Just Alberta things
A friend of mine sent me this screencap from a livestream of the Until Dawn remake:
Until Dawn takes place in the Canadian Rockies, and Edmonton would be one of the nearest major cities to the fictional mountain where the game takes place. It also happens to be my hometown.
I've shown this screencap to multiple friends from back home, and all of them have had two reactions in quick succession:
- Edmonton mentioned!
- What the fuck is that address.
There isn't a Clarke Avenue in Edmonton; most of the streets are numbered, not named. T6N isn't a SW (South-West) postal code. In fact, there are very few addresses in Edmonton that end in SW; most of them are NW (North-West). And it's a minor quibble, but Canadian address formatting usually puts the city and province on the same line.
Until Dawn was made by Supermassive Games, based in Guildford here in the UK. So all these goofs aside, I'm genuinely impressed they knew that Edmonton even exists.
New on Ko-fi: "Sebastian Moran Inflicts Six Traumatic Brain Injuries," Chapter 2
Chapter 2 of "Sebastian Moran Inflicts Six Traumatic Brain Injuries" is now up for all supporters on Ko-fi. If you're not a fan of serialized works, you can also get the entire novelette as an ebook.
Recommendation: Lethbridge: A tale of love in a time of war
By the time this newsletter goes out, it will be the day after Remembrance Day. Therefore it seems like the appropriate time to recommend my dad's novel, Lethbridge.
The novel is based on a true story — the story of the author's grandparents (and my great-grandparents). Hettie Drysdale is a teenage girl who emigrated from Scotland with her family; Stanley Knowlton is a young man from the United States eager to fight in a war his country refuses to join; Harry Walker is an English orphan, runaway, and rum-runner. All three find themselves in the city of Lethbridge, Alberta, where the Canadian Expeditionary Force is mobilizing for deployment into World War I.
I'm not just recommending this book because my dad wrote it. It's sincere, it's well-researched, and it made me cry. If you're interested in Canadian history, or even if you don't know anything at all about it, you should read Lethbridge.
This Week's Link
50 Movies to Distract Yourself from the Apocalypse
Only one link this week. This video was originally posted during the early days of COVID lockdown, but many of you may find it helpful at the moment.
For a given definition of "helpful," anyway.
I have learned in the past three years that Europeans will believe basically anything I tell them about Canada. I now understand why Australians are like that.
-K
