The Globe and Mail

It was the rusty old hinge that did it, carefully wrapped and placed under the family Christmas tree. Jim Campbell, then an architecture student at the University of Manitoba, laughed when he opened the unlikely gift. "Gee, thanks," he said. "Very funny." "Wait a minute," said his brother. "There's something else attached to that." Something else turned out to be a dilapidated barn standing on a site a few kilometres from the 1870s homestead near Duntroon, Ont., (about 20 kilometres south of Collingwood) that Mr. Campbell inherited from his father and grandfather, and where he still lives with his wife Suzanne and their two young daughters.