Eaton’s and Sears wrote the book on distance sales by putting a free catalogue in every household. Whether you lived in Toronto or Skinners Pond, everybody in the house studied at least one section of the catalogue. My father’s first

2017 is already known as the year of the never ending rain, flooding and delayed planting, some fields never getting planted! For homeowners, it meant that many basements were flooded that were never wet before. Driveways and roads needed more

On these cold, wet, dark, five o’clock start mornings on the farm, many farmers wonder could there be a more pleasing job than this? After trudging through the mud on a cold rainy morning on the way to milk the

When we think of a typical farmer in the Pontiac, thoughts go back to Gordon bringing in the cows from pasture about daybreak to milk them, Bob out plowing with the ‘77 Oliver and a two furrow drag plow and

I once attended a series of land use planning meetings across the Pontiac which finished at our MRC with the Quebec Land Use Planning Committee hosting the meeting. With only about three per cent of Canada’s total land base suitable

There are long holiday weekends every year that the farmer worries about until they are over. It’s a good thing that they are a half a year apart so farmers don’t get too stressed out! In the spring most people

When my mom started school she had a tendency to be left handed. Every time the teacher saw a kid writing with their left hand, they got rapped severely on the knuckles. The children were obliged to use their right

When some of our dear city friends found the love of their life away out in Pontiac County several years ago some of their relatives told them: “You’ll be bored out in the country. There’s not much to do away

For more than 50 years, there have been several very large changes in policies that have affected everyone in North America that made some people reflect on the old saying: “when the fox is in charge of guarding the hen

After having fun at the fall fairs, summer vacation and enjoying cottage life, we should think back to what was a priority during WWI and WWII. Enjoying the good life as we just did this summer and fall would have