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Thread #1992   Message #10955
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
21-Aug-97 - 09:47 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'Lookout Hill'; 'Strings and Dory Plug'
Subject: RE: REQ: Two Stan Rodgers songs
Nope. Read the liner notes: "Fogarty's Cove. There is no such place. At least on any map." As far as I am aware there is no Wild Rose Chance, although wild roses grow in profusion along the coast of eastern Canada. I think that he was attempting to create an archtype of all the little villages he knew on the east shore of Nova Scotia.

But there is a Queensport, and a Queensport light, and a Half Island. They are along Chedabucto Bay. The area in question is where his family was from, although he and his brother Garnett were born and raised in Dundas, Ontario.