1975 Arrival Nova Scotia ..............................


Feelings were mixed back then I'm sure. This little memory lane wander was prompted by my browsing through our 'colour slide CD' which holds pictures of Singapore and much of what followed.
A few of my heartstrings got tugged during that browse! Yearnings for times gone by? The ache as you wish that "Scotty could beam you back"?

This is Martin with saucepan and Mitch with hair. The place? "Back of the Moon Lodge" cottage in Enfield. Summer of 1975 after a rainstorm - Martin is catching rain running off the roof I suppose.

The boys and Glennys had stayed behind in Montreal waiting, as the weeks turned into months, as we waited for the house in Ile Perrot to sell. It had seemed the house would never sell in Quebec's depressed real estate market.

Following the introduction of Bills 22 and 101, designed to preserve the French language by obliterating English, Quebec seperatist fever had broken out again. I/we'd had enough! A promotional bulletin had appeared at Air Canada for a licensed mechanic in Halifax. I'd bid and been accepted.

So ............. house eventually sold, my family moved east, I stopped living in a hotel, we got temporary accomodation in Back of the Moon Lodge and began the frantic search for a house.

Refugee status? But then again ....... for Mitch the T-shirt is/was oddly prophetic!