Month: August 2025

Alan Roy Capon

On By Sara WalkerIn Local History, Non-Fiction, Writer Local to Kawartha LakesLeave a comment

Known for being the longtime editor of the Lindsay Post, Alan R. Capon was also an author.

Photo: KLMA

Born in 1932 in England, Alan Roy Capon immigrated to Canada in 1937 as a married father of three. He was hired as a copywriter for the Robert J. Simpson company. In 1963, he established the Minden Times newspaper and was editor for the next two years, when he handed over the reins so he could helm the Lindsay Daily Post, where he remained editor until 1970. For the next twenty years, he was editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard and was also editor of the Picton Gazette. Capon was an active member of community organizations, a photographer, and an historian.

His books about Kawartha Lakes include His Faults Lie Gently: the incredible Sam Hughes (1969) and Historic Lindsay (1973).

The Kawartha Lakes Museum and Archives (KLMA) produced a digital exhibition about the Lindsay Post and included the biography of Alan R. Capon: https://www.klmuseumarchives.ca/lindsay-post

Books:

His Faults Lie Gently: the incredible Sam Hughes (1969)

Stories of Prince Edward County (1973)

Historic Lindsay (1973)

Prince Edward Treasury (1976)

Mascots of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (1977)

Desperate Venture: Central Ontario Railway (1979)

A Goodly Heritage (1980)

Everybody Called Him Harvey (1982)

Fifty Years A County Veterinarian (1983)

Deseronto: Then and Now (1989)

Further Reading:

https://www.countyweeklynews.ca/opinion/columnists/my-last-name-is-capon-and-i-dont-sell-chickens

Amy Terrill

On By Sara WalkerIn Fiction, Historical, Writer Local to Kawartha LakesLeave a comment

Amy Terrill, a King Charles III Coronation Medal recipient for her contributions to Canada and her community, has been involved in political discourse throughout her career. A Political Science graduate from Queen’s University, Amy has spent time as a journalist, government relations specialist, and not-for-profit leader. Writing has been a constant pursuit.

No Secrets Among Sisters was inspired by a family history written by her Great-Aunt Frankie and her experiences working in a WWI Toronto munitions factory. This is Amy’s first work of fiction.

An avid reader, writer and traveller, Amy lives with her husband on a farm in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.

Once at the top of her field, investigative reporter Amelia Collins has been struggling with the loss of her father. When her story exposing political corruption at the highest level is shelved, her temper erupts, putting her career in jeopardy at a moment when a rival is poised to take her place. As she deals with the fallout, she’s given a chance to run for federal politics. With just one weekend to decide on the course of her future, Amelia looks to her mother for guidance only to discover, before his death, her father left her a mystery to solve. A century earlier, her great-aunt walked away from a similar political opportunity despite encouragement from one of Canada’s best-known suffragists.

As Amelia digs through family archives to find out why Great-Aunt Frankie abandoned her political dream, she uncovers a web of violence, sudden disappearances and a mysterious fire that destroyed the Canadian parliament buildings.

No Secrets Among Sisters is a work of historical fiction set in Toronto in both World War I and current day; it highlights women’s continuing struggle for equality, representation and fair treatment in political spheres.

Works:

No Secrets Among Sisters (2025)

H. L. Dahmer

On By Sara WalkerIn Non-Fiction, Writer Local to Kawartha LakesLeave a comment

Heather Dahmer’s sense of humour and love of words has led her through many professional, volunteer, and personal experiences, including work with a non-profit charitable organization helping families dealing with workplace tragedy. Her unique and humorous perspective allows her to write stories about struggle and initiative, and they have forged her way through the things life drops at her door and through her attic walls.

Her article “Letting the Light Back In” won an award from Threads of Life in 2015, and explored love, loss, and beginning again as a widow in a whole new world after the loss of her husband. She is many things to many people: a mother, divorcee, window, step-grandmother, caregiver, and writer. She wrote a blog for years detailing her husband’s illness and last years, and If This House Could Talk is the first book in a new series. She lives in Dunsford, Ontario.

www.sawmillhouse.ca

Works:

If This House Could Talk (2021)