General Message Board

It wasn't just that I wanted to go - I HAD to go! My wife wasn't able to take the time, but one of my three daughters, Lori, who lives in Atlanta, and who cherishes anything to do with family history - of which Kawagama was an important part - was eager to accompany me. I rented a car, picked her up and we headed for Toronto via I-75, Detroit/Windsor and the 401. We both wanted the whole experience, and that meant taking the bus, which we did. As far as I could tell. Lori was the only camper's child there - thanks to her, the Kawagama spirit will long survive me!

Strange to meet people - including 4 of my cabinmates - who I hadn't seen or even communicated with in 51 years. Strange, too, to see an island in part totally transformed, and in part much the same. I expected to find formerly open areas overgrown, but not with full-sized trees! But 51 years is plenty of time for a tree to reach maturity!

C'mon you guys (er...girls, too) where are all the great pictures that I heard so much about. I'm always on alert and ready to create a gallery for anyone who has the time and courage to email them to me...or, post them on the website, so that I can then edit them accordingly.
So, get with the program and start sending them in. The site is very robust and can handle a database of infinite magnitude. In the Nike spirit...JUST DO IT!!!


Jeff Hoffman

Recall that in the Beginner’s Guide To Exchange Rate we saw that an exchange rate is a relative price: it’s the amount you have to pay in one currency to get a specified amount of another currency. So to rephrase the question, has the price or value of the Canadian dollar gone up, or has the price or value of the U.S. Dollar gone down?

The easiest and also the most revealing way to examine this question is by throwing other currencies into the mix.

If we see how the Canadian and American Dollars have done against other major currencies such as the Japanese Yen and Euro, you can see if the Canadian-American exchange rate has changed because the Canadian Dollar has become more valuable of the American Dollar has become less valuable.