THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE CBC I grew up listening to 1050 CHUM radio in Toronto. My parents listened to CFRB with Wally Crouter in the a.m., Gordon Sinclair and Betty Kennedy later on. We watched neighbour Fred Davis, Front Page Challenge, on the television. I still recall CFRB’s weather man Gordon G’s description of […]
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 […]
ABOUT CORONATIONS To date – May 8, 2023 – I have seen two Royal Coronations; in 1953 Queen Elizabeth11 and 2023 her son Charles 111. Charles the 1st was a victim of English civil war (not very civil) and he lost his head – literally, he was beheaded for treason by the axeman. Charles 1 […]
REMEMBER WHEN? The Peterborough Crown Game Preserve Apsley – In an 11th hour announcement last November (1987) the Ministry of the Environment gave the green light to a controlled deer hunt in the Peterborough Crown Game Preserve (PCGP) with the added stipulation that “no more hunts will occur until an Environmental Assessment (EA) has taken […]
A COUPLE OF DEER STORIES New Carlow – After watching his deer swim across the York River and die on the far shore a New Carlow hunter stripped to his birthday suit, clenched his knife in his teeth like some swashbuckling pirate and swam the frigid November waters to eviscerate his downed quarry. He then […]
FISHY FASHION During the 1980s Fred Johnston operated THE BAIT BOX which featured fishing equipment and Army Surplus. To-day it is a restaurant. It’s located across from the Brewers Retail store on Madawaska Street. Fred was always a good, knowledgeable source of fishing lore. Where were the fish biting; on what; what time of day? […]
HOW TO BUILD A QUINCY SNOW SHELTER During a winter survival weekend I learned how to make a Quincy snow hut which in fact resembles an igloo. Since that time I have made a few more for fun than survival with my family and some cub scouts. One winter my boys and I made a […]
DESIGNATED DRIVER I believe the year was 1967, our Canadian Centennial year. It seemed that everyone was going to Montreal, to Expo, to celebrate Canada’s 100th birthday. My friend Doug Smith went and suffered an experience that, for him, was to become rather typical. These were the days of the F.L.Q. (Federation Liberation de Quebec) […]
TRAPPER JOHN and The SNOWMOBILERS For Reproduction Rights call Access 1-800-893-5777 Trapper John was in his 70’s, according to his younger brother who passed this tale on to me. He had miles of trap lines throughout the Burk’s Falls area in northern Ontario. In his younger days John travelled by snowshoe. The snowmobile was something […]
The Catch & Release Deer There are always two sides to the coin when it comes to the last day of the season in deer camp. The anticipation of opening day is well past and the reality of the last day is sinking in. Another year has come and gone. Many of the guys you […]
