Monthly Archives: March 2022

This item is aimed at readers who regularly travel County Road 24 between Dunvegan and Highland Road. Commuters. School bus drivers. Farmers. Truckers. Whomsoever passes by the Glengarry Pioneer Museum’s sign on the northeast corner of the T-junction. The distinctive ... Read more »

It’s a short column today… dear reader. I’m in the midst of researching a number of items, but none are ready yet for public scrutiny. So, in the interim, I don’t have a lot to report. While meeting with Audrey ... Read more »

Jim Fletcher, a regular reader from Ottawa who grew up in the Dunvegan area during the 1940s and 50s sent me a collection of consumer print ads from back then that’s making the round of senior social media. The compilation ... Read more »

Although Americans commonly give credit to Benjamin Franklin for the invention of DST or Daylight Savings Time, it was actually a New Zealander — entomologist George Hudson — who, in 1895, first proposed the concept of DST. The next two ‘Summer Time’ firsts ... Read more »