Frédérick Hardy reaches back with his left arm, clutching a climbing rope with a heavy magnet on the end.
He throws, hucking the weight as far as he can out into Montreal’s Lachine Canal near the Atwater Market.
“It’s like playing the lottery. You throw, you don’t know what you’re going to find,” said Hardy.
He’s found everything from iron railway spikes to mortar shells. And he’s found plenty of loose change, too.
“People are making wishes,” he said. “Sometimes the wishes come back to my magnet. Sorry.”
Frédérick Hardy, Longueuil resident, throws a magnet attached to a climbing rope into the Lachine Canal, hoping
