Name:
Ginny Harmony Irene
Marie Gonneau
I Have: paddled
a total of 108 days, 4300 km, from Montreal, Quebec
to Batoche, SK along the historic fur trade routes of
our Metis ancestors.
Biggest Challenge:
waking up at5am
every day on the trip.
Few people have any
idea: what
it's like to paddle 60 km a day in canoe,
regardless of weather, sickness or exhaustion.
and I went on the first trip to begi with
for my mom.
My Motivation:
my family. I've been
to: a pipe ceremony at Gabriel's
Crossing in Saskatchewan & met Maria Campbell author
of half-breed.
Best Moment:
sitting around a camp fire
with some Métis fishermen from Duck Bay eating
pork chops & potatoes at their hunt camp on Lake
Winnipegosis. Or, recieving an eagle feather from the
Metis Nation.
Thanks to: all
the Metis women who gave the other women paddlers and
I strength & encouragement - we did it! I
want to: paddle the rest
of the way across Canada.
I believe: "It
is only in adventure that some people suceed in knowing
themselves - in finding themselves." - Andre Guide
I am Metis
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