Historical Columns, Letters, etc



Wellington Bank Hold-up, 1933

TWO ARRESTS MADE IN BANK HOLD-UP (October 12, 1933) Discover Two Men Hidden in Bushes Near Wellington Percy Garrett, 25, of Vancouver, and John Pettie of Toronto, formerly of Wellington,…


A tour of Wellington, 1833

Hallowell Free Press, September 30, 1833 We take this opportunity of publicly expressing our thanks for the liberal manner in which every facility was afforded us for the prosecution of…


“Harry Says,” 3 October, 1973

Living and working on the land, you develop a bunch of theories on any amount of things. US farmers, usually alone for a big part of the day, have a…




“Harry Says,” 10 August, 1973

“Harry Says,” by Harry Evans, published in the Picton Gazette, 10 August, 1973 Well, we got our rain just when the grain harvest started. Right now in our Tropic Midsummer,…