Pine Ridge Cemetery’s annual meet
- October, 2019
By Tim Lambrinos
In the last Sunday of August, decendents of pioneer families from Humber Summit and Emery meet in the local cemetery on Islington Avenue to reflect upon the remarkable stories of their ancestors.
The meeting in the cemetery is reminiscent of an extended family picnic. The even...
Emery’s Poet Laureate
- August, 2019
Dr. Laurence Hutchman, has written a new book of poetry entitled, "The House of Shifting Time." One of the poems in his book was inspired by a visit in 2016 with the McClure family to a location where their father resided in a farmhouse near the Humber River, prior to 1954.
Their house and sev...
Emery’s Poet Laureate
- June, 2017
This month, Dr. Laurence Hutchman was designated with the title as Poet Laureate of Emery. Hutchman was a student at Gulfstream Public School and Emery Collegiate Institute in the 1960’s. He went on to become a professor who taught English Literature at several Canadian universities. He recei...
Weather holds up for annual gathering at Pine Ridge cemetery
- September, 2016
By Sean Delaney
It happens the last Sunday of August – every August. Descendants of Emery Village and Humber Summit’s historical pioneers gather to meet and reflect on memories of their earlier ancestors.
On Sunday, August 28, the Pine Ridge Cemetery Board of Trustees officially met for their ...