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Originally Posted by oldE

One of mine:
16 years ago, while working as a Heritage Interpreter at the Tidal Power plant in Western Nova Scotia, I noted a woman looking at a picture of Cape Blomidon, which is at the other end of the Annapolis Valley. When I mentioned the location of the feature, she responded that she knew the view very well. Given her speech sounded like she was from the Eastern Seaboard of the USA, I asked if she had been a student of Acadia University, which among other things had a great view of Blomidon. She confirmed she had been. When I enquired of her years of attendance, she gave dates which co-incided with my attendance. I asked her what her name was at the time and, when she told me, recalled speaking with her on the lawn in front of one of the women's residences in the fall of 1972. I recounted asking her if she had any relations in a town near my home in Nova Scotia and she once again confirmed she had none there with that name.

Then it got interesting:
She said she did have roots in Nova Scotia, in a small village called Advocate. When I asked the family name and she provided it, I asked her if her great-grandfather had been S.... Canning. With some surprise, she confirmed he was. I advised her my grandfather W........ Canning was that man's brother. I had been chatting up my cousin all those years before.

Then she said she had lost almost all contact with that part of Nova Scotia. Family had either moved away or died out. In fact she only knew one person in that area now. When I asked where that person lived, she named the village where I grew up. When I asked who did she know there, she named my eldest sister. She had stayed with sister B.... on a singing tour some years before.

We do not have six degrees of separation in Nova Scotia.
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Les

It sure is a good thing you weren't dating! BTDT.