By Land and By Air

and it was still there. Who, when, and how did the robber do hisjob, and so silently at that? We felt lucky that we were still alive!

Back on PEI, l was telling my experience to Dr. Doug Cudmore, and he said “Why don’t you call your insurance?” I did, and they said they could reimburse me for $100.00, but when a check arrived, it was made out for $200.00, much to my surprise.

I recall the good time we had at Banff. When we were at meetings, the wives were taken to explore the mountains.

For one meeting, Dr. Laidlaw and I went to Jasper. When we arrived in Edmonton, we found the motel had been arranged in Calgary by mistake. Luckily, there was a room in the Edmonton motel, so they kept us. It meant we were about 40 miles closer to Jasper.

I was the only S.T.M.O. in Canada lucky enough or interested enough to ask to go to those meetings. The meet- ings in turn tended to keep me abreast ofthe goings on of the Society.

One time in Halifax, the meeting was some distance away from a hotel in which we were staying. When we returned one day from the meetings, my boss got off on the 4th floor ofthe hotel, and I went on to the 11th. Later, after returning home, 1 got my travel pay which included a note: “Ifyou did not go so high in the hotel, it would not cost so much.” Dr. Amold Jones was always ready for a joke.

About all I can recall ofthe meeting in Saskatch- ewan was walking over to the college across the bridge which spanned the river from a high bank to a low bank. The bridge had a very steep incline.

At one meeting in Winnipeg, I was sitting at 3 din- ner party put on by the Society; black suits and ties were essential. Dr. Roberts, sitting nearby, pushed his wine glass

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