A promise is a promise, even when circumstances change. I promised my boy a mother-son adventure,…
News
Residents feared arsonist set major 1848 fire in Fergus
The late 1840s were surely the liveliest years in the history of Wellington. Migrants came to this…
A shocking surge in food prices
A recently released document from the United States’ Department of Agriculture is sending…
A passing grade
In university, I tried to convince my parents that a Canadian history degree would be a profitable…
Thunder
The lightning flashes and the thunder rolls as a downpour of rain splashes heavily on the overhead…
Charles Davidson was an important figure in local history
In every generation there are a handful of people who stand out prominently in the historical…
Shopping malls may still be able to show the way ahead in planning
Ever since the end of the Second World War, strip malls have been the commercial-retail centre of…
Sped up
Before I begin, I want it on the record that I am a good driver. I have a clean driving record;…
Editors
If you have ever wondered why we need editors, a forwarded email from a reader tells me why.…
Competitive speed skating became a local fad in 1899
Ice skating and hockey became popular winter pastimes in Wellington County during the 1880s and…
Pricing power
No one is laughing when they do grocery shopping, as prices have climbed by a whopping 10 per cent…
Short lessons
I apologize to all the people in the grocery store last Tuesday night who witnessed the…
Reality
“To market, to market, to buy a fat pig.” So went a poetic nursery rhyme along about…
Huge Reform Party celebration in Guelph after elections of 1848
The history of elections is something of a specialty, exciting some people and boring a larger…
Current economic thinking can be shown to be utter nonsense
Correspondents have told this columnist that these reviews are excessively pessimistic. Readers…