A winter trip a long time ago

Today the Canso Causeway blocks ice flows from the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Pans of ice shunted back and forth through the Strait of Canso. It was the middle of March 1946. We were on our way to the Canadian-American border. We spent that winter living at my grandparents’ place in South West Margaree. It was necessary for my mother and I to return to the border to…

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Wally Ellison

Musician and freelance columnist Wally Ellison lives in Inverness County