Minnedosa IS the centre of the Universe ...

In case you may EVER doubt it; Minnedosa IS the centre of the Universe ...

The list of people, famous, imfamous or otherwise who have come from Minnedosa is quite interesting ... We all know Izzy Asper the Media Mogul, raised a mere BLOCK from the Chipperfield Coffee Shop, then of course there is Ron Chipperfield who took hockey playing to new heights ... There are others, but with Izzy and Ron, you get the drift ...

Yet, it also seems that anywhere you go in Canada, particularly in the west, you WILL meet someone from, who lived in, or who is going to Minnedosa ... It has happened to many families including our own many times ...

Sitting in a restaurant in Golden on late evening - the man in the booth next to us says "Manitoba?? I got a good friend in Manitoba." The conversation then turns to locales, and he says his friend is from a small town north of Brandon called - yup, you guessed it: Minnedosa. And it turns out I know the friend ...

Standing on the ferry crossing to Victoria ... the couple at the rail notice my Minnedosa teeshirt and ask "are you from Minnedosa?" Turns out she was a school teacher and he an RCMP officer who have moved westward ...

Waiting for an elevator in an apartment building in the Lower Mainland. Again wearing the Minnedosa t-shirt ... the elevator opens and man steps out as you step in - "Hey, Minnedosa !!! I was born in the Lady Minto Hospital in 1947 ..." The elevator closes before more information can be gleaned ...

The stories are legion ... anyone who has lived in Minnedosa, even for a short time, has encountered someone somewhere who knows someone from, is related to someon in, or themselves were born or lived there at some point in their lives ... It takes the whole six degrees of seperation to a strange and wonderful new level ...

It is safe to say that for some unknown, yet cosmically significant reason - Minnedosa has become the centre of the known universe ...

... it makes travelling kind of fun ...