The church of St Mary Magdalen and St. Andrew’s United Church
got together to hold their launch of The Pilgrim in this
splendid small Anglican church, which ended up, even on a Sunday
warm Gaspesian evening, hosting a fine turnout.
I spoke about my aim of finishing book number eight this summer,
and alerted everyone that there were four more books coming:
The Chaplain next year, two more the following year, and
the eighth book in 2015.
Number one organiser and a direct descendant of the Deserter,
the dynamic Joan Dow is known throughout the Gaspe Coast
for having founded the British Heritage Village in New Richmond.
This year again, she raised a goodly sum for St Andrew’s by
selling many dozens of books among her parish of eight worshippers
and other readers across Canada.
Equally dynamic, Gail Martin made a goodly sum
for the United Church.
June Martin, Gail’s sister, married many times and now single,
came on her “cadillac”, a powered wheel chair, to buy books.
Dr. Danielle Cyr, the linguistics professor recently retired from
Toronto’s York University, edited the only Micmac dictionary
published this century. She was thus a great help with
The Deserter, as well as my other books.
Garry Lovatt, who works with the venerable Archdeacon in
administering several churches in the region, talked to Joan
Dow’s highly-qualified journalist and executive daughter,
Cynthia, and Tom Duncan.
Plentiful refreshments are the norm on the Gaspe Coast. The Rector’s
Warden Shirley Duncan, former director of the huge Eastern Shores
School Board, helped the hard-working volunteers.
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