Huh. Speaking of coincidences, last Saturday on the finale of the Nova Scotia Kitchen Party on CBC Radio One, they did a Stan Rogers tribute (big surprise, not.) As an extra-special thing they did a multi-location worldwide singalong of you-guessed-it...Barretts Privateers.

It so happened that at the time I was driving down Sherbrooke Street in Montreal (took my young lad and a couple of his pals to the Biodome for the day, hoo-eee!) so of course I sang "Wish I was on Sherbrooke now". Thought I was being clever but apparently I was just being true to the original...

I had an ancestor on my New Brunswick mom's side who tried privateering in the war of 1812. Highly unsuccessful venture. Lost his farm as well as his ship (I think), having mortgaged the former to outfit the latter.

Willie-O