New Carlisle: Launch of The Survivor, July 14, 2011

A lively gathering in the basement hall of St. Andrews Anglican Church

 in New Carlisle heralded the first appearance of The Survivor, 

in aid of the church and the Gilker Residence for Golden-agers.

Olive Smollet, the President of the Residence, 

and also head of the IODE, organised the event.

The Ven. Randy Murray, Archdeacon of the Gaspe, 

enjoyed being with Paul and Garry Lovatt.

Betty Le Maistre bought half a dozen copies 

to get her Christmas shopping done — a good tip for other readers.

John Hall - with wife, Ann - is a direct descendent of the Hall 

who opened a mill on a river (which became known as Hall’s River) 

behind New Carlisle where The Survivor worked (in Paul's novel). 

Many Carlislers bore the names today of those encountered 

by the Survivor himself in the early 1800s.

Bill Griffiths confided that Paul’s film for Paramount, Isabel, (1968) 

alerted him to the Coast. The next year he took a trip to see it, 

and stayed the rest of his life!