Sixteen years in Sackville, my father lectured at Mount Allison university. We spent a year in St Andrews because he was running the aquarium there, attached to the Huntsman Marine Research Institute, and doing research on the various critters in it. He was a marine biologist and biochemist.

I met the current Canadian Premier's father there once when I was about eight or nine There's a photo of me standing next to him with my father somewhere in the family archives.

I also nearly had my head removed by an insanely aggressive wolf-fish which went for me when I looked over the edge of the holding tank it had just been put in. I'll remember the enormous teeth snapping shut an inch from my nose for the rest of my life! It was enormous, extremely bad tempered, and really damn quick...

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