DIRTY BUSINESS The Reality of Ontario's Rush To Wind Power *

"When you look at how our legislators created an act that removed the democratic process from Ontario's rural municipalities and at the same time, used taxpayer and electricity ratepayer dollars to open the door to large, largely foreign corporations to exploit Ontario, it is simply astonishing." ~ Jane Wilson, July, 2011

Published by Wind Concerns Ontario, 2011.  http://www.windconcernsontario.org/

Although The Neat Little Bookshop is a used/like-new bookshop, there are certain new books that we are pleased to make available.  DIRTY BUSINESS is one of those books.  Having attended numerous meetings, spoken with local administrators, we support the idea of research and open-mindedness.  Please pick up a copy of this collection of articles and essays.

*Edited by Jane Wilson; contributing editor, Parker Gallant.



John A. Turnbull ~ July 1890 - January 1975*

"I have recollections of taking the old horse down to the bush after we came from school and snaking up a tree to cut up to burn that night.  One night we had nothing but a pile of pine logs on the woodpile and they were soggy and wet.  However, we cut a few blocks off them and split and carried them in.  We went to bed with all our clothes on that night."

*My maternal grandfather ~ lbwalker

"In the very early days of bees ~ this district ~ bees were very common, as the pioneers were rather inexperienced.  When they came to the new country the work that faced them first was so unusual to what they were used to at home and as there was no one to turn to for advice or instruction, it was do-it-yourself if it was to be done at all.  The alternative was starve, and so out of necessity a generation of men were produced that were daunted at nothing.
With the bush and starvation on one side and their wives and small families on the other, they buckled right in to the task ahead of them and relying on each others' help and advice, they learned many things that we of this generation have long forgotten if we ever knew them.
When we think of this country as a dense bush, no roads any place, no cleared land, that faced the settlers about 1840, and then remember it as it was about 1890, we wonder how men did so much in fifty short years."


~ John A. Turnbull (1890 - 1975) life-long resident of East Seneca, Haldimand County.


A Bee ~ East Seneca Church

 Photograph:  J. A. Turnbull, second from right.

Found in the Pages of The Early History of Haldimand County ~ by Russell Harper, published May 1950.

Advertisement in The Caledonia Advertiser

NORTH AMERICAN HOTEL
York, Grand River, C. W.*

The undersigned would beg to intimate to his friends, and the travelling public that he has moved into this well-known House, and furnished and fitted it up in style to accomodate (sic) them as well as they can be in any similar establishment on the River.  His TABLE is always supplied with all the substantials and delicacies of the season and his WINES AND LIQORS are of the choicest kinds.  No pains will be spared to make the sojourn of his guests both pleasant and agreeable.

Commodious stables are connected with the Hotel, and an attentive Hostler is always on hand.

The Stages running between Caledonia and Cayuga call at this Hotel daily.

York, Nov. 1856.  Land Hughson
* Canada West

Grant Stengal Peeling Apples

Ross Makey Making Rope

Peeling Apples & Making Rope at Heritage Day Selkirk ~ Early chores in rural Haldimand

Ross Makey is the author of Mills of Walpole and Rainham.

Attending the
Thirty-First Heritage Day, Selkirk, Ontario



Doris Kienitz, Doris' Father, Fred, and family friend Gwen Swart

 


Cheryl MacDonald with Dana and Anne, Haldimand Museum Curators

Josie Penny, author "So Few on Earth"

 

Flowers that bloom in the spring ~  Snowdrops

Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flowers ~ but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

[Tennyson:  Flowers in the Crannied wall]

Photo: L. Walker, taken today.