Memory Lane

This weekend, we persuaded Heather’s father, John to come down to the Valley. This gave us an opportunity to go down ‘memory lane’.

We started at Connaught Avenue in Middleton. First stop was Clarence, the old house site between the Elliot’s and the van Roestel’s at the east end of the Clarence Road on North Mountain.

The second stop was the house in Paradise on Highway #201 opposite Raymond Hunter’s farm and orchard (#6326), in the Valley. From there we headed to Bridgetown and took the Morse Road to West Dalhousie, on South Mountain. The Buckler house was owned by Bill O’Neill, next door to Bep and George his parents.

To complete the circuit, we drove Highway #201 to Annapolis Royal. Stopping briefly for a coffee at the Sissiboo cafe on a quiet Sunday morning. We returned directly to Middleton on Highway #101.

The dates of residence in the Annapolis Valley, are as follows:

1980-81 West Dalhousie
1982 – 88 Clarence
2000-2024 Paradise
2024 – present Middleton

Between 1988-2000 we lived in Jakarta, Indonesia; Redlands, California ; Guelph and Peterborough, Ontario; Victoria, BC. My teaching and research duties at NSCC spanned 1980-1988 and 2000-2011. Since 2011, we have lived on Haida Gwaii and Iqaluit, Baffin Island while Heather was on assignment with Parks Canada. She also lived in Churchill, Manitoba. Prior to 1980, we lived in St John’s Newfoundland and Edmonton, Alberta.

Less we forget, there were a couple of short stints in England.