A small town between Kingston and Belleville Ontario with a population of 1800. Off the Bay of Quinte (Lake Ontario), very little industry resides in this town. There is an abandoned cannery named the Arctic Gardens and last known from 1994 an optical grinding plant. Smack dab in the middle of a Mohawk reservation, this little community once and may still retain the honour of being the area in Canada with the highest per capita of child abuse.

I spent a year or so in this place living in a rectory, doing the summer things such as;

Swimming in a quarry

Smoking hash oil & hot-knives in a barn with a torch

Stealing food from IGA at the end of my shift

Sitting on the 3 steps of city hall wasted

Beating up the cat-torturing kid

Skateboarding in the abandoned cannery

Listening to crap hick music

Puking green bile after funneling a mickey of Rum

Hay-ride family outings on a neighbours apple orchard

Haying bales of hay as a part-time summer job

Kissing girls in the hay fields

Stealing boats from the marina

Cycling 70km a day in the summer dodging black flys.

Beating up my landlord who wouldn't kill his flea farm in the carpets


As you can tell small-town life is a great influence away from the big city troubles!


I fondly rename this town Despaironto