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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…
A changing profile
This is the make or break season for retailers. The final quarter of the year usually accounts for…
India: a world of contradiction
The recent terrorist attack on India took me back to my first visit to that country 15 years ago.…
Tombstone musings
The week just prior to this writing, a friend of mine, who shows up whenever I need wheels, and…
Peel council and farmers took a radical stand in 1931
No one today would regard the farmers of Peel Township, or, more properly, Mapleton, as radical in…
Turned upside down
When the American colonies fought the British for independence in the 18th century, the…