About Inglewood Nature Press
Inglewood Nature Press, founded in 2020 by husband-and-wife team Paul Aird and Linda Pim, presents
BUTTERFLY BEAUTIFLY BEAUTIFUL: Nature Poems as its first publication.
Inglewood is a village nestled at the foot of the Niagara Escarpment in the town of Caledon, Ontario, Canada. It lies within the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere, an international United Nations designation that recognizes the ecological significance of the escarpment.
Inglewood is on the shores of the Credit River and is surrounded by forests, fields and farms. The Bruce Trail, Canada’s longest hiking trail, runs through the escarpment forests nearby.
Inglewood Nature Press is located in Paul and Linda’s heritage-designated home, built in the 1880s. It was originally a millworker’s cottage; Inglewood had a woollen mill in its early days.
The half-acre wooded property boasts many species of native trees, a tributary of the Credit River and a small stone barn which likely predates the house.
After completing degrees in agriculture, forestry and conservation from McGill and Cornell Universities, he spent 23 years as a forest scientist in the Québec forest industry. For a further 22 years, he was a professor of forest conservation policy in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Forestry.
Paul is the author of both popular and scientific papers and reports on forestry and nature conservation. He is a well-recognized expert on the natural history and distribution of the Kirtland’s Warbler, a bird species that is endangered in Ontario.
Paul’s travels through forests, fields, rivers and lakes on foot, skis, snowshoes and by canoe have inspired him to write and share fables, poems, stories and songs about Canada’s precious natural heritage.
She has worked in both environmental non-governmental organizations and the Ontario government over her 40-year career.
She has authored or co-authored books on food additives, environmental contaminants in food, protecting the Niagara Escarpment and smart urban growth.
She had served as a Commissioner on the Niagara Escarpment Commission and continues to pursue her passion for the escarpment in her work with the Niagara Escarpment Foundation, as well as by maintaining a section of the Bruce Trail, her favourite place to hike.
Land Acknowledgement
Inglewood Nature Press is located on lands that have been inhabited by Indigenous Peoples from the beginning. We are grateful for the opportunity to enjoy this land and we thank the generations of Indigenous Peoples who have taken care of this land for thousands of years.
We live and work on the Treaty and Territorial Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This is also the territory of the Huron-Wendat, the Haudenosaunee and the Métis. We recognize and deeply appreciate Indigenous Peoples’ historic connections to this place.
The lands in our area are now home to many Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) from across Turtle Island.
We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on this land, and in doing so, we express our respect for its first inhabitants. We strive to help protect the land, water, plants, animals and ecosystems of this place.
We are deeply aware of the cultural injustices experienced by Indigenous peoples in Canada and express our commitment to continue to learn more about the truth. Only by understanding such truth can reconciliation become real through actions in our communities.
BUTTERFLY BEAUTIFLY BEAUTIFUL: Nature Poems
is a companion to Paul Aird’s 1998 book Loon Laughter: Ecological Fables and Nature Tales.
Visit Paul Aird’s website loonsforever.ca.