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Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario
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Photos and Short Stories

Through photos and personal narratives, we aim to capture everything from community events and local traditions to the quiet, everyday experiences that make our corner of Northwestern Ontario special. It’s a place to celebrate our shared heritage, connect with neighbors, and ensure the spirit of Dyment and Borups Corners continues to thrive for generations to come.

A tiny green gem: A Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) perches on a fingertip in Melgund Township, Ontario. Despite its name, this native amphibian can shift its color from mottled gray to vibrant green to blend seamlessly into the Boreal forest canopy.
Photos and Short Stories

Master of disguise spotted in Melgund Township

Despite its name, Ontario's Gray Treefrog flashes brilliant green hues and sticky-toed acrobatics during spring breeding season
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Beautiful, ripe strawberries, hand-picked after a season of careful cultivation.
Community Garden

How Often to Water Strawberries?

A lot of people have been asking: How often to water strawberries?
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Blooming before the trees leaf out, this resilient native sedge brings early life to shaded northern forests. With its signature triangular stems, Pennsylvania sedge forms soft, flowing green carpets under the dense boreal canopy.
Community Garden

Golden Tassels: Pennsylvania Sedge

Learn how Ontario's wild Pennsylvania sedge uses wind pollination and creeping roots to anchor dry woodland ecosystems.
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Growing Apple Trees from Seed
Community Garden

Growing Apple Trees from Seed

Watching our young apple seedlings leaf out brings a genuine sense of excitement to the garden routine.
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Vibrant glow moss carpets the damp boreal forest floor of Northwestern Ontario, creating a lush green wonderland. Lacking true roots, this microscopic ancient plant absorbs moisture directly through its leaves to survive harsh conditions.
Community Garden

Glow Moss: The Living Sponge

Glow Moss (Aulacomnium palustre), is a vibrant, water-retaining bryophyte blanketing the damp forest floors of Northwestern Ontario.
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These tiny native violets hug the cold forest floor to survive harsh northern winds and early frosts. Intricate purple nectar guides act as vivid runway lights, directing early spring pollinators to these microscopic wildflowers.
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Tiny Treasures: The Secret World of White Violets

From feeding native bees to hosting rare butterfly caterpillars, these minuscule plants quietly anchor Ontario’s fragile ecosystem.
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Delayed by a cold spring, unique green and purple apple seedlings finally leaf out in the land lab.
Community Garden

Apple Trees Opening Up

Discover how Art Borups Corners is utilizing a community apple orchard to talk about northern food security.
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Tiny green threads of dill lift flat, striped seed hulls out of the coarse earth.
Community Garden

The Dill Appears

Dill. Our favourite plant begins its season as a pair of thin shoots in the mulch.
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Rain Catchers: A single bead of rainwater rests perfectly in the center of a radiating lupine leaf, capturing the quiet, green morning light of a northern garden.
Community Garden

Lupines: Living Lenses in the Soil

Lupines shape the soil and inspire creative growth in our Northwestern Ontario community garden.
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This rugged clump of Common Wood-rush stands out against the surrounding terrain at our Northwestern Ontario land lab. The plant showcases its characteristic wide, flat leaves mixed with weathered, papery brown tips left over from surviving a brutal Boreal winter under the snow. On the left side, the newly emerging spring flower clusters are already waving on thin stalks above the dense mound.
Community Garden

Wood Rush

Wood-rush looks like grass but belongs to a different family. Learn to spot this resilient native plant in Northwestern Ontario.
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Upcoming Events

Celebrate Canada Day by showcasing your talents at the upcoming Dyment Community Craft Sale on July 1st! Held at the Dyment, Ontario Community Centre & Grounds from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, this vibrant community market is officially calling for local vendors, artisans, and creators to join the festivities. Organizers are currently seeking applications for a wide variety of booths, including handmade crafts, artisan goods, local produce, vintage & unique finds, and delicious eats. It is a fantastic opportunity for small businesses and hobbyists alike, offering both tables and tent spaces with no fee for tables. To learn more about booth information, request an application, or register for the event, interested vendors can contact Terri at 807-220-5177, email melgundlsb@gmail.com, or visit the official website at www.melundrecreation.ca. Make sure to submit your application before the deadline on June 25th. Don't miss out on this incredible celebration of creativity and community in Melgund Township!
Celebrate Canada Day in Melgund Township with live music, local food, artists, vendors and family fun at the Dyment Recreation Hall and Complex on July 1. Enjoy performances by Gerry and Tanya McArthur, Walter and Friends, and more.
Join Art Borups Corners on July 18, 2026 at the Dyment Recreation Hall for an evening of food, music, creativity, and community connection. Enjoy a community BBQ, connect with neighbours, and help imagine the future of local parks and greenspaces through drawing, mapping, storytelling, and conversation. Part of the national Everyone Outdoors Together initiative led by the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA).
Discover a growing collection of inspirational and motivational short stories from Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario, created to inspire hope, resilience, courage, and personal growth. These uplifting short stories and daily motivational reads are rooted in strong community values, dignity, integrity, perseverance, and leadership—reflecting life across the Prairies and Northern Ontario.

Each inspirational story delivers powerful life lessons, positive mindset reminders, and encouragement for self-improvement, mental strength, and purposeful living. Whether you’re searching for motivational stories for tough times, short stories about resilience and overcoming challenges, or inspirational reflections grounded in rural, northern, and Indigenous-informed community perspectives, this collection is designed to fuel optimism, confidence, and long-term success.

Through storytelling that highlights community leadership, youth empowerment, kindness, and values-based living, these inspirational short stories help readers in Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario, and beyond stay grounded, build inner strength, and move forward with clarity, hope, and possibility.

ART BORUPS CORNERS SOCIETY

Art Borups Corners is a non-profit arts incubator based in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario. We bring artists, youth, and local residents together through hands-on creative projects, workshops, and storytelling rooted in everyday life in the North. Our focus is on making space for people to try things, share skills, and build confidence through art that grows out of where they live.


We’re also a place for testing ideas and working across different ways of making — from land-based practice to digital work and everything in between. Much of what we do happens through partnerships and shared projects, connecting local creative work with wider conversations while keeping things grounded, practical, and community-led.


BN: 790519573RC0001

ESTABLISHED WITH FUNDING FROM

Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Logo

This program was seeded with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program. This program allowed us to explore strategic arts innovation, capacity building and new technologies. Programming was also supported by the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program and the Province of Ontario. We thank them for their support.

PROGRAMMING SUPPORTED BY

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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