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Like an Ever Rolling Stream Paddling Through Time in the Maritimes When two men head off on a weekend canoe trip in 1976, they have little idea of the epic journey they have launched upon. Despite many miseries endured on that first trip, they decide to repeat the adventure, and for the next twenty-odd years their annual outings take them on explorations of the rivers, lakes and coastal regions of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, paddling — more often than not — from one hair-raising misadventure to another. Along the way, they happen upon traces of poignant dramas and strange events that occurred in the forgotten recesses of time and place, beyond the myopic gaze of official history. Hugh McKervill breathes life into these little-known historical events in the course of relating his often hilarious, frequently irreverent and always entertaining account of the exploits of the two men. Like an Ever Rolling Stream is the story of two Canadian guys in a red canoe, a generation apart in age, who have forged an enduring friendship, yet are inexorably carried forward by the currents of time.
July 2009 |