After settling in Ontario three years ago, we left most of our family connections back in Alberta, so it seemed only right to keep in touch with them somehow--hence this book's title, "East to West." The options to maintaining contact were many--emails, cards, letters (I can't read my own writing anymore, so that's out), texting (I don't even have a phone), Twitter and Facebook (I don't know how to use them), videos and so on.
The essays in this book serve as an alternative form of communication, much like a guided missile speeding across the country with a special message. Thus, instead of writing weekly notes about the weather and our health to our families back home, informative essays about life in Ontario seemed a better option.
We trust that our families in the west will appreciate these missiles, and we hope you do too!