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Ontario cottagers may want to give oak trees some credit. It turns out they’re pretty adept at helping keep caterpillar infestations down.

According to a new study from researchers at the University of Würzburg in Germany, oak trees can fight back against hungry caterpillars simply by waiting a few extra days to leaf out in spring. The findings,


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Think moon landing, Woodstock, and the best days of Bryan Adams’ life.

For cottager Henry Holmsten, born in Turku, Finland, it was equally a time of great upheaval, with some fate woven in. “I came to Sault Ste. Marie as a four-year-old,” he says. “My family immigrated to Canada in the summer of 1969—the same year that the camp on Wart Lake was built, ironically.”

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Our final lunch at the lake was on a warm fall day, standing around on the deck. Blue sky almost too bright to look at, holding back a sheet of grey clouds. This was the last time my extended family were together at our old cottage, the place


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Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly difficult for Canadians to imagine buying their first home—let alone a cottage. But perhaps the financial key is simply to… combine the two?

More first-time home buyers are turning to recreational properties as their gateway into the housing market, according to


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