Spring 2009
Gone Paddling: The Credit River
A group of adventurers challenges the Credit River during spring runoff.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Letters – Our readers write: Spring 2009
Letters published in the Spring 2009 edition of In The Hills magazine.
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…
Margi Taylor Self
Her interest in design and communications has led her on a career involving promotion, public relations and marketing.
