Inside Caledon, Ontario

From the Toronto Star: In the months before she was kidnapped, Raquel Junio had devised a happy plan. She bought and kept furniture at the Brampton thrift shop where she worked, took the bus to a nearby library after shifts to scour the Internet for apartments and searched for a second job to make extra […]

Former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer has been much in the news the past several months for drunk driving and possession of cocaine charges yet receiving basically a slap on the wrist for the events that occurred that late Sept. 10 night last year. The Toronto Star has an excellent article in Thursday’s paper detailing the […]

If you are looking for a place for outdoor skating or hockey this winter season then you must check out Palgrave, Ontario. Located in north end of Caledon, you are able to skate on some cleared paths and there is also local hockey on the pond area (which is actually the Humber river) just on […]

Google Canada today revealed more than 130 Canadian cities to be viewed in the 3D environment of Google street view mode. Among those cities are Bolton, Orangeville and surprisingly many parts of Caledon, Ontario. Even the smaller the towns of Caledon Village, Caledon East, Alton & Mono Mills are mapped as well as many of […]

Just in case you were wondering if any of your tax dollars were ending up here back in our very own Caledon, here is a list projects in the Caledon area that received Federal Stimulus money this past year from the Federal Government also known as Canada’s Economic Action Plan. Thanks to David Tilson‘s Office, […]

This photo taken back on September 26th in the Palgrave conservation area provides a last glimpse of summer. There is only a small hint of changing colours and it just shows you how quickly it can turn from very green to the colours of fall. This is an HDR photo processed in Photomatix from a […]

While looking on Google Maps one day I found an area along the Humber river north of Palgrave, Ontario that appeared to be densely forested and appeared to be untouched. It looked interesting and got my curiosity going so I decided to take small hike for about an hour or two and check it out. […]

Does anyone know what happened to the Tim Hortons that was at Highway 50 and HWY 9 (Palgrave)? I noticed it closed not too long ago and was then surprised to see them tearing it down this past week. This particular location has always been very busy especially in the mornings so I don’t think […]

While driving to work every day along highway 50 I often see a number of hawks. For the longest time I was trying to get a good close up shot of one but didn’t have much success until recently. The hawk above I managed catch just south of Bolton near the Toyota Dealership, unfortunately I […]

I found this little guy a red headed woodpecker inside the Palgrave Conservation area. Unfortunately it had started to snow at the time but I was determined to get a picture of him so once I spotted him I slowly stalked him into the deep woods and with my brand new zoom lens (Olympus 70-300mm) […]