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eral famous basketball teams. As they walked north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu said, Lin Fei, one of my mothers old schoolmates, lives here. I should phone her from a telephone booth. They met Lin Fei around dusk in downtown Chinatown, one of the three in Toronto. Over dinner at a restaurant called The Pink Pearl, the cousins chatted with Lin Fei, who had moved to Canada many years earlier. We can get good Cantonese food here, Lin Fei told them, because most of the Chinese people here e from South China, especially Hong Kong. Its too bad you cant go as far as Ottawa, Canadas capital. Its approximately four hundred kilometres northeast of Toronto, so it would take too long. The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal at dawn the next morning. At the station, people everywhere were speaking French. There were signs and ads in French, but some of them had English words in smaller letters. We dont leave until this evening, said Liu Qian. Lets go downtown. Old Montreal is close to the water. They spent the afternoon in lovely shops and visiting artists in their workplaces beside the water. As they sat in a buffet restaurant looking over the broad St Lawrence River, a young man sat down with them. Hello, my name is Henri. Im a student at the university nearby, he said, and I was wondering where you are from. The girls told him they were on a train trip across Canada an