With the Romanesque Revival architecture of the Old Post Office in Almonte as a backdrop, is a larger-than-life bronze statue of Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. Naismith was born in 1861 on a farm on the outskirts of a thriving mill town in the Canadian province of Ontario. Naismith began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in Bennie’s Corners. He was an average student, being far more interested in exploring the fields, meadows, creeks, and woodlands surrounding his childhood home. Apart from the mandatory chores on the…
