The best of times
On a stone parapet that forms part of the main rail line into Guelph, Ontario, there’s a tablet that reads, “This tablet marks the spot where John Galt, General Agent of the Canada Company, cut the first tree in the founding of the City of Guelph, April 23rd 1827.” As a boy growing up in Guelph in the 1950s, for some reason I memorized the words. When I realized that today was April 23, my youth came rushing back to me like water flowing over the dam in the river below. In those days the population of Guelph was about...
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