ONTARIO’S JUNIOR RANGER PROGRAM – dated 2024-01-01 In 2004 the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources’ Ontario Ranger Program was poised to celebrate its 60th anniversary “This is Ontario’s oldest youth employment program for 17-year olds,” wrote Lee-Ann Choquette, Communications Officer of the Youth Programs Office, Human Resources Branch, located on the 3rd Floor, South Tower, […]
Al Purdy Born at Wooler, Ontario Dec. 30, 1918 – died in B.C. April 21, 2000 My friend Marguerite McColl’s first teaching school was Wooler Public. I wonder, if Al attended Wooler did she teach him? But then I wondered if Al had any connection to Purdy, Ontario, near Combermere? In fact Al Purdy attended […]
MNRF Up-date 2023 for Bird Banding and the Lake Opeongo Lake Trout Study MIGRATORY BIRD BANDING UP-DATE 2023-12-22 In an earlier article I described my participation in an MNR duck banding program on the Conroy Marsh. This article features the most recent news for the year 2023. Migratory birds, including waterfowl, are federally managed […]
REMINISCING by BARNEY MOORHOUSE Someday I intend to write my memoirs. Not an autobiography but a memoir. Simply because our individual memory banks can play tricks. Have you ever wondered, “Did this REALLY happen or am I imagining it?” Certainly it helps if there is someone available who can affirm or deny. In conversation with […]
BATAWA’S POND HOCKEY CLASSIC by BARNEY MOORHOUSE Batawa’s 7th annual Pond Hockey fund raising tournament featured classic Canadian wintry conditions. The temperature high on Thursday February 1, 2018, the day preceding the 4 on 4 competitions, rose above zero softening the ice. On Friday, the temps dipped to minus double digits and the 42,000 square […]
JIM PRICE, YET ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARILY ORDINARY CANADIAN by BARNEY MOORHOUSE Born Saturday, October 13, 1934, in the year of the dog, Jim Price, by age, if not experience, is the elder of our deer camp; known affectionately by some as The Old Farts’ Club. Jim usually sets up shop at THE CONDO and often manages […]
THE HASTINGS COUNTY PLOWING MATCH & FARM SHOW 2017 by BARNEY MOORHOUSE During August 23 and 24 approximately 15,000 visitors took in the Hastings County Plowing Match & Farm Show. Harry Danford told me that the show, hosted for the second time, almost 20 years ago, by the Sandercock family on their property at 612 […]
THE ROOTS of HOCKEY FUNDRAISING DINNER by BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights Call Access 1.800.893.5777 The 6th annual Pond Hockey Classic tournament, hosted by 436 Squadron, CFB Trenton, in support of Wounded Warriors Canada and the Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation, took place from February 3 to 5, 2017. A gala Puck Drop Dinner complete with […]
THE RCMP MUSICAL RIDE by BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights Call Access 1.800.893.5777 Who has never heard of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride? Well, to my astonishment, apparently a number of people that I talked to. Which perhaps is another good reason for the RCMP performances in 40 communities this year, from May […]
ExecuTrek – A Day at 8 Wing Trenton – by BARNEY MOORHOUSE It definitely was not a typical day at the office. Although I arrived at 7.00 a.m., the appointed hour, I was late as 31 other civilian invitees had begun arriving at 6:30 a.m. for some insight of activity at Canada’s largest air base. […]
