The village of Arthur was the least industrialized of Wellington County’s towns in the 19th…
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Large avian visitors
This past week has been far more than just interesting. In addition to a couple of broody bantam…
Creative destruction
Economists hold forth about the effects of the creative destruction; it is what makes capitalism…
Barn fires added to problems of Wellington County farmers in 1930
I have remarked previously about the curious way fires seem to have occurred locally in clusters.…
TV trays
Pretend I was wealthy and could afford to hire people to do the things I was too busy making money…
Booze and break-ins kept authorities busy in late 1930
Prohibition in Ontario ended in 1927, when the provincial government authorized the sale of beer…
Done did it
Yes sir, madam, and mesdemoiselles, his and hers and guys and dolls, with, perhaps, long overdue…
Butter tarts
A couple of days ago, on checking my emails, one came to me from a years-and-years-ago friend,…
Coroner’s inquest investigated deaths in 1949 Mount Forest fire
Last week’s column described the fires in the house of George White of Mount Forest on Jan.…
Half and half
The sun shone brightly through my window as I awoke the other morning. It had broken through the…
Tanner’s woolen mill in Mount Forest burned twice in a year
George Tanner of Mount Forest was one of dozens of small manufacturers in Wellington County in the…
Ornamental birds
Birds, birds, and more birds – that’s what I saw this past weekend. A friend of mine…
A good indicator
Changes in the commercial property market are a good forecaster of economic trends. Capital…
Frequent tours
Now that the weather has warmed up, it is not uncommon for me to take advantage of Jenney, my…
Dear me
I have noticed a trend where advice gurus write letters to their younger selves as if having a…