For the Sleeman family, the cottage isn’t where they go to get away from it all, it’s where their work begins

ANDREA YU

There’s a light breeze in the air on an unseasonably cool afternoon in mid-August. The milder temperature is a relief for Quinn Sleeman. Decked out in a long-sleeved, red plaid shirt and brown hip waders, he’s clutching a pair of hedge trimmers as he walks down some moss-covered steps that meander through a small thicket of trees. He soon reaches a long wooden boardwalk that cuts through the marshy shore of his family’s Grey County, Ont., cottage with one goal in mind—to harvest the bulrushes that grow there. The weather might be cooperating today, but the late-summer mosquitoes are not. They’re out in full force, but Quinn’s undeterred from his goal. He steps off the wooden boardwalk into the marsh, where the bulrushes are beginning to dry from a grassy…

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Cottage Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, March/April 2025

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