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GRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 2: THE FIR TREES AND BEYOND by Jaimie Vernon

Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Buffalo, Canada, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Farley Mowat, Jaimie Vernon, Lillian Gish, Louis B. Mayer, Mary Pickford, Mounties, Never Cry Wolf, New Brunswick, New York, Niagara Falls, Nipigon Trail, Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, Trans-Canada Highway, traveling, Vancouver, Victoria, Warren G. Harding on July 6, 2020 by segarini

Historic, and hysterically stereotypical, visions of Canada usually consist of Eskimos, dog sleds, igloos, Mounties, and clear tracts of land filled with snow-capped mountains and evergreen forests. Oh, and people going over Niagara Falls in barrels. Monty Python also made a huge deal out of our lumberjacks as well.