With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, a disturbing question has…
Santa
You’re not going to believe this, but a couple of days before Halloween, I got a letter from…
Governor General stopped at Drayton in 1951
Back in early October this column carried an account of Governor General Lord Stanley’s…
A dizzying cycle
For anyone shopping in grocery stores it is obvious that price increases over the past year have…
Can civility and politics merge?
The word civility has come to my attention a number of times in recent weeks, making me…
Word play
Periodically I get in the mood just to play with words. This, at one time, irritated my Little…
Kitchener engineer proposed power project in 1924
Over the years this column has consider pioneering conservation work of amateur…
Holiday makers
Tourism and travel and holiday makers, are more than “fun and games” for Canada. We now…
Age discrimination: alive and well here
Some years ago Ontario established new procedures for people to obtain a driver’s licence…
Eat your veggies
Everybody, eat up your vegies, herewith is the reason why. Forwarded to me from my Belwood,…
1890 hail storm caused major damage for farmers
Summer hail storms can be violent and dangerous. Fortunately for us in Wellington County, they…
A reassessment needed
It has become apparent that there should be a reassessment of the North American Free Trade…
An elegy to snowstorms past
Great mountains of it drifted like white dunes beyond our kitchen window. I pulled on two pairs of…
Fun-day Sunday
It seems to me that no one, at least no one in our general area, will need to court the thought of…
1890 marriage breakup had city’s tongues wagging
Joe Brydges, a resident of Guelph in the 1880s, worked as an iron finisher in the foundries of the…