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smaller rural community of Brant, especially as we both work in the City of Brantford. Our children attended school in Brant- ford, although my son did attend high school in Hamilton. Our farm house

By Teri Davidson My husband and I live on a

seventy five acre farm in Ancaster, just at the Brant County line. It’s a wonderful location, close to the City of Brantford and ten minutes from the big box stores in Ancast- er. Our side of the road is in the Municipality of Hamilton Went- worth and the other side of the road is the County of Brant where taxes are much cheaper and life seems, ridiculously, to be nicer. We don’t like to feel we are part of the huge Hamilton area as we prefer the

previous family lived here on the farm for 42 years. The original board and batton barns are still here along with a newer drive shed and small two storey, two stall, horse barn. My husband and I added a brand new 10 stall horse barn with a 80 x160’ indoor arena two years ago. The barn has its own driveway and is separated by the old original cow barn and hay barn from the house. My husbands family were

is a buff double brick farnmhouse built in 1861 and has an addition to the one side and the back during its later years when it housed a family with eight children. The

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His grandfather owned the proper- ty and farmed the land on the Hog’s Back which is just around the corner from our place and sits high on a steep hill overlooking Governor’s Rd. My husbands mother grew up

on the Hog’s Back farm and remembers well the hardships of rural living and especially trying to drive up that hill during winter time many years ago. She also remembers the old barn, the animals, the cold, the heat of the summers and the happy times of playing outside with her siblings, good neighbours, cooking and enjoying home cooked meals and attending the little rural school which used to be located on the corner of St. George Rd just two blocks down the road from her family farm. After her parents decided to

farmers in the area many years ago. nal family farm when we decided

retire the farm was left to my hus- band’s uncle who sold it when he found the long days of hard work too much to keep up with. We tried to purchase the origi-

to purchase our own farm property ten years ago and drove up the long winding driveway to the old frame house to see if the new owners would consider sell- ing. They’d done lots of renova- tions over the years and the old place looked nice but sadly for us

home farm which is just around the corner across from another old Circa 1800’s Red brick that used to belong to someone in the family but has been owned by a cabinet

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