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Exhibit highlights life of Black Canadian music producer, from piano at age 4 to first award

At Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, an art exhibit called Why? highlights the life of an award-winning Black Canadian music producer.

Todmorden Mills celebrates Canada 150 with Harvest Festival

Thirty-degree heat did not stop East Yorkers from coming down to Todmorden Mills on Sunday for the Harvest Festival.
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Legion’s 90th, a tribute to its veterans

Cathy Andrews volunteers at the Royal Canadian Legion in part as tribute to her grandfather. She said Wilfred Edwin Andrews was a quiet man who served as an acting lance corporal during the period the Great War. He served with the 169th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. His granddaughter, ladies auxiliary president, honours his memory.

March break 2016 in East York

Todmorden Mills, located at 67 Pottery Rd., is a great way to experience authentic pioneer living. This historical site is running a daily drop-in program dubbed "March Mania in the Valley," from 12-4 pm over the break.

Mosaic honours the history of local indigenous peoples

The loons and the cranes are the chief clans. The deer clan people are loving and nurturing. The marten clan is the warrior, and the bird clan carry spiritual knowledge. Medicine is represented by the bear clan. The turtle and fish are the intellectuals, the planners and educators who share information among clans.

Wildflower work a preview to community cleanup day

Paula Davies' team is out twice weekly bringing the site back to what it once was. A recent problem that she's noticed in the preserve is that guests are digging up plants and taking them away.

Issues lurk beneath pastoral landscape

Elizabeth Novak said she worries about the effect the past winter is going to have on the Todmorden Mills preserve. There are 94 documented bird species frequenting the area, and with the unusual winter, their migratory pattern has been affected.

Water(colours) under the Pottery Road bridge

“I think watercolour is an incredible, beautiful medium,” said Alejandro Rabazo. “Big oil paintings are powerful, but this is very elegant.”

Creativity blooms at art exhibit

But these plants, displayed in the facility’s Papermill Gallery, weren’t real. They were artful renditions by the Botanical Artists of Canada (BAC), which held its annual juried art exhibition at the centre, located on Pottery Road.

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