Summer is now well underway in Canada. The hot weather began early this year and only now is the calendar catching up. If Canada has an unofficial beginning to summer it is the Victoria Day weekend (which falls around May 24) and if it has a more official beginning it is Canada Day (which is tomorrow, July 1). Schools have just let out, families are hitting the road, beaches are full, campgrounds and cottage country are swarming, and so on. The holiday season is here!

Since summer is underway, my family will soon be taking some much-needed time off. You probably won’t notice a whole lot of difference to the blog since I always queue up some content before I disappear, but later this month my family will be heading to northern Québec for a week at a little chalet we have rented there. Then in August we hope to head south to drop Abby back at Boyce College. The borders between Canada and the US remain largely closed and US citizens are still not permitted to enter Canada, but we were delighted to see Ryn (Nick’s fiancée) and a friend receive an exemption so they can


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