Canadians
“A Canadian, obviously. And perhaps that’s all we need to know about him apart from this: He stood on the east side of the tracks near Casselman, a small farming community in southeastern Ontario that sits along the rail line between Ottawa and Montreal. He was an older man, wearing rust-coloured coveralls and high green rubber boots, and he stood so dead centre in the field he’d been turning over that it seemed he must have paced it off for effect.
He stood at attention beside his green John De...ere tractor. He picked off his cap with his left hand and slowly raised his right over a long weathered face to a forehead white as the day he was born.
And saluted.
One loner to another.
The famous loner—a man who saw himself as a solitary paddler and was seen by others as a stand-alone gunslinger—could not salute back from where he lay on-board VIA Rail train no. 638. He could not toss out one of those easy, sarcastic jibes he periodically threw at farmers—“Why should I sell your wheat?”—and he most assuredly could not raise his hand and give the middle finger to those lining the tracks, as he had done years earlier from a train carrying him and his sons through British Columbia.MoreLess
He stood at attention beside his green John De...ere tractor. He picked off his cap with his left hand and slowly raised his right over a long weathered face to a forehead white as the day he was born.
And saluted.
One loner to another.
The famous loner—a man who saw himself as a solitary paddler and was seen by others as a stand-alone gunslinger—could not salute back from where he lay on-board VIA Rail train no. 638. He could not toss out one of those easy, sarcastic jibes he periodically threw at farmers—“Why should I sell your wheat?”—and he most assuredly could not raise his hand and give the middle finger to those lining the tracks, as he had done years earlier from a train carrying him and his sons through British Columbia.MoreLess
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