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A rustic medley of honest tastes, It’s also real close. Plan a day epic fall vistas, 23,000 horses and or a weekend up here, and your even more hills. All less than an precious time isn’t spent driving, hour, and a world, away. but being. Headwaters is barely Welcome to Headwaters, where 45 minutes from Toronto and even Ontario gets real. That’s something closer to the GTA. A dozen or so that a lot more people seem to be songs in the car and you’re here. looking for, even for just a day. The raspberry pie’s ready and the Real is pure, clean food grown green hills are calling. just a few yards from your plate, Stroll these pages. Read about made with old respect and young the nature that nurtures us all year passion. Towns that have kept their long. Listen to the craftsmen and souls, untouched natural beauty, horsewomen, the art-makers and landscapes and people that don’t the cider-makers who have found quit. And age-old country fun, like their real in Headwaters. Then hit timeless country fairs, graceful the road, and sooner than you ever tea-times and Christmas parades thought possible, you’ll be rolling where the tractors light up and the through here and on your way to people slow down. finding your own.

Welcome to real.

HEADWATERS.CA 3 Just 35 minutes from everywhere, a quality of life like nowhere else.

This is Erin. Charming villages and cozy hamlets. Inspired shopping, eating and old-fashioned fun. Endless hills and trails for hikers, riders and nature lovers. All surprisingly close to major centres and highways. To find out why so many visitors, new residents and smart businesses are choosing Erin’s peaceful rural lifestyle, take a short drive soon. It might turn into a long stay.

Photos by: Martin Lamprecht erin.ca

erin ad.indd 1 2015-04-16 12:28 AM MADE UP HERE This Guide was grown and raised in Headwaters by these folks.

Published by: Headwaters Tourism

Leader, energizer, whip-cracker: Michele Harris, Headwaters Tourism, Mono headwaters.ca

Wrangler, unearther, head worrier: Diane Murenbeeld, Headwaters Tourism

Ideas, design, words: Shawn, Jim and Chris Touchwood Design, East Garafraxa touchwooddesign.com

Proofreader, stone turner: Kelly Myles, Orangeville

Researcher, fact checker, fine-tooth comber: Dean Tea, Mono

Take-no-prisoners sales team: Wayne Townsend, Orangeville Grant Harris, Mono Roll with it. When life gives you ups and downs, come to where they’re beautiful. Mono Centre Road & Fourth Line, Mono. John Woolner, Orangeville

Principal photography: James MacDonald Photography, Caledon jamesmacdonaldphotographer.format.com

Additional photography: Sandra Traversy Inside your guide The man who knew too much (and shared it with our writer): Wayne Townsend, Orangeville

Headwaters Tourism partnership manager Our Headwaters map will prove just You’ll get a real kick out of our and cheer-us-on-er: 07 28 Stephany St.Louis, Orangeville how close we are to you classic Fun & Festive events

Printed once again by: Keith Luder, PointOne Graphics Inc. Your self-guided tour of our Towns, Saddle up and explore our point-one.com 08 Villages and Hamlets starts here 34 Horse & Country equestrian hub Creative di!erences solved over Nutellacinos at: Tin Roof Cafe, Erin tinroofcafe.ca Explore our ruggedly beautiful We’ve found you some unique 10 Nature & Leisure attractions 38 places to Shop, See and Stay While Headwaters Tourism has made every e!ort to depict accurate and current information, there may be discrepancies or errors that are unintended. Taste, pick and sip our celebrated How do you put a Guide like this 16 Fresh and Local fare 50 together? With folks like these

Proud to be part of the See why we’re one of Ontario’s 22 richest Arts & Heritage regions

Next time you buy some fresh veggies at one of our incredible farmers’ markets, just drop a few on the ground, okay? Much appreciated.

On our cover: From oldest to youngest, Aliyah, Mariah and Savannah Leahy. Just three of the six Leahy children joining parents Frank and Chanda in the family music and dance troupe, Rhythmfoot.

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Electric car not to scale 2. 3. COMING SOON: EVEN MORE WAYS TO RECHARGE.

In the nearish future, you may drive up to meet these fine folks on Headwaters’ new electric vehicle tourism highway, now in the works. Join us on social media to stay updated. But you can still come up anytime to get unplugged.

5. If idle hands are the devil’s workshop, that’s even more proof it’s heaven up here. Match the numbers on that map over there with these busy people:

1. Pick up a brush with Mark Grice, Alton Mill Arts Centre 2. Visit Grand Valley distiller Jamie Stam’s Bootlegger Barn, Grand Spirits Inc. 3. Don Coats will steer you right. Caledon Hills Cycling 4. Need a meal? Need 500? It’s all good. Adriana Roche, Gourmandissimo Catering & Fine Food Shop 5. Curator Sarah Robinson being careful, Dufferin County Museum & Archives 6. The Adamos are waiting for you, Adamo Estate Winery 7. Meet Daniel Clark, Cithara Guitars’ one-man assembly-line

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Honeywood Ruskview Dundalk Redickville JUST 51 KM FROM TORONTO Terra Nova AS THE CROW FLIES

10 Hornings Mills Mans!eld … or as the SUV rolls, and you’re in Ontario’s highest elevation and countriest beauty, Headwaters. Wherever you’re coming from, 7 Stanton 89 Violet Hill you’ll find us surprisingly easy to get to SHELBURNE Primrose 5 Rosemont and just as hard to leave. Get news, events and much more about us at headwaters.ca.

DUFFERIN In case you’re wondering: whenever we Mono Centre mention a distance-to-Toronto in this Guide, COUNTY Camilla we used the CN Tower as our starting point. Hockley Laurel Our views are so great, you can see it from 6 almost anywhere. GRAND VALLEY

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Palgrave 1 10 Marsville Alton TOWN OF Caledon Village Orton TOWN OF CALEDON Cataract Hillsburgh ERIN CALEDON EAST ERIN 4 BOLTON Belfountain Inglewood

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401 Whaddaya mean, crow? We’re wild turkeys. There’s like a zillion of us here. Quiet, Wayne. They haven’t figured out how tender and full-flavoured we are yet.

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MAIN STREET LIVES HERE. Headwaters’ proudly preserved-towns, villages and hamlets are alive and weller than ever. And while there are eight distinctive destinations below, there are almost 40 on our map and double that in total. You never know which one will have a waterfall, a café, or a history that will strike a chord with you, so use these as points on a map of real. And when the road in-between them reveals somewhere new, follow it. Because you just never know.

The dramatically restored Alton Mill Arts Centre, atop rushing water Looking for authentic, small-town Ontario? u Grand Valley might be it Time stops in the classic Cheltenham General Store u Easy, rider: there are bikers and cyclists galore in Erin u u

Village of Erin Alton Founded: 1820 Founded: 1855 Population: 2,674 Population: 895 Km from Toronto: 81 Km from Toronto: 77

Charm epitomized, Erin is a postcard: What seems like a quiet, historic village rolling hills, meandering rivers, cozy Cheltenham on rolling water is full of surprises. Like Grand Valley hamlets and villages. Its bustling Founded: 1822 the Alton Mill, Ontario’s most beautiful Founded: 1855 downtown is a medley of adorable shops Population: 479 arts centre filled with open-to-the-public Population: 2,726 and lovingly preserved buildings. Must- Km from Toronto: 60 artist’s studios; Osprey Valley Golf, Km from Toronto: 101 see: the epic Erin Fall Fair, October 7-10, Canada’s best three course facility; and 2016; the Erin Town Crier, who announces Cozy, picturesque and historic, with many unassuming Ray’s 3rd Generation Bakery. Grab a lunch (don’t forget the fries & big news; lovely, strollable trails like the designated heritage properties. The Goodies, yes, but also raved-about gravy) from classic diner Kelly’s Korner, Elora Cataract Trailway. 1887-built General Store overlooks the gourmet meals. then picnic along the gentle Grand River Credit River and sits on the Bruce Trail; which snakes through a town that hasn’t IMPORTANT: after your hike, drive three minutes to IMPORTANT: changed in a century. The ecologically No crocodiles allowed (bylaw 13-34). refresh at the stunning Spirit Tree Estate If you need to replace your marriage important, bird-paradise wetlands of Cidery; four more minutes and you’re in license here, it’s $50.00. Luther Marsh are also a must-see. the hot-tub at the 180-year-old Top of the Hill B&B. IMPORTANT: The schnitzel at The Grand River Chop IMPORTANT: House is bigger than your head. While many municipalities forbid annoying yelling and shouting, Cheltenham also forbids hooting.

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Jelly Craft Bakery’s carrot cake has Take in top-notch Canadian theatre, been known to make farmers cry in a restored opera house u u Photographers love this hamlet, right on the Bruce Trail at its most scenic u Awnings, gourmet shops, lovely small homes: just plain pretty u

Shelburne Orangeville Founded: 1879 Founded: 1863 Population: 6,500 Population: 27,975 Km from Toronto: 103 Km from Toronto: 79

This authentic farming community keeps Of course you’ll stroll downtown with two important historical traditions very Mono Centre its superb restaurants and funky shops, Caledon East much alive: the Heritage Music Festival Founded: 1823 but there’s more to this artistic, tree- Founded: 1820 (formerly The Shelburne Fiddle Fest) is Population: around 500 lined town. Side streets reveal restored Population: 3,070 one of the last iconic rural music events, Km from Toronto: 94 Victorian homes, its professional theatre Km from Toronto: 64 including a magical barn dance; the debuts major Canadian plays, and the free Shelburne Fall Fair gives you pie contests, Mono’s motto is “the heart of the Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival invites Caledon’s greenery and views “rival tractor races, and a trip back in time. Both Headwaters,” named for the creeks and you into dozens of town hotspots that Tuscany,” says Gilles Roche, transplanted are ridiculously a!ordable. streams that are the headwaters of the host some 80 acts. European chef and co-owner of Humber, Credit and Grand Rivers. Epic, Gourmandissimo, a beloved food IMPORTANT: escarpment-type nature surrounds, like IMPORTANT: emporium. The village’s natural beauty When entering or leaving the Fair by car, Mono Cli!s Provincial Park and its great The ghosts reported in the Orangeville yearns to be explored: the 35 km Caledon avoid the Demolition Derby. caving. Another favourite cave is Peter Library are messy but harmless. Trailway (part of the Trans Canada Trail) Cellar’s Pub, the unique basement bar in follows an abandoned rail line—hiking/ the celebrated Mono Cli!s Inn. walking, cycling on & o!-road, and equestrian and winter snowshoeing use. IMPORTANT: The mayor of Mono makes over 8,000 IMPORTANT: pies a year, which, while unverified, is You must get Council’s permission to considerably more than most mayors. have a drag strip.

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Tough choice. The intersection here, at The Gore Road and Patterson Sideroad, Caledon, o!ers sweet rides in every direction.

52 minutes to being the only one around for 7.1 km Patterson Sideroad & The Gore Road, Caledon

Cli!s, caves, curling, camping, Our variety of nature spots aren’t just close to you, but close to each other. conservation areas. Fishing, Hike and play in the cli!s, caves and limestone trails of Mono Cli!s Provincial ice fishing, ice sailing, ice Park. Trek the Bruce Trail, Canada’s longest footpath, surrounded by the in your drink, drinking Niagara Escarpment, which actually merits words like majestic. Drive or even from a waterfall. Fall leaves stroll a few minutes from downtown Orangeville and you’re suddenly walking forever, “FORE” on a golf on Island Lake’s over-the-lake boardwalks (the area’s a favourite for dog- course greener and hillier owners.) Fly fish at Glen Ha!y Conservation Area, camping, windsurfing and than Scotland. All closer, canoeing… and of course, just rock-sitting and mind-clearing. No wonder the all more genuinely natural entire Group of Seven found inspiration here. than anywhere else. Where Your own inspiration may come at 25 km an hour on two wheels. With Ontario gets real. thousands of hills and forest-lined roads, mountain and road cyclists have it all here (see page 14 for our very own world-class triathlete’s tips), including these friendly resources, Caledon Hills Cycling, Inglewood and Forks Bicycle Shop, Erin. Golfers have also discovered us, and what the experts have been calling “the best-kept secret in Canadian golf” for years.

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We’re usually less busy than city courses, and the settings, well, they make it hard to keep your head down. Every one of Osprey Valley’s courses is in Score Canada’s top ten (including hilly classic Heathlands), and the Caledon Country Club will take you from Glory (1st hole) to Redemption (18th hole), in surroundings that feel like a 19th-century painting come to life.

“I try to keep our conservation areas as natural and native as possible,” says Credit Valley Conservation Superintendent Yasmine Slater. “Just minutes from a thriving town, there’s no houses, no cars, no outside noise.” So if you’re looking to truly get away from a lot more than the city, welcome. And if you’re Black-capped chickadee by Robert Glen also looking to be more active than ever, welcome again. DRIVING THREE Imagine yourself up here, awed by miles of green and the technicolour epic of HOURS IS FOR fall. Then imagine it all under a curvy blanket of white snow. It’s your chance THE BIRDS. to try fun, o!-the-beaten-track things. Ice fish in your cozy cabin on Island Lake and elsewhere, snowmobile all over, cross-country ski through hushed With more than 242 bird species forests at Monora Park in Mono, pond skate at Alton Mill, snowboard at and naturally-significant wetlands, Hockley Valley Resort. And for families that want to take the commercial edge Luther Marsh is one of Ontario’s top birding areas. A little birdie o! the holidays, come up at Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween, and join also told us that it’s just 112 km in the traditions that sustain us here: haunted houses, pumpkin picking, small- from downtown Toronto, instead town store windows dressed for the season, tree-cutting, village Christmas of Point Pelee’s 351 km. parades. If your winter activity wish list includes a long drive and pricey Luther Marsh Conservation Area activities, you’re out of luck. But if snow-covered barns, horses in blankets and Grand Valley spending more time playing in the snow than getting to it sounds good, you’re home.

This will, no doubt, not be the Alycia: For the first few weeks, we’d say first time you’ve read that today’s to them, “Okay, free time in the forest!” kids are, well, over-managed. But They’d just stand there. It takes a day you’ll be delighted to read that or two, but by Saturday they’re really two young Headwaters women getting the hang of it. Caves, forts... Q&A are doing something about it, launching a trio of wild, rural And now, the parents, too? camps with one rule: be a kid, Alycia: So many would come up and say, and play like one. “Man, the stu! my kid did today, I wish I could do that!” That’s how the ladies’ You share the same philosophy: group started. We’ll go for a snowshoe, let kids play again. tobogganing, or build forts in the forest. Janna: I’m a PE teacher. I’d give my kids And build community. Just because a soccer ball and they’d be like, “But you’re over 18 doesn’t mean you have to there’s no nets.” I’d have to explain to stop playing. them that they can use jackets and shoes. They’re so used to structure, rules, The other participant is the the hands-on approach.… they’ve lost nature out here. their ability to just play and create. Janna: I’m from the Yukon. Untouched wild. I hear Ontario, I think southern city, Alycia: So I pitched her the idea of a tons of people, no wild place to play. summer camp that would bring back But coming to this area was a revelation. the simplicity of teaching kids how to There are so many untouched places Alycia Bannon & Janna Tait play again. where you can get an authentic, wild Founders, GO-ers, C.P.O’s (Chief Play Officers) outdoor experience. Janna: It really attracted me. It was how GO Adventure Co./Melancthon & Erin I grew up, how my parents grew up. Alycia: It’s close enough to put peoples’ It was hard to watch kids losing their minds at ease, but it’s wild enough to let creativity. your imagination go.

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“Headwaters is one of the last accessible places with wild, untouched areas. Fishing in Mississauga, Cobourg, it’s all houses and highways.” Bryan Rutledge, Fly Fishing Guide, Rutty River Guiding Co., Dufferin

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-1- -2- -3- -4- -5- Parks & Conservation Areas Hike the Bruce Trail Geocaching in Headwaters 24 Hours of Summer Solstice Archers of Caledon A range of ruggedly di!erent Canada’s longest marked They’re in trails, caves, North America’s most popular Deep in Caledon’s own, and distinctive conservation footpath runs through cemeteries! But the best part 24-hour mountain bike festival Nottingham-lush greenery, this areas o!er ice-fishing, cross- Headwaters. Our hiking clubs about tracking down a is a lot more than races. distinguished club is marking country skiing, skating and know it best: Du!erin Hi-Land geocache (items hidden by GPS Camping, playgrounds, kids 60 years of welcoming and more. And that’s just winter. Bruce Trail Club & Caledon Hills coordinates) is that everywhere events and more, in naturally training archers of all ages, Bruce Trail Club. you look here, it’s a treasure. beautiful Albion Hills. including world champions. conservationparks.ca brucetrail.org/places geocaching.com chicoracing.com/events archersofcaledon.org

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ALL THE WAYS Secret Spots TO SEE IT ALL.

Even for people who live in all this beauty all year long, some spots just Explore our nooks and crannies by mean more. A hotelier describes “the sunset over the winery at Hockley foot, bike or car, or leave the rail- Valley Resort, it overlooks the entire valley. It’s magical.” An artist paints her roading and the flying to us. feelings for “the flatlands of Amaranth in the snow: pale, whitish sky meeting this beautiful line of snow.” An historian is humbled by the four-storey deep, hikeable crevices at Rock Hill Corner on the Bruce Trail in Mulmur, that are watched over by hundreds of owls. Places like these, you don't come looking We’ve got over 20 trail maps at for them. They come looking for you. Yours is waiting. headwaters.ca that’ll get you going in every direction. If you’re more of an urban walker, see page 8 for information on our charming towns. 1. Walk forever along The Gore Road, Caledon 2. The inaugural Albion Hills Fat Bike Race 3. Go jump in a lake, The Forge Park in Terra Cotta The vistas and foliage just go on and on, so plan to pull over a lot. Here are three gorgeous drives: get stop-by-stop directions at headwaters.ca. River Road Ramble: a beautiful winding drive along the Forks of the Credit River Caledon Colours: spectacular scenery along the top of the Niagara Escarpment, with great views of Toronto The Hills of Erin: cruise gentle hills to the villages of Erin and Hillsburgh, the very definition of charming

Lots of riders love the rail trail and country 1. 2. road running through Cheltenham, Boston Mills, Inglewood, and Terra Cotta, because it’s flat. The Elora Cataract Rail Trail runs between Hillsburgh and Erin and can be accessed from these adorable villages; this scenic bike ride is perfect for families. And the new, 475 km Greenbelt Route snakes through Erin, Caledon and other lovely Headwaters towns.

Elegant and relaxing, the Credit Valley Explorer Tour Train winds 74 km along the edge of the Niagara Escarpment, atop a 1,146 foot long railway trestle bridge. All year long, enjoy views of Headwaters through huge windows, and with timeless railway hospitality. Book fast, every trip sells out.

The Brampton Flight Centre (which is actually in Headwaters, of course) has an excellent airport that o!ers one-hour sightseeing flights above our region for up to three people.

Among our more popular wheelchair accessible areas are: the 10 km trail system around the perimeter of Island Lake, Orangeville, and the Elora to Belwood section of the lovely Elora Cataract Trailway, Caledon and Erin.

And of course, we can’t forget by canoe, snowshoe, cross-country-ski, scooter…

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1. Always say hello. (And not, “howdy.”) 2. Wave at people when you’re driving, and when you’re not. (The “steering wheel wave” is perfectly fine.) 3. Rubber boots with mud are highly acceptable attire. 4. Don’t wear flips flops or high heels to a fall fair. 5. When you’re driving and see a horse, slow down, so as not to spook him or her. LOCAL LIKE 6. Enjoy the connections. The kid serving you ice cream is probably the daughter of the same guy “The classic rides are Forks of the Credit and up through you bought your hat from. Halton, and riding through Hockley Valley is always a big hit. People come to Caledon because they like the challenge 7. Things are worth what they cost here, because of the hills, but they never think about cycling the dirt they’re made right and to last. roads, which are just a bit more challenging but a lot more 8. No one wears a badge that says “Concierge,” but fun. You see more, and you get away from the city and everyone here is one. people. You can get on your bike and go riding for an hour, 9. Slow down. It’ll all get done in time. go town to town.” Headwaters time. Andrew Yorke // World-Class Triathlete // Caledon Learn more about Andrew and other real people of Headwaters at headwaters.ca/QandA

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As seen on TV. Phil Dewar’s Soulyve, Orangeville, is one of several local restaurants featured on the Food Network’s “You Gotta Eat Here.”

61 minutes to Mom's cooking, made by a guy named Phil Mill Street & Little York Street, Orangeville

Bu!alo burgers, butter tarts, Summarizing what food means up here in a paragraph, when half our land blue potatoes, bottles of a is farms? Can’t do it, so here’s some insider’s knowledge instead. If a diner winemaker’s lifelong dream. or country kitchen is packed, it means it’s genuine and great value. If you’re Caledon cider to wash it in a general store, check the freezers: that’s where the deepest pies and best down, the spices of a Hockley homecooked-to-go meals might be. A great burger will use local Angus beef, Valley firefighter to light it an old bakery has survived for a reason, fairs have the funnest food, and if up. In Headwaters, in how we you see a sign for a church dinner GO IN. The freshest produce might be in cook and eat and create, we a basket in front of a farm, and even though we’re rural our higher-end spots respect the farmer, the food, are superb, some serving generations-old favourites. And if we’ve included and how lucky we are to have either a mention, an ad or a listing of something to eat or try in this section or both. Where Ontario gets real. on page 42, it means that it’s true Headwaters: locally-sourced, incomparably fresh, and clean, simple and real.

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“People just get food up here. You don’t need a title for it, slow food or anything like that — it’s just the way it is, a way of life.” Adriana Roche, Caterer, Gourmandissimo, Caledon

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Andrew threw away a successful career in Logistics to pursue his dream of reconnecting with the brewing roots of his family. This carried him to the UK’s prestigious Brewlab in Sunderland, England, where he procured the alchemy that would drive his signature brewing style. Andrew threw away a successful career in Logistics to pursue his dream of reconnecting with the brewing roots of his family. This carried him to the UK’s prestigious Brewlab in Sunderland, England, where he procured the alchemy that He took what he could from there andwould ventured drive his tosignature Scotland, brewing Cornwall,style. and ultimately to Krefeld, Germany to pick up near where his mother’s family brewery had been, working in the same He took what he could from there and ventured to Scotland, Cornwall, and ultimately brewery that had belonged to his ancestors.to Krefeld, GermanyHe came to pick home up near to where Canada his mother’s for familyHockley. brewery had been, working in the same| brewery that had belonged to his ancestors. He came home to Canada for Hockley. You could call it dumb, but we call it destiny. You could call it dumb, but we call it destiny. AndrewKohnen AndrewKohnenBrewmaster Brewmaster

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1162 Hockley Magazine ad_AndrewKohnen.indd 1 3/11/16 1:42 PM FRESH & LOCAL WE DON’T BREW Get Fresh with a Farmer. OUR BEER FOR Farmers’ markets cut out the middleman June 9 - October 13 and get your money straight to the The Market at SouthFields Village horse’s… owner. There are dozens up Thursdays 3:30 - 7:30 pm here, all in gorgeous settings. Head to Village Blue Park, 415 Dougall Avenue, THE AWARDS! headwaters.ca, search “market” and go. SouthFields Village, Caledon May 7 - October 22 June 17 - October 7 Orangeville Farmers’ Market Rosemont Farmers’ Market Saturdays 8 am - 1 pm Fridays 3 - 7 pm Second Street at Broadway Downtown Rosemont, HWY 89 between Alliston & Shelburne (in the parking lot May 26 - September 22 across from the Globe Restaurant) Shelburne Farmers’ Market Thursdays 3 - 7 pm June 24 - September 30 LOCAL LIKE Owen Sound Street & First Avenue West Erin Agricultural Society Farmers’ Market Fridays 3 - 7 pm “People come back to the hotel all excited June 1 - October 5 Erin Fairgrounds about Broadway in Orangeville: the Inglewood Farmers’ Market restaurants, bakeries, Wicked Shortbread, Wednesdays 3 - 7 pm November - April 15551 McLaughlin Road, Inglewood Orangeville Indoor Farmers’ Market Every other Saturday, 9 am - 1 pm June 4 - October 8 87 Broadway, Orangeville she specializes in food from the Philippines, Bolton Farmers’ Market so if I miss something I say, “Can you make Saturdays 9 am - 1 pm me this… please!” And she makes it.” Corner of Ann & Sterne Streets, Bolton Theresa Tran // Director of Sales // Best Western Plus Orangeville Inn & Suites // Orangeville Learn more about Theresa and other real people of Headwaters at headwaters.ca/QandA

The operating principle at And for Pommies? Pommies is simple: Nick goes on Lindsay: We really want to start an about something until (wife and orchard of unique, rare apples, varieties business partner) Lindsay tells that haven’t been grown in Ontario in Q&A him to shut up and do something 100 years. Q&A about it. Well, it got them out of their corporate life and into You were saying earlier that a booming Caledon cidery, so Headwaters is an anomaly. maybe there’s something there. Lindsay: We deliver kegs all over the province, and it’s amazing how many Why cider? Why not a restaurant, towns have died a horrible nasty death or flowers? when all the big box stores open up. But Nick: In England (where Nick’s from) I’m amazed at what a job Orangeville cider is everywhere, but Ontario only has done of keeping the community. had imported cider. There was only one, On a freezing cold winter Saturday, County Cider. Lindsay told me to shut up they packed an outdoor parking lot for and do something about it, so I went out a Brewapalooza event. The community to meet Grant, the County Cider owner, came down on a freezing night. You and over a pint (of cider!) we hammered couldn’t move! out a deal that he’d help us get started. Nick: When you’re within an hour of What do you see now, five years later? big cities like Toronto and Hamilton, it’s Lindsay: There’s such an opportunity to a great day trip. Not even an hour and Lindsay & Nick Sutcliffe have a wine and cider trail an hour from there, look at the rolling hills of Caledon Cidermakers, Parents, Community Champions Toronto. You can go to Spirit Tree, come and the countryside by Erin, and maybe by our farm, get some wine at Hockley this is going back to my Englishness, but Pommies Cider Co./Caledon Resort, there are two breweries and a Headwaters is so green and lavish. And distillery in the works. you get to meet the people, the owners, the real deal.

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In a tiny, hidden hamlet, an 1889 schoolhouse has become a second home to friends and family for generations.

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HEADWATERS HORSE COUNTRY STABLE TOUR October 1 & 2, 2016 TASTE OF THE HARVEST October 7 – November 6, 2016 TASTE OF TOURISM AWARDS November 30, 2016 TASTE OF MAPLE March 9 – April 8, 2017

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FAMILY RUN. LOCAL GROWN. TASTE THE DIFFERENCE.

Our family is proud to serve the community for over 26 years with fresh Ontario fruits and vegetables, fresh baked pies, fresh cut flowers and a full garden centre.

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Browse a wide collection of top quality cooking essentials, including Zwilling J. A. Henckels, Le Creuset, Breville, Trudeau, Emile Henry, Lampe Berger and Global knives. Owner Sigrid Wolm and her helpful staff offer you hard to find gadgets for every budget, gifts for all ages and expert advice to bring out the great chef in you.

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Lest we forget. The aircraft may be replicas, but the passion is genuine. The Great War Flying Museum, Caledon.

41 minutes King Street & McLaughlin Road, Cheltenham

Wood, clay, fire, water, wax, If you can pick your lunch from a farmer’s field, or sway to the blues in a glass, stone, hammers, sweat grassy town square, then you should be able to enjoy art and history the same and words, bent and coaxed way. It starts with our artists themselves: from the walk-in working studios and willed into paintings, at the Alton Mill Arts Centre, to open-house art tours and free festivals (see pots, stone walls, guitar solos page 24), our artmakers love to share. And their work is literally out there, and group shows. And in from Downtown Orangeville’s 50+ tree sculptures to those 24 full-size every studio a place reserved horse sculptures you’ll see all over. Our history-telling is just as hands-on: the for you: up here, art, like the Du!erin County Museum and Archives in Mulmur houses actual houses; in land that inspires it, is a gift Caledon’s Great War Flying Museum (photo above), you can view replicas to be shared. Where Ontario of WWI aircraft, then fly in one. Shelburne and Inglewood each have the gets real. friendliest (and biggest!) antique shops around. And for a fun and inspiring girls’ weekend or day trip, take an art or craft workshop (ideas on page 24) and see your own real emerge.

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“Come to our studios, stop for lunch somewhere, go for a hike, then meet the crazed individual who’s just creating! There’s nothing like it anywhere.” Sue Powell, Painter, Erin

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Shawn’s Folk Art In fall, the season when nature itself reveals its most beautiful art, visitors flock to discover and meet our bounty of artists in relaxed, fun ways. Art tours are self-directed tours at your own pace to the home-studios and COME UP A galleries of dozens of Headwaters artists, giving you a friendly meet-and-greet. Our festivals and shows range from intimate gatherings to full-out, multi-day extravaganzas. And all of it brings you face-to-face with the rural TOURIST. beauty that inspires it all. LEAVE AN ARTIST.

Riverbend Artists Art in the Park Orangeville Art Group Annual Fall Show & Sale Learn stained glass from a Grand Valley artists working in many mediums, Some 100 artists! Oil, acrylics, watercolour, master. Glasscraft, Orangeville & including music, writing and performance arts. photography, mixed media, jewellery, pottery, Grand Valley. July 9, 2016 sculpture, fabric art. Do needle felt, crochet, knit; October 13 – 14, 2016 20th Annual Headwaters Arts Festival make home/body products. The 20th year of this popular festival will feature Brushfire Artists Art Show & Sale Craft Happy, Orangeville. dozens of artists, performances and events. An annual event featuring a group of accomplished September 16 – October 10, 2016 artists, usually held in beautiful Monora Park. Quilt, embellish, make table October 22 – 23, 2016 runners. Cobwebs and Caviar, Hills of Erin Studio Tour Shelburne. Travel charming Erin through the studios of painters, Holiday Treasures Arts & Crafts Juried Show & Sale photographers, carvers, glass artists and more. Bring your Christmas list to artists and master Learn chain maille; make a September 17 – 18 & September 24 – 25, 2016 craftspeople at the Du!erin County Museum. sterling silver bracelet. Gallery December 3 – 18, 2016 Gemma, Alton Mill Arts Centre. North of 89 Studio Tour Relaxedly discover rural Mulmur, Mansfield and more Floral arranging, wreaths, while visiting studios and inspiring local destinations. garden-making. Snowberry October 1 – 2, 2016 Botanicals, Erin.

After thirty years, the voice that It’s keeping a tradition alive, is that it? launched a thousand ships-in-a- The wedding, the auction, and the bottle is still very much in-demand funeral. That’s your three main at country auctions across gatherings, and everybody’s there. You Canada—a combination of live get a well-known guy, they’re all out to Q&A comedy, community get-together see him, it’s a fun day, there’s a lunch and church picnic that just might booth, we get the church group to do be the best day anywhere. sandwiches and co!ee and tea. It’s such fun, I get laughing so much myself There's an auctioneer school? sometimes, I damn near got to quit. My dad was an auctioneer. Went to Reisch College of Auctioneering in Iowa, This is history in your hands. same place I went. They teach you how I’ll have old, old pictures of family, but to count in two and a half, five, seven their kids, they don’t want them, they’ll and a half, up to a hundred, five, ten, just throw them in the garbage. But fifteen, up to a hundred, and then you I keep them, I find out who they are, have to do it backwards, too. And little where in Du!erin County they're from, chants: big brown bear, big brown bug. then I give it to the Museum and they put the family’s name on it and there I guess the Internet has put a dent you go. History. in the business. They’re selling on eBay and they have So you’re a link in the Du!erin these online auctions. There’ll always be County story. Bob Severn auctions, but they’re just getting harder Oh yeah. They like me over at Auctioneer, Historian, Pack Rat to do. the Museum. Severn Auctioneering Inc./Violet Hill But there’s an experience you’re just More at headwaters.ca/QandA not gonna get online. It’s an event, I’m very humourous, I like to have a lot of fun. If you’re a crusty old bastard, you’re not going to go far.

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HEADWATERS.CA 27 FUN & FESTIVE Photo by: Sandra Traversy Sandra by: Photo All for one. People often wonder whatever happened to community. We don’t. Shelburne Street Festival, Shelburne.

78 minutes Highway 89 & County Road 11, Shelburne

Judge a giant squash, dance There are some simple truths that you can only learn by experiencing them a breathless jig, get messy yourself at a genuine, same-as-it-ever-was country event. Truths like: a nine- chowing through ribs, get year-old can train a 300-pound pig, but you can’t even train your dog. Or messier plowing through that your future spouse could be waiting under the sparkling lights of a mud, ride a glowing ferris barn dance. Or that the spectacle of cars careening through mud is actually wheel, marvel at a parade of beautiful. Or that a stepdancer’s feet move faster than the eye can see. Or tractors lit up like Christmas that the look on your kids’ faces, as they watch tractors aglow with Christmas trees, wander from one free lights parade down Main Street, is something you will never forget. Or that concert to another in the being Canadian, you just get the fiddle. Whether you want to experience sweet, Headwaters air. Where holiday, community or harvest traditions celebrated traditionally, or see a new Ontario gets real. rural breed of chefs, artists and artisans mash-up those traditions and show you something really new, it’s here, it’s live, and you won’t get it anywhere else.

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“As much as I’d like to go to the Air Canada Centre for a show, it’s a totally different experience here, where you can walk right up and talk to the person you just saw playing.” Larry Kurtz, Founder, Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival

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He’s in his 20’s, but his soul was it’s a like a time warp. Kids grow up here born when big, shiny cars cruised and say, “One day I’m going to have a up and down Main Street. David is car in that show.” trying to keep a treasured part of community culture alive not just What’s the magic? Q&A with his classic car nights, but It’s peoples’ stories. You hear, “This is the with the oral histories and personal car I got married in, this is the car I had stories that come out of them. my first date in, this is the car I crashed in high school.” There could be 100,000 These car events, they’re huge in 1967 Chevy Impalas made, yet not one smaller towns. of those is going to be the same. It’s It goes back to the 50’s and 60’s: you all who’s owned it, whatever happened turn 16, you get freedom, you get your in it. car, you go out with your friends and just fool around with the cars. And the It’s a di!erent feeling when you’re farming communities have a lot of older driving through beautiful country in guys who bought the car years ago and one of these cars, isn’t it? held onto it all these years. Plus in the You take Forks of the Credit Road, city you don’t have a place to store it, or you’ve got your river drive, your winding to drive it and enjoy it. road, you get to test out the handling, you just have the nice backdrop, There’s 40-year-old gems in those especially during fall… daily woes, bills, barns out there? you forget about those things that in David Murphy Oh yes. They would bring them out only hindsight don’t really matter so much. Auto Professional, Car Restorer, Community Builder on a Sunday or on cruise nights. More at headwaters.ca/QandA Cruisin’ On First/Orangeville But an Orangeville summer car night, it’s like time has stopped. Every Wednesday night people come down for an ice cream, they walk through, there’s classic music playing…

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ENJOY OUR WARM COMMUNITY SPIRIT ALL YEAR LONG

Street Festival & Classic Car Show / June 18th Canada Day at Fiddle Park / July 1st Pickin’ in the Park / July 21st - 24th SHELBURNE GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB Fiddle Week Heritage Festival / August 3rd - 7th Shelburne Fall Fair / September 16th - 18th EASILY WALKED, GREAT CONDITIONING, UNBEATABLE VALUE: GOLF AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE. Downtown Shelburne rd Tournaments • Weddings • Tapas by the Fire • Lessons Santa Claus Parade / December 3

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HEADWATERS.CA 31 EVENTS SCHEDULE OUR EVENTS DON’T HAVE ALL THE FANCY BIG CITY STUFF. LIKE LINE-UPS, HIGH PRICES AND NOWHERE TO PARK.

MAY 5 – 22 JUNE 2 JUNE 29 JULY 27 Stag & Doe Chef Claire Loftus’ Easy Summer Canapés Jam 101 Workshop Smokin’ Hot Theatre Orangeville, Opera House Heatherlea Farm Shoppe, Caledon Landman Gardens & Bakery, Grand Valley The Friendly Chef Adventures, Erin

MAY 5 – 14 JUNE 2 – 5 JULY 1 Pickles, Pickles, Pickles Workshop Always a Bridesmaid Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival Canada Day Celebrations Landman Gardens & Bakery, Grand Valley Caledon Townhall Players Theatre Multiple venues, Orangeville Shelburne AUGUST 1 MAY 6 – 14 JUNE 5 Caledon Canada Day Celebration Tour de Terra Cotta Murder Mistaken Mudbog Albion Hills Conservation Area, Caledon Terra Cotta, Caledon Grace Tipling Concert Hall, Shelburne Sweet Pea’s, Amaranth Caledon Canada Day Strawberry Festival AUGUST 3 – 7 MAY 11 JUNE 10 – 11 & JUNE 17 – 18 Caledon Fairgrounds, Caledon Village Fiddle Week Heritage Festival Headwaters Horse Country Lobsterfest Shelburne Excellence Awards The Friendly Chef Adventures, Erin Canada Day Strawberry Festival Best Western Plus Orangeville Inn & Suites Downey’s Farm Market & Winery, Caledon AUGUST 4 JUNE 10 – 12 Light Up the Runway Walk MAY 14 Caledon Fair JULY 1 – SEPTEMBER 30 Brampton Flight Centre, Caledon The Wild Ride: DCMA Spring Bus Tour Caledon Fairgrounds, Caledon Village Vintage Signs Exhibit at the DCMA Du!erin County Museum & Archives Du!erin County Museum & Archives AUGUST 10 JUNE 11 Bones & Stones Kids’ Camp Spectacular Plant Combinations Workshop Doors Open JULY 2 – 3 Du!erin County Museum & Archives Plant Paradise Country Gardens, Palgrave Village of Erin Friends of Island Lake Bass Derby Island Lake Conservation Area, Orangeville Wine, Cheese and Chocolate MAY 18 JUNE 12 The Friendly Chef Adventures, Erin Chef Cathy Hansen’s Canning: Food in Jars Annual Cornflower Festival JULY 9 – 10 Heatherlea Farm Shoppe, Caledon Du!erin County Museum & Archives Delphinium Festival / Art in the Garden AUGUST 12 – 14 Plant Paradise Country Gardens, Palgrave Mudbog Camping Weekend Optimal Gut Health Dinner JUNE 15 Sweet Pea’s, Amaranth Landman Gardens & Bakery, Grand Valley Anti Inflammatory Dinner JULY 13 Landman Gardens & Bakery, Grand Valley Bones & Stones Kids’ Camp AUGUST 13 MAY 21 Du!erin County Museum & Archives Old School Family Summer Party Great War Flying Museum Grand Reopening JUNE 16 Du!erin County Museum & Archives Great War Flying Museum, Caledon Mastering the Grill (intro level) with The Art of Grilling on the BBQ Head Butcher Jason Cooney The Friendly Chef Adventures, Erin AUGUST 14 Butterfly Gardening Workshop Heatherlea Farm Shoppe, Caledon Savour Fair Plant Paradise Country Gardens, Palgrave JULY 14 Landman Gardens & Bakery, Grand Valley JUNE 18 Midsummer Night’s Dream Under the Stars Ancestry.ca Archives Workshop Caledon Day Gone Country Alton Mill Arts Centre, Alton AUGUST 14 – 21 Du!erin County Museum & Archives 6311 Old Church Rd, Caledon East Belfountain Music Festival JULY 15 – 17 Melville White Church, Belfountain MAY 27 – JUNE 4 Shelburne Street Festival & Classic Car Show Orangeville Rotary Ribfest The Second Time Around Downtown Shelburne Alder Street Recreation Centre, Orangeville AUGUST 19 Century Church Theatre, Hillsburgh Great Taste Fashion Gala JUNE 24 JULY 21 – 24 Mill Street, Orangeville MAY 27 38th Annual Truck & Tractor Pull Pickin’ in the Park History Adventures with Wayne Townsend Albion Bolton Fairgrounds, Bolton Fiddle Park, Shelburne AUGUST 19 – 20 Landman Gardens & Bakery, Grand Valley Rotaryfest JUNE 25 JULY 22 – 24 6311 Old Church Rd, Caledon East MAY 28 Goggles and Great Times John Deere Show Grand Valley Lions Duck Race Great War Flying Museum, Caledon Grand Valley Fairgrounds, Grand Valley AUGUST 20 Old Firehall Dam, Grand Valley Spirit of the Hills Family Fun Day JUNE 25 – 26 JULY 23 Downtown Hillsburgh Annual Summer Celebration 24 Hours of Summer Solstice Treasure Trove: Family Summer Party Village of Erin Albion Hills Conservation Area, Caledon Du!erin County Museum & Archives Taste of Orangeville Mill Street, Orangeville 7th Annual Jack Ride JUNE 25 – AUGUST 20 Urban Slide / Orangeville Founders’ Day Caledon Ski Club, Caledon The Caricatures of Anthony Jenkins Downtown Orangeville AUGUST 24 Du!erin County Museum & Archives Du!erin Treasure Trove: Pirates Edition Island Lake Seven Bridges Run ‘Woman’ with Dini Petty & Ken Weber Du!erin County Museum & Archives Island Lake Conservation Area, Orangeville JUNE 26 Du!erin County Museum & Archives Healing Cycle Ride Thai One On Belfountain Garlic Mustard Pull & BBQ Brampton Fairgrounds, Caledon JULY 27 The Friendly Chef Adventures, Erin Belfountain Conservation Area, Belfountain Treasure Trove: Detectives Edition Ride Don’t Hide Du!erin County Museum & Archives AUGUST 27 – 28 Lloyd Wilson Centennial Park, Inglewood Mud Hero Albion Hills Conservation Area, Caledon

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I know it’s delicious and a great weekend and all, but I’ll be skipping RibFest this year, for obvious reasons.

AUGUST 28 – OCTOBER 30 SEPTEMBER 23 – 25 OCTOBER 23 DECEMBER 3 – 18 Contemporary Abstraction by 5 – AGroup Grand Valley Fall Fair Town of Mono Children’s Halloween Party Holiday Treasures Arts & Crafts Show Du!erin County Museum & Archives Grand Valley Fairgrounds Mono Community Centre Du!erin County Museum & Archives

AUGUST 31 SEPTEMBER 24 OCTOBER 29 DECEMBER 17 Too Many Tomatoes Workshop DCMA Lenscapers Photography Walk DCMA’s Haunted Walk of Orangeville Christmas Concert in the Church Landman Gardens & Bakery, Grand Valley Island Lake Conservation Area, Orangeville Downtown Orangeville Du!erin County Museum & Archives

SEPTEMBER 2 – 4 SEPTEMBER 24 – 25 Roots of Country – A Night In Bakersfield JANUARY 1, 2017 Orangeville Fall Fair Buzzfest Art, Craft & Gourmet Food Show with the Muir Family Band Grand Valley Polar Bear Dip OAS Event Centre, Mono Terra Cotta Country Store, Terra Cotta Century Church Theatre, Hillsburgh Grand Valley

SEPTEMBER 9 – 18 SEPTEMBER 24 – OCTOBER 31 NOVEMBER 6 JANUARY 14, 2017 Spitfire Dance Pumpkinfest Music of the First World War Albion Hills Fat Bike Festival Century Church Theatre, Hillsburgh Downey’s Farm Market & Estate Winery Du!erin County Museum & Archives Albion Hills Conservation Area, Caledon

SEPTEMBER 10 SEPTEMBER 25 NOVEMBER 12 JANUARY 21, 2017 Brampton-Caledon Airport Day Mud Bog Orangeville Santa Claus Parade Alton Millpond Hockey Classic Great War Flying Museum, Caledon Sweet Pea’s, Amaranth Downtown Orangeville Alton Mill Arts Centre, Caledon

Mono on a Bike The DCMA presents: NOVEMBER 13 JANUARY 21 – 22, 2017 Rolling hills of Mono George Stroumboulopoulos! Getting Started with Ancestry.ca Fire & Ice Winter Festival Du!erin County Museum & Archives Du!erin County Museum & Archives Alton Mill Arts Centre, Caledon RCMP Musical Ride Erin Fairgrounds OCTOBER 1 NOVEMBER 18 JANUARY 25, 2017 Du!erin Town & Country Farm Tour Moonlight Magic & Tractor Parade of Lights Robbie Burns Night SEPTEMBER 11 Throughout Du!erin County Downtown Orangeville Terra Nova Public House DCMA Live Fundraising Auction starring Auctioneer Bob Severn OCTOBER 1 – 2 Window Wonderland & Tree Lighting JANUARY 29, 2017 Du!erin County Museum & Archives Headwaters Stable Tour Village of Erin Winterfest Throughout Headwaters Horse Country Mono Community Centre Annual Open House and Fly-in NOVEMBER 20 – JANUARY 31, 2017 Brampton Flight Centre, Caledon OCTOBER 1 – JANUARY 31, 2017 Secrets from the Archives at the DCMA FEBRUARY 2 – 19, 2017 Cradle to Co"n at the DCMA Du!erin County Museum & Archives Wingfield’s Progress SEPTEMBER 16 – 18 Du!erin County Museum & Archives Theatre Orangeville, Opera House Shelburne District Fall Fair NOVEMBER 25 – DECEMBER 4 Shelburne Fairgrounds OCTOBER 5 – 8 Jack & the Beanstalk FEBRUARY 20, 2017 The Judy Garland Story Century Church Theatre, Hillsburgh Mono Family Cross-Country Ski Day SEPTEMBER 16 – 20 Theatre Orangeville, Opera House Monora Park Pavillion, Mono Brampton Fall Fair NOVEMBER 26 12942 Heartlake Rd, Caledon OCTOBER 7 – NOVEMBER 6 Grand Valley Santa Claus Parade MARCH 9 – APRIL 8, 2017 Taste of the Harvest Grand Valley Taste of Maple 2017 SEPTEMBER 16 – OCTOBER 10 Throughout Headwaters Throughout Headwaters 20th Annual Headwaters Arts Festival Erin Santa Claus Parade Throughout Headwaters OCTOBER 7 – DECEMBER 31 Village of Erin MARCH 17 – 26, 2017 Parade Banners of the Loyal Orange Lodge The Murder Room SEPTEMBER 17 Du!erin County Museum & Archives NOVEMBER 26 – DECEMBER 17 Century Church Theatre, Hillsburgh Tour de Headwaters Lunch with Santa Lloyd Wilson Memorial Arena, Inglewood OCTOBER 15 Downey’s Farm Market & Estate Winery MARCH 23 – APRIL 9, 2017 Bob Milne’s Ragtime The Gentleman’s Clothier DCMA Annual Barn Dance Century Church Theatre, Hillsburgh DECEMBER 1 – DECEMBER 23 Theatre Orangeville, Opera House Horning’s Mills Hall, Melancthon Miracle On 34th Street OCTOBER 16 Theatre Orangeville, Opera House APRIL 15 – MAY 7, 2017 Heart Lake Dragonboat Festival Empty Bowls Made of Wood Show Heart Lake Conservation Area Alton Mill Arts Centre, Caledon DECEMBER 2 – DECEMBER 31 Alton Mill Arts Centre, Caledon Christmas in the Park SEPTEMBER 17 – 18 & 24 – 25 OCTOBER 20 – NOVEMBER 6 KayCee Gardens, Orangeville APRIL 27 – MAY 14, 2017 Hills of Erin Studio Tour The Ghost Island Light Sexy Laundry Erin/Hillsburgh and surrounding area Theatre Orangeville, Opera House DECEMBER 3 Theatre Orangeville, Opera House Shelburne Santa Claus Parade SEPTEMBER 18 OCTOBER 21 Downtown Shelburne MAY 6 – 7, 2017 10th Annual Carrot Fest Fall Storytelling & Live Music Spring Open House Weekend Everdale Farm, Hillsburgh Du!erin County Museum & Archives DECEMBER 3 – 4 Alton Mill Arts Centre, Caledon Christmas Open House Weekend SEPTEMBER 23 – 25 OCTOBER 22 Alton Mill Arts Centre, Caledon Bolton Fall Fair Harvest Celebration Albion Bolton Fairgrounds Downtown Orangeville

HEADWATERS.CA 33 HORSE & COUNTRY Q&A

Sydney Horas Icelandic Horse Rider, Trainer, Honourary Icelander OnIce Horse Farm/Caledon

Riding at age 5, training horses at 13, side- stepping volcanos at 17, and mastering the rare, unique Icelandic horse, brought to Iceland 1,500 years ago by the Vikings. Fearless and wise beyond her years, there's some Viking in Sydney, for sure.

There are 23,000 horses in Headwaters alone… … but only 2,500 Icelandics across Canada, yes. And we’ve got 30 of them!

What it is about the Icelandic? The spirit. They’re pictured as this cute, fun to ride Chores before breakfast. It’s never too early to learn horsemanship, or leadership. Sunrise at Teen Ranch, Caledon. pony, when in fact they are very powerful, very spirited, and very fast. Iceland really formed this horse. It was brought there by the Vikings, actually—when they came across the ocean, they brought their best but also their most compact.

And the gait, it’s unique. Amazing, actually. The average horse is three gaited: walk, trot, and canter. 59 minutes But an Icelandic also has the tölt, its quick natural gait, to towns where there are more as well as the super fast flying pace. horses than people They’re also especially brave. Iceland has no predators outside of man, so the horses are very respectful of Highway 10 & Highpoint Sideroad, Caledon people, and that respect makes them quite fun to work with, because they’re so willing to work with you.

The horses aren’t up here just because of the hills and the hay, but because You’re brave, too. You went to Germany alone at 13! the natural drainage from the Oak Ridges Moraine gives our land the ideal That was the turning point, because I was actually given horses to train. When I started training, it became a footing that three tons of horse needs. And you don’t need to ride one to totally di!erent mindset: you have to plan out “What find Headwaters Horse Country rich in tradition and artistry, geographically would I like this horse to become? A sales horse, a stunning and completely approachable. Families, kids, grownups, even competition horse, a backyard pony… what is my plan companies love to bond and learn by doing genuine ranch-hand chores, for this horse?” and ranches o!er all sorts of packages, including sleeping under the stars and waking to a monster ranch breakfast. Riding, trails, and lessons are Iceland is stunning, but so is Caledon. everywhere, even lessons designed to ease adult riding fears. Horse events Oh my God yes, the Caledon Trail. It’s the old rail trail, wonderfully maintained, most of it is limestone ground are thrilling and a!ordable no matter the style, from the world-class and it’s just beautiful, then past Palgrave it’s more competitions at the Caledon Equestrian Park to the family fun of HorsePower woodsy, then it drops o! a little on either side, there’s Live! and the RAM Rodeo. And just driving or cycling past Horse Country’s; cedar trees… it is a really, really beautiful ride. many ranches will bring you up close with the real stars of our show. Everything you need is at headwatershorsecountry.ca More at headwaters.ca/QandA

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Everything in its place. Annette Turturici at her Inglewood Antique Market, Inglewood, an apple barn full of memories.

45 minutes to where you don't buy things, you buy stories

The view was impossible to “Souvenir” means memory, to remember. Translated, it’s what you bring back, leave. The farm’s been in in a bag, your mind, your heart. And up here, the things that are in peoples’ the family for centuries. The hearts and minds, the passions of our pie bakers and stone wallers, artists of valley needed me to paint it. the horseshoe and of the canvas, and pretty much everyone else, are literally The people here don’t care everywhere you look. So there just might be too much to bring back, making what you do, just who you repeat trips essential. You might bring back something unique, like sandals are. Just a few of the reasons from the Orangeville shop so original that women drive four hours to shop at we’ve heard why people it. It could be an image of the vast, haunting windmills just north of Shelburne, have made Headwaters their or that old-fashioned swimming hole that a Mulmur farmer built on her farm, home. You’ll hear many more. to give her kids a real country childhood. The green Mennonite roofs, the blue Where Ontario gets real. goat cheese, the barnwood floor of a General Store, the bracing smell of high- altitude, clean air. The real. That’s what you’ll bring back, every time.

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REAL DOGS NEED REAL NATURE.

Plowing through snow or following a trail, it’s dog heaven up here. Dogs are welcome at LOCAL LIKE our six naturally rugged conservation and camping areas, “Back in the 1800s, it was called Land of the Pines up here. they’ll love the Bruce Trail and Some of the fallen trees, they have little knobs and stuff and the Oak Ridges Moraine, and there’s even a B&B/kennel they almost look like a tree talking to you. You can make arrangement in Mulmur (see out all kinds of different animals, and you start to see what page 35) that ensures a hassle- we call Tree Spirits. That’s where my work comes from.” free holiday for everyone. Hailey Livingstone // Furniture Maker // Snoopers Furniture // Hillsburgh Learn more about Hailey and other real people of Headwaters at headwaters.ca/QandA

Yes, it’s that Leahy, the Juno- dancing, you dance a set way. winning folk/Celtic musical For us it’s a little more fluid. The way we family. But when Frank Leahy move our bodies from one person to the met Chanda, he met not only next, it is very di!erent, and that’s okay, a wife but a proud keeper of because the way you are is the way Q&A another rich tradition, Ottawa you dance. Valley stepdancing. Six kids later, Chanda keeps the dancing alive The fiddle, the local community at her Mono dance school, and dance… they’re being kept alive up her own family has launched here, but it's a struggle. a new performing venture: With so much entertainment at home, Rhythmfoot. there’s really no need to go out and socialize at a dance. At home, we teach So farmers had big families to work the kids to waltz and how to do all the farm. Yours... does something these dying arts. We say to our oldest di!erent. boy, you’re going to need to know how Frank plays the drums, I play piano and to waltz, the first choice of the women dance, the kids all dance and play fiddle, when you get older! my son plays the accordion and guitar, and the girls all sing as well. And where did the name “Rhythmfoot” come from? You grew up in the Ottawa Valley. We’d be around the kitchen table, the Yes, where stepdancing was born, in the kids would be banging their forks and Chanda Leahy lumber camps. Someone would have a spoons, and they are all rhythm-inclined Stepdancing Teacher, Homeschooler, Rhythmfooter fiddle and their shoes and they would because they all dance and I danced put down a piece of tamarack, and that when I was pregnant with them all, and Rhythmfoot/Mono was the night’s entertainment. Frank is a drummer so he’s the rhythm, we’re the dancing… Rhythmfoot! Most people probably think it’s Irish? It’s very roots, there’s not a lot of More at headwaters.ca/QandA structure to it, like the Irish. In Irish

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Gourmandissimo Catering + Fine Food Shop Landman Gardens & Bakery

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Heatherlea Farm Shoppe Downey’s Farm Market & Estate Winery

Enjoy our farm-fresh selection of Have some family fun at Downey’s artisan meats from our in-house Farm: Farm Animals, Wagon Rides, butcher. Shop for hand-crafted PYO Strawberries & Raspberries, foods and local produce. Savour Birthday Parties, School Tours, our café’s house made meals & Company Events, Farm Market, desserts to eat in or take home. Bakery, Award-winning Winery.

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Fromage – Fine Cheese & Gourmet Foods Spirit Tree Estate Cidery

Over 60 cheeses from around A food-lover’s destination in a the world, artisanal charcuterie, unique straw bale building in the breads, and locally produced Caledon Hills. Award winning products. Fromage is your ciders, wood-fired oven bakery destination for unique foods or producing artisan breads, pies and stop by for a gourmet grilled pastries. Ciderhouse Bistro, tasting cheese sandwich. room & patio. Pizzas Friday & Saturday nights. 23 Mill Street, Orangeville (519) 307-7070 1137 Boston Mills Road fromageorangeville.ca Caledon L7C 0N1 (905) 838-2530 spirittreecider.com

Terra Nova Public House RustiK

“Best patio for 100 miles.” Gorgeous Located in the heart of beautiful country setting. Excellent and Historic Downtown Orangeville varied menu created using the and surrounded by a variety of finest local ingredients. Lunch and local shops and artisans, RustiK is dinner Tuesday - Sunday. Open late the ultimate venue for your local Fridays and Saturdays. Wheelchair dining experience. accessible. 199 Broadway, Orangeville 667294 20th Sideroad (519) 940-3108 Terra Nova, Mulmur L9V 0V7 rustikrestaurant.ca (705) 466-5992 terranovapub.ca

42 WHERE ONTARIO GETS REAL. SHOP, SEE & STAY Everyone goes on about underground artists. Now, underwater artists, that’s new.

Beth Grant Glass Dragonfly Arts on Broadway

Every bead tells a story… Beth’s Not just a gallery, it’s an art stunning handmade glass beads experience! Showcasing 200+ reflect a lifetime of adventure in Canadian Artists, we also have Canada and beyond. Demos most Studio Artists that are happy Fridays and Saturdays. Can’t get to discuss and demonstrate out? Shop online! art techniques and special commissions. Studio Artist at Dragonfly Arts on Broadway 189 Broadway 189 Broadway Orangeville L9W 1K2 Orangeville L9W 1K2 (519) 941-5249 (519) 216-5503 dragonflyarts.ca bethgrantglass.com

Taylor Self Studio Ann Randeraad Ceramic Artist

For Margi the mill provides Functional stoneware pieces inspiration to create art with are created in rich earthy tones, traditional techniques with an ready for your daily use or special abstract edge. Visit Margi in her occasion. studio in the Historic Alton Mill Arts Centre. Commissions Accepted Lessons for Children & Adults Alton Mill Arts Centre Studio 205, 1402 Queen Street W Alton Mill Arts Centre Alton L7K 0C3 Studio 209, 1402 Queen Street W (519) 940-0935 Alton L7K 0C3 taylorself.wordpress.com (519) 938-2092 annranderaadpottery.com

Mark Grice The Artist The Art of CJ Shelton

Headwaters Tourism Artisan of Explore nature, life and the The Year 2015. Fine Art For Sale, spiritual journey through the Commissions, Painting Parties, symbol of the circle. Enjoy CJ’s Corporate Art Events, Fund beautiful luminous imagery and Raising Art, Art Classes, Creative experiential creativity workshops Consultation and more! in the tranquil atmosphere of her studio. Alton Mill Arts Centre Bridge Workshop Alton Mill Arts Centre 1402 Queen Street W Studio 206, 1402 Queen Street W Alton L7K 0C3 Alton L7K 0C3 (416) 993-8885 (519) 216-8643 markgricetheartist.weebly.com dancingmoondesigns.ca

Gallery Gemma Jewellery Inglewood Antique Market

Gemma Jewellery showcases Multi-dealer market. 4,000 square unique jewellery collections, feet of antiques and collectibles. handmade on site in our gallery. Open daily 10:30-5:00 pm We also o!er custom design, remodelling family jewellery 16083 Hurontario Street, Caledon and fun playful pieces to suit all (905) 838-4000 budgets. inglewoodantiquemarket.ca

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I just love when all the free-range humans DON'T JUST BRING HOME A SOUVENIR, come up here! And there's much more food BRING HOME AN EXPERIENCE. and fun at headwaters.ca

Wicked Shortbread Grand Spirits Inc.

Looking for a unique gift, treats We use the century old secrets for a party or a wee bite of heaven of the famous Grand Valley for yourself? Wicked is the place bootleggers to personally-craft, to be! Specializing in handmade, world-class, Gins & Whiskies all-butter (from nearby Alliston using natural local Headwaters Creamery), artisanal shortbread region ingredients. Join our Secret cookies, squares and treats. Society. Experience something astonishing together from 96 Broadway, Orangeville GrandSpirits.com (519) 307-5000 wickedshortbread.com 22 Mill Street East Grand Valley L9W5V8 (647) 546-6996 grandspirits.com

Farmers Walk Bed & Breakfast Forest Creek Bed & Breakfast and Retreat

Set on ten acres of fields and Our Bed & Breakfast o!ers a warm woods and tucked into the hills of log cabin and cottage, five pretty the Hockley Valley, our charming guestrooms, several well-kept farmhouse-style B & B features gardens, a sunny breakfast room three guest rooms, a separate with large windows overlooking guest lounge with TV and a pool beautiful gardens, heated pool, in-season. lawns and surrounded by forest and a rippling creek. Homemade 833345 4th Line, Mono breakfast. (519) 942-1775 farmerswalkbb.com 16358 Humber Station Road, Caledon East L7E 0Y9 (905) 880-5667 www.bbcanada.com/forestcreek

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David Tilson - MP Dufferin-Caledon Seconds Count - Headwaters Hospital Thrift Store

"As the MP for Du!erin-Caledon, The quality of the stock of this I would like to encourage you to thrift store expresses the commit- explore the unique and beautiful ment this community has for our Headwaters region. There is truly hospital. Stock is always arriving something for everyone!" including some antiques and David Tilson collectibles. Fair prices and very friendly sales volunteers. 229 Broadway, Unit 2 Orangeville L9W 1K4 127 Broadway, Orangeville (866) 941-1832 (519) 942-9309 davidtilson.ca

Little Creek Ranch Orangeville Farmers’ Market

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Bolton Farmers’ Market Dufferin Town & Country Farm Tour

The Bolton Farmers’ Market has One of Ontario’s best agri-tourism been bringing locally grown and events is happening on Saturday produced foods, crafts, artisans, October 1st, 2016. Open to the music to the residents and visitors public, this self-guided tour gets of Caledon since 2009. you up close and personal with Du!erin farms. Corner of Ann St. and Sterne St. Bolton L7E 1B9 Admission is free, donations boltonfarmersmarket.ca accepted to local food banks.

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James MacDonald Photography Touchwood Design Inc.

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You don’t put together the Best Publication in Ontario* without a whole slew of people coming together for the community like they always do, rain or shine. Thanks to everyone who helped us wrangle this year’s Guide into being. It’s been real.

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Adamo Family Greg Holmes Diane Richardson Adamo Estate Winery Holmes Appliances & Music Shop Horse Rider Bill Adler Sydney Horas Giovanna Roballo & Shannon Smith Glasscraft OnIce Horse Farm Hockley Valley Resort David Arrigo Deb, Bob & Peter Hunt Sarah Robinson & Nanci Malek David Arrigo Art & Illustration Orangeville Northmen Jr. B Lacrosse Club Du!erin County Museum & Archives Stephanie & Chris Bailey Deborah Jolly Gilles & Adriana Roche Brighten Up Artist Gourmandissimo Catering + Fine Food Shop Alycia Bannon & Janna Tait Larry Kurtz Bruce Savage GO Adventure Co. Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival Archers of Caledon Odia Cherruau Eric, Josh & Rebecca Landman Bob Severn Greenhawk Orangeville Landman Gardens & Bakery Severn Auctioneering Inc. Daniel Clark Chanda, Frank & the Leahy Family Barrie Shepley & Andrew Yorke Cithara Guitars Rhythmfoot C3 Canadian Cross Training Club Ann Cli!ord Hailey Livingstone Jamie Stam Artist Snoopers Furniture Grand Spirits Inc. Don Coats Jason Cooney & the McArthur Family Lindsay & Nick Sutcli!e Caledon Hills Cycling & Nordic Centre Heatherlea Farm Market Pommies Cider Co. Craig Collins Jennifer McKinnon Jesse, James & Nash Tipping Caledon Equestrian Park Turn-of-Fate Studio Athlete Institute Taylor Coupland Ashley Webb-McNaughton & Emily Lane Theresa Tran Yogawithtaylor.com Orangeville Roller Girls Best Western Plus Orangeville Inn & Suites Phil Dewar Ross Millar Annette & Phil Turturici Soulyve Ross Millar Group Inglewood Antique Market Chef Pam Fanjoy Dave Murphy Devin White The Friendly Chef Adventures Inc. Cruisin’ on First More Than Just Baskets Meg Floyd Jennifer Osborn Laurin Wolf Alton Mill Arts Centre Allsorts Acre Kala Yoga Mark Grice Christine Patton Krystal Young Artist Fromage Snowberry Botanicals Martin Guyton Gail Prussky Diana, Nick, Vicki & Ron Postman’s Antiques Silver Creek Arts Project The Baker House gang

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