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Canoe Country

The Making of Canada

The Making of Canada

By Roy MacGregor

By Roy MacGregor

By Roy MacGregor

By Roy MacGregor

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May 10, 2016 | ISBN 9780307361424

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Sep 08, 2015 | ISBN 9780307361431

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    About Canoe Country

    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 author’s family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country 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.

    About Canoe Country

    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 author’s family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country 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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    Also by Roy MacGregor

    Original Highways
    The Home Team
    A Life in the Bush
    Reality Check in Detroit
    The Boston Breakout
    See all books by Roy MacGregor

    About Roy MacGregor

    Roy MacGregor is the acclaimed and bestselling author of Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey (shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award); A Life in the Bush (winner of the U.S. Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA… More about Roy MacGregor

    About Roy MacGregor

    Roy MacGregor is the acclaimed and bestselling author of Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey (shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award); A Life in the Bush (winner of the U.S. Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA… More about Roy MacGregor

    Product Details

    Category: North American World History | Sports

    Paperback | $18.50
    Published by Vintage Canada
    May 10, 2016 | 320 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9 | ISBN 9780307361424

    Category: North American World History | Sports

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Random House Canada
    Sep 08, 2015 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307361431

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    Praise

    Praise for Northern Light and Roy MacGregor:
    “One of Canada’s top authors. . . . MacGregor has woven a convincing story.” Toronto Star
    “Part history, part true-crime investigation and part memoir, Northern Light is both scrupulously even-handed and deeply personal. . . . [MacGregor] has crafted a beautifully realized picture of a time and place.” Winnipeg Free Press
    “It’s hard to even imagine anyone today who is writing more lyrically about Canada than Roy MacGregor.” Toronto Star

    Awards

    Ottawa Book Award for Non-Fiction FINALIST 2016

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