Thistle

“When I wrote the grant to walk the land I forgot about winter.”

It’s hard to scavenge for materials in the snow. I guess it’s a classic city slicker gaffe to always imagine nature as a warm summer day. I’m lucky I have these -30 degrees Celsius boots. They make me feel like less of a Toronto asshole when I’m walking around in them. But their name – “Arctic Explorer” – provokes Eurocentric visions of the Discovery Doctrine and Manifest Destiny. Eurocentric values like these were definitely at play when the British negotiated the Crawford Purchase with the Mississauga Nation.

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