I was winding up a tour of Signal Hill, the National Historic Site in St. John’s Newfoundland, when the Parks Canada representative I was with suddenly stopped. “There is something I have to mention,” he said with a note of seriousness. “You are not allowed to pick blueberries here, it’s a federal park.”
At the time I thought he was being overly bureaucratic. And while on a walk the next day with a ‘Townie,’ (the name for
