Big Canadian Stuff
“Big Canadian Stuff” could refer to the large fun things that we like to build in our towns; like turtles , lobsters and potatoes . But there’s no need for me to do this since Canadian author Will Ferguson has done a perfect job already in the article “Wawa to Black Diamond: A Cross-Canada Tour of Big-Assed Objects by the Side of the Road”, in his book Canadian Pie. I’m content to have forced my son to accomplish that Canadian rite of passage: getting your picture taken with the Wawa goose. My “Big Canadian Stuff” has to do with industry; the kind of thing I notice only thanks to friends and family. My childhood would have been one endless daydream—paddling contentedly in the Seaway pool in St. Lambert near Montreal, watching giant ships go by without ever wondering where they came from—were it not for my parents’ expeditions to the St. Lambert Locks. These were the first on the Seaway , and we went there for no better reason than to watch a big ship rise or fall