The Story of Mary.  By Ian, Founder of the Canadian Museum of
Making.  I’m not one to believe in things like destiny,
spirituality, or a higher force. I’m almost certain none of
these things exist, but I had an experience when I acquired
“Mary” that at least raises a few questions in my mind.  I began
this journey when I was little. I was always collecting small
things of interest to me and I still own many of them almost
fifty years later. In some way I believe they connect me with my
past. I don’t have any brothers or sisters, and I have a theory
that ‘only children’ don’t retain strong memories of their
childhood because they tend to develop as internally-focused
individuals, and don’t have siblings to remind them of common
experiences.  For these reasons, I think I felt a need to have
collect things that would be able to stimulate the memories that
brothers and sisters are able to stimulate for each other.  As
time passed, the things I collected got bigger and often more
complicated. Typically, though, th