Dr. Dionne bought the Crystal Spring property in 1941. The Farm is a complex of agricultural buildings dating primarily between 1947 and 1956 on a large dairy farm. (A 1946 fire had destroyed most of the earlier buildings.) Along with pasture and hay fields, the steel and concrete buildings...
A case study of weavers and their neighbours in Northumberland County dispels the myth that poverty was the prime reason for persistence in this county. Instead, a niche market of outdoor workers and a cold climate fuelled the "homespun economy".;Both tradition and markets were conditioned by ...