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“a place where a child can ask ques- and, therefore, the world. I was sure I (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY
tions of what it means to be human.” was going to do it.” ARCHIVES; COURTESY OF ERIC AND ROSE McMILLAN

McMillan formed his own design Instead, the world changed with-
company, determined to build a out him. McMillan’s other parks were
series of parks his way. He admits never built. The skills required to fund
that, after Sesame Place, he began to and run a theme park, of course, are
grow more confident and more arro- very different from the creativity needed
gant. He had sites in Montreal and Sac- to design one. Spoiled by the freedom
ramento. He planned to build and also he had been given at Ontario Place, he
operate his own parks, promising to often chafed at the demands and restric-
show everybody how it was done. “I tions of his new corporate partners.
got crazy, mate,” he says today. “I was One project fell through, then another.
going to change American culture McMillan grew tired of throwing

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himself into designs, only to watch playgrounds, “liability,” not “creativ-
them collapse. “Eric could project ity,” became the most important word
a  very pure kind of childlike play,” in children’s design. Most of the
remembers Hans-Henrich Piersig, a adventure playgrounds that once dot-
German-born prop builder who was ted North America were shuttered. The
one of McMillan’s collaborators. “But massive wooden jungle gyms in school-
maybe eventually he ran out of steam.” yards were replaced with modest
climbing structures. With its bright
More than that, the times had colours and unruly design, Children’s
changed. If the design for children in Village became a relic—a vision of the
the ’60s and ’70s had been full of pos- future from the near past.
sibility and experimentation, the pre-
vailing mood in the 1980s was of cau- children’s village closed in 2002. Most
tion. After a series of lawsuits against of the rest of Ontario Place officially shut
down in 2012. Today, as kids like me
Full of ideas, Eric who grew up getting bloody noses in the
McMillan also punching bag forest are raising chil-
dren of our own, it’s impossible not to
helped to pioneer think that Children’s Village represented
the water park. a brief moment when a different style
of mass play was possible. It feels like a
strange dream. Were the towers really
so high? Did the ziplines really run so
fast? Instead of an amusement park in
which kids line up for hours to sit pas-
sively on a moving piece of intellectual
property, what if a park just provided
the raw materials for child-instigated,
slightly dangerous adventure?

Nowhere is more infused with nos-
talgia than the places you played in as
a child. Looking back on the play-
grounds of the past, however, is more
than mere sentimentality, and it isn’t
limited to people who remember Chil-
dren’s Village. “There’s something in
the air,” says Lange. “We understand
that children’s play environment has

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been impoverished, and so looking himself from thinking about it.
back at those times when it wasn’t so Recently, he came up with his own
impoverished feels really important.” proposal for the site. “They can just rip
down the pods and turn them into
In spring 2019, the provincial gov- scrap metal and build condos along
ernment began accepting proposals the edge,” says McMillan. “Or they can
for new developments on the Ontario go really crazy.”
Place grounds. In the years since it
closed, there have been plans for a In his reimagining, the empty pods
year-round water park, for a casino or have been transformed into massive
an enormous Ferris wheel. There have lake filters—sucking up the water
been calls to relocate Toronto’s Science from Lake Ontario, cleaning it, and
Centre to the waterfront or turn the then sending it cascading into the
entire thing into a public park. lake below. The design takes Zeidler’s
buildings and turns them into mas-
No one’s asked Eric McMillan what sive pieces of interactive art, where
should be on the site of the former kids can help control the flow of
kids’ utopia he built on the waterfront. water. “It would be a symbol of hope,”
Now 78, he lives with his wife, Rose, in says McMillan, a sign that that pol-
the Quebec countryside. He has an luted water can be healed and that,
orange tree planted indoors. He and he continues, “However small the first
Rose grind their coffee by hand, with- drops are, accumulated they will
out a machine, build stone walls to make a difference.”
divide their various gardens, snowshoe
up the hills in the winter. The place is The plan for the pods is whimsical
their own personal playground. “I and audacious, as outside-the-box and
can’t imagine a more privileged exis- indifferent to the demands of com-
tence,” he says. He hasn’t visited his merce as ever. If people like me think
first playground in years. “Ontario about Ontario Place with warm nostal-
Place long ago became a very sad ruin gia, McMillan, as ever, is only thinking
of what could have been an interest- about the future.
ing place,” he says.
© 2019, NICHOLAS HUNE-BROWN FROM THE LOCAL,
Still, McMillan can’t seem to stop THELOCAL.TO

Not in a Book

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something
you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship,

you really haven’t learned anything.

MUHAMMAD ALI

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WATCH LIST What eight Canadians
are streaming during
the pandemic

I highly recommend Killing Eve (Crave). (ROBINSON) RED WORKS STUDIO; (KILLING EVE) BELL MEDIA; (SUZUKI) JENNIFER ROESSLER/DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION;
First, I adore Sandra Oh. She’s luminous (THE LAST DANCE) NETFLIX; (0’NEIL) JULIE ARTACHO; (SUCCESSION) HBO
as a security operative whose life becomes
intertwined with an assassin played by the equally
wonderful Jodie Comer. I love the action and
tension but also, more importantly, the way the
characters are given space and time to be their
own quirky selves. –Eden Robinson, AUTHOR

I am fortunate to be in isolation with
my wife, daughter, son-in-law and their
three young children. Helping take care
of the grandkids is a full-time job, but I’ve managed
to watch the new Michael Jordan docu-series
The Last Dance (Netflix), which provides
insight into an incredible athlete. It’s painful to
watch a hero being torn from his pedestal by
media and others who are hungry to find reasons
why he isn’t perfect. For me, he becomes even
more heroic in the way he responds to the
criticism. –David Suzuki, ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST

I love Succession (Crave). It is about a media mogul
who manipulates and torments his children,
dangling the role of CEO in front of each of them.
You see the ways in which wealth and greed twist the
personalities of those who grow up in its vast arms.
The acting is phenomenal, and the writing is astute
and hilarious. It sucks you in like a high-powered
vacuum. –Heather O’Neill, AUTHOR

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(EDUGYAN) COURTESY OF ESI EDUGYAN; (CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM) HBO; (JOJO RABBIT) IMDB/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX; (GALLOWAY) CBC; (CHERNOBYL) HBO; (DONOGHUE) I just finished the second season of Mindhunter (Netflix).
PUNCH PHOTOGRAPHIC; (LIGHTFOOT) COURTESY OF GORDON LIGHTFOOT; (KENNY ROGERS) PICTORIAL PRESS LTD/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO ; (FELICIEN) MARTIN BROWN It’s an intelligent, brooding crime drama with the cool
aesthetic of Mad Men. I was riveted. For lighter fare,
I turned to season 10 of Curb Your Enthusiasm (Crave), which
was, as always, irreverent and delightful. –Esi Edugyan, AUTHOR

The series Chernobyl (Crave) is extraordinarily
suspenseful and beautifully filmed, with awe-
inducing visuals of catastrophe. Even more
importantly, it dramatizes the dogged heroism of scientists
insisting on the facts in the face of wilfully ignorant,
tyrannous leaders in a way that couldn’t be more timely
in our COVID-19 moment. –Emma Donoghue, AUTHOR

We’re watching one thing a week as a family. We’re using
the opportunity, when we’d normally be pulled in four
different directions, to go slow and be together in the same
room. The biggest hit so far was JoJo Rabbit (Amazon Prime). It’s
smart and funny and subversive and weird enough that two teenagers
could enjoy it with their parents. And the song at the end of the
film will make you cry. –Matt Galloway, RADIO HOST

I recently watched Biography: If binge watching television
Kenny Rogers (A&E). He was a were an Olympic sport
giant of the industry, and I admire during social isolation, I’d
him very much. The documentary captures bring home the gold medal. Of the
his fabulous songs and the exceptional many shows I’ve seen, one of my
work he did with such duet partners as favourites has been Raising Dion
Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Lionel Richie (Netflix). It’s about a single mother
and others. –Gordon Lightfoot, MUSICIAN who must protect her son after she
discovers he has superpowers. I
assumed it was a show for kids,
but with all its twists and turns,
every member of the family
will find it highly entertaining.

–Perdita Felicien, ATHLETE

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CURIOSITIES Its name is a mashup of the original
owners of an old mill, Yount and
You’re From Bouten. It’s also near the strangely
Where? not-treeless Bald Mountain.

The incredible-but-true Dead Man’s Flats, Alta.
origins of Canada’s
Some trace this town’s name back to a
strangest town names murder at a Bow River dairy farm in
1904. Others say it comes from how
BY Rosie Long Decter men hunting beaver in the area pre-
tended to be dead to avoid arrest.
illustration by kyle metcalf
Vulcan, Alta.
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The name of this town, christened by a
Canadian Pacific Railway surveyor, was
supposedly inspired by the Roman God
of Fire. The town has also embraced
the Star Trek connection, with a replica
of the Starship Enterprise, a bust of
Leonard Nimoy and an annual Trekkie
convention called Vul-Con.

Climax, Sask.

Get your mind out of the gutter. This
village of 195 was named after a brand
of tobacco.

Love, Sask.

Although young people are known to
travel here just to get married, the
town’s name is said to have been taken
from Tom Love, the first train conduc-
tor to pass through.

Flin Flon, Man.

When naming this city, prospector
Thomas Creighton was inspired by a

dime-store sci-fi book, The Sunless from the fact that hunters once used
City, and its protagonist, Josiah Flint- the area to dress animal carcasses.
abbatey Flonatin. The statue of J.F.F.
at the entrance to the town is known Sober Island, N.S.
as Flinty.
Some say that this remote island was
Crotch Lake, Ont. named by British soldiers in the 1700s,
who landed there with no liquor on
According to Corey Klatt, who works their ship. Today it’s known for its
for the township of North Frontenac, namesake brewing company.
this name refers not to a body part, but
to how the lake’s two narrows meet, Peekaboo Corner, N.B.
resembling the crotch of a stick.
A small community within the village of
Tiny, Ont. Norton, it was named after a local house
that stood on the corner of the road and
Rather than a reference to its size, this blocked the view of passing drivers.
township’s name is said to pay homage
to a pet dog of Lady Sarah Maitland Cardigan, P.E.I.
(1792–1873), the wife of a lieutenant-
governor of Upper Canada. She named Named after the Earl of Cardigan, a
two other townships after her other British lord who eventually became
pups, Tay and Flos. Prince of Wales. No word on the sweater
of choice for its residents.

Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Que. Bacon Cove, N.L.

Some believe that the latter part of the Some say the name comes from set-
Témiscouata valley town’s name comes tlers who bribed a pirate with pigs;
from the sound that newcomers would others say it was originally Beacon
make upon viewing its shining lake for Cove. Arguably the best explanation,
the first time. though, is the local legend about a ship
that lost a shipment of pigs in a storm.
Crapaud, P.E.I. They were rescued by residents, only
to be turned into breakfast.
A popular stop on the Trans-Canada,
it’s named after the spring peeper frog, Heart’s Desire, N.L.
renowned for its loud chirp (crapaud
is French for toad). What do you find between Heart’s
Delight and Heart’s Content? Heart’s
Meat Cove, N.S. Desire! The three scenic towns are
huddled together around a heart-
The name of this village, which is better shaped harbour.
known for fish, is rumoured to come

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BRAINTEASERS

Pic-a-Pix: Three Wishes 1 77 (PIC-A-PIX: THREE WISHES) DIANE BAHER. MORE DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS AVAILABLE AT LEARNPICAPIX.COM; (MOVING DAY) DARREN RIGBY
Moderately difficult Reveal 4 2 5 5 1 10 1 5 5 6
a hidden picture by shading 11
in groups of horizontally or 31
vertically adjacent cells 332
(“groups”). The numbers 18
represent how many cells are 18
in each of the corresponding 10
row or column’s groups. (For 8
example, a “3” next to a row 5
represents three horizontally 1
adjacent shaded cells in that 3
row.) There must be at least one
empty cell between each group.
The numbers read in the same
horizontal or vertical order as
the groups they represent.
There’s only one possible
picture; can you shade it in?

Moving Day
Easy The number on each box represents the physical weight of that box. Each
box can support no more than half of its own weight sitting on top of it, whether
that’s from one or two boxes. Each box with a red number is fragile and cannot
have another box on top of it. You have enough room in your moving truck for
three stacks of three boxes. How can you stack these ones to fit them in?

125 80 47 42 26 18 15 12 7

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Dual Calculation
Difficult Use some of the numbers below to create an arithmetic expression equalling
22; then use all the remaining numbers to do it again. You may add, subtract, multiply
and/or divide, and you may use parentheses. You shouldn’t ever need to complete a
step of a calculation with a negative number or a fraction.

4 8 6 5 15 2

(DUAL CALCULATION AND ROOK, BISHOP, KNIGHT) DARREN RIGBY; (FIRST IN) FRASER SIMPSON Rook, Bishop, Knight B CA
Moderately difficult Trace a path from
start to finish. The first move of the path is C
a rook’s move (any distance horizontally
or vertically); the second is a bishop’s B
move (any distance on a 45-degree
diagonal); and the third is a knight’s D
move (an L-shape). You must then cycle
through those three types of moves A
again, in the same order, until 10 moves
are made. No square can be the end point AB
for a move more than once. The three
knight’s moves are shown in blue, green First In
and red. The first and last move are given Moderately difficult Place the
in black. Can you determine the path? letters A, B, C and D into this grid
so that each letter appears exactly
START once in each row and column, with
one cell in each row and column
1 left blank. Each letter outside the
grid indicates the letter that must
10 appear first in its respective row or
column (reading inward from the
FINISH edge of the grid closest to the
letter and skipping any blank
cells). Can you complete the grid?

For answers, turn to PAGE 111

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TRIVIA 11. In 2010, the last panel
of what long-running
BY Paul Paquet comic strip saw the title
character kidnapped by
1. What’s the only 6. Not counting the a war criminal?
Semitic language that’s earth, which is the only
also an official European planet whose largest 12. Who is the highest
Union language? moon is named after a grossing female actor of
female figure? all time?
2. What actor has played
friends to Ford Prefect, 7. Golfer Annika Sörens- 13. W and Z are worth a
Gandalf, Sherlock Holmes tam hails from what lot in many versions of
and the Black Panther? Nordic country? Scrabble, but in which
language are they worth
3. During the Second 8. Whose unsolved 1913 only a single point each?
World War, double death prompted head-
agent Juan Pujol García lines such as “Murdered 14. Klaus Teuber was a
was nicknamed after by Agents From Big Oil dental technician until he
what Swede? Trusts,” because he’d created which block-
invented a more fuel- buster board game?
4. What novel did James efficient engine?
Patterson write about a 15. Historical pirates often
detective named Jamie 9. Who supplied the buried their treasure.
Patterson, who tries to music for the musical- True or false?
solve the murder of a theatre version of the
horror writer? film Waitress?

5. Sometimes called a 10. What African king- ISTOCK.COM/FRANCISBLACK
“good luck sweet cookie” dom lists Coca-Cola
in China, what treat was concentrate among its
likely invented in the U.S.? main exports?

Answers: 1. Maltese. 2. Martin Freeman. 3. Greta Garbo, because he could give a convincing
performance. 4. The Murder of Stephen King. Patterson ultimately decided not to publish it.
5. The fortune cookie. 6. Uranus. The moon is named for the Shakespearean character Titania.
7. Sweden. 8. Rudolf Diesel. 9. Sara Bareilles. 10. eSwatini. 11. Little Orphan Annie. 12. Scarlett
Johansson. 13. Polish. 14. The Settlers of Catan. 15. False.

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WORD POWER

It’s a snap to tell a toque from a chesterfield, 10. windrows—
but not all Canadianisms stretch from coast A: hedges planted to
shelter crops.
to coast to coast. Master these regional B: depressed mood.
terms and you’ll be sure to blend in while C: snow left blocking a
driveway after a snow-
you’re oot and aboot. plow passes.

BY Linda Besner

1. bunny hug— C: tugboat sent to break 11. mamaqtuq—
A: chocolate Easter egg. up logjams. A: delicious.
B: fuzzy slippers. B: town gossip.
C: hooded sweatshirt. 6. scribbler— C: beautiful morning.
A: notebook.
2. miskeen— B: leaky boat engine. 12. guichet—
A: petty thief. C: defensive hockey A: tacky.
B: patchwork quilt. player. B: bank machine.
C: pathetic. C: cotton undershirt.
7. huck—
3. dep— A: eat quickly. 13. nuisance grounds—
A: corner store. B: hitchhike. A: garbage dump.
B: Mason jar. C: throw. B: schoolyard.
C: certainly. C: Legion branch.
8. donnybrook—
4. skoden— A: brawl. 14. ahlie—
A: snowmobile tracks. B: good-looking boy. A: skateboard trick.
B: let’s go, then. C: swimming hole. B: am I right?
C: family picnic. C: go away!
9. skookum—
5. jambuster— A: in the sky. 15. right good—
A: jam-filled doughnut. B: strong or brave. A: excellent.
B: kitchen party. C: grandmother. B: poor quality.
C: lucky thrift-store find.

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WORD POWER 6. scribbler—A: note- 12. guichet—B: bank
ANSWERS book (mainly the Mari- machine (Quebec, from
times); as, “Get out your French); as, Hari stopped
1. bunny hug— scribblers and write your at a guichet to take out
C: hooded sweatshirt (Sas- names on the covers,” some cash.
katchewan); as, A bunny instructed the teacher.
hug is cozy on a cold night. 13. nuisance grounds—
7. huck—C: throw (West); A: garbage dump (West);
2. miskeen—C: pathetic as, Alina called for her as, Property values plum-
(Ontario, from Arabic); friend to huck her the ball. meted when the munici-
as, “Look at this miskeen pality established nui-
guy,” said Jer jokingly. 8. donnybrook— sance grounds nearby.
“He’s never been to Can- A: brawl (hockey com-
ada’s Wonderland.” mentary); as, The Donny- 14. ahlie—B: am I right?
brook Fair in Dublin, (Ontario, from Jamaican
3. dep—A: corner store Ireland, was so rowdy patois); as, “There’s no
(Quebec, from French); that any tussle became way our bus will arrive on
as, Ming asked his room- known as a donnybrook. time; ahlie?” said Luther,
mate to pick up some glancing at his phone.
milk at the dep. 9. skookum—B: strong
or brave (West); as, 15. right good—
4. skoden—B: let’s go, Derived from Chinook A: excellent (Atlantic); as,
then (multiple First Jargon, skookum appears “That was a right good
Nations); as, Often an in many place names in meal!” declared Josée.
invitation to engage in a the Pacific Northwest.
fight, skoden has recently CROSSWORD
been used in battles over 10. windrows—C: snow ANSWERS
pipeline projects. left blocking a driveway
after a snowplow passes FROM PAGE 112
5. jambuster—A: jam- (mainly the Prairies); as,
filled doughnut (Mani- Shovelling windrows was I N MR ED
toba and northwestern not Klara’s idea of a good
Ontario); as, Having start to the day. MAW E E R F RO
grown up in Winnipeg,
the cashier knew what his 11. mamaqtuq— P R I DE V I S I ON
customer meant when A: delicious (North,
she ordered a jambuster. Inuktitut); as, Nina added I NNE T NUNS
the #mamaqtuq hashtag
to her post celebrating S I GN ODE
traditional foods.
HA S PB S UNS

L E I ALOT

SPOT I NTRO

T H E S P E C T R UM

BEA I LE ASP

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ANSWERS

FROM PAGE 106 BY Jeff Widderich

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Moving Day

7 12 18

15 26 42

47 80 125

Dual Calculation
(15 − 4) × 2 and 6 × 5 – 8.

Rook, Bishop, Knight To Solve This Puzzle

S1

573 Put a number from 1 to 9 in SOLUTION
each empty square so that:
28 573428961
) every horizontal row and 928617543
9 6 4 10 vertical column contains all 461359872
nine numbers (1-9) without 834971625
First In repeating any of them; 215846397
697532184
BD AC ) each of the outlined 3 x 3 146783259
BCDA boxes has all nine numbers, 359264718
none repeated. 782195436
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CROSSWORD 25 Garland of flowers
26 Tons and tons
Different Wavelengths 27 Ladybug feature
29 Emcee’s opening
Instead of a letter, some of the squares in this crossword 30 SiriusXM rock channel;
contain something else. Figure out what it is and feel the pride.
or full range, as of
BY Derek Bowman visible colours
32 Golden Girl Arthur
1 23 456 789 33 ___-du-Prince-Édouard
34 Egyptian cobra
10 11 12 35 “Let’s Stay Together”
singer
13 14 15 36 Cheer for the Bombers
37 La Traviata lead role
16 17
DOWN
18 19 1 Mischievous
2 Land of the lion Aslan
20 21 22 23 24 3 2008 Stanley Cup champs
4 Have a rendezvous
25 26 5 Crank (up)
6 Cocktail garnishes
27 28 29 7 Tuna variety
8 Cupid’s Greek counter-
30 31 part
9 Lemon, Cherry or Cheadle
32 33 34
14 Comfy room
35 36 37 15 Sex educator Johanson
19 ___-Wan (Star Wars role)
ACROSS 13 Former name of OUTtv 21 Wilbur, to Fern, in
1 How a Mountie is dressed 16 Goaltending
on special occasions 17 The Sound of Music Charlotte’s Web
4 Tim Roth’s role in 22 Type of radiation
Reservoir Dogs chorus members 23 Impervious to corrosion
7 Like some old news- 18 Protestor’s placard 24 2012 Serena Ryder hit
paper clippings 19 Literary tribute 25 UCLA part
20 “Rumour ___ it” 26 Hill worker
10 Gaping mouth 21 Network that aired a gay 27 The Giving Tree author
11 Shakespeare’s “always”
12 Swing to and ___ wedding on Arthur Silverstein
22 Quelques-___ (some) 28 Colour similar to avocado
29 Cool shade for hair dye
30 Still undecided, on a

schedule
31 “Strange Magic” band

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