New Book - Canoe Country: The Making of Canada

Roy MacGregor's latest book "Canoe Country: The Making of Canada" comes out today! Enrich yourself in Canadiana as Roy explores just how important the canoe is to our nation. This 320 page hardcover book shares...

"The Canoe made Canada. No canoe, no exploration of this second-largest country on earth. No canoe, no fur trade to open up the colony-then-country to commerce and settlement. No dugout, no birchbark canoe, no kayak, no umiak, then perhaps no survival for the various Aboriginal people who first inhabited this largely inhospitable and often frozen territory... The great stories of Canada's exploration - Champlain's voyage, Thompson's map-making, the Hudson's Bay Company and the Company of Adventurers - all were written by canoe. Great art of the country - Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven - was painted by canoe. Let the American silver dollar say, "In God We Trust." Outs had a canoe on it for largely the same reasons: trust and faith."

Purchase a copy from the Canadian Canoe Museum, Amazon, Chapters/Indigo, or digitally with iBooks, Kindle and the Google Play store.