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Travelling along the North Shore of Lake Superior was an incredible and perspective altering experience. Among our many adventures in this beautiful swath of the province, was the opportunity to stay for 4 days at a remote cabin in Jackfish. To get to the cabin we had to walk a mile on train tracks. Jackfish was formerly a small coal depot and fishing town, but was completely abandoned in the early 1960s - it is one of our provinces’ many ghost towns. There, we saw a nature in strength and beauty and the wonder and connectedness of life and death, from the forest fires to the blueberries that grow in their wake.

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Forest grows up and then it burns down
And I am here in a ghost town
Jackpine cones release their seeds
Into the embers on the ground

Jackfish was a little town
Before the people moved on out
And walking amidst the bushes and the trees
I see ruined houses cars and memories

Japanese people were once sent here
To build the highway we hold so dear
There’s a skeleton sitting on the tracks
Looks like a lynx or a mountain cat

The railroad spread like ivy vines
The flowers bloomed in their own time
Seasons pass and nothing stays
Flowers rot, the province changed

And here’s the sound of a lonely train
Plaintively winding around the bay
I pick blueberries near the rocky shore
Nothing’s gone there’s only change
Nothing dies there’s only change
Nothing dies there’s only change


It doesn’t have to die there’s only change

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from The Song Of Ontario, released April 13, 2020

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Matt and Jun Hamilton, Ontario

We are 1st year medical students at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario. From July-November 2019 we are going on a road trip across the province to learn more about the places and people who call Ontario home. We seek to express what we learn, see, feel, and hear in our journey as a musical album, that captures some of the essence of life in Ontario.​
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