Canoe Country: The Making of Canada

Canoe Country: The Making of Canada by MacGregor, Roy. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780307361417.

One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes. From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the authors family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country is Roy MacGregors celebration of the essential and enduring love affair Canadians have with our first and still favourite means of getting around. Famous paddlers have been so enchanted with the canoe that one swore God made Canada as the perfect country in which to paddle it. Drawing on MacGregors own decades spent whenever possible with a paddle in his hand, this is a story of high adventure on white water and the sweetest peace in natures quietest corners, from the author best able (and most eager) to tell it.