Emotional landscape

I was reading about this in a book recently - the fact that you can never really go home again. You can remember places and places and even other times as they were.

All is changed and the familiar is gone.

Pictures help us to remember.

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320 Princess Street Lachute is gone from my life.

Wal Ken Farms is gone from my life.

Trafalgar School has not gone but the boarding school is no more.

St. Simeon’s Anglican Church in Lachute is still there.

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Going farther back - where my parents grew up is much changed. The house where my dad grew up is still there. My mom went back to Trois-Rivières and saw the house where she was born.

When I figured it out my mom lived longer in Lachute than my dad did - almost 60 years. My dad from the age of 7 until the age of 57 when he died. - so only 50 years.

There was an interesting picture in the Lachute newspaper of a school class from the Lachute Academy which my dad attended. Someone was able to name almost everyone and a lot of them were still living in the area.