Remember When

Remember when Fort Mac’s population

Was around twenty five grand.

And for less than one hundred thousand

You could get a nice home with a piece of land.

Remember when tuning in your radio

1230 CJOK was the only song around,

On a narrow strip of asphalt with no shoulders

As you travelled south, Edmonton bound.

Remember when Thickwood Boulevard

Ended at the fire hall,

Beyond there was only swamp and trees

And the beavers mating call.

Remember when it wasn’t called Suncor

It was the Great Canadian Oil Sand,

When Robin’s Donuts was the place to go

Prior to Tim Horton’s great demand.

Remember when there were no traffic jams

When sirens weren’t a common sound,

Remember all those years ago

We weren’t a city, just a little town.

by Rick Alyward

Words In Motion 2014