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Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down 16 of Canadas great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our country through the stories of its original highways, and how they sustain our spirit, identity and economy--past, present and future.
No country is more blessed with fresh water than Canada. From the mouth of the Fraser River in BC, to the Bow in Alberta, the Red in Manitoba, the Gatineau, the Saint John and the most historic of all Canadas rivers, the St. Lawrence, our beloved chronicler of Canadian life, Roy MacGregor, has paddled, sailed and traversed their lengths, learned their stories and secrets, and the tales of centuries lived on their rapids and riverbanks. He raises lost tales, like that of the Great Tax Revolt of the Gatineau River, and reconsiders histories like that of the Irish would-be settlers who died on Grosse Ile and the incredible resilience of settlers in the Red River Valley. Along the Grand, the Ottawa and others, he meets the successful conservationists behind the resuscitation of polluted wetlands, including even Torontos Don, the most abused river in Canada (where he witnesses families of mink, returned to play on its banks). Long before our national railroad was built, our rivers held Canada together; in these sixteen portraits, filled with yesterdays adventures and tomorrows promise, MacGregor weaves together a story of Canada and its ongoing relationship with its most precious resource.

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ALSO BY ROY M AC GREGOR NONFICTION Canoe Country The Making of Canada - photo 1

ALSO BY ROY M AC GREGOR

NONFICTION

Canoe Country: The Making of Canada

Wayne Gretzkys Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey

Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson

and the Woman Who Loved Him

Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People

The Dog and I: Confessions of a Best Friend

The Weekender: A Cottage Journal

Escape: In Search of the Natural Soul of Canada

A Loonie for Luck

A Life in the Bush

The Road Home: Images of the Ottawa Valley

The Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey

The Seven A.M. Practice: Stories of Family Life

Quantity Time: Words of Comfort for Imperfect Parents

Road Games: A Year in the Life of the NHL

Chief: The Fearless Vision of Billy Diamond

Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada (with Ken Dryden)

FICTION

Canoe Lake

The Last Season

FOR YOUNG READERS

The Screech Owls Series

The Highest Number in the World

Forever: The Annual Hockey Classic

PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE CANADA Copyright 2017 Roy MacGregor All rights - photo 2PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE CANADA Copyright 2017 Roy MacGregor All rights - photo 3

PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE CANADA

Copyright 2017 Roy MacGregor

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in 2017 by Random House Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.penguinrandomhouse.ca

Random House Canada and colophon are registered trademarks.

Photograph credits

Courtesy of Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail: .

Unless otherwise indicated all photos are the property of the author.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

MacGregor, Roy, 1948, author

Original highways : travelling the great rivers of Canada / Roy MacGregor.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 9780307361387

eBook ISBN 9780307361400

1. RiversCanada. 2. RiversCanadaHistory. 3. CanadaHistoryAnecdotes. 4. CanadaHistory, Local. 5. CanadaDescription and travel. 6. MacGregor, Roy, 1948TravelCanada. I. Title.

GB1229.M33 2017333.91620971C2017-902008-0

Book design by Andrew Roberts

Map created by Anthony de Ridder, based upon designs by Pomogayev and zak00 from iStock / Getty Images

Cover photo: (Chilcotin River, British Columbia) Chris Harris / Getty Images

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For Bruce Westwood, who made me do it.

He thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river beforethis sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again. All as a-shake and a-shiverglints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble. The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chatted on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CANADAS ORIGINAL HIGHWAY: THE ST. LAWRENCE
CHAPTER TWO
PRICELESS AND PRECARIOUS: THE OTTAWA
CHAPTER THREE
RISING FROM THE DEAD: THE DON
CHAPTER FOUR
SYMBOL OF LIFE: THE MIGHTY FRASER
CHAPTER FIVE
WE ARE RED RIVER PEOPLE
CHAPTER SIX
WATER WONDER OF THE WORLD: THE NIAGARA
CHAPTER SEVEN
THE RHINE OF NORTH AMERICA: THE SAINT JOHN
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE MACKENZIE: RIVER OF DISAPPOINTMENT OR HOPE
CHAPTER NINE
RETURN TO SPLENDOUR: THE GRAND
CHAPTER TEN
STRESSES ALONG THE BOW
CHAPTER ELEVEN
TAX REVOLTS AND INDEPENDENCE: THE GATINEAU
CHAPTER TWELVE
COLONEL BYS AMAZING FEAT: THE RIDEAU RIVER AND CANAL
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
RIVER OF POLITICS: THE COLUMBIA
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
WATER IS LIFE: THE NORTH SASKATCHEWAN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
COTTAGE COUNTRY BEAUTY AND BATTLES: THE MUSKOKA
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
WHITEWATER ESCAPE ON THE DUMOINE
INTRODUCTION

A DOZEN DAYS BEFORE THE October 19, 2015, federal election, I flew from Ottawa to Vancouver for a one-on-one sit-down with then prime minister Stephen Harper. My newspaper, the Globe and Mail, had been approached by his staff regarding a possible interview and had been led to believe it would be substantive. When I arrived at the interview locationa rented hall in nearby Richmondit quickly became clear that the Globe was merely one in a string of one-on-one meetings, various reporters from the national broadcasters and news agencies all sent to wait their turn in a suffocating room with lukewarm coffee. I was told by the prime ministers curt handlers that I would have ten minutes with him, not a moment longer.

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