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JESR @ 40 An inordinate number of misguided folk washed ashore at Victoria - originally named Fort Camosun after the camus, as you likely know. And people wonder why we were stuck behind the Tweed Curtain for so long. Captain Walter Colquhoun Grant is remembered for starting to clear the 'bison' from Cattle Point, the animals in question being some of the cattle for which the point was named.

JESR @ 34 Thanks for the Cascadia reference. Growing up on Vancouver Island, the term 'Pacific Northwest' just seemed wrong. If only the freezing rain would take care of the Scotch broom.

Excuse me. Teresa.

Theresa, this may be my "salvation". My beloved daughter, who shocked her atheist parents (one Canadian, one lapsed Yank) by becoming an Anglican-by-choice at about age 7, is about to marry into a Virginia family of, well, what do you say? Creationist belief? Oh, Their God! Following your proposal, by the time their potential children enter the school system, separation of church and state will have been achieved. Saints, or whomever, be praised! On the one hand - she gets the Green Card. On the other hand ......we listen to The Wedding March, written by an anti-Semite, as our daughter marries into a family that believes....oh, some higher power, save me. Please.

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