When Christopher Wattam was 11, he knew something about geography he wanted to share with somebody, perhaps in Asia.
He wrote a message he and his parents put in a wine bottle and pitched into the Pacific Ocean. "Dear Finder," he said, explaining "you may not know" the location of his hometown. "Coquitlam is a city near Vancouver. Now if you don't know where Vancouver is, you don't know your geography."
"We live in Canada, which is our country," he said.
"You probably think of the Pacific Ocean as the East Coast but we know it as the West Coast and that is where Vancouver is."
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