HENRY TAYLOR – A Legend in His Own Time In November of 1999 Henry Taylor, then 95, received recognition from the Ontario Museum Association as Bancroft’s Citizen of the Century. At the same time the iconic outdoorsman also received the association’s Lifetime Achievement Award of Merit. “It was a great shock to my nervous system,” […]
A LIFE OF SUSTAINABILITY “There’s a lot of talk these days, mostly from fairly high paid civil servants and politicians about sustainable development,” former editor Gary Ball wrote in the Angler & Hunter magazine in 1990. “For Ralph Bice sustainable development is a way of life.” As best I can translate it, sustainable development really […]
TOM THOMSON by Ralph Bice Guest Columnist Part 3 Ralph penned this article when he was 77 years of age. Many times I have heard people state that Tom Thomson was a member of the Group of Seven, and be very insistent about it. His end was in 1917, and that group was not formed […]
TOM THOMSON by Ralph Bice Guest Columnist Part 2 Ralph penned this article when he was 77 years of age. Roy Dixon was the undertaker who prepared Thomson’s body for burial. He stated that there was not a mark of physical violence on the body. He was assisted by Mark Robinson the Ranger then stationed […]
TOM THOMSON by Ralph Bice Guest Columnist Part 1 Ralph penned this article when he was 77 years of age. I never talked to Tom Thomson. I did see this now well remembered artist on a couple of occasions before his tragic end, but I did not realize until afterwards that it had been he […]
The Conclusion Diana couldn’t win a shooting contest without her glasses. Before she could pose with her rifle on her shoulder she had to look high and low for her spectacles. Her difficulty in remembering where she had laid them was one of her few signs of old age. “I’ve got to have them,” said […]
PART 3 “Sixty-five years ago,” she continued, “I came up here with my husband. This was all bush then and he had to clear every inch of this farm.” “And did you help him?” “Oh, yes,” she laughed. “I’ve chopped down a tree.” “I suppose there were plenty of deer in those days?” “My husband,” […]
The Diana of mythology was an ancient Roman goddess of the hunt of both wild and domestic animals. Her Greek counterpart was Artemis. The following tale was penned by Robert C. Reade and published in the Toronto Star Weekly on Saturday, December 10, 1931. Reader Keith Jones sent this to me. With the aid of […]
OLE EVINRUDE (1877-1934) On a hot August day in the early 1900’s Ole Evinrude, Bessie Cary and friends were enjoying a picnic on Wisconsin’s Okauchee Lake, west of Milwaukee. Miss Cary craved some refreshing ice cream on such a hot day. Mr. Evinrude volunteered to row their boat to the ice cream store, “Schatz’s”. By […]
SOMETHING FROM AWAY BACK by Ralph Bice (originally from Ralph’s ‘Along the Trail’ column in the Almaguin News of Nov. 3, 1976) This old story came to light recently while doing a bit of desk clearing. It is taken from a page of the Detroit News, dated May 15th, 1966. The writer is Bill Brennan, […]
