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AUTUMN 2015

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4 COUNTY & QUINTE LIVING AUTUMN 2015

12THE DASTARDLY DUCKS OF PRINCE EDWARDby Sharon Harrison

20THE CANVAS TERROIRKarole Marois’ County Portraitsby Catherine Stutt

30OLDER AND WISER’SThe Corby Distilleryby Lindi Pierce

38WOMEN OF THE GRAPEby Veronica Leonard

46TOURIST IN YOUR OWN TOWNCQL visits Tyendinagaby Kelly S. Thompson

56CQL AT HOME WITH DAVID & MARILYN WARRICKby Alan Gratias

60NICK FOLEY’S RIDE FOR INCLUSION

62SIGNPOSTSThe Carrying Placeby Lindi Pierce

66SAITARG’S GQHeather Menzies by Alan Gratias

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ow is it possible to be so close to what was once the apple capital of the world and not think

about autumn harvest? Despite the shocking cold earlier in the year – late May, which seems only a blink away – area orchards are recovering and glowing with ripening fruit.

Roadside stands are vibrant with the abundant bounty of our region, and fall fairs and harvest festivals abound, including the vibrant new Codrington Farmers’ Market, which has an unparalleled energy.

County vintners are closely monitoring vines, and there is an urge to begin clearing gardens in anticipation of colder weather.

We will resist! It’s only early September. The best is yet to come, and there are many harvests to enjoy.

In the last while, I’ve had a great lesson in what comes before the harvest. In March of this year, for the first time, I started heirloom tomatoes and peppers from seed. Most were purchased locally, but some of the favourites came from my cousin, über gardener Henrike, who provided guidance as well as seeds. The garden is spectacular, thanks to a lot of care, good advice, and faith in the power of a tiny seed.

Nurturing relationships from early days is a gift. Earlier this summer, Darryl and I were in Rossmore and noticed a Model T pull up to the pumps. A tall,

dignified, stately man exited, and his collie happily wagged his tail at the chance to watch the action. It could only be one man. A million years ago, I was a student at Monck Public in Bracebridge, and Don Snider was the principal. He moved on when I was in grade four, but it’s hard to not remember a super human. Mr. Snider lives on Rednersville Road, and drives his iconic Ford frequently. In all of the years intervening years, I always remembered Mr. Snider’s command presence, his Model T, his collie, and his dignity, which he encouraged in every single one of his students.

Old friends come to mind as families get ready for the school year. Whether it’s the blissful innocence of kindergarten or the fear of grade nine, or the adventure of that first year of university, it is where we forge our first alliances, fit in while establishing our identities, and learn to cope with the unfamiliar. Those people, those moments, stay with us.

Barb Long was my best friend in high school. While I may have nudged her into enjoying more of a social life, she certainly guided me through a greater appreciation of academics, just as she is doing with her own children decades later. We aren’t in touch often, but we’re still connected by shared memories and a common history.

This summer, history came home to roost for local genealogist

and historian Dan Buchanan, who published a captivating story about a dark period in his family’s history. Murder in the Family is local, dating to mid-1800 Brighton, proving evil has been around the Quinte region for quite a while. Dr. King was a narcissistic control freak, and Dan captures the story with honesty and clarity, and shares it at readings throughout the region. It is a good read and highly recommended, and if you get a chance to speak with Dan as he tours, he will enthusiastically share the story behind the story, linking the characters to today’s families. Scandal and intrigue, so close to home, the past shaping our present.

As Peter Lockyer declares, history lives here. So does the future. So does the social DNA of our lives; how we honour past relationships and lessons, how we go forth with new friends. In a region blessed with vintage shops, the sign makes sense - the best antiques are old friends.

We’re all on our own path, whether we have a Dan Buchanan, a Don Snider, or a Barb Long, and how we nurture the seedlings in our lives dictates our harvest.

Thanks for turning the page.

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The Dastardly Ducks of Prince Edward

The lore, legend, and intrigue of the County’s spirited islands

Travelling the Long Point peninsula, the road appears infinite. Staggeringly peaceful, its beauty lies not only in its remoteness, but also in its simplicity: a big sky, an even

bigger expanse of water, with plentiful vegetation and wildlife. The only sound to disturb the silence, aside from the soft-whistling wind and the ever-present waves, are birds.

Off the extreme southeastern tip of the County, just off Point Traverse, is Timber Island. It is known for the number of shipwrecks sitting offshore. The Florence is one of many to be found nearby. The 102-foot steamer-tug succumbed on November 14, 1933, about 300 feet from shore. She sits in just 30 feet of water. Nearby, the Katie Eccles sits intact in 90

feet of water. Carrying a cargo of coal, she sank in a November 1922 storm, with no casualties. Built in 1877, the small wooden, two-mast schooner is just 95 feet long, and has a spectacular bowsprit - the spar at the front of the ship - extending forward from its bow.

To the east of Timber Island is neighbouring Swetman Island: named for (or perhaps by) its first lighthouse keeper, Joseph Swetman. The island originated as False Duck Island, while the island pair is often called False Ducks Islands - not to be mixed up with nearby Main Ducks Islands. The body of water between the mainland and the False Ducks Islands is known as Duckling Reef. The names have confused many over time, especially unsuspecting mariners.

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“The graveyard of Lake Ontario

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For a score of hapless vessels

On its jagged shores have blown.”

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Whatever name is goes by, Swetman Island was once home to Prince Edward County’s oldest lighthouse, and one of the earliest ever to be constructed in the Great Lakes. Built in 1829, the 63-foot white stone tower could be found on the eastern flank of the island. After 35 years on the job, its first keeper retired and was replaced by his son, Frederick Swetman, in 1863. Together, they gave 58 years of combined service as keepers on Swetman.

By 1965, the lighthouse had reached the end of its useful life, having been struck by lightning some years earlier and damaged by fire at some point. The old stone tower was demolished and replaced with the current automated 62-foot hexagonal reinforced-concrete structure. With its distinctive red


and black horizontal stripe banding, it is unusual in its design, which sees the upper portion flare out, appearing as top heavy. It looks a little like a mini air traffic control tower rather than a lighthouse. Fortunately, someone had the good sense to save the lantern of the original lighthouse. It is now showcased at the Mariners’ Park Museum in the County’s South Bay, sitting atop a purpose-built 33-foot round stone tower and serves as a memorial to County sailors who lost their lives at sea.

The wreck of the Fabiola, built in 1852, can be found just south of Swetman Island, sitting upright, and mostly intact, at a depth of 55 feet. The 95-foot two-masted schooner, carrying coal, sank on October 23, 1900, with no loss of life.

As Long Point Road rounds the top of the peninsula, Prince Edward Point comes into view. This is the end of the line. Almost 12 miles from the point is Main Duck Island, and in its shadow, just a quarter of a mile away, the much smaller 48-acre Yorkshire Island. Sitting very low to the water, the wooded island is affectionately referred to as Little Duckling. Just a very shallow stretch of water separates it from Main Duck Island. The pair of islands usually referred to as Main Ducks Islands also go by various names including The Ducks, The Duckling Islands, or the Real Ducks. The theme, and the humour, doesn’t end there. The hundreds of boulders, rocks, and shoals resting in these waters are known, albeit unofficially, as Duck Eggs. Both islands


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are close to the United States border and form part of a larger chain of islands. Their remoteness have many believing they belong to the US, and although some distance away, they are very much part of Prince Edward County.

Main Duck Island is sizeable at 518 acres and has many similarities to the County’s landscape, with its familiar pebble beaches, limestone cliffs, and dense brush areas. On approach, the island appears to be shrouded by white-sand beaches. On closer inspection, the disappointment reveals zebra mussel shells - millions of them, several feet deep in places. The invasion of zebra mussels is also responsible for the crystal clear waters, which are clearer now than they were 20 years ago.

It makes the shipwrecks easier to dive, but the same mussels are also coating the wrecks.

The glistening teal blue waters surrounding the islands don’t immediately reveal the true nature of the shallow shelves of limestone sitting just beneath. The area, known for its dangerous and perilous shores, is rife with shoals, sand bars, rocks, and reefs, making it menacing for boaters, even to the present day. Only an aerial view provides a more accurate picture of their menace to navigation.

Through the late 1800s and into the early 1900s, many ships ran aground in the waters surrounding the islands. The busy shipping channel is known for its abundance of wrecks -more than two-thirds of Lake

Ontario’s shipwrecks - can be found in this relatively small area. It is one of the best places in the world for freshwater wreck diving, and with more than 60 wrecks in the immediate vicinity, it is described as exceptional by local diving schools. With its rich maritime history, an extraordinary number of vessels foundered, coming to their watery end in the treacherous seas. Stories also exist of lost treasure, and sunken gold. Countless lives were lost, and many sailors perished, giving the area the reputation and name of The Graveyard of Lake Ontario.

While storms were mostly to blame when ships ran into trouble, many vessels were overladen, which only hindered their destiny when conditions turned rough. Unpredictable


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and wild, winds could whip up, often with very little warning, pushing schooners onto the limestone shoals. It is no coincidence many of the shipwrecks occurred in late fall when fierce storms and sudden rolling fog were frequent occurrences, and where the weather could change within minutes. There is another theory for the extraordinary number of wrecks to be found here.

The area around Main Duck is known for its magnetic anomalies. Some scientists believe it is caused by iron deposits from a large meteor crater, creating false compass readings. Because of the islands’ geography, and a lakebed tilting sharply upward, storms travelling the full length of the lake gather strength and speed before slamming into


the pitch of the shelf, churning waters, and creating havoc for ships. Locals refer to this, and other unexplained events in the area, as The Marysburgh Vortex.

The John Randall, a 100-foot propeller steam barge can be found in just 20 feet of water. Built in 1905, she sank on November 16, 1920 during a vicious storm while moored in the bay at Main Duck Island. Resting 95 feet beneath the water in its upright position is the stunning wreck of the Olive Branch. The vessel sank near Main Duck Island in 1880. The 92-foot wooden schooner, built in 1871, is one of the best and most complete Great Lakes’ wrecks.

Main Duck Island has a vibrant history of inhabitants from European fishermen in the early1800s, to farmers in the mid-1800s who brought sheep and cattle to the island. As well as a thriving commercial fishery, it was also known for its bustling shipbuilding industry - the 45-foot schooner, the Harriet Anne, built on Main Duck Island in 1856 is one example. The island’s proximity to the US, and its protected harbour, meant Main Duck saw more than its fair share of activity through the booming Barley Days of the mid-to-late 1800s. The island’s history, however, goes back further still with archeological findings showing early nomadic activity as early as 450 BC.

County native, Claude ‘King’ Cole, purchased Main Duck Island in 1905, where among his many ventures he farmed cattle and sheep. He took full advantage of the location of his island during the American Prohibition years from 1920 to 1933, where

he and many others became very wealthy as a result of those rum-running years.

The island changed hands again, and in 1941 was bought as a summer home by John Foster Dulles, then US Secretary of State. He left the island in 1959, and it has remained vacant for many years; the buildings and pathways have long been deserted, and are now overrun with weeds and wildlife. An outline of the home’s foundation is all that remains, together with the ruin of an impressive stone and brick fireplace and chimney breast. The dwarfed fireplace is an odd sight rising up through the towering trees. The island’s illustrious history doesn’t end there - 1984 saw a visit from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip as part of a royal tour of Ontario, where they enjoyed picnicking on a pebble beach during an impromptu visit to the island.

Naturally, Main Duck Island is home to a lighthouse, and due to the island’s remoteness and its position as a significant shipping corridor, it has served as an important navigational aid for many years. Built in 1913 at the west end of the island, it was the last of the lighthouses to be constructed in the region. At 81-feet high, it was the tallest lighthouse in the Great Lakes at the time. Painted white, the reinforced-concrete tower has a characteristic red lantern top and gallery. The octagonal structure is as a traditional lighthouse could be expected with a pyramidal design, slightly wider at its bottom half, narrowing towards the top.

The dastardly ducks they once may have been, but these handsome islands now live the quiet life, serving as nature reserves and home to an abundance of birds and wildlife.


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here are Colourful People on the Cressy peninsula at the far southeast reaches of Prince Edward County. Originally from Ottawa,

the artists now live at Prinyer’s Cove, enjoying the tranquility of their new home. They spend most of their time in the large, airy, second floor art studio always watching and encouraging their friend while she paints.

Colourful People have been with Karole Marois since she painted them as a tribute to the perseverance of 25 of her fellow mixed media artists. In 2002, they lived at the Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa, and in 2013 moved to Karole’s temporary studio at Loch Sloy in Picton before achieving permanent resident status in the new studio. They are constant companions, and perhaps unconsciously, Karole often reaches out to stroke a painting as she speaks; an artist’s hands without brushes find a connection.

They are life-sized, bold, and as engaging and charming as the artist who committed them to canvas. In the studio, they are a presence and a visitor feels almost compelled to include them in the conversation, which of late usually revolves around Karole’s newest series – Terroir – her interpretation of the land, the grape, the wine, and the people of Prince Edward County.

The move from the bustling art scene in the nation’s capital to the Cressy peninsula was as bold and daring as many of Karole’s canvases. Well-known nationally and abroad for her public art – murals for many of Canada’s national museums and dozens of commissions throughout the Ottawa Valley and beyond, including one for the

Little Italy BIA called Corso Italia 20 feet high and 300 feet long – Karole felt the need to seek inspiration elsewhere.

“The museums decided to go with ink jet murals instead of hand painting, and it was time for a fresh start. I needed to get out of Ottawa and just be inspired to paint,” she explained.

Karole’s husband Mike is an avid sailor, and for years they kept a boat at Collins’ Bay in Kingston, often heading for the County and anchoring in Prinyer’s Cove. “At that time, the wine culture was just starting and we were drawn to the area. When we decided to leave Ottawa, we aimed high, followed the water, and had a eureka moment – we needed to be at Prinyer’s Cove. Mike decided to semi-retire, and I’m a self-employed artist, and we

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“Loch Sloy is a beautiful place to create,” she enthused. “The tenants share a camaraderie in respecting the history of this former air base. There is so much potential for growth, and it is truly unique. It was a wonderful introduction to the creativity of Prince Edward County.”

It was also a sort of military history homecoming moment for Karole as an artist. In 2004, she applied to the Canadian Forces Artist Program. Originally destined for Kandahar, a small administrative glitch rerouted the plans. “There were so many suicide bombers and we couldn’t be insured.”

Instead, in 2005, Karole went to the Netherlands to witness 60th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of Holland.

“It was so powerful,” she remembered. “I couldn’t do just one portrait. This had to be huge.” Two years later, she completed The Parade, consisting of 13 one-foot by four-foot panels reminiscent of tombstones.

“That’s what struck me most about the visit – the visual of the gravestones and such respect from the Dutch; the order and chaos of the war. It was the image of the victory parade and the sadness of death.” The Parade is now part of the Canadian War Museum collection, displayed to Karole’s exacting specifications. “There is space between the panels to reflect a memory gap.”

It didn’t stop, and became part of a progression. “It was an amazing and draining life-changing experience. Conflict will always be there, and I had to often remind myself I was an artist and couldn’t fix it.”

Answering new challenges and seeking new experiences in faraway places is integral to Karole’s work. An Ottawa native, she left


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her hometown at 17 to attend the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. “I was very young and rebellious and wanted to be on my own with a new life, to see what was out there.”

In the third year of the four-year program, Karole was selected to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Fierenze. “It changed everything. I was 19 in Florence, Italy and finally seeing trompe l’oeil and paintings and architecture and sculptures I had only seen in books.”

Following on her love of painting figures – she shyly divulged she was drawing anatomical figures in kindergarten - she enrolled in gross human anatomy classes at the University of Toronto during her final year at OCA. “Art was my cocoon from a very early age. I would draw figures holding hands, because connecting people was important.”

Upon graduation, she returned to Florence – a pilgrimage she has enjoyed many times. “When I returned to Florence, I specialized in the human form. I met so many artists there and we’ve been friends for decades now.”

The human experience was very much a part of Karole’s Florence education. “Many of my fellow students were from Kurdish Iraq who escaped on one-year student visas, with art training from the University of Baghdad. It was a very traumatic time for them.”

The contrast couldn’t have been greater. “As a young, naïve Canadian girl, it was almost unbelievable; it was an awakening. We’re still in touch and most of them are in Paris, Florence, Vienna, and Geneva under political asylum. They do beautiful work illustrating horrid events.”

Back in Ottawa and in her early 20s, Karole secured a position with the National Museums of Canada, creating illustrations, displays, and background murals. Word was out, literally on the street, and requests for Karole’s public murals grew. With more than 40 murals completed, including the seven-year Little Italy illustration, quality never suffered for quantity.

“My artwork is based on the need to connect with others on an emotional level,” she explained. “My themes are diverse. Based on my personal experiences, I express my observations on human nature using the human form as my main subject.”

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Others simply held her in their grip. After The Parade in 2007, she was compelled to start a bigger piece. “I was obsessed and had to get it out of my system.” The result was a 65-piece collection of panels shaped once again like gravestones, one by four feet, on wood. Together Side by Side went on tour. First exhibited at the Denison Armoury in Toronto during liberation services in 2010 and then to the Perley-Rideau Veteran Home and the Cartier Square Drill Hall in Ottawa.

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“There are no interior walls at the drill hall, so the panels were free-standing. It was very spiritual,” Karole noted. By the time the collection was on exhibition at the Odawa Native Friendship Centre, networking and appreciation created international interest. A friend in the Netherlands spoke with the mayor of Apeldoorn, telling him the collection was inspired by Karole’s 2005 visit, and an invitation to exhibit there arrived.

A benefactor of the arts and friend of Karole’s paid for the shipping and in the fall of 2010, Karole and Mike were there for the opening. Ultimately, the City of Apeldoorn purchased the collection and it now is on permanent display in the city hall. “I’m very proud,” she admitted. “The two collections are about the friendship between the two countries, and one is at the Canadian War Museum and the other is in Holland.”

There was an emptiness after that moment. “I felt lost,” Karole remembered. “My real love and my real passion is about the figure. I was in a new region, a new studio, and then, I knew what it had to be.”

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flavours of the personalities as well as the land and grapes. I want to help clarify and illustrate the terroir as well as redefine it in a visual sense.”

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It won’t be formal portraits. I want them working their vineyards, and probably they won’t be defined people, but the essence of the character of people who pursue this love.” Hands now wringing the ideas from her mind, eyes not quite in the present but very much in the moment, Karole found the words, “Less of a portrait, more of the passion, part of the land.”

Moving to Cressy fits Karole well. She loves the potential, loves networking with local wineries and fellow artists. She is a member of the vibrant Prince Edward County Arts Council and is participating in the annual autumn studio tour throughout September, confident visitors will make their way to Prinyer’s Cove. “There’s a Cressy ambience. It’s a little out of the way, but that’s where we find surprises. It’s worth the drive.”

She sees her studio as an opportunity for visitors to see the process, hiding nothing. It is a welcoming working studio. Gone is the opaque, enter the transparent. Her paintings encompass the new approach. Some of the Colourful People will become the base for Terroir – their presence there, known to the artist, presenting new challenges.

“When you paint over something else, you lose the light, so you revisit it, brighten it with flow and focus,” she explained as she mercilessly used chalk over acrylic to set motion, which will lead to wherever her brush stokes want to go.


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In 1857, an energetic young British immigrant named Henry Corby established a gristmill on a quiet bend in the Moira River, six kilometres north of Belleville. Around his new mill grew a community, later named Corbyville.

Henry Corby was a legendary character, his vision and drive the stuff of nation building. Since his arrival around 1832, he had lived large. By 1838, he was operating the city’s best bakery; the ovens remain, in the basement of Belleville’s former Greenley’s bookstore. He had lost his wife and three children through the treacherous ice of the Bay of Quinte, and had purchased the nearby Massassauga Point for a memorial; he later built a popular resort hotel there. He had served during the 1837 Rebellion, and captained his steamer Queen between Kingston and Belleville for four years as a grain merchant.

Henry Corby would go on to distinction as founder of the renowned Corby Distillery, along the way serving his fellow Bellevillians through politics and philanthropy. His son Henry (Harry), later Senator Corby, assumed the mantle in 1881, and would go on to exceed his illustrious father’s achievements in social, cultural, political, and industrial spheres.

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By 1859, Henry Corby added a distillery to the gristmill (it was not just flour the farmers’ grain yielded, but that other staple, whisky.) Soon, the distillery became the primary business. His son’s drive and business acumen surpassed even the senior Corby. By 1905, when the younger Henry Corby retired, he sold H. Corby Distillery Company Limited to Mortimer Davis for about a million dollars.

Even though the final Corby left the distillery building in 1905, the name persisted, an international symbol of quality.

During the summers in the 1980s, the J.P. Wiser Distillery Reception Centre welcomed visitors and guided tours of the facility were a big attraction. Young Tammy White worked as a guide. She was proud of her attractive uniform, proud also to be the third generation of her family to work at Corby’s. Her mother Helen, and grandmother before her, worked on the bottling line.

Al Cleary, now a researcher at the archives in Cannifton, took one of those tours. He recalls the huge industrial complex with amazement: pumping station, tall red brick warehouses, the powerhouse with its large chimney, the still house, bottling facilities, settling ponds, cooling house, roadways, and railway tracks.

“We never realized how good we had it ‘til we lost it.” Helen White shakes her head sadly. She worked in the bottling room for 30 years.

“I started at 94 cents an hour. I loved that old bottling room. People were nice. That means a lot when you work in a plant.” Helen was well liked, full of fun. At 78, she is still a character.

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In 1907 the distillery burned, and was quickly rebuilt.

The distillery ceased production during both World Wars, turning to the production of industrial alcohol for use in munitions.

Corby was an important exporter during Prohibition (1918 - 1927), that intriguing era when beverage alcohol production was legal but its sale was not. An enormous amount of Corby’s product left Belleville’s shores for “Mexico” and “Bermuda.”

In the 1920s H. Corby Distillery was sold to the Canadian Industrial Alcohol Company Limited, which purchased J.P. Wiser’s Distillery Ltd. of Prescott, and moved operations to Corbyville. Diversification continued, with the acquisition of wine and Scotch whisky producers.

In the 1930s, Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts Ltd. became the major shareholder in H. Corby Distillery Limited, an event foreshadowing the end.

The 1950s saw more international industry consolidation, with Lamb’s Rum moving into Corbyville production. In 1951, H. Corby Distillery Limited acquired a historic Montreal mansion to house its executive offices. It was called The Home of Good Spirits and touted as a monument to the founder of Corby’s - “That grand old Canadian name.”

The 1960s witnessed an expanding portfolio of spirits and wine; in 1969, Corby traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

In the 1970s, Corby purchased Meaghers of Montreal. A 1978 newspaper account describes a $41 million operation with 280 employees in 80 buildings on 23 acres of land.

The 1980s were a time of more complex acquisitions and mergers in the distillery industry. In 1988, Corby purchased the assets of the McGuinness Distilling Company Ltd. In 1989, distillery operations ceased.

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She enjoys looking through her Corby’s souvenirs. “They were good to us. Mom raised us three kids on her paycheque of $16 a week, 67 years ago.”

Helen started at Corby’s at age 15, as summer help, pounding corks into bottles of Lamb’s Navy Rum, 151 overproof. During her long career, she worked as filler, labeller, and stamper. “At first we labelled by hand. We took the bottle off the belt, put it on a block, and applied the label - 76 labels a minute. We had to have a rhythm. Not a bottle that went out ever had a crooked label.” Filler, capper, tightener, labeller, stamper, and smoother - all had to keep up with the machine.

As time went on, more jobs were done by machines. “We had to hold the line if the machine made a mistake.” Labels were hand-fed into a dispenser. One day Helen had to stop the line - all the labels were upside down.

Helen opened a 1975 Corby Annual Report. There’s a photo of her on the Number 4 line.

“I was seven months pregnant, wearing the biggest dresses I could find. We were supposed to quit at five months, but we needed the income.” Another photo shows a man testing Wiser’s Deluxe, their most popular whisky,

blended and aged in oak barrels. Corby’s was famous for its soft Moira River water and its closely guarded blending secrets.

Suddenly in 1989, the Corbyville distillery closed and maturing whisky stock was shipped to the Walkerville plant.

Helen recalls the day Corby’s closed. She was line supervisor by then. “The boss said ‘don’t let the girls go outside for break, tell them to come upstairs.’ A strange gentleman told us we would be all done in September, that production was moving to Walkerville. Then he checked his watch and said he had a plane to catch. We were all upset. The machines were dangerous, so the bosses sent us home with pay that day. Later, they gave us a dinner.”

Helen expressed the confusion and disbelief. “We had everything, the water, the people, the machines, and the plant. We couldn’t believe Walker’s took it over, but they had the shares.”

By 1995, the complex was being demolished and materials sold off. Al Cleary still has the receipt he got when he purchased lumber - beautiful old close-grained British Columbia fir from 300-year-old trees. Much of the specially milled timber from the 1920s racking

buildings was sold to the U.S. “I started to see it on the woodworking shows in the States. On This Old House, Norm Abrams explained it was from a distillery in Canada. It did have a bit of alcohol odour.”

The gate Helen entered for each shift, the sidewalk she followed to her place on the line still stand on the abandoned property, but the gate doesn’t open, and the sidewalk leads across a grassy field to nowhere. Once it led to the back of the complex, to where the bottling room stood. The building at the gate was the personnel office, the warehouses stood close to the road.

Only a few buildings remain along the river. A row of vine-covered red brick excise buildings, their roofs and walkways collapsing, was where the serious business of applying federal and provincial seals and tax stamps took place. They were strictly off limits to staff.

“We weren’t allowed near it,” Helen recalls.Farther on, an impressive basilica

shaped brick building still stands, a former warehouse. A dignified stone house on a turn in the river housed senior administration. The former firehouse stands guard over the empty property. Across the road, trees and grass

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take over, rusting fire hydrants and other artifacts tell silent stories. A rusting water tank, mysterious reservoirs and gangways, the shadow of the former railway spur which delivered grain and shipped out product evoke the glory days. Phantom flowerbeds are still edged with stones. “The yards were kept so gorgeous.” Helen mourns all this loss.

The river, that same Moira which powered Corby’s mill, still hurries past. An attractive billboard announces, “Corbyville. Distillery Row. Investment Opportunity.” The nearly empty site was purchased from the Corby

Corporation 15 years ago by T.C.S. Realty of Trenton, which is seeking a co-developer for a large residential project on the property, with minimal success. Currently, the only revenue-producing property is the River Inn.

The River Inn provides the perfect backdrop for wedding photos, with rustic buildings and evocative ruins, sparkling water, and deep forest on the opposite shore. Beth and Alec Jenkin were married on the banks of the Moira. An intimate dinner, music, and dancing followed in the historic River Inn. Her mother Larraine is still excited, “The

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In the old days, the River Inn was Corby’s function room. “I looked after retirement parties,” Helen reminisces. “We got a gold watch at 25 years, a Wiser’s Deluxe pen and pencil set and $100 when we retired. My husband Jack, a sign-painter, painted the parrot (the coveted gift, a rendering of the Corby trademark.) “At Christmas we each got a bottle and went over to a meal and a bus took us home.” The memories are layered; Helen’s four kids held a 50th wedding anniversary party there for Helen and Jack.

The Mother of All Craft Shows takes place at the River Inn each Mother’s Day. Co-organizer Connie Yrjola hardly contained her enthusiasm. “It’s beautiful, it’s historic, and a great venue for Quinte area artisans’ handcrafted work.” The ambience is festive, both outside among the artisans’ tents on the riverside lawn, and inside the wood-panelled inn. A glass of wine at the elegant bar imported for Corby’s is a pleasant option. Artisans each contribute items for draws and games to benefit event partners Fixed Fur Life.

An intriguing new chapter is beginning at Corby’s. Local businessman Richard Courneyea has purchased the historic excise buildings and is working on plans for a hybrid microbrewery/distillery - Signal Brewing and Distilling. It seems like the perfect way to repurpose the structurally sound riverside buildings, and honour Corby’s long history. Soon visitors will be approaching closer than Helen ever dared in her days on the line.

In small ways, Corby’s keeps reinventing itself. Somehow, the vision and drive, which characterized the lives of two generations of Corby entrepreneurs, seems to inhabit the place, like all the reminders of the industrial heyday still haunting the property.

Vida Zalnieriunas and Emily Lacey at By Chadsey’s Cairns

In many countries, the role of winemakers has traditionally be reserved for men. In France, the words Père et Fils on the wine label signifies a craft handed down from father to son through generations.

In Prince Edward County, women winemakers have more than proved their value to the wine region since its very beginning. They have helped develop the wide spectrum of County wines ranging from Closson Chase Chardonnays by Deborah

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Paskus praised by many connoisseurs as the best in Canada, to Sandbanks Baco Noir by Catherine Langlois, the LCBO’s bestselling Vintners Quality Alliance red wine in Ontario.

Deborah Paskus built her reputation as a winemaker in Niagara in the 1990s, with Temkin-Paskus Chardonnay, an experimental wine using organic viticulture and careful pruning to concentrate flavour in the grapes. It was Canada’s first cult wine coveted by collectors. In 1998, she discovered County soil was similar to that in Burgundy, France. With the backing of friends Seaton McLean, Sonja Smits, and Michael MacMillan, she planted the first Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines at Closson Chase.

Catherine Langlois and her husband Rene Lorenzo purchased the land for Sandbanks Estate in 1999. They took a different approach planting winter hardy hybrids

including those Baco vines along with Vidal, and Marechal Foch. Her neighbours next door at By Chadsey’s Cairns - Richard Johnston and Vida Zalnieriunas - chose to plant a selection of cool climate European vinifera.

Many of the new start-up wineries followed Deborah’s lead planting Burgundian vines, others took the safer route of hybrids, and quite a few planted a bit of both to hedge their bets.

In 2000, Jenifer Dean and Caroline Granger enrolled in the Loyalist College Wine Technician program. Jenifer was encouraged by County Cider owner Grant Howes who wanted to add a winery to his business. Caroline wanted to bring new life and income into her family farm on Closson Road.

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Over the next ten years, these seven women would make a huge impact on the growth of tourism and the wine industry in the County.

Debora Paskus had a celebrity team of backers for Closson Chase where she was part owner and winemaker. She was given a free hand to make the finest wines possible in the County. Her investors were in for the long haul and agreed to her approach of organic verging on biodynamic growing techniques and careful aging. Quality, not quantity, was key. Their contacts provided an eager market for Deborah’s wines, who accepted the high price of excellence.

Winery events at Closson Chase over the ensuing years would bring Toronto’s rich and famous to Prince Edward County, many of whom chose to buy summer property and invest in local businesses. Deborah Paskus retired from Closson Chase in December of 2014, but her wines live on in the best wine cellars in Canada.

Catherine Langlois’ plans were not as lofty. “My vision was having a small winery with six or seven people working for us, and I would make wine for my friends. I hired my neighbours’ kids, people volunteered to help at harvest and I’d whip up a big lunch for everyone. My first big steel tank was bought

second-hand from a dairy and retrofitted with a special cap from Italy. I couldn’t imagine how I was ever going to fill up a 3,000-litre tank.”

Catherine grew up on a farm near Ile d’Orleans in Quebec. Her experience working the grape harvest in Burgundy, France, and in marketing at Pelée Island Winery for ten years had given her good industry connections and business savvy. She specialized in approachable affordable wines for tourists and cottagers, which paired easily with barbecues and summer sipping. Flowers, a big veranda, colourful deck chairs, her youthful staff, and fun events gave Sandbanks winery the allure of a beach shop and people loved it.

Sandbanks Estate winery has grown exponentially over the years. These days people from all over Canada book in advance to help at harvest. It is now the largest wine producer in the County making over 25,000 cases a year. To meet the demand, she buys most of her grapes from growers in the County and around Ontario.

By Chadsey’s Cairns took a very different tack toward their wine and its promotion. The farm has lovely historic buildings. Special events take place in a huge dairy barn from


the 1850s, the winery is in a converted stable, and their retail store is a former apple house. Visitors pass an old cemetery lining the driveway and there is even a ghost story. The winery has a loyal following for its classic fine wines and special events. Vida’s mentor is leading wine maker Ann Sperling. “She is one of the best in Canada,” acknowledged Vida.

“My first wine teacher advised us to make wines we like, so I choose classic European vinifera” Vida continued. “We made the first red sparkling in the County, ditto for our botrytis-affected whites, and bone dry Riesling. Since 2007, we have produced 100 per cent estate grown wines. We were the first to release Riesling, Chardonnay and Gewurztraminer grown in the County from vines we planted ourselves in 1999.”

Jennifer Dean of County Cider produced wines and ice cider and helped develop new product lines more appealing to women. In 2009, she stopped winemaking to become general manager of the rapidly expanding cider production. In 2014, they were the largest cidery in Ontario, producing 400,000 litres of cider.

With its scenic location overlooking Prince Edward Bay, County Cider has become an annual pilgrimage for cider lovers who try the special varieties only offered onsite. Their lunch patio, with its capacity seating for 200, often has a wait list of diners, even on weekdays.

Amy Mumby, the first woman winemaker at Waupoos Winery, was largely self-taught but proved her skills. “In my first year my

Baco Noir won bronze at the Ontario Wine Awards. I also made the first ever VQA Prince Edward County Ice Wine winning gold at the All Canadian Wine Championships.”

The beautiful Italianate winery and gazebo restaurant overlooking Lake Ontario has become a destination for tours and major events. Visitors appreciate their easy drinking affordable wines from a mix of hybrid and European grapes. Amy left the winery in 2011 when it came under new ownership and a second Amy took her place.

Amy Dickinson, now Baldwin, is a graduate of Niagara College who trained at Reif Winery. An energetic multi-tasker, Amy Baldwin has been building up the winery’s portfolio of wines and in her spare time makes fruit wines and ciders for Clafeld Fruit Winery Market across the road and for the Big Apple in Colborne.

Although the original women winemakers were divided by distance, the workload, and differences in winemaking philosophies, friendships are blossoming in the next generation.

Amy Baldwin was at Niagara College with Kerri Crawford - the new assistant winemaker at Rosehall Run - a County girl who first worked at the Grange winery along with Maggie Belicastro. Another classmate, MacKenzie Brisbois, who interned for several years with Norman Hardie, has just started as the winemaker and viticulturist for Trail Winery. Lucie Trepanier, a highly qualified sommelier and harvest hopper is another Norman Hardie protégée who is now interning at Keint-he Winery. Dannielle

Davidson, a Loyalist College graduate in biotechnology, joined County Cider in 2009 and is the production manager and cider maker. Jacklyn Boyd, another Niagara College grad, is the new assistant winemaker at Sandbanks.

The youngest winemaker in the County is Emily Lacey. She has been planting vines at Lacey Estates since she was six. She produced her first wine this year at 17 under the guidance of her father, Kimball Lacey, and is heading for Niagara College in 2016.

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It isn’t just the locals who think so; Time magazine listed Prince Edward County as one of the top travel destinations for 2015.

Tyendinaga is one such area full of culture, beauty, and recreational options off the traditional map, including the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. After the American Revolution, in which Mohawk peoples dutifully served on behalf of the British, the Crown committed new land to the Mohawk warriors to compensate for their lost indigenous lands. They chose to settle on the Bay of Quinte in 1784 and today more than 9,000 people form the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte (MBQ), one of the communities within the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy.

Tyendinaga and the Mohawk territory are rich in historic and cultural experiences and are worth a stop for more than cheap gas and souvenirs. Take an afternoon or a whole week to drive through the countryside and stop at some of the waiting local attractions.

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Caves, owned and operated by Charles and Elizabeth Koch. The couple purchased the property 31 years ago from a local farmer who was unable to do much with the limestone-rich fields, especially once sinkholes began to appear. The caves formed after the ice age when glaciers swept through the area, often destroying anything in their path, which is why Elizabeth sees the Tyendinaga caves as such a special place. “The fact this survived glaciation and is still here today is something that is a wonder for nature because the glaciers, like we said, were so tremendously huge that by rights, the caves should have been crushed,” said Elizabeth.

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While they are intent on exploring the area and showcasing it to the public, Elizabeth and Charles prize research and preservation of the caves, including maintaining the integrity of formations such as curtains, stalagmites, and stalactites, which all take thousands of years to develop and are easily damaged. With an eye towards the future, Elizabeth and Charles know more history lurks underground, waiting to be revealed. “We wanted to explore it further and see what else was here,” said Charles. “I still have more exploration to do.”

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something because people were enjoying the stage, just looking at the art,” said David. From there, L’il Crow turned into an artistic empire, with Mohawk fare with modern twists and accommodations for those with dietary restrictions. Diners can also sample traditional medicinal drinks, each with their own herbal remedies. “We’re getting known for a place where you can come and feel the First Nations way of life,” David said.

The location is also home to a vibrant summer concert series on the outdoor stage, next to a tipi paying homage to First Nations culture. The property sits on the edge of Lake Ontario, offering stunning views and a hub for

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After lunching at L’il Crow, families can explore a National Historical site steeped in cultural significance. Christ Church, Royal Chapel of the Mohawks is one of only six royal chapels outside the United Kingdom. It was built by the Mohawk people in 1843 as a symbol of the political and military alliance with Britain. Over the centuries, the monarchy has given several gifts to the chapel, including a triptych in Mohawk language and a Bible.

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maintain the special relationship between Mohawk and British nations. “I have a special attachment to the Royal Chapel because it’s the burial place of our family,” Chief Maracle said.

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Renovations such as these come with a hefty price, forcing Chief Maracle to think outside the box when it came to fundraising.

“It was a pretty big challenge for a small community,” he noted. Between corporate donations, fundraising events, raffles and more, the efforts raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. The organizers welcome donations from the public for maintenance and utility costs, so the entire community can preserve this cultural legend. “If we’re going to preserve these buildings for present and future generations, then there needs to be strong public support,” said Chief Maracle.


With the four-month renovation nearly complete, the area awaits the renewal of the church and the symbolic alliance between the Crown and the Mohawk First Nations. Although not used for regular services, the church is open to all groups for various events and will soon involve bus and paid tours of the Chapel to learn about the relationship between Mohawk and British cultures, expressed through Christ Church. Money raised in these tours will go towards supporting future and current renovations. www.chapelroyal.ca

Whether attending the annual Tyendinaga Pow Wow or simply stopping in to pick up a couple of Mohawk First Nations art treasures, be sure to explore the local history and culture, relax, and of course, eat some of the finest indigenous cuisine for a true taste of Canada.

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The house with soaring gables, nine in total, grabs your attention right away. Number 2 Hill Street sits on a bluff commanding a view down the Picton Bay. So strategic is its location you think its walls should be stuffed with cannons and its ramparts fixed with sights. Judge Edwards Merrill built the fine double brick house in 1879, moving from a grander version of the same gabled silhouette around the corner, now The Merrill Inn. David and Marilyn Warrick rescued the house in 1988 from its decline as rooming house, tenement apartments, and home for handicapped children. Over the years, the couple have been returning ‘the MiniMerrill’ to origins.

David himself is of a Victorian cast, raised in Lancashire and schooled in Bloomsbury literature, but English and Humanities, which he taught at Humber College as a career, is not what fires his imagination these days. Nor Marilyn’s, who recently retired as a special ed teacher. These days it’s all about Canadian history and the County connection to Canada’s first Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald. Five years ago, David and Marilyn conceived of a larger-than-life bronze statue to recognize the young Macdonald as a Quinte boy.

Endurance, or what the Romans called ‘persistens,’ is a great virtue of people who get things done. The Warricks could package their tenacity, so consumed have they been by their Macdonald Project. Ruth Abernathy’s Holding Court, which critics are calling the finest work of this well-known Canadian sculptor, was unveiled and installed in front of the Armoury on Main Street, Picton on July 1 of this year. The 200th anniversary of the birth of our own John A. - Quinte boy extraordinaire has returned home.

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“Scotch,” David says not as question. Marilyn stays with tea for our mid-afternoon chat. He goes in one direction, one of the two kitchens now more of a bar annex, and she heads to the other kitchen in what used to be an apartment. With straight cut blonde hair, lithe and slender in dark blue culottes and a white patterned blouse, she walks quickly. The public rooms are painted in a serene off-white, what Farrow and Ball might call milk thistle. A framed map of Paris circa 1890, wall sconces, and a massive chandelier are evidence of a fondness for Restoration Hardware. A fire of applewood in a marble-faced fireplace takes the chill out of a day in search of sun and fills the room with sweetness.

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“Both our sons have been involved in the final push,” she continues. “Around here family is the first to be mobilized.”

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Carrying Place began as The Carrying Place along an ancient portage route between Weller’s Bay on Lake Ontario and the head of the Bay of Quinte; the two side trips travel its entire length. One route leads westward along Northumberland County Road 64, the other runs eastward on Old Portage Road.

The portage was invaluable to the area’s first peoples. A cairn erected in 1934 marks the 1787 Gunshot Treaty, when the Mississaugas relinquished control of territory stretching from here to today’s Toronto, and north to Lake Simcoe and Rice Lake.

The Old Portage Road section passes weathered farmhouses and barns carrying reminders of the ambitious early village. The boat launch rests among willows and rushes, Indian Island stands offshore, and Canadian Forces Base Trenton occupies the middle distance.

Along Northumberland County Road 64, Fort Kente Road signs announce ‘Kente Portage: the Oldest Road in Ontario.’ There’s a lot of history in a few short kilometres here - a Catholic mission in the 1660s and a First Nations village. Fort Kente, a log blockhouse once guarded the entrance to the portage, near where an optimistic billboard now announces a prospective residential development.

Four fine pre-1812 houses tell the pioneer story. Here, Asa Weller’s oxen hauled bateaux across the portage, and son William ran the legendary Weller stagecoach between York and Carrying Place, with connecting service to Prescott by steamship.

Here, Robert Young operated a tannery, store, and blacksmith shop. During the War of 1812, the portage was the ‘war route’, safely conveying troops, supplies, and captured American prisoners of war; regiments camped on the farm.

The future promised great things, but in 1889 the ship canal, first proposed early in the century, finally opened, not at the portage but a mile north in Murray Township; business shifted northward and prosperity eluded Carrying Place. Ironically, the name Murray persisted for the post office until 1913, when a historically minded postmaster petitioned to change the name to the Carrying Place, in honour of its history.

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What do you wish you understood about the workings of the universe?I would love to understand what else is out there. It’s arrogant to think we are the only ones here.

How do you get to the authentic self?Read more Joseph Campbell.

What is your favourite recipe for unhappiness?Hanging around un-authentic people

If you were in charge of the world for one day, what would you do?I would wave my magic wand and remove intolerance from our minds.

What takes you down the rabbit hole?The thought of never seeing my husband again.

What increases your sense of reverence?God is all around us. I watch the sunset at Westlake.

How can we escape the trap lines of our own obsessions?I rely on my friends and loved ones. They can’t help me with my obsession with Dr. Phil.

About Heather:

Heather Menzies shares her Gravitas with Alan Gratias

Discover your Gravitas Quotient at www.gravitasthegame.com


By Alan Gratias

Beautiful, sunny, and engaging, blonde actress Heather Menzies was born in Toronto in 1949. Her family moved to the United States when Heather was 11. She made a promising film debut as Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music. On television, she achieved fame as the fugitive Jessica in the series Logan’s Run. She appeared in dozens of film and television roles, including several appearances with her late husband the actor Robert Urich. Heather recently spoke at the 50th anniversary screening of The Sound of Music at the Regent Theatre to benefit Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital.

Robert Urich came to the County every summer as a child to stay at his uncle’s cottage. Later he came across a log cabin on West Lake and bought it on a whim and it became home to the family every summer. Robert Urich’s spirit is ingrained in the log home and he is buried in the church across the street. Heather and her three children and grandchildren continue to summer on West Lake every year.

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