KS,

alas, I never actually "lived" in the area. You see, my old man was in the RCAF. When I was about to be born, Mom was shipped back to her folks. A week after I was born, we were off to RCAF Greenwood, NS. The closest I came to actually living there was when I was posted to CFB Trenton in the late '80s.

My grandparents lived in a little place called Duart. Very possible you passed through at some point. Right next to Highgate. Spent many a fine summer holiday swimming at Erieau or Rondeau Park...in water that was crystal clear and freezing one day, clay brown and warm the next. Loved that place. Greatest corn on God's earth.

I still have family in the area, although most are well past their primes and disappearing quickly. Jay is our family name around there (my granny's maiden name). I haven't been back since both of my grandparents passed away in '93, by which time I was in the RAF in the UK. I think though, that it may be high time for the family to take a vacation this summer and head up that way, for old times sake.

BTW, knew a guy from Fergus when I was posted to CFB Uplands, Ottawa. He was a tri-athlete. Can't recall his name though.