[Magdalen] Greetings from Montreal

[Judy Fleener]

Grand Rapids MI does have a population under 200,000.  If you include
suburbs, it has about 1 million people.  Adding the lakeshore communities
would make it about 1.5 million.  There are groups that would like us to
count that way.  Our newspaper has ceased publishing in Muskegon and is
printed in Grand Rapids with lass and less local content.  I dropped my
subscription.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> > With sufficient resources and a job I could easily live in Montreal or
> Quebec or Toronto
>
> London, Ontario, seems like a good city as well. Ontario has several
> amazingly large cities (like 400K-500K inhabitants) that I know very
> little about even though I've been there once or twice. London is one
> of them. We visited Storybook Gardens when I was a kid, and our
> early-music group sang in St Paul's Anglican Cathedral, but I can't
> say I know London, Ontario. Ontario also has Kitchener/Waterloo,
> Cambridge, Windsor, and Mississauga, among some others, that are way
> up there in population. And of course many lovely rural villages.Spent
> a lovely weekend with parish choir men at our choirmaster's "cottage"
> (actually a quite large house on Lake Superior) near the town of
> Hayden in Ontario. Very welcoming tiny Anglican church...we tripled
> their usual Sunday attendance and sang the roof off. I think they were
> warned, though. :)
>
> Both in Michigan and Illinois, which I know best, there's the One Big
> City and then everything else is less than 200K.
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan