Updates
SWAN LAKE – It’s exciting to see huge beautiful trumpeter swans. This pair went sailing serenely by me on the Mississippi River that runs out of Dalhousie Lake.
February 12, 2024 Written By Rosemary Tayler Published in Lanark Era Other Articles & Updates
January 15, 2024 The entire article by John Blais appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on January 15, 2024. For years, the aggregate industry in Ontario has operated with total impunity, while simultaneously complaining about too much “red tape.” Gravel extracted from pits and quarries is essential for new building and infrastructure needs, yet this non-renewable…
January 15, 2024 Written By Rosemary Tayler Please take a moment to listen to this beautiful song by Long Sault Trio. Video footage of Long Sault Creek by Dean Spence. Music written and performed by Long Sault Trio in protest of 2 proposed gravel pits, applying for below the water table putting Barbers Lake, Long…
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.
Wanting to share the existing beauty of this pristine ecosystem, we have made a 2024 Long Sault Creek calendar.
When it comes back from press in early January, it will be distributed free of charge at the McDonald’s Corners Reuse Centre.
Join us on Sunday, November, 26, 2023 from 1pm to 3pm as Dr. Dennis Murray talks about Blanding’s Turtle.
Here is the short note by Gena Gibson, editor of the Lanark Era and the photo she took at the 169th McDonalds Corners Annual Fall Fair on Saturday, September 16, 2023.
Vernon Wheeler has owned and run Wheelers Maple Products with his family since the late 1970s. A proposed gravel pit would sit next to his sugar bush.
Here are some aerial views of Barbers Lake and showing where the proposed pit will go as well as where Arnott Brothers pit currently is.