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Spring 2009

Gone Paddling: The Credit River

A group of adventurers challenges the Credit River during spring runoff.

Mar 21, 2009

Caledon and la Dordogne: Home truths from deep France

A traveller discovers striking parallels and telling differences between rural Dordogne and her Credit River home in Brimstone.

Mar 21, 2009

Plant Paradise: A Little Piece of Paradise

Two self-taught Caledon gardeners have created a kind of boutique garden centre, where the emphasis is on natural, organic, drought-hardy – and gorgeous.

Mar 21, 2009

The Day the Avro Arrow Died

It’s been 50 years since Black Friday, the day the Avro Arrow was cancelled – and economic disaster spread like wildfire through the hills.

Mar 21, 2009

Day of Reckoning: Caledon’s Rockfort Quarry

Like 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.

Mar 21, 2009

Warblers: A Storm of Angels

In Headwaters country eighteen species of warblers flourish among the trees of the Niagara Escarpment and the Oak Ridges Moraine.

Mar 21, 2009

Clara Brett Martin: Canada’s First Woman Lawyer

A 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.

Mar 21, 2009

The Spring of Our Discontent

We 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…

Mar 21, 2009

Letters – Our readers write: Spring 2009

Letters published in the Spring 2009 edition of In The Hills magazine.

Mar 21, 2009

Morphine, acid, grass and vanilla bean lows

Poppy 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…

Mar 21, 2009

Margi Taylor Self

Her interest in design and communications has led her on a career involving promotion, public relations and marketing.

Mar 21, 2009