Reviews for Canada

The average rating for Canada based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-11-11 00:00:00 Robi Rafmussen Will Ferguson visits spots across Canada, many of which are lesser known, to explore culture and history. My favorite was the chapter/essay near the end with the renditions of the Viking settlement reenactors with Newfoundland accents. It was also interesting to revisit the Hudson Bay Company and its competitors within Canada (any Oregonian child learns a lot about HBC in 4th grade.) The polar bear chapter probably does the best job at putting the reader there (many crossover places with Annie Muktuk in that one.) Some essays were fascinating, some had moments of humor; others I felt struggled to find their "why." I liked how the essays started with BC and moves eastward.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-04 00:00:00 Krem Sfr Honestly, I chose this book because of its title, a sort of Fredericks of North Dakota sort of appeal. I've been to Moose Jaw, and have always loved the name. I also have traveled extensively in Canada, and was intrigued to read about the country that everyone seems to forget. Will Ferguson wrote the chapters in this book over a number of years, randomly traveling hither and yon. He is a writer who captures the look, feel, history, and humor of the places he goes and, in this book, he organizes his tour from west (Victoria) to east. He hops from place to place in a somewhat random fashion (maybe chosen because of journalists' tours and family vacations?) to give the reader a sense of the interesection between people and geography. Canada is so vast: he writes of a town where no one can walk around alone because there are polar bears lurking everywhere (churchill) and of towns where the smallest break in the prairie is a town with a name on it. Now, I want to go back to Moose Jaw, and I want to go on to eastern Canada, where I've never been before. This was a nice way to take a virtual trip: Ferguson is funny and insightful, and the pictures he's planted in my mind's eye make me wonder why I'm sitting here writing this rather than googling cheap flights to Ontario.