This is an encore presentation of our interview with Tom Cruickshank in 2023. Tom’s  current  big project  started out as a straightforward architectural inventory of Hamilton Township’s older buildings. The township had never catalogued its heritage before and in , 2016, Tom proposed he was the guy to do it. Retired from a career in journalism, he has an abiding interest in local history and heritage architecture, a subject he has pursued in no less than five books. His work includes Old Ontario Houses, Old Toronto Houses and The Settler’s Dream. For the better part of 25 years, he worked in the Canadian magazine industry, first as editor of the locally produced Century Home and later, Harrowsmith Country Life. Nowadays, he freelances for Watershed magazine.