Oliver Jones

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Marthe Sansregret. Oliver Jones

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Oliver Jones:

The Musician,

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During the summer of 1942, Oliver realized that he wouldn’t have to accompany his mother to the Atwater Market for two whole Saturdays in a row. Mr. Jones, as a CPR employee, had a free pass to travel with his family in Canada or in the United States, and he had decided to take a trip to Nova Scotia with his son. Oliver, who only knew his mother’s family, was finally going to meet his father’s relatives in Cape Breton. He was excited at the idea of spending a few days with cousins who were born and raised in Nova Scotia, and who lived right on the seashore. Also, he was going to travel alone with his father. He felt grown up in spite of the fact that he was only eight years old.

On the train, Oliver Wesley explained that around nine o’clock that evening, they would lower the back of their seat to make it into a sleeping berth. From the moment the train left the station, for two days and two nights, Oliver was entranced by the animals resting in the fields and near the barns, the market gardens that made his father’s plot seem small indeed, and the farm houses. He drank in the country scenery with its uninterrupted vistas as only a city child could.

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