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Ken Weber

Caledon writer Ken Weber’s best-selling Five Minute Mysteries series is published in 22 languages. Ken wrote 103 Historic Hills columns for In The Hills over more than 25 years, capping his pen in 2022.

The Bob Edgar Telephone Company

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.

Sep 11, 2014

A Puzzling Conclusion: Autumn 2014

Try a new game at the Jolly Morphology Club, find the missing letters at the Alton Fair and can the bus hold all the passengers?

Sep 11, 2014

Our Local Press on the Eve of the Great War

From the first week of August onward, war news exploded onto the pages of community papers, filling them almost cover to cover.

Jun 17, 2014

A Puzzling Conclusion: Summer 2014

Albion challenges Garafraxa, missing animal life at the Shelburne 4-H and Silas Renarm returns to Palgrave.

Jun 17, 2014

The On-Again-Off-Again Birth of Peel County

When the council of the newly independent County of Peel convened in 1867, a first task was to choose a site and a builder for the courthouse and jail.

Mar 23, 2014

A Puzzling Conclusion: Spring 2014

A Wartime Letter at DCMA, An In The Hills Two Minute In-Your-Head Challenge and Crossing the Credit on a Rope.

Mar 23, 2014

“There’s Something Under Dufferin County”

As far back as 1886, for example, gold was discovered in Melancthon Township near Dundalk.

Nov 19, 2013

A Puzzling Conclusion: Winter 2013

The Jolly Morphology Club, free eggs and who is the man in the photograph?

Nov 19, 2013

A Place Like Home

For Canadian boys passing through England during World War I, the Perkins Bull Hospital for Convalescent Canadian Officers offered family warmth and the comfort of “home sweet home,” something all of them desperately needed.

Sep 11, 2013

Once Upon a Time There Were House Calls

Before the days of clinics, emergency rooms and office hours, most medical treatment took place in a patient’s home. It was a challenging and uncertain process, and not just for the patient.

Sep 11, 2013

A Puzzling Conclusion: Autumn 2013

At the Market in Creemore, from Melancthon to Mississippi and a rainy day challenge.

Sep 11, 2013

A Place for the Deserving Poor

Males and females, including married couples, slept and ate separately.

Jun 17, 2013

A Puzzling Conclusion: Summer 2013

At the Charleston Fair, using your head, speed puzzles and a mini mystery.

Jun 17, 2013

The Great Escaper

The Orangeville Sun called him Robert the Bold. Local police called him ‘armed and dangerous.’ His neighbours called him ‘misunderstood.’ Bob Cook’s story fits all these descriptions – and then some.

Mar 31, 2013

A Puzzling Conclusion: Spring 2013

From Terra Cotta to Terra Nova, a leaky roof in Alton and how Ginny fooled Jack.

Mar 31, 2013

How William Lyon Mackenzie Escaped Through Caledon …or Not!

They were smuggled food by a local farmer’s wife who, knowing she was being watched, would tie packages of food to her crinolines and go for a walk.

Nov 17, 2012

The Rebellion of 1837: Not Just Montgomery’s Tavern

The rebellion in Upper Canada finally got British authorities to look into what was upsetting the colonies.

Nov 17, 2012

A Puzzling Conclusion: Winter 2012

Balancing imaginary eggs, Mr. Stuart, sidewalk chalk in Orangeville and an In The Hills Mini Mystery.

Nov 16, 2012