Author Archives: James Joyce

As rare breed enthusiasts (and local egg lovers) know, Laurie Maus and her partner, Bob Garner, of Hawk Hill Farm in Dunvegan raise Partridge Chantecler chickens. Dr. J.E. Wilkinson developed this uniquely Canadian heritage strain in Alberta in 1919. The ... Read more »

It looks like Dunvegan’s Glengarry Pioneer Museum will shortly awake from its Rip Van Winkle state to once again welcome the public. Under Ontario’s recently announced Stage 2 guidelines, “establishments primarily engaged in preserving and exhibiting objects, sites and natural ... Read more »

Sir Francis Galton was a Victorian-era renaissance man: a person of wide knowledge or learning. The prolific author of over 300 papers and books; he was a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor and meteorologist. And yet it ... Read more »

Terry’s paternal grandparent’s farm is located on Orange Valley Road west of North Seguin, Ontario. Despite the name, there is no microclimate there sufficiently warm to cultivate citrus fruit. It’s just like Dunvegan’s former Orange Lodge; which was not so-named ... Read more »