Tim Hortons: the modern Canadian inukshuk
So this Sunday, I'm appearing at the library in Paris, Ontario, as the concluding event of this year's One Book, One Brant community-wide reading program; the book they're doing this year is my Rollback.
If you're in the area, come on out this Sunday, March 1, 2009, for a lively reading, Q&A, and more, at the Paris Public Library, 12 William Street, Paris, Ontario, at 1:30 p.m.
Just now, the library sent me directions to the library, and I thought to myself all Canadian directions contain the same landmark: the local Tim Hortons. They've become the modern Canadian inukshuk! For anyone else making the trip from the Toronto area, here are the directions:
- Take Hwy 403.
- Past the Brantford exits, you'll come to Hwy 2 Paris Rd exit
- Stay in right lane -- sign will say to Paris
- Follow on Paris Rd until you get to the 2nd set of stop lights. (Tim Hortons on the corner)
- Turn left onto Dundas St. stay in right lane
- Take Willow St. exit towards downtown
- Go to stop sign turn left on William St. stay in left lane
- Go through the main intersection (stop lights) and the library is one block over on your right.
The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
Labels: Rollback
3 Comments:
You may want to give that some additional thought, given this map recently added to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_stores_wiki.png
So will a lot of other people! :D
My old boss was the same way when I drove truck, only he would use McDonalds, especially in the US.
Go down I-75 get off exit 34, drive west till you see a McDonalds, etc.
We all suspected he's visited every McD's this side of the Mississippi in both countries.
Mike Rimar
Eventually, there become too many Tim Hortons' in the neighborhood to use it in instructions. I can think of four within a 10 minute drive of my home...
(The closest of which, sadly, is supremely incompetent with bells on.)
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