Dundas Valley sits at the bottom of an ocean.

Not as a figure of speech. Around four hundred and thirty million years ago — long before any fish had bothered to grow legs — this whole corner of Ontario lay under a warm, shallow sea: coral, sponges, sea lilies, brachiopods no bigger than a thumbnail, living and dying in bath-warm water, their shells settling into the floor.

That floor is the rock now — the limestone the town stands on, still full of the things that lived there. Split the right stone on the right trail and they turn up. Fossils by the million. Bones, if you're loose with the word, of an ocean that never came back.

So here we are: a small valley town at the bottom of a vanished sea, under a rib of stone, surrounded by the evidence. Valley Bones by The Hollow Co. makes heavyweight sweatshirts and a few honest things — for the people who live here, and the ones who feel like they should.