Dear Editor,
It is the simple pleasures that one remembers. If you grew up in Okotoks or the surrounding area during the 1990s-2000s, you may remember going to the recreation centre on Canada Day to get a free slice of cake.
Nostalgia has one longing for that cake, which was consistently the same year after year. White sheet cake, with a custard middle layer, custard on top, with a white icing border and a large red icing maple leaf. There was also some sort of crunchy crumble in the white icing border (if memory serves correctly).
While a quick survey of 1990s-2000s Okotokians suggested that this cake would have come from IGA (now Sobeys), a quick perusal of the cake selection at the current store, and one cake purchase later, revealed delicious, but incorrect, results.
Anyone with information on the Canada Day cake, particularly regarding acquiring/baking one in 2024, please come forward. If finding the origin of this cake proves to be more difficult than a late-night letter to the editor, then I implore the Western Wheel to dedicate time and resources into investigating the history of the Canada Day cake.
Zach McLean
Okotoks
