Due to my unfortunate circumstances, Owen offered to pay the $100 needed for my voyage by train to Ottawa. Along the way, we have passed through farm lands that reminded me of my younger days when we grew wheat, corn and oats.
At age 16, my mother sent me to York to live with her sister, who became like a second mother to me for a time. She insisted that I become well educated by sending me to The Home District School, which was about one and a half miles from the present-day Toronto Reference Library.
It was under her guidance that I grew to have an appreciation for the scientific advances of the era. One of these was the invention of the steam engine, which led to the construction of many railway tracks.
It was a marvel to me that railways continued to thrive hundreds of years later, albeit with many technological advancements. It made me wonder what Owen hoped to achieve with his own research.
A railway that could travel through time would be splendid.