to support crop growth. Disrupt­ ing these horizons fundamentally disrupts farmland, and repairing the disruption (especially when it is ab­ solute) is not simple, it is not quick, and it may not be possible in all cases.

And when there are efforts to re­ claim farmland after mining, what is the goal?

Typically, it is not to return the site to farmland. At a minimum, it is to ensure the site is safe and nonpollut­ ing. At best, it is to ensure it can serve some function as a wildlife habitat.

Why are these the typical goals? Be­ cause farmland is not man-made, so returning sites to farmland is diffi­ cult. In many cases, aggregate extrac­ tion does not allow for reclamation to farmland, especially if the extraction extends below the water table. And if it does, it is to a lesser quality and class of farmland.

Experience to date shows this. In surveys on reclamation of farmland in Ontario reviewed last year by the Ontario Aggregates Resources Corp­ oration (OARC), farmers were asked

to rate the overall quality of their rehabilitated farmland ranging back to the 1970s. On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 representing land returned fully to its former state), only two-thirds of the farmers rated their land above a 5, while one-third rated it less than 5.

Only 8 per cent rated their rehabili­ tated land as 10.

Most farmers acknowledged the land would take time to improve, al­ though how much time wasn’t clear.

Some farmers suggested their land had been irreparably damaged by poor rehabilitation, or situations where re­ habilitation was not possible.

The preliminary results show farmer satisfaction with rehabilitation varies greatly. The differences may come from such variables as management practices and rehabilitation techni­ ques, but they demonstrate that re­ habilitation is not simple or assured.

OARC does want to better under­ stand the differences in farmer satis­ faction and it intends to conduct a quantitative research project on a sub­ set of the rehabilitation sites this year.

Quality farmland, especially quality rain-fed farmland, is rare, it is valu­ able, and it cannot be easily or readily rehabilitated. Farmland is therefore something we have to value. It is fun­ damentally important to our pros­ perity. It is our connection to the land and it is what allows us to live on this planet.

Thus, the leadership in farmland preservation demonstrated by the broadly represented civil society move­ ment, Food & Water First, is vitally important. I want to thank them for what they do and for the opportunity to contribute to this event. ≈

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here is something irresisti­ ble about cracking through t he brow ned and britt le glaze of a perfectly caramelized crème brûlée. All at once you are a child again, shattering that skiff of ice on a frozen puddle. But here, the payoff – the velvety unctuousness of rich van­ illa cream – is very grown up indeed.

It is this startling contrast between crisp and creamy that makes crème brûlée, or “burnt cream” as English undergraduates still call it, such a perennial favourite. Despite its Gallic name, crème brûlée is actually a traditional English dessert, said to have originated at Trinity College Cambridge in the late 1600s. It still appears frequently on College menus.

Given crème brûlée’s lengthy British lineage, we asked Patrick Venables, chef at Terra Nova Public House, to show us how to prepare this elegant classic. The restaurant, situated in the Pine River Valley at the base of the Niagara Escarpment, has become a gathering place for local gastronomes 64

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Crème brûlée cooking with patrick venables and hungry hikers since it opened in 2011. Everything about the place is local. Owner Anna Alonso says 90 per cent of the Public House’s clientele are regulars. “We have people coming in who have beer mugs here with their names on them,” she says.

In best English pub tradition, the Public House serves hearty, homecooked meals prepared as much as possible with locally sourced pro­ ducts. The menu changes daily to reflect the seasonal bounty. Even the chef is homegrown. Patrick did his training in Vancouver, but was raised in Hockley Valley, and worked as executive chef at Devil’s Pulpit Golf Club in Caledon and at Orangeville’s One99 before arriving in Terra Nova late last year.

“Upscale pub fare” is how Anna de­ scribes the food at the Public House.

“There is something for everyone, whether you drop in for wings and a beer, or braised lamb shanks and a nice bottle of wine.” And ever since it opened, the restaurant has featured

crème brûlée on its menu.

“It’s one of my favourite desserts,” Patrick says, “and it’s one of our most popular desserts.”

We asked Patrick to put a seasonal spin on this recipe by adding rasp­ berries and infusing the cream with lavender, both of which are plentiful for much of the summer. Be sure to use lavender flowers (fresh or dried) that have not been sprayed. Your own garden or a neighbour’s are probably the best sources. Simply simmer the lavender in the cream for five minutes, then strain.

Good vanilla is also a must. Patrick uses pure vanilla extract, but the ne plus ultra is the bean itself. Just split the pod lengthwise with a sharp knife and scrape the seeds into the cream along with the lavender Opinions differ on whether the dessert should be served hot or cold.

It is important to chill the cream for at least four hours before sprinkling on the sugar and torching. The cold cream allows the shell to harden

Chef Patrick Venables suggests impressing guests by caramelizing crème brûlée at the dinner table.

quickly. Serve immediately, or if you prefer, wait until it comes to room temperature.

Crème brûlée is usually served in individual ramekins, but it also pre­ sents beautifully in a single nine-inch round ovenproof dish. Some people are intimidated by the final step. You will need a blowtorch for this. Patrick uses a large propane-fuelled device, but smaller butane torches are availa­ ble at most hardware or kitchen stores.

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ingredients 1 vanilla pod or 2 tsp pure vanilla extract 2 cups whipping cream 3 tbsp dried or fresh lavender flowers ¼ cup granulated sugar for custard 6 tbsp granulated sugar for topping 6 large egg yolks 1 pint raspberries (optional)

Preheat the oven to 350°F. If using a vanilla bean, split pod lengthwise and scrape seeds into the cream.

Put cream, lavender and vanilla into a saucepan. Bring cream to the boiling point, lower heat and simmer gently for 5 minutes.

Strain cream into a clean saucepan.

Heat over medium until the cream just begins to bubble around the edges.

Do not let boil.

While cream is heating, beat sugar and egg yolks together in a large heat-proof bowl until fluffy.

Temper the egg mixture by very slowly whisking in a small amount of warm cream. Take your time so the yolks don’t scramble. Once the egg mixture is tempered, slowly whisk in the remaining cream.

Place ramekins in a large roasting tray.

Place a few raspberries in the bottom of six ½-cup ramekins (or four larger ones). Pour cream over the raspberries until ramekins are about two-thirds full.

Add hot water to the roasting tray until it reaches halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Place the tray in the centre of the oven and bake for 45 minutes until custards are just set and a bit wobbly in the middle.

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A hundred years ago, our community newspapers in this rather quiet patch of rural Canada tended to bury the outside world in the back pages.

But when Canada followed Britain into war, everything changed.

Our local press on the eve of the Great War

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n June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the AustroHungarian Empire, was assassinated in Sarajevo. It did indeed become a “shot heard round the world,” but for the weekly papers in these hills, the event was simply too remote to disrupt the focus on local concerns. The notorious Bertha ar­ myworm, for example, had appeared in plague-like numbers and was threatening to chew down crops all the way from Georgian Bay to Lake Ontario.

If that weren’t scary enough to country people, there was the news that Melancthon farmer George Coutts had lost 17 cows in two weeks to a disease that looked like anthrax.

Other local issues ranged from the vil­ lage level (Palgrave could not attract a teacher to its local school despite the exceptional salary of $700 a year) to the regional level (37 Lodges had marched in the 1914 Orangemen’s Parade in Shelburne, but officials were in a dither because five Lodges, without apology or explanation, had failed to appear).

Meanwhile at the provincial level, James Whitney and his temperancesupporting Liberals had just been reelected to Queen’s Park and prohi­ bitionists across Ontario were – with appropriate sobriety – dancing in the streets. Altogether, there was too much going on at home to fret about matters in far-off Europe.

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A Sunny & Quiet July The early summer of 1914 must have seemed an exceptionally peaceful time in these hills. Even the provincial election, usually worth a brawl or two, hadn’t aroused much feeling. The Orangeville Sun called it the quietest one in memory. The Brampton Con­ servator got a little more excited and declared Peel safe (from liquor) for another ten years, while the Bolton Enterprise barely mentioned the elec­ tion results, concentrating instead on the year-end marks at Bolton Public School.

With politics and booze out of the picture, sports news had taken over.

Alton’s baseball team was hot. So was Erin’s, so the traditional Alton-Erin competition was on again. Brampton’s lacrosse team, the Excelsiors, had travelled all the way to Vancouver for the Mann Cup and lost in a controversial, protested game. And the most popular sport in the world in 1914 – boxing – earned headlines when Jack Johnson successfully de­ fended the heavyweight crown he’d won from Canada’s Tommy Burns in 1908.

The Public’s Right to Know or …?

Early in August 1914, the government issued an appeal – not a directive – to Canada’s newspapers asking them not to print any information about the makeup, readiness or movements of local regiments. Days later, when 230 officers and men from Dufferin and Peel (part of the 36th Peel Regiment) were ordered to report to the new training camp in Valcartier, Quebec, practically every paper in the hills not only published this fact, but even gave specific details about who was reporting, complete with name, rank, age, home area, military experience and even marital status!

It was, though, the proverbial calm before the storm. Soldiers in the millions were being mobilized in Europe that July, but subscribers to local newspapers here were informed instead that the Shelburne branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union had installed a public drinking fountain across from Chalmers’ and Puckering’s store, and that in Grand Valley Ed Broadhacker’s 13-year-old son had recovered from his fall off a load of hay.

When they scanned the national news, readers learned of a new design for the Canadian $2 bill, that the Anglican Church of Canada was planning to change “hell” to “hades” in the Book of Common Prayer, and that a confused whale had been trapped in Charlottetown harbour.

Was Europe Just Too Far Away?

Not that international news was ig­ nored in the local press. The Home Rule struggle in Ireland was updated every week, as were the chronic civil wars in Mexico, but much of what made it to print was wire-service “fill.” The Erin Advocate, for in­ stance, in what must certainly have been a slow news week locally, devot­ ed space to Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands and her thoughts on losing weight. On July 10, the Bolton Enterprise covered Franz Ferdinand’s elaborate funeral in Vienna in a three-line blurb that was

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Proof that local weeklies simply couldn’t resist human interest stories available from wire services showed up in the Free Press and three other local papers about a month into the war. Smack in the middle of opinion columns and field reports vilifying “The Hun” as inherently cruel and inhumane, these papers were pleased to publish statistics compiled by a German professor on the methods used by young men to propose to their brides, and followed this with a second item, congratulating Berlin for being first in the world to put numbers on houses.

nearly swamped by a huge ad (with an unfortunate typo) for “Lambert’s Hair Groth.”

The Orangeville Sun ran the same three funeral lines from the wire service, while giving more coverage to a 5¢ bounty on rats being offered in Memphis, Tennessee. None of the weeklies reported on the frenetic diplomatic activity in the capitals of Europe, or explained that every major power there was preparing for war, even though the wire services offered this information.

In the quiet comfort of these hills, it seems that kind of far-off news just didn’t make the cut.

Then, on August 4, Britain declared war on Germany.

August: A New Month, a New World It may have been that the armyworm invasion was less serious than ex­ pected. It could be the suspected anthrax in Melancthon turned out to be an infection. Certainly it seems the passion for Mother England in these loyal and true blue hills was just waiting for the fuse to be lit.

From the first week of August onward, war news exploded onto the pages of community papers, filling them almost cover to cover.

Brampton’s Conservator, with its advanced typesetting and printing options, filled its August 5 issue with patriotic draw ings and leng t hy columns under headlines such as “Canada’s Duty,” “Britain Fights” and “Peel is Ready.” The latest available war news filled the front pages of the Orangeville Sun and Orangeville Banner on August 6, with the back pages adding special interest sidebars (“Higher Wheat Prices Likely”), along with local, war-related items such as the fate of Alfred Popelle, an Or­ angeville man – but German citizen – employed at the Melville quarries, who had been detained and slated for internment.

Meanwhile, the Shelburne Free Press introduced a new front page column: “War News in Brief.” Little did its readers suspect that the column would grow far beyond “brief” and become a staple for the next four years.

The fact that local editors/pub­ lishers could extract and present so much current war news from the wire services is a tribute to their skill and hard work. And they still had to make editorial decisions about other news they felt important. Three days into the war, for example, the Bolton Enterprise ran a large column des­ cribing how the Serbian army had checked the Austrians, but the same page carried somewhat greater cov­ erage of the hell/hades debate in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

The Erin Advocate could still manage to find offbeat news worth printing (Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit – or hero – was always popular, perhaps because he was so successful in making the American army look foolish), but the Advocate always kept its readers abreast of what Canada’s “boys” were doing and what was going on in Europe.

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Viewed from a hundred years later, it is interesting that the war was already being called “great” in that first week of August. But “great” in those early days meant exciting, heroic and mag­ nificent.

In its Caledon East column, for example, the Enterprise told of two local men awaiting their call-up to the 36th Peel Regiment and mused whether they would return from the war with a Victoria Cross or similar medal. That tone soon changed. In the Orangeville Sun, the weekly front page summary of war developments was initially headlined “War Whoops.” It soon became “War News,” and as war weariness set in, “The War Today.”

As early as August 20, 1914, Sun publisher John Foley wrote this in a sobering, far-sighted editorial: “Let us get rid of the silly idea that there is glory in war. This will be a titanic struggle – the greatest war in the history of the world.” Apparently the local press could be very far-sighted too. ≈ Caledon writer Ken Weber’s bestselling Five Minute Mysteries series is published in 22 languages.

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Sounds Fishy to Me A two-day catch-and-release fishing tournament, the Sixth Annual Friends of Island Lake Bass Fishing Tournament, is set to take place July 5 and 6. The weekend promises excitement, anticipation, surprises and, of course, patience waiting for a fish to take the bait. Plus, while you have fun with the kids, you’re contributing to a good cause – all proceeds from this fundraiser go toward trail development at Island Lake Conservation Area. Special registration rates for children ages 5 to 11.

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Scars of Honour

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eople often assume the roughly circular scar on my forehead is from chicken pox. But they’re wrong.

The scar came as a result of a fall off a bike when I was about seven years old. ‎I was challenged to a race against my brother and two family

friends, Brent and Matt. They would be on foot, I would be on my sparkly bananaseated bike. Whoever made it from the barn down the gravel driveway to the house first could claim bragging rights for the rest of the visit.

You can imagine my delight and fear as I pedalled harder and faster than ever before, gaining ground on the three boys. I’m sure I was grinning ear to ear as I took the lead… just before one of them reached out, grabbed the back of my banana seat to slow me down, and sent me into a terrific speed wobble that ended with me head first into the gravel driveway.

My mother picked me up at the door – with stones stuck in my face and blood everywhere. I remember it dripping onto the wooden floor, the crimson polka dots trailing us as we headed to the bathroom to clean up. She gently picked out the stones, ‎one by one, until they were gone, in­ cluding the large one that stuck in my forehead, leaving its mark behind.

Thirty-plus years later, the scar has largely filled in and faded. My competitive nature, on the other hand, has not. I remind those involved that they robbed me of my banana-seated win,

that I was clearly coming in first when I was taken down! We laugh and remember the grand but creepy old farmhouse, the picnic lunch that car­ ried on that day despite our ruckus.

My son recently asked for an inventory of my scars. How did you get that scar on your forehead, Mom? Do you have scars on your knees? Have you broken a bone before, Mom? I am lucky to say that most of the scars on my body are tiny. Each one tells a story, though.

There’s the one from the time the family’s Russian wolfhound bit my face when I pulled her off the black leather couch, trying to help my mom keep the dog “Off the couch!” There is a little circular pock mark on my shin, left behind when a small lump was removed and tested. And there’s the lopsided smile of a caesarian scar on my lower ab­ domen. (Adrian doesn’t want to hear about that one now that he’s a preteen, as long and significant as it might be.)

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My son is largely untouched by scars. He laments his lack of healed injuries and broken bones.

He wants to be cool and have survived his nine years. Luckily, he hasn’t been injured enough to cause such bodily havoc. A few scratches and scrapes have healed nicely, and his knees have not quite turned to the hamburger more typical of active childhoods.

I asked him why. Why does he seem to want cuts and scratches and pieces taken from his beau­ tifully untouched skin? (I don’t put it that way – I’m more likely to scoff.) But what other tales do we have at that age to distinguish us? “I had a birthday party” or “ I went on a plane to Florida”? A scar tells much more. It relates the drama behind how we came to be where and who we are today.

When we want to know some­ one well, we ask about their scars.

They are an opening to a personal story, an easy way to go to a spe­ cific memory of place and time.

The pain and the aftermath often denote a time of transition, heal­ ing, growth or a forced change in behaviour.

We trace our lover’s scars, tel­ ling them we care with our fingers, and wishing we had known them when. We ask for the stories after just the right amount of time, and until then, we speculate, building an inventory of questions we want answered. We learn the stories be­ hind the visible scars, and some­ times, in just the right moment, we learn about the invisible ones as well, the ones that heal less readily, and are often more snarly and complicated than those on the surface.

“Do you have any scars?” our children ask each other. They proudly show them off as badges of honour. As for us, we pray the scars that take away our children’s perfection will serve instead to en­ hance their humanity, leaving more visible than invisible damage. ≈ Bethany Lee is the online editor of www.kidsinthehills.ca, a sister site of www.inthehills.ca.

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Youngsters will learn how to maintain their bike as well as how to ride it safely on the road – advice that will last well beyond the summer.

The festival is led by certified CANBIKE instructors and held at Monora Park – an excel­lent place to hit the trails on your bike afterward.

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Zoom in on PAMA! We continue to be impressed with the programs offered at PAMA – Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives. It’s a place where children can explore their artistic talents and learn about the value of Peel’s history and heritage. Activities for kids include workshops, programs and summer day camps suitable for children ages 6 to 12. This year the camps include photography, upcycling and First Nations’ beading & textiles. www.pama.peelregion.ca

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Speaking of Camps…

Our summer camp listings are online at kidsinthehills.ca. Whether for your first-time day camper or your experienced overnighter, there are plenty of camps to choose from.

Camps can be an enriching experience for kids during the long months of summer, and a super way to make new friends outside of school. A full listing of summer activities is available. It’s your go-to place to plan your summer fun.

I hope you are enjoying these long summer days with your loved ones. —Bethany

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a European manor in the Erin Countryside The established trees shield the entrance to the house and provide natural shade where trillium, May apple and wild anemone flourish in the woodland garden. top right : The library is a more formal, English-style space with hundreds of volumes and pictures of family. inset : The living room flows through to the casual dining area and open kitchen – an ideal space for entertaining.

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his lovely European-style house in the Erin coun­ tryside first took shape in the imagination of the owner, who works in the investment business. He is keenly interested in architecture and designing the house allowed him to exercise his dormant creative instincts. He and his wife also needed a place for their blended family of five grown children, assor­ ted spouses and a growing brood of grandchildren.

When a 90-acre parcel of land became available up the road, they were off and running. Working with

architect Stephen McCasey, project engineer Gordon Currie and local builder Roland Reidman, they created a completely new environment that reflects both an English and a French Canadian heritage – with strong Eur­ opean references.

The couple envisioned a home with a steeply pitched roof dotted with dormers, Georgian-inspired windows and courtyards at the front and back.

For the cladding, they wanted a com­ bination of stone and stucco to reflect the colour of the local stone evident everywhere on the property. And they wanted a cedar shake roof to help the

building merge into the landscape.

The home is large and includes a three-bedroom wing at the far end, well away from the master bedroom so that owner and guests can enjoy quiet and privacy. The great room in the centre comfortably seats the whole family for games or dining and has been the setting of many reunions, birthdays and parties. A long hall that extends from one end of the house to the other is an ideal place for running with dogs and cats. The great room, which is open to the kitchen and front entrance, is punctuated by floor-toceiling windows on the west side.

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This room has hosted everything from chaotic Christmas dinner prepara­ tions to carefully organized cooking demonstrations by cookbook authors.

On the walls of the formal dining room hang some stellar Canadian artwork. Furnished with fine English antiques, this room provides a formal counterpoint to the more casual pine

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Completing the ground floor is an intimate library. Here the owner spends long, happy hours reading from his collection of English and Canadian histories and telling grand­ children stories about their families’ contributions to Canada’s story. Pic­ tures of distinguished ancestors hang on every wall.

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The owner is not afraid of colour.

The yellow of the great room is pale and bright, giving the space a lively feel. The rich red of the formal dining room adds coziness to Christmas

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Wood-burning fireplaces contribute to the warm feeling of both the library and the great room.

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top : The casual dining area looks onto the living room fireplace and west-facing windows that provide wide views of rugged countryside. left : This western staircase is matched by one on the east side of the house and joins in a gallery leading to guest rooms. above : The Harrington Gallery is home to an impressive collection of Inuit portraits.

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drop of this outdoor space, with rock garden plantings spilling jubilant colour from spring through fall.

The owner is a birder – and an elaborate set of bird feeders requires constant attention and renovation to discourage squirrels. It is a losing battle. Finches, nuthatches, phoebes, grosbeaks, jays, cowbirds and wood­ peckers, among others, take turns dining. What they drop attracts wild turkeys, chipmunks and, of course, squirrels. Several bluebird boxes, in­

troduced to the property many years ago, are largely occupied by swallows, but one or two have successfully attracted mating pairs of the elusive little birds – and those who are very lucky occasionally see one.

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In the late 19th century, rural Mulmur Township figured fleetingly in the criminal career of Andrew John Gibson, who left a trail of misdeeds and broken hearts across the United States and the British Empire.

Some even claim that this charlatan may have been the infamous Jack the Ripper.

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ufferin County was briefly home to Andrew John Gibson, an Australian who became one of the most well-known con men and bigamists of the 20th century. Gibson may have used as many as 40 aliases, but residents of Mulmur Township, where the swindler turned up in 1897, knew him as Dr. Henry Westwood Cooper.

Gibson was born in Australia in 1868, but spent his youth in England, returning to Australia when he was 20. The young man used his time in England to good advantage, often claiming to be a member of the British aristocracy or attached to the royal family.

An expert forger, Gibson was known for drafting false cheques, cables, family trees, credentials and official letters explaining he was due absurd sums of money.

One ultimately unsuccessful attempt illustrates Gibson’s skill, as well as his audacity. In 1925 he was arrested after passing documents authorizing payment from the South Australian Treasury. The documents appeared to have been signed by South Australia’s minister for lands – and Gibson was caught only because he passed identical notes at two banks at once. The judge in the subsequent trial declared Gibson a forger “in the first rank.” There are also reports that while Gibson was in his 20s, he posed as a “Baron Chadwick” and duped a widow in Sydney of her savings, escaping conviction only on a technicality.

In 1891 Gibson married Frances Mary Skally, then 21. The twoyear difference in their ages was the least of any of Gibson’s early marriages. He seemed to prefer much younger women – or perhaps

“Give me a shave and a clean shirt and I can win the affection of any woman in the world.”

he just found them easier to manipulate. What happened to Skally isn’t clear, because most reports refer to Helen Scott, the 15-yearold Gibson married in 1895, as his first wife. A year later the fraud artist married Bertha Young, 17, and the two set sail for England to pick up one of Gibson’s (presumably phantom) inheritances.

The couple didn’t make it to England. Instead, they stopped in Canada and settled briefly in Toronto. There, posing as Dr. Henry Westwood Cooper, Gibson, who had no formal medical training, was introduced to Nellie Atkinson, who was being treated for consumption. When Nellie returned to her home in Stanton in February 1897, Gibson went with her, accompanied by Bertha. continued on next page

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near left : Andrew John Gibson, aka Charles Ernest Chadwick, aka Charles Edward Chadwick, aka Sir Harry Westwood Cooper MD, aka Harry Westwood Cooper, aka Dr Milton Abraham, aka Walter Thomas Porriott, aka Dr Harry Cecil Darling. far left : From the Orangeville Sun, June 1897. love pirate continued from page 79

Gibson cut an impressive figure in Stanton, which was still a relatively busy community south of Mansfield on what later became Airport Road.

According to the Orangeville Sun, Gibson’s “standing in social circles was assured from the first.” He claimed to be a demonstrator and lecturer at the Toronto General Hospital, and showed forged reports on the “mar­ vellous feats in surgical operations” he had performed.

In a testament to the credulity of some local residents, a number of patients demonstrating vague symp­ toms appeared and were cured with little more than his “magic touch.”

What made Gibson’s accomplish­ ments and pedigree even more im­ pressive was the fact he was only 27.

He also seemed interested in settling in Stanton.

But not everyone was convinced.

Why would a member of the British aristocracy, with a medical degree from London and world-class skills, want to settle and practise in rural Stanton? The murmurs grew, but Gibson threatened legal action against his defamers, who were evidently in the minority. He was considered upstanding enough to be asked to lecture from the pulpit of Stanton’s Presbyterian church.

Perhaps as a way of lending cred­ ence to his claims, Gibson made a show of being in delicate health and drew up detailed wills leaving out­ rageous sums of money to his new Stanton friends.

His illness, real or not, brought him into close contact with Ida Maud Campaign, who was appointed to wait on him while he boarded in her father’s home. This was a dangerous situation for 18-year-old Maud.

In the eyes of the San Francisco police, with whom Gibson later be­ come very well acquainted, there was nothing particularly attractive about the con man. He was short and weighed barely 150 pounds. But he was said to use his voice on women in the same way a snake charmer used an instrument to hypnotize snakes.

Gibson himself had once boasted, “Give me a shave and a clean shirt and I can win the affection of any woman in the world.” It certainly seems to have worked with Maud. By that May, she had agreed to marry him.

Gibson and Maud’s courtship oc­ curred under the nose of Bertha, who was also staying with the Campaigns.

Gibson told people that he and Bertha were travelling together under false pretences, and that she was not his real wife. To a certain extent this was true, but only because he was still married to Helen Scott – and Bertha later used this argument to win release from the marriage.

If word of the engagement had gotten out, it would not have held up to scrutiny. So Gibson told the Cam­ paigns that Maud had a throat disease requiring immediate surgery that could be performed only in Toronto.

In the meantime, Gibson and Maud slipped off to Shelburne and obtain­ ed a marriage licence. A prominent citizen of Shelburne lent the couple money to finance their plan.

Bertha accompanied the two to Toronto, acting as chaperone, and stayed with Maud in a boarding house. Maud was supposedly going to an aunt’s, and when she had done so, Bertha was to return to Stanton where her husband would rejoin her. But when Maud left, it was to marry Gibson.

Stanton as Dr. Henry Westwood Cooper Knew It When fraud artist Andrew John Gibson, aka Dr. Henry Westwood Cooper, arrived in Stanton in 1897, the village on the Sixth Line of Mulmur, now Airport Road, was not the quiet crossroads it is today.

As the land beyond Stanton opened for settlement in the 19th century, the village became something of a gateway to points north, a welcome stopping place for weary settlers and travellers trekking through on foot or behind a yoke of oxen.

By 1870 the bustling community boasted a school, an Orange Lodge, two hotels, a post office and several other businesses and stores (including the general store, still operating as The Olde Stanton Store, a gift and home décor emporium). But the prize that trumpeted Stanton’s status as an up-and-coming centre was the 3rd Division Courthouse, which was built in the village after fire destroyed the courthouse in nearby Mulmur Corners.

Much farther west, though, another event was signalling the beginning of the end of Stanton and many other busy early communities. The highly anticipated Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway was being pushed through the bush, and those centres on the rail line, such as Orangeville and Shelburne, were looking forward to growth and prosperity. Not so the communities that had been bypassed.

The temperance movement also played a part. As people embraced temperance, they stopped frequenting the wayside inns and taverns that had sprung up in the early days of settlement. The Stanton Hotel, at the northwest corner of Five Sideroad and Airport Road, was one such enterprise. Today it is among the very few such buildings still standing; however, despite a dedicated community effort to save and restore it, its fate remains uncertain [see “Historic Hills” spring ’12].

Still, in 1897, the village was hanging on. But the closing of the Stanton post office after rural mail delivery was introduced gave local residents another reason not to make regular trips to the village. And as motor vehicles became more common, travel to larger centres for entertainment and supplies became easier and faster.

Finally, the prized courthouse was closed in the 1920s and relocated to Shelburne. Stanton’s heyday was well and truly past.

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The couple disappeared, leaving Bertha to take the train north, where she would receive the nasty surprise.

Gibson performed the same disappear­ ing act many times over the course of his career, and no one is sure how many wives he left behind. When Maud was inevitably deserted, she re­ turned to Mulmur where she even­ tually married into the Greer family.

It has been said that Gibson’s life was one long honeymoon, and it might be called that – at least when he wasn’t serving one of his many prison sentences. He spent about 44 years in jail, most of his prison terms lasting only a few months or years. He is alleged to have married somewhere between 13 and 20 women, usually staying around only long enough to exhaust his new bride’s savings and credit, or the credit of her friends. He was so persuasive that his prison guards were sometimes forbidden to talk to him because he was liable to ask for special exceptions and to take full advantage of them when they were inevitably granted.

From Toronto Gibson proceeded to San Francisco, then South Africa,

England and Australia. He followed the same path, serving many sen­ tences for fraud and continuing to practise as an unlicensed physician.

He was already a known bigamist when he served time in San Quentin State Prison near San Francisco, but this didn’t stop him from secretly marrying a female evangelist who often visited the prisoners. Like the others, that marriage didn’t last long.

Indeed, nothing in Gibson’s life seems to have lasted very long, and he left California in a hurry, just as he left everywhere else. But law enforce­ ment officials clearly considered him major quarry. In 1914 the Oakland police apparently thought it worth sending an officer 10,000 miles to Johannesburg, South Africa, to bring Gibson to justice on several charges, including bigamy.

Though Gibson’s misdeeds need no embellishment, the Australian press has recently featured speculation that the con artist might have been the infamous Jack the Ripper. The most compelling evidence against Gibson may be that he was in London in 1888, continued on next page

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when all five of the Ripper’s “canon­ ical” brutal murders were committed, and that he set sail for Australia on the day the final victim, Mary Kelly, was found.

Ripper researchers have also cited statements Gibson made in Health and Vigour, a book he published in 1914, as evidence pointing to his guilt.

In the book, he claims prostitutes are the cause of all diseases and women who trade in sex should be wiped out with “an axe at the very roots of this deadly evil.”

However, by some accounts, hun­ dreds of men are likely Ripper sus­ pects, and Gibson is nowhere near the top of the list. Although he was a misogynist, his exploitation of women seemed primarily for financial gain and self-aggrandizement. Further­ more, although Jack the Ripper was thought to have a broad knowledge of anatomy, Gibson was not a competent doctor. He had learned anatomy to bolster his fraudulent schemes and he left a full set of medical textbooks to relatives upon his death. But he was also very young – no more than 20 years old – when the still unsolved murders took place.

The worst crime anyone can be sure Gibson committed was his role in the 1939 death of Gladys Higgin­ bottom. She came into his care while he was impersonating a doctor at the City Maternity Hospital in Stoke-onTrent, England. She was in serious condition when admitted, but he ig­ nored her, finally inspecting her in “a very amateurish way” only two hours before her death. For this, Gibson, who was 72 at the time, was convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned for ten years, his longest sentence and

one that was expected to keep him in jail for the rest of his life.

But Gibson managed to outlast the sentence and returned to Australia after his release. He died in Brisbane in 1952. At that time, he was married to Bessie, a 58-year-old widow, and went by the name of Walter Thomas Porriott. He was 82, but claimed to be 59. He was so reviled by Bessie’s family that the couple’s headstone reads only “Bessie, died 25th June 1957, and her husband.”

A detailed examination of Gibson’s officially registered aliases may pro­ vide insight into his character, or lack of it. While in San Quentin, Gibson claimed to be from Canada. His birthplace has been variously marked as Australia, England and Canada – never where he was, always where he had most recently been, even when he returned to his home country. This suggests that, for Gibson, to move from one place to another was to wipe the slate clean, to start over, with his last port of call the only reference to his past.

Gibson travelled light. People and places were tools he obtained, used and then discarded in the acquisition of new tools. He was a predator, prey­ ing on the kindness and weakness of others. Like a shark, he probably found movement a necessary condi­ tion of existence. For someone who married so many women and spent so much time on the run, perhaps it was the only condition. ≈ André Babyn is a volunteer at Dufferin County Museum & Archives.

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OLD SCHOOL RD, CALEDON 4000 sq ft, every room updated, backs onto golf course, gourmet custom kit. $1,450,000

17 ACRES, NEW IN CALEDON 4800 sq ft, open concept, gourmet custom kitchen, fin bsmt with walkout. $1,350,000

33 ACRE HOBBY FARM, CALEDON 3000 sq ft country home w/ gourmet kit, bank barn, 4-bay drive shed, pond. $1,249,000

13 ACRES, 3000 SQ FT, CALEDON 5 bdrms, home theatre, granite counters, large pond, heated workshop. $1,250,000

EXECUTIVE FARM, CALEDON Reno’d farmhouse on 68 acres, 40 min to Toronto, Credit River. $1,099,000

CUSTOM HOME, 3/4 ACRE, MONO 4+ bedrooms, open concept, 9-20 ft ceilings, custom kitchen, main floor office. $874,900

THE GORE RD, CALEDON 3000+ sq ft on 3+ acs, new att 2-car garage & master bdrm with 5-pc ensuite. $779,000

THRIVING RESTAURANT, ERIN 40 seats inside, 28 patio seats, o/l river, LLBO, 2-bedroom apt - rental. $649,000

15 ACRES, 2000 SQ FT, CALEDON 2 bdrms, handyman’s special, Credit River, w/o from bsmt, geothermal, trails. $649,000

ON RAVINE, ORANGEVILLE 4 bedroom, 4 baths, o/c, w/o to composite deck, 3-car garage, mf laundry. $619,000

35 ACRE BUILDING LOT, MONO Build your dream home, approved building site, buy now & be in by Xmas. $349,000

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BUILDING LOT, HIGHPOINT SDRD Caledon, 3 acres, approved driveway, rolling lot. Build today! $299,000

ARTISTIC DESIGN ON 14 ACRES Long winding driveway through the trees leads to this one-of-a-kind, 4+ bdrm home on 14 serene acres just south of Village of Erin.

Open concept with windows in every room. A gardener's dream. Bonus 1-hole golf course. $949,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

CONTEMPORARY ART Set on 16+ acres is this gorgeous 4-bedroom home with floor-to-ceiling fireplaces, beamed cathedral ceilings, large eat-in kitchen with centre island with breakfast bar. Plus pool, sauna, firepit and great views. $2,800,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

HIDDEN IN THE WOODS - 17 ACS Drive down the tree-lined driveway to this unique 4-bdrm home with hidden staircases, Juliet balconies, granny suite, tiered decks with hot tubs and more. Plus 6000 sq ft workshop/ warehouse with two 2-bedroom apartments. $995,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

VICTORIAN ART CIRCA 1883 4-bedroom beauty with incredible circular staircase and woodwork throughout, huge country kitchen, dining room, living room and separate sunken family room with fireplace.

52 acres with pond, lawn, barn and fields. $1,195,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

STUNNING COUNTRY ESTATE 5+ priv & scenic acs w/ forest, trails, stunning landscaping, grdns & pond. 4+ bdrms, gourmet kit, library w/ fp, formal din rm, mstr on main flr w/ romantic spa bthrm overlooking garden.

Heavenly garret as a retreat for family/guests. $1,395,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

UNIQUE HOME - 11+ ACS - POND Tree-lined driveway leads to this 3+ bedroom home that mixes modern with old world.

Open concept, sunken living room, sunroom, mstr suite with large ensuite and sitting room.

Loft/bdrm with catwalk. Finished lower level. $999,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

ANTIQUE 1854 SQUARE LOGS Built into this home in 1990 on private, scenic 15 acres. Winding driveway through the bush takes you to this home filled with character and charm inside and out plus a fantastic 40’x60’ metal workshop with concrete floor. $799,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

1837 STONE MASTERPIECE Pillars, archway, driveway, walkways and home feature incredible stone craftsmanship.

3 bedrooms, library, country kitchen, master suite, solarium, wood floors, decks, w/o from basement. 2 acre private setting in Erin. $899,000 Wayne Baguley* 519-941-5151

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ERIN, CALEDON, MONO AND SURROUNDING AREAS 519-833-0888

Patrick Bogert**, Sandy Ball*, Sue Collis*

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** Broker *Sales Representative

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SUPERIOR - STUNNING - STYLE • Old history...new transformation • A meld of the two, both inside and out • See for yourself, call for viewing anytime $4,350,000

TUSCAN-STYLE ESTATE • Complete privacy on 40+ acres • European flavour, unquestionable quality • Top-of-the-line detailing $3,900,000

INCOMPARABLE CALEDON FOR FAMILY • Exquisite property on 50 private acres • Tennis, pool, ponds, barn, 5-car garage • Prime Caledon location - must see now! $2,300,000

TIMBER FRAME LODGE - 45 MINS TO GTA • Soaring ceilings, great spaces, great places TAGS - unlimited quality - fun - party - togetherness privacy - music - food - art - it’s all here! $3,790,000

A CALEDON FAMILY COMPOUND • Unusually beautiful setting - hills, dales, river • Guest house + rambling family cottage • Pool, tennis, hockey, trails, views, barns $1,500,000

STORYBROOK FARM - CROPS - WOOD LOT • Delightful modernized farmhouse Barn, gardens, treehouse, bunkie • 73 acres for crops - for you, or to watch the farmer do it! $1,149,000

IN THE HILLS OF MONO • Dream farmhouse - updated with style • Rolling lawns, stables for two • Bring the horses, sheep, paddocks waiting $899,000

SMALL TOWN CHARMING • 3 bedroom family home in Rockwood village • Peaceful country feel close to all city amenities • Easy commute - minutes to GO transit $449,900

PRIME MONO BUILDING SITE • 25 acres rolling land • Breathtaking view over Hockley Valley • Several building site choices $375,000

Please contact for additional information on these and other properties

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HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE $695,000

SOLD HILLTOP IN MONO $1,295,000

SOLD CALEDON CHALET $735,000

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WOODLAND CALEDON $1,150,000

SOLD ERIN STORYBOOK $995,000

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“THE WORKS” CREEMORE FARM Lovely landscaped setting, majestic maple lane, 17’x29’ inground saltwater pool, 196 acres, 45-acre hrdwd bush with trails for walking or riding. Barn, shed. Good for full-time farmer or weekender. $1,877,000

DRAMATIC MULMUR RETREAT 38 private acres with great view, woods, trails, pond, tennis court, spectacular pool and spa.

Chef’s dream kit/dining. Great rm with fieldstone fp. Home theatre, screened and open porch for al fresco living. “The works.” $2,200,000

PINE RIVER VALLEY 3.5 private acres in sought-after location. Open concept lr/dr/kit. 2 w/o to south facing deck overlooking spring & creek-fed swimming pond.

Master with ensuite, gas fireplace and w/o.

2 additional bedrooms on main level. $598,000

MAD RIVER FARM...CREEMORE 94 acres and over 2000 ft of Mad River.

Approx 50 acres arable. Fenced tennis court and old farmhouse of minimal value. Privacy, long south-east views. Perfect for Mansfield and Devil’s Glen skiers. $469,000

HILLTOP SETTING MULMUR Spectacular view over Pine River Valley.

7.26 acres, wrap-around covered verandah.

1835 log home, ideal for Mansfield or Devil's Glen ski family. Wood floors throughout.

Living/dining log area 20’x30'. $529,000

DEVIL’S GLEN AREA 4-bdrm brick bungalow w/ fin basement on almost 2 acres. Mature treed setting offers privacy for full time owner or recreational buyer.

Double attached garage/shop/equip storage.

Close to 4-season amenities. $449,900

NOISY RIVER DELIGHT 35 acres with approx 450’ river frontage plus stream. Walking trails and woods lead to high plateau. Easy care 3 bedroom, walkout lower level, spacious fam room and inviting screened porch. Open concept lr/dr/kit. $919,000

SINGHAMPTON/DEVIL’S GLEN So many opportunities for this century bldg.

Now a recreational home, but once commercial usage. 4000 sq ft, 6 bedrooms. Open concept reno'd living/dining/kit with gas fp. 16-person sauna, century barn 22'x36’. $359,000

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NORMERICA POST & BEAM Finely crafted, custom home sitting high on 2.3 acres. Open concept living space and southern view that carries for miles. Detached 3-car garage ideal for the car enthusiast or craftsman. $1,375,000

COUNTRY ESTATE ON 65 ACRES Elegant, custom home with superior interior finishes. Absolute privacy. Open lands, mixed bush and Nottawasaga tributary.

2000+ sq ft workshop serves multipurpose. $1,275,000

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COUNTRY LIVING Beautifully updated, energy efficient home.

10-acre playground for your family with walking trails & above ground pool. Oversized picture windows capture views of the countryside. Character & charm. $749,999

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GORE ROAD, CALEDON Two fully renovated homes with total privacy from each other on 30 acres. Relax and enjoy the tranquility within easy commuting distance. Live the country life with your family close by. $1,690,000

2ND LINE, MONO No expense spared on this custom 2-storey with new addition sitting pretty on 17 acres close to Mono Cliffs Park. Cherry plank floors harvested from property make the exceptional great rm impressive. $1,295,000

BLUE HERON DR, ISLAND LAKE ESTATES, MONO Rare opportunity to own 3+1 bedroom bungaloft with fully finished bsmt. Stunning .85 acre lot, no one behind and conservation access across street. $899,900

YOUNG CRT, CREDIT SPRINGS ESTATES, ORANGEVILLE $$$ on upgrades include Muskoka room, solarium, fin w/o bsmt w/ 2nd kit. Energy star house = very low heating costs. 3+2 bdrm bungalow on approx 1 fenced ac. $819,900

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IT’S THE MARKETING. IT’S THE EXPOSURE. IT’S THE EXPERIENCE! Call today, you deserve the difference!

905-584-0234 888-667-8299

Chris P. Richie Broker of Record/Owner chris@remaxinthehills.com

15955 Airport Road, Suite 203A Caledon East, Ontario L7C 1H9 (BACK DOOR, 2nd FLOOR)

Complimentary Market Analysis

Philip Albin, Broker phil@remaxinthehills.com

...not just another evaluation

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Dale Poremba, Sales Representative dale@remaxinthehills.com

Independently Owned & Operated

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Over 50 years of combined experience at your service! Caledon, Mono, Adjala and surrounding areas.

EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW ON ALMOST 2 ACRES ‘Stonehart Estates’ just north of Bolton. Great curb appeal, nicely landscaped with interlocking drive and walkways. Open concept, granite tops, Travertine floors, African walnut floors. Partially finished basement. 3-car garage. Caledon. $1,225,000

A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN Rare offering on 10 pristine acres. Drive past the pond with dock and fountain, past the carriage house with in-law suite and up to the 6-car garage and stately, brick and stone manor. Grand foyer, main floor library, lavish kitchen, finished basement. Inground, gunite pool. Caledon. $2,100,000

EXCEPTIONAL LOG HOME Situated on 15.13 acs w/ hardwood forest, this impressive home features a dramatic great rm w/ soaring ceiling & stone fp. Main flr mstr suite w/ fp. Kit w/ centre island. Fin w/o bsmt & more.

A wonderful hideaway in Caledon. $1,099,000

FABULOUS CALEDON EQUESTRIAN FACILITY An amazing package with 24-stall barn, huge indoor arena, Thoroughbred sand track with viewing area, 6 paddocks. Brick bungalow home. All on 24, picturesque acres. $1,999,999

PICTURESQUE MONO FARM Almost 90 acres with over 50% workable.

Suitable for horses or cattle. Unique mix of forested areas, natural springs and creek.

Bungalow home, bank barn, and several outbuildings. All in great condition. $1,200,000

PRIVATE ESTATE GETAWAY - 47+ ACRES High-quality home set down winding drive for privacy. Outstanding views of Hockley Valley.

Corian tops, Cherry flrs, beamed ceilings & 4 fps. I/g pool + 6-stall barn. Mono. $1,295,000

MAGNIFICENT MANOR A wonderful country lot, treed & private, with a sprawling executive home. High calibre finishings. Fin walkout lower level. Upper level with office/guest/nanny area. Sparkling inground pool. 3-car garage. Orangeville. $1,375,000

CHARM & CHARACTER Pretty, 4-acre lot with extensive gardens and large pond. 2-storey home with wrap-around enclosed multi-season room to enjoy the outdoors. Finished walkout basement, 3-car garage and more. Caledon. $749,000

SOUGHT AFTER NEIGHBOURHOOD Wonderfully cared for home on large, deadend court lot. Wrap-around porch. Country feel with eat-in kitchen, Elmira type cook stove, and walkout basement with bar. Dramatic great room with fireplace. Erin. $799,000

PRIVATE TREED SANCTUARY Beautiful bungaloft on 2.91 acres. Huge wraparound porch. Open concept great room & kitchen. Tasteful décor. Main flr master. Private guest area above the 2-car garage. Partially fin bsmt with sauna & bath. Adjala. $827,000

TAMARACK ESTATES Executive home with impressive curb appeal.

2.36 acres, beautifully landscaped, inground pool. Gourmet kitchen with granite. Finished basement, 3-car garage. Caledon. $1,079,900

INGLEWOOD EXECUTIVE Stately home on sought after street. Mature landscaping and rolling grounds. Country sized kitchen, main floor den, finished walkout basement with summer kitchen. 3-car garage.

Caledon. $989,000

CALEDON HORSE/HOBBY FARM Approx 25.51 acres with bungalow home, arena, fencing, paddocks and more.

Tennis court, inground pool, 2-car detached and 2-car attached garages. $1,495,000

PICTURE PERFECT COUNTRY HOME Amazing countryside views. Sprawling ranch bungalow, extensive landscaping. Hrdwd flrs, crown mouldings, quartz countertops, fin bsmt.

Inground pool. Caledon. $739,900

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construction trades + services All-Mont Garage Doors ⁄ 24 AllPro Roofing ⁄ 2 Divada Kitchens ⁄ 14 Dufferin Glass & Mirror ⁄ 58 Fast Form Insulated Concrete Forms ⁄ 56 Headwaters Windows & Doors ⁄ 48 Karry Kitchens & Bath Design ⁄ 18 Orangeville Building Supply ⁄ 81 Trutone Electronics ⁄ 43

heating + cooling Bryan’s Fuel ⁄ 23 Don’s Heating & Cooling ⁄ 56 Land & Sky Green Energy ⁄ 8 Reliance Home Comfort ⁄ 6

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Alton Mill Cuisine-Art ⁄ 95 Headwaters Arts Festival ⁄ 93 Headwaters House Tour ⁄ 97 History in the Making – Jim Lorriman ⁄ 95 Pan Am Games ⁄ 39 Stitches Across Time ⁄ 95 Travel Writing & Photography Retreat ⁄ 92 Weekend in the Woods ⁄ 41

Acheson’s ⁄ 50 Boss Leather ⁄ 27 Chic à Boom Consignment ⁄ 94 Decor Solutions Furniture & Design ⁄ 44 Dragonfly Arts on Broadway ⁄ 32 Electric Garage Sale Consignment ⁄ 81 From the Kitchen to the Table ⁄ 71 Genesis Interiors & Home Décor ⁄ 32 Granny Taught Us How ⁄ 14 Nesting Habits ⁄ 77 Olde Stanton Store ⁄ 81 Orangeville Furniture ⁄ 104 Pear Home ⁄ 32 Recovering Nicely ⁄ 74 Sproule’s Emporium ⁄ 32 The Weathervane ⁄ 45

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Erin Hills Dental ⁄ 36

A.M. Korsten Jewellers ⁄ 33 Acheson’s ⁄ 50 Chez Nous Thrift Boutique ⁄ 32 Chic à Boom Consignment ⁄ 94 Gallery Gemma ⁄ 50 Hannah’s ⁄ 45 Just Be Customized ⁄ 33 Manhattan Bead Company ⁄ 33 Off Broadway Clothing Boutique ⁄ 32 Shannah Rose ⁄ 33 Shoe Kat Shoo ⁄ 73 The Way We Were ⁄ 44

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Barley Vine Rail Co ⁄ 63 Belfountain Inn ⁄ 65 Bistro Riviere ⁄ 44 Cabin at Hockley Valley Resort ⁄ 17, 63 Carver’s Block ⁄ 63 Forage ⁄ 65 French Press Coffee House & Bistro ⁄ 63 Gabe’s Country Bake Shoppe ⁄ 65 Highpoint Restaurant & Café ⁄ 63 Market Hill Café ⁄ 63 Millcroft Inn & Spa ⁄ 65

McGuire Fence ⁄ 38

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Kingsmere Retirement Living ⁄ 58 Lord Dufferin Centre ⁄ 67 Montgomery Village Seniors Comm. ⁄ 69

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Bolton Farmers’ Market ⁄ 62 Designer Cakes by Amy ⁄ 62 Elegance You Eat ⁄ 50 Farmers’ Markets ⁄ 67 Garden Foods ⁄ 61 Harmony Whole Foods ⁄ 96 Heatherlea Farm Market ⁄ 62 Lavender Blue Catering ⁄ 32

Pond Perfections ⁄ 26

Caledon Travel ⁄ 51 Port Perry BIA ⁄ 97

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Adam & Company Interior Design ⁄ 51 Decorating Den Interiors ⁄ 73 Genesis Interiors & Home Décor ⁄ 32

landscaping + gardening Cornerstone Landscapes ⁄ 77 Hill’N Dale Landscaping ⁄ 55, 57, 59 Pro-Land Landscape Construction ⁄ 6

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pools Betz Pools ⁄ 10 Blue Diamond Pools & Landscaping ⁄ 31 Frisco Pools ⁄ 74 New Wave Pools & Spas ⁄ 26

recreation Scenic Caves Nature Adventures ⁄ 31

schools + education Brampton Christian School ⁄ 7 The Maples Academy ⁄ 3

toy stores Brighten Up ⁄ 44

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HOWLING HILLS FARM - ERIN Stunning 5 year new 3100 sq ft country estate on paved road with dream kitchen, geothermal heat, set privately behind pine forest on 84 acres with barn/drive shed and horse paddock. $1,399,000

HOME ON THE GRANGE - CALEDON 3600 sq ft 4-bdrm bungalow w/ 10’+ ceilings & fin w/o lower level w/ sep entrance; serene views over 82 rolling acs in prime location.

Heated 2200 sq ft 2-storey shop. $2,650,000

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24 SOUTHRIDGE TRAIL, CALEDON Sold in 8 days firm for 99.9% of list price.

Own a piece of Canadian history! This expansive retreat sits on a priv road in the heart of Caledon. A gorgeously updated home on a quiet setting of 10.89 acs in an exclusive, executive estate subdivision. Extra lrg addition w/ 3-pc bath, marble & oak wet bar, subzero fridge, solid oak wainscotting & multiple separate entrances. $989,800

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75 ACRE FARM - ERIN Your opportunity to own a pretty farm with compact, modest home, 2-car garage + workshop plus drive shed with concrete floor on quiet paved road near town. 48+ arable acres, long western view. $899,000

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HOBBY FARM WITH ARENA Extremely private 43 acre Erin hobby farm.

Large 4-bedroom home with 5 year new propane furnace and lower level suite with separate entrance, inground pool, 17-stall barn and 80’x150’ riding arena. $949,900

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146 MILL ST SOUTH, BRAMPTON This large landscaped lot on a pretty tree-lined st s/w of downtown Brampton is well suited to empty nesters or first time buyers. Large bungalow w/ a 2-bdrm addition, enormous full height bsmt w/ lrg windows & dbl car garage.

A perfect place to invest in your future. Similar properties in the neighbourhood have been reno’d & are worth the million dollar mark. The land value alone is worth a look! $424,800

Due to my marketing efforts and large referral network I have more buyers looking for Caledon properties. I am hunting for vacant land, building lots and bungalows in particular. If you are thinking of selling please call me for my confidential, no obligation market evaluation and confidential discussion. Large or small, I have buyers. When you live work and play here in Caledon it’s so easy to bring buyers and sellers together.

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211 MAIN STREET, ERIN Wonderful 3-bedroom century home that is filled with character and original floors and woodwork. Fantastic eat-in kitchen addition overlooks private perennial gardens and serene ornamental pond. Separate studio/workshop/garage with heated floors and air conditioning.

Easy walk to shop and schools in the Village of Erin. $539,000

5640 SIXTH LINE, ERIN Treed, slightly rolling and private 1-acre building lot on quiet country road. Backs onto tree plantation and overlooking neighbouring pond with island. Very private.

Just 5 minutes south of Hillsburgh and 20 minutes to Georgetown GO. $189,000

ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY LAKE SYLVID Breathtaking setting on private 3.5-acre lake. Swimming dock. 35 minutes to the airport.

5000 square foot custom home, 3-car garage. Separate in-law suite/work at home office on main floor. Conveniently located at Highways 9 and 50. $1,250,000

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NOW – ONGOING : COMMUNITY CREATES CORN FLOWER EXHIBIT Corn

Travel Writing &

Flower-inspired works showcased in the mezzanine. 2pm. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

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show of paintings, pottery, sculpture, jewellery. Maggiolly’s Gallery, 158 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-307-0210; orangevilleartgroup.com

Nicola Ross Rob Stimpson If you want your travel stories to sparkle and entertain, join us for a day-long Travel Writing & Photography Retreat at the Alton Mill in the Caledon Hills.

NOW – JUL 6 : STICKS ’N’ STONES

Members’ art show, artists on site. WedSun, 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com NOW – JUL 14 : SUMMER SOLSTICE

Saturday, October 18 $125 + HST

Celebrate the changing of the seasons with new art. Mad & Noisy Gallery, 154 Mill St, Creemore. 705-466-5555; madandnoisy.com NOW – AUG 6 : SEEING WITH NEW EYES – DRAWING CLASSES One-on-one

ROB STIMPSON

instruction with CJ Shelton. Outdoors.

Wed & Sun, 1-3pm. $30/session. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-942-2018; dancingmoondesigns.ca

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NOW – SEP 22 : SPIRIT SEEDS: A CELEBRATION OF FIRST NATIONS BEADWORK Beautiful objects decorated

with tiny glass beads. 1-4:30pm. $4.50; seniors/students $3.50; families $10.

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

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JUN 21 & 22 : ART IN THE GARDEN Art and objets d’art by Bridget Wilson, glass artist, and CJ Shelton, mandala artist, magical workshops. 10am-5pm. 17 Lorne St, Inglewood. Lucille Weber, 647-4007591; lucilleweber.com

JUL 12 & 13 : CUISINE-ART Sample food

JUN 23 : CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

JUL 13 – AUG 24 : STEP BACK | LOOK FORWARD Visual Arts Mississauga’s

Publication tips from award-winning author and teacher Richard Scarsbrook.

Bring your writing. 6:30-8:30pm. 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca JUN 28 : ART IN THE ROUND – CANADIAN NATURE-MADE! Create a

beautiful circular design based on flowers, plants. 1-4pm. $60. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. CJ Shelton, 519-9422018; dancingmoondesigns.ca JUN 28 – AUG 3 : GORDON PETERS ART SHOW Peters left urban life in

& drinks, chef demos, hands-on artist projects, cook-offs. Noon-5pm. $35; $25 advance. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton.

Alton Mill Arts Centre, 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca

contribution to art in the region. July 13: reception, 2-4pm. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca JUL 13 – SEP 7 : WILLIAM SCOBIE HOUSTOUN ART SHOW A sense of

community related in a charming way. $5. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com JUL 21 : CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

the ‘60s for Headwaters’ peaceful life.

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

For adults, with Richard Scarsbrook.

Bring your writing. 6:30-8:30pm. Free.

Orangeville Public Library, 1 Mill St. 519941-0610; orangeville.library.on.ca

JUL 9 – AUG 3 : A FEAST FOR THE EYES

JUL 26 : ART IN THE ROUND – ANIMAL SPIRIT! Create circular designs based on

Members’ art show, artists on site. 10am5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton.

519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com

an animal totem. 1-4pm. $60. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. CJ Shelton, 519942-2018; dancingmoondesigns.ca

with Steve Rose. 10am-4pm. $70, register.

Victoria Parks Community Centre, Mono Mills. Orangeville Art Group, 519-3070210; orangevilleartgroup.com SEP 19 : HEADWATERS ARTS FESTIVAL OPENING GALA Local entertainment,

mouth-watering food, amazing artwork, chefs’ challenge, local beer/wine.

6:30-10pm. $56.50. SGI Centre, 20490 Porterfield Rd, N of Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com SEP 20 – 28 (weekends) : HEADWATERS ARTS FESTIVAL JURIED SHOW & SALE Amazing one-of-a-kind artwork.

Artists on site. Large outdoor sculpture exhibit. 10am-5pm. SGI Centre, 20490 Porterfield Rd, N of Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com SEP 26 : ARMCHAIRS, AUTHORS & ART – HEADWATERS ARTS FESTIVAL Great AUG 6 – SEP 7 : CRITICAL MASS

Members’ exhibition in our wonderfully updated gallery. Aug 9: reception, 2-4pm. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com AUG 10 – OCT 26 : ANDREW PEYCHA ART SHOW Dempster Highway, Whitehorse,

the Arctic Circle, Greenland and India.

Aug 10: reception, 2-4pm. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com AUG 13 : STITCHES ACROSS TIME – BEGINNER BIAS AND COLLAGE WORKSHOP Make and sew trim for

artwork, new book releases, signings, presentations, food. See website. 6:309:30pm. $30. SGI Centre for Culture and Education, 20490 Porterfield Rd, N of Alton. 519-943-1149; headwatersarts.com SEP 26 - 28 : NORTH OF 89 STUDIO TOUR Visit multiple artists in various

studios throughout Mulmur Township.

Map on website. Fri 4-7pm. Sat 10am5pm. Sun 11am-6pm. North of 89 Studios; northof89.ca OCT 4 & 5 : 2014 CREEMORE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Fantastic local art with artists

on location, cocktail party fundraiser.

10am-4pm. Most events free. Creemore Station on the Green, 10 Caroline St E, Creemore. Purple Hills Arts and Heritage Society, 705-466-9925; phahs.ca

garments, accessories, with Bonnie Glass.

Bring sewing machine & lunch. 10am3pm. $50, register, materials supplied.

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

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AUG 16 & 17 : DOORS OPEN: ALTON MILL

Farmers’ Markets

Tours the mill’s fascinating history and culture, artist demos. 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. Alton Mill Arts Centre, 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca

ORANGEVILLE Saturdays, 8am-1pm, to Oct 25. Second St & Broadway.

Orangeville BIA, 519-942-0087; orangevillefarmersmarket.ca

AUG 23 : PAINTING WHITE FLOWERS WORKSHOP Paint in watercolour using

CREEMORE Saturdays, 8:30am-12:30pm, to Oct 11. Station on the Green parking lot.

705-794-8943; creemorefarmersmarket.ca

a pouring technique, with Susan Chater.

10am-4pm. $70, register. Victoria Parks Community Centre, Mono Mills. 519-3070210; orangevilleartgroup.com SEP 10 – OCT 5 : KALEIDOSCOPE

Members’ exhibition, chat with artists of all media. Sep 13: reception, 2-4pm. WedSun 10am-5pm. Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 510-943-1149; headwatersarts.com SEP 12 – OCT 26 : HISTORY IN THE MAKING – WOOD TURNER JIM LORRIMAN Exquisite bowls by a full-time

wood turner. Sept 12: reception, 7pm.

Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 12 – NOV 9 : STITCHES ACROSS TIME

National juried exhibition of fibre works celebrates the history of textile arts. Sept 12: reception, 7pm. Free. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. Scotiabank, Dufferin Arts Council.

1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 13 : SELF-PORTRAITS – PAINTING WORKSHOP Self-portraits in any media,

BOLTON Saturdays, 9am-1pm, to Oct 11.

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25. Mill St & Victoria St. 705-435-1787; allistonbia.com AMARANTH Wednesdays, 3-7pm, to Oct 8.

Amaranth Municipal Office, 374028 6th Line. 519-941-1007; amaranth-eastgary.ca INGLEWOOD Wednesdays, 3:30-7pm, to Oct 8. Village of Inglewood. 905-584-6221; eatlocalcaledon.org SHELBURNE Thursdays, 3-7pm, to Oct 9.

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NOW – NOV 4 (TUESDAYS, 1ST & 3RD WEEKENDS) : BANTING HOMESTEAD HERITAGE PARK OPENING Learn about

diabetes and the discovery of insulin. Tues, Sat 11am-4pm. Sun 1-4pm. Free, donation.

5116 Sir Frederick Banting Rd, Alliston.

Sir Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation, 705-440-7126; bantinglegacy.ca JUN 22 : RELESSEY MEMORIAL SERVICE

All welcome. 2:30pm. Relessey Church, Mono Centre Rd at 5th Line, Mono Centre. Donna,519-941-1100 JUN 25 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED CHURCH STRAWBERRY SUPPER Cold

Now Open 30% Discount

on all Services for the first 50 Customers Nail Care • Body Massage Facial • Permanent Makeup Eyelash • Hair 873273 5th Line, Mono

Bus 519-941-7713 Cell 519-939-1558

(by appointment only) www.countryhomespa.ca

ham dinner, strawberry shortcake. 15 Sdrd, Mono (Camilla), W of Hwy 10. Pay at door. 5-7pm. $14; children 6 and up $6, under 6 free. 519-941-5826 JUN 25 : CALEDON EAST & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING Annette

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JUL 1 : SHELBURNE CANADA DAY FESTIVITIES Family swim, mini-tractor

JUL 12 : ONE YEAR TO THE PAN AM GAMES – COUNTDOWN EVENT Big party,

pull, pony rides, entertainment, community dinner, fireworks. 3-9:30pm.

Free. Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex, 200 Fiddlepark Ln, Shelburne. 519-9252600 x230; townofshelburne.on.ca

activities, food vendors. 10am-2pm. Free.

Caledon Equestrian Park, Pine Avenue, Palgrave. Town of Caledon, 905-584-2272; caledon.ca/panam

JUL 1 : CALEDON CANADA DAY Live

music, dog show, paddle boat and canoe rentals, fireworks. 4-11pm. Free. Albion Hills Conservation Area, 16500 Regional Rd 50, Caledon. Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, 416-661-6600; trca.on.ca JUL 1 : STRAWBERRY SUPPER AT KNOX UNITED CHURCH Ham, roast beef, potato

salad, coleslaw, cake & strawberries.

All you can eat! Takeout option. 5-7pm. $15; children, $6. 2976 Charleston Siderd, Caledon Village. Sharon Lambert, 519-942-1411

JUN 25 : HEART AND STROKE BIG BIKE

29 riders pedal through Orangeville raising funds & laughs. Noon-8pm.

Register on website. Kelsey’s, 115 5th Ave, Orangeville. Heart and Stroke Foundation, 519-837-4858; bigbike.ca

Kids’ activities, vendors, Bavarian gardens. $15; children 12 & under, $5. Albion Bolton Community Centre, 150 Queen St S. Albion & Bolton Agricultural Society, 905-880-0369; boltontractorpull.ca JUN 27 : FOODS THAT FIGHT INFLAM­ MATION Brenda Gray offers advice

on a healthy, whole food diet. Healthy refreshments provided. 1-2pm. Free.

Orangeville Public Library, 1 Mill St. 519-941-0610; orangeville.on.ca JUL 1 : CALEDON CANADA DAY STRAW­ BERRY FESTIVAL Strawberry pancake

breakfast, live music, classic cars, trade fair, Bavarian beer garden. Free. Caledon Fairgrounds, 18297 Hurontario St, Caledon Village. Caledon Agricultural Society, 519-925-3461; caledonfairgrounds.ca JUL 1 : OUR CANADA EXHIBIT Rare

artifacts, family-oriented activities, scavenger hunt. 1pm. Donation.

Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-942-7787; dufferinmuseum.com

JUL 12 : SUMMER DEMOLITION DERBY

Classic cars, great food, live music, beer tent. 1-6pm, derby begins at 3pm. $10; child/senior, $5; family, $25. Erin Agricultural Centre, 190 Main St, Erin.

519-833-2808; erinfair.ca JUL 12 & 13 : RAM RODEO MIDSEASON CHAMPIONSHIPS Two rodeo

performances, live entertainment, food & drink. 2pm. $15; $10 in advance; $20, $15, $5 at gate. Orangeville Fairgrounds, 247090 5 Siderd Mono. RAM Rodeo Tour, 519-942-3011; orangevilleramrodeo.com JUL 17 : SUMMER STEAK BBQ & GAMES

Euchre, cribbage, bid euchre, bridge, shuffleboard, carpet bowling, card ball, rummy-o. Lunch at noon. 10am10pm. $15. Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca JUL 18 - 20 : ORANGEVILLE ROTARY RIBFEST Fantastic ribs, music, beer

tent, midway. Donations to Fendley Park splash pad. Fri 4-10pm. Sat 11am-10pm.

Sun 11am-7pm. Alder Street Recreation Centre, 275 Alder St, Orangeville. orangevilleribfest.com

JUN 25, JUL 23, AUG 20 : CALEDON BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION SUPPORT GROUP Meet trained volunteers

JUN 27 : BOLTON TRUCK AND TRACTOR PULL Largest one-day pull in the GTA.

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Turturici: Collecting and decorating with antiques. 7:30-9:30pm. $5. St. James Anglican Church, 6025 Old Church Rd, Caledon East. 905-584-0352; cedhs.ca

and survivors in a safe, confidential environment. 7-9pm. 4 Queen St N, #202, Bolton. 905-857-4068; caledonbcf.org

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music, street performers, kids’ activities, sales. 8am-11pm. Free. Orangeville BIA, 519-942-0087; downtownorangeville.ca JUL 5 : EUCHRE AND BRIDGE TOURNAMENT Door prizes, lunch

follows. 10am-10pm. $10, register.

Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca JUL 5 : CHELTENHAM DAY Tube race, pie-eating contest, kids’ area, silent auction, dinner/dance. Noon-11:30pm.

Cheltenham General Store, 14386 Creditview Rd, Caledon. cheltday@gmail. com, facebook.com/cheltenhamday JUL 5, AUG 10, SEP 6 : WHOLE VILLAGE ORIENTATION Meet members, tour the

farm and eco-residence. 1-4pm. $10. 20725 Shaw’s Creek Rd, Caledon. 519-941-1099; wholevillage.org JUL 12 : MAYOR’S YOUTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE COMMUNITY BBQ Free

activities. 10am-3pm. Rotary Park, 75 Second Ave, Orangeville. 519-941-0610 x5222; dfraser@orangeville.ca

JUL 19 : SOIRÉE EN BLANC: KNIVES, SPOONS & FORKS OF THE CREDIT Wear

your best whites, bring gourmet meal, cutlery, glassware. Location revealed 30 min before event. Proceeds to literacy programs. 5:45-10:30pm. $40, register.

OneWorld Schoolhouse Foundation, 519-316-0059; oneworldschoolhouse.org JUL 26 : DUFFERIN HERITAGE FAIR Local

historical societies & heritage groups share projects & products. Keynote Address: 1:30pm, Grey Roots Museum & Archives. 10am-4pm. $5. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, HWY 89 & Airport Rd. County of Dufferin, 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com AUG 1 – 30 : UPPER CREDIT HUMANE SOCIETY WISHBONE CAMPAIGN Buy

a bone for $1 from retailers in Erin, Hillsburgh, Halton Hills. Proceeds to shelter animals. 416-706-7406; uppercredit.com AUG 4 : LIVE LEARNING – FOLK HEROES’ DAY Stories of Dufferin’s locally famous

folk heroes, with curator Wayne Townsend and archivist Steve Brown. 2pm. $5.

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

AUG 23 : BID EUCHRE AND PROGRES­ SIVE CRIBBAGE TOURNAMENT Lunch

follows tournament. 10am-10pm. $10, register. Caledon Seniors’ Centre, 7 Rotarian Way, Bolton. 905-951-6114; caledonseniors.ca AUG 23 : COPPER KETTLE CLASSICS CLASSIC VEHICLE SHOW Open to

AUG 7 : LIGHT UP THE RUNWAY WALK FOR BETHELL HOSPICE 8:30-11:30pm.

$25 to register. Minimum $30 to fundraise. Brampton Flight Centre, 13691 McLaughlin Rd, Caledon. 905-838-1400; bramptonflightcentre.com AUG 8 – 10 : FERGUS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL & HIGHLAND GAMES Heavy

horse championships, bagpipes, Highland dancing, kids’ crafts, clan information & heritage, beer tent. Centre Wellington Community Sportsplex, 550 Belsyde Ave, Fergus. 519-787-0099; fergusscottishfestival.com AUG 9 – 10 : ERIN RHYTHM & RIBS FESTIVAL Join Erin Optimists and village

merchants for fun and excitement.

See website for details. Village of Erin. rhythmribs.com AUG 9 & 16 : FACE OF THE FARMER SERIES PAMA and Brampton Farmers’

Market present Ecosource workshops.

Aug 9: make fresh food with local ingredients. Aug 16: Four season harvest demo. 10:30am-noon. $10; families, $30.

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055 x3625; pama.peelregion.ca AUG 15 : BOLTON MIDNIGHT MADNESS

Petting zoo, inflatable obstacle courses, fire and police demos, circus street per­ formance, live music, vendors. Rain date: Aug 22. 5pm-midnight. Free. Downtown Bolton. Bolton BIA, mybolton.com AUG 16 : TASTE OF ORANGEVILLE

Shopping, delicious food, live music, highlighting the town’s most talented chefs. 11am-5pm. Mill Street.

Orangeville BIA, 519-942-0087; events@downtownorangeville.ca AUG 16 : LIVE LEARNING – CORN FLOWER GLASS Cuts, patterns, colours

and the company’s history. 2pm. $5.

Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com AUG 16 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED CHURCH BEEF BBQ Corn on the cob and

homemade pie. W of Hwy on 15 Sdrd, Mono (Camilla). Pay at the door. 5-7pm. $15; children 6 & over $5; under 6 free.

519-941-5826

1990 or older vehicles. Live music, shopping, beer festival. 10am-5pm.

Main Street, Creemore. 705-466-6593; copperkettleclassics.com AUG 24 : DCMA FUNDRAISING AUCTION

Antiques, collectables & household items. Proceeds to artifact acquisition.

Auctioneer: Bob Severn. Register on-site.

9am-noon. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-9417787; dufferinmuseum.com AUG 24 : SAVOUR FAIR Sample food from local chefs, farms & producers.

Art bazaar, farmers’ market, kids’ games, farm animals. Proceeds to local students for post secondary education in agriculture. 1-4pm. $25; children $10; family $60. Landman Gardens and Bakery, 322345 Concession 6-7, Grand Valley. 519938-6163; landmangardens.ca SEP 1 – NOV 14 : TRENCH ART & ARTIFACTS EXHIBIT WWI artifacts:

uniforms, mementos, tokens, trench art. Sept 1: reception, 1pm. $5. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 6 : LIVE LEARNING – GRANDMA UNCOVERED The naked truth about

quilting in Dufferin – a social history, with archivist Steve Brown. 2pm. $5.

Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 7 : LIVE LEARNING – APPLES

Wild orchards of Kazakhstan to the microclimates of Simcoe County, presented by Alan Clarke. 2pm. $5.

Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 12 : MATTHEW’S HOUSE HOSPICE HARVEST GALA Save the date! Fine

dining, live auction, music, dancing.

New Tecumseth Recreation Centre, 7300 Industrial Parkway, Alliston. 705-435-7218; matthewshousehospice.ca SEP 14 : McVEAN FARM PICNIC Meal

features the farm’s vegetables and honey, other delectables sourced from local farms including wine & organic brews. Fundraiser for FarmStart. 11am4pm. $25; $35 at door; 12 & under, $10.

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workshops, activities to heal & recharge.

Special guest: Michael Moon. 8am6:30pm. Early bird prices $95/$175 ends July 23. Hockley Valley Resort. 519-9431490; weekendinthewoods.com

Acupuncture · RMT & Tui Na Massage Natural Herbal Medicine · Osteopathy

RICHARD ZHANG R. TCMP, R. Ac, CMD

Bolton Clinic

7 Norton Boulevard

905-587-0008 Orangeville 44 First Street

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Visit some of the most interesting homes in the area, includes lunch and auction. Proceeds to hospital equipment. 9am-4pm. $45, see website for ticket locations. Must be 12 & over.

Orangeville Agricultural Centre, 247090 5 Siderd, Mono. 519-941-2410 x2268; headwatershousetour.com SEP 20 & 27 : HIGH COUNTRY UNITED CHURCH RUMMAGE SALE Recycled,

reused, gently used clothing & linens. W of Hwy 10 on 15 Sdrd, Mono (Camilla).

519-941-5826

fall fairs Wellness System - PEMF Magnetic Field Therapy

Mark your calendars now for the annual fairs showcasing the best of Headwaters’ agriculture, including livestock, home craft, entertainment, pulls of all sorts, and, of course, food. See websites for more details.

AUG 29 – 31: ORANGEVILLE FALL FAIR

Harmony’s Whole Foods

Fresh • Organic • Delicious

Orangeville Fairgrounds, 247090 5 Sdrd, Mono. Orangeville Agricultural Society, 519-942-9597; oaseventcentre.ca SEP 12 – 14: SHELBURNE FALL FAIR

Shelburne & District Fairgrounds, 200 Fiddlepark Lane – Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex, Shelburne. townofshelburne.on.ca SEPT 19 – 21: GRAND VALLEY FALL FAIR Grand Valley Agricultural Society

Fairgrounds, 60 Main St N, Grand Valley.

519-942-4088; grandvalleyfallfair.ca

163 First Street in Orangeville

519 • 941 • 8961

www.harmonymarket.com

SEPT 19 – 21: BOLTON FALL FAIR Albion

Bolton Fairgrounds, 150 Queen Street S, Bolton. boltonfair.ca OCT 10 – 13: ERIN FALL FAIR Erin

inaturopath Naturopathic and Allergy Clinic

Inquire about our goals: • Answering your concerns • Eradicating symptoms • Allergies, ADHD, ADD, fibromyalgia, cholesterol, fatigue, ulcerative colitis, infertility, cancer issues • Modern intravenous therapy • Naturopathy, chiropracty

outdoor JUN 25 : GOLF TOURNAMENT: ASSOCIATION OF PARENT SUPPORT GROUPS IN ONTARIO

Dr. Fateh Srajeldin BSc., N.D.

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Proceeds for resources for parents of disruptive youth.

1-9pm. $150, register. Cardinal Golf Course, Hwy 9 & Hwy 400, Newmarket. 905-7273298; apsgo.ca

JUN 29 : CALEDON HILLS BRUCE TRAIL CLUB INTRODUCTORY HIKE 3-hour,

9 km loop, medium pace, moderate terrain. See website. 9:30am-12:30pm.

Mono Community Centre, Mono Centre. caledonbrucetrail.org JUL 3 : HIDDEN GEMS OF YORK STREET – GARDEN TOUR AND TEA Six

gardens, evening tea. 5-9pm. $10, at Dufferin Garden Centre, Orangeville Flowers, BookLore. York St, Orangeville.

Orangeville Horticultural Society, 519-9418242; orangevillehort.org JUL 5 : GARDEN TOUR AND RIVERBEND ARTISTS IN THE GARDENS Five gardens,

various artists. Maps at Kelly’s restaurant, Marie’s Valley Inn, The Chop House, Grand Valley Library. 10am-3pm. Grand Valley Horticulture Society, 519-928-5371; bevagraham@gmail.com JUL 5 & 6 : BASS FISHING TOURNAMENT

Catch & release. Proceeds to Island Lake trails. Top prize $2500. Adults (12+) $45; two days $70. Island Lake Conservation Area, Orangeville. Friends of Island Lake, 1-800-367-0890; landscapesforlife.ca/ events JUL 5 & 6 : DELPHINIUM FESTIVAL – ART IN THE GARDEN SHOW & SALE World-

renowned delphinium hybridizer Terry Dowdeswell speaks. 9am-5pm. Free, register. Plant Paradise Country Gardens, 16258 Humber Station Rd, Caledon. 905880-9090; plantparadise.ca JUL 15 : EWCS GOLF TOURNAMENT

Best ball, shotgun start 12:30pm. 18 holes, lunch, steak dinner. Proceeds to local agencies. 11am-8pm. $125, register. Guelph Lakes Golf Course, 7879 Wellington Rd 124, Guelph. 519-833-9696; eastwellingtoncommunityservices.com JUL 19 : TRAIL RIDE FOR BREAST CANCER 2.5-hr ride through Dufferin

forest. Prizes, online silent auction.

Volunteers/ sponsors needed. 8am-6pm. $55/rider, incl lunch. Dufferin Forest, Airport Rd, Mansfield. 416-407-6695; trailrideforbreastcancer.weebly.com AUG 4 : TOUR DE TERRA COTTA Various cycling races, all ages & levels. Cash prizes, full road closure, BBQ, beer garden. Proceeds to local charities. 8am4pm. Village of Terra Cotta. Tour de Terra Cotta Race Committee, 905-584-2557; letourdeterracotta.com

AUG 19 & SEP 16 : SHELBURNE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY MONTHLY MEETINGS & FLOWER SHOW Aug 19:

Night Gardens. Sep 16: Gardening with Native Plants. 7pm. Royal Canadian Legion, 203 William St, Shelburne. 519925-2182; shelburnehort.blogspot.com SEP 6 : MONO ON A BIKE 35 km tour of the Niagara Escarpment, 9:30am. 15 km and 7.5 km rides, 10:30am. All ages. Early bird prices, register at zone4.ca. 9:30am3pm. Mono Community Centre, Mono Centre. Town of Mono, 519-941-3599; townofmono.com SEP 9 : ORANGEVILLE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY MONTHLY MEETING & FLOWER SHOW Garden photography through the

seasons. 7-9pm. Orangeville Seniors’ Centre, 26 Bythia St. j-cutter@sympatico.ca SEP 13 : FIND MUSHROOMS FASCINATING? Naturalist Bob Bowles

answers your questions. 10am-1pm. $10; children free, register. 6600 Conc 4, Everett. Dufferin Simcoe Land Stewardship Network, 705-435-1881 x23; dufferinmuseum.com/forest/news.html SEP 13 : CALEDON PIT RUN Run, walk at

the Lafarge-Aecon Caledon Pit. 5k crosscountry run/walk, 1k walk, kids’ activities, tours. Proceeds to Headwaters Health Care Centre. 10am. 5k $35; 1k free. 17944 Hwy 10, Caledon. Lafarge-Aecon, 519-9271113; caledonpitrun.ca SEP 14 : TERRY FOX RUN IN PALGRAVE

Run/walk/ride for cancer research. 10k run 9am from Stationlands Park, Palgrave.

Free pancake breakfast 8am. 9am-noon.

Free, pledges. Rotary Club of Palgrave, 905-880-3774; tom.fuller55@gmail.com SEP 20 : FRIENDS FOR LIFE WALK 5k on West Orangeville Trailways. Walk, run, bike, inline skate. Shorter route available.

Proceeds to SPCA Orangeville & District Branch. 9am-3:30pm. Register with donation/pledge. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Orangeville.

519-942-3140; orangeville.ontariospca.ca

theatre+film JUN 22 – 28 : GREASE Head greaser Danny Zuko and good girl Sandy relive their “Summer Nights.” Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. $20; children 12 & under, $15. Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-942-3423; orangevillemusictheatre.com JUL 4 – 19 : BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR An inspiring and poignant look at

a national hero. Musical/drama. TuesFri 7:30pm. Sat 2 & 7:30pm. $32. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-8742800; rosetheatre.ca

JUL 5 – AUG 30 : TIM HORTON’S SATURDAY NIGHT MOVIES UNDER THE STARS Bring lawn chairs. Kids, come early

for pre-movie activity! 9pm. Free. Garden Square. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca JUL 8 & 9 : ROMEO AND JULIET – SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK – BOLTON

music NOW – OCT 11 : SHOWCASE SATURDAYS

Some of Brampton’s top talent. Outdoor program, weather permitting. 10am. Free.

Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton.

905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca

Shakespeare’s most thrilling & romantic play. Bring lawn chair. 7-9pm. Suggested $20 donation. Dick’s Dam Park, 250 Glasgow Rd, Bolton. 416-209-2026, humberrivershakespeare.ca

JUN 21 : BOLTON BLUES AND JAZZ FEST

JUL 8 – AUG 21 : SHAKESPEARE IN THE SQUARE July 8–24: Complete Works of

JUN 22 : SO-LIVE @ SOULYVE Spoken word, music, open mics. Featuring Colette MacDonald, Erin Bolton, Anthony Carnovale & Harry Posner. 6:30-9pm. $10, incl food. Soulyve Caribbean Restaurant, 19 Mill St, Orangeville. Story451, 519-9410559; harryposner@rogers.com

William Shakespeare (Abridged). July 29–31: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Aug 5–21: Macbeth. Tues-Thurs. 7pm. Free.

Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. City of Brampton, 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca JUL 18 : ROMEO & JULIET AT ALTON MILL ARTS CENTRE Warring families and star-

crossed young lovers. Dinner al fresco from Shaw’s Creek Café 6pm. Play 7pm. $20 (dinner extra). Alton Mill, 1402 Queen St, Alton. 519-941-9300; altonmill.ca

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Life as it should be.

Live music, delicious food, art exhibits, vendors. See website. Rain date: June 22.

4-10pm. Free. King & Queen Sts. Bolton BIA, mybolton.com

JUN 22 & 29 : MUSIC IN THE PARK June

22: The Two Plus Who (Bob Tremblay & Lynn Russwurm, country). June 29: Kent Tocher (country/rock). Weather permitting. 2-4pm. Hillsburgh Historical Park, 105 Trafalgar Rd, Hillsburgh. Let’s Get Hillsburgh Growing Committee, 519855-6343; lghgcommittee@gmail.com

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JUN 28 : BELLS AND WHISTLES Johnny

Burke, Canadian Country Music Hall of Famer & Naomi Bristow, champion yodeller. 8-10pm. $25. Century Church Theatre, 3 Hill St, Hillsburgh. 519-8554586; centurychurchtheatre.com

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JUL 25 – AUG 9 : SLEUTH An eccentric

mystery writer lures his wife’s new lover into deceit, jealousy, intrigue. TuesFri 7:30pm. Sat 2 & 7:30pm. $32. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-8742800; rosetheatre.ca AUG 15 – 23 : DRINKING ALONE A man hires an escort to pose as his fiancée to impress his visiting father. Comedy. $32.

Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton.

905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca AUG 28 : PANTOMIME AUDITIONS FOR RED RIDING HOOD Singers, dancers,

actors. Register by email. Rehearsals Sun 1-5pm, Thurs 7-10pm. Performances Nov 27-30, 7-9pm. Grace Tipling Hall, 120 Main St, Shelburne. Tipling Stage Company, tiplingstagecompany.com SEP 12 – 21 : RELATIVELY SPEAKING

Misunderstandings and mistaken identity lead to hilarious situations. Fri, Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30pm. $20. Century Church Theatre, 3 Hill St, Hillsburgh.

Century Theatre Guild, 519-855-4586; centurychurchtheatre.com SEP 25 - 28 : LEISA WAY IN COUNTRY JUKEBOX Also starring Aaron Solomon &

Randall Kempf. Greatest duets in country music. Thurs: 2 & 8pm. Fri & Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. $42; before Aug 1, $37. Theatre Orangeville, 87 Broadway. 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca

Wilson Band, Krista Earle, Black Lady Soul, The Claytones & more. 7pm. Free.

Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton.

905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca JUL 6 – 13 : BELFOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL Chamber music featuring

six professional concerts, one student concert. $20; 18 & under, $5. Melville White Church, 15962 Mississauga Rd, Caledon. Belfountain Heritage Society, 647-706-0554; belfountainmusic.com AUG 6 – 10 : CANADIAN OPEN OLD TIME FIDDLE CHAMPIONSHIP Prizes,

concerts, step dancing, jam sessions, parade, beer garden, church service, camping, 24-hour meals, pork BBQ. $45; 12 & under, $22. Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex, 200 Fiddlepark Ln, Shelburne. Rotary Club of Shelburne, 519925-8620; shelburnefiddlecontest.com AUG 30 : CONCERT BY KELLY WALKER

Accomplished singer/songwriter & recording artist performs. 4pm. $20.

Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com SEP 10 : GUEST NIGHT AT ORANGEVILLE CHORUS, SWEET ADELINES INTER­ NATIONAL Women singers of all ages

learn four-part a cappella harmony.

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Diverse choral music with a rich, warm sound. 8-10pm. $30. Theatre Orangeville, Town Hall Opera House, 87 Broadway.

Orangeville Concert Association, 519-9423423; orangevilleconcerts.ca SEP 21 : MARK DUBOIS AND THE MARK DUBOIS STUDIO SINGERS – THE LAST SONGS OF SUMMER Proceeds to Relessey

Church and cemetery. Tickets early August, call Donna, 519-941-1100, or Marion, 519941-1829. 2:30pm. $15. Relessey Church, 874615 5th Ln, Mono. Relessey Cemetery Board, luellaholmes@aol.com

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JUN 30 – JULY 4, 7 – 11, 21 – 25, AUG 5 – 8, 11 – 15: IMAGINARIUM – ADVENTURES IN ART Cultivate confidence in creative

self-expression in children of all ages.

9am-4pm. $200-$260. Bursaries available.

Creemore Station on the Green, 10 Caroline St E, Creemore. 705-444-0550; ayrlie.ca JUL 5 : LOVE YOU FOREVER & MORE – MUNSCH Adaptation of stories by

Canada’s beloved children’s author.

1pm. Children 12 & under, $5; 13+, $15.

Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. To Be Determined Theatre Company. 1-877-941-7787; dufferinmuseum.com JUL 5 : PINHOLE CAMERA WORKSHOP AND TOUR Create a simple pinhole

camera, tour photography exhibition.

2-4pm. $10; family, $30. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055 x3650; pama.peelregion.ca

NOW – SEP 28 (SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS) : DROP-IN FAMILY ACTIVITIES AT PAMA

Creative projects inspired by PAMA. 1-5pm. $4.50; seniors & students, $3.50; family, $10. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055 x3650; pama. peelregion.ca NOW – DEC 30 (TUESDAYS) : ADJUST­ MENTS AFTER BIRTH POSTPARTUM SUPPORT GROUP Support group for

mothers affected by postpartum mood disorders. 1:30-3:30pm. Free, register.

Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org JUN 26 : CAR SEAT CLINIC Install your child’s car seat properly. 2-5pm. Donate to East Wellington Food Bank. Call for appointment. Village of Erin Fire Station #10, 2 Erinville Dr. East Wellington Community Services, 519-833-9696; meetup.com/ewcs-childrens-programs JUN 30 : SUMMER DROP-IN PROGRAMS AT CALEDON PARENT-CHILD CENTRE

Variety of early learning programs over the summer. See website. No need to register.

Free. 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-8570090; cp-cc.org JUN 30 – JUL 4 : SUMMER CAMP AT PAMA – “ZOOM IN” Pinhole camera

activities, portraiture, science behind photography. 9:30am-4:30pm. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca 98

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JUL 7 – AUG 8 : EVERDALE FARM CAMP

Help in the market garden, work with livestock. 9am-3:30pm. $225/week.

5812 6th Line, Hillsburgh. farmcamp@ everdale.org; farmkids.everdale.org JUL 12, 19, 26 : SUMMER STORYTIME AT THE ORANGEVILLE FARMERS’ MARKET

Enjoy stories read by our summer students. 11-11:30am. Free. Alexandra Park, Second St & First Ave. Orangeville Public Library, 519-941-0610; orangeville. library.on.ca JUL 12, 26, AUG 9 & 23 : CREATIVE SATURDAYS @ CALEDON PARENT-CHILD CENTRE, INGLEWOOD Family time

drop-in, structured play-based learning programs. 9:15-10:15am. Free. Inglewood United Church, 15672 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org JUL 14 – 18 : FAIRY TALE ADVENTURES

fiddle music, Ottawa Valley/traditional step dance. 9am-4pm. $825. 2 Line of Adjala.

Bill Elliott, 519-941-5683; fiddle.on.ca

(Ages 4-6) Dance, sing, drama games, performance. No experience necessary. $130 half day; $220 full.

Citrus Dance, 62 Broadway, Orangeville.

Theatre Orangeville, 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca

JUL 7 – 11, AUG 11 – 15 : LITTLE CREEK RANCH KIDS’ DAY CAMP Horsemanship,

JUL 14 – 18 : SUMMER CAMP AT PAMA – UP-CYCLED OBJECTS Basics of sculpture

JUL 6 – 11 : ORANGEVILLE FIDDLE AND STEP DANCE CAMP Old-time Canadian

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music/drama, art/nature. 9am-3:30pm. $300, includes lunches & snacks. Little Creek Ranch, 995570 Mono Adjala Townline, Mono. 705-434-0081; e.capes@sympatico.ca

and 3-D design, found object sculptures.

9:30am-4:30pm. See website. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

JUL 7 – 11 : OH, THE PLACES WE’LL GO!

JUL 14 – 18, AUG 11 – 15 : DIRT TO DELI­ CIOUS SUMMER CAMP Harvest, cook

Dr. Seuss-themed exercises & drama games, performance for ages 7-10. No experience needed. 9am-4pm. $220.

Citrus Dance, 62 Broadway, Orangeville.

Theatre Orangeville, 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca JUL 7 – 11 : CHELTENHAM BAPTIST CHURCH SUMMER CAMP Bible stories,

music, games, puppets, skits, crafts, snacks. 9:30am-noon. $25; family $40, register. 14520 Creditview Rd, 2 km N of King Rd, Cheltenham. 905-838-3122; cbchurch.ca JUL 7 – 11 : SUMMER CAMP AT PAMA – CULTURE & SPIRIT Experiment with

materials & techniques, create your own textile art. 9:30am-4:30pm. See website.

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton.

905-791-4055; pama.peelregion.ca

and eat local, seasonal food. 9-4pm. $165 ($150 for siblings, includes food). Palgrave Community Kitchen, 34 Pine Ave, Palgrave.

905-880-0303; palgravekitchen.org JUL 22, AUG 26 : LET’S GET TOGETHER

Connect with other families to explore parenting a child with special needs, 6 & under. 5:45-7:15pm. Free, register. Caledon Parent-Child Centre, 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org JUL 17 : STITCHES ACROSS TIME – PAPER WEAVING FOR KIDS Make simple pattern

by changing colours, with Nancy Turner.

6 & up. 10am-noon. $15, register. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, Hwy 89 & Airport Rd. Dufferin Arts Council, 705-4351881; dufferinmuseum.com

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JUL 20 – 26 : CAMP MANSFIELD MAKER CAMP Hands-on hand tool experiences,

trail riding, swimming, archery range. Day campers, $310; overnight, $630. 937365 Airport Rd, Mansfield. 705-435-4479; mansfieldoutdoorcentre.ca JUL 21 – 25 : DROP-IN SUMMER ACTIVITIES – CALLING ALL ARTISTS!

Colour, composition, figure & form in painting and sculpture. 10am-3pm. Free with admission. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca JUL 28 – AUG 1 : DROP-IN SUMMER ACTIVITIES – THE STORY OF HOME

Scavenger hunts, settlers’ games, storytelling. 10am-3pm. Free with admission. Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA), 9 Wellington St E, Brampton. 905-791-4055; pama. peelregion.ca AUG 2 : CREEMORE CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Activities, live performances,

demos & workshops. 9am-5pm. Free.

Main Street of Creemore. 705-466-9998; creemorechildrensfestival.com AUG 10 : HCIA CANBIKE KIDS’ FESTIVAL

Safe cycling and bike maintenance tips by certified Canbike instructors.

9am-1pm. See website. Monora Park Pavilion, Hwy 10 N of Orangeville. headwaterscommunities.org AUG 16 : SPIRIT OF THE HILLS – HILLSBURGH’S FAMILY FUN DAY Farm-

themed activities, petting zoo, classic car show, entertainment. 10am-2pm.

Trafalgar Road, Hillsburgh. The Let’s Get Hillsburgh Growing Committee, 519-8556343; lghgcommittee@gmail.com AUG 18 – 22 : SOUNDS OF SUMMER

Drama games, activities to increase personal confidence for ages 9-12. No experience necessary. Citrus Dance Inc. 62 Broadway, Orangeville. 519-942-3423; theatreorangeville.ca AUG 20 – 23 : YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN Charlie and the Peanuts

gang face challenges pursuing happiness.

Musical. Wed-Fri 7:30pm. Sat 2 & 7:30pm. $37. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Ln, Brampton. 905-874-2800; rosetheatre.ca SEP 8 – 13 : FALL PROGRAM REGISTRATION, CALEDON PARENTCHILD CENTRE Free interactive adult/

child programs such as Baby Playtime, Toddler Mother Goose, Learn & Play. See website. Free, register. 150 Queen St S, Bolton. 905-857-0090; cp-cc.org ≈

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Albion Challenges Garafraxa?

1. Twelve rectangles do not include either black or red circle: Four at each of the top, bottom and right sides of the pattern. Note that ABFE, CDHG, KLPO, and IJNM are squares, not rectangles.

2. Four: The black circle alone is included in eight rectangles – BCKJ, BCON, FGKJ, FGON, BDLJ, BDPN, FHLJ, and FHPN – while the red circle alone is included in four – ABNM, ABJI, EFNM, and EFJI. 3. There are thirty-two rectangles in total.

from page 102 Missing Animal Life at the Shelburne 4-H

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vamoose p ot tery chapel goatee gr a sp tantrum

A Growing Remainder The lowest possible such number is 59.

Silas Renarm in Palgrave Pour the water of the second glass into the fifth.

Another Little Toughie?

When finished, the grid will have one number in each square, without any number being repeated in a line, column or diagonal:

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a Puzzling Conclusion

by Ken Weber

Albion Challenges Garafraxa?

Missing Animal Life at the Shelburne 4-H

We can only speculate but it’s not unlikely that in the days of candles and oil lamps, the early surveyors of Upper Canada entertained one another during idle moments with geometry puzzles. Imagine then, that William Chewitt, who surveyed Albion Township in 1819, once challenged Samuel Ryckman, who surveyed Garafraxa Township in 1821, with the puzzle below.

Ruth had entered her twin lambs in the 4-H competition at Shelburne and need­ ed to find something to occupy her young brother, Ben, while she gave the lambs a careful, final grooming. Fortunately, the fact that the word ‘lamb’ can be found in the word ‘flambouyant’ gave her an idea.

She gave him the clues below and had him find the animal life in each word.

(It’s no surprise that Ben figured out right away that ‘ram’ was the answer to the first challenge.)

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Another Little Toughie?

At SS #15 Mulmur in Kilgorie, Mr. Stuart was quick to assure his students that even though this challenge looked like another one of his notorious “little toughies,” he believed even the younger students could solve it. The key, he told everyone, is to find the right pattern.

After that, he said, everything will flow quickly and easily.

Here’s the challenge: Notice that the numbers 1 to 7 have been entered into the grid below. Your task is to enter the numbers 1 to 7 into the other squares so that when you’re finished, the grid will have one number in each square, without any number being repeated in a line, column or diagonal.

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3 How many rectangles in total are there in the pattern?

What should Ryckman’s answers be?

A Growing Remainder What is the lowest possible number that has a remainder of 1 if divided by 2, a remainder of 2 if divided by 3, a remain­ der of 3 if divided by 4, 4 if divided by 5, and 5 if divided by 6?

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Silas Renarm in Palgrave After a prolonged absence, Silas Renarm felt it was safe to return to Palgrave with another batch of his Potency Potion elixir for sale. As usual he had a puzzle challenge set up to attract customers. This

time he had six glasses standing in a row at one end of his sales table. Glasses 1, 2 and 3 (counting from the left) were filled with water. Glasses 4, 5 and 6 were empty.

“Win a sample of my Potency Potion,” challenged Silas, “by rearranging these six glasses so that only alternate ones have water in them. Easy, right? Yes, too easy! So the rule is you may touch only one glass!” solutions on page 101

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