Features Archive - Watershed Magazine

Fall Fairs Forever

Lift your cake out of the oven and enter the “Beet Bundt Cake” category at the Port Hope Fair. If you’re young enough, you and your horse should try the “Teen Youth Barrel” competition at the Picton Fair. You (or preferably your cow) could take home the “Best Udder” prize at the Norwood Fall Fair. Or if you’re in Warkworth, enter your handiwork in their Embroidered Pillow Case competition.…

The Long and Winding Road

There’s a story behind the Danforth Road, a tale of a shady contractor who had a rocky relationship with the colonial government that hired him. When it was all over, Asa Danforth wished he’d never set foot in Upper Canada.…

Departures

We have no choice about leaving this life, but there are choices we can make as to how we leave it. Life is about choices, about making the best of a range of options. Then one day we realize we can’t do everything we used to do: our mobility becomes shaky; our internal systems rebel; reality strikes us in the face when a doctor gives us news we would rather not hear. …

Respecting the River

This fall as the salmon fight their way up the Ganaraska to their spawning grounds, the growing crowds of anglers fighting for position along the riverbanks and rapids are causing chaos and concern for the future of the fishery.…