Society

Writer Joseph Boyden discovers big plans afoot for the other James Bay watershed

Dip into the island’s quirky charm

’You’re a different person when you’re at the cottage. The aliens come and take your normal brain away.’

A glimpse inside the real Soweto

He met his wife the first day of Grade 1. Later, she went to his races and he to her Matchbox 20 shows.

A fireman born and bred, he got passionate about vintage vehicles after he won a chief’s car in a raffle

He loved airplanes and cars. When his sister was born, he asked God for an Austin instead.

Now that we’re being overrun with deer, they don’t seem so cute

Kids can’t recognize an oak leaf, or tell a wasp from a bee

He lived to help other people, and he always wanted a boat, even though he couldn’t swim