Finding Sarah McLachlan Through the Eye of the Lens

      

Our story begins with Justin, a student from Toronto. He was hanging out in the city one day waiting for his friends to meet up with him. Justin was really excited because he was getting ready to go on a search for Sarah McLachlan. Sarah, was apparently in Toronto for TIFF, where she would be premiering her latest film.

About 15 minutes passed and Justin’s friends, Ayo and Caolan arrived off the bus together with all of their camera equipment in hand. The three of them walked down to Queen and Church and ended up at the pawnbrokers corner. Caolan wanted to sell a part of his camera that he no longer needed so he could have extra money for the film festival. A quick transaction with the pawnbroker and they were on their way.

       

Passing by all the other pawnshops, they noticed an ice cream truck up ahead. They knew they had to get some ice cream to start the day off right. Ayo asked the ice cream man which direction to The Law of the Land. Apparently this was in a small secluded area where Sarah was going to be doing her autograph signings.

                              

       

         

The Ice cream man pointed us in which direction we needed to go. The three of them followed a path that lead to a garden. In it there was a giant stone plaque, that read, “The Law of the Land”. Neither of them knew what this meant but all they could really think about was, how come Sarah Mclachlan was not here yet? No set up for her or anything. They found it strange and decided to keep venturing.

Justin got on his skateboard and started going in a different direction than what the ice cream man had said. Justin had taken off so far, Ayo and Caolan could barely keep up. They were so tired from running with their heavy cameras and bags, they decided to take a break by a tree. Up ahead they spotted a group of people with cameras. There had to of been something important going on so the two of them went to go check it out. Justin came skating back down the street and joined them.

After talking to a guy named Mike, we learned that Sarah Mclachlan could have possibly been at the St. James Church. They went across the street and decided to check it out. Nobody knows what was going on inside the church because they were instantly kicked out as they stepped in.

They tried to explain to the priest that kicked the out that they didn’t mean to disturb them, they were just simply looking for Sarah. The priest suddenly held back from kicking them out now, insead he told them where they could find their Sarah. He lead them to a stone in the ground out back. It said “I looked for Sarah everywhere” on it. Kind of creepy.      

After being given such a spooky feel from the priest, they just felt the need to get out of there. Justin became thirsty but didn’t have any money to buy a drink. Parched, he stumbled upon a fountain, spraying freshwater upward into the air. Perfect, Justin thought to himself, he sat on the on the ledge and enjoyed a free drink with three thirsty cranes.  

Even a small bird joined in on sharing a drink with Justin. Perhaps a gift from Sarah?

          

The bird had come all the way from a smaller fountain over to the same one Justin was drinking and it chirped as if it was trying to engage in conversation. Suddenly, The three we’re not so creeped out anymore about being in the church park. They felt a nice presence with the bird as if it really was the Sarah from the church’s spirit.

They had gotten carried away, but that was definitely a part of their adventure to remember. They crossed the road and headed over to path leading to the St. Lawrence Market. Justin, Ayo and Caolan once again set off for the rest of the adventure. They heard a loud screaming noise behind them at the same time they all turned around to see what it was. But nothing was there.. All of a sudden they felt like they were being watched. The three of them stopped taking pictures in that area and kept it moving.

       

                 

They ended up getting out of there so quick, they didn;t even know if they had gone the right direction. They continued to the go the way the same way and ended up finding Sarah Mclachlan’s hotel, also known as the Flat Iron Building. 
Sarah could still not be found anywhere though and there was no sign of her even being there. The three guys continued walking around but no longer knew where they were, until the looked between 2 buildings and noticed the St James Cathedral. They had been going in circles this whole time.

    

They decided to head back to the Cathedral and on the way spotted a hidden waterfall. They all thought this looked too nice to not take a picture of it so they all got in close to the waterfall and took some photos. 
Something about this whole area had something so hypnotizing to the mind. It calmed you down and made you take in the scenery more. But they all still felt as if they were being watched.

                 

They all felt they needed to go back to the cathedral because they knew something weird was going on. They followed the path towards the cathedral and asked a man inside what was really going on and where Sarah McLachlan was. 
The man paused for a minute and froze. “You didn’t hear? Oh, it’s quite terrible.. Sarah died here a number of years ago..” the man explained. He continued, “It is said that her soul wanders around this entire area and she tends to follow around her true fans. Did you find her?”, he asked. The three friends looked at each other and realized that they had found Sarah after all. She was with them the entire time. 
They all felt a sense of sadness but relief at the same time. This was an adventure they would all remember forever.

         

            

By: Ayodele Adeoye , Justin Behan , Caolan Brennan