Crossing Canada With The Maplemusketeer Volume One - An Overview (June 2014) | Page 348

I haven’t seen the Rideau Canal that many
times and I wonder how often it’s empty
like this. Perhaps they’re preparing for
wintertime and it becoming a large ice
skating/commuting surface.

“The very existence of libraries affords the best
evidence that we may yet have hope for the future
of man”
–T.S. Eliot
There is something very alluring about libraries.
While wikipedia conceptually excites me, and the
amount of words saved on servers around the world
gives me more than a few moments wonder, there
is a magic to the tangible physical mass of ideas,
concepts, and assembling of work in these revered
places of learning. The idea that these authors have
worked so many long hours over the course of their
being and brought into existence such a record of
thought is truly awing.
These buildings hold a weight of will.
They hold the stories of our ancestors, and of
ourselves.
People also smooch in them.
*Ahem* Quietly!
Which I think is nifty cool as well, since it
often happens many times in the surrounding
literature.

Autumnal Canal Maintenance
Rideau Canal, Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Libraries Are More Nifty In Cool Buildings
Parliamentary Library, Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Victoria – Nanaimo – Campbell River – Egmont – Sechelt – Vancouver – Abbotsford – Hope – Yale – Revelstoke – Golden – Calgary – Didsbury – Edmonton – Farmer’s Field – Kola – Winnipeg – Nivervil e – Toronto – Kitchener – Woodstock – Sauble Beach – Stouffvil e – Newmarket – Orleans – Montreal – Moncton – Halifax
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