The B.C.-based writer and filmmaker has been on a two-and-a-half year-long journey to complete The Great Trail across Canada. Last week, along with a friend, Whelan was completing a canoeing section near Atikokan — about 340 kilometres east of Kenora — when winter came early. 'I wouldn't say I was ever really afraid'Whelan and her friend started bushwhacking, making it about a kilometer in three days. "I might have been stuck in northern Ontario but it was the Manitoba boys that came to my rescue." It's a journey she's previously told CBC News she embarked on as a form of personal reconciliation — both with the land and with Canada's Indigenous People.

Source: CBC News November 12, 2017 14:26 UTC