[Magdalen] Quebec City.

[Joseph Cirou]

We treated Canadian coins as American in Chicago when I was a kid. Of
course we always had plenty of Canadian change because we travelled to
Windsor at least once a year and I saved my change.

Joe

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> growing up in the Detroit suburbs in the 50s-60s, it was not uncommon to
> encounter Canadian coins which were treated like American ones, during that
> time.
> Lynn
>
> My email  is changing soon to: houstonKLR at gmail.com
>
>
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>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jon Egger" <revegger at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 3:43 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Quebec City.
>
>  Not language related, but growing up in da rench, north of Duluth the
>> vending machines took American AND Canadian coins.  The hospital where I
>> started as a nursing assistant and RN (in Virginia, Mn) flew the American,
>> State, and Canadian flags.
>>
>> Sadly, most of the people this far south have poor to no knowledge about
>> Canada.
>>
>> +++
>> Grace & peace,
>> jon
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  I first heard the term "defensive ___" from a Jewish friend who used it
>>> in
>>> relation to Yiddish and I thought it a very excellent description indeed
>>> of
>>> a language that one picked up on a "need to know" basis. Then my late ex
>>> used it in relation to the German that he picked up so he could
>>> understand
>>> what the adults were talking about when they switched into it in front of
>>> the kids.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 1:26 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > We called it "grandmother French."
>>> >
>>> > My grandmothers were both such pistols. Couldn't imagine two
>>> > more different women, one tall, serene and red-headed, the other
>>> > tiny, animated and dark. Languid or energetic. Confident or wary.
>>> >
>>> > Must go back to packing up the car. Nice break, though (went
>>> > from being like Gramere to Grammie and now back to Gramere).
>>> > -M
>>> >
>>> > On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > it is! She figures they may pick up some "defensive French" sooner or
>>> > > later, though. (I introduced her to that term)
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
>>>