First steps in Canada

I was very excited when we disembarked from Arcadia to take my first steps in Canada. I had never dreamt I would actually go there. Like most English people, I have cousins in Canada. My Grandmother kept in touch with her cousin Lucy, but Mum did not keep up the correspondence. Saint John was to be my first Canadian experience and it was a great place to explore, with its weatherboarded houses and interesting shops. It was in a second hand book and record shop in the town I noticed the Canadian accent was slow, clear and deliberate. It was also the place where I saw, with a certain amount of surprise, some antique guns for sale, which were locked away behind a glass counter. We were very taken with some larger than life carved wooden figures in Saint John, both seated and standing.

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Although they were in Canadian Indian style, the figures were in conventional clothes. We had great fun taking each others pictures with them. I still had Birthday presents to buy and Saint John seemed the ideal place to look for them.

These charming wooden figures were outside the Visitor Information Centre in St John, New Brunswick.