Magazine clipping of an article entitled "Last of the icemen recalls colourful ice harvesting in former capital of Ontario" from the magazine Early Canadian Life, January issue 1979. The article was written by Brian Baker and describes the life of Bill Ruffet who spent 20 years as foreman at an ice house in Belle Ewart, known as the ice capital of Ontario because of its clarity and hardness. The article also discusses techniques of harvesting ice and the use of sawdust to preserve the ice during hot summer months. It also includes a photo of Bill with his wife Susan Hardy, to whom he had been married for 72 years at the time, as well as a photo of a horse pulling an ice cutter and a photo of a loading crew preparing to load Lake Simcoe ice into a Missouri Pacific Railway boxcar for a summer shipment to the United States.
