Life is Amazing…
We emigrated to Quebec from England when I was 4 months old and landed in Valcartier, a tiny French Canadian village just outside Quebec City. We only lived there a couple of years, and I have no conscious memories, but my babysitter was Quebecois so I got two mother tongues: English and French, though schooled... Continue Reading →
Pentz is the name of the small road on the LaHave River, where we lived in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia when we came back to Canada after our year in England. I traded Latin and tennis classes at a British private boarding school, for a 2-room school house with a wood burning stove and outhouses... Continue Reading →
If the Maritimes planted the seeds of my character and instilled in me a values hierarchy that places people, nature and the environment above all else, then Ottawa watered those seeds with education and culture. Canada's capital, Ottawa is a government town, and home to Carleton University and the University of Ottawa where I completed... Continue Reading →
Alison Amazed 