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Autumn comes to Ontario

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Either Renfrew or Arnprior, Ontario

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So after my mom gave us the old Hudson's Bay Blanket (not in the classic strips - I hadn't even known it was HBC until we got it), I did some research on it, because she didn't know the history of it either. I discovered that it's from then 1950's or 1960's based on the tag is has (with no good way that I can find to date it any more closely), and that second hand blankets go for a song compared to new ones.

Given how much my family loves the blanket (great for on the couch), I decided that on my regular trips to the local thrift store I'd watch for blankets - long shot of course, presumably they'd seem them and put them in the auction, or otherwise try to get appropriate value for them. It looks like I was right about it being a long shot - the $15 wool blanket I found is Canadian made (did you know that despite being a Canadian icon the Hudson's Bay blankets are not? It makes sense when you think about it, I just never did). I of course looked it up online to see what I could find out about it.

I got very lucky. The Arnprior museum had created a presentation on the mill (which used to be a significant, and good, employer in the town) and it's up on Digital Museums Canada. This new blanket (which I'm going to want to replace the binding on, because in between me buying it, and now it drying from me hand washing it, the bindings have 100% fallen apart at the fold line - it was only threatening in the store) predates 1979, and is likely at least from the 1960's based on the tags. The mill stopped making the blankets in 1979, and the company was either acquired, or merged with another company forming a third company in 1962. As far as I can tell, either at that time or at 1967 when "[t]he divisions were amalgamated" the labels started including the name of the larger company.

And once again, I doubt I will be able to find more details on the history. In theory I might be able to track down a start date for the window of when this blanket could have been made based on the colour, but that date is potentially 1930, as there were a LOT of colours and blanket lines by then.

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The mayor has breached the Arnprior, Ont., code of conduct after penning an opinion letter to residents about systemic racism, says the town's integrity commissioner.

In his letter titled "My Opinion" and sent to local mailboxes in January, Mayor Walter Stack argues why he doesn't believe systemic racism exists in his town after hearing "input from both sides on the topic."

The letter follows a CBC Ottawa series on racism in the Ottawa Valley, where Black and Indigenous people and people of colour (BIPOC) shared their experiences with racism and called on local leaders to do something about it.

In one story, Stack told CBC he doesn't believe there's systemic racism in Arnprior and suggested racist incidents there are isolated — which prompted petitions calling for the town to apologize.

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Farm fresh by Richard Fox Via Flickr: Some crazy hill fog drifted across as sunset near Arnprior during our wintry spell a few weeks ago. Had to stop the 4x4 and take this pano.

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No.4 The Canadian 8579 eastbound through Arnprior 10/28/1978 Fred Clark Note: This unit dispatched from Sudbury while arriving covered wagons worked south to Toronto for tomorrow's The Canadian from there.