True Patriot Love
“We would have liked to take a steamer through the Great Lakes, but passenger boats stopped running on the lakes decades ago, so we flew to Thunder Bay and our journey began at the car rental counter at the airport.
I thought it would be hard to find any traces of George Monro Grant, but this country takes better care of its past than I expected. The old Hudson’s Bay forts have been restored and turned into museums. Moccasins, blankets and trade beads are on sale in their stores. When the old ho...mesteads are cleared away for a supermarket or a highway, they are jacked up onto a trailer, together with their split-rail fences, and they are set down, along with lots of other old buildings, in an interpretive centre. The buildings may have the forlorn look of animals in a zoo, but it’s good to walk through the parlours of the old houses to get the feel of the dimensions in which our people once lived and died.
Governments, too, have done their part to preserve the past. In the 1960s, the federal government put up sturdy red brass plaques in the two official languages at many of our national heritage sites—and provincial governments followed suit and municipalities put up theirs, too.MoreLess
I thought it would be hard to find any traces of George Monro Grant, but this country takes better care of its past than I expected. The old Hudson’s Bay forts have been restored and turned into museums. Moccasins, blankets and trade beads are on sale in their stores. When the old ho...mesteads are cleared away for a supermarket or a highway, they are jacked up onto a trailer, together with their split-rail fences, and they are set down, along with lots of other old buildings, in an interpretive centre. The buildings may have the forlorn look of animals in a zoo, but it’s good to walk through the parlours of the old houses to get the feel of the dimensions in which our people once lived and died.
Governments, too, have done their part to preserve the past. In the 1960s, the federal government put up sturdy red brass plaques in the two official languages at many of our national heritage sites—and provincial governments followed suit and municipalities put up theirs, too.MoreLess
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