With Covid-19 and self-isolation, I’ve spent a bit of time clearing out old papers. Financial documents from 20 years ago, old letters and newspaper clippings. File folders from the 80s and 90s when I was teaching emergency communicators at Mohawk College in Hamilton and Internal Auditing at police colleges in Aylmer and Ottawa. For the most part, a benign, nostalgic trip down memory lane. Coming across a seemingly innocuous little red textbook stopped me in my tracks, though. The John and Mary Readers Introductory Book was published around 1935, but obviously the text was still in use in the mid-50s, when I attended elementary school. The stamp on page 5 reads: “Property of School Section No.4, LOUTH”. Louth township is in the Niagara Region.…

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