More Soggy Than Sweet, the MicroSkills Survivors

Right on time, we took the 9:30 train to Union Station, slid down to Queens Quay on a streetcar, and popped open our umbrellas for the march to Redpath Sugar Museum.

 Maybe we should've gone to the library, or "library," instead!

Yet, we were welcome and hosted--exclusively--by Richard Feltoe, curator and published author of books on Redpath's and North American history.



An informative video after, he fielded questions from all of us.

 A tour of the museum followed.

Redpath uses sugarcane, but here's how the other sweet source is harvested: beet.

Some of Richard Feltoe's publications

More questions ...

 And yet more questions ...

And one final group pic
 

 

Finally, the long-anticipated hike to Canada's Sugar Beach!

Forget those pink umbrellas--we believe in diversity!

Right. So, suitably drenched and unable to head toward Sherbourne Commons Park, we dived into a Loblaws, where we split. Some hardy survivors chose to hike north for St. Lawrence Market and perhaps the organ concert at St. James. But the rest of us ate Zumurod's pizza and headed home in soggy footwear in the nice, sunny weather that followed.