EXPLORER IN RESIDENCE
Bert was Explorer in Residence at BC History throughout 2022 as he journeyed by foot and canoe from the Salish Sea to the Atlantic in the footsteps and paddlestrokes of a long genealogy of travellers. He made landfall at his final destination, at Shippagan, New Brunswick, on October 1.
Staring up at what would normally be a boat launch, I couldn’t help but wonder where had all the water gone. Covered in lake-bottom muck, and I were close to 45 vertical metres below the launch and nearly half a kilometre away. Kinbasket Lake was a lake in
