3 EDITOR'S WELCOME
4 BUILDING TRAIL ON – AND OFF – THE SNOW
Forging backcountry trails has been a longtime passion for Catherine McNeice, who has left an imprint on both the Georgian Nordic ski trails and the new Rose Point Recreational Trail.
8 LOST ON BLUEBERRY HILL
In this compelling true account by John Macfie young Elva Hall wandered off while picking blueberries, and became lost in the wilds of Magnetawan,
12 AT HOME: CREATING MOOD WITH LIGHTING AND COLOURING
Visit new homes on Avery Court and Winnifred Avenue in Parry Sound for some simple tips for using colour and lighting effectively in your decorating scheme.
16 WILDLIFE FROM WYOMING TO THE YUKON
Dunchurch artist Dwayne Harty takes readers along for the ride – from Yellowstone 2 Yukon – as he captures wildlife on canvass.
20 GROWING FRESH PRODUCE YEAR ROUND
Be sure to wear boots on a visit to the Sweetgrass Farm of John Dixon and Holly Southwell. Discover how throughout the deep freeze of Hekkla’s coldest winters, they grow nutrition-packed lettuce, spinach, kale, arugula and Swiss chard in a greenhouse behind their home.
22 LOST TREASURES: VANISHED SCHOOLS
Marianne King-Wilson takes readers back to her own golden school days at Victory School and describes some of Parry Sound’s first schools, now long gone from the landscape. People never forget the vanished schools and the teachers who nurtured their learning, she writes.
24 PARRY SOUND'S OWN COUREUR DES BOIS
Permanent bib #226, Thom Morrissey is preparing for conquering his ninth consecutive Canadian Ski Marathon. At the Coureur des Bois level, he’ll be cross-country skiing 160 km, carrying all necessary gear for an overnight camp-out between race days.
28 NAVIGATING THE GALES OF DECEMBER
The perils of Georgian Bay’s gales of November are legendary, claiming the steamship SS Waubuno in 1879. Just ten days after the sinking, and well into December by then, the Northern Queen set off on the same route. Beset by a blinding winter storm in the exact area where the SS Waubuno went down, would the Northern Queen avert an almost copycat disaster?
29 CRANBERRY WINE: BALA'S LIQUID GOLD
At Johnston’s Cranberry Marsh, a growing number of the tiny berries from the bogs of Ontario’s “cranberry capital” are finding their way into bottles of award-winning wines. For the past two years, the Muskoka Lakes Winery’s cranberry blueberry wine has garnered double gold – a best of category award – among fruit wines in the All Canadian Wine Championships.
32 OUT AND ABOUT
Check out local events and happenings this winter.
Winter 2009
WINTER 2009
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