100 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 27, 1908

• On Wednesday of last week another blockade commenced on the Owen Sound branch of the CPR. The morning train south did not reach Shelburne until 2 p.m. and there was no train north on that day. A train that afternoon started from Owen Sound but got stalled near Corbetton and remained there all night, the passengers passing the night in the coaches. On Thursday the snowplow from the south got through and was followed later by a passenger train which reached Shelburne at 3:30 p.m. The mixed train that had been stalled at Corbetton left Shelburne about 4:00 p.m. for the south, taking a couple of cars of livestock that had been loaded on Wednesday morning. The regular southbound evening train on Thursday , due about 5:14 p.m. did not get down until about four hours later and met the up train in Shelburne. On Friday evening the southbound passenger train arrived at 9:20 p.m. and the train for Owen Sound did not reach Shelburne until 12:30 Saturday morning, having been delayed by the snowplow getting off the track near Orangeville Junction.

• The weather this week is of the changeable variety. Sunday night was clear and cold and on Monday morning the temperature stood at 22 degrees below zero F. It was a clear and bright day but got very windy Monday night with a rise in temperature. Tuesday was warmer but it started to storm in the afternoon and continued all night. On Wednesday morning the temperature was only 2 degrees below freezing but the snow was piled up again in all directions and it looks very much like another blockade for the railway. The depth of snow at the present time beats anything on record in this locality.

• Says the Owen Sound Sun: There is indignation in Owen Sound and all the towns along this branch of the CPR at the irregularity and uncertainty of the service this winter. For the last few weeks the smallest flurry of snow would block up the road for days, while other roads - the locally branch of the GTR, for example - would continue business as usual. The CPR has apparently neglected this road with the property snow-fighting facilities, with the result that the business of the railway and the towns served by it has been demoralized for the last month. It is claimed by some that the local line is improperly manned. Early in the winter Mr. Nelson, the new division superintendent, closed up a number of stations, turning them into flag stations for the winter, and dismissed dozens of men - chiefly section men and yard hands. With so many men laid off the present siege of snow has found the road sadly crippled for help, and those in charge without the proper number of hands to keep the road open. There appears to be no definite organization for snow fighting at this end of the line, and most of the work has been done by crews from the south. A snowplow should be kept constantly in Owen Sound in readiness for service. The businessmen of Owen Sound and towns along the line are certainly justified in making complaints of the train service this winter.

75 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 3, 1933

• A large female timber wolf, said to be responsible for sheepkilling in Peel County, has been shot by James Roberts of Credit Forks, who was walking with his nephew between the Caledon Fifth Line and Forks when he sighted the wolf 50 yards away. He fired three shots, hitting it each time. The wolf, said to be the first shot in the county in half a century, measured five feet seven inches and weighed 70 pounds.

• The Silk rink of curlers from Shelburne - F. Armstrong, V. G.H. Phillips, C. R. White, A. V. Silk, skip, - came proudly home form th 6th Annual Bonspiel last week bearing with them the handsome large Seagram trophy and four beautiful silver trays, reproductions of Old Sheffield design for the personal trophies. This is the first time a Shelburne rink has come into possession of the big trophies in curlingdom and "the boys" are consequently justifiably proud of their success.

50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, February 26, 1958

• A special meeting of Dufferin County Council was held in Orangeville last Thursday to consider applications for the positions of County Engineer and County Weed Inspector. Five applications for the position of County Engineer were received and Council accepted that of Mr. D. J. Corbett at a salary of $5,400. Mr. Ed Oldfield, who had previously resigned as weed inspector, was re-appointed at a salary of $1 per hour when on duty plus 10 cents per mile.

25 YEARS AGO Wednesday, March 2, 1983

• Budget talks were to begin last night at a special Dufferin County Board of Education meeting. Education Director Stan Robinson has said that imposed budget restraints have "meant severe if not devastating deferments if not cuts to the education plan in the system."