Read Around the World September 2023 – Canada

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September and our world trip took us to one of the largest countries in the world…

Fun facts – from this website 

• Canada is home to the longest street in the world. Yonge Street in Ontario starts at Lake Ontario and runs for almost 2,000 km all the way to the Minnesota border.
• The longest coastline in the world is in Canada. It is over 202,000 kilometers long.
• A bear from Canada inspired Winnie the Pooh.
• There are over 55,000 different species of insects in Canada
• Canada has national parks that are bigger than many countries.
• The world’s northernmost settlement is in Canada.
• Canada has 2 deserts
• Canada is the second-largest country in the world by total area. Russia is the biggest.
• 10% of the world’s forests are in Canada.
• Canada has more surface area covered by lakes than any other country.
• Canada eats more doughnuts than any other country in the world.
• License plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
• There is a polar bear jail in Churchill, Canada. It is for badly behaved polar bears who spend too much time in the town of Churchill or close by.

I chose to visit Canada in the company of one of my favourite authors the inimitable Margaret Atwood as I have read most of her works for this trip I chose a new short story that is exclusive to Amazon – My Evil Mother. I am not normally a short story fan but this one worked for me.

This is the story of a woman looking back to when she was a child and believed her mother was a witch. There are hints that the mother was really a wise woman who knew herbal medicine but superstitions labelled her as weird, strange or a witch. Now grown the daughter wants answers but the mother remains ambiguous a trick the grown daughter has now embraced with her own daughter.

Did you join us on our trip? Let us know what you read.

Next up Egypt share your reading suggestions with us, we might need help LOL.