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Leaving Home for Queens

ccepting Queen’s University meant I would live away from home for the first time. I can still vividly remember the
Apreparations. We packed up a large trunk filled with all my belongings. That trunk stayed with us for years until
we eventually got rid of it after downsizing in Saskatoon (2015). To get to Queen’s, I took the train. The journey started
with the Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo train to Toronto, which was about 40 miles. From there, I had to wait at Union
Station to catch a train to Kingston—there still isn’t a direct train from Hamilton to Kingston, even now. When I arrived in
Kingston, the trunk came in the baggage car, and I called Amey’s Taxi, a company that had been around since 1922 and is
still there to this day. Getting the trunk up to my third-floor room was a chore.

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