Its been said that western lumber traders who go to the Prairies for a late summer vacation travel against the grain. For this trader, it’s the generous hospitality of the Canadian Maritimes that beckons before summer expires. I’m told I’ll know I’m in the Maritimes when someone in a building supplies store offers assistance and they don’t even work there. I’m looking forward to boarding the red-eye out of Vancouver tonight, and getting into the vacation spirit with extended family in New Brunswick, where they say a vacation means going anywhere south of Saint John for the weekend.