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Contents

F E A T U R E S

6 - The curious case of UgandaCanadian ship played key role in Pacific

8 - Coe Hill invasionMilitary vehicles descend for Labour Day event

9 - Stones with rootsAd Astra program provides lasting memorial

10 - Quinte Symphony Hits 50!Organization continues to spread joy of music

12 - The OthersHastings area a hotbed for hauntings

14 - Autumn GoodnessFall vegetables provide endless options

D E P A R T M E N T S

18 - Cross RoadsCoe Hill man puts new twist on sled • Here comes the Milkman

Country Roads cover work of art

20 - Country CalendarThings to see and do in Hastings County

22 - Back Roads‘The Pines’, Dr. Oronhyatekha’s residence near Deseronto

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A Fall To Remember As we sit here in late August - the month that summer finally arrived – and write this editorial we can’t help but hope for a very sunny and warm fall season. Thoughts of driving county roads ablaze with colours as we discover the talents of local artists just refills the soul. How fortunate are we that these artists’ studio tours and shows coincide with Mother Nature’s own ‘fall co-

lours’ show? Check our Country Calendar for details on fall art events and take every country road you can to see what artis-tic treasures are in store.

Thinking again of fall our thoughts turned to Remembrance Day and the great service Canada’s military provides to not only our homeland but the world at large. In this issue you will read about

the Cruiser HMCS Uganda, a member of Canada’s navy during the Sec-ond World War, told from the firsthand experiences of Tweed resident and crew member Stephen Geneja. Uganda was the only ship to repre-sent Canada in the Pacific War and its contributions were significant.

Having joined the Royal Canadian Navy at age 15 Geneja’s experiences are extraordinary and he’s captured in great detail the contribution this ship and crew had on war efforts in his book The Cruiser Uganda: One War – Many Conflicts.

Most readers will be aware of CFB Trenton and the RCAF Memorial Museum but many may not know about its Ad Astra Stone program, which provides memorials for fallen soldiers. Read about this inspiring project and its origins in this issue.

This issue of COUNTRY ROADS appears at the same time as Warrior ’s Day @ Coe Hill, Sept 5-7, so if you aren’t able to take in the celebra-tions this year know that next Labour Day weekend you can. The story about how this event in this small community became what is believed to be Canada’s largest military vehicle parade is quite something.

Another thing fall had us thinking of was food. Well, actually, we think about food every season but it was the fall harvest that had our mouths watering. Our ‘Autumn Goodness’ article profiles a small sampling of Hastings County farmers. We also bring you their favourite recipes for their own produce and encourage you to visit www.harvesthastings.ca to read about dozens of farmers from Belleville through the Hastings Highlands. On the website you’ll learn who our farmers are and what’s grown here. A handy map shows farms, farmers’ markets, farm stores and area restaurants that feature local food.

And later this fall be sure to visit our website (www.countryroadshast-ings.ca) to see how our potluck dinner using the recipes featured in this issue turned out.

We didn’t do extensive research but we are pretty confident you’d be hard pressed to find many communities the size of Belleville with a 50-year-old symphony troupe providing the calibre of music the Quinte Symphony does – a bit of a coup really! So do yourself a favour and tap into the world of musical wonder known as the Quinte Symphony dur-ing its 2009/10 season. Start with the Oct. 18 performance in celebra-tion of Maestro Gordon Craig’s 20th year at the helm.

It wouldn’t be a proper fall if we didn’t get kind of spooky so be fore-warned - Haunted Hastings is here. See our story on pages 12 and 13 and check out our website to see what happens when John goes on a ghost investigation with the Quinte Paranormal Research Society.

In this issue our regular Cross Roads feature includes a short but varied trio of articles. There are snowmobiles, stained glass and milk delivery. Intrigued? Look inside and read all about them.

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A mong the many stories concerning Canada’s participation in the Second World War

there is perhaps none so un-usual, or controversial, as that involving the cruiser HMCS (His Majesty’s Canadian Ship) Uganda.

The 8,800 ton, 555-foot long vessel was serving in the British Pacific Fleet in the spring of 1945 when it was re-called to Canada in the wake of a government decision to end conscrip-tion following the surrender of Germany.

The decision of whether to stay in the fight against the Japanese or return home was left in the hands of the crew aboard Uganda. About two-thirds of the ship’s crew of some 1,000 vot-ed to leave, and so the ship headed for British Columbia.

Among those on the cruiser was a teenager from Belleville, Stephen Conrad Geneja. Born in 1927, he had joined the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR) at the age of 15 and served aboard ships in the North Atlantic before becoming part of the crew of Uganda in the fall of 1944.

He was among the gunnery crew when the ship saw action in the Pacific in the spring of 1945 during a two-month barrage off the island of Okinawa, a critical triumph for the Allied forces in their efforts to subdue Japan.

Thoughts of fighting the Japanese in the Pacific were far from Geneja’s mind when he joined the Navy. His father was from Poland and his mother

The curious case of UgandaCanadian ship played key role in Pacific

By John HopkinsPhotos courtesy Stephen & Sandy Geneja

was a native of Liverpool. The two had met at Albert College.

Geneja remembers hearing con-stant talk of the invasion of Po-land by the Nazis and the esca-lating war in the family home.

“That was all I heard, morn-ing, noon and night,” he re-calls. “We had relatives in Poland, maybe 30 families over there. After the war,

one of the first things I did was go to Poland to see how they

all were.”Geneja says the pull of the sea was an

irresistible one. His grandfather sailed and his uncle was in the RCN.

“I think I had the wind, sail and water in my veins,” he explains.

There were other factors at play as well. “I im-mensely disliked my high school French teacher,” he says.

Upon joining the RCN Geneja served in the North Atlantic, where the Canadian navy was primarily involved in providing escorts to sup-ply ships crossing the ocean, offering protection against the threat of the very effective German U-Boats.

It was treacherous work. Geneja injured his right arm in a rescue operation (it never healed properly) and he returned to Halifax. In the spring of 1944 he was sent down to Charleston, S.C. to make up the crew of the HMCS Uganda.

The Uganda already had a fascinating history. Built in England and serving with the Royal Navy, the ship was stationed in the Mediterranean in September, 1943 when it was hit by a 3,000 pound

guided bomb dropped by a German plane. Sixteen men were killed and seven wounded and three of its four engines were put out of commission. Running on one engine the Uganda limped to Gibraltar and then all the way across the Atlantic to Charleston, where it was scheduled for repairs.

During the Second World War the British oc-casionally transferred ships to the RCN to help shore up our country’s Navy. On Oct. 21, 1944, after repairs were completed in Charleston, HMS Uganda became the HMCS Uganda and returned to the sea with a Canadian crew.

The Uganda sailed through the Mediterranean, on to Africa and through the Suez Canal into the Far East, making deliveries and carrying out train-ing exercises in preparation for its role in the Pa-cific War. For many of the young crew, Geneja in-cluded, the travel was an experience of a lifetime.

Coat of Arms for the HMCS Uganda from Oct. 21, 1944, the date she first sailed as a ship in the Royal Canadian Navy, until Jan. 14, 1952, when she was recommissioned HMCS Quebec.

This oil painting of HMCS Uganda by F R F Blakeney was commissioned in 1946 by Rear Admiral W. M. Landymore, who was one of the officers serving on the ship during its stint in the Pacific.

In 2005, on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of V-J Day, Stephen Geneja presented a copy of his book, The Cruiser Uganda, to Governor General Adrienne Clarkson at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

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“Alexandria in Egypt was the joy of my heart,” he explains. “It was beautiful; we had a great time.”

In early April HMCS Uganda took up its po-sition with Task Force 57 in the British Pacific Fleet, firing on Japanese air bases on the island of Okinawa and defending against Kamikaze

raids and other attacks on the accompanying aircraft carriers.

Meanwhile, back home in Canada, politics was charting the future course of the ship’s role in the war. On April 4 Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King prepared a statement to be read in the House of Commons indicating his intention to remove all Canadian conscripts from the Pacific War. Twelve days later he dissolved parliament in preparation for a June 2 election.

On May 7 each member of the crew of the Ugan-da was given the following option: “I, ….., do not volunteer for service in the war against Japan nor do I volunteer for services in the Pacific Theatre of War.” In the final tally, 556 voted not to volun-teer, 344 elected to volunteer. MacKenzie King’s

A Labour of LoveBy John Hopkins

About 10 years after the end of the Second World War Stephen Geneja got the idea of putting his experiences and the story of HMCS Uganda on paper. Many years, much painstaking research and almost $50,000 later, The Cruiser Uganda, One War – Many Conflicts was published in 1994.

The 297-page hardcover discusses the seafaring his-tory of the Uganda in exhaustive detail.

“Canada is sort of an unknown when it comes to naval history,” Geneja explains. “You hear about the Ameri-cans a lot but not a tremendous amount about Canadi-ans. I wasn’t interested in fabricating nonsense, there’s millions of books about that.”

To that end Geneja and his wife Sandy spent count-less hours researching records on the ship at the Royal Canadian Naval History Office in Ottawa, the National Archives of Canada and the Imperial War Museum in London.

Material was also obtained from the German Archives and a rare document on the Fritz-X bomb was translated into English by a Fredericton, N.B. university professor.

A casual military enthusiast may find the intricate de-tails on the ship’s history overwhelming, but a real historian or someone with a connection to the ship would treasure the minute details. And much of the general history of the Royal Cana-dian Navy’s role in the Second World War is extremely enlightening, as are Geneja’s recollec-tions of life at sea. His descriptions of the Canadian government’s role in the return of the ship to Canada are captivating.

To his credit, despite his own wishes to remain in the Pacific Theatre, Geneja effectively states the case for those men who wished to return home before the end of hostilities.

A war ship may only be a vessel constructed of sheet metal and nuts and bolts, but as one reads The Cruiser Uganda they can’t help but feel the ship has taken on a life of its own. Its final sale to the Japanese as scrap after such a storied history seems an unkind blow, and the reader can’t help but sense the loss of a good and loyal friend, a feeling no doubt shared by Geneja and his crew mates.

The Cruiser Uganda: One War – Many Conflicts is available from Tyendinaga Publishers. Phone 613-478-6259.

One piece of HMCS Uganda to survive was the ship’s bell, which serves as a baptismal font in the Prot-estant Chapel at CFB Halifax. Rear Admiral W. M. Landymore (left) and Stephen Geneja (right) pose with the bell.

Liberal government won a narrow majority in the election. Preparations were made for the return of Uganda to Canada.

Geneja was among those who had volunteered to remain in the Pacific.

“I and others had joined for the duration of the hostilities,” he explains today. “We had two Canadian regiments incarcerated in Hong Kong [victims of Britain’s ill-fated defence of the island against the Japanese early in the Pacific War].

“It’s not that I support war. I don’t. But if your family is caught by a madman, what are you going to do? You protect, and that’s what I was doing. I had joined for the Polish people. But nothing had changed – death is death, fighting is fighting, rape is rape.”

On July 27 Uganda left the British Pacific Fleet and on August 4 it arrived at Pearl Harbour. Two days later, on the morning of August 6, the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. On August 9 a second bomb was dropped over Nagasaki. The next day Uganda arrived home in Esquimalt, B.C.

Soon after the war Uganda was recommissioned HMCS Quebec. She served as a training ship and was used for NATO exercises. In June, 1956 she was taken out of service and sold to the Japanese as scrap.

After the war Geneja worked as a Land Regis-trar for the County of Hastings. He has survived a small plane crash, a battle with colon cancer and a series of heart attacks. In 1996 he received a new heart and is currently the oldest, longest living heart transplant recipient in Canada. He and his wife Sandy now live in Tweed and have been very active in fundraising and raising awareness for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and organ transplants.

A reunion of the crew of HMCS Uganda has been staged every two years for the past 35 years and in 2002 Stephen and Sandy hosted the event in Kingston. Geneja also wrote a book about the Uganda (see sidebar) and edited a newsletter for former crew in the 1990s.

The Uganda may be gone but the ties that bind endure. •

Every two years for the past 35 years survivors of the HMCS Uganda crew have gathered somewhere in Canada for a reunion. Stephen Geneja is on the far left in this photo. With the crew aging, organizing the reunion has now fallen on the shoulders of crew from the HMCS Quebec.

By John HopkinsPhotos courtesy Dan McCaw


E very Labour Day Weekend for the past nine years the community of Coe Hill has been invaded by around 50 mili-tary vehicles.

They come from all over Ontario and Que-bec to participate in Warrior’s Day @ Coe Hill, a celebration of the wide range of military ve-hicles that have been used by our armed forces.

The age and variety of the vehicles is exten-sive. The equipment on display dates back as far as World War II and includes examples from the Korean War and modern day conflicts. And all manner of vehicles are on hand, including tanks, personnel carriers and jeeps.

Warrior’s Day is the brainchild of Coe Hill resident Dan McCaw, a member of the Ontario Military Vehicle Association (OMVA).

“I was at a meeting one day and the president and some of them were complaining that they had these vehicles just sitting in a field and no-where to go,” McCaw recalls. “And I said, ‘Maybe I can help.’ A few years later I suggested a pa-rade and things took off from there.”

After a couple of on-and-off events, this year’s Warrior’s Day marks the ninth straight edition,

and McCaw says it is considered the biggest military vehicle show in Canada.

McCaw comes by his interest in military vehicles honestly. He says that the Coe Hill and Bancroft region had a rich supply of disused equipment in the 1950s that the government sold off.

“Where I grew up there were army trucks left, right and centre,” he explains. “I learned to drive on one. It was cheap, you could buy a new truck for $450 and they all had four-wheel drive, which was perfect for this area in the winter.”

McCaw says he has about six jeeps in his pos-session and while some of the vehicles at War-rior’s Day come from private owners like him-self, others are contributed by organizations like the Military Museum in Oshawa, which usually sends six or seven tractor trailer loads consist-ing of 15-20 vehicles.

The formal Warrior’s Day event runs two days, with most activities taking place at the Coe Hill Fairgrounds. The vehicles move in on Saturday morning and the grounds are open to the public for most of the day. Enthusiasts have access to the fair grounds again on Sunday morning. Fol-lowing an early afternoon church service the pa-rade sets off, with a memorial service to follow.

The event is free and McCaw says visitors start flowing into the fair grounds Saturday morning and can still be seen looking over the vehicles on Labour Day Monday.

Putting on the Warrior’s Day event is a mam-moth undertaking and an expensive one as well. McCaw estimates the venture costs about $21,000 and he is unable to raise any govern-ment funding.

“We don’t fit into any category for funding,” he says. “We’re not a show or a festival, more of a memorial. So we raise money any way we can. We have some pretty good sponsors and we raise a lot from small businesses in Bancroft, Coe Hill and Apsley.”

The event isn’t strictly limited to ground trans-port -- last year a P-51 Mustang did a fly past – and the event is as much a tribute to Canada’s current military as the past.

“We want to honour our forefathers and those who are going over now,” McCaw explains. “Last year we had a good contingent of troops from Petawawa.”

This year’s event was scheduled to run from Sept. 5-7, meaning you probably missed it. But make plans to attend the 2010 event and see an unrivalled display of equipment paying tribute to Canada’s military history. •For more information you can contact McCaw at (613) 337-5705 or visit www.omva.ca.

Coe Hill invasionMilitary vehicles descend for Labour Day event

A World War Two era troop carrier makes its way through Coe Hill in last year’s Warrior’s Day parade. Standing in the front is Ivan Gunter, a native of Coe Hill who served with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (the Hasty Ps) and was part of the Allied invasion of Sicily, near Pachino, on July 10, 1943. He was awarded the Military Medal.

Warrior’s Day founder Dan McCaw and one of his jeeps. McCaw says military vehicles were in plentiful supply in the area in the 1950s. The price was right and they were well suited to the region.

“Where I grew up there were army trucks left,

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Friday, October 16th, 2009 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, Trenton

For Tickets or Information

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A casual evening celebrating the “tastes” of Quinte; linger and enjoy

the culinary delights, local wineries, live jazz and exhibits by regional artists.

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Before the cool winds of November blow, there’s a remembrance event at CFB Trenton that honours those who served in Canada’s air forces and acknowl-edges a powerfully supportive financial program for the National Air Force Museum of Canada that is housed on the base.

The Ad Astra Stone Dedication Ceremony at the RCAF Memorial Airpark is an annual service held to recognize all of the installed Ad Astra stones that line the walkways in the Air Park. They now number over 9,000 and have resulted in a large amount of direct and indirect revenue…

The ceremony is held in collaboration with the Air Force Association of Canada, and 8 Wing, CFB Trenton and includes an aircraft fly past as well as music by the 8 Wing Concert Band and the 8 Wing Pipes and Drums Band. Representatives from many air force associations are typically present as well as members of air cadet squadrons and the public. Relatives, friends and members of the public are always welcome and more than 2,000 people were in attendance in 2008.

For 2009, the event on September 26 also involves a fundraising barbeque before the ceremony in sup-port of the RCAF Memorial Foundation.

The Ad Astra program was introduced in 1996 after being proposed to the then RCAF Museum board of directors by members of 418 Wing of the RCAF Association in Belleville. Individual stones are made of granite and measure 6 inches by 10 inches. All bear the engraved inscription “Ad As-tra”, the Air Force Roundel, and the name, home-town, province and years of birth and death (now or later) of the person honoured. “Ad Astra” is taken from the Air Force motto “Per Ardua ad As-tra” – “through adversity to the stars”, sometimes translated as “through struggle to the stars”. No matter which, the motto has been in use since 1912 when it was coined for the Royal Flying Corps in Britain and was adopted by the RCAF when it was formed in 1924.

It would be almost impossible to overlook the significance of that part of the name for the Ad Astra Stones. But why stones?

The answer comes from Cy Yarnell, affectionately known in museum circles as “that little Irish Spitfire pilot”, a founder of the Ad Astra program after win-ning approval for 418 Wing’s proposal. In remarks at an exhibit opening at the museum in July of this year, he related how the death of Canada’s most successful air ace of World War Two ties in with the choice of name.

George “Buzz” Beurling, known as the Falcon of Malta for his success there while an RAF pilot, had been heading to Israel in 1948 to join its air force but was killed in a plane crash in Rome and buried in the Verano cemetery.

Two years later, Israel claimed his body and re-buried him in its military cemetery in Haifa. Yarnell told of those in attendance placing small stones on Beurling’s grave in accordance with a Jewish tradi-tion that “a graveside flower will fade and die, but a stone never.”

“That, then, is the reason that those little gran-ite blocks in our Air Park are called ‘stones’, out of

lasting respect for all those whom they represent,” Yarnell explained.

Beurling has a stone in his memory in the Air Park.Yarnell said the Ad Astra program “is designed to

provide a simple process whereby anyone associated with our Air Force can participate personally, practi-cally and emotionally in the dignified atmosphere of 8 Wing’s famous airfield where operational aircraft fly overhead every day in noisy but respectful salute to this museum and those it remembers.”

He noted the program could not have been ac-complished without the dedication of Roy Skillicorn’s Ad Astra group volunteers, affectionately known as the “Stone Masons”, who designed, organized and have operated the program since its inception.

Skillicorn, also a member of 418 Wing and with the program since its inception, is currently the head of the Ad Astra program. •Anyone who wishes more information can go to the museum web site, airforcemuseum.ca.

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Cy Yarnell served as Master of Cermonies at the 2008 Ad Astra Stone Dedication Ceremony.

HITS 50! Quinte Symphony


This year marks an auspicious occasion in the Quinte Region – that of the 50th anniversary of the Quinte Symphony. With a line up of

concerts featuring celebrated local and national musicians, the 2009-2010 season promises to be Quinte Symphony’s best ever.

Originally known as the Eastern Ontario Concert Orchestra (EOCO), the organization was created in 1960 under the direction of musician and violinist Stephen Choma, then the Paymaster for Bata Shoes. It was he who approached Thomas Bata with the idea of creating a local orchestra, and with Bata’s support, calls for auditions were made.

“It looks as though we may be getting back to participation in music, a thing somewhat neglected in recent years in favor of merely listening,” boasted a newspaper clipping from that time. “We hope the new group is formed and succeeds. It will be a real step forward in the cultural life of this area.”

According to Choma, “The orchestra was founded for the following reasons: to give youngsters who are studying instruments an opportunity to perform on their instruments; for those who have studied and just had instruments hidden away in the at-tic and to assist the communities in their cultural development.”

With approximately 40 volunteer musicians, re-hearsals began in January of 1961 at the Batawa Recreation Hall; members travelled from as far afield as Peterborough.

Among those musicians were husband and wife William (Bill) and Ioline Grant, and their daughter, Heather. Bill played in the first violin section, Ioline played the piano, and Heather, who was 14 at the time, played the French horn. Heather (now Fer-

“She was here for the silver anniversary and now I’m here for the gold,” says Ferguson.

Only one other charter member is still with the orchestra today: Marion Stratton, Concertmaster from day one.

“Everybody came out for the joy of playing,” says Stratton. “It’s great but you know it’s just my work. The Quinte Symphony happens to be one of the things I participate in, giving back to the community.”

Many years ago, Marion Stratton was the violin teacher for a young boy named Kerry Stratton (no relation) who at one time played with the EOCO. In April 1976, after the untimely death of Choma, it was Kerry Stratton, then a univer-sity student, who stepped in as conductor to ensure the completion of the concert season. Stratton put his studies on hold until a perma-

nent conductor could be found.

“Music making in smaller centres is the backbone of our or-chestral culture,” says Stratton, who contin-ues to conduct orches-tras throughout North America, Europe and Asia. “My earliest ex-periences of an or-chestra were as a boy in the audience of the Quinte Symphony and later as a member of the orchestra (The Eastern Ontario Con-cert Orchestra). Every piece they played was my favourite and the annual concert at BCI auditorium was always

over far too quickly to suit me. I can tell you that I actually dreamed of conducting it in those days and I got my wish. I can only express my inad-

Organization continues to spread joy of music

guson) has played with the orchestra ever since. In fact, she is currently President of the Quinte Sym-phony, a position her mother held – twice! Both

mother and daughter have been instrumental in the organization of milestone anniversaries with the symphony.

Three of the orchestra’s conductors include Kerry Stratton (l), Gordon Craig (c) and Bruce McGregor (r). Maestro Gordon Craig, this year celebrating 20 years with the orchestra, will perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major in the opening perfor-mance of the Quinte Symphony’s 50th anniversary season.

In 1974, Stephen Choma was presented to Her Maj-esty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in recogni-tion of his musical achievements.

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equate gratitude and affection to those wonderful musicians of my youth.”

Following Stratton’s departure in 1977 a number of conductors took centre stage with the EOCO including Bruce McGregor, Clifford Crawley, James Coles, Dezso Vaghy and in 1990, Gordon Craig, who this year celebrates his 20th season with the orchestra.

“I took over and what I wanted to do was turn it into a very viable classical orchestra with ex-cellent soloists, and over the last 20 years, that’s what’s happened,” says Craig.

Throughout the orchestra’s history the number of musicians has hovered around 40, however, membership has become more Quinte-based. And so it was with the celebration of the 40th an-niversary, the Eastern Ontario Concert Orchestra was renamed the Quinte Symphony.

Education and community outreach continue to play an important role in the orchestra’s mis-sion. Through a number of programs, scholar-ships and awards, the Quinte Symphony contin-ues to encourage and educate young musicians throughout the Quinte region.

“I think what impresses me most is the dedi-cation of the musicians who, by and large, are volunteers. The players commit very strongly to

Heather Ferguson (l) and Marion Stratton (r) are char-ter members of the Quinte Symphony; both have played with the orchestra for 50 years.

Five of the original orchestra members, from left to right: Stephen Choma, William Grant, Ioline Grant, Joachim Reimann and Marion Stratton.

providing a very high quality of music,” says Craig, adding the Board of Directors, all of whom are volunteers, is equally as committed.

The Quinte Symphony’s 50th anniversary sea-son will commence on October 3 with the “Savour Your Symphony Gala” at Dinkel’s Restaurant in downtown Belleville. In honour of Craig’s 20th anniversary, the first concert will feature Mae-stro Craig performing one of the most difficult clarinet concertos ever written: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major.

“It’s interesting; one of the very first things I did when I took over, I think to prove to the musicians and the audience I can do more than just wave, was a clarinet concerto for the first or second concert I was here,” says Maestro Craig.

Referring to the challenging piece he will per-form on October 18, Craig says delightedly, “It’ll be fun!”

The Quinte Symphony will perform a total of five concerts throughout its 50th anniversary season; four Masterworks concerts and the ever-popular Pops Concert, all in their home, the acoustically sound Bridge Street United Church.

Sonja Bata, O.C., wife of the late Thomas Bata, will act as the Quinte Symphony’s Honorary Patron throughout the season.

As for Marion Stratton and Heather Ferguson, neither, as yet, have any plans to retire.

“As long as I have my health and I’m able to play, I will continue to play,” says Stratton. •

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What’s less well known is that Moodie and members of her family were also dedi-cated ‘spiritualists’, who for a period of time conducted séances for prominent

families in their adopted home of Belleville.Indeed, with its vivid history and wealth of old

and significant buildings, Hastings County and the surrounding area is a veritable hotbed for those with an interest in ghosts and hauntings.

It was this history that drew 39-year-old Johna-thon Boyd back to Belleville in 2008 after 15 years traveling around Ontario. He’s now heavily in-volved in researching the paranormal as well as introducing others to Belleville’s ghostly past. He conducts walking tours on Saturday nights through most of the fall and also hosts a Wednes-day night radio show on Loyalist College radio station CJLX (91.3 FM).

“There is so much history here and so much evidence of hauntings in the area,” he says.

Boyd is well versed in the background of the Moodie family and the ongoing presence of her spirit in her former residence.

Moodie and her family moved to Belleville in 1840 after her husband John was appointed sher-iff of Hastings County. He would also serve as mayor of Belleville.

“She turned to spiritualism when her son, John Jr., drowned in the Moira River,” Boyd explains. “She wanted to see if she could contact him. She performed séances and a lot of prominent peo-ple in the community at that time were involved, like the Corby family; she performed séances for them.”

The Moodies wrote extensively about their work in spiritualism and reportedly did make contact with their dead son.

Moodie’s spirit appears to have lived on since her death in 1885, and she is said to still ‘visit’ her cottage on Bridge Street West in Belleville, which is designated as a national historic site.

“I’ve talked to the current owner [of the house],” Boyd says. “Apparently twice a year Susanna’s spirit comes back to the house, just to check up on things, I think. She appears as a spirit figure, dressed in period clothing. She is very benign.

People report a feeling of being watched when they are in the parlour.”

One of Belleville’s most prominent historical sites, Glanmore House, is also perhaps its most haunted, according to Boyd.

The house was built in 1883 for wealthy banker John Curran Phillips and his wife Harriet Douglas Phillips. One of the city’s finest homes it was des-ignated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1969. Four generations of the Phillips family lived in the house before it was sold to the City of Belleville and the County of Hastings by Philippa Faulkner in 1971.

According to Boyd there are three prominent spirits that inhabit the house – the ghost of Hat-tie (Harriet) Phillips, that of a British soldier from the Boer War and the spirit of a little boy. The hauntings apparently got so bad that in the 1960s Philippa Faulkner brought in a priest to ‘bless’ the house.

There are many other examples of haunted Bel-leville spots, and more seem to be coming into

circulation. Boyd actually conducts three separate ghost walks in Belleville, one covering the eastern part of the city, another takes in the central area and the third covers western Belleville.

Boyd isn’t the only one who is noticing an in-creasing interested in haunted houses. In 2008 the Quinte Paranormal Research Society (QPRS) was founded and one of its members, Patrick McDon-ald, says interest in their work is growing.

“Even the media seems to be getting wind of it,” McDonald says. “Now you can find three or four channels on TV that are dedicated to the para-normal.”

McDonald describes Belleville as a “goldmine” for the QPRS. The group was founded by Josh Sim-mons and will investigate a building free of charge if someone requests their services.

“The first thing we have to do is determine if the place is haunted,” McDonald explains. “We try to come up with a logical explanation for what’s go-ing on. For example, you could have a closet door where the latch is not closing properly. Sometimes with lights you can have faulty wiring. But if we can’t find something like that, then maybe we have something.”

Although not technically located in Hastings County, Dorothy Turk of the village of Hastings, just across the border in Northumberland, has also been involved in ghost research in her area and has written a book about her experiences, Surrounded By Spirits. Turk moved to Hastings in 1997. She had experienced strange occurrences in her previous home, and was confronted by her first haunting in Hastings in 2000.

“I had heard a knock on the door, and when I went to check who it was, nobody was there,” she recalls. “Then I had the door slam in my face.

“I’ve been told the house was built in 1950 and we were the second owners. Neighbours told us there were at least two deaths in the house.”

The hauntings became more frequent after Turk’s husband Miles died in their home in 2002. Some of the occurrences were quite mild – at the men-tion of his name a clock in their living room that hadn’t worked would start chiming. Some events were more alarming, however. On one occasion

THE OTHERSHastings area a hotbed for hauntings

By John Hopkins

Susanna Moodie is recognized as one of Ontario’s most famous authors, the writer of such significant works as Roughing It In The Bush, which

detailed pioneer life in the 1850s.

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she was cooking breakfast when two plates from her dish tray were mysteriously flung at her feet.

“More things happen when certain people are there [at the house],” she says. “When I’m alone, things don’t happen like they happen when people are here. My son’s girlfriend won’t sleep here.”

Turk has taken her own experience and started investigating sites in her area.

“I thought, ‘if there is so much activity in my house, why wouldn’t there be more in other plac-es’,” she explains. “I’m not a ‘ghostbuster.’ I don’t use a Ouija Board and I don’t do meditation. I just take pictures of what’s there. You can look at my pictures and take what you want from them.

“I don’t think I’m an imaginative person. I try to rationalize everything but sometimes you just can’t.”

One of the most intriguing of the potential haunt-ings in Hastings concerns the Baptiste Lake Inn, or Grant’s Inn, in the Bancroft area. Unfortunately the structure was torn down in 2003, but the spot had a rich history in the Hastings Highlands.

The Inn was built in the early 1900s and was apparently constructed to serve as a boarding house for loggers who worked in the two saw mills located on Baptiste Lake. In 1914 it was sold to Hiram Grant, a local farmer, and he and his wife Elizabeth ran a general store there. One of the Grants’ daughters, Mabel, took over the run-

ning of the facility (which also served as a railway station and post office in its existence) after her parents died and kept it in operation until her own death, in 1982. The building lay dormant for a few years before Bruce and Roberta Mont-gomery purchased it and turned it into a small inn. The Montgomerys are credited for returning the historic spot to its former glory.

There are stories of guests of the inn experienc-ing hauntings. The most common of these involved the ghost of Mabel. Bancroft resident Jody Didier is among those to have had a brush with the famous Grant daughter.

“I was helping Roberta clean the place one day and I felt a touch on my hand,” she says. “I turned around and there was nothing there. I asked who it was and a voice said, ‘May,’ or ‘Ma-

bel.’ There was definitely something inexplicable going on there.”

It’s been over 150 years since Susanna and John Moodie and their Belleville acquaintances delved into the spirit world. Perhaps they knew much more than we realize… •• For more information on Johnathon Boyd and his

ghost tours of Belleville visit www.shadowicc.com or call (613) 968-2792.

• For more information on the Quinte Paranormal Research Society go to www.qprs.ca.

• Dorothy Turk can be contacted at [email protected] or through her

website, www.trenthillsghostseekers.com.• For more on Ontario Ghosts visit www.OntarioGhosts.org.

Do you see two faces in the left window in this shot taken from outside Glanmore House? Notice that the shutters behind the glass are closed.

Dorothy Turk was surprised one night to find this pro-file of a young girl in her TV set.

Located not far from her Hastings home, this aban-doned church has been a rich source of experiences for Dorothy Turk and her group of investigators.

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Fall vegetables are about celebration of the hard work in the garden and fields in spring and summer. One can sit back and enjoy, but in the back of one’s mind is the need

to stock up for the short days and cold nights ahead.Fall vegetables are bright and bold in colour compared to those of early summer. Think of

the soft pink of new shoots of rhubarb, pale green snow peas, and the light orange of young carrots. Compare these with the bright red, yellow, pink, and purple of tomatoes, the brilliant

green of peppers, the orange, yellow and green strips of pumpkins and squash.In the following pages we profile just a few of the farms scattered throughout Hastings County

that specialize in fall vegetables and each one has contributed a favourite recipe so that you can make the most of the produce at your fingertips in the coming months.

Experiment and enjoy – you won’t be disappointed.14 I Country Roads • Fall 2009


autumn goodness

Fall vegetables (and one fruit!) provide endless optionsStory and photos by Louise Livingstone



Ellenberger FarmHenry and Janet Ellen-berger moved to the ridge south of Coe Hill several years ago from a farm near Stirling, as they were unable to grow potatoes there organically.

The ridge where they live runs south from Coe Hill, high about the surrounding forests and wetland. The sands and gravels

were laid down by glaciers, and the well-drained sandy soil that has developed is very good for growing root vegetables.

Henry and Janet are members of the award-winning Quinte Organic Farmers Inc., a group of certified organic farmers who take produce and meat to farmers’ markets in Toronto.

The Ellenbergers don’t just grow potatoes for eating; they are certified by the federal gov-ernment as growers of organic seed potatoes. They get their tiny seed potatoes, called nucs, from New Liskard or Alberta and grow them through several years before they sell them as seed potatoes.

As they don’t use herbicides, they cultivate the soil well to kill weeds like quack grass. They plant in late June, and once the potatoes are in the warm ground they grow quickly. “They take off much faster than if planted in cool ground,” says Henry.

The Ellenbergers are farming more and more with horses. In winter, Henry prefers using the horses over starting a cold tractor to clear a path through the snow and take hay to the cows.

Henry and Janet have a herd of Red Poll cattle and have recently acquired several Canadienne cows, a breed that goes back to the cattle brought from Normandy by French settlers to Quebec. Ja-net milks the cows and makes farmhouse cheese for her family and friends. They feed culled po-tatoes to the cows and to their Tamworth sow and her piglets.

Janet uses their potatoes, their own bacon, and sour cream to make her delicious but simple Potato and Bacon Soup.

Potato and Bacon Soup

Four slices of baconSix sliced onionsThree large potatoesOne quart of chicken stockOne cup of sour cream

Saute’ the bacon until crisp; remove and add sliced onions, cook until soft, add diced pota-toes and stir; add chicken stock, salt and pep-per to taste. Cook until potatoes are soft. Put into blender, return to saucepan. Stir in one cup of sour cream (do not boil). Note: bacon can be put into blender along with other in-gredients or crumbled and sprinkled on top of soup. *I often add fresh herbs too.

Kerby HollowMike and Colleen Ker-by live on the family farm, Kerby Hollow, near West Huntingdon in Centre Hastings.

The Kerbys started growing pumpkins in the late ‘80s as a hob-by, after they had the farm pond dug out and they saw the fertile soil on the banks. By 1991 they had a four-acre

field of pumpkins for Hallowe’en and one acre of pie pumpkins, squash and pepper squash.

Initially they did all the planting by hand, but now their neighbour plants the seeds for them using a corn planter. They don’t use any sprays on the pie pumpkins.

They also grow a variety of squash, some for eating and some as ornaments.

“When you have a farm you want to see it pro-duce something,” says Mike.

“Our first love is farming, but we both have full-time jobs,” adds Colleen. “If one could sell pumpkins year round, it would be our job.”

Growing pumpkins is a good niche for a small farmer to be in. The Kerbys sell their pumpkins to the local grocery stores, at the Madoc Farmers’ Market and from the roadside.

At the end of September they have a family day, and they harvest the pumpkins and store around 1,700 of the best in the old barn. They renovated the barn for Colleen’s birthday this year and it can now accommodate activities like corn roasts, art shows, family gatherings and meetings.

Mike is a councillor with the Municipality of Centre Hastings and both he and Colleen are ac-tive in their community. They let youth groups use the pumpkins for fundraising.

“This is a win-win situation,” says Colleen, “as it is educational and gives young people an op-portunity to come to the farm.”

Colleen’s recipes include a classic pumpkin pie, their son Matt’s favourite. She uses fresh farm eggs from their own chickens. Another recipe is for beef stew cooked in a pumpkin, which makes an impressive showpiece for a large family gath-ering such as Thanksgiving.

Colleen suggests using the smaller pie pump-kins for making pies, as the texture is different and they are much less watery.

Colleen Kerby’s Foolproof Pumpkin Pie (Matt’s Favourite)

Three farm fresh eggsTwo cups of pumpkin puree (see preserving pumpkins)1/2 cup brown sugarPinch of salt¼ tsp nutmeg1 tsp ginger½ tsp allspice¼ tsp cardommon½ cup heavy creamOne 9’ unbaked pie shell

Pre heat the oven to 375 F, whisk the eggs with the sugar and add the other ingredi-ents. Pour mixture into pie shell and cook in the middle of the oven for 40- 45 minutes until just set in the middle. Cool and prefer-ably chill before serving with whipped cream. Serves 8.

Preserving Pumpkins

Cut a pie pumpkin in half and remove the seeds. Place on a large lightly greased cookie sheet and bake in 375 ° oven. Test with a fork to see if you can puncture the skin. Remove from oven and let cool. Then scoop out the flesh with a spoon and puree it with a potato masher. Put two cups per bag and freeze.

Stratton’s FarmMichael and Sally

Wright, originally from England, emigrated to Quebec in April 2004. They spent four and a half years on a 12-acre hobby farm learning how to live from the land, not only grow-ing all their own veg-etables but also raising meat chickens, turkeys and laying hens using

ecological farming methods. (Ecological farm-ing methods strive to maintain and enhance the health of the soil, water, crops, livestock and the diversity of the environment.)

In 2006, Michael and Sally realized they not only wanted a sustainable lifestyle for themselves but

The Ellenbergers are making increasing use of hors-es and find them particularly helpful in winter.

Harvesting pumpkins has become a family affair for the Kerbys, who store 1,700 of the best in their old barn.



also wanted to share it with others. They moved to Stratton’s Farm in Stirling-Rawdon in Octo-ber 2008.

They have had a busy year establishing a two-acre market garden on what was a hay field, while building a greenhouse, pens for their pastured poultry and renovating their bank barn, which will soon hold their heritage sheep and pigs. They have introduced two beehives to help with polli-nation of the garden, and they hope to have their first honey this fall.

Michael and Sally use companion planting tech-niques, like planting horseradish near potatoes (to discourage Colorado beetle) and eggplants by bush beans.

As well as eating their vegetables themselves, they take vegetables and their all-natural seasonal jams to the Stirling Farmers’ Market on Saturdays and are open daily at the farm gate.

They are experimenting with growing in their greenhouse and with ways of preserving their harvest so they can extend the season and feed themselves and others through the winter.

Sally works with Stott Pilates as an educator, training instructors internationally. She promotes exercise and healthy eating.

Michael and Sally have a favourite recipe for a substantial soup that uses a mixture of dried herbs, onions, celery, carrots, bell peppers, to-matoes and green cabbage. They call it Stratton’s Market Soup. Follow their instructions carefully to get the right balance of flavours.

Stratton’s Market Soup

SEASONING MIX2 tbsp sugar2 tbsp onion salt.2 tsp dried basil (or rosemary)2 tsp cayenne2 tsp garlic powder1½ tsp ground coriander1¼ tsp dried oregano1¼ tsp black pepper1 tsp dried thyme leaves½ tsp white pepper

INGREDIENTS

3 tbsp unsalted butter3 cups chopped onions1 cup chopped celery1 cup chopped carrots1½ cup seeded and chopped bell peppers1 lb ground beef (even ground pork works well)

1¼ tsp minced fresh garlic¼ cup all-purpose flour7 cups beef or veggie stock, in all1 litre of preserved or fresh tomatoes7 cups cored green cabbage cut into 1-inch pieces (about 1 medium size head)One small can of tomato puree (approx. 6 fl. oz.)

Combine the seasoning mix ingredients in a small bowl.

In a heavy 5-quart pot melt the butter over high heat, until it sizzles, about 2–3 minutes. Add the onions, celery, bell peppers and two tablespoons of seasoning mix. Cook, stirring every 2 to 3 minutes until the vegetables be-gin to brown and have lost their colour, about 10-12 minutes.

Push the vegetables to one side – so the meat can brown by being in contact with the pot bottom – then add the ground meat, gar-lic and the remaining seasoning mix. Cook ap-proximately 5 minutes until meat has browned and stir meat and vegetables. Stir in the flour. The meat will be a little pasty but should ab-sorb all the flour – if not, add a little stock – and the flour will form a crust on the pot bot-tom. Continue to stir and scrape until the crust sticks hard, almost faster than you can scrape, then add the diced tomatoes, cabbage and one cup of the stock. Scrape the bottom again, loosening all the brown bits. Cook, stir-ring almost constantly, for five minutes, then add the tomato puree. Stir and scrape the pot bottom well, then cover and cook for 10 min-utes, stirring every three to four minutes. Stir in five cups of the stock.

Cook for four minutes and then stir in the remaining stock. Bring just to a boil, reduce the heat to low, and simmer for 20 minutes. Serve hot.

Serve with a good slice of corn bread and some red pepper jelly. The sweetness of the jelly works really well with the soup.

Grills OrchardsDiana and Randy

McPherson bought Grills Orchards 10 years ago and original-ly packed apples for lo-cal grocery stores but now they sell direct-ly to customers from their farm store.

Sidney Ward, in what is now the City of Quinte West, was one of the first apple growing areas in On-

tario. The United Empire Loyalists planted ap-ple orchards and at one time every farm had an apple orchard and apple trees planted along the hedgerows.

Diana knows a lot about growing apples and thinks it is very important to keep all of the 12 popular Ontario varieties. She either grows or brings in from other local orchards. They are ex-panding their orchards so that when some of the

older apple growers retire they will have a good supply of their own apples.

Apple Cobbler

(from Helen Harry in The Hastings County Plowing Match Cookbook)4 cups of thinly sliced apples (try Northern Spy)½ cup of sugar½ tsp cinnamon½ cup coarsely chopped walnuts1 egg½ cup light cream1/3 cup butter, melted½ tsp vanilla1 cup sifted flour1 cup sugar1 tsp baking powder¼ tsp salt

Butter a 1½ quart casserole. Put apples in casserole. Combine ½ cup of sugar, ½ tsp of cinnamon and ½ cup walnuts. Sprinkle mix-ture over apples.

Beat egg, cream, melted butter and vanilla very well with a fork. Sift flour, 1 cup of sugar, baking powder and salt together into mixture and stir till smooth. Pour over apples. Sprinkle with ½ cup of nuts.

Bake at 325F for 50 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in centre.

Serves 6 to 8.One can use honey or maple syrup instead

of sugar and adapt quantities to taste.

Moorcroft FarmNine years ago,

when Rodney Moor-croft first planted an acre of strawberries and vegetables at the corners of their farm by Highway #62 at Foxboro, his wife Linda said, “You are nuts.” They had been growing sweet corn for many years, and Rodney thought it

would be a good way to teach their children about dollars and cents and money manage-ment. The strawberry and vegetable patch has grown to nine acres.

The Wrights use companion planting techniques on their farm, are experimenting with growing in their greenhouse and are looking at ways of extending their season.

Diana and Randy McPherson sell their apples directly to cus-tomers from their farm store.



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One of the things Rodney likes about having a market garden is meeting people. When he was a dairy farmer he was more isolated. He thinks peo-ple are losing touch with where their food comes from, so he doesn’t mind if kids eat strawberries as they pick.

The Moorcrofts use an honour system with their vegetables. Each row is marked with the price; you pick your own and leave the money in the slot.

In the winter months Rodney has gone to Ugan-da, Haiti and the Philippines. In Uganda he was surprised that, despite many feet of beautiful topsoil and good growing conditions, the peasant farmers were not growing much food for their families.

The Moorcrofts do not produce a surplus at the end of the summer, as their customers take most of the harvest. Rod does, however, like to freeze sweet corn each year.

While Rodney works in his own fields, or builds houses further afield in the winter, Linda, a teacher, encourages her young students to bring healthy snacks of fresh vegetables and dips, plants seeds with them in the spring for Mother’s Day, talks with them about what happens under the ground or makes Stone Soup with them at Thanksgiving (carefully boiling the stone the night before).

Roasted Green Beans

1 lb. fresh green beans1 red pepper cut in thin strips1 yellow pepper cut in thin strips1 large onion cut in thin strips½ cup balsamic vinegarette dressing½ cup part skim shredded mozzarella cheese

Preheat oven to 400°F. Toss veggies with dressing in a large roasting pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until the veggies are tender. Stir af-ter 15 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese and bake for additional 2-3 minutes or until the cheese is melted.

Makes 8 servings of approximately ¾ cup each.

To switch up flavour try a zesty Italian dress-ing.

These farms and recipes are just a small sam-pling of what Hastings County has to offer. You may want to take in Savour, an evening of local food and drink, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Trenton on the evening of Friday, Oct. 16.

And you can always check www.harvesthastings.ca for more information on these and other local farms or call (613) 395-4388 to order a Harvest Hastings book. •

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The Moorcrofts don’t have much of their produce left over at the end of the summer – most goes to customers!



• cross roads •

Coe Hill man puts new twist on sled Here comes the milkman!

If you live in Belleville or Trenton you can honestly say, “Here comes the milkman.”

The father and son team of Paul and Scott Cooney are the real deal. Every week since 1985 Paul has been providing home delivery of Reid’s Dairy prod-ucts through his company Paul Cooney Dairy De-livery.

From a young age son Scott rode alongside his father and over 10 years ago joined him full time on the milk route. Every week they visit over 250 homes, 35 schools and other destinations.

All the produce is the freshest available that day from the Reid’s Dairy plant on Bell Boulevard in Belleville. And these guys deliver more than milk – there’s juice, cheese, eggs, bread, butter and yogurt delivered from their “store on wheels,” as Scott calls it.

So why in this day and age would someone want home delivery of milk and other products? Well, the reasons are many – convenience, reliability, freshness, and perhaps a bit of nostalgia. Paul’s been delivering to some of the same customers for the 35 years he’s been distributing Reid’s prod-ucts and in many cases he’s visiting third genera-tion customers.

It’s this personal side of the business that’s most rewarding for the Cooneys. Paul recalls the time he helped a senior out of the tub after a fall, or routinely twisting the lids off hard to open juice bottles. There are times when they know a cus-tomer, in most cases a senior, should be home and if they aren’t they make it their business to check with someone nearby. And there have been many funerals attended for long time customers.

According to Reid’s Dairy president Stephen Quickert, the company has been peddling milk door to door since 1910 and they’re, “ecstatic to be able to say the service is still offered.

“We do get requests,” he says, “and the business has grown so much in the public school system.” But he’s quick to point out that it’s more than just a product delivery. According to Quickert, “they [Paul and Scott] actually still deliver litres of milk to people and in some cases Paul and Scott are the only people they see during the week.

Shawn Watling relaxes at Wollaston Lake, where he spent most of his childhood. His family still has roots in the area.

The Cooney family has been delivering milk door-to-door for almost 25 years. Paul (right) started the busi-ness and son Scott (left) joined him over 10 years ago.

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Coe Hill’s Shawn Watling says he was first pulled across Wollaston Lake behind a snowmobile when he was just seven weeks old, and he had his first ride on a sled when he was only nine months of age.

So perhaps it should come as no surprise that the 34-year-old has come up with an invention that could revolutionize the snowmobile industry.

Watling is the owner of RND Innovators and the in-ventor of RAD (Rear Axle Drive) Technology. Through Watling’s clever repackaging of the sled track snow-mobiles have the potential to corner better, stop more quickly and run more economically.

Watling’s design puts more of the track in contact with the ground, and closer to the centre of gravity, meaning the sled works more efficiently.

Watling had a number of influences for his design, chief among them being his work in the printing industry. He has been involved in designing drive systems with his family’s printing business, A&B Watling, in Brampton.

“In something as basic as a gravel conveyor the drive motor is at the leading end and is pulling on the load,” he explains. “But on a conventional sled you’re trying to push. So I thought there must be a way to change that so you have the drive up front.”

Watling also called on some of his experience and influences in the drag racing industry. Understanding the physics of a dragster launching off the startline and the way a motorcycle’s swingarm works to op-timize handling went into his creation of the RAD system. It also uses a rear suspension system simi-

lar to that found on a motorcycle, with a swingarm adjusting the ride through the snow so the snow-mobile is always getting a smooth and efficient ride.

Although Watling was born in Toronto and now works in Brampton he considers Coe Hill home. His parents bought property there in 1969 and the fam-ily eventually moved there in the 70s, so he spent virtually all of his childhood in the area. His parents still live in Coe Hill and his sister and her husband run the Coe Hill Country Market.

Watling’s creation has started gaining him recog-nition. He has been featured on the nationally tele-vised snowmobile show SnowTrax and appeared on the program Daily Planet on the Discovery Channel last December.

His RAD technology has also caught the attention of the bigger players in the snowmobile industry. Last March he was involved in an extensive test with Bombardier, the creators of the iconic Ski-doo brand, where his design excelled, especially in the area of fuel efficiency.

He is currently working on the latest evolution of his design for the coming winter, and taking his de-sign and building techniques up another notch. He is now using the latest in CAD computer design tech-nology and an automated manufacturing process.

“Ford, General Motors and Bombardier all use the same design technology,” he says. “The last three sleds I built myself, but now I’m going to use a more automated process.”

Rather than build a whole new snowmobile from the ground up, Watling is adapting two existing models, one from Bombardier and the other from Polaris, to incorporate his RAD technology.

The new design will feature a slightly modified swingarm and cleaner overall packaging.

If it sounds like this project has taken up a con-siderable amount of Watling’s time, well, it has. This September marks four years of work on the project.

“The last four years have revolved around this sled,” he admits. “Last year, from December to March I was testing all over.”

You will be able to see Watling’s design at the Toronto International Snowmobile, ATV and Pow-ersports Show at the International Centre (across the street from Pearson International Airport) from Oct. 16-18.

You can also check out his website, www.rndin-novators.com.

Watling’s design has attracted interest from key players in the snowmobile industry.



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lieve the service exists any longer.

“There may be some in Western Ontario,” says Scott. “At a party once a girl asked me what I did. I said, ‘I’m a milkman’ and she said, ‘Fine, don’t tell me what you do.’ I hope to retire a milkman.”

“It’s a nice way to make a living and the Quickerts have been so good to us over the years,” Paul adds. “So

we certainly appreciate the chance to have the busi-ness and they have always been helpful or kind.”

Anyone interested in contacting Paul Cooney Dairy Delivery can reach them at (613) 969-1700.

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The Country Roads office receives a lot of very interesting enquiries but Marmora resident Ro-salie Payer’s phone call was one we could never have anticipated.

A stained glass artist, Payer was inspired by the photograph of a kayaker going over the Old Mill Dam in the hamlet of Queensborough that adorned the Spring 2009 issue. Could she have the photographer’s permission to reproduce it in a stained glass version? We’re pretty sure our response went something like, “Wow, re-ally? That’s so cool.”

The thought that a great photograph that so beautifully graced the cover of our magazine was now going to have yet another life was exciting.

Payer had wanted to incorporate a local set-ting into her work and the kayaker set that in

motion. Photographer Ray Canton of Ottawa was agreeable and after nearly three days work the framed piece now hangs in the Artists in Motion store at 29 Forsythe Street in Marmora.

Payer has her sights set on tackling pieces depicting the Marmora Mine, sled dogs from the annual Sno-Fest and the Marmora dam, to name a few.

Payer’s been working with stained glass for over 20 years. She teaches and does commis-sioned works.

Stop into the Artists in Motion shop and you may find her kayaker, polar bear, eskimo and husky stained glass creations alongside the paint-ings, carvings, pottery and other art forms of many talented local artists.

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“The trust when you talk about the Cooneys – they walk into people’s houses, put milk in the fridge, take money off the counter. The Cooneys do a lot for a lot of people beyond just delivering the milk. And while it may initially cost more, re-member what it costs to get in your car and drive.”

The Cooneys run a true family business. Wife and mom Cheyanne is the friendly voice you reach at the end of the phone line as she keeps track (without the aid of a computer) of all the orders and deliveries.

The customers have their own way of making things interesting. Some hang a belt on the mail-box, or set out a teacup, others leave a cooler for delivery, and then there’s the simple ‘milk’ or ‘no milk’ sign in the window.

Cheyanne is pleased to be able to tell a new customer, “only my husband or son will be com-ing to the door.

“And I’ve always got a kick of the little ones. They watch Sesame Street and the way things were in the old days with the milkman and often you will hear them say, ‘look, just like on Sesame Street.’”

Once a common sight, milkmen are few and far between these days. The Cooneys were aware of delivery in Kingston 10 years ago but don’t be-

The Cooneys never used one of these, but delivery by horse drawn cart apparently con-tinued into the 1960s.

Eilean Tait of Artists in Motion shows off the stained glass creation of Rosalie Payer, modeled on the cov-er of the Spring 2009 issue of Country Roads.

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Art Gallery of Bancroft, 10 Flint Avenue, Bancroft, 613-332-1542 www.agb.weebly.com Sept. 2 - 27 - Works by Heimo C. Haikala” Sept. 30 - Nov 1 -Unnatural Places, Works by Tori

Drost Nov. 4 – 29 - ECOAA Juried Exhibition, In Memo-

ry of Paul David Cooke John M. Parrott Gallery, Belleville Public Library, 254 Pinnacle Street, Belleville 613-968-6731 www.bellevillelibrary.com Sept 3 - 24 - Six on the Go; A retrospective show-

ing of works by six doyennes of the local art scene in Gallery 1. A selection of paintings and pottery by Audrey Davies, selected from our permanent collection, shows in Gallery Two.

Oct 1 - 29 - Water, Water Everywhere; annual juried exhibition of works by members of the Bel-leville Art Association.

Nov 5 - Dec 3 - Evolving Traditions III sees the re-turn of the Quinte Fibre Artists to both Galleries.

Gallery 3 – Manly MacDonald; A rotating display of oil paintings by Manly MacDonald from our permanent collection.

Tweed and Area Heritage Centre Gallery, 40 Victoria St. N., Tweed 613 478 3989 Sept - Annual First Nation Art Show; work by AJ

Vandrie, Aric Aguonie, Cathy Sharbot, Doug Brant and Linda Brindle.

Oct - Abstract Art; Leslie King, Barb Chappell, Suzanne Cavers

Nov - War Memorial by Dutch Vermeer Dec - Art and Artisan Show and Sale

FALL STUDIO TOURS & ART SHOWS

Sept 10 - 12 - Art Walk: Downtown Belleville, 4-8 pm daily. Downtown businesses and galleries, along with over 25 local artists have combined to offer a unique self-guided art walk. www.rediscoverdown-town.ca

Sept 19, 20 - Apsley Autumn Studio Tour - Apsley Arena www.apsleystudiotour.com 705-656-2235 Sept 26, 27,

Oct 3, 4 - Bancroft and Area Autumn Studio Tour. Various Locations. www.bancroftstudiotour.org 613-332-4111

Oct 3, 4 - Madawaska Valley Studio Tour, Madawas-ka Valley, East of Algonquin Park www.madawaskastudiotour.com 613-757-2574

Oct 3, 4 – 12th Annual Tweed & Area Studio Tour – 10 am – 5 pm www.tweedstudiotour.org

Oct 3, 4, 10 & 11 - Haliburton Studio Tour, Halliburton County www.haliburtonstudiotour.on.ca 705-457-9110

Oct 16 - 17 - Arts Quinte West 2nd Annual Autumn Show and Sale. Fri 5 – 9 pm, Sat. 10 am – 4 pmKnights of Columbus Hall in Trenton. 613-392-7635. www.polodesign.ca/artsquintewest.

Nov 6 - 8, & 13 - 15 - Heart of Hastings Studio Tour, www.homespunhill.ca

Nov 28 - 29 - Showcase of the Arts, Marmora Town Hall, 12 Bursthall Street, Marmora, www.artistsinmotion.org

THEATRE/LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Bancroft Village Playhouse 613-332-5918 www.bancroftvillageplayhouse.ca Sept 12 – Community Care Variety Night featuring

Everything Fitz, Neon Blue, & others Sept 19 -York River Festival Sept 26 - Playhouse Annual Fundraising Gala fea-

turing Robert Pilon

Oct 21-24 -Random Acts; Bancroft Theatre Guild Oct 30 - Freddy Vette & The Flames

NOVEMBER THEATRE at the Bancroft Village Play-house, 613-338-3477 [email protected] www.bancroftvillageplayhouse.ca/novembertheatre Nov 19 - 22 & 26 - 29 –THE SNOW QUEEN; a

Canadian musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s 1845 Fairy Tale. A play by Jim Henry & Jacqueline Lopez & Music by Howard Baer

Belleville Theatre Guild 613-967-1442 www.bellevilletheatreguild.ca Oct 8 – 24 - Relatively Speaking - A comedy by

Alan Ayckbourn Nov 26 – Dec 12 - I Remember Mama - A drama

by John van Druten

The Empire Theatre, 321 Front Street, Belleville, 613-969-0099, www.theempiretheatre.com Sept 17 -Empire Anniversary Celebrations - John-

ny Reid Sept 18 - Empire Anniversary Celebrations - Oak

Ridge Boys Sept 19 - Empire Anniversary Celebrations - STYX Sept 25 - Legendary Ian Tyson “In Concert” Sept 28 - Great Big Sea Oct 16 - Doc Walker Oct 18 - Mel Tillis In Concert Oct 21 - Stuart McLean, The Vinyl Cafe Fall Tour

2009 Oct 23 - Art of Time Ensemble Concert Series -

Toronto Songbook Oct 27 - The Temptations, Temptations Sing 45

Year Anniversary Tour Oct 28 - Terri Clark Nov 5 - The Backyardigans: Sea Deep in Adven-

ture Nov 7 - ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE performs The

Who’s TOMMY, Live in Concert Nov 12 - Straight No Chaser Nov 15 - 6th Annual Home for the Holidays Nov 19 - The Legendary Downchild Blues Band’s

40th Anniversary Celebration with special guest Colin Linden

Quinte Symphony, concerts at Bridge Street United Church, Belleville. Tickets: Symphony Boutique, 217 Front St., Belleville or Bruinix Jewellers, 73-B Dundas St. W., Trenton. For info/tickets 613-962-0050 Oct 18, 2:30 pm - Celebrate the Maestro’s 20th

Year! ~ Gordon Craig, Conductor & Clarinet, Glen Fast, Guest Conductor, Sponsor: McDougall Insur-ance & Financial

Dec 6, 2:30 pm - Christmas Classics with The Hastings & Prince Edward Children’s Chorus. Sponsor: RBC Dominion Securities, Belleville Of-fice

The Regent Theatre, 224 Main St., Picton, Ontario, 613-476-8416, ext. 28 or 877-411-4761 www.theregenttheatre.org Sept 11, 8pm - Jukebox Hits Live!! with “Freddy

Vette & The Flames”!! The Ultimate 50’s Rock & Roll Show!

Oct 2, 8pm - Chicago Blues Revue featuring Melvin Taylor & Studebaker John. Tickets $26.50 Featuring Melvin Taylor and Studebaker John.

Oct 17, 8pm - Broadway Beauties - the best loved songs from the world of musical theatre.

Nov 8, 8pm - Good Rockin Tonight. The Sun Re-cord Story; Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and more.

Nov 28, 8pm - Reelin & Rockin, Slippin & Slidin – A Night with Chuck Berry & Little Richard

The Stirling Festival Theatre, West Front St., Stirling 613-395-2100 or 1-877-1162 www.stirlingfestivalthe-atre.com Sept 19 - 20 - The Canadian Tenors - Victor Mi-

callef, Clifton Murray, Remigio Pereira, Fraser Wal-ters. Individually, they are four of Canada’s best tenors. Together, they create a sound that is thrill-ing audiences across the country! Tickets $35.00

Sept 24 - 26 & Oct 1 - 3 - Menopositive! The

Musical - This musical comedy tells the story of four 50ish women who come together to stage a review for their 35th high school reunion. (Strong language and mature content) Arrive up to an hour before the evening shows and visit the Feelin’-Fine Fair! - a mini-mall of vendors showing chocolate, jewellery, body lotions, belly dancing...everything to pamper the Menopositive Woman! (And yes, men are welcome too!) Tickets $22.50

Oct 17 – The Ray Charles Show This amazing concert features an 8-piece band and 3 backup singers, the fabulous “Roulettes”. Tickets $25.00

Oct 21 - 2 & 8 pm - Oktoberfest! Walter Ostanek and his Polka Band - A great concert of polka and traditional tunes, as well as favourite country clas-sics! Tickets $23.50

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Sept 5 – 7 - Warriors Day @ Coe Hill. Coe Hill Fair Grounds Hwy 620 between Apsley & Hwy 62 Displays, parades, memorial services, and more. Sept 12 - 5th Annual Hastings Highlands Hilly Hun-dred, Ontario’s Toughest Century Road Ride for cy-clists. Millennium Park Bancroft. www.tripsandtrails.ca [email protected] 800-481-2925 Sept 12 - 3rd Annual Stirling Rotary Club Shindig, Stirling Heritage Train Station. Musicians, food and re-freshing drink. Music starts at 3 pm and plays late into the evening. Sept 11 - 13 - Trenton Scottish Irish Festival, 19th Annual Celtic Festival and Ceilidh. Pipes and Drums, Heavy Events, Dancing and Entertainers. Centennial Park, Trenton. Fri 7 – 10 pm, Sat 10am - 11pm, Sun 11am - 1pm 613-392–2841 www.trentonirishscottish.comSept 18 – 20 -Madoc Agricultural Society Fall Fair, Madoc Fairgrounds, MadocSept 19 - Celebration of Trails Event, Limerick Lake Lodge, 123 Limerick Lake Lodge Road. Canoeing and a hike, followed by a 100 mile diet dinner at the Lodge. www.limericklodge.com [email protected] 613-474-2144Sept 19 - 2nd Annual Elephant Lake Lodge Bass Tournament,Elephant Lake Lodge, Canoeing and a hike, followed by a 100 mile diet dinner at the Lodge. www.elephantlake.com 705-448-2861 Sept 24 – 27 – Brighton Applefest - Celebrating our 35th Anniversary, Brighton. 613-475-2775 www.applef-est.reach.net. Sept 26 - AD ASTRA Dedication Day, RCAF Memo-rial Air Park, 8 Wing/CFB Trenton. 2pm, 866-701-7223 www.airforcemuseum.caSept 26 & 27 - 10am - 4pm - Amazing Graze Al-pacas - Meet this year’s cria crop.Feel the difference between alpaca fibre and wool. Try your hand at knit-ting, spinning or felting alpaca. Get some alpaca beans for your garden. Selection of yarns, rovings & felt and hats, mittens, shawls and scarves made from our al-pacas’ fibre. Admission: free. Canadian Alpaca Farm Days, 127 Sine Road, Stirling, ON Contact: Marj. Brady at 613-395-6406, [email protected] www.amazinggrazealpacas.caOct 3 -Deep Roots Treasure Trail, Bancroft and Coe Hill, Celebration of Trails family event with a geocach-ing component for those with a GPS and a treasure map for those who don’t. Post event BBQ for partici-pants. North Hastings and the Nellie Lunn Park [email protected] Chris Drost or Leslie Jenkins 613-332-6246 or 613-332-2090 Oct 3 - 1st Annual Crowe Valley Rally, 9:30 am - 2:30 pm, Fun for the family! A relaxing drive in the country enjoying the fall foliage and testing your “fun” skills with tasks to perform along the way. All proceeds in support of the Crowe Valley Conservation Founda-tion. Minimum donation of $50 per car for entrance fee. Crowe Valley Conservation Authority Office, 70 Hughes Lane, Marmora www.crowevalley.com 613-472-3137 Oct 3 - “Ride for Refugees”- Hastings County Mu-seum of Agricultural Heritage - Join 120 cyclists as they congregate at the museum to begin the “Ride for Refugees.” www.agmuseum.ca 613 395-0015Oct 10 - Harvest At The Hill, Batawa Ski Hill, Batawa, 613-398-6568 www.batawaskihill.comOct 16 - SAVOUR – An evening of local food and drink. Tickets available at the Quinte West Chamber of Commerce. Knights of Columbus Hall, Stella Cres.,



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Nov7, 8 - 10 am – 4 pm -Melrose Craft Fair, Free Admission, Tyendinaga Township Recreation Complex, 363 McFarlane Rd, Tyendinaga TownshipNov 7 - 9 - Batawa Race Club Ski Swap, Batawa Ski Hill, Batawa, Sat 8am - 4pm, Sun 8am - 2pm613-398-6568 www.batawaskiracing.on.caNov 13 – 15 - Hike Ontario Annual Summit, Hosted by Friends of the Trail at the Batawa Ski Hill Chalet, Ba-tawa 800-894-7249 www.hikeontario.comNov 14 - Bancroft Art & Craft Guild Christmas Show & Sale, Bancroft, Club 580 Building. 613-338-5431 Nov 20, 21 - Rally of the Tall Pines, Dungannon Recreation Centre, www.tallpinesrally.com

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This photograph of ‘The Pines’, Dr. Oronhyatekha’s residence near Deseronto probably dates back to the early 1900’s.

Born on the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford on August 10, 1841 Oronhyatekha (meaning “burning cloud”, baptized Peter Martin) led a full and colourful life. At age 19 he was chosen by the Chiefs of the Six Nations Council to deliver an address of welcome to the visiting Prince of Wales. He went on to become Canada’s first

aboriginal to receive a medical degree and practised in Frankford, Stratford, Napanee and London. He handled campaigning for the Conservative Party and was appointed to the position of consulting physician to the Mohawks at Tyendinaga by then Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. This led to his move to Napanee

where he built a huge home for his family of four.

In 1878 he began a nearly 30-year affiliation with The International Order of Foresters where he held the position of Administrator. A diabetic, Oronhyatekha was or-dered to winter in a southern climate but shortly after visiting U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, he died peacefully in Savannah, Georgia on March 3, 1907.

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