Canadian Origins, Richard and Carol Selfridge August,2001 I was born in Canada in Belleville, Ontario. At the recent 50th Anniversary of the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, Chris Staley remarked that one of the things people who became potters seemed to have in common was that they played outside a lot as children. I thought about my Canadian childhood spent marveling at the slate shores on Georgian Bay as a five year old, climbing trees and digging snow forts in Quebec, being awestruck by my first view of the Rocky Mountains and riding horses in Alberta. Richard has a more special relationship to Canada. Having been born in the United States, he chose Canada ...