Some of Canada’s largest fortunes were wagered in the race to settle the west.  The men in suits began knocking on farmers’ doors in the 1950s, with offers few could…

Canada’s era of the suburbs was launched by a couple of Shipps.  In 1950, a 24-year-old Harold Shipp was driving along the QEW past the apple orchards near Cawthra Avenue…

During university, I spent my summers working at the Petro-Canada refinery in Clarkson. My base of operations was the maintenance department, a single-storey building located across from the asphalt plant…

It’s about 14 kilometres from Erindale Secondary School to Dixie Outlet Mall which, give or take traffic, will take about 20 minutes to drive.  But on a horse? You’ll probably spend…

For the upwardly mobile Harris family in Clarkson, life meant hawking apples by day while dining with royalty at night.  From their 300+ acre estate Benares on Clarkson Road North,…