May 05, 2022
Volume 52 - No. 18
By Cecil Scaglione
The nation’s westward tilt has been the theme of films, essays, books, poems, political campaigns and coffee conversation for several decades.
As the Old West quick-draw-cowboy genre became over-clichéd, writers turned their polished-prose pens to enhancing the enchantment of the riches and rich-and-famous in the land re-named Hollywood. “California Here I Come” became an anthem for the throngs of folks and The Paper - 760.747.7119
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families tired of the cold climate and grey inversions that shrouds a lot of the northeast for much of the calendar. In most cases, the choice was easy. To some, it was a bit more complicated.
In our case, the choice was head for the Canadian journalism big time in Toronto, Ontario, or the California climate. As it turned out, we opted for the Pacific breezes. But the process was
not all that simple.
ropolitan Toronto dailies.
I had risen to the top of my game. I had won a Canadian journalism award for humorous writing. The Windsor Star of that period was a premier Canadian daily newspaper. I was a member of a team of reporters and editors second to none. And I was being wooed by the three met-
Perched on the north shore of Lake Erie about 45 minutes from Windsor, it was the tomato capital of Canada and home to the massive Heinz company’s Canadian headquarters. The food-products giant
While working for the Windsor Star in Canada’s Motor City across the Detroit River from Detroit, the U.S. Motor City, I was gifted with a contract to write a book.
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The book contract was part of a federal grant program marking the 1969 Canadian Centennial. It was designed to build up a collection of Canadiana. My project was to chronicle the history and contributions of the town of Leamington.