"magoo_ns" wrote in message
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A fine effort and a great website!
A minor quibble: You can't start in Montreal and "cross Canada".
You've missed four of the ten Provinces. As a Maritimer, I see this
claim made quite often.

If the goal is to reproduce the work of the old explorers, as was implied in
the original post, and not simply to paddle across Canada, then there would
be no need to start further east than Montreal--since you could get there
(from Halifax, St. John's, or Europe) by any decent sailing ship in those
days. Getting much further was difficult in those days before any locks
(not to mention the railways) were built, so Canoes were pretty important...

-Paul