Since its early days, Stratford has been a garden-mad city, creating beauty amid sometimes less-than-ideal conditions.
Category: Stratford Like a Local
Groovin’ in the Grove
The Stratford Side Trail of the Avon Trail goes through an in-city forested natural area that used to be called The Old Grove.
The paths amid the dead
The Avondale Cemetery covers around 68 acres, with more than 33,200 internments: that’s more than the current official living population of Stratford.
Shall we gather by the river
It can be easy to take the picturesque, park-lined Avon River for granted. As my father-in-law says, “when I grew up here, I thought every town looked like this.”
Hog wild
The city of Stratford is the largest municipality in Perth County, which has the highest concentration of pig farms in Canada.
A place for dancer’s pose
The Yoga Collective appears to be the longest-running continuous yoga studio in Stratford.
From Pounders to pints
Pounder Bros. Construction was a pre-eminent builder in 20th-century Stratford, Ontario, and the family also ran the go-to hardware and lumber yard for trades known as Pounders. I remember going there in 2001, when renovating the first house I owned in Stratford. It was quirky, old-timey, and likely had that weird hoojit you needed for…
Loathe like a local
In Stratford, Ontario, there’s much kvetching about outrages, large and small, that are flies in the ointment of happy local living.
