Where Did the Nickel Go?

Lowell R. DeMond was born in 1936 and raised on a farm in South Brookfield, Nova Scotia. In 1956 he was employed by the Canadian government for a two year tour of duty at a weather station located six hundred miles from the North Pole. DeMond attended Acadia university and the University of New Brunswick, where he received a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of education, respectively. For the next fifteen years, he worked as an educator in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. He then received a master of education and became a high school principal. Now retired, DeMond is an enthusiastic sports fisherman. He is a lifelong member of the LaHave River Salmon Association and has received awards for his salmon conservation efforts. He is the author of Hooked! Angling Sport or Madness. He now lives only a stones throw from the LaHave River. When not spending time with his wife Marion and two sons, Andrew and Bruce. he runs an eighty acre tree farm where he has planted more than fifty thousand trees over the years.