Meeting in front of Coppell Town Center before starting drive to Canada.  In the photo are Phil LaBerge, Coppell Mayor - Wes Mays, the Canada Consul General in Dallas - Susan Harper, Maryse Laflamme and Jim Anderson.  The Laflamme family were among the first to settle Coppell, Ontario and Maryse lives here in Coppell, Texas.  Jim Anderson is a Canadian who was born and raised in Vancouver before coming to Dallas to work for American Airlines.

Here are a few quotes.

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance;
​they make the latitudes and longitudes."

​Henry David Thoreau in 1843

"Geography has made us neighbors.  History has made us friends."

Spoken by President John F. Kennedy on his trip to Ottawa in 1961

Here are a few gifts that the Consul General gave us for our trip to Canada.