by Keith Anderson
Most of John Kinrade's 90 years has been spent on the farm his parents initially bought a few kilometres out of Drouin.
And as he chalked up his milestone birthday last week - celebrated with three generations of descendants - he gave no hint that he intends going anywhere else.
Mr Kinrade arrived as a 17 year-old with his parents at the then 100-acre property on Greenshields Rd in 1950 and has never lived anywhere else.
They paid 8250 pounds for it (a lot of money in those days) including a herd of 36 cows, 12 heifers, two horses and some farm machinery; one of 14 dairy farms then being worked along Greenshields Rd.

At the time you could make a good living with 30 milking cows, Mr Kinr