![]() ![]() But the pattern has repeated and repeated and I fell in step with it, without even thinking about it and without really questioning what would happen.” ![]() It might seem like it’s a singular story. “Out migration has been happening for work here, in Nova Scotia, in the Maritimes for over 100 years,” says Beaton, whose grandfather worked on the harvest trains, which during the early 20th Century would transport Eastern Canadians out west to harvest Prairie wheat by hand. ![]() Published by her long-time press, Drawn & Quarterly, “Ducks” illustrates how Beaton followed in the steps of many trapped in a “have-not” tourism-focused economy that has suffered from decades of government neglect. In 2005, the 21-year-old recent arts grad from Mabou followed the path of “goin’ down the road,” well-trodden by generations of Cape Bretoners and other Atlantic Canadians, and took a job in the oilsands in Fort McMurray, hoping to pay off her student loans. ![]()
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