This First Person piece was written by Stephen Douglas, who lives in Vancouver. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
On an eerily quiet stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario, somewhere between Thunder Bay and Dryden, sits a plain-looking station. No fancy canopy, no LED signage. But it’s the first break from white spruce and jack pine along the highway in close to an hour and my gas is running low, so I pull in.
Broken asphalt. Two diesel pumps and two regular gasoline pumps. The building is in need of new siding and there’s not another soul in sight. I eye it all warily
→ Continue reading at CBC News