Nolan Waterhouse posted on the Eastern Township Roots page last week that when the Waterhouse family settled in Sutton, Quebec, they built their log cabin against a huge rock. His fifth greatgrandfather, Francis Hogel Cook, first settled...
It’s an aggravating annual ritual: Quebec drivers awaken from winter to springtime, only to traverse a minefield of potholes and cracked, bumpy roads. Navigating them is worrisome, sometimes dangerous and often expensive. Later in the...
It has always fascinated and disturbed me how a decision made in a tiny fraction of a second can have deeply profound effects, from ending a life to radically altering the existence of those who survive. Like the bungled police raid on two...
For a few decades, I had a small, onepanel cartoon that I’d clipped out of a newspaper pinned up on the bulletin board in my home office. It showed a seated figure, with a pen in hand, bent over a desk. Next to his chair, and attached to his...