Spring 2008
Volume 15 Number 1
Bedded Bliss
“Our goal has been to have an interesting garden view out each window of the house and to have water garden sounds from each open window in the summer.”
No Ordinary Swimming Pool, No Ordinary Pond
If you get the plants right, everything else pretty much falls into place.
Wetland Restoration? Leave it to Beaver
If beavers are permitted to help reverse wetland losses, frogs will be among the happy beneficiaries.
Yesterday’s Superstore: A Tribute to the Old General Store
In the Waldemar store, pop was five cents in the 1940s (seven cents if you took it outside, but there was a two-cent bottle return).
Two Little Railways Made North American History
The Toronto Grey & Bruce and the Toronto & Nipissing Railways were the first of their kind on the continent.
Field of Schemes
There’s a population boom coming to Headwaters. Where will all the people go and what will it mean for our countryside?
Enough of Zoomburb
When I moved to Caledon from Toronto in 1974, feeling all starry-eyed and back-to-the-landish, as befitted the mood of the times, the population of the newly minted “town” was just…
Letters – Our readers write: Spring 2008
Letters published in the SPRING 2008 edition of In The Hills magazine.
Bursting bubbles, boosterisms and commoner sense
Boost “Deficit spending is already beyond belief, and the country is hugely indebted, as are households. The housing bubble has already burst. The Federal Reserve has made clear it will…
Jim Reid
“The painting sites I choose are places I have revisited since childhood, and so they are also saturated with personal memory.”



