Embedded at a New Year’s Day levee in Prince Edward Island
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The Walrus
January/February 2013
At 10 A.M. on the first day of the new year, the line of smartly clad participants snakes up the
brass-banistered staircase of Charlottetown’s city hall, at eye level with the framed photographic
replica of Robert Harris’s 1883 painting The Fathers of Confederation. I look up and down, but I
can’t begin to speculate on…
daina lawrence, journalist 