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F E AT U R E S HMCS SKEENA – THE SPIRIT OF A SHIP Chris Barker has spent the last twenty-five years ensuring that the sacrifices of the fifteen seamen who lost their lives when HMCS Skeena was wrecked off the coast of Iceland during the Second World War, will never be forgotten. by DAVID NEWLAND
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THE MCLUHAN WAY Over 6,000 books from Marshall McLuhan’s library sat in boxes waiting to be catalogued. The task went to his grandson, Andrew McLuhan, who discovered that his understanding of his grandfather’s legacy lay between the pages of those books. by CONRAD BEAUBIEN
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KISS ME UNDER A SHINING SUN – THE LOVELY KAIT SHANNON Jeanette Arsenault looks beyond a parent’s grief to keep the memory of her beloved daughter, Kait Shannon, alive. Kait’s Comfort Kits – packets of small luxuries – are making their way into cancer wards thanks to Kait’s enduring spirit and a mother’s promise. by JANET DAVIES
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MAILBAG INSIDE WATERSHED FENCE POSTS: Keeping the Mind Free of Reptiles by DAN NEEDLES
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GEORGE’S POND: All That Glitter
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CULTURAL CURRENTS: Michael Glover
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WATERSHED TEASER:
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INNOVATION:
by TOM CRUICKSHANK
The Art Gallery of Northumberland Presents: Yves Gaucher
The Market & Smør
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HABITAT: Conservation Authorities Under Provincial Fire by NORM WAGENAAR
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FIELD NOTES: The Plight of the Tree Swallow by TERRY SPRAGUE
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FOOD & DRINK SCENE: Douglas George Hope – The Comeback Kid by SIGNE LANGFORD
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WATERSHED PRESENTS: Spirit of the Hills 20th Anniversary by CHRIS CAMERON
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WATERSHEDDINGS: Seasonal Guide To Regional Events
illustration by Jane Kessler
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LOVIN’ THE LOCAL: A Showcase Of Locally Curated Products by STEPHANIE CAMPBELL
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MEANDERINGS: Murder Most Foul
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THE FALL BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF DUCK HUNTING WITH MY BROTHERS WHEN I WAS A KID. I was a tag-along but as long as I didn’t complain and I could distinguish between a blue-winged teal whistling into our blind and the silhouette of a mallard coming into our sights, I was welcome. Opening day was the highlight of September. We’d head out to our blind before dawn, slipping through the marsh as quietly as possible, making sure our paddles didn’t bang on the gunwales, whispering back and forth while we set out the decoys. One year, we had a blind on an island in the St. Lawrence River. We paddled out to the blind in the dark. The main seaway channel wasn’t far off because we could hear the horns of the freighters as they slipped through the predawn calm. I don’t remember what we shot, or if we shot anything, but I’ll never forget the trip back to shore. As we loaded the decoys back in the canoe, a wind picked up and it suddenly turned bitterly cold. We set out nonetheless. Our canoe rode the crests of the waves and then dipped into the troughs. We paddled as hard as we could to keep up with the surges, water splashing over the gunwales onto our decoys and into our faces. We made it to shore, shaking with cold and excitement. My spine tingles when I think back on how fearless we were. I’m smiling as I write this because I’m about to tag along with my brother on another duck hunting adventure – not on the St. Lawrence Seaway this time, but in northern Manitoba. I’m still welcome because I can paddle a canoe and I know the difference between a teal and a mallard. And I won’t complain.
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shelagh armstrong A graduate of the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCADU), Shelagh is a professional illustrator, who has done work for advertising, packaging, books, magazines, coins, stamps and has even worked as a courtroom artist for television. A highlight for Shelagh includes illustrating the book If the World Were a Village by David Smith. It won multiple awards and has been published in over 25 languages. She teaches painting at Sheridan College. She loves illustrating for Watershed magazine, especially for writers like Dan Needles.
david newland A writer, speaker, and musician based in Cobourg, David travels widely in the Canadian Arctic and beyond as an expedition host and Zodiac driver with Adventure Canada. His latest CD, Northbound was recorded live in Cobourg with his band, Uncharted Waters, and Inuit cultural performers Siqiniup Qilauta (Sunsdrum). David and his wife and kids love spending time in their backyard butterfly refuge and appreciating local wonders by canoe.
janet davies After a move from England to Toronto in 1993, Jan stayed there only until she discovered Prince Edward County. 20 years later, having shed her corporate job with Thomson Newspapers, she and photographer Graham Davies say they’ve “never felt better, never had less” living the simple, somewhat precarious, freelance rural life. Jan delights in writing about the creative, tenacious and inspiring people she meets every day in The County.
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mbishop@watershedmagazine.com CONTRIBUTORS Shelagh Armstrong Lorne Aronson Conrad Beaubien Chris Cameron John Corey Tom Cruickshank Janet Davies Orland French Tom Groot John Jeronimus Jane Kessler Johnny C.Y. Lam Signe Langford Shelby Lisk Brad Manning Ingrid Nachtrieb Dan Needles David Newland Lee Rapp Meghan Sheffield George Smith
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Letters to the Editor
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR FESTIVAL
to 6” above the soil line and
I’m writing on behalf of the entire Wellington
then I prune off any vines
Water Week team to thank Watershed magazine
going up to the trees. The
for the gorgeous piece in the current Summer
leaves will die, and the vine
issue, created by Micol Marotti and Tim Zeltner.
will lose its moisture. It will
We were literally stopped in our tracks with delight
start breaking down and not do further damage.
worked with Fred and Norah Urquhart; visited film
when we opened the magazine to that centre
You want to kill the grapevine roots. If the trunk
locations in the Toronto area; reviewed a rough cut
spread! Thank you for the effort, resources and ex-
of the vine has a large enough diameter, I dig it up
of the film; attended the world premiere in Wash-
pertise Watershed generously expended in sup-
and drill a small hole in it. Then, I pour salt on the
ington, D.C. and ate a pre-screening dinner with
porting our festival that brings together incredible
open wound. The vine will still sucker up, so you
actor Gordon Pinsent and others. In fact, saw 89
music, the community and local environment. We’re
must constantly cut off the suckers to stop photo-
year-old Gordon Pinsent last March at a Celebra-
riding high on your wave of encouragement!
synthesis. Later, if need be, use more salt. This
tion of Life for SK Films CEO Jonathan Barker.
Sincerely, Maria Gacesa, Wellington Water Week
method works well and doesn’t damage your trees
Don Davis, Toronto
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or shrubs.
PROPER REMOVAL OF GRAPEVINES
Thanks for a great magazine. I just had to send
I love your magazine and look forward to every
along this advice.
issue, but I was disappointed in the advice you
Amy Quinn, Grafton
I travel to Prince Edward County quite a bit to visit wineries and I always bring my trusted copy of
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gave for grapevine removal.
WATERSHED AS MY GUIDE
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MONARCH TAG AND RELEASE
see and do.
the frustration when it comes to grapevines, but
Thanks for supporting the Dorothy’s House Muse-
Lydia White, Arnprior
the last thing you want to do is to yank them off
um’s Monarch Tag and Release event. It’s interest-
trees and bushes. This can cause open wounds,
ing that you mentioned that episode of the Nature
Working in the wild landscapes, I understand
and if done in the fall, you could be removing next
of Things (Watershed, Summer, Must Must 2019).
Watershed looks forward to reading all your letters!
year’s leaf buds. Open wounds are subject to
Most of that film footage came from the IMAX
Please forward your letters to: Watershed Magazine,
pathogens, especially in hot humid weather. When
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NOTEWORTHY
HERE TO HELP
A mother’s promise to fulfill her daughter’s wishes
Marshall McLuhan, considered one of the world’s fore-
means that Kait’s Comfort Kits – bags filled with small
most communications theorists, had 6,411 books in his
luxuries meant to brighten the days of cancer patients –
extensive library. After his death, his grandson Andrew
are being delivered to local hospitals.
undertook the monumental task of cataloguing the
The Lovely Kate Shannon, Pg.44
massive collection before sending it to the University of Toronto.
On the evening of October 24, 1944 HMCS Skeena hit
The McLuhan Way, Pg.38
a rocky shoal on the coast of Iceland. Of the 151 members of the Skeena crew, 36 tried to escape the sinking
Within 36 hours of Catherine Aurelia Vermilyea’s brutal
ship in lifeboats that were quickly overturned in the
murder in Belleville, police set up a sting operation in
storm. Those seamen were washed ashore, covered in
her son’s California home, some 5,000 kilometres away.
oil, some living, some dead. Fifteen members of the
At the time, news of the gruesome murder dominated
Skeena crew perished in the ordeal.
newspaper headlines on both sides of the border.
The Spirit of a Ship, Pg.28
Meanderings, Pg.86
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant; Wail of the pines and a wind with the shout of a giant; Night and a trail unknown and a heart reliant.” ROBERT W. SERVICE
What’s the best way to get rid of the leaves on my property this fall? There are a couple of ways to deal with your leaves and no, it doesn’t involve burning them, blowing them into a neighbour’s yard or stuffing them into endless brown paper bags. Option one is to run a mulching lawn mower over them. The leaf mulch is a valuable source of nutrients for your lawn and actually gives back some of what the roots have sucked up from the soil during the growing season. Option two comes from the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Their senior conservation biologist, Dan Kraus, suggests “leaving the leaves” on the ground. “Layers of leaves are an important habitat for many animals, such as toads, frogs and insects. They hibernate under the insulating layer of leaves.” If you live in town, don’t rake your leaves onto the street. When they are left to decay on the road, they release nitrogen and phosphorus that will find its way into storm sewer drains and eventually end up in our watercourses. Nitrogen and phosphorus encourage algae growth that depletes oxygen in the water and harms fish and other aquatic life. It’s better to keep those nutrients for your lawn and garden.
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KEEPING THE MIND FREE OF REPTILES True Confessions from the Ninth Concession BY DAN NEEDLES
I’VE ALWAYS FELT LIKE A BIT OF A REBEL, living
as I have for nearly 40 years as a back-to-the-lander and filling the freezer every fall with food I produce myself. But to the bearded hobbits in my son’s rockclimbing group, I am hopelessly mainstream and a slave to the military industrial complex. The rock climbers in our neighbourhood are a fascinating breed and I enjoy their company. Vegans, pacifists and herbalists don’t make me flinch the way they once did. I’ve come to agree with poet William Blake, who said the man who never changes an opinion becomes like standing water “and breeds reptiles of the mind.” Science now agrees that changing your mind actually improves brain health. According to the Mayo Clinic, rigid thinking leads to rigid everything else in the body. I now try to change my mind about things as frequently as possible. This is not hard when you still have adult children in the house. One of these opportunities to view the world differently popped up a few weeks ago when a barefoot climber emerged from his van to collect my son for a day on the Niagara Escarpment. (His name has been withheld for privacy reasons.) He had feet like a Sherpa guide. I took him over to the sheep barn and showed him my small flock of crossbred lambs, thinking he might be impressed with my efforts to feed the house from this little acreage. He said bluntly that farming was a blight on the planet, a guzzler of fossil fuels and pretty much the
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source of most of our current problems. “Farming is the cause of social stratification, coercion, alienation and overpopulation,” he said solemnly. “Humans did not raise armies until they started farming and had to defend their land.” “Right,” I said. “So what do you eat?” He said he preferred wild food. He is a forager. He lives on mushrooms and forest greens, and he drinks a lot of reishi and kombucha teas. “Ah, the Paleo diet without the meat,” I said, and told him about my grandfather, the founding eccentric in our family, who invented his own Paleo diet 20 years before The Stone Age Diet was published by a California gastroenterologist in 1975. I left out the part about my grandfather being a total nutbar who walked away from his medical practice and spent the last 30 years of his life in the basement making birdhouses. “So, this township is not a great place to forage between November and April,” I said. “What do you eat then?” He allowed that not all the food he finds is wild. Some of it comes from dumpsters behind grocery stores where tons of perfectly healthy vegetables are tossed because they don’t meet the rigid standards of the fresh produce aisle. That was a line in the sand for me. At my age dumpster diving is not recommended. Besides, I live in a small town and eyes are everywhere. I asked him what sort of work he did and learned
that foraging is really a state of mind and can be a full-time occupation. The young man has explored every square foot of the Escarpment and follows a rigid code of simplicity that would challenge a Trappist monk. He treads lightly on the earth and shuns invasive practices like hammering steel pitons into cracks in the rock. He is an ardent follower of the creed of “clean climbing,” using only nuts and runners that leave no mark on the rock face. Yvon Chouinard, the billionaire founder of Patagonia, called it “organic climbing for the natural man.” The conversation turned abruptly to politics. My hobbit friend classified himself as an anarcho-primitivist. I told him I generally wake up Conservative each morning, but by nightfall I am inclined to anarchism myself. Anarchists are not the bombthrowing crazies of my grandfather’s era. The national anarchist party in Greece now occupies several floors of a downtown office tower in Athens. He smiled and we agreed that just because you hate structure doesn’t mean you have to be disorganized. We parted friends and, apart from the snaky business of dumpster diving, I felt my mind was still relatively uncluttered by reptiles. Editor’s note: Author and playwright Dan Needles is the recipient of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. His new book, True Confessions from the Ninth Concession (Douglas & McIntyre), a collection from 20 years of his columns for Watershed and other publications, is available at bookstores.
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A SELECTION OF THINGS TO DO AND DISCOVER ACROSS OUR REGION
MUST SAY THANKS Two of our long standing advertisers have reached significant milestones this year – Rousseau’s Fine Furniture & Interior Design is celebrating an impressive 90 years in business, and perennial favourite of Northumberland bibliophiles, Furby House Books in Port Hope, has reached 30 years. In these days of faceless, corporate stores and retail business struggling to even make it to a decade, it’s wonderful to see the support, success and strength of these two iconic businesses. And thanks for being a part of the Watershed family for the past 19 years.
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This is one fundraiser you do not want to miss. Horizons of Friendship brings together some of our favourite authors, Elizabeth Hay, Lisa Moore
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try in bright orange Liberation75 tulips in hon-
to coast. The proceeds of the initiative are in
Anniversary of Writers and Friends. CBC Radio’s
our of the 75th anniversary of liberation of the
support of the Royal Canadian Legion, the
Paul Kennedy – he of the soothing voice and
Netherlands. The goal of the Liberation75 Tulip
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at Victoria Hall in Cobourg. Proceeds go toward Horizons of Friendship programs in Central America and Mexico. 25th Anniversary of Writers and Friends Sunday, September 15th, Doors open at 1:30 pm and program starts at 2:00 pm Victoria Hall, Cobourg. Tickets are $40 and include a tax receipt. Tickets available by phone 905-372-5483 x 10, in person at Horizons of Friendship (50 Covert St, Cobourg) or at Furby House Books (65 Walton St, Port Hope), or online at www.horizons.ca/events
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MUST BE INSPIRED Gone are the days when a science fair project consisted of raiding your parent’s pantry for rudimentary supplies. Two high school students from Brighton, Hana Haytaoglu and Hannah MacAusland, have upped the science project game considerably and will be traveling to Abu Dhabi at the end of September to showcase their biodegradable plastic at the International Science Fair. This global competition aims to develop and encourage a scientific culture among youth and brings together the best and the
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unlikely dreams take root and grow. Keith Del Principe and bekky O’Neil, owners of Cardboard Reality Farm and Studio will tell you that contrasts are really only similarities brought full circle. bekky and Keith are respected creators of animated films. Their work has been screened around the world. They are also organic farmers whose desire is to feed the land while the land feeds the community. If these two career paths seem contradictory, bekky and Keith know that they aren’t. It’s hard not to wonder about the name “Cardboard Reality.” A metaphor, the two of them say: Cardboard suggests repurposing something that already exists into something new. This in turn links to the idea of renewal and growth in agriculture. Reality suggests the truly earthy, objective aspect of farming: the opportunity to observe the progress of your work on a daily basis, which isn’t always possible as you pursue an artistic goals.
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The nineteenthcentury farmhouse evokes images of an off-the-beaten-path B&B in Provence. Behind the house lives a flock of Indian Runner ducks, and in a nearby compound, the farm’s two malamutes are kept.
Cardboard Reality Farm is hidden at the end of a gravel lane near Roseneath. The first impression upon arriving is one of growing things. Trees tower overhead; the ground underfoot is spongy and alive. “When we first moved here we started by just letting everything grow,” says Keith. “We needed to see what the land was offering us.” The nineteenth-century farmhouse evokes images of an off-the-beaten-path B&B in Provence. Thick stone walls support wide sills under large windows, used to get seedlings started in winter months. A rabbit scampers across the floor upstairs. Behind the house lives a flock of Indian Runner ducks, and in a nearby compound, the farm’s two malamutes are kept. The dogs love to live outdoors and will vociferously discourage predators from coming near the other animals. The largest square footage of the farm is occupied by the growing area, where green rows of produce poke out of the ground and reach toward the sun. You can tell what month it is by what’s ready for harvest: asparagus and strawberries in June; turnips and pumpkins in September. ... bekky grew up in downtown Toronto and met Keith when they were both apprentices at the Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont. They settled in Montreal and discovered a mutual love of animation, which they studied at Concordia University. Keith originally worked as a marine biologist. He found he was in serious physical decline due to his sedentary work and lifestyle, aggravated by health challenges. Working on the farm has reawakened his body’s sense of wellness. “You need that balance,” Keith says, “where your body is working as hard as your mind.”
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In 2016 the couple moved to a family property near Roseneath, which was originally bought as a retreat. Their goal was to combine the seemingly unrelated career paths of farming and animation. When they first came to rural Ontario from an apartment in the Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal, they were agricultural newbies in nearly every sense of the word. “It was quite an adventure the first year we were here,” bekky admits with a smile. They had problems with contaminated water in their well and sometimes felt isolated out in the country. Now, their dream is becoming a reality, although such a path is rarely clear or straight. Keith notes, “We break a lot of rules, but we break them knowledgeably. We make a lot of mistakes, but we learn.” ... Not long after they began farming, bekky and Keith saw that their products would be more accessible if there was a bricks-and-mortar shop people could visit. A website is not a farm, they realized, because there is no community involved; accordingly, they opened the studio on King Street in Cobourg. Cardboard Reality also connected with colleagues and customers through the Cobourg Farmers’ Market, where they sell their produce and goods every Saturday. bekky works in the Cobourg studio from Wednesday to Sunday, selling crafts as well as hosting a variety of crafting workshops. ... Keith and bekky embrace the philosophy of permaculture, a set of cultivation and conservation principles that makes use of the natural features of their ecosystem. Keith mulches with wood chips he receives from farmers who might otherwise just dis-
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Keith and bekky embrace the philosophy of permaculture, a set of cultivation and conservation principles that makes use of their ecosystem. card them. “You take material from everywhere and use it or make it better.” bekky makes greeting cards and affordable art from recycled cardboard. She also uses it to package their produce. “Our vegetables never come wrapped in plastic,” she says. ... Cardboard Reality Farm is a practitioner of CSA – Community Supported Agriculture. Simply put, CSA is a crop sharing program in which community members pay a subscription to a local farm at the start of a season and receive a weekly basket of brightly coloured vegetables, fruits, and other seasonal produce. The main advantage of CSA to a small farmer is that many of the upfront cultivation costs are partly offset. In addition, knowing how much to plant at the beginning of the season helps farmers plan crop
volume and type, resulting in less wastage. And because of the one-on-one relationship between producer and consumer, there is direct dialogue. Nearly all CSAs embrace organic farming techniques such as composting and avoidance of tillage and synthetic fungicides or pesticides. Cardboard Reality has added the letter “A” to CSA. The “A” in this case stands for Art. In addition to fruit and vegetables, each weekly basket contains a small piece of work from the arts and crafts studio, which adds a whimsical touch. ... Both bekky and Keith continue with active careers as animators, especially in the wintertime when the fields are dormant. A visit to their website to watch their animated videos is a treat. bekky is also finishing up her Master of Fine Arts, and as you might expect, her thesis is an animated documen-
tary about the process of organic farming. “I see no difference between food and art,” says Keith, “between animation and farming. It’s not a contradiction, but a connection.” Keith and bekky are committed to sustainable agriculture and to being organic producers. Of course, the vision of organic farming has its realities as well. As the day wears on and the sun glares down from a cloudless sky, Keith heads back out to the field. “Weeding,” he says, smiling. “Every day is both a challenge and a blessing,” the two affirm, a seeming contradiction. But if you think about it, both attributes balance one another. Cardboard Reality works collaboratively with the earth, animating it and feeding it. And the earth pays back in kind. Cardboard Reality Farm and Studio – www.cardboardreality.ca
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THE SPIRIT OF A SHIP A story of HMCS Skeena; of the battles fought and of the lives lost, and of a tradition spanning generations BY DAVID NEWLAND
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SEAFARERS BELIEVE A SHIP IS A LIVING THING. BUT WHEN A SHIP IS GONE, DOES ITS SPIRIT LIVE ON? Lieutenant (Navy) Chris Barker knows it does.
He’s the Executive Officer of 116 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Skeena in Port Hope. The corps is named for HMCS Skeena, wrecked off Reykjavik in 1944. You might call Chris the prime caregiver of the spirit of Skeena. HMCS Skeena was one of the first two ships commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy in 1931, along with HMCS Saguenay. During the Second World War, HMCS Skeena fought in the Battle of the Atlantic, escorting dozens of vital merchant marine convoys. She rescued the crews of four ships torpedoed by German U-boats, and shared credit for sinking U-588 off St. John’s in 1942. Skeena’s distinguished service ended terribly. On the night of October 24, 1944, in a fierce storm, she dragged her anchor and was wrecked in a cove at Viðey Island, just off Reykjavik. In the confusion, 36 of her crew of 151 abandoned ship, but Skeena’s lifeboats were destroyed. Fifteen men died. Skeena was badly damaged, and later scrapped. from left to right: HMCS Skeena with coloured camouflage and signal flags flying on July 1, 1944 courtesy Roger Litwiller; The cross that marks the graves of HMCS Skeena’s dead; Crew member Gordon Calam with signed hospital gown, photograph courtesy Gordon Calam; HMCS Skeena graves at Fossvogur Cemetery, Reykjavik, Iceland, December 1944; HMCS Skeena’s commissioning pennant. Photographs courtesy Archives Canada
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“I THINK THAT’S THE TRAGEDY OF IT ALL,”
The young captain of the ferry to Viðey Island can point out the fiord to the north where Skeena’s men washed up, covered in oil, some living, some dead.
says Chris Barker. She was a workhorse. And in one night, it was all over.” Chris, a husky guy with a neatly trimmed beard, is wearing a t-shirt, shorts and sneakers and is sitting at a table on “the deck” at Skeena Hall in Port Hope, doing what he does best: telling Skeena stories. Fifty-six and happily retired, Chris devotes himself to Skeena (the corps) and Skeena (the ship) with a passion. A “Cobourg boy” who dreamed of going to sea, Chris began his career as an engineer on Great Lakes freighters. Later, he joined the naval reserves in Toronto. Moving home in 1993, he transferred to the local sea cadet corps as Training Officer. His role: teaching seamanship to kids from 12 to 18 years of age. In an old red brick church, 116 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Skeena occupies a large hall, lit by gothic windows minus the stained glass; the walls are covered with flags and memorabilia. The lobby functions as a shrine to Skeena. A hand-painted thermometer records the success of a recent fundraising campaign to send cadets to Iceland. On the wall is a painting of the second Skeena, a Canadian destroyer escort active from 1957–1993. The decommissioning of that ship was a fateful moment for Chris. “That’s when I said to my CO, ‘The cadet corps will be the last ship’s company to carry on the name Skeena and to remember these 15 sailors’.” Something had to be done. “I suggested
that we start a new tradition, and on the closest Tuesday to the 24th of October, let’s do a Remembrance service.” That first service was held on the 50th anniversary. “We assembled the cadets on the deck. I had the kids place 15 poppies in front of a picture of the ship. And we recited the Naval Prayer.” It was the call of duty, heartfelt and simple. But a wave was building. Isaac Unger, brother of one of Skeena’s casualties, wrote a book, Skeena Aground about the wreck. A copy made its way to Chris. A local Skeena veteran began showing up for the annual ceremony. In 2000, survivors of the wreck held a reunion in Port Hope. They came again in 2001. “When the veterans started coming back, they started bringing us artifacts,” says Chris, gesturing around the hall. “They’d say, ‘I’ve had this for 60 years… it’s better that it be here, because this building now is Skeena’.” The ‘artifacts’ include the flag, and the wheel of HMCS Skeena. THE SKEENA VETERANS WERE GUARDED
with their stories. But a former RCAF chaplain, a Reverend Davidson, confided to Chris: “Out of all the men that I buried over in Iceland, it was the Skeena funeral that still affects me to this day.’” Chris pauses before echoing the Rev. Davidson’s words, “‘You cannot imagine the size of the hole in the ground for so many men.’”
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Personnel who survived the sinking of the destroyer HMCS Skeena near Reykjavik, Iceland, on 25 October 1944; HMCS Skeena fast aground on the shore of Viðey Island.
“That’s when it hit me,” says Chris, still visibly moved. “Some of these boys were probably 18, 19, 20 years old. You’ve survived the war, the loss of your ship and fifteen of your crewmen. You’ve hiked up to the cemetery. You’ve got borrowed clothes on from the US base, and you’re looking at 14 men in a hole.” Chris shakes his head. “So that’s when I pulled some men aside and said, ‘you know in 2004, that’s the 60th anniversary of the loss of your ship…’” Chris proposed the veterans should go back to Iceland. Their responses, he says, were blunt: “‘NO, NO, there’s nothing there; why the hell would I want to go back there, with nothing but snow and ice.’” But Chris’s mind was made up. “Well, the hell with ya!” he said. “If you guys don’t want to go, I’m going to go, and go over to Viðey Island, and see the cove, and I’m going to go see the gravesites.” The wave was cresting. A group of veterans, families, wives and widows took up the call. The Skeena
corps raised enough money to allow two cadets and an escorting officer to make the trip with them. Chris paid his own way. Chris’s memories of that trip are vivid. “We had a beautiful service. The veterans and cadets laid plaques on all the graves. I remember one man standing by his brother’s grave, saying he remembered his brother going out the door in Montreal.” He never saw him again. Another veteran hugged Chris, swore in his ear, and said, “That’s the first time I’ve cried in 60 years.” Then the vet saluted him. Chris remembers the veterans’ astonishment when they first laid eyes on Viðey, a grass-covered mass of rock only a mile from Reykjavik – so close, and yet so far. The experience was memorable for the cadets too. “It was just so touching,” recalls Brittany Ashby, who wrote an essay about Skeena to earn her place on the trip. “And it’s something that my generation
would never experience unless you were there in the moment.” Just 17 at the time, Brittany did something unusual for a disciplined cadet: she ‘stole’ Isaac Unger’s book from the Port Hope Library, brought it to Iceland – then brought it back. “I had each of the veterans sign the book, and then I went to a town meeting and stood before the mayor, and the librarian, and kind of admitted to defacing their book in a way that honoured the veterans.” After that 60th anniversary trip in 2004, Chris thought the story was done. “We get back from Iceland, and I’m thinking, the book’s now closed… but that’s when they found the propeller!” On the trip, one veteran had recalled throwing fuses from depth charges overboard as Skeena foundered, to render them harmless. Taking no chances, Icelandic officials dredged the site and discovered Skeena’s propeller. Thinking it might make a fitting memorial, they contacted Chris Barker. Back he went to Ice-
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land in 2005, this time with his young daughter in tow, to consult on a suitable site. A year later, he was back yet again, with a group, for the unveiling. All this on his own time, on his own dime. “Norm Perkins, Ted Maidman and their wives, plus Swede Steinhoff, and Ed Parson’s widow Olivia...” Chris names his fellow travellers on that 2006 trip. The ranks of the veterans were thinning. Ted Maidman had cancer and would die just weeks after the trip. In his eulogy, his family thanked Chris for taking him back to Viðey Island. The late Ed Parson’s return to Viðey was of a different kind: at the dedication of the monument, Olivia told Chris “Ed is with us.” Chris replied, “Of course he is,” thinking it a figure of speech. “No, I mean really with us,” she said – revealing a container of Ed’s ashes. His last wish had been to have Chris scatter them where Skeena had foundered. Chris complied, scrambling among the wet rocks in his dress uniform. Later, he told Olivia “Ed is still with us,” gesturing to his uniform, streaked with windblown ashes. In the 15 years since that last visit, Skeena in Port Hope has continued to hold ceremonies. Sometimes no one from outside the corps shows up, “But that’s okay,” says Chris. “We’re doing it for the cadets.” They still collect artifacts – a hospital gown worn by a survivor in Reykjavik, signed by his shipmates, is a treasured relic. Of the veterans of the HMCS Skeena, Chris knows of only two who are still living. Neither is up for another trip to Iceland.
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But Chris is going back. “In 2006 I made a statement to Ted, Norm and Swede: ‘Rest assured, I will be here on the 75th anniversary,’” says Chris solemnly. “It was literally just over a year ago that I approached our navy league branch here and asked, ‘What do you think about taking all the cadets to Iceland for the 75th?” Chris grins. “The budget was between a $150,000 and $160,000! How in the world were we going to raise that kind of money in a year?” They did it, though. Chris and his colleagues made the rounds of the service clubs in uniform. Cadets, families, businesses, and the community radio station all pitched in. A “Catch the Ace” lottery raised $103,000. For Chris, it was a Skeena miracle. “We did a breakfast launch on September 25th. By July 21st when the ace was found, it was just 300 days. We raised over $500 a day! And July 21st was exactly three months before we were to depart!” Another big wave was building. Today, the story of the Skeena is a little better known than it once was, at least in Iceland. The young captain of the ferry to Viðey Island can point out the fiord to the north where Skeena’s men washed up, covered in oil, some living, some dead. From the ferry dock, a rugged trail leads across the largely empty island to the Skeena monument: the propeller dredged from the cove. It sits on a rock chosen by Chris and his daughter back in 2005. Nearby is a plaque remembering local captain Einar Sigurðsson,
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“Every year at our unit Remembrance service, we ring the bell once for each sailor aboard HMCS Skeena who perishedâ€? DIANNE KUKAVICA, COMMANDING OFFICER OF 116 RCSCC who was made a Member of the British Empire for leading a daring rescue of Skeena’s survivors. Dianne Kukavica, the current Commanding Officer of 116 RCSCC, was the escorting officer on the first trip, back in 2004. It was Dianne who played “Last Postâ€? at Fossvogur Cemetery. “Every year at our unit Remembrance service, we ring the bell once for each sailor aboard HMCS Skeena who perished,â€? says Dianne. “We hold the service to keep the memory of our namesake alive.â€? But this year will be different: “This is the first time in 25 years the service won’t be in Port Hope – it will be there. I think for the next few years, the services will be more cadet led, because they will now have that understanding.â€? Brittany Ashby says, “The experience that I had in 2004 won’t be repeated, but the story continues in time. It’s almost taking it full circle‌ you take a group of veterans and two cadets; now there are cadets and two veterans too old to travel. It’s keeping alive what the navy is, what the stories were and how they were represented.â€? Chris keeps in touch with everyone connected to
the Skeena story. Brittany lives in Thunder Bay, but he takes her to lunch when she’s in town. Ottar Sveinsson, an Icelandic author who wrote a book that mentions Skeena, texts regularly with plans for the autumn visit. 97-year-old Peter Chance, who was on the bridge of the Skeena on the night of the wreck, emails Chris with detailed recollections. Chris checks in on Norm Perkins, the last veteran to attend the annual ceremonies in Port Hope, as though he were a beloved uncle. Chris knows where the bell of the Skeena resides (HMCS Haida, in Hamilton) in case he needs to borrow it. He even has a line on the possible resting place of Leading Seaman Blais, whose body was never found. CHRIS KNOWS HE’S NOW A PART OF THIS STORY. It’s a challenge to his natural modesty,
which he manages by making his efforts about something bigger than himself. The President of Iceland invited him to lunch on the upcoming trip; Chris managed to turn it into a lunch for the whole cadet corps. In October of 2019, Chris Barker, Dianne Kukav-
ica and their colleagues will accompany 22 cadets, including Chris’s teenaged son, to visit ViĂ°ey Island for the 75th anniversary of the sinking of Skeena. At Fossvogur Cemetery, the cadets plan to do gravestone rubbings to bring back to Skeena. The roll will be called, as it is every year “on the deckâ€? back home. Dianne is already imagining what she’ll say to the cadets: “This is why we’re doing this. This is where they ran aground. There are graves here.â€? Chris’s son may play “Last Postâ€? this time. Tradition grows. Skeena’s remembrancers will be surrounded by the graves of dozens of Canadians, among hundreds of service personnel and merchant mariners from around the world. These are but a few of the casualties of the Battle of the Atlantic, who died at the remote edge of a global war. On that hallowed ground, Chris Barker, Lt(N) a Cobourg boy who once dreamed of going to sea, prime caregiver of the spirit of Skeena, will hear again the stirring words that motivate him, to this day: “You cannot imagine the size of the hole in the ground for so many men.â€? Lest we forget.
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GEORGE’S POND |
ALL THAT GLITTER BY GEORGE SMITH
ILLUSTRATION BY LEE RAPP
IF YOU’RE A REGULAR READER OF MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THESE PAGES, you know very
well that deep thinking is not my forte. You’ll have to look elsewhere for an in-depth analysis of the Mueller Report or a learned doomsday treatise on the strange new world of Artificial Intelligence we’re all facing. Nor will you find any insightful self-help advice here. No wise words on how to live a more fulfilling life either. How could I presume to tell others how to run their lives when I can barely keep my own on the rails? But if you keep coming back, it means you enjoy splashing around in the shallow end of the pond with me. There’s nothing wrong with that. A little banality is chicken soup for the soul. And today, I’ll sink to even greater depths of shallowness (oxymoron intended). This story is about glitter – those tiny specks of plastic that look like shiny, multicoloured bits of synthetic dandruff. Glitter has been around for centuries and it’s been made from a variety of substances including stone, glass – even insects. Modern plastic glitter is an environmental blight that serves no purpose other than to make something sparkle – be it your formal evening dress, nail polish or a fishing lure. To be honest, I rarely think about glitter. It’s not high on my list of things to fret about. That changed the other day, when (thoughtful husband that I am) I bought Joy a nice little bunch of flowers at the supermarket. Yes, supermarket not florist. I’m not that thoughtful. But my loving gesture was long overdue. I’d been getting the message loud and clear over the previous week as we sat down to dinner each evening with the plaintive strains of that old Streisand/ Diamond duet playing in the background. Anyway, Joy was out at her Zumba class when I got home so I removed the colourful little token of my affection from its fancy wrapping, cut away the elastic band joining the stems, found a suitable container, put a few inches of room temperature water in the bottom, rearranged the flowers as artfully as my limited sense of aesthetics permitted and placed them in a conspicuous location where she would see them immediately upon her return. Of course, she loved them and that earned me a few additional brownie points to cash in at some appropriate future time – sort of our in-house version of Air Miles. The ooohs and aaahs had scarcely died down, when Joy exclaimed, “What’s that?”. “What’s what?” I asked. Then she showed me. I don’t know how I missed
it because it was suddenly so obvious. Glitter on our dark hardwood floor, glitter in the sink, glitter on top of the cabinet where the flowers were domiciled, glitter embedded in our socks. Glitter every damned where. Clean up time. Vacuum, sweep, dry mop, wet mop. Sure, a lot came up, but it was like those randy little boy and girl glitter pieces had gone forth and multiplied leaving countless progeny in every nook and cranny of our kitchen and dinette. There was no getting rid of the stuff. Of course, it was all over our counter tops too – where our food prep takes place. God only knows how much glitter I’ve eaten over the past few days. A casual stroll through my digestive tract must be like a promenade beneath the canopy of a starlit night sky. Obviously, somewhere along the line, some genius had decided that a coating of glitter on a bouquet of flowers enhanced their beauty. But where does anyone get the idea that man-made junk can improve on the work of the Almighty. Or if you don’t believe in an Almighty, try Mother Nature – or even David Suzuki. Glitter on flowers is like tying a yellow ribbon around a rainbow or Photoshopping a beautiful sunset. Mother Nature (I’ll choose her to appease more secular readers) doesn’t need our help. Some things just do not require humankind’s assistance. Even the work of mere mortals is often better just left alone. Would you defile a Cordon Bleu chef’s creation with a mound of salt or a huge dollop of ketchup? A beautiful thing doesn’t need to be messed up by our lame attempts to make it even more beautiful. If something ain’t broke, please don’t try to fix it. Most anthem singers at sports events are guilty of the same sort of thing. Kudos to the guy at TD Garden in Boston who sings O Canada, and the StarSpangled Banner beautifully and without embellishment. Sadly, though, most stadium warblers seem to think the moment is all about them – that they’re bigger than the anthems they mutilate. Apologies for the digression but those unmelodious musical manglers and their glitter bombing counterparts are two sides of the same coin. A pox on all of them. And to quote a 2017 CNN report on glitter, “Use it once and you’ll be vacuuming it out of the carpet and picking it from under your nails until the day you die.” So, thank you so much, garden centre glitter litterer. I herby sentence you to a lifetime of community service vacuuming my carpets. I’ll do my nails myself. WATERSHED 35
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CULTURAL CURRENTS |
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A DERELICT TRUCK IN A FIELD, LARGE SKIES AT THE EDGE OF DAY,
or billowing clouds over prairies, mountains and lakes. Through his graphic, colourful, large scale oil paintings of the landscape, Michael Glover hopes to share his feelings about Canada and how his travels have affected him. “Sometimes it’s just the recognition of a place or an object that I begin to think of as an old friend waiting for me. Sometimes it’s just the inspiration I get from looking at a wild sunset in Saskatchewan or B.C. I find it a very emotional experience to involve myself in the landscape,” he says. Michael traverses Canada, sometimes with his family in tow or solo on his motorcycle, getting up close to the Canadian landscape that his paintings portray. His cross-Canada series, Big Lonely and Beyond, is a project that spans 20 years, during which he produced a monumental 170 paintings. Michael’s paintings place the viewer directly into the vastness of our country from coast to coast to coast. Echoing the legacy of artists like A.Y. Jackson, Tom Thompson and his own father, Michael lifts his brush with the intention to create work in the tradition of realism with a touch of abstraction. He shows us our cherished landscape somewhere between reality and emotion. photograph of Michael Glover by Al Baggs
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THE MCLUHAN WAY A
Boxes of uncatalogued books, collected over Marshall McLuhan’s lifetime of study and reflection, become the medium through which a grandfather relays his message to his grandson
BY CONRAD BEAUBIEN
ILLUSTRATION BY CARL WIENS
T THE BOTTOM OF WILD OAK LANE IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, is a mailbox
that sits on a well-wintered cedar pole. It’s an everyday rural-style mailbox, painted in black enamel with a civic address cleanly set in white, Times New Roman font. Over time, the mailbox has become a symbol of communication, a basic need of humankind. Today, this particular mailbox serves as a visual reminder of the impact of communication on the world and the lifetime work of one individual – Herbert Marshall McLuhan. A gravelled driveway rises from the main road, tunnels through shadows of older sugar maple trees, past a single storey, white frame house and then leads to a set of 19th century farm buildings. Within one of these buildings is a renovated space where Andrew McLuhan, Marshall McLuhan’s grandson, is seated at a sturdy wooden refectory table. It is here where Andrew, in 2009, catalogued the working library of his grandfather. The extensive library, inherited by Andrew’s father, had been stored here after Marshall McLuhan’s death in 1980. The inner change precipitated by that one event fuels Andrew’s efforts today. Born in Edmonton, Marshall McLuhan is considered one of the leading communication theorists in the modern world. He studied how media, in all its forms, has the power to transform human consciousness, how communication tools affect our habits and our minds, and shapes our thoughts in sociology, art, science or religion. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, published in 1962, was the first of McLuhan’s works to reflect on the transfer of ideas in society. In particular, Galaxy spoke to Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in the 15th century and how it
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Marshall McLuhan’s analysis and insight into the field of communication – how communication permeates and shapes the society we live in – affected a whole generation of modern thinkers.
spun the dial on the spread of knowledge. Cataloguing McLuhan’s book collection was a challenge for Andrew. “Up until that point, I didn’t fully understand the true meaning of the pioneering work of my grandfather,” Andrew offers. “I had no cataloguing experience and was guided by instinct.” He set up a spread sheet and began the work. “The volumes had been sitting in random-sized cardboard boxes for years. They were in a range of condition – some with torn dust jackets and fragile bindings – dog-eared titles and signed first editions among the brand new. Others had excerpts from lectures: a note on Abbey Hoffman here, a letter to Marshall from Ezra Pond there,” he lists. “I would absorb Marshall’s abbreviated codes through osmosis. It became clear that if a book was in the boxes, it meant something to him and why he kept it,” Andrew points out. “Marshall McLuhan’s coining of the phrase ‘the
medium is the message’, his prediction of the coming of the internet and the idea of the global village seemed to be well understood, but I wasn’t a schooled intellectual like my dad or my grandfather,” Andrew discusses. He moves from his upright chair to a nearby wall where he takes down a small, hand-soldered copper frame. Under the glass is a strip of birch bark. The sepia-hued inner skin of the bark has a tight, handwritten notation in crisp black ink: Marshall McLuhan July 5 1931. “At the end of his first year of engineering at the University of Manitoba, he worked on a survey crew in northern Manitoba, but didn’t return to engineering. He switched his area of study to English literature and philosophy. He said in later quotes that he began to ‘read himself into literature’...investigation was for him,” Andrew says. “He used that piece of bark as a bookmark. I found it between some pages in the process of my own discovery,” he furthers.
“I knew Marshall’s work was important but I was a lay person who dropped out of journalism school. I mean concepts like neuro-plasticity – how the brain changes to what it encounters – were pretty far out for me. But the inventory project changed all of that,” Andrew reveals. The complexity of his grandfather’s ideas became clearer as Andrew found insight into the man’s working chronology. The very essence of Gutenberg’s invention – the dissemination of ideas through mass print – captured Marshall McLuhan’s imagination. His search for understanding uncovered a house of knowledge. Ironically, while McLuhan ventured that the printed book was fated to disappear, he assembled a broad collection. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, volumes by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), four volumes by Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America sat alongside thousands of titles that fuelled his inquiry. “We can only correct the true bias of the present by
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coming to know that time is A time not THE time,” McLuhan went on to write. “Each age has to recreate Homer and Shakespeare in its own image.” In a note tucked into a copy of the University of Toronto Quarterly from January 1950, McLuhan furthered his thoughts: “This is no mean task because in doing so, you have to become them.” This was but one of the many clues that Andrew unearthed. “Marshall said that theories were assumptions. He asserted that he probed, that he was an explorer,” Andrew picks up the conversation. “He didn’t prophesize but simply advanced his investigation through study and took the lead over his contemporaries because he responded to his time. But he certainly gave credit to Harold Innis for opening the way,” he adds. A foremost Canadian thinker, Harold Innis warned that Western civilization was imperilled by powerful advertising media that was obsessed by “present mindedness, on the continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of permanence essential to cultural activity.” Under the auspices of the University of Toronto, in 1946, Innis, along with Eric A. Havelock formed the loosely named Toronto School – a school of thought that took the theoretical view that “communication systems create psychological and social states”. In that same year, having earned
his doctorate from Cambridge University in England, Marshall McLuhan joined the University of Toronto as professor of English literature and subsequently signed onto the Toronto School of thought. The shelves in his office sagged under the weight of an ever-expanding library as McLuhan applied his career as a popular lecturer at the university until the end of his life. Marshall McLuhan’s books – The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man (1951); Understanding Media (1964) and The Medium is the Massage (1967) – explored the forms in which people receive information, the forms themselves being more important than the messages. In the same year that McLuhan’s The Gutenberg Galaxy was released, sitting in his collection was American author Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. While McLuhan’s work spoke to how the invention of the printing press changed the world, essentially creating a global village, Carson’s writings, which began with ‘a fable for tomorrow’, described how the advance of science could change the natural world. She pointed to the need to anticipate the ramifications of our discoveries and, in fact, her book ultimately led to the banning of DDT. McLuhan reinforced her theories, “There are no passengers on spaceship earth.
We are all crew.” “Marshall and my father studied, wrote and spoke, which led to the understanding of how devices can rewire our brain – our inner ecology,” Andrew pauses, leans to the screened-in window. Cataloguing Marshall McLuhan’s library drew Andrew deeper into his grandfather’s work. “Another person could have done the job more objectively and faster, but I became hooked in a personal way. Each box was a treasure chest,” he adds. In fact, 203 containers silently awaited Andrew. In total, 6,411 titles with scribbled memos, margin notescum-trail makers led Andrew closer and closer to a person he would get to know through that person’s intellectual development. Page after opened page led to a grandson’s understanding of his grandfather’s curiosities. “His books were his tools,” Andrew addresses. As Marshall McLuhan’s ideas evolved, he would revisit his books. “You can witness how his writing changed from a tight control to getting sloppier as he matured,” he continues. While Andrew was too young to remember his grandfather, tracking the margin bits written in each volume gave him an insider’s view of the man and his calling. It also led to a better understanding of his own father. “Marshall’s
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“I encountered more than a collection of books. Libraries are alive, not just repositories of knowledge. They hold onto things left behind by previous readers.” ANDREW MCLUHAN
writings are written in pen. My father’s jottings are in pencil. In an uncanny way, they translate into messages for me,” he wonders. “I encountered more than a collection of books. Libraries are alive, not just repositories of knowledge. They hold onto things left behind by previous readers,” Andrew accepts. “On a personal level, while my dad worked with his father as a co-worker – as a deep, learned scholar – I came to terms with not being a scholar,” Andrew considers. “It isn’t what’s being left behind but what is given to us to go forward that is important. I figured that if I could understand the work, anybody could understand it. That was my advantage,” he establishes. “I began to reflect on my purpose in all of this,” Andrew shares. “I now see my role as reaching out to non-academics, to become a bridge to those who are shaping the technology that is shaping us,” he adds. “My heart welcomed this intellectual inheritance. Media literature, media ecology, to use environmental terms, implies stewardship,” he furthers. Now a father of two children, Andrew feels he has an ongoing responsibility to address the impact of media on today’s early learners. Using the insight of his patriarchal ancestors, he created the McLuhan Institute, an umbrella organization for teaching and
workshops convened around understanding the forces of technological invention within our culture. Standing by the window, Andrew reflects on the day, almost a decade ago, when he bid farewell to the McLuhan collection. It was around 11 on a Tuesday morning in March of 2011, the sun already gathered in the stark branches of the sugar maple trees that framed the driveway off of Wild Oak Lane, when a five-ton cargo truck backed to the main door of the barn on the McLuhan property. Box after box of books were loaded onto the transport by two movers. Andrew’s assignment then complete, his grandfather’s working library was headed to its permanent home in the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto, two and a half blocks from the former office that was once Marshall McLuhan’s. “I was very sad in the parting,” Andrew pauses. “I had bonded with the books and through them, with my grandfather. But it helped knowing that they weren’t going too far and that I could visit just about any time,” he finishes. Marshal McLuhan’s papers, previously deposited with the National Archives in Ottawa, and the renowned philosopher’s working library are today included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Registry, the intellectual equivalent of a World Heritage Site.
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A W AT E R S H E D T E A S E R
TRUE OR FALSE
BY TOM CRUICKSHANK
ILLUSTRATION BY MARC MIREAULT
Test your knowledge of local geography and other trivia related to our favourite corner of the countryside. True or False: Port Hope wasn’t always part of Northumberland County.
True or False: Rice Lake is the largest inland lake in southern Ontario.
True or False: Prince Edward is the only island county in Ontario.
Officially True – When Ontario was carved up into counties
False – Covering about 100 square kilometres, Rice Lake
Technically False, on several fronts – For one, Prince Ed-
in the mid-1800s, Port Hope and adjacent Hope Town-
is definitely the largest lake in the Kawarthas, but it is
ward has a land boundary – albeit only a couple of kilo-
ship were actually part of Durham, which also included
much smaller than Lake Simcoe, which spreads over 744
metres long – with neighbouring Northumberland, so it is
Bowmanville and surrounding rural areas. Officially,
square kilometres.
technically not an island. Nor is it a county any more, ex-
Durham never stood on its own but was united with Northumberland next door, with Cobourg as the County
cept in name. (In official bureaucratic-speak, it actually functions as a city). And then there’s Manitoulin Island in
the new Durham Region included all of the old Durham
True or False: Of the three largest urban areas in Watershed country, Belleville has the highest percentage of people 65 and over.
might be considered the only county in the province ex-
County as well as Pickering, Oshawa and Whitby. Alarmed
False – The honour actually goes to Cobourg, whose
cept for the fact that it isn’t a county either, but a “dis-
seat. When regional government was instituted in 1974,
Lake Huron, which is twice the size of Prince Edward. It
that they would lose their rural voice among the burgeon-
seniors account for 26.4 percent of the current population
trict” (another legal definition). Moreover, its jurisdiction
ing suburbs, Port Hope and Hope chose to become part
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Her faith is strong, but losing Kait plunged her into a darkness she likens to an iceberg. “Grief is heavy,” she says over tea at Bloomfield’s Saylor House Café. “It pulls you down and keeps you down – below the surface – until one day you can rise up
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Kait Shannon’s high spirits and kindness were a blast of sunshine in the sometimes bleak chemo and radiation therapy rooms. “She was always involved, always helping people. And if she could make life better for anyone, she’d wade right in.” JEANETTE ARSENAULT just a little. A small piece of you emerges into the light, and people see it and say ‘Oh good, you’re back!’ But the dark mass still weighs you down, and waves can slap you in the face and take you back under.” She sips her tea and smiles. “It helps to have something to focus on.” For Jeanette, it’s a promise she made to Kait. Kait Shannon’s high spirits and kindness were a blast of sunshine in the sometimes bleak chemo and radiation therapy rooms. “She was always involved, always helping people,” says Jeanette. “She’d offer advice and urge other patients to try the CBD oil she passionately believed in to supplement pain relief.” Not even the stroke that affected one side of her body could completely slow her down. She’d go visiting in her wheelchair, compose music on her casio using her good hand. “She never gave up,” says Jeanette. “And if she could make life better for anyone, she’d wade right in.” They sat together for hours, “between three and six a.m. were our magic hours,” dreaming up ways to help others in hospital, and came up with an idea for bringing small home comforts to sterile spaces. ... “We had some great ideas to improve life in the hospital,” says Jeanette who is keeping the other ideas under wraps for now. “I’m not ready to give away all our inventions,” she laughs, but the first of
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Picton. The indefatigable Suzanne Pasternak, herself a veteran of long hospital stays, is organizing again and of course there will be music. “The bar’s open, too,” says Jeanette sweetly. Her great friend, talented, boisterous Tom Leighton will play and some of Kait’s hospital compositions will be premiered. Comfort Kits will be on sale for people to sponsor: the likely price will be $25 to $30. And Jeanette’s promise will be kept. “I’ve seen how the universe opens up when the time is right,” she says, soaking up the sun as she sits in a café garden. “I am so grateful to everyone who is helping us. And when I see Kait again, I’ll tell her all about it.” Editor’s note: Kait’s song, Kiss Me Under A Shining Sun inspired the title of this article. The above photograph of Kait was taken by Kait’s dad Michael Shannon. Visit www.jeanettearsenault.ca/kait/ for more information on Kait’s Comfort Kits.
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THE HAY-MAN OF HASTINGS COUNTY BY ORLAND FRENCH
How a young Irish immigrant taught himself to become a teacher and one of Canada's most prominent botanists. From his wide-ranging field trips across Eastern Ontario and Canada, John Macoun of Belleville collected more than 100,000 plant samples. FILBERT NUTS INTRODUCED JOHN MACOUN TO NATURE IN COUNTY DOWN, IRELAND. But it
was in eastern Ontario that he developed an immense appetite for collecting, naming and cataloguing Canadian flora. This celebrated self-taught botanist wrote in his autobiography, “When I was quite a small boy my uncle took me into the orchard and showed me a row of filbert trees and pointed to the aments, or barren flowers, hanging on the branches of the naked trees and said to me: “Jock, these that you see here will all fall off and in the autumn it is on these trees we get the nuts that we use at Christmas time.” As if by a miracle, Macoun discovered the same species in Canada while splitting cedar rails one morning in May. He examined the bush closely and, many years later, remarked in his autobiography, “These were the first studies I made in botany.” In the mid-1800s Canada was still an unexplored land, botany-wise. Ireland’s plants may all have been named, but not Canada’s. About the same time, Catharine Parr Traill had been fascinated with the flora of Upper Canada. As had Elizabeth Simcoe, wife of Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, in the 1700s. For immigrants from Europe, Canada was an unexplored natural garden.
At the age of 19, Macoun emigrated to Canada with his brother Frederick in 1850. They made their way to Belleville, intent on seeking out an uncle who had settled in Seymour Township. His first experience in Belleville was being offered “bitters” by a stranger. “He put a bottle before us and a cup and asked us to help ourselves and, behold, it was whiskey of a very unpleasant taste.” So unpleasant, apparently, that it earned a place in his autobiography. He found his uncle living in a shanty, impecunious from attempting to live off the land. Nevertheless Macoun tried farming for half a dozen years before deciding it was not for him. He admitted he acted like a greenhorn most of the time. If there was a hard way to do anything, he found it. (Once he cleared a long laneway of snow in anticipation of the arrival of his uncle by sled, only to learn that the horses couldn’t draw the sleigh over bare ground.) Turning his back on farming, he wanted to pursue a career as a teacher, learn what he could about botany, and make more money than in farming. He concluded that he could be a good teacher. His first teaching job paid him $14 a month, plus board. From Seymour he went to Brighton to teach, and in his first year he collected 256 plants that he named. He brushed up on his grammar with a threeday study of Kirkham’s Grammar where “I decided that I could pass for a school teacher without difficulty.” After he spent three weeks in school, he got his teaching certificate. The expectations of the school trustees were apparently not too high. Macoun was in his mid-20s when he got teaching jobs in Seymour and Brighton. After attending Normal School in Toronto, where he received further training as a teacher, he transferred to Castleton where he spent 10 months teaching and
John Macoun and a young friend examining a bird’s nest and egg (Library and Archives Canada, PA-120487)
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studying botany. He came to be good friends of a Dr. Gould and spent early morning hours collecting plants on the Rice Lake Plains. In the fall he landed a job at No. 1 School in Belleville. Macoun delighted in fieldwork and would examine anything unusual. He once found a flying squirrel in the stomach of a trout (presumably, unlike Jonah, quite dead). In fact, one of his faults was that he would spend his time pulling up flowers and grasses and not bothering to organize them as he went along. Fellow travellers became impatient with his constant collecting of grasses and other plants, and called him “The Hay-Man”. His passion for botany was no longer a hobby. “My removal to Belleville was the real turning point of my life. Before the winter was over I had discovered I could hold my own with the best of teachers and stood well with the people. I then decided to devote all my spare time to natural history and as a commencement bought a few books.” He soon didn’t trust the books. “When I learned from it (Goldsmith’s Natural History) that ants laid up corn for winter, I knew better.” He struck up friendships with botanists such as Asa Gray, Sir William Jackson Hooker, George Lawson and Louis-Ovide Brunet. His enthusiasm and connections led to a higher level of teaching: professor of botany and geology at Albert College in Belleville. In 1862, at age 31, he married Ellen Terrill of Brighton. They raised two sons and three daughters; his eldest son James Melville Macoun became his lifelong assistant, while his younger son William Tyrrell Macoun became the Dominion Horticulturalist for Canada. Botany certainly ran in their veins. And yet, for all his enthusiastic successes, he made a major mistake, unintentionally, by misreading the long-term climate of the Canadian prairies. Between 1872 and 1881, Macoun worked with Sir Sandford Fleming to plot a route across the Prairies for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Canada’s first
transcontinental rail route. He determined that a line through southern Saskatchewan would be the way to go. Thanks to several successive years of plentiful rain, this area was lush grassland when Macoun passed through. But there had been a warning that it could be otherwise. The Palliser Expedition in the late 1850s, after four years of exploration in Western Canada, had concluded that the largest proportion of the Prairies was an extension of the Great American Desert. And that’s what it became during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Macoun’s Eden was an aberration. Palliser’s Triangle, as it came to be known, was generally almost as dry as a desert. The mis-assessment wasn’t really Macoun’s fault. Still, the error forever stained the otherwise impeccable record of Canada’s most enthusiastic and determined botanist. Macoun’s reports from the West received close attention in Ottawa. In 1879 the government of Canada appointed him “explorer of the Northwest Territories”. Two years later he joined the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) as “Botanist to the Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada.” He moved to Ottawa and remained with the GSC for 31 years. He devoted his time to collecting and cataloguing Canadian flora and fauna, what he loved doing most of all. The National Herbarium of Canada in the Canadian Museum of Nature has more than 100,000 samples of his collection of plants. Macoun died in 1920 in Sidney, British Columbia, and is buried in Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa, next to Macoun’s Marsh. A century after his death, John Macoun is receiving the attention he deserves. Next year, to mark the 100th anniversary of his death, the Hastings County Historical Society and the Quinte Field Naturalists Association plan to commemorate the botanist’s remarkable accomplishments on a plaque in the area. In 2018, the federal government erected a plaque in Macoun’s honour at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.
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Signals in Silences Yves Gaucher Watershed Magazine has partnered with two of our region’s most valuable cultural assets – The John M. Parrott Gallery in Belleville and the Art Gallery of Northumberland (AGN) in Cobourg – to highlight select works from their permanent collections. YVES GAUCHER WAS ONE OF CANADA’S FOREMOST ABSTRACT PAINTERS. He began his career as an accomplished printmaker and in 1964,
turned to painting. Signals in Silences is from a group of paintings referred to as the Signals/ Silences series executed in 1965/1966. The use of contemplative colours with linear, gentle movements is guided by the horizonal lines floating about the painting. Gaucher was exploring mathematical relationships, rhythms and space which eventually led to this series of quiet monochromatic minimal works. It is around this time that Minimalism had marked the end of Modernism and art was now moving into a new era of Postmodernism. Gaucher continued to develop his work and interest in mathematical art and contemplation of the diagonal line. The Art Gallery of Northumberland acquired Signals in Silences through the Centennial Purchase Fund in 1969. It is part of the AGN’s impressive permanent collection of over 1,000 works.
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A storefront grocer goes zero waste on Cobourg’s main street, providing an innovative alternative to the big box business model
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Montana grew up on the East Coast with a single mom who worked hard to put food on the table. Her childhood had a strong influence on the way she and Lucas do business. space where the staff have a good memory for faces, and when the doors open in the morning, there’s often a small, yet eager queue waiting on the sidewalk outside. The produce doesn’t just look good; it may be the freshest in town. But it’s not only fresh produce attracting people, it’s the philosophy of zero food waste, of conscious consumption, and of supporting people who want to make a difference. And then there’s Market & Smør’s gourmet take-away meals, packaged in reusable containers – an assortment of “to-go” meals, salads or cold pressed juices made from ingredients that come directly from their produce aisle – perhaps a fruit or vegetable that might not be the pick of the pile tomorrow – and sent to their commercial kitchen in the back of the store. These creations change daily based on what’s in season, in stock and in demand. And all of this is accomplished without a scrap going to waste.
Partners in business and in life, Lucas Cleveland and Montana Desjardins met in Montreal while working in the restaurant business during their twenties. After moving to Alberta and “working the rigs”, they took off for a year to travel around the world, to refine their values and to experience food markets, restaurants, and flavours from new perspectives. That year-long trip defined how Lucas and Montana wanted to do business and, indeed, how they wanted to live. They developed an appreciation for other cultures and the food they consumed. They experienced Danish smørrebrød, the fantastic openfaced sandwich that lends the market its name. But they also saw something more: reduced household food waste because of a culture of frequent shopping. They admired European bakeries and greengrocers where shopping is a pleasure, both in terms of the aesthetic experience and human relationships. They were struck by the interconnected
economies of the street markets in Southeast Asia, where food vendors, restaurants and food stalls set up shop beside one another. The food vendors and restaurants buy from the market stalls at the end of the day, using up the surplus produce and the fish and transforming it into something ready to eat. “It’s ancient,” Montana says. “It sounds new here, but using up food collectively, instead of letting it go to waste, is what has always been done throughout human history.” After returning home from their round-theworld trip, Lucas and Montana welcomed the birth of their son, made an extended visit to the grandparents in Cobourg, and fell in love with the town. And, Lucas says, they began to see a way to stay: “Everyone we talked to said, ‘we need fresh food in the downtown’”. In early 2017, the couple held community meetings where they described their vision to an audience
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that welcomed their concept. That summer, they took over the beach canteen, bringing fresh fruit, smørrebrød, and smoothies to the waterfront. This was just a detour on the path to opening the fresh market they had dreamed of – fulfilling the vision they had described at those first town hall meetings. Finally on Valentine’s Day this past winter, the market opened. Market & Smør was a love letter to the community that encouraged and welcomed their dream. Market & Smør fits Montana’s core values, but it goes deeper than that. She grew up on the East Coast with a single mom who worked hard to put food on the table. Her childhood had a strong influence on the way she and Lucas do business. “My ‘why’ for all of this,” says Montana, gesturing around her, “is to keep the produce at an affordable price so that children living in lower socioeconomic families can have access to good food. I can’t stand the thought of a child going hungry.” Pulling food from retail space and using it in a commercial kitchen to sell at a value-added price before it goes to waste actually keeps costs down, allowing the store to offer good quality produce at lower prices than if they were just running a retail store. Montana grins when she says they recently beat a big local box store’s price on lemons. Lucas and Montana have spent the last few years
working towards their dream – renovating an old storefront, learning how to order produce, burning the candle at both ends, and squeezing in precious family time. The immediate response to the opening of the Market & Smør has been positive – community support is growing as are their relationships with their customers. There have been cheerleaders, supporters, the curious and friendly regulars, like the lady who comes in to buy three clementines each and every day. The couple knew they would win over the Millennials – youths and young families like themselves – for whom the appeal of a zero-waste commitment, Instagram-worthy interior, and the cozy kids’ play corner was an easy sell. But in a town known as a popular retirement spot, they knew they needed the older generation’s patronage as well. Within a few months of opening, they began to see an older clientele carrying wicker baskets in the shop, a couple of whom told them they remembered their mothers carrying similiar baskets to market. “It turns out the older customers already know this kind of shopping. They remember it,” Montana says. “We’ve got kids playing, parents buying good food for their families, and the older generation coming in with their wicker baskets.” At Market & Smør, everything old is new again.
Lucas and Montana took off for a year to travel around the world, to refine their values, and to experience food markets, restaurants, and flavours from new perspectives. That trip defined how they wanted to do business and, indeed, how they want to live.
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BY NORM WAGENAAR
CONSERVATION AUTHORITIES UNDER PROVINCIAL FIRE Significant provincial changes to environmental policy are forcing local conservation authorities to cut budgets and trim programs
have taken a watershed-wide approach to flood control, conservation and land management, a model which bypasses political boundaries to recognize the natural links between forests, wetlands and river systems and their interplay with human activities. It’s an approach that helped protect Ontarians from the worst consequences of devastating flooding, which the province experienced this spring, and protected our water sources and local aquifers. This approach also allowed conservation authorities to maintain animal habitat, provide opportunities for outdoor recreation and education within the green spaces they protected.
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For more than 70 years Ontario’s conservation authorities have taken a watershed-wide approach to flood control, conservation and land management. The provincial government wants to change that approach to the possible detriment of conservation programs.
Now, the provincial government wants to change that approach, as it cuts flood management funding by half and revises the Conservation Authorities Act, to the possible detriment of watershed-wide conservation programs. The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority (GRCA) encompasses the watersheds of the Ganaraska River and Wilmot Creek, along with a number of other smaller creeks and streams. At GRCA, CAO/Secretary-Treasurer Linda Laliberte has had to contend with a mid-budget year cut of nearly $50,000 for flood management, along with the cancellation of three summer student positions under the Summer Experience Program. As a result, the authority has had to eliminate a staff position at the Ganaraska Forest Centre. Further east, the Quinte Conservation Authority has faced a bigger cut, losing half of the nearly $322,000 it has received annually over the past two decades, while the Lower Trent Conservation Authority is absorbing a cut of nearly $65,000. “This cut has left a large financial gap in Quinte Conservation’s budget as well as a gap in the critical
services that help protect public health and safety from the impacts of flooding,” says Quinte Conservation Authority CAO, Brad McNevin. While the flood management funding cuts are being felt immediately, the bigger long-term impact to conservation authority activities may come from changes to the Conservation Authorities Act under Bill 108, The More Homes, More Choice Act.
decisions have been made collectively by a board representing each municipality within the watershed. These municipalities pay a levy to support authority activities on a watershed-wide basis. Bill 108 makes a couple of significant changes to the old model. Firstly, it restricts the list of mandatory programs provided by conservation authorities to just four areas – flooding and natural hazards, watershed management on conservation authority-owned lands, drinking water source protection, and the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan, which is irrelevant to our local authorities. The second impact is that any non-mandatory programs offered by a conservation
authority are to be negotiated on an individual basis with member municipalities, not collectively. At the GRCA, non-mandated programs include watershed monitoring, outdoor education and some stewardship activities. Linda Laliberte predicts negotiating these non-mandated programs with individual municipalities is “going to prove to be a very onerous process creating much more red tape and duplication of effort for both CAs and municipalities.” “Then, if some municipalities opt out, the programs and services aren’t covering the entire watershed – thereby creating a patchwork of programs and services with only some actually providing watershed-wide benefits.” Linda Laliberte says the problem with the province’s list of mandatory programs is that “it doesn’t really support or protect the overall watershed management role of conservation authorities.” Conservation Ontario, the organization that represents conservation authorities has asked the province for a fifth priority area – conserving natural resources – in an effort to counter the impacts of the
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province’s changes. It remains to be seen whether the province responds to Conservation Ontario’s request. Although the changes to the Conservation Authority Act have passed, the province has left a door open for modifications, albeit for a limited period. Linda Laliberte explains the province did not specifically include “conserving natural resources, however they did include a new category of mandatory programs and services that the Lieutenant Governor in Council could prescribe within one year of the other mandatory programs and services being enacted.” The funding cuts and changes to the Conservation Authorities Act come as Ontario’s government draws fire from environmentalists for other actions, including changes to the province’s Endangered Species Act (ESA), also under Bill 108.
McGuinty Liberals in 2007, Ontario’s ESA was hailed as a gold standard in environmental legislation, tripling the number of species under protection while protecting their habitat. But recent changes to the ESA under the provincial government include an option for developers to pay charges that could allow them to carry out activities prohibited under the Act, if those developers meet
certain conditions. Critics call the change ‘pay to slay.’ Another controversial change to the ESA would consider the conservation status of a species outside Ontario while determining whether they should be protected here. In such a scenario a species such as the Eastern hognose snake, considered threatened in Ontario, could lose protection because its status is ‘least concern’ in the Eastern United States. Ontario Nature, which represents more than 150 member groups including the local Willow Beach Field Naturalists, has condemned the changes. “The amendments give new powers to the Minister to delay, limit and remove protections for at-risk species. Further, it creates numerous, overlapping pathways for developers and industrialists to dodge critical requirements. Those with a vested, shortterm economic interest in sprawl development now have free rein to bulldoze, dig up and pave over the habitats of our most vulnerable plants and animals.” Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini defended the More Homes, More Choice Act, saying its intent is to address Ontario’s housing crisis, “helping to build more affordable homes in our province by cutting red tape, making costs for home owners more predictable, and making it easier to build different types of housing.”
Commenting on changes to the Conservation Authorities Act, he said his government is focused on “helping Conservation Authorities deliver on their core mandate so that they can continue to play a frontline role in Ontario’s land planning and environmental protection process.” According to Piccini the changes will streamline the role conservation authorities play in municipal planning, make approvals faster and less costly, and improve conservation authority governance, oversight and accountability. What the future holds for environmental protection and conservation in Ontario is unclear. What seems certain is that, until the next election, Ontarians with specific environmental concerns will become vocal and active if they wish to protect threatened landscapes and species. Premier Doug Ford’s suggestion in early summer of last year that he would open up areas of Ontario’s Greenbelt to development met with a wave of public opposition that resulted in his changing course. And the outcry resulting from the provincial government’s decision to cancel funds for Forest Ontario’s 50 Million Tree program prompted the federal government to step in and provide support. Environmentalists wanting to reverse other decisions will need to take heed, dig in and get organized.
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FIELD NOTES |
FOLLOWING THE FLIGHT AND THE PLIGHT OF THE TREE SWALLOW BY TERRY SPRAGUE
PHOTOGRAPH BY NICOLE WATSON
but if I close my eyes, I can still remember the scene. Daybreak was faintly illuminating the distant horizon. As I brought the cows from their night pasture for the morning milking, tree swallows – thousands of them – were winging in my direction from the eastern sky. The sky was almost black with endless clouds soaring and reeling at great heights as though on a roller coaster. As they neared, I could hear their liquid twittering. Their journey seemed to end at the utility wires that ran past our house where they eventually settled, dark forms jostling for space, the wires almost sagging beneath their weight. Latecomers fought for perches in one of our willow trees, and the delicate branches waved in the wind from their wings. Thousands – it seemed like millions of swallows – gathered every morning, their numbers falling gradually through the autumn months until all the flocks had migrated. Some years later, I learned that those swallows had lifted from an 800-hectare cattail marsh only a
kilometre away. With the arrival of autumn, these aerial feeders view the wetlands as safe havens to spend the night but during the nesting season, tree swallows have little interest in cattail marshes. The tree swallow population has been declining by about one percent per year since 1966, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. What happened after the 1960s to reduce their numbers so severely? The decline of the tree swallow population is probably a combination of factors: habitat loss, disappearing wetlands in which to roost, changing agricultural practices, competition with other species for nest cavities, and intense use of agricultural pesticides that have reduced their food source. Perhaps climate change was even a factor, or late-spring snowstorms. The tragic sleet storm in April of 2003 that persisted for several days resulted in 100 percent mortality of thousands of early swallow migrants. The ground throughout Watershed country was carpeted with dead swallows and nest boxes were jammed with 30 or more dead birds that
had tried to seek shelter and then suffocated. Historically, tree swallows nest in tree cavities; however, natural nesting sites have slowly disappeared as farmers clear the land and fencerows, manage woodlands, and cut down and remove older trees. We value the tree swallow for its role in insect control, but their voracious appetite for bugs exposes them to high levels of pesticides and other contaminants, such as PCBs and mercury that enter their systems through bioaccumulation. Swallows are still hanging on, simply because their numbers were very high to start with, but the day may come when we will lose these little birds. That will be a sad day indeed! We would miss our feathered friends. Not having tree swallows in our backyard would be like losing the loons on our lakes and bays.
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Watershed Country Chef, Douglas George Hope, has cooked his way around the world, yet his greatest journey was travelled right here, in our backyard. BY SIGNE LANGFORD
Chef Douglas George Hope spent his childhood on the move, staying on farms and military bases around the world. It was a way of life that stuck. “I was part of the team that opened Canoe in Toronto in the mid-nineties, then I was off to Australia where I stayed for the next 12 years running my own restaurant. “But,” he explains, “in 2000, the recession hit Australia hard, so I decided to return to Canada.”
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serving trenchers from lumber harvested
hospitalized for 21 days, and couldn’t work
and milled on his farm, a short drive from
for three months. A nightmare scenario for
the restaurant he named ’Sper, which is
anyone, a deathblow for a self-employed
Latin for hope.
farmer and restaurateur. But that’s when Hope and Bastas witnessed just how
’Sper Farm sits on 12 acres, ten of which
mighty a small rural town can be.
are forested and two that have been cleared for gardens and buildings, even a
“It’s because of this community that we are
lumber mill. There are 110 sugar maples
where we are now.” says Hope, “The com-
for tapping, there’s a sugar shack, and
munity really rallied around us. Everyone
plans for an orchard. He and partner, Tina
helped in any way they could. Neighbours
Bastas, forage the fields and forest for the
left notes in the mailbox offering help;
wild produce used at ’Sper. Their modest
some dropped off gas and gift cards; a Go
Over the next two decades, he cooked in
but charming farmhouse overlooks an
Fund Me campaign was initiated. Many
British Columbia, Kawartha cottage country,
abundant kitchen garden where they grow
folks didn’t even ask what we needed, they
and with Silversea Cruises, and throughout
all the herbs for the kitchen, and the coops
just showed up to plow the snow, or care
all of it, Warkworth was a place he was
and barns where heirloom turkeys, ducks,
for the animals. They knew what needed
drawn to and it was where he would even-
goats and one alpaca thrive.
doing and did it.”
Hope’s ethos is ‘local and from scratch,
‘Sper reopened the last week of March,
tually settle. “My family, my ancestors are from around here: Hope Mill, Crosswinds, Gore’s Landing, Keene. I love this area.”
nose to tail, leaf to root’. The couple make
2019, and Chef Hope recalls, “It was
He was impressed by the concentration of
or grow much of what is served at ’Sper,
slower than I would have liked at first.”
artists, artisans – he’s a fan of Frantic Farms
from the bread to the vinegar to the live-
The compassion shown by the community
– public art, boutiques, gourmet foods and
edge serving boards. But ’Sper is about
had proven to be something of a double-
he loves that farmers still drive tractors into
more than fine food, it’s a place that runs
edged sword. “Some folks said they
town. So, in 2016 he took over the tiny
on community, sharing, and indeed, hope.
didn't want to stress us out by making us too busy at the restaurant, but being busy
space on Main Street. It was a total gut job, and he did it himself: updating the
New Year’s Day, 2019, while visiting family
is just what we need!” For Chef Hope,
electrical system, building the tables, even
in Belleville, Hope went into cardiac arrest.
growing real food and feeding his
It took six minutes for the EMS to arrive. At
community is the best medicine of all.
turning wooden dishes, and crafting the
the hospital, he was put into a medically induced coma, allowing him to stabilize before undergoing a triple bypass. He was
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’Sper Pumpkin and Cheese Gnocchi with Pesto “This is a light, northern Italian gnocchi I loved eating when I was travelling through Piedmonte, Liguria, and Lombardy. It’s quick and easy to prepare, and melds well with simple sauces such as pesto or just some really good olive oil. With this recipe, leftover cooked pumpkin, squash, or mashed potatoes can be turned into a dish that melts on the tongue and I find that irresistible!”
Ingredients
bag, one can be made by cutting off the corner of a
1 c. mashed baked butternut squash
large freezer bag.
1 c. mascarpone or quark 1 free-run room-temperature egg
Holding the bag of dough over the pot of simmering
4 free-run room-temperature egg yolks
water, gently squeeze the dough from the piping
¼ tsp. nutmeg
bag about an inch or so at a time, cutting each
Zest of 2 large washed lemons
length with a knife and letting it drop into the water.
1 1/3 c. grated Parmesan
Do this in batches small enough to not crowd the
1 tsp. kosher salt
pot. The gnocchi will sink, then as they cook, will
1 c. all-purpose flour (approximately)
bob to the surface. Once gnocchi are floating, cook for 3-4 minutes.
Directions Preheat oven to 350℉. Cut the squash in half length-
Using a slotted spoon, small sieve, or Chinese spider
wise, and bake directly on the middle rack until soft
(skimmer), transfer the cooked gnocchi to a colander
enough to mash with a fork – anywhere from 25-60
to drain. Transfer drained gnocchi to a serving bowl
minutes, depending on size. Set aside to cool some-
and gently toss with pesto until well coated. Garnish
what. When cool enough to handle, use a large
with some freshly grated Parmesan, if desired. Serve
spoon to scoop the flesh out from the skin.
immediately. Serves 6-8
Into the bowl of a stand mixer or large bowl using an
’Sper at a Glance
electric hand beater, add the squash, mascarpone or
“We raise it, we grow it, we cook it!”
quark, egg, egg yolk, nutmeg, lemon zest, Parmesan
l
‘Sper is pronounced Spare.
and salt. Beat on medium speed until light and fluffy
l
’Sper’s seasonally inspired menu changes at least
– about 1 minute.
every week and serves only Ontario wines. l
Open Friday and Saturday nights for dinner, and
l
Sunday for brunch. Friday is a’ la carte; the ever-changing menu is
Gradually beat in the flour, about ¼ cup at a time, until the mixture becomes a thick but pliable dough. You may or may not use all the flour called for in the
posted on ’Sper’s Facebook page. Walk-ins are
ingredients list.
welcome. l
Walk-ins are always welcome.
heat and bring to a simmer. l
Transfer gnocchi dough to a large piping bag with a plain round, fairly wide nib. If you don’t own a piping
Saturday’s menu is prix fixe and is by reservation only. Sunday is open for an a’ la carte brunch.
Set a large saucepan of salted water over medium
’Sper seats 16 around one long harvest table. Make some new friends!
l
Cooking classes are available at sper.ca.
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Derick Greenly Summergreen Tree Crops and Mushrooms
Laura Easter Roaming Valley Farms
Bruce Weir Black Tractor Farms Bruce Weir grew up on a farm in Creemore, but as
Derick Greenly is the third generation on his fam-
“It’s always interesting!” There’s a hint of sarcasm
ily’s 75 acres of pasture, orchard, and woodlot
in Laura Easter’s voice. “On a small farm you wear
many farm kids do, he left to forge his own suc-
near Warkworth, but it might not have been so.
many hats: veterinarian, mechanic, bookkeeper,
cessful and stressful 35-year career in photo and
He left the farm for several years, travelling and
gardener, and manager.” Sarcasm aside, Easter is
video production. And stressful it was. When fly-
busking – he’s a star on the Celtic harp scene –
happy. “I always wanted to follow in my dad’s
ing home from a business trip – he’d been in Cal-
but he was drawn home.
footsteps. I went away to study agriculture at
gary shooting footage for Canada’s Sports Hall of
Guelph, but it’s the day-to-day, getting my hands
Fame – he suffered a heart attack at 30,000 feet.
“When Grandfather died, I started thinking about my roots, but I was discouraged with tradi-
It was a wakeup call. Time to walk away from
dirty that I love!”
tional farming. Travelling had exposed me to
With father David Glover, and brother James,
his fast-paced lifestyle, and get back to his roots.
other farming methods and that opened me up
the trio is the sixth generation to farm in
So, in 2013 he and wife, Jill Proudfoot, started
to possibly coming back to farm. What I do now
Northumberland, producing organic dairy, beef,
farming in earnest, producing heirloom vegeta-
is miles away from cash crops and a conventional
pork and chicken on 900 acres in Warkworth.
bles and keeping 14 bee hives on one and a
dairy herd. This way allows for creativity.”
“Our beef is grass-fed from start to finish – no
quarter acres just outside Warkworth.
Greenly grows gourmet mushrooms – lion’s
grain – we grow our own organic hay. They’re
Today, at 63, life is slower for Bruce, “But,” he
mane, chestnut, hen of the woods, shiitake, oys-
outside all year long, even winter.” says Easter.
says, “I still work really hard, it’s just a different
ter – as well as fruit and nut trees. He began
And, the animals live longer, developing more
kind of hard. It’s physical, it’s good; I’ve lost
growing mushrooms as an offshoot of forestry, a
texture. “It’s real beef, with a rich – almost gamy
weight and feel healthy; I feel way stronger and
way to utilize small bits of wood by inoculating
– flavour. It’s a strong flavour that’s not for every-
younger than when I was producing and editing.”
them with spores. Now, Greenly’s mushrooms are
one, but I really love it.” Chef Hope is a fan, he
grown in compressed blocks of locally milled
uses the whole animal nose to tail.”
Along with produce and honey, they’re ramping up their line of tasty things in jars – jams,
hardwood sawdust: maple, hickory, oak, and
And the seventh generation? Easter says, “Be-
chutneys, pickles. “This is really Jill’s baby. Right
birch. “It’s exciting when I try a new, oddball
tween my brother and me, we have five kids all
now we’re using the certified kitchen at the Ma-
species, I know Doug will be interested and he’ll
under six. I sure hope one of them will continue
sonic Hall in Warkworth, but we’d love to have
make something great with it.”
farming this land.”
our own on-site kitchen one day.”
fb @summergreentreesmushrooms
www.blacktractorfarms.com
www.roamingvalleyfarm.com
225th Wheat Harvest Anniversary 1794 – 2019
GOOD LOVELIES Saturday Sept. 14 1:30-3:30pm
The first wheat crop ever to be grown on the north shore of Lake Ontario was harvested in the fall of 1794 in Hope Township. The first mill wasn’t even built yet in Port Hope or even in the Toronto area so that winter on their roughly constructed sleds they took their first grist to be ground at the newly erected Meyer Mill in Belleville.
DONEGAL FIDDLERS
Join us in celebrating these hardy people with activities in our tent in the South Field and music at the outdoor stage
Sunday Sept. 15 2:30-4:00pm
September 13-15, 2019 at the Port Hope & District Agricultural Society Fair IN THE TENT Saturday Sept. 14, 2019 Wheat Threshing and Horseshoeing demonstrations outside
Demos 11:00am 12:00 1:00pm 2:00pm 3:00 pm
sponsored by:
Traditional Bread Making ingredients Felting and Felt Art Harvesting Wheat Dyeing Wool & Spinning Surveying Forest to Farmland
IN THE TENT Sunday Sept. 15, 2019 Wheat Threshing and Horseshoeing demonstrations outside
Demos Surveying Forest to Farmland 12:00 12:45pm Harvesting Wheat 1:30pm Traditional Break Making ingredients 2:15pm Felting and Felt Art 3:00pm Dyeing Wool & Spinning
| Port Hope & District Agricultural Society Fair | Port Hope Public Library | Hope Agricultural Heritage Club ID 54877366 © Trotzolga12 | Dreamstime.com
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A N A D V E R T I S I N G F E AT U R E
A SHOWCASE OF FINE HOMES
WATERFRONT
PANORAMIC VIEWS
EXECUTIVE MANOR
PRIVACY AND ELEGANCE
203 LAKESHORE RD., GRAFTON
477 HAYNES RD., CASTLETON
225 BOYLE RD., GRAFTON
309 GEORGINA ST., BRIGHTON
$2,590,000 MLS 179646
$1,290,000 MLS 193069
$1,199,000 MLS 193069
$924,999 MLS 212388
SOLD
NEW AMHERST
HOUSE & SHOP
LAKE ONTARIO VIEWS
3246 CHARBROOK CRES., HAMILTON TWP
869 CADDY DR., COBOURG
6992 7TH LINE, PORT HOPE
197 FIDDICK RD., BRIGHTON
$689,000 MLS 209731
$679,000 MLS 194755
$669,900 MLS 180702
WATERFRONT LOT INCL.
COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTIAL
WONDERFUL SPACE
HERITAGE GEM
15 WOODLAND DR., ROSENEATH LANDING
78 MAIN ST., BRIGHTON
12597 DUNBAR RD., CASTLETON
859 LAKESHORE RD., GRAFTON
$639,000 MLS 195078
$639,000 MLS 201497
$619,000 MLS 176750
$579,900 MLS 116159
MLS 200234
Tony Pulla...Realtor Since 1970 Want it sold? Want your price? Want peace of mind? HIRE PULLA...WHAT YOU WANT IS WHAT YOU GET.
FOR LEGENDARY RESULTS HIRE PULLA tony@pulla.ca . 905.373.1980 . www.pulla.ca *Based on MLS statistics of the Cobourg-Port Hope Real Estate Board/Northumberland Hills Association of Realtors® (1995-2018)
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A N A D V E R T I S I N G F E AT U R E
A SHOWCASE OF FINE HOMES
NEW
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WITH INLAW SUITE
19B PARK ST., COLBORNE
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12964 CTY RD 2 COLBORNE
1293 ASHLAND DR., COBOURG
$549,000 MLS 200980
$549,000 MLS 207429
$549,000 MLS 201314
$579,000 MLS 200492
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PREMIER LOCATION
83 & 83A MILL ST N., PORT HOPE
121 MCDONALD RD., ALNWICK/HALDIMAND TWP
818 LESLIE ST., COBOURG
6 CAMPBELL RD., PORT HOPE
$529,000 MLS 208087
$529,000 MLS 208651
$474,900 MLS 195601
$469,000 MLS 210393
WITH IN-LAW SUITE
1874 SCHOOL HOUSE
PERFECT FAMILY HOME
SOLD
844 BATTELL ST., COBOURG
714 DUDLEY RD., HALDIMAND TWP
460 WESTWOOD DR., COBOURG
59 CONCESSION ST E., WARKWORTH
$469,000 MLS 197636
$469,000 MLS 202695
$449,000 MLS 205184
MLS 185183
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1011 Elgin Street W., Cobourg . Direct Line 905.373.1980 . Office 905.373.7653 *Based on MLS statistics of the Cobourg-Port Hope Real Estate Board/Northumberland Hills Association of Realtors® (1995-2018)
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LIVE WHERE YOU LOVE TO VISIT
PRIVATE WATERFRONT ESTATE PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY Situated on a highly secluded 19.6 acres, this property pairs a stunning waterfront lot with an executive home. Enjoys a high degree of privacy with trees forming a natural barrier from the road and neighbours. The modern house has been thoughtfully designed to maximize its waterfront view with floor to ceiling windows throughout. A large fireplace in the living room provides a focal point for entertaining and the pool house includes a sauna and outdoor shower.
Pairing a B&B and farm, Prince Edward County Lavender is an established destination in the heart of wine country! The 6,805 square foot home includes exposed beams and wide plank flooring. Each of the 4 B&B suites has an ensuite bathroom + independent heating. The farm crafts an assortment of lavender products, distilling and selling them on-site. With 8 of 50 acres currently planted, the site offers tremendous potential for expansion.
$2,500,000 MLS 205999
$2,499,000 MLS 182058/182040/182021
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Elizabeth Crombie Suzanne White*
*Sales Representative and Licensed Assistant to Elizabeth Crombie, Sales Representative
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Sydney Fairman, B.A. Sales Representative
Re/Max Lakeshore Realty Inc. Brokerage 1011 Elgin St. W Cobourg, ON K9A 5J4 office 905.373.7653 direct 905.396.8600 sydney@sydneysells.com
44 WELLERS LANE – Stylish & spacious, this 3 bed, 3 bath refuge of waterfront relaxation is the perfect family home or retreat in PEC. Overlooking the South westerly shores, the interior is light-filled w/ panoramic views from almost every room allowing for entertaining on a beautiful scale. $1,075,000 MLS 194819
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YOUR BEST LIFE BEGINS WITH A HOME THAT INSPIRES YOU
Iris & Brian Andrews Brokers
73 ACRE SALT CREEK FARM~WARKWORTH Tantalize Every Sense. Rolling Hills Are The Backdrop to this Enchanting Hobby Farm. Barn, Paddocks, Reno’d Century Home & Meandering Creek.
ENTICEMENTS OF SOPHISTICATION & DESIGN An Iconic Oasis in Belleville. Strath Glen offers A Rare Opportunity to Carry on the Tradition of this “Homes & Garden” Magazine Worthy Estate.
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$1,050,000 MLS 203194
$879,900 MLS 212090
$1,100,000 MLS 175023
613.969.2044 800.303.1044 iandrews@sothebysrealty.ca
Leslie Turner Broker
705.632.9404 800.303.1044 lturner@sothebysrealty.ca WARKWORTH CENTURY HOBBY FARM Much Admired Century Farmhouse, Handsome Barn, Paddocks, & Outbuildings, all Working in Concert to Fulfill Your Dream.
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LAKE ONTARIO IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY Now Selling, 36 Boutique Condos in Wellington. Glass Balconies, Roof-TopTerrace, Underground Parking. ++ www.twelvetreeswellington.ca
$848,000 MLS 186437
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AN EXQUISITE WATERFRONT ESTATE 107 STEWART RD., BRIGHTON Designed by Jack Arnold, the Magnifique model from his luxury Country French Classic collection provides unmatched authenticity, quality & sophisticated style. With fine finishes & attention to EVERY detail both inside & out, settle into this gracious 4 bedroom, 3 bath resort-style, stone estate set on 2.83 acres with 53 feet of waterfront, dock & lagoon style in ground pool. A two-storey great room offers a profound feeling of coziness w/ its wood burning FP & tranquil views of the shoreline while the spacious, custom designed kitchen w/ SS appliances, Babinga wood dining table & b/i computer station offers access to the pool, MF laundry & att. garage. The master retreat feats. a spa-esque 5 piece ensuite w/an elegant egg tub, walk-in closet, water views & w/o to the patio. Arched african mahogany french doors lead to the den on a quiet night while your family embraces the space on the 2nd level. Such a distinctive offering rarely presents itselfplease contact for full feature list!
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$1,550,000 MLS 201403
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6180 CURTIS POINT ROAD, UNIT 6 RICE LAKE – This bespoke contemporary home is luxurious with enduring elegance. Expansive floor to ceiling windows allows natural light in as you saviour breathtaking endless views of the Lake. The master suite features a walk-in closet, private lounge, ensuite, sauna, and private terrace. Enjoy all that Life in Northumberland has to offer on Rice Lake!
Offered at $555,000 MLS 198927
Offered at $889,000.00 MLS 185532
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120 HARDEN DRIVE, GRAFTON – Lush forest surrounds this exquisitely designed Stalwood built home. Elegant & sophisticated, the open floor plan offers a great room with vaulted ceilings. Featuring 3 spacious bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a finished lower level. Just minutes to the 401 and only 10 minutes to Cobourg, this home ideally located for commuters looking for the Country life close to amenities.
317 ACADEMY HILL ROAD, GRAFTON – The Northumberland Life is calling with this one-of-a-kind hobby farm. Featuring 86 acres, barn, and multiple outbuildings. The residence offers an open concept layout with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Steps away from Ste Anne’s Spa & surrounded by some of the most breathtaking views in the County. Just minutes to the 401 this is the country retreat you’ve dreamed of.
Offered at $699,900 MLS 176020
Offered at $1,100,000 MLS 212307
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COUNTRY LIVING AT IT'S BEST!
THE MILLERS HOUSE – Steeped in history, The Miller’s House in Castleton exudes charm with it’s gothic architecture. Lovingly cared for, the house still retains the charm and grace of yesteryear with todays modern standards and updates. The principal rooms are gracious in size, with wonderful high ceilings, big windows. Three level barn and mill all on 20 acres!
HICKERSON ROAD, 112 ACRES! – 112+ acres of bucolic, rolling land in a sought after location just north of Cobourg! Approximately 45 acres arable/work able, currently in hay. Beautiful stream running through the property, some mixed forest. This is a wonderful tract of land! Great opportunity here!! $525,000 MLS 210323
Kimberley Spencer Sales Representative
t 416.616.1499 o 416.698.2090
$769,000 MLS 209455
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ROSENEATH HORSE/HOBBY FARM ON 63 ACRES!! – Great views! 3 bedroom farmhouse, huge main floor master w/ ensuite! Pond! Olympic size outdoor Arena, Large barn with tack room and garden storage. Fenced paddocks, with water. Some acres in Hay, some pasture. Plus, Plus!
LAKEFRONT, SPECTACULAR LAKEVIEW! – Bailieboro, 101.89 acres. Spring fed 30’ deep pond, artesian springs, 12 acre sugar bush, 60 workable acres. 2 houses need TLC. This type of unparalleled view doesn’t come by everyday. 1 hour to Toronto. $1.5m MLS X4320357
$619,000 MLS 209112
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Curtis Street is a new, vibrant community in the heart of Picton. Within three blocks walking distance from all of Picton’s amenities, Curtis Street offers a wide variety of home styles to fit your wants and needs. Featuring an assortment of lot sizes and home sizes - 40', 50' and townhomes - choose from a bungalow or two storey. Local shops, restaurants, breweries, library, movie theatre and so much more are right around the corner.
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SELLING BEAUTIFUL PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY FOR 32 YEARS
EQUESTRIAN CENTRE/CRAFT BREWERY 17 Acre beautifully manicured horse farm with stable and riding centre, indoor riding arena. Great potential to operate a craft Brewery or Winery. This site has limitless possibilities!
JUST LISTED – PICTON BUNGALOW Picton Bungalow in a terrific neighbourhood, new double car garage/workshop.
$549,000 MLS 155449
$529,000
Herb Pliwischkies Kristin Rutgers Sales Representative
Sales Representative
613.921.7441
613.848.4403
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$519,000 MLS $207417
$340,000 MLS 193382
JUST LISTED – QUALITY BUILT FARNSWORTH HOME Spectacular 3 Acre lot with excellent well report and outstanding organic soil. This site is 5 minutes to Picton, Christmas occupancy. $499,000 MLS 204084
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SPIRIT OF THE HILLS BY CHRIS CAMERON
THE LIFE OF THE CREATIVE ARTIST CAN BE A SOLITARY ONE. There are the hours spent alone in
front of a blank canvas or computer screen, and those little insecurities that can accompany any artistic process. But artists and writers do not live in a vacuum; they thrive on shared support, and on engagement with the larger community. And of course, it’s always a delight to be able to share artistic joys and triumphs when they come along. Twenty years ago a group of Northumberland artists and writers came together to provide the comradeship of kindred spirits and to advance the artistic achievements of the region, and the Spirit of the Hills Arts Association was born. Since those early days, Spirit of the Hills (SOTH) has grown to over 160 members and now includes authors, poets, performers, photographers, visual artists, and artisans. This fall, the group’s commitment to celebration and community involvement will be highlighted at the Spirit of the Hills Festival of the Arts, to be held October 24-26 at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Cobourg. Building on the success of their festival in 2017, this year’s celebration will reflect the group’s diversity and broad social scope under the theme of “Twenty Years of Sharing Across the Arts.” SOTH has invited writers, artists, and performers
with a diverse range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences to take part in the festival. Among the many scheduled activities are performances, workshops, interactive multimedia and visual arts events, sales of art and books, and a panel discussion about the opportunities and challenges of sharing across the arts. There is even a beginner’s belly dancing workshop! The keynote event will be a concert featuring local musicians and the launch of Hill Spirits IV, the association’s latest anthology of prose, poetry and art by group members, published by Cobourg’s Blue Denim Press. The credentials of SOTH writers run deep and wide, and work by the anthology’s visual artists is a familiar sight in venues throughout Northumberland County. A much-anticipated highlight will be two evenings of dance and drama, featuring performances from such disciplines as flamenco and belly dancing plus four fully staged ten-minute plays, chosen especially for this event from among many submissions. Katie Hoogendam, a poet and playwright who moved to Cobourg six years ago, joined Spirit of the Hills to be close to the group’s creative community. Her play, Plan X, will be produced at this year’s festival. It will be her first dramatic work to be seen by a larger audience. “I am excited and honoured to have access to the wisdom of our Spirit of the Hills
group as we work our plays into production this fall,” she says. One social challenge that becomes more evident each year is the need to bridge differences between newcomers to the area and the established population, and to find common ground. Spirit of the Hills believes that the arts can be an effective and exciting means to foster understanding between different groups. Far from being solitary endeavours, the creative arts in Northumberland are woven, painted, sculpted, and written into the fabric of our community, with benefits and pleasures for everyone. Next time you are in a restaurant or a library, take a moment to look at the artwork hanging on the walls. Chances are it could be by a Spirit of the Hills member. Writing by local authors fills the shelves of our libraries and bookstores. “A major goal of Spirit of the Hills is to nourish its members and the community through the visual and performing arts, the written word, and music,” says Susan Statham, a visual artist and president of the association. Twenty years of reaching across the arts to share expertise and experience with the community successfully positions Spirit of the Hills to accomplish this goal. Visit spiritofthehills.org for more information.
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WATERSHEDDINGS YOUR REGIONAL EVENT GUIDE To submit your event listing visit Area Events on our website www.watershedmagazine.com | ILLUSTRATION BY JANE KESSLER
ART GALLERIES ANDREW CSAFORDI STUDIO – 54 Wilson Rd. Bloomfield. Email andrew@andrewcsafordi.com or call 613-393-1572. SEPT. – NOV. – ENCAUSTIC PAINTING – Learn the ancient technique in a casual studio environment in the tranquil countryside. ART GALLERY OF NORTHUMBERLAND – Victoria Hall, 3rd floor, 55 King St. W. Cobourg. Call 905-3720333 or visit artgalleryofnorthumberland.com. SEPT. 22 – OCT. 13 – JURIED EXHIBITION – Opening reception Sept. 22. 1pm. BELLEVILLE ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY – 208 Front St. Belleville. Visit bellevilleart.ca or call 613-968-8632. OCT. 3 – 31 – BAA JURIED SHOW. JOHN M. PARROTT ART GALLERY – 254 Pinnacle St. Belleville. Visit bellevillelibrary.ca or call 613-9686731 ext. 2240. OCT. 3 – 31 – PERSPECTIVES – Belleville Art Association’s juried show. Opening reception Oct. 3. 6pm. OCT. 26 – AMARYLLIS TRIO – Violinist Gabriella Hamley, cellist Ana Varona and pianist Debra Richardson-Edge perform light classical and salon music surrounded by the artwork in Gallery One. 2:30pm. NOV. 7 – 28 – SPIRIT OF THE HILLS – Opening reception Nov. 7. 6pm. KAWARTHA ARTISTS’ GALLERY – 420 O’Connell
Rd. Peterborough. Visit kawarthaartists.org or call 705-741-2817. SEPT. 25 – OCT. 27 – FACES AND FIGURES. OCT. 30 – NOV. 17 – SKY, LAND, AND SEA. NOV. 20 – DEC. 1 – BARE NAKED 4. NORTHUMBERLAND ARTS GALLERY – 8 Queen St. Port Hope. An exciting variety of work of local craftspeople. Visit northumberlandarts897.ca. OENO GALLERY – 2274 Cty. Rd. 1 Bloomfield. Call 613-393-2216 or visit oenogallery.com. UNTIL OCT. 1 – OUTDOOR SCULPTURE EXHIBITION. SCUGOG COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS – 181 Perry St. Port Perry. Visit scugogarts.ca or call 905-982-2121. OCT. 5 – 26 – SCUGOG SHORES FIBRE ARTISTS’ GUILD. NOV. 2 – 23 – LAKE SCUGOG STUDIO TOUR. THE ARTS QUINTE WEST GALLERY – 84 Dundas St. W. Trenton. For more information call 613-392-7635 or visit artsquintewest.ca. NOV. 2 – A GIFT OF ART – Show and sale. 10am-4pm. THE COLBORNE ART GALLERY – 51 King St. E. Colborne. Visit thecolborneartgallery.ca or call 905-3551798. UNTIL NOV. 3 – ENVELOPED – Members’ themed show. NOV. 9 – DEC. 22 – CHRISTMAS MARKET.
Bazaars & Teas NOV. 2 – HOLLYBERRY BAZAAR AND TEA – Bake table, preserves, jewellery and accessory room, specialty table and white elephant items. Enjoy lunch in the Tea Room. 11am-2pm. The church opens at 10:30am for preserve taste-testing and organ music. Quilt raffle draw at 2pm. St. Mark’s Anglican Church, 51 King St. Port Hope. Call 905-885-8798. NOV. 16 – CANDY CANE LANE – Featuring artisans, baking, crafts, gift baskets and two Unique Treasure rooms. 9:30am-3pm. Admission $2. Bridge Street United Church, 60 Bridge St. E. Belleville. For more information email hmclaren3@cogeco.ca. NOV. 16 – CHRISTMAS TEA AND BAZAAR – Enjoy fancy sandwiches and delicious sweets at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 200 King St. W. Cobourg. Adults $10. Free admission to shop for home-made baking and preserves, books, puzzles and treasures. Gently used jewellery and scarves in the Boutique Room. 11am-1:30pm. Email tehunter@sympatico.ca. NOV. 20 – CHRISTMAS FAYRE – A vast selection of unique, homespun gifts and goodies to suit every age. Enjoy delectable delights, homemade soups, sandwiches and squares in the Tea Room. 11am-2pm. Port Hope United Church, 34 South St. Come to the Fayre and celebrate the season by being a part of PHUC’s spirited tradition. Call 905-885-2421.
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NOV. 30 – SNOWFLAKE MARKETPLACE & TEA – Holiday marketplace, featuring crafts, honey, soaps, bake table, jewellery, clothing, purses and much more. 10am-4pm. Tea available 12-2pm. St. Andrew's United Church, 137 Old Danforth Rd. Grafton. Call Sharron at 905-355-2691 for more information.
Clubs, Meetings & Talks BRIGHTON COMPUTER CLUB – Meets Oct.8, Oct. 22, Nov. 26 and Dec. 10. 9:30am sharp. King Edward Park Community Centre, Elizabeth St. Brighton. Refreshments provided. Bring your own cup. Membership $20. Guests are welcome to attend first meeting for free. Email brightoncomputerclub@gmail.com. CFUW NORTHUMBERLAND – Meets the 1st Mon. of each month at a Port Hope or Cobourg location. Women interested in action, advocacy and education for girls and women. 7pm. For more information visit cfuw-northumberland.org.
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GANARASKA CHORDSMEN – A barbershop chorus singing music from the 50s and up welcomes men of all ages to its rehearsals. Most Tuesdays. 7-9:30pm. St. John’s Parish Hall, 33 Pine St. N. Port Hope. Email goldenthroat@hotmail.com or visit ganaraskachordsmen.ca. HASTINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY – Meets the 3rd Tues. of each month. Maranatha Auditorium, 100 College St. W. Belleville. 7:30pm. Call 613-9621110 or visit hastingshistory.ca. JOYFULL NOISE CHOIR – We sing music of the 50s, 60s & 70s. Women’s choirs meet weekly in Cobourg (Wed.) and Oshawa (Tues.). 7-9pm. No auditions and no need to read music. First night is free. Call 1-877433-4386 or visit joyfull-noise.com. LAKESHORE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY – Meets the 2nd Thu. of each month. 6:30-9pm. Guests welcome. HTM Insurance, 1185 Elgin St. W. Cobourg. For details visit lakeshoregenealogicalsociety.ca. NORTHUMBERLAND HILLS STITCHERY GUILD – Meets the 2nd & 4th Tues. of each month Sept.-June. 9:30am-1pm. Lions Community Centre, 157 Elgin St. E. Cobourg. All levels of experience welcome. Visit nhsg.ca or follow us on facebook. NORTHUMBERLAND PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB – Meets the 1st Mon. of each month. 7pm. Salvation Army Church Gym, 59 Ballantine St. Cobourg. Visit northumberlandphoto.ca or email info_mail@northumberlandphoto.ca.
fun. 10am. Maranatha Church, 100 College St. W. Belleville. Call 613-968-3172 for information. SENIORS’ TABLE TENNIS – Every Mon. 1-3pm. Thu./Fri. 9:30-11:30am. All skill levels welcome. Cobourg Seniors’ Activity Centre, 750 D’Arcy St. Visit cobourg.ca/en/recreation-and-culture/seniors or call 905-372-5510. THE 55+ CLUB – Every Tues. Moonshot Euchre. Play starts at 1pm. Colborne Legion, 92 King St. E. Colborne. Call 905-355-5479 or visit colbornelegion.org. VICTORIA HALL VOLUNTEERS – A fundraising group, whose members meet on the 4th Mon. of each month. 7:30pm. Citizens’ Forum, Victoria Hall, 55 King St. W. Cobourg. New members are welcome. Call 905-372-4964 or visit victoriahallvolunteers.ca. WESTBEN FIRST-FRIDAY TICK TALKS – 60-minute chat concerts at Clock Tower Cultural Centre, 36 Front St. S. Campbellford. 12pm. Pay-what-you-can. Bring your lunch and your curiosity. Visit westben.ca or call 705-653-5508 for more information. OCT. 4 – NEW NOW – U of T Singers. NOV. 1 – DICKENS WITH A MUSICAL TWIST.
Community UNTIL SEPT. 29 – UNMASKING INFLUENZA – A travelling exhibition that examines the lasting impact of the influenza pandemic in Canada – and asks whether we’re prepared for the next one. Glanmore National Historic Site, 257 Bridge St. E. Belleville. Visit glanmore.ca or call 613-962-2329.
ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY – Quinte Branch. Quinte West Public Library, 7 Creswell Dr. Trenton. Presentations on Sept. 21, Oct. 19 and Nov. 16. 1pm. Everyone welcome, bring a friend. Visit quinte.ogs.on.ca or email quintebranch@ogs.on.ca.
UNTIL OCT. 13 – ROSENEATH CAROUSEL – Sundays 1-3pm. Rides $3. Roseneath Fairgrounds, 9109 Cty. Rd. 45. Visit roseneathcarousel.com or call 905352-3778.
PROBUS CLUB OF BELLEVILLE – Retirees and semiretirees meet on the 2nd and 4th Thu. of each month to enjoy interesting guest speakers, fellowship and
SEPT. 14 – HIKE FOR HOSPICE – Family-friendly event to raise funds for Hospice Quinte. Enjoy entertainment and a luncheon after your 2.5 or 5km walk
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South Bay United Church, followed by a reception at Mariners Park Museum, 2065 Cty. Rd. 13 South Bay, Prince Edward County. Call 613-476-2148 ext. 2525 or visit thecounty.ca for more information. SEPT. 27 – NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM – Under the Stars. Night sky viewing at Wellington Heritage Museum, 290 Main St. Wellington. 7pm. Tickets $25 at ticketscene.ca or call 613-476-2148 ext. 2526.
SEPT. 14 – WILD ABOUT HERBS – Prince Edward County Master Gardeners invite you to a presentation by Conrad and Aku Richter. 10am-3pm. The Wellings, 617 Cty. Rd. 49 Picton. Tickets $35 in advance at eventbrite.com. Lunch included. For more information visit pecmastergardeners.com. SEPT. 15 – QUINTE AGRICULTURAL WALL OF FAME – Induction ceremony at Farmtown Park, Stirling. Three Quinte area individuals will be recognized for their outstanding contributions to the agricultural and food industries. Admission $8. For more information visit farmtownpark.ca or call 613-395-0015. SEPT. 15 – SANDBANKS FALL GETAWAY – Sandbanks Provincial Park and Friends of Sandbanks join forces to host the annual 10km and 5km Fun Run, as well as the Terry Fox Run. 9am from the West Lake Campground, 2109 Cty. Rd. 12. Call 613-393-3319 ext. 237 or visit sandbanksfunrun.weebly.com. SEPT. 21 – BELLEVILLE CROKINOLE CHALLENGE – Open to all ages and experience levels. To pre-register, email chrisgorsline@outlook.com or call 613-2420291. 9:30am-5pm. Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre, 265 Cannifton Rd. Belleville. For details visit nationalcrokinoleassociation.com . SEPT. 21 – DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL – Enjoy a day out on the water with family, friends, colleagues and peers. Fundraiser for Northumberland United Way. 8am start. Cobourg Yacht Club and Marina. Call 905372-6955 or visit mynuw.org for details. SEPT. 22 – MARINERS SERVICE – 9:30am service at
SEPT. 27 – 29 – CULTURE DAYS – Municipality of Port Hope celebrates Canadian culture by offering a variety of free workshops for the whole family at Port Hope Public Library and Port Hope Community Hub. For event schedule visit porthope.ca/events. SEPT. 28 – AUDIO PRESENTATION – The Story of the 1917 Halifax Explosion and the Boston Tree by Suzanne Pasternak. 2pm. Admission by donation. Glenwood Cemetery, 47 Ferguson St. Picton. Visit glenwoodcemetery.ca or call 613-476-3511. SEPT. 28 – TOUCH A TRUCK – Family-friendly. fundraiser for Ed’s House with ambulances, police cruisers and dump trucks on display to view and explore child focused activities. Admission $5. Children under two free. 11am-3pm. Port Hope Fairgrounds, 62 McCaul St. Port Hope. For more information visit northumberlandhospice.ca or call 905-885-0466. SEPT. 28 – WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES – The good men and women of Northumberland County will take to the streets in support of Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre. Downtown Cobourg. 11am. Visit cornerstonenorthumberland.ca.
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OCT. 5 – STARGAZING – Moon close-ups, galaxies, stars. Bring your own telescope or binoculars or use ours. Donations accepted in support of Cobourg Public Library’s Loan a Scope program. 7:30pm. Dortwood Observatory, 3218 Burnham St. N. Cobourg. Visit dortwood-observatory.business.site or call 905376-8414 for more information. OCT. 6 – THE COUNTY MARATHON – Featuring a Boston Qualifying Full Marathon, a Half Marathon and a Team Challenge. Open to runners, walkers and wheeled athletes. Visit thecountymarathon.ca or call Tracy at 613-391-7129.
Hall. Admission $5. Snacks and refreshments available for sale. Fundraiser for the Warkworth Fall Fair. Email tracy.russell@sympatico.ca or visit warkworthfair.com. OCT. 25 & 26 – ALL HALLOWS’ EVE – Discover the origins and traditions of Halloween. Featuring games, fortune telling, tractor and wagon rides and more. Lang Pioneer Village, 104 Lang Rd. Keene. 6-9pm. Visit langpioneervillage.ca or call 705-295-6694. OCT. 26 – GHOSTLY VISIT – A haunted forest, scary creatures, games, prizes, marshmallow roast and spooky Halloween fun for children 13 & under. 68pm. $10 per family (up to 5). Single child $5. Wesleyville Church, 2082 Lakeshore Rd. Call 905-8851344 or visit wesleyvillevillage.com. OCT. 31 – BOOFEST – Inviting all ghosts and goblins of Quinte West to the annual BOOFEST Halloween Party. Tons of candy, ghost stories, colouring, toys and games. 5-8pm. Duncan McDonald Memorial Gardens, 8 Couch Cr. Trenton. Visit quintewest.ca.
OCT. 6 & 20 – TRENT HILLS EQUESTRIAN – Fundraising series that brings together English and Western riders. Proceeds to benefit Percy Ag. 10am4pm. Warkworth Fairgrounds. Call Jen at 705-7723732 or visit warkworthfair.com/events. OCT. 10 – ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER – Dr. Robert Bates zooms us to the stars and back with his images of our solar system. Free admission. 6:30pm. Parrott Gallery, 254 Pinnacle St. Belleville. Call 613-968-6731 ext. 2040 or visit bellevillelibrary.ca. OCT. 14 – NORTHUMBERLAND TURKEY TROT – Adults and teens can race in The Gobbler 5K run for a chance to win a turkey. Run or walk the 2.5K version of The Gobbler to win a pie. The Gobble Wobble Search is fun for the 4-year-old and under crowd. In support of the YMCA Strong Communities Campaign. For details visit northumberlandturkeytrot.org. OCT. 19 – DAVE DOWN BRIDGE HOSPICE RUN – Benefit for The Bridge Hospice. Warkworth Arena. 9am. Email info@thebridgehospice.com or call 705924-9222 for details. OCT. 19 – PUMPKINFEST – Village of Wellington celebration includes a parade along Main St. followed by a great pumpkin weigh-off, contests, games, food, and entertainment. Visit pec.on.ca/pumpkinfest. OCT. 24 – NOV. 29 – AI + U – Northumberland Learning Connection’s six-week exploration of the ethics of Artificial Intelligence, separating hype from reality, and how AI is already affecting our everyday life. For details visit connectnlc.ca. OCT. 25 – KIDS’ HALLOWEEN DANCE – Put on your costume and come for some fun. Grade 4 and under, 6:30-8pm. Grades 5-8, 8:15-10pm. Warkworth Town
NOV. 16 & 17 – SKATE ONTARIO SUPER SERIES – Figure skating competition to qualify for the Skate Ontario Provincial Championships. Baltimore Recreation Centre Arena, 23 Community Centre Rd. Baltimore. Call Denine at 905-376-2230.
Concerts BRIDGE STREET UNITED CHURCH – 60 Bridge St. E. Belleville. Call 613-962-9178. Admission by freewill offering. SEPT. 29 – TORONTO WELSH MALE VOICE CHOIR – 2:30pm. OCT. 20 – FOOD FOR THE SOUL – Organ and soprano duo. 2:30pm. NOV. 10 – PIPE ORGAN EXTRAVAGANZA – From Bach to Broadway to Bohemian Rhapsody. 2:30pm. BRIGHTON BARN THEATRE – 96 Young St. Brighton. Visit brightonbarntheatre.ca or call 613-475-2144. DEC. 12 – 15 – CHRISTMAS AT THE BARN – Celebrate the Christmas season with the gift of music, from stunningly beautiful chorals to toe-tapping jigs. 2pm & 7:30pm. CAMECO CAPITOL ARTS CENTRE – 20 Queen St. Port Hope. Visit capitoltheatre.com or call 905-885-1071. SEPT. 13 – BIG BEAT LIVE – Fundraising concert for Northumberland 89.7 FM, featuring The Ganaraska Chordsmen, The Colborne Library Ukulele Band, Greatest of Ease, The Cedarail Band, Coup De Ville and The OFFBEATS. Doors open 6:30pm. Concert 7-10pm. SEPT. 20 – BRASS TRANSIT – The Musical Legacy of Chicago. 8pm. SEPT. 21 – ABBA REVISITED – 8pm. SEPT. 26 – BOOKENDS - THE SHOW – The Music of Simon and Garfunkel. 8pm. NOV. 1 – OAKLAND STROKE – Tower of Power tribute. 8pm.
GLENWOOD CEMETERY – 47 Ferguson St. Picton. Admission by donation. All proceeds go to maintenance and restoration of Glenwood’s Heritage Chapel. Visit glenwoodcemetery.ca or call 613-476-3511. DEC. 8 – A RENAISSANCE CHRISTMAS – With the Renaissance Troubadours. 2pm. LA JEUNESSE YOUTH ORCHESTRA – Visit ljyo.ca. DEC. 1 – HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS – Port Hope United Church. 3pm. NORTHUMBERLAND CHORUS – Call 905-372-6675 or visit northumberland-chorus.com. NOV. 16 – ’TIS THE SEASON – Tea and show. Grace Christian Reformed Church, 440 King St. E. Cobourg. 6:30pm. NORTHUMBERLAND ORCHESTRA & CHOIR – Trinity United Church, 284 Division St. Cobourg. Call 905376-3021 or visit northumberlandmusic.ca. OCT. 26 – HALLOWEEN SPOOK-TACULAR – NOC shares the stage with members of SONG. 2pm. OCT. 26 – MAGICAL MOZART & FRIENDS – 7:30pm. OLD CHURCH THEATRE – 940 Bonisteel Rd. Trenton. Call 613-848-1411 or visit oldchurch.ca. OCT. 3 – RED DIRT SKINNERS – 7:30pm. OCT. 11 – DURHAM COUNTY POETS – 7:30pm. OCT. 18 – TEAGAN MCLAREN – 7:30pm. OCT. 19 – GRAHAM NICHOLAS – 7:30pm. NOV. 2 – CARLOS DEL JUNCO AND THE BLUES MONGRELS – 7:30pm. NOV. 14 – DANIEL CHAMPAGNE – 7:30pm. NOV. 23 – AL LERMAN – 7:30pm.
ST. ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH – 200 King St. W. Cobourg. Email tehunter@sympatico.ca. NOV. 30 – TRIBUTE TO ELVIS – William “ELVIS” Young performs gospel and Christmas music. 2-4pm. Tickets $20 at the door. Cash only. ST. MATTHEW’S UNITED CHURCH – 25 Holloway St. Belleville. Visit stmatthewsbelleville.com or call 613-967-1511. OCT. 20 – THE PEARL FISHERS – OperOttawa presents Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles in concert. 2:30pm. STIRLING FESTIVAL THEATRE – 41 West Front St. Stirling. Visit stirlingfestivaltheatre.com or call 613395-2100. OCT. 17 – 26 – ALL CHOIRED UP! – A funny and moving show performed by the talented Young Com-
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pany. 2pm & 7pm. OCT. 18 – LET’S ROCK ’N ROLL – Pete Paquette and The Rockin’ Royals Showband celebrate hit songs of the 50s, 60s and 70s. 7pm. NOV. 9 – STAND UP, STIRLING – Ladies’ night. 8pm. THE CONCERT HALL AT VICTORIA HALL – 55 King St. W. Cobourg. Call 905-372-2210 or visit concerthallatvictoriahall.com. OCT. 18 – FIRE AND RAIN – James Taylor tribute. 8pm. OCT. 19 – ORCHESTRAL BEATLES & ROLLING STONES – 8pm. OCT. 24 – SIMPLY CELINE – Celine Dion tribute. 8pm. OCT. 27 – LES AMIS – Group of 7. Dave Young Trio and Penderecki String Quartet. 3pm. DEC. 1 – JINGLE BELL ROCK – Buddy Holly tribute. 3pm. THE EMPIRE THEATRE – 321 Front St. Belleville. Call 613-969-0099 or visit theempiretheatre.com. OCT. 8 – THE WIGGLES – Party Time Tour. 3:30pm & 6:30pm. OCT. 15 – RED GREEN – This Could Be It! 7pm. OCT. 26 – DEBORAH KIMMETT – Downward Facing Broad. 7:30pm. NOV. 2 – THE AUSTRALIAN BEE GEES SHOW – 7pm. NOV. 21 – DEREK EDWARDS – So Here’s the Thing. 7:30pm. THE LOFT – 201 Division St. Cobourg. Visit cobourgloft.ca or email kenprue@gmail.com. Tickets at 905372-2210. SEPT. 29 – POSTCARDS OLD AND NEW – A Les Amis concert. Lynn Kuo, violin and Joseph Petrič, accordion. 3pm. OCT. 19 – DIANA PANTON & REG SCHWAGER – “They Say it’s Spring” and other selections from Solstice/Equinox, Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. 3pm. OCT. 31 – JOHN WORT HANNAM – Alberta-based, lyrically-driven roots music. 7:30pm. NOV. 3 – DRAGON AND PHOENIX – Nicole Lisa Craig, David Henman and Tom Nagy. 3pm. NOV. 10 – LES AMIS – Kaili Maimets, flute; Rachel Mercer, cello; Angela Park, piano. 3pm. THE QUINTE SYMPHONY – Visit thequintesymphony.com or facebook.com/quintesymphony. OCT. 27 – SYMPHONY SPOOKTACULAR – A concert for the whole family. Wear your Halloween costume. Bridge Street Church, Belleville. 2:30pm. THE REGENT THEATRE – 224 Main St. Picton. Call 613-476-8416 or visit theregenttheatre.org. SEPT. 20 – BROTHERS GIBB – The Bee Gees Story. 8pm. OCT. 17 – JOHN DENVER EXPERIENCE – 7:30pm. TOWN HALL 1873 – 302 Queen St. Port Perry. Call 905-985-8181 or visit townhall1873.ca. SEPT. 20 – SOULSVILLE – The Music of STAX – Memphis Soul. 8pm. SEPT. 28 – ABBA MAGIC – 8pm. OCT. 26 – ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE – 8pm. NOV. 2 – SURFIN’ SAFARI – The Ultimate Beach
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Party Tribute. 8pm. NOV. 9 – NEIL YOUNG TRIBUTE – 8pm. NOV. 16 – BOB SEGER TRIBUTE – 8pm. WESTBEN ARTS FESTIVAL THEATRE – Visit westben.ca or call 705-653-5508 for tickets and locations. SEPT. 22 – HARVEST AFTER-MOON – Fall fundraiser. 2pm. SEPT. 26 – MIKE KERR – Wild flatpicker and ambitious country songwriter. 7:30pm. OCT. 13 – CHOPIN TO A TEA – Valerie Tryon, piano. 3pm. OCT. 20 – SING IF YOU DARE – Sing-along children’s Hallowe’en concert and costume party. 2pm. NOV. 23, 24, 30 & DEC. 1 – A WESTBEN CHRISTMAS CAROL – Narrated Christmas concert. 1pm & 3pm.
Fairs & Festivals SEPT. 13 – FESTIVAL OF SMALL HALLS – Big music in a little place! Featuring Justin Rutledge. 7:30pm. Marble Arts Centre, 13 Bridgewater Rd. Actinolite. For more information and tickets visit call 613-402-1425 thefestivalofsmallhalls.com or tweedartscouncil.ca. SEPT. 13 – 15 – PORT HOPE FAIR – “225th Wheat Harvest,” livestock, horse shows, tractor and truck pulls, show 'n shine, midway, demo derby, live entertainment. Port Hope Agricultural Park, 62 McCaul St. Visit porthopefair.com or call 905-396-3247. SEPT. 13 – 15 – ROCK ’N ROLL MUSIC FESTIVAL – 50s & 60s live music in Prince Edward County. Prince Edward County Festival Grounds, 1927 Cty. Rd. 10, Cherry Valley. Find us on facebook or call 613-476-6535. SEPT. 13 – 22 – PEC CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL – Celebrating the piano in chamber music. Concerts take place at St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church, 335 Main St. E. Picton. Fri. & Sat. 7:30pm. Sun. 3pm. Visit pecmusicfestival.com or call 613-393-3798. SEPT. 14 – MILFORD FAIR – A lovely reminder of a simpler time and a true agricultural fair. Milford Fairgrounds, Cty. Rd. 17. For more information visit southmarysburghmirror.com/milford-fair. SEPT. 14 – SANDBANKS MUSIC FESTIVAL – A music, art, food and family event in the beautiful surroundings of Sandbanks Provincial Park, Prince Edward County. Visit sandbanksmusicfest.com. SEPT. 20 – 22 – MADOC FAIR – Agricultural education seminars, numerous livestock and equestrian events, homecrafts, midway. Fri. night truck & tractor pulls. Sat. night Demolition Derby. Madoc Fairgrounds, 47 Cooper Rd. Madoc. Visit madocfair.org or facebook.com/MadocFair. SEPT. 21 & 22 – AMELIASBURGH FAIR – “Flight of the Bumblebee”. The fair begins with a parade and features musical entertainment, livestock shows, home crafts, silent auction and more. For details visit
ameliasburgh.com/fallfair. SEPT. 26 – 29 – BRIGHTON APPLEFEST – Unique festival that offers a street fair, BBQ, dog show, children's village, car show, arts and crafts show, parade and much more. Main St. and nearby King Edward Park, Brighton. Visit brightonapplefest.ca or call 613475-2775. SEPT. 28 – FLAVOURS OF FALL – Family festival with arts and crafts, pony rides, horse drawn trolley rides, monster colouring wall, displays, apple cider and more. Free admission at the Belleville Armouries, downtown Belleville. 10am-3pm. Call 613-962-4597 ext. 3 visit facebook.com/Flavours-of-Fall. SEPT. 28 – HARVEST FESTIVAL – Shop at the farmers’ market, then head to King Street to enjoy fall-inspired activities, extended storefronts, artisanal vendors and lots of hearty food. 10am-5pm. Visit downtowncobourg.ca or call 905-377-8024. SEPT. 28 – PORCHFEST – A neighbourhood celebration of music, where residents in Belleville’s Old East Hill perform on front porches to an audience that moves from house to house. 1-4pm. Presented by Rotary Club of Belleville. Visit porchfest.ca. OCT. 4 – 6 – ROSENEATH FAIR – A home country fair in the home of the carousel. Fri. evening truck and tractor pull. Sat./Sun. WoofJocks Canine All Stars, midway, tractor pulls, sheep shearing, petting farm and more. Roseneath Fairgrounds, 9109 Cty. Rd. 45. Visit roseneathfair.com or call 905-352-3778. OCT. 6 – APPLEFEST – A colourful fall celebration of apples and the harvest season. See the cider mill in full operation. Enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, live music, historic demonstrations, apple treats, games and much more. 10am-4pm. Lang Pioneer Village, 104 Lang Rd. Keene. Visit langpioneervillage.ca. OCT. 12 – ONTARIO HONEY FESTIVAL – Shop for honey, beeswax candles, lavender, handcrafted soaps and lotions from local vendors. Live entertainment, workshops, kids' activities and local food vendors. 10am-4pm. Crystal Palace, Picton Fairgrounds, 375 Main St. E. Picton. Visit ontariohoneyfestival.ca. OCT. 12 & 13 – SCARECROW FESTIVAL – A weekend of family fun, creativity and community. Supplies to make your own scarecrow are provided for a donation of $30. 11am-5pm. Small Pond Arts, 337 Clarke Rd. Picton. Call 613-471-1322 or visit smallpondarts.ca. OCT. 12 – 14 – NORWOOD FAIR – “Scarecrows and Fence Rows”. Traditional country fair with live music, exhibits, livestock shows, antique car show and tractor races, Ontario Xtreme Cowboy Competition, flyball, midway, parade and more. 9am-5pm daily. Norwood Fairgrounds, 48 Alma St. Visit norwoodfair.com or call 705-639-5283 for event schedule.
OCT. 19 – KEENE PUMPKIN FESTIVAL – Parade, car show, judging of the giant pumpkins, fun, games and entertainment. Harvest supper at 5pm. The day wraps up with the lighting of the children’s jack o’lanterns. Main Street in Keene. Visit thekeenepumpkinfestival.com. OCT. 24 – 26 – FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS – Premier event, keyed to the theme of sharing, features writers, artists, artisans, performers and musicians from Northumberland Hills and beyond. St. Peter’s Anglican Church, 240 College St. Cobourg. Visit spiritofthehills.org. NOV. 9 – FIRELIGHT LANTERN FESTIVAL – A magical celebration for the community of Picton, including a procession down Main Street, live music and performances. Benson Park 6pm. Bring your lantern. Costumes encouraged. In the event of bad weather go directly to Crystal Palace. 7pm. Visit firelightfest.org.
Food & Drink SEPT. 20 – 22 – CULTIVATE – A family-friendly, farmto-festival celebration of local food, beverage, art and culture. Showcasing Ontario’s finest artisan food and craft makers, community-focused art experiences, hands-on, interactive workshops delivered by amazing chefs and the Marketplace & Top Tart Taste-Off. Fri. 511pm. Sat. 11am-11pm. Sun. 11am-5pm. For details visit cultivatefestival.ca. SEPT. 21 – FOOD TRUCKS UNITED – Quinte’s food truck festival, including craft beer garden, vendor village, live music and busker performances, inflatables and activities for the kids. 11am-6pm. Centennial Park, 12 Couch Cr. Quinte West. Visit unitedwayhpe.ca.
Farmers’ Markets BELLEVILLE – Tues.,Thu. & Sat. 8am-5pm. Yearround. 182 Pinnacle St. Call 613-476-1255. CAMPBELLFORD – Sat. & Wed. 8am-12pm. May through October. 66 Front St. S. Campbellford. Visit campbellfordfarmersmarket.ca or call 705-933-8007. COBOURG – Sat. 8am-1pm. May through December. Market Square. Visit cobourgfarmersmarket.com or facebook.com/CobourgFarmersMarket. CODRINGTON – Sun. 10am-2pm. May through October. 2992 Cty. Rd. 30, Codrington. Call 613-4754005 or visit codringtonfarmersmarket.ca. HASTINGS VILLAGE – Sat. 8am-1pm. At the traffic lights in the village of Hastings. Until Thanksgiving. Call 705-696-2027. MILLBROOK – Sun. Sept. 22 and Oct. 27. 10am1pm. Old Millbrook School, 1 Dufferin St. Visit millbrookfarmersmarket.weebly.com. NOV. 24 – CHRISTMAS MARKET. PETERBOROUGH – Sat. 7am-1pm. Year-round. Morrow Park. Visit peterboroughfarmersmarket.com. PETERBOROUGH DOWNTOWN – Wed. 8:30am2pm. May through October. Rain or shine. Charlotte St. between George/Aylmer Sts. Visit ptbodowntownmarket.com. PORT HOPE – Sat. 8am-1pm. 56 Queen St. behind Town Hall. Wed. 12-5pm. Home Hardware parking lot, 177 Toronto Rd. May through October. Visit facebook.com/PHFarmersMarket. PORT PERRY – Sat. 8am-2pm. June through mid-October. 121 Water St. on the waterfront. Visit portperryfarmersmarket.ca or facebook.com/PortPerryMarket. QUINTE WEST – Wed. & Sat. 8am-1pm. May through October. 67 Front St. Trenton. Call 613-3922841 ext. 4416 or visit quintewest.ca. WARKWORTH – Fri. 12-3pm. Until early October. 27 Main St. Warkworth. Visit facebook.com/MarketAtTheMews. WELLINGTON – Sat. 8am-1pm. May through midOctober. 243 Main St. Visit countymarkets.ca or call 647-822-7672.
OCT. 5 – EMPIRE OKTOBERFEST – Craft Beer Festival at Empire Square in Belleville. Enjoy samplings from craft breweries and cideries. Delicious food from local vendors. Music and fun for the whole family. 11am-7pm. Visit theempiretheatre.com. OCT. 5 – ROAST BEEF DINNER – With a performance by the Corktown Fiddlers. 5-7pm. Adults $20. Children 3-12 $7. Tickets at the door. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 200 King St. W. Cobourg. For more information email tehunter@sympatico.ca. OCT. 5 – THE WARKWORTH BAKERY – Last day to preorder pies, croissants, butter tarts, treats and prepared meals for Thanksgiving. Call 705-308-2253 or email WarkworthBakery@outlook.com. OCT. 19 – PUB CRAWL – Live music served alongside seasonal beverages and meals at a sensational selection of downtown Cobourg pubs, bars, restaurants and eateries. Join us for this feel good fall event. 511pm. Visit downtowncobourg.ca. NOV. 1 – 24 – COUNTYLICIOUS – Prince Edward County’s celebration of fine dining, featuring local participating restaurants. Visit countylicious.com. NOV. 2 – PERFECT PIE CONTEST – Bring your pies to be judged. Fourteen categories and a Perfect Pie award. Afternoon entertainment, auction of winning pies and mandatory sampling. 9am-2pm. Warkworth Town Hall Centre for the Arts, 40 Main St. Call 705924-2066 or visit facebook.com/piecontest. NOV. 16 – DEC. 1 – WASSAIL THE COUNTY – Join
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Prince Edward County’s winemakers for mulled wines, comfort foods and festive good cheer. Sat. & Sun. at multiple locations. Visit wassailinthecounty.com.
Garden Clubs/ Horticultural Societies AMELIASBURGH GARDEN CLUB – Meets the last Mon. of each month. 7pm. Ameliasburgh Town Hall, 13 Coleman St. Visit ameliasburghgardenclub.com. SEPT. 30 – PERENNIAL PLANT ASSOCIATION – Highlights with Ben O’Brien. OCT. 28 – BACKYARD BIRDS – And Effective Bird Feeding. NOV. 26 – AGM – Also potluck dinner. 6pm. APPLE COUNTRY GARDEN CLUB – Meets the 3rd Tues. of each month. 7pm. Keeler Centre, 80 Division St. Colborne. Visit cramahehort.ca or email cramahehort@gmail.com. SEPT. 17 – POLLINATOR GARDEN DESIGN – Also vegetable and decorative flower show. OCT. 15 – DRIED ARRANGEMENT IN A PUMPKIN.
NOV. 14 – AGM – Also highlights of the year. PORT HOPE GARDEN CLUB – Meets monthly. 7:30pm. Ruth Clarke Centre, 81 Mill St. S. Port Hope. Visit gardenontario.org/society-listing/entry/692 or call 905-885-0098. SEPT. 16 – ORNAMENTAL GRASSES. OCT. 21 – POLLINATORS – And Other Good Bugs. NOV. 18 – WINTER PLANTERS. PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the last Wed. of each month. 7pm. Picton Town Hall, 2 Ross St. Visit pechorticultural.org or email pechorticultural@gmail.com. SEPT. 25 – NATIVE PLANTS – Seed Collection and Storing. OCT. 30 – PRUNING OF TREES – Also Landscape Bones-Trees and Shrubs. NOV. 27 – AGM – 6pm.
CAMPBELLFORD & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Serving all of Trent Hills. Meets the 1st Mon. of each month. 7:30pm. Christ Church Anglican (corner of Church/Kent Sts.).C all 705-947-2045 or visit gardenontario.org/society-listing/entry/332. OCT. 12 – PUMPKIN CONTEST – Judging at 11am. 9:30-11:30am. COBOURG HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 1st Wed. of each month. 7pm. Columbus Centre, 232 Spencer St. E. Cobourg. Visit cobourggardenclub.ca or email cobourghort@gardenontario.org. OCT. 2 – FALL PRUNING. NOV. 6 – THE FUTURE OF GARDENING – Also AGM. GRAFTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 2nd Tues. of each month. 7:30pm. Everyone welcome. St. Andrew’s United Church, 137 Old Danforth Rd. Email grafton.hort@gmail.com. OCT. 8 – GARDEN INVADERS AND ALTERNATIVES. NOV. 12 – CREATING OUTDOOR WONDER – Also AGM. KINGSTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 2nd Thu. of each month. 7:30pm. Ongwanada Resource Centre, 191 Portsmouth Ave. kingstonhort.ca. OCT. 10 – GARDEN TOURS – The Netherlands and U.K.
NOV. 24 – CHRISTMAS FANTASY OF LIGHTS – Hotdogs and hot chocolate at Fraser Park in Trenton. Tour the magical waterfront light displays while listening to favourite holiday carols. Lighting takes place immediately following the Santa Claus parade. Call 613-3922841 or visit quintewest.ca. NOV. 24 – HOT COCOA AND HOLIDAY COOKIES – Make your own Victorian tree decoration while sipping hot cocoa and nibbling on gingerbread cake and cookies. Special appearance by Father Christmas. 14pm. Glanmore National Historic Site, 257 Bridge St. E. Belleville. Visit glanmore.ca or call 613-962-2329.
BELLEVILLE GARDEN CLUB – Meets the 4th Tues. of each month. 7pm. Eastside Secondary School, 275 Farley Ave. Belleville. Visit gardenontario.org/societylisting/entry/71. BRIGHTON GARDEN CLUB – Meets the 4th Tues. of each month. 7pm. King Edward Community Centre, 81 Elizabeth St. Brighton. Call 905-392-5543 or email dennismiluck@sympatico.ca. SEPT. 14 – PLANT SALE – 8:30-11am.
NOV. 16 – DEC. 1 – WASSAILING AT MACAULAY’S – A sip of warm cider awaits you at the decorated Macaulay House, with costumed guides and an 1850s kitchen where you can sample heritage recipes. Pick up special stocking stuffers from the Gift Nook. Sat. & Sun. 1-5pm. $5 admission includes entry to the Macaulay Church Art Show next door. Macaulay Heritage Park, 35 Church St. Picton. Call 613-476-2148 ext. 2148 or email museums@pecounty.on.ca. NOV. 22 – CHRISTMAS MAGIC – Lighting ceremony at Victoria Hall followed by a parade. 6:30pm. Call 1888-262-6874 or visit cobourgtourism.ca.
TRENTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY & GARDEN CLUB – Meets the 3rd Thu. of each month. 7pm. Trenton United Church, 85 Dundas St. E. Trenton. Visit trentonhortsociety.ca or call 613-849-5506. SEPT. 19 – LYME DISEASE. OCT. 17 – FLORAL DESIGN HOLIDAY URN. TWEED HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY – Meets the 1st Tues. of each month. 7pm. Tweed Public Library. Visit tweedhort.ca or e-mail info@tweedhort.ca. OCT. 1 – CANNING. NOV. 5 – CHRISTMAS DECORATING – Also AGM.
Holiday Events NOV. 14 – 17 – CHRISTMAS AT FARMTOWN PARK – Festival of Trees in Heritage Village. Trees, wreaths, swags, toys and raffle. Visit the Olde Christmas Shoppe for beautiful decorations. Light refreshments available. Admission $5. Children under 12 free. Farmtown Park, 437 West Front St. Stirling. For hours and information visit farmtownpark.ca, call 613-3950015 or email info@farmtownpark.ca. NOV. 15 – CHRISTMAS AT THE PIER – Opening Belleville’s Christmas lighting display. Wander through this impressive seasonal lighting display, enjoy complimentary treats and meet some very special guests. Jane Forrester Park at Meyer’s Pier in Belleville. 6-8pm. Visit belleville.ca for information.
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NOV. 29 – CANDLELIGHT FESTIVAL – Illuminated procession and carol sing down Port Hope's main street, lighting of the bandshell, unveiling of the Christmas tile, art installations, an outdoor market, festive food and moonlight shopping. Walk begins at 6pm. Call 905-885-2004 or visit visitporthope.ca. NOV. 29 – DEC. 1 – FESTIVAL OF TREES – Silent auction of decorated Christmas trees, live music, Christmas boutique and bake sale. Have your photo taken with Santa. All proceeds go to the PECM Hospital. Free admission. Fri./Sat. 10am-9pm. Sun. 10am2pm. Isaiah Tubbs Resort, 1642 Cty. Rd. 12, West Lake. For information visit pecfestivaloftrees.ca. NOV. 30 – CHRISTMAS FANTASY OF LIGHTS – Join us in lighting up Frankford Tourist Park for the annual festive lighting display. Live music and hot chocolate at 4:30pm. Lighting at 5pm. 3 South Trent St. Quinte West. For more information visit quintewest.ca. DEC. 1 – CHRISTMAS IN THE VILLAGE – Visit several stations around Ameliasburgh Heritage Village. Free family fun. 12-4pm. Ameliasburgh Heritage Village, 517 Cty. Rd. 19. Visit ameliasburgh.com/pioneer-village.
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DEC. 6 – 8 – FESTIVAL OF TREES – Many prizes and beautifully decorated trees to be won. Fri. 6-9pm. Sat. 9am-4pm. Sun. 10am-2pm. Raffle tickets $2. Free admission. Warkworth Town Hall, 40 Main St. Visit warkworthfair.com/events for more information. DEC. 7 & 8 – CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT – A traditional pioneer Christmas. Join along in a carol sing, shop in the Christmas market, enjoy horsedrawn wagon rides, meet Father Christmas and more. On Sunday, witness a live nativity. 5-9pm. Lang Pioneer Village, 104 Lang Rd. Keene. Visit langpioneervillage.ca or call 705-295-6694. DEC. 7 & 8 – CRÈCHES FROM AROUND THE WORLD – Over 100 nativity sets from around the world. Morning coffee and afternoon tea available for $5. Sat. 10am-4pm. Sun. 1-4pm. St. Mark’s Anglican Church, 51 King St. Port Hope. Call 905-885-1960. DEC. 8 – CHILDREN’S OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS – Visit Santa Claus and his elf in the pioneer church at Scugog Shores Museum. Bake and decorate cookies in the log cabin, create unique ornaments, decorate traditional Victorian Christmas cards, visit with the blacksmith and more. Hot chocolate and apple cider. 11am-3pm. Scugog Shores Museum, 16210 Island Rd. Port Perry. Call 905-985-8698 ext. 103 or visit scugog.ca.
Nature & Parks FERRIS PROVINCIAL PARK – 474 Cty. Rd. 8 Campbellford. Guided walks every Tuesday until Dec. 10. Meet at the east end of the Suspension Bridge. 9am. Rain or shine. Regular park fees apply. Call 705-6320894 or visit friendsofferris.ca. OCT. 5 – BAT DAY – Dr. Christina Davy, Research Scientist. 1pm. GANARASKA FOREST CENTRE – 10585 Cold Springs Camp Rd. Campbellcroft. Visit grca.on.ca. Call 905-885-8173 to pre-register. NOV. 1 – OWL PROWL – Start the evening off with a presentation before venturing out on a guided night hike in search of an owl or two. 6-9pm.
DEC. 1 – CHRISTMASFEST – Bring the kids and join in on the Christmas activities, music and food at Hastings Legion Branch 106. 10am-1pm. 10 Front St. W. Hastings. Visit visittrenthills.ca for more information.
LONE PINE LAND TRUST – Join as a member or volunteer to work toward the preservation of land, water and diverse life in the Northumberland area. Visit lonepinelandtrust.ca. OCT. 12 – FALL AT McCOLL – This hike will take you up and then down through forests and wetlands to the banks of Cold Creek. 9am.
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species and natural areas. Call 1-866-281-5331 or visit conservationvolunteers.ca. PRIMROSE DONKEY SANCTUARY – 1296 Bowmanton Rd. Roseneath. Visit primrosedonkeysanctuary.com. OCT. 6 – WORLD ANIMAL DAY – See expert demonstrations, learn about donkey care, tour the barn and sanctuary, meet the amazing animals. Complimentary refreshments. Free admission. Donations gratefully accepted. 1-4pm.
mation visit bloomfieldontario.ca. NOV. 30 – CAMPBELLFORD – 3pm. 705-653-1551. NOV. 30 – FRANKFORD – 2pm. 613-847-3239. NOV. 30 – PORT HOPE – 1pm. porthopesantaclausparade.ca. DEC. 1 – CASTLETON – Pet parade. 2pm. To register your pet call Delia at 905-373-2144 or Michelle at 905-344-7228. DEC. 1 – HASTINGS – 10am. 705-653-1551. DEC. 1 – PICTON – 1pm. 613-476-7901 ext. 211. DEC. 6 – WARKWORTH – 7pm. 705-653-1551. DEC. 7 – PORT PERRY – 5pm. 905-985-4971.
PRINCE EDWARD POINT BIRD OBSERVATORY – Research station that monitors migrating birds along the south shore of Prince Edward County. 6056 Long Point Rd. southeast of Picton. Pre-registration for events required. Visit peptbo.ca. SEPT. 21 – FALL WARBLER IDENTIFICATION – Admission by donation. 8:30am. OCT. 3 – 5 & 17 – 19 – SAW-WHET OWL BANDING – 8:15pm. OCT. 5 & 12 – GUIDED BIRD WALK – Admission by donation. 9am. QUINTE FIELD NATURALISTS – Meets monthly. 7pm. Bridge Street United Church, Belleville. All welcome, by donation. Visit facebook.com/QuinteFieldNaturalists or call 613-478-5070. SEPT. 23 – WASPS – Moving from Fear to Appreciation. OCT. 21 – BEST PLACES TO BIRD IN ONTARIO. NOV. 25 – KEEPING CARIBOU – Why caribou may represent Canada’s greatest conservation challenge. WILLOW BEACH FIELD NATURALISTS – Meetings at Cobourg Public Library. 7pm. No cost. Bring a friend. Visit willowbeachfieldnaturalists.org or call 908-885-2337. For outing information contact Roger at 905-885-9615 or ekrf@eagle.ca. SEPT. 22 – ALDERVILLE BLACK OAK SAVANNA – Birding outing. Meet at Hwy. 45/401 car pool lot at 8am or at the Savanna Nature Centre at 8:30am. SEPT. 27 – BRIGHTON WETLANDS – Meeting. OCT. 20 – LAKESHORE - EAST OF COBOURG – Birding outing. Meet at Cobourg Harbour at the foot of Hibernia St. at 8am. Bring lunch. OCT. 25 – BUTTERFLIES OF SOUTH AMERICA – Meeting. NOV. 17 – NORTHUMBERLAND FOREST – Birding outing. Meet at Hwy. 45/401 car pool lot at 8am or at Beagle Club Rd. parking area at 8:30am. NOV. 29 – ATLANTIC SALMON IN THE GREAT LAKES – Meeting.
tion Oct. 8. 7:30pm. For more information call 613352-1104 or visit napaneephotoclub.ca. OCT. 5 – JEWELLERY SALE – Fabulous vintage and costume jewellery, from fine to funky – semi-precious to modern, together with previously loved handbags, scarves and watches. The Grannies Café offers a delicious lunch including tea/coffee and dessert. Presented by Trent Hills Grannies for Africa, in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. 10am-4pm. St. John’s United Church, 50 Bridge St. Campbellford. Donations are accepted year-round. Call 705-653-0164. OCT. 19 – CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER – Craft and collectible show. Free admission. 10am-3pm. St. John’s United Church, 50 Bridge St. W. Campbellford. Visit facebook.com/Christmas-in-October-Craft-&-CollectibleShow or email drm003@yahoo.com.
Provincial Park, Brighton. Enjoy rum cake and hot drinks in the Tea Room at Stonehedge Heritage Mansion. Artists will be on hand at the Lighthouse Art Gallery. Free entry. 10am-4pm. Call 613-475-4324 ext. 225 or visit friendsofpresquile.on.ca. NOV. 9 – CHRISTMAS CRAFT SHOW – 60+ artisans showcasing “All Handmade”. 9am-5pm. Admission $4. Lehigh Arena (formerly Essroc), 111 Belleville Rd. Wellington. Email heather_bob@cogeco.ca. NOV. 9 & 10 – AUTUMN ART FESTIVAL – Port Perry Artists’ Association. Original works by talented local artists. The Scout Hall, 15585 Simcoe St. N. Port Perry. 10am-4pm. Free admission. Refreshments available. Visit ppaaart.blogspot.ca or email portperryartistsassociation@gmail.com for information.
OCT. 26 – COMICON – Comic books, new and vintage toys, jewellery, DVDs, anime, manga, prints and other awesome geek stuff. 10am-3pm. Knights of Columbus Hall, 57 Stella Cr. Trenton. Bring cans of food to win prizes. Visit popculturecanada.ca.
Shows & Sales SEPT. 14 – 15 – ANTIQUE SHOW & SALE – Crystal Palace, Picton Fairgrounds, 375 Main St. E. Picton. Sat. 10am-5pm. Sun. 10am-4pm. Weekend admission $5. Call 613-393-5886 for details. SEPT. 28 – ARTS & CRAFTS SALE – Come and shop for home crafted items. Don’t forget to drop in to the tea room for a tasty treat. Wellington on the Lake, 14 Empire Blvd. Wellington. 9am-2pm. Call Sandy at 613-399-1121 or Laura at 613-399-2537. SEPT. 28 – COPEX – Cobourg Stamp Club Show and Sale. Eight dealers with a wide selection of stamps, member stamp displays and consignment sales. 9am-3pm. Free admission. 59 Ballantine St. Cobourg. Call 289-251-4544 or 905-885-2697 for details. SEPT. 30 – THE HEAT IS ON – A fun day of rug hooking. Hook-in, vendors, display of rugs, guest speakers, scissor/cutter sharpening. Bring your lunch and a completed rug for display. Admission $5. 9am4pm. Grace Church, 440 King St. E. Cobourg. Hosted by the Northumberland Rug Hookers. Visit cobourghookin.blogspot.com.
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OCT. 4 & 5 – RUMMAGE & BAKE SALE – Fri. 57pm. Sat. 9am-12pm. St. Thomas Anglican Church, 201 Church St. Belleville. Visit stthomasbelleville.ca or call 613-962-3636 for more information.
NOV. 17 – BELLEVILLE – 4:30pm. 613-962-4597 ext. 3. NOV. 17 – COBOURG – 2pm. For more information visit cobourgsantaparade.com. NOV. 24 – TRENTON – 4:30pm. 613-392-7635. NOV. 29 – BLOOMFIELD – 6:30pm. For more infor-
OCT. 4 – NOV. 15 – PHOTO ART SHOW – Exhibition and sale of photography by the Napanee Photo Club. Gallery of the Lennox & Addington County General Hospital, 8 Richmond Park Dr. Napanee. 9am-8pm daily. Free admission and parking. Awards presenta-
NOV. 1 & 2 – FIBRE ARTS SALE – Exciting handspun yarns, felted jackets and vests, botanical print scarves and shawls, winter accessories. Wheelchair accessible. St. Thomas’ Church Hall, 201 Church St. Belleville. Fri. 3-6pm. Sat. 9:30am-4pm. Presented by Belleville Weavers and Spinners Guild. For details email bellwsg@gmail.com. NOV. 1 – 3 – ART SHOW & SALE – Pine Ridge Art Association. Free admission and parking. Cobourg Public Library, 200 Ontario St. Library hours. For more information visit cobourgpineridge.ca. NOV. 1 – 3 – THE MAKER’S HAND – Eastern Ontario's finest artisan show returns. Creative new artists feature one-of-a-kind creations. Accessories, ceramics, jewellery, leather, metal, mixed media, paperworks, photography, wearable art, wood. Admission $5. Children under 12 free. Fri./Sat. 10am-5:30pm. Sun. 10am-4pm. New location at Lehigh Arena, 111 Belleville St. Wellington. Visit themakershand.com. NOV. 2 – CHRISTMAS MARKET – 30+ vendors and 30+ raffle items. Free admission. Proceeds to K9 Crusaders dog rescue. 10am-3pm. Town Park Recreation Centre, 61 McCaul St. Port Hope. For more information find K9 Crusaders Christmas Market on facebook or email g_kacy@hotmail.com. NOV. 2 – QUINTE CRAFT GUILD – Handmade craft show with unique gifts for the whole family. Admission $2. Knights of Columbus Hall, 57 Stella Cr. Trenton. 9am-4pm. Email qcg.showchair@gmail.com. NOV. 2, 3, 6, 9 & 10 – CHRISTMAS AT PRESQU’ILE – Fine arts and crafts at the Nature Centre, Presqu’ile
NOV. 15 – 17 – HARVEST OF CHRISTMAS DELIGHTS – Fri. 7-9pm opening, with a candlelit pathway to the harvest of gifts – pottery, candles, needle arts, tinwork, art, vintage ornaments, delectable goodies and more. Sat./Sun. Gathering of the Greens, with boughs and berries, dried materials for decorating, wreaths and swags. 10am-4pm. 4749 Cty. Rd. 2, Welcome. Visit facebook.com/harvestofdelights or call 905-753-2196. NOV. 16 – BATAWA CRAFT FUSION – Holiday show offering a variety of gifts that are truly one of a kind. 9am-3pm. Batawa Community Centre, 81 Plant St. Batawa. Visit batawa.ca for more information. NOV. 16 – JEWELLERY SALE – Fundraising sale of donated vintage and costume jewellery. Hundreds of treasures and bargains. Presented by Prince Edward County Grannies for Africa. 9am-1pm. St. Mary Magdalene Church, 335 Main St. Picton. Call 613-5030190 for information or to donate. NOV. 16 – MISTLETOE MAGIC – Quinte Region's original holiday artisan event, showcasing the region's finest artisans, designers and makers. Raffle prize draws benefit the Food for Learning program. Travelodge, 11 Bay Bridge Rd. Belleville. 10am-4pm. Visit mistletoemagicartisanshow.com. NOV. 16 – DEC. 1 – BEEN THERE, DONE THAT – Art show & sale presented by Friends of Macaulay Heritage Park. Sat. & Sun. 1-5pm. $5 admission includes
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entry to Wassail festivities at Macaulay House. 23 Church St. Picton. For more information call 613-4762148 ext. 2524 or email museums@pecounty.on.ca. NOV. 22 & 23 – CHRISTMAS AT ST. MARK’S – Over 20 artisans from Northumberland and beyond will help you get started on your Christmas shopping at this annual artists and artisans sale. Gift basket raffle. Free admission. Fri. 7-9pm. Sat. 9:30am-2:30pm. St. Mark’s Church, 51 King St. Port Hope. Visit stmarksporthope.ca or call 905-885-6706. NOV. 23 – CHRISTMAS WREATH & BASKET SALE – Glenwood Cemetery, 47 Ferguson St. Picton. 10am1pm. Join us for cookies and hot cider. Pre-order by calling Libby Crombie at 613-476-0096 or visit glenwoodcemetery.ca.
Theatre & Film ARON THEATRE – 54 Bridge St. E. Campbellford. Call 705-653-5446 or visit arontheatre.com. OCT. 2 – 24 – TIFF AT ARON – A series of four outstanding films on Wed. evenings (7pm) and four outstanding films on Thu. afternoons (2pm). BELLEVILLE THEATRE GUILD – Pinnacle Playhouse, 256 Pinnacle St. Belleville. Call 613-967-1442 or visit bellevilletheatreguild.ca. OCT. 3 – 19 – OUTSIDE MULLINGAR – Bittersweet and quirky story of Irish romance amid a generational land quarrel. NOV. 28 – DEC. 14 – CLIFFHANGER – Is Socrates a bust when life and death hang in the balance? CAMECO CAPITOL ARTS CENTRE – 20 Queen St. Port Hope. Visit capitoltheatre.com or call 905-8851071. OCT. 17 – 27 – THE HOBBIT – 2pm & 8pm. NOV. 15 – DEC. 22 – CINDERELLA – The Panto. Nice & naughty versions. 2pm & 8pm. NORTHUMBERLAND PLAYERS – Call 905-372-2210 or visit northumberlandplayers.ca. SEPT. 20 – OCT. 6 – BLITHE SPIRIT – By Noel Coward. Firehall Theatre, Cobourg. 2pm & 8pm. OCT. 18 – NOV. 3 – STAGE KISS – Dinner theatre at Cobourg Best Western. Reservations at 905-3722105.
NOV. 29 – DEC. 15 – MISS BENNETT – Christmas at Pemberley. Firehall Theatre, Cobourg. 2pm & 8pm. PRINCE EDWARD COMMUNITY THEATRE – Mount Tabor Playhouse, 2179 Cty. Rd. 17, Milford. Visit pecommtheatre.ca or call 613-476-5925. OCT. 19 – 27 – BLOOD RELATIONS – A psychological murder mystery. 2pm & 7:30pm. STIRLING FESTIVAL THEATRE – 41 West Front St. Stirling. Visit stirlingfestivaltheatre.com or call 613395-2100. OCT. 4 & 5 – MY BIG ITALIAN STIRLING WEDDING – Murder mystery dinner theatre. 6pm. THE REGENT THEATRE – 224 Main St. Picton. Live in HD from New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Call 613476-8416 or visit theregenttheatre.org. OCT. 12 – TURANDOT – 1pm. NOV. 9 – MADAMA BUTTERFLY – 1pm. NOV. 23 – AKHNATEN – 1pm. TOWN HALL 1873 – 302 Queen St. Port Perry. Call 905-985-8181 or visit townhall1873.ca. OCT. 10 – 19 – RENOVATIONS – A comedy presented by Borelians Community Theatre. 2pm & 8pm. TWEED & CO. THEATRE – For more information visit tweedandcompany.com or email info@tweedandcompany.com. OCT. 24 – 27 – THE HAUNTING OF HUNGERFORD HOUSE – A Musical Mystery Dinner Theatre. Stoco Lake Lodge, 15 Trudeau Lane, Tweed. 1pm & 6:30pm. DEC. 21 – A TWEED & CO. CHRISTMAS – St. Andrew’s Church, 55 Victoria St. N. Tweed. 2pm & 7pm. SEPT. – JAN. – NORTHUMBERLAND FILM SUNDAYS – Films from the TIFF circuit will be shown at Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall, Cobourg. 4pm on selected Sundays. Single ticket $10. Series package $45. Visit northumberlandfilm.ca or email info_mail@northumberlandfilm.com for a complete schedule. SEPT. 27 – 29 – VINTAGE FILM FESTIVAL – “Famous Cinematic Duos”. Double the enjoyment with Bogie and Bacall, Fred and Ginger, Bonnie and Clyde, Abbott and Costello, Liz and Dick, Butch and Sundance, Tracy and Hepburn, Jekyll and Hyde, a French
Beauty and Beast, and Nick and Nora, plus Asta. Capitol Theatre, Port Hope. Tickets and program available at vintagefilmfestival.ca. Tickets also available at experiencecobourg.ca/concert-hall-victoria-hall or capitoltheatre.com. For information call Cathie at 905-342-3794. OCT. 18 – 20 – QUINTE CANADIAN FILMFEST – Showcasing the best in Canadian and local film, with screenings at several venues in Quinte West. New this year: Q&A with industry professionals at several screenings. Visit quintefilmfest.ca or call 613-8272800. NOV. 8 & 9 – HOLLYWOOD NORTH FILM FESTIVAL – Bay of Quinte's International Film Festival showcases the best feature, short, animated, experimental and LGBTQ films from across the world. We welcome cinephiles to join us in Prince Edward County and Quinte West. For locations and ticket information visit hnff.ca.
Tours SEPT. 14 – DOORS OPEN QUINTE WEST – Visit Mt. Pelion and stand where Champlain may have stood, revisit old buildings like the Trenton Town Hall 1861 or check out new buildings like our Trent Port Marina. 10am-4pm. For more information and a complete list of locations, visit doorsopenquintewest.ca or call 613392-2841 ext. 4479. SEPT. 20 – 22 – PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY STUDIO TOUR – Visit 47 artists in 31 locations throughout the bucolic County on this free self-guided tour. Picnic locations available. Fri. 4-7pm. Sat./Sun. 10am5pm. Map and artist profiles available at pecstudiotour.com or at various locations throughout the County.
more information. SEPT. 21 & 22 – KAWARTHA AUTUMN STUDIO TOUR – From Stoney Lake to Keene, the working spaces of artists will be open to the public on this selfguided tour. 10am-5pm. Visit agp.on.ca. SEPT. 26 – ART CRAWL – Explore the galleries of Picton on foot. Meet the artists during this choose-yourown event. 5-8pm. For a listing of participating galleries visit experiencepicton.com/picton-art-crawl. SEPT. 28 – ANTIQUE MACHINERY CENTRE – Hope Agricultural Heritage Club open house. See local area antiques displayed, such as a 1950 excavator, tractors, trashing machines, hand tools from the 1900s and more. Free admission. Wagon rides for the kids. 10am-3pm. 5077 Cty. Rd. 10.Visit hahclub.com. SEPT. 28 & 29 – TWEED & AREA STUDIO TOUR – Discover the wealth of artistic talent in south central Hastings County. 10am-5pm. Free admission. Visit tweedstudiotour.org for map and artist profiles. OCT. 5 – PORT HOPE HOUSE TOUR – View the outstanding examples of vintage and contemporary domestic architecture. Presented by the Port Hope Heritage Foundation. 10am-4pm. Visit phhf.ca or call 905-885-7929. OCT. 17 & NOV. 21 – GALLERY STROLL – Galleries in Belleville’s newly formed Gallery District will remain open in the evening from 4-7pm. Galleries include Artists & Artisans Gallery & Studio, Belleville Art Association Gallery, Gallery 121, John M. Parrott Art Gallery and Quinte Arts Council Gallery. For details visit quinteartscouncil.org.
SEPT. 21 – DOORS OPEN – Belleville and district heritage treasures are open to the public. 10am-4pm. Visit doorsopenontario.on.ca or locations and information.
DEC. 4 – GLANMORE BY GASLIGHT – Enjoy a guided tour of Glanmore National Historic Site by gaslight as the historic house is beautifully decorated for the holidays. 7pm. 257 Bridge St. E. Belleville. Call 613962-2329 or visit glanmore.ca.
SEPT. 21 – PORT PERRY HOUSE TOUR – See a variety of homes and gardens in beautiful, historic Port Perry, Prince Albert and the surrounding area. Tickets $25. All proceeds go to support five local organizations. 10am-4pm. Visit portperryhousetour.ca for
DEC. 8 – CHRISTMAS HOUSE TOUR – Get into the festive spirit by touring historic and unique homes in Prince Edward County all decked out for the holidays. In support of the Built Heritage Fund. 11am-5pm. For information email sheltonpeta@gmail.com.
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MURDER MOST FOUL BELLEVILLE, 1934
HAROLD VERMILYEA WAS A VICTIM OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION. He lost his job as a manager
of a California fruit packing operation and needed money. Sadly, his request for financial help from the family estate fell on his wealthy mother’s deaf ears. A desperate man indeed! On the evening of October 4th, 1934, Catherine Aurelia Vermilyea was brutally axed to death at her daughter’s elegant Victoria home on Bridge St. in Belleville. Thirty-six hours later and 5,000 kilometres away, her son, Harold W. Vermilyea, was charged with matricide at his home in Ontario, San Bernardino, California. His sensational arrest was splashed across front pages of newspapers in Canada and the United States. How could someone who lived in California commit murder in Belleville, Ontario and be back home in California a day and a half later when, at the time, air travel was rarely an option? But Canadian law enforcers had followed a string of eye witness accounts and were hot on his heels. Two days after the murder, Harold was arrested and by October 17th, he was escorted back across the border to a Hastings County jail where he awaited trial. Harold’s lawyers pleaded his insanity, but the dogged work of the Belleville police force and the O.P.P. proved too much for the defence. In February, 1935, jurors deliberated just 4-1/2 hours before finding Harold Vermilyea guilty. He was hanged in Belleville, Ontario, on May 2, 1935. Image Courtesy The Toronto Star Archives
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