The Haldimand Stewardship Council is a group that shows a commitment to promoting responsible land care, sustaining resources, and working together for a healthier environment.  The council includes volunteer individuals who recognize and can encourage community involvement and interest in land stewardship.  Council members include farmers, woodlot owners, naturalists, business people, agency and industry representatives and other conservation groups.

 

Haldimand Stewardship Council

15 Cayuga Street, Cayuga

The Old Railway Bridge at Cayuga *

TRAVEL

The railroad track is miles away,
        And the day is loud with voices speaking.
Yet there isn't a train goes by all day
        But I hear its whistle shrieking.

All night there isn't a train goes by,
        Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming
But I see its cinders red on the sky,
        And hear its engine steaming.

My heart is warm with the friends I make,
        And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
         No matter where it's going.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay  [Feb 22, 1892 - Oct. 19, 1950]  First woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

* The old Cayuga railway bridge is scheduled to become a walking trail. Photo lbw

Gift that Lasts All Year

Court House Grounds Summer 2016

This is the photo that has offended Haldimand County Councillor Fred Morison.  At the Council-in-Committee meeting on Tuesday, November 15, 2016,  Councillor Morison adamantly expressed his disapproval of a petition circulating and comments on social media prior to administrative staff reports coming to council and before council decisions.  Morison would have preferred that a better time for the petition would have been after the Council-in-Committee meeting when Report PED-GM-10-2016 was brought forward.  This report was made available to the public late Thursday, November 10 and can be ratified on December 12. 

A petition on Change.org (Search key words: log cabin), requests that Haldimand County Council save Cayuga Court House Grounds, parkland, museum, archives and 1835 log cabin.

Council has already approved at the Nov. 15th meeting to break up the museum collection and distribute it among the libraries.  Morison is holding an Open House, TUE., NOV. 22 at 2:00 and 6:30 p.m. in the Cayuga Kinsmen Community Centre to discuss these latest developments.  Please note change in location for the Open House.

[Photo:  lbw]

 

Today We Remember

 

 

Court House Grounds

Zoned Residential

Court House Grounds

The historic Court House Grounds are zoned residential.  OFFICIAL PLAN SCHEDULE "B.2"  CAYUGA URBAN AREA LAND USE PLAN ~ Map Prepared by:  Haldimand County Planning & Economic Development Dept. 

"Council is not forging ahead with residential zoning as the petition [Save the Parklands, Museum & Log Cabin*] states.  There has not even been discussion about that." ~ Ward 2 Councillor Morison.  Letter to The Haldimand Press and The Sachem, Oct. 27, 2016.

*  Change.org (Search key words i.e. log cabin)  Thank you for signing.

[Photos:  lbw]  UPDATE:  Since Report PED-GM-10-2016 became available on Thu., Nov. 10, it has become public knowledge that the County Court House Grounds are currently zoned "Institutional". 

Haldimand County Museum & Archives and Historic 1835 Log Cabin

Haldimand County Council conducted an Administrative Accommodation Review last year and chose to build one new administration building in Cayuga.  This decision renders the current building redundant;  in other words, "surplus administrative property".  The future of the museum, log cabin and surrounding County Court House Grounds is unclear.

 

Current Haldimand County Admin Building Cayuga
 

 

We have been away.  Not from the bookshop.  Just from our blog.  So many things have been happening that we need to tell you!

We won't try to relate to you everything today.   We will post some photographs and some news stories each day.  Thank you for coming back.  We miss our readers.  Just to get started, we have been preoccupied reading Administrative Accommodation Reviews on the Haldimand County Website.  The reason?  It took a while for us to realize and understand that our six councilors and one mayor have been discussing the future of our current administration building and consequently our museum, log cabin and our historic County Court House Grounds.

Parking Lot and Admin Building

Tomorrow:  We will briefly summarize surplus administrative property, specifically our Haldimand Administrative Building.

 Dunnville, Ontario

 
 

"Well into the 1800s, maple sugar was the only sugar readily available to North Americans.  However, in the late 1800s, the cane sugar industry in the Caribbean began to compete with the homemade delicacy.  After a war that included tariffs on the refined, tasteless white sugar, and bounties for maple sugar production, maple sugar gave way to the mass-production economy of cane sugar.  During the first half of the twentieth century, except for brief periods during World War 1 and World War II, when maple sugar helped ease the North American sugar shortage, maple sugar and its companion, maple syrup, became delicacies valued for their flavor rather than for their sweetening power."

Today, maple syrup, not sugar, is the favored maple product."

~ Sugartime, The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup with a Primer for the Novice Sugarer,  Susan C. Hauser, Key Porter Books Limited, 1998.

[Photos:  Haldimand, March, 2016. lbw]

{...for our friends in Florida.}

[Photos: Railway Bridge Over Grand at Cayuga Feb.2016 lbw]

 

 

Haldimand County

 

 
 

[Photos:  February 17, 2016 lbw]

At Cottonwood Mansion

 

Shirley Otterman   Norma Mowat   Harold Schaus

 

Thank you, Norma Mowat & Harold Schaus Canadian veterans, for your service 

 

Corporal Harold Schaus poses with his son, Ken Schaus

Haldimand County Hydro trucks in use; however, may not be for long ~

Lake Erie

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Wed. to Fri. 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m..
Sat. 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

or by app't. 905-577-5635 or neatlittlebookshop@gmail.com

Happy Labour Day Weekend

[Photo:  Lake Erie lbw]

"When I was a boy, and for quite some time after that,  all work on Township roads was done by the farmers living on that road.  When the tax slip came around, besides the taxes in dollars and cents it had so many day's road work.  I suppose that would be for a man and a team [heavy horses] because about all that was done on them was team work ~ levelling or putting earth in low places with a scraper. 

Every once in a while, depending on the road boss who was one of the farmers, the big grader was brought on. I don't know who appointed him. That required one or two furrows to be plowed in the ditch and three teams were put on the grader and the road was graded.  Needless to say, for some time after that, it wasn't any more than fit to drive on but there were no cars and roads were all alike.  It wasn't noticed, only when a low spot was raised with scrapers and not levelled off was there fault found and some bosses were noted for that.  Needless to say, they weren't popular and their term was short.

Most road work was done after seeding and before haying.  That was always a big day for the kids.  They lived on the road that day while the men went back and forth on the road.

That system probably was the best for the time but times have changed and the Township got road machinery and lately steady-paid workers and the roads are kept up to a much higher standard than they were.  Change is always going on.  For the better?  Sometimes that might be debatable but we will have to give the ones that are responsible at the particular time of doing the best they think.  If it doesn't work that way, the next council will change it.  The country has been brought to the present state by the trial and error method and probably that is the best method to follow."

~ J. A. Turnbull (1890 - 1975)  East Seneca, Haldimand County.

Take to The Country ~ along The Grand

[Photos:  August 7, 2015]

The Heritage Grand River

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading ~
It vexes me to choose another guide ~
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding,
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

~Emily Bronte [1818 - 1848] Often Rebuked.  Stanza 4