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Canoe Country: The Making Of Canada

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Canoe Country: The Making Of Canada

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 author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included):Ā Canoe CountryĀ is Roy MacGregor's 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 MacGregor's 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 nature's quietest corners, from the author best able (and most eager) to tell it.

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ROY MACGREGOR is the acclaimed and bestselling author ofĀ Home Team: Fathers, Sons and HockeyĀ (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award);Ā A Life in the BushĀ (winner of the US Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA Award for Biography); and bestsellersĀ Northern Light, Canoe CountryĀ andĀ Original Highways; as well as two novels,Ā Canoe LakeĀ andĀ The Last Season, and the popular Screech Owls mystery series for young readers. A longtime columnist for theĀ Globe and MailĀ and numerous other newspapers and magazines, MacGregor won four National Magazine Awards and two National Newspaper Awards. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was described in the citation as one of Canada's "most gifted storytellers."
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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 author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included):Ā Canoe CountryĀ is Roy MacGregor's 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 MacGregor's 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 nature's quietest corners, from the author best able (and most eager) to tell it.

Author

ROY MACGREGOR is the acclaimed and bestselling author ofĀ Home Team: Fathers, Sons and HockeyĀ (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award);Ā A Life in the BushĀ (winner of the US Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA Award for Biography); and bestsellersĀ Northern Light, Canoe CountryĀ andĀ Original Highways; as well as two novels,Ā Canoe LakeĀ andĀ The Last Season, and the popular Screech Owls mystery series for young readers. A longtime columnist for theĀ Globe and MailĀ and numerous other newspapers and magazines, MacGregor won four National Magazine Awards and two National Newspaper Awards. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was described in the citation as one of Canada's "most gifted storytellers."