Foreword


You are entering Hillsdale, a southern suburb of Regina. Opened to its first few houses in 1956, Hillsdale was a modern suburb, in the mid-'50s sense of modern urban design. As if protecting two sensibilities, the car and the family, the design featured perimeter through-streets and a snarl of interior bays, crescents, and cul-de-sacs.

I moved to Hillsdale with my parents and sisters in 1961. I moved there again, with my own family this time, in 1995.

By 2008 Hillsdale becomes a textual field on which a boy (1961-1972), and a man (1995-2010) and a traveller (as ever) arrive and leave, return and leave, figuring who and where they are. It becomes a document faithfully received, playfully rendered.

Laid out as streets and crescents on annexed farmland, Hillsdale becomes text and images laid out in this book.

Hillsdale welcomes you.


Gerald Hill
Regina, Saskatchewan