{"id":991,"date":"2013-07-01T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/?p=991"},"modified":"2013-08-30T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T19:31:40","slug":"setting-the-new-standard-for-canadianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldline.ca\/blog\/setting-the-new-standard-for-canadianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the New Standard for Canadianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>No matter how Canadian you think you are, you&#8217;re not as Canadian as this couple.<\/h2>\n<p>Canoeing across Canada sounds like something from not the last century, but the one before it. Yet Geoff and Pam MacDonald\u00a0are doing just that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It has now been more than six years since Geoff and Pam MacDonald of Calgary set out to paddle across Canada. They began in March, 2007, from Victoria, paddled up the B.C. coastline, portaged to the Nechako River, on to the Fraser, then the Columbia, and, with their dog harnessed to the canoe, they dragged it and their packs with ropes up three ranges covering more than 100 kilometres of \u201cmountain portaging\u201d until they reached the Continental Divide, whereupon they cracked open a bottle of champagne, raised a toast, did a little dance and then stared east into what seemed like eternity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And what today \u2013 as they spend Canada Day paddling the calm and easy Trent-Severn Waterway that will take them from Lake Huron to Lake Ontario \u2013 also seems like an eternity looking back.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing. It&#8217;s worth some of your Canada Day time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/calgary-couples-incredible-canoe-journey-across-canada\/article12896751\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Portage\" src=\"http:\/\/canoeacrosscanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/portaging-ball-pass.-ab_web.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how Canadian you think you are, you&#8217;re not as Canadian as this couple. Canoeing across Canada sounds like something from not the last century, but the one before it. 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