Long Lost Memories

Reading the My Hometown story, “Going Home to ‘Lost Villages’” (February-march 2018), brought back many memories. Although I was not a resident of the Lost Villages (which were destroyed in the building of the Saint Lawrence Seaway), as a sales rep, I used to travel through the area while making sales calls to stores in the villages of Cardinal and Iroquois. One time, I snapped a photo of my car beside the huge vehicle that was used to move the old homes to new town sites. My car looked like a toy next to it! I wish I still had that photo. Little did I know at the time that the area I was travelling through would take on such a huge historical significance.