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A Canadian Community Celebrates Black History
On one of our tours of the Buxton National Historic Site & Museum in North Buxton, near Chatham, Ontario, we were encouraged to ring the Buxton Liberty Bell located at the front entrance. The loud metallic clang-clang rang out across the farm fields and down the...

Pop-Up Photo Art Tells A Hotel Story
Pop-up photo art created by Lesley Walker Fitzpatrick tells a hotel story. Her photos honour the history and heritage of the Dominion House Bar & Grill. The public house was built in Stratford, Ontario, in 1865. Lesley took her 280 photographs in the last week of...

What To Expect Along Stratford’s Christmas Trail
The Stratford, Ontario, Christmas Trail runs from early November until five days before Christmas. It is a fun opportunity to combine holiday shopping with the discovery of the uniqueness of Stratford’s merchants. After picking up the brochure, map, and vouchers at...

The Bacon and Ale Trail in Stratford
The Bacon and Ale Trail in Stratford, Ontario, is a year-round adventure filled with bacon and ale-inspired experiences at food outlets, gift shops, breweries and pubs. Pork producers are high among the agricultural successes in Stratford’s surrounding Perth County...

Stratford Chefs School’s Long Table Dinner 2019
The Stratford Chefs School's Long Table Dinner held in September is their annual, signature, fundraising event. 2019 marks the School’s thirty-sixth year. The dinner was held at Revival House, formerly known as the Church Restaurant. The Church was one of Stratford...

Netflix Brings Harlem & Madam C.J. Walker to Market Square, Stratford
There is always something happening in Market Square and the streets surrounding Stratford City Hall. Harlem of the early 1900s arrived this week as part of a Netflix film shoot of the Madam C.J. Walker story. Faux store fronts, antique cars, pop-up vintage lamp...

Elizabethan Feast at The Meighen Forum Event Stratford
The Elizabethan Feast: Reboot, a Stratford Festival Forum event was special in more ways than one. For our culinary palettes, the four-course Elizabethan meal, with delicacies enjoyed by sixteenth century English nobles, showcased the talents of the Stratford Festival...

Stratford Festival 2019 Opening Week, Stratford, Ontario
Stratford Festival 2019 Opening Week, in Stratford, Ontario, is an exciting time and we are fortunate, living in Stratford, to be so close to all the happenings. The Stratford Festival is the home of the largest repertory theatre in North America. In the 2019 season,...

Strong Family Bonds and Ties To The Land in North Buxton, Ontario
We purchased a cottage on the north shore of Lake Erie, in Chatham Kent, Ontario, because we needed a test kitchen. Little did we know that just 20 minutes away, in the midst of farm fields filled with history, in North Buxton, we would discover life-long friends. Our...

Dark Beer and Stinky Cheese at The Milky Whey
Liz Payne, proprietor of The Milky Whey Fine Cheese Shop, in Stratford, Ontario, is in her 10th year as a cheese monger and self-described “käsephile” or lover of cheese. We attended Dark Beer and Stinky Cheese Pairing, the fourth in her series...