Spring 2009
Gone Paddling: The Credit River
Mar 21, 2009 | | Back IssuesA group of adventurers challenges the Credit River during spring runoff.
Caledon and la Dordogne: Home truths from deep France
Mar 21, 2009 | | Back IssuesA traveller discovers striking parallels and telling differences between rural Dordogne and her Credit River home in Brimstone.
Plant Paradise: A Little Piece of Paradise
Mar 21, 2009 | | LeisureTwo self-taught Caledon gardeners have created a kind of boutique garden centre, where the emphasis is on natural, organic, drought-hardy – and gorgeous.
The Day the Avro Arrow Died
Mar 21, 2009 | | HeritageIt’s been 50 years since Black Friday, the day the Avro Arrow was cancelled – and economic disaster spread like wildfire through the hills.
Day of Reckoning: Caledon’s Rockfort Quarry
Mar 21, 2009 | | Back IssuesLike oil, aggregate has become essential to modern life. But how much are we willing to sacrifice to get it? As the decade-long dispute over Caledon’s Rockfort quarry finally heads to the OMB, we’re about to find out.
Warblers: A Storm of Angels
Mar 21, 2009 | | Back Issues | EnvironmentIn Headwaters country eighteen species of warblers flourish among the trees of the Niagara Escarpment and the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Clara Brett Martin: Canada’s First Woman Lawyer
Mar 21, 2009 | | HeritageA Modest pioneer, Clara Brett Martin, the daughter of a Mono Township pioneer family, became a pioneer of a different sort when she challenged the Law Society of Upper Canada to become the first woman lawyer in the British Empire.
The Spring of Our Discontent
Mar 21, 2009 | | Back Issues | Departments | Editor’s Desk | In Every IssueWe like to stay on top of things here at In the Hills. That’s why last fall we ran a long feature on the impact of rising oil prices. Would…
Letters – Our readers write: Spring 2009
Mar 21, 2009 | | Back Issues | Departments | Letters, Our Readers WriteLetters published in the Spring 2009 edition of In The Hills magazine.
Morphine, acid, grass and vanilla bean lows
Mar 21, 2009 | | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | EnvironmentPoppy Culture Medical morphine production is “a much more reasonable and practicable alternative to the attempted destruction of the poppy fields – an effort that wouldn’t succeed for long, in…
Margi Taylor Self
Mar 21, 2009 | | Artist in Residence | Back Issues | Departments | In Every IssueHer interest in design and communications has led her on a career involving promotion, public relations and marketing.