DECAMPING

Other States of Mind, No. 5

I had travelled a great deal throughout the province of Saskatchewan with the spectral John Diefenbaker, the 13^th prime minister of Canada, who set up his legal office in Wakaw (population, 350) in 1919. But it was three decades after drinking beers with friends at snowy twilight in the old Loyalist cemetery in Saint John, while wondering about the ways…