There are times when the draw for a taste of home is too great to resist. That, and the promise of a casual experience.

I’ve discovered such stories can offer great insight into the human condition, and to judge them as unreliable portals ….

In Dow's great swamp, one of the most dismal places in the wilderness, did [they], hold their merry Christmas of 1826.

My research had taken me to several established authors of canal history. Robert Leggett, whose book Rideau Waterway offered a comprehensive