tun'd his pipes wi' grave grimace...

   I was looking at a website for a local business today. They are located at a corner which abuts a town park named after the founding residents of this fair burgh. Aurora, Ontario used to be known as Machell's Corners, after Richard Machell, who was the first merchant to set up shop at the spanking new crossroads of Yonge Street and Wellington Road in 1804. This business (the one whose website I was perusing, not Richard Machell's), which is located in a plaza across the street from Machell Park, has a map to their location on their website provided by Microsoft MapPoint™. What caught my eye was the fact that the name of the park, no doubt typed in by a tired and/or bored data entry clerk who was used to the plethora of Scottish and Irish derived place names in southern Ontario, was rendered as MacHell Park.
   I'm wondering, is that where the piper's will be practising before tomorrow's Robbie Burns Day dinner?

Tags: humour, Aurora, Machell's Corners, Ontario, Robbie Burns Day