This First Person article is the experience of Colin MacKenzie, a filmmaker in Montreal. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
As a kid, I remember lying across the seat of a white rowboat in the hot sun during my summer holidays.
My grandmother lived on a small lake surrounded by pine trees and chickadees in the Laurentians. I was fishing for perch, or anything really. But I can probably count on one hand how many fish I actually landed between the ages of four and 16.
Maybe only one or two of them were big enough to
