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We really appreciated this visit, and its hygenic surroundings. We think that Canadians are beautiful people to get along with; easy in dress and talking to. Everybody seems to dress as 'he or she pleases, and it does not matter whether they are pleasantly plump, or slim. We like this very much - it makes it so easy to get along. Dutch people are more' fashion conscious, and want to dress more like each other. People here seem to take their time more, and don't seem to rush along as they do in Holland. We went to several showers for a wedding, something'that is unheard of and not done in Holland. We wonder what the bride does if she gets duplicate gifts, but oh well, "when in Rothe you do as the Romans do." The games we played at the glower were not very entertaining, we thought, but then we were not used-to them either. We saw people giving gifts at the shoWer (big gifts. under Dutch' standards) and then - giving bigger gifts at the wedding. We could hardly believe it. The weddings here are big affairs, more than just the immediate family; the distant relatives and friends are also present, and it • seems like one big happy family. One thing that amazed 'us was the way:hard drinks are sold here. We can buy beer in almost any store in Holland. Any person under 18 can go to a store and buy what he wants to take home. TheSe" are''some of our experiences in Canada in our first visit here to Canada, and they are mainly positive. We cannot .say anything more than "a great experience in a great country." We are certain that a lot of our relatives in Holland are going to ask us a lot of questions about Canada and we cannot say anything else but "great friendly people in a great country." - We hereby say that our opinions, whether like or disliked, are our own on our first visit here, and most sincerely thank everyone who has helped us to make our stay here a really pleasant one. We also thank the Huron Expositor for the publication of our letter to One of the plays being per- formed at the Blyth Summer Festival is ,,not getting the audience support that Festival people think it deserves. "The w Blood is Strbng" by Canadian 4 91 , •A tit 444 writer Lister Sinclair was tit It's music of various styles; from toe tapping to tear jerking but it's all very fine. There's some excellent violin playing by Shelley C, Smith. In one scene bagpipes and the highland fling add a lot of atmosphere, , Before any of the cast says a word, the opening song lament- ing the- bears, the bugs'and the trees which are an immigrant's lot in Cape Breton, makes a funny upbeat beginning. There are fine performances, especially by Sharon Noble as Mary MacDonald and Brendan McKane as her husband ' Murdoch, the Scottish couple who brought their family from Skye. They get good support from Lynda Langford as their daughter Kate and her suitor, a right out of the bush "foreigner" (he was, born in Canada) named Barney Hannah, played by .Alfred Humphreys. . All four have good singing voices, in tune, on key and Melodious at all times. Theirs is a really professional and polished effort. Festival veterans Ron Barry as Barney's Indian pal Joe Three- fingers and Jim Schaeffer as the Kilt wearing, do nothing neigh- bour, who returns to Scotland, were the best of a good support- ing cast. The costumes by Michael Harris , are especially lilPposed to be the centrepiece, the main attraction of the second season there... Qh it has had good healthy audiences but it's being outsold by "How I Met My Husband" and a revival of last year's "Mostly in Clover" and Festival people are s,:rprised by this. We had been planning to see it all summer but finally got there only friday night, for the fourth to last performance of the season. First of all, it's a musical and the music, by Glenn Morley, with lyrics by Steven Thorne is fantas- tic. I can't understand an early review which said "Blood is Strong" would be stronger still without its music; to my way of thinking it's the music that makes the performance, (Editor's note: The Expositor asked two young couplesiibm Haastrecht, Holland, who have spent three week's holidays here in • Seaforth with the. Gordon Nobel family, to give us their impressions of Canadian life. Albert and Ans Peek, both 24 and Jan, 28 and Annie Sluis, 22,.ca,ine to Seaforth especially for their cousin Mary Nobel's wedding to Ron Beuerman on July 24. The two girls are daughters of Gordon Nobel's brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon , Nobel also have a daughter named Ann and Ans Peek remarked "it's the first time that we-three Ann Nobels have all been together." Jan and Annie were accompanied by their daughter, Mary Corine, who's one and a half years old. The five of them flew back to Holland today. Some ,,pf their -views on Canada follows.) We arrived in Toronto on July 8 and this was our first visit to' ea,Rada. On, oar way ..to Seaforth from TorOnto we noticed first the big cars compared to mainly small ones in Holland. This would not go over very well in Holland since gasoline is 3 times as expensive. We were also impressed with rAt, the long, straight, beautiful highways, indicating how big a country Canada really is. The enormous farms, the grain, and cornfields are really something to behold. Also,. we immediately noticed the hydro lines all above the ground for endless miles, • which does not add to the beauty of the landscape; however, we can understand this - the distances are so great. We noticed that the population of towns and cities' are also given on the town/city's name sign. This is something unheard of in Holland. Some names of towns, and cities here are the same as in Europe, eg. London, Paris, Dublin, Zurich, and this made us think of the old country. We could appreciate the speed of the traffic and feel it much safer here in Canada than in Holland. Everybody steps at given stop signs, so .it seems, and this gives us a feeling of safety. Our overall impression of Canada is -very good. Everybody seems to be working or willing to work. Our impression is that with the dollar earned, one can still live very reasonably. • We made a comparison with the social security -laws- here and with Holland, and we have to admit that Canada's social security laws are better than in Holland. In Holland we think the social laws are pushed through too far. This possibly explains the weak economy at present in Holland. (We would like to note that not every Hollander will agree with this opinion. This is just our own opinion; the general population in Holland thinks some- what "left" in policitcs.) The house structureherejs something that we had to look into, and are amazed at the lumber that goes into the building of a house. In Holland it is mostly brick. Being able to build your own house with your own design and blueprint is fabulous; and this is directly opposite to house plans and building in Holland. Over there things are very strongly regulated by the government. To build a house- in Holland, you must have numerous permits before you ca, n build anything, It -is impossible to build whereN7er you want, on account of the large number of people living in a small area. We did net• see many flats in the rural areas here, as is• the case in Holland. We found that the house ,heating system here in the rural areas is still using either oil or wood (conversion furnaces), which are not around anymore in Holland. One of us, Albert Peek, works as a heating technician in the house-building trade and had a special interest in house heating, which is very modern and up-to-date in Holland. Being .a meat inspector in Holland,. Jan— Sluis' special - interest was, of course, the processing of meats. We visited a small meat processing plant and , found that the quality of beef was' excellent. A 1Stof beef here is butchered and „sold with the bone left in it. A butcher in Holland would 'need an extra butcher for boning the meat as people are not used to buying meat in large portions with bone in it. The meat products on a meat counter in Holland' are numerous, compared to Canadian butcher shops, but we think that the Dutch shopping public in Holland is a bit spoiled in this area. We visifed Seltheidere meat plant in Kitchener and thought it was the most modern authentic looking and the log cabin set is pretty good too. I enjoyed the performance, but I didn't like the play. 1 expected• much more from the wit and humour of the opening song than Sinclair's story line delivered. I though I would like the play; I expected to thoroughly enjoy it. It's story, of the hardships faced by the early Scottish immigrants to Canada, is of interest 'and importance tome. The people on that stage could have been my ancestors. Moved to another year and another locale, they could have been the forbearers of any of us who are here, after all, only because some relative had the courage to emigrate to this trange new land, Canada. Everybody I went to the play with liked it, The final scenes, when the MacDonald's 'son is drowned while working on a fishing boat and when daughter Kate comes home from Upper Canada to visit her widowed father some years later really touched my husband. But they didn't much move this old cynic. Although the actors were alS1 good as they could be, I couldn't see• much depth in the roles they had to work with. I didn't feel that Sinclair's play allowed us to really get close to them. The' ;tyrannical but lovaPle • "father and the- Icing suffering hilt • spirited mother are cliches that I can do without. There `wasn't enough enough time devoted to the quick conversion of backwoodsman Barney Hannah to an Upper Canadian lawyer. I know there were lots of • similar success stories in Canada's early days but Barney's was too quick and easy to be true. what they had to work with, but 'The Blyth players did well with the play that makes those immigrantS' joys and sorrows real40 --tii,",me wasn't this, one, The crowd Fild4 night gave • the performance a great ovation and probably few people shared my reservations about the play. The' play is the thing, and I didn't like the !Slay. The Blyth players did everything they to bring it to life though and they deserve good audience support. Go and see what you think about "The Blood is Strong." There are only three more performances, and I'd like to get your opinion. Books AM) ST,. TioNEity smitE The Friendly StOre in Seaforth —"the friendly town: OPEN FRIDAY NIGH-TS 4. ‘4,:••;,