The CNE, The Canadian National Exhibition
I am happy.
I go to Toronto to visit my grandmother
with my mother, we stay in her apartment. She lives in an apartment built by my grandfather, a fact I am unaware of at that
time.
In later years, I will see his name on the cornerstone of this apartment building. It is a low-rise building, built
in the Nineteen Twenties or Thirties.
The home is not large, and I often sit at the dining room table, playing with rainbow strips of Plasticine,
coloring pages in my coloring books, or making houses with stacks of HB pencils.
Best of all, my happiest memory is of Elsie
The Borden's Cow, she is the brand name image for Ontario dairy foods especially large boxes of ice cream. She is the star
animal at the Canadian National Exhibition, a summer festival in Toronto, Ontario.
Anticipation.
We walk towards the large cow,
holding hands my grandmother and me, I will get a free ice cream cone, and with all the work that goes into this gigantic
national fair, this is the thought that I hold, addiction to sugar, and the exotic sight of a real Canadian cow.
