When retirees Bruce and Rosemary Kidd moved to Ridgeway, Ont., on the north shore of Lake Erie, one of their first desires was to add a double car garage to the property. The cost almost gagged them.

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In 18 th - and 19 th-century rural North America, barn-raising was a thing. But these days the Amish are among the last communities to carry on this mostly forgotten tradition in which neighbors ...