Greetings From Victoria BC

I get that,

I demolish buildings for a living, in the process saving everything possible for reuse ( shameless plug : http://www.SurreyNewAndUsed.com ). In the older houses you can almost hear the footsteps that have walked across the flooring over the decades...

These kind of connections is probably what attracts me to circulated coins rather than mint state.

You should pop into the Canadian forums for no other reason than you are Canadian !