Lynne Cormier, Knowledge Keeper An Ojibwe creation myth has the Creator cleaning the world of warring peoples by a great flood. Soil was to be brought from the bottom to start again and a muskrat worked in cooperation with a turtle to have soil brought to the surface...
In the early days of Ontario, when the pressures of modern town and city life became too much, citizens were often recommended the “rest cure in a canoe.” Going north, camping, canoeing, sleeping in nature— these activities were seen as therapeutic and necessary in...
