[Magdalen] Greetings from Montreal

[Kristin Rollins]

I've been to London to visit the…sorry, to visit my aunt (she and her
two adult children each live in London) and it was there that we
travelled to make my final visit with my grandmother (who lived there
for the final few years of her life).

I also was there once in my politically active days, for a provincial
convention of the party I then supported (but lived to regret supporting
quite quickly). And I auditioned when I applied to go to the University
of Western Ontario (which is in London).

We drove to Storybook Gardens in a limo (my aunt's ex being a limo
driver). And on one of my visits (probably the audition one, since that
visit held the possibility that I might move there for college), I went
to church with Anglican friends of my aunt at St Paul's Cathedral.

Getting back to Montreal, Heather and I visited it with her daughter the
last time we were in Canada: and I know that she has said that she could
imagine living there. I'm not sure that would be realistic. I know that
I had enough French that I would be fine, once I knocked the rust off of
it. And…there are political factors that I am not sure about: I don't
think another referendum is imminent, but I am fairly certain that
another one will be held within my lifetime. And I am not sure I would
want to live with that uncertainty (coincidentally, my mother was
studying in Montreal at the time of the 1995 referendum).

Kristin

-- 
  Kristin Rollins
  kristin at verumsolum.com
  Portsmouth, VA

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Scott Knitter 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