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Ken Weber

Caledon writer Ken Weber’s best-selling Five Minute Mysteries series is published in 22 languages. Ken is also the Historic Hills columnist and puzzle meister for this magazine and has a loyal following here in the hills.

Soldiers and their loved ones say goodbye at the Shelburne railway station, 1914. Photo Courtesy Dufferin County Museum And Archives P-0009.

August 1914: The First Goodbyes

Sep 16, 2016

As early as August 7, the word went out to militia units across the country: Enlist as many volunteers as possible.

Mule Training

A Puzzling Conclusion: Autumn 2016

Sep 16, 2016

Creative thinking in Stanley Park, words of diminution and who stood where in the lineup?

The Grand River – When Your Neighbour is a River

Jun 20, 2016

Not only does the Grand River lay out nature’s beauty, it also offers opportunities for recreation, commerce and development. Yet all this comes at a cost, for the Grand can be both friend and foe.

Shelburne bridge physics

A Puzzling Conclusion: Summer 2016

Jun 20, 2016

Shelburne bridge physics, a chronology quiz for Canada Day, sibling rivalry at the sheep farm and how far can you get without an ‘N’?

Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau wore a cloche in 2015, on the day the newly elected Liberal cabinet was sworn in. Photo by Art Babych / Shutterstock.

A Tip of the Hat to History

Mar 21, 2016

A jaunt through hat fashion history!

Dufferin County Museum and Archives. Photo by Pete Paterson.

All the News That’s Fit to Print

Mar 21, 2016

In the 19th century a weekly newspaper was the primary source of information, commerce, entertainment, argument and gossip for the people of rural Canada. Few papers did the job better than the Orangeville Sun.

swim googles

A Puzzling Conclusion: Spring 2016

Mar 21, 2016

Who actually came in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th?

Ontario’s indignation was fired by this woodcut, “The Tragedy at Fort Garry, March 4, 1870,” an artist’s conception of the Scott execution at Fort Garry. The anger was made even worse by rumours that Scott was buried alive and was heard screaming in the coffin at his burial. Library and Archives Canada, C-048776

The Red River Rebellion: The Hills Get Indignant!

Nov 25, 2015

There was the button that always cranked these hills beyond reason – the hint of anything Fenian.

Winter 2015 Puzzles

A Puzzling Conclusion: Winter 2015

Nov 25, 2015

Looking at numbers in three different ways, a different perspective on ‘Groaners’ and Mr. Algie’s conundrum.

D’Alton McCarthy MP (Cons.) 1876–78

Parachuting Candidates into the Safest Seat in the Country

Sep 11, 2015

For almost 40 years after Confederation, the Conservative Party treated the riding of Cardwell – Albion, Caledon, Mono and Adjala townships – like private property. It led to some wild and woolly election campaigns.

Apples

A Puzzling Conclusion: Autumn 2015

Sep 11, 2015

A Canadiana speed test, Mr Collison’s on-time exercise and win the apples in the bin.

Harry Riddell with a blood stock horse, c.1910. Dufferin County Museum & Archives, P-1868

William Henry Riddell: 50,000 Miles in a Sulky

Jun 16, 2015

Henry was born in Caledon Township in 1860 and left just long enough to get a veterinarian degree in Guelph in 1886 before moving to Orangeville to practise.

Summer 2015 Puzzles

A Puzzling Conclusion: Summer 2015

Jun 16, 2015

A checkers challenge in Inglewood, who’s who at the Davies reunion in Caledon East and on the new blackboard at S.S. #6.

Seneca Ketchum, 1772–1850. Courtesy St. John's York Mills Anglican Church.

Seneca Ketchum

Mar 23, 2015

Seneca was nearly 60 when he came to Mono, an age when many people look forward to ease and comfort.

Puzzles

A Puzzling Conclusion: Spring 2015

Mar 23, 2015

Dividing the 80 acre potato farm, a chess set for PAMA and was there a slip-up at the Jolly Morphology Club?

Students outside SS #5, East Luther (Colbeck School) in 1908, the year it was built to replace an earlier wooden schoolhouse. The school served Grades 1 to 8 until 1918 when Grade 9 (Continuation School) was added. Courtesy Dufferin County Museum & Archives , P- 4500.

“Your Christmas concert must be first-rate. Nothing less!”

Nov 17, 2014

During the 1800s, teachers in local one-room schools faced 
a list of expectations and responsibilities so onerous, 
it’s a wonder so many carried on.

Checkers

A Puzzling Conclusion: Winter 2014

Nov 17, 2014

Mr. Judge’s word circle, game of checkers in Marsville, think out of the box and FAST!

By 1915 the demand for telephones in urban centres had mostly been met, so the Bell Telephone Company turned its attention to the countryside.

The Bob Edgar Telephone Company

Sep 11, 2014

Beginning in the late 1920s, though, a series of government regulations along with profit-driven business decisions gradually changed telephone service across the country into a fluid network.

In The Hills

In The Hills is an independent, locally owned print and online magazine that has earned its reputation as the best-read, best-loved magazine in Headwaters.

The magazine is delivered to more than 40,000 homes and farms throughout Caledon, Erin, Dufferin, Orangeville and Creemore – up to double the circulation of any other local publication. And it is available to visitors at local inns, restaurants, specialty retail stores and other tourist locations.