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A secret map to the town’s lavender fields,
firewater and Hollywood film sets.
BY JULES TORTIWhy We Love
AY R
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hen I was a kid, we’d frequently pass
through Ayr on our scenic, pastoral route
home via Paris, Ontario. It was a zigzag
left-right turn off the appropriately named Swan
Street, past the laundromat with big bubbles on its
sign. Just after the Little Short Stop variety store,
my dad would slow the Cutlass Supreme so we could
look for the swans that were always skimming the
surface of the storybook Watson Pond.THE LAVENDER FARM