Every Trail Has a Story : Heritage Travel in Canada

Canada is packed with intriguing places for travel where heritage and landscape interact to create stories that fire our imagination.

Scattered across the land are incredible tales of human life over the centuries.

From the Majorville rock formation (dated as being older than Stonehenge), through the systems of walking trails developed by pre-contact Native Peoples, and the fur trade routes, to the more recent grand stories of the Chilkoot Gold Rush of 1897.Bob Henderson, the traveller, captures our living history in its relationship to the land - best expressed through the Norwegian quote 'nature is the true home of culture'.

The diversity of fascinating content includes the ancient James Bay landmark (the 'Wonderful' Stone); the mountain treks of naturalist Mary Schaffer Warren; the west coast observations of George Vancouver; practices such as dog sledding, warm winter camping and canoeing that allow for heritage insights; the trails of Dundas, Ontario; the exploits of missionary Gabriel Sagard; the recluse Louis Gamache of Anticosti Island; the abandoned gravesites along the coast of Newfoundland - to name but a few.As historian Michael Bliss once said: We have to find a way to make history smell again.

Author Bob Henderson brings the 'fragrance of the past' into the present and invites us to imagine and participate.