== Another "town in north Ontario"? == 

   Was the village of Marmora, about sixty Kilometers east of Peterborough on Hwy 7, a second "town in north Ontario"? While no farther north than Omemee, it is definitely considered "north" by the bulk of Ontario's population, which lives in the "Golden Horseshoe" area of western Lake Ontario. According to local inhabitants, the Young family cottaged on Crowe Lake, just north of Marmora, and Neil often played with local boys in the caves and crevasses at the northern outskirts of the village. From this vantage point the view to the north-west along the Crowe Valley is spectacular in all seasons, and is a flyway for local Canada Geese."Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes" is certainly a reality at sunset from there, as I have witnessed. Regardless, the quote from the main "helpless" page ,"Well, it's not literally a specific town so much as a feeling", is probably the truest local. 

   Stew