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The Cottager - Fall 2011

Subscribe Today! Only $17.92 CAD for 1 year subscription. The next issue of The Cottager hits newsstands in March 2012. In Every Issue: - Opening Lines - Cottage Style - Product News - Cottage Cents - Cottage Country - NW Ontario Spotlight - On the Water - The Nature Trail - DIY Project - Cottage Cuisine - Cottage Talk - Cottage Plans - Real Estate

• Rebuilding Shorelines, Cottages & Lives

  A look at what’s happening on Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg as cottage and homeowners try to reclaim their flooded and storm-battered properties and shorelines.
  By Bruce Owen
  
  
  

• Keeping Your Cottage Safe

  If you don’t use your cottage in the winter, it could be a sitting target for thieves. A retired police officer gives tips on protecting your empty cottages
  By Shelley Goodwin
  
  
  

• No Place Like Home

  Doug Dufresne has had the best of both worlds for decades. The founder of Dufresne furniture stores has been able to live and work from his Lake of the Woods home.
  By Sherry Kaniuga
  
  
  

• Century-Old Cottages

  
  
  
  

• Bonded for Life

  Not many things are kept in the family for more than 100 years, but that’s the case of a Lake of the Woods cottage that has been filled with love since 1903.
  By Judy Owen
  
  
  

• Measures of Time

  A guest book with more than 2,000 signatures and a wall covered with the names and heights of growing children are treasures inside this Matlock-area cottage built in 1910.
  By Bill Redekop
  
  
  

• Preserving a Heritage Home

  It wasn’t easy for a pioneer couple to build a log cabin near Lac du Bonnet in 1907, but their efforts weren’t forgotten as each new owner kept the home standing.
  By Donna Besel