The abduction of a child is a fear of many parents, even though the vast majority of such cases are…
Columns
Statistical records can be useful to historians
A continuing argument among professional historians concerns the value and place of statistical…
More on the early years of automobiles in Wellington
Several readers contacted me with comments and questions after last week’s column on the…
Train robbers received three year sentences in 1908
The North American economy suffered a major and sudden downturn in the summer of…
Water and air
In a younger year, preteen and beyond, I was exceptionally fortunate in having a chance extended…
Canadian, eh?
A recent email written in Scottish dialect got me thinking about languages and how I have made them…
Loving the family rebel
Do you ever feel like drowning or disowning your kids or grandkids? Don’t do it. Drowning…
Clawback II
Continued from last week: “Maybe I could accept it if it weren’t for some of the…
Birthdays
Every year along about the first scattering of snowflakes in the foremost weeks of November, I have…
A ‘must’ shift
Many years ago, in an unprecedented exercise of leadership, President Franklin D. Roosevelt…
Flossing ambitions
Parents are not supposed to determine their children’s career path. Children are supposed to…
The biggest problem we face these days
Nowadays all too few are aware of the biggest problem for many people: they are lonely. When…
Elora-born man became noted American churchman
From time to time this column features a Wellington County native who has achieved success and…
Ice break up on the Grand River came late in 1934
Note: This is the second part of an account of the 1934 spring floods on the Grand River and its…
Misleading claims offering health, beauty and brand new lifestyles
Almost like the snake oil salesman of yesteryear, food companies want to claim that their products…