End of Week 8 - la fin de la semaine 8 nous amène à Québec

Another fantastic week of teamwork! We traveled 1,704 kilometers last week for a total of 20,030 kilometers! With one week left of 2020 and our Journey around Canada, we are now in Quebec City.

This is what 20,030 kilometers around Canada looks like from space!

Each week we have stragglers sending in their kilometers, the corrected numbers (with several stragglers from week 8 are now:

We spent some time in Halifax where we learned that we were on the traditional ancestral lands of the Mi'kmaq indigenous peoples, known as Mi'kma'ki. Linda Sage,one of our founding members was born in Halifax Nova Scotia. We were pleased to honour Linda by spending a little extra time touring around Nova Scotia. It was a nice rest for our weary muscles as we head into our final week of our journey around Canada.

Thankfully we brought our snow shoes!

We headed down to the most southern tip of Nova Scotia, Cape Sable Island, home of the Lobster Pot Christmas Tree.

Backtracking a bit we headed back up through the traditional ancestral lands to Shubenacadie and the Shire Town of Truro Nova Scotia. Shubenacadie is connected to the Minas Basin by the Shubenacadie River. On each incoming high tide there is a tidal bore; this area of Nova Scotia is recognized for having the world's highest tides. You can watch a series of videos of the Tidal Bore of the Bay of Funday. Tidal Bore Ice Flow. The name for the Mi'kmaw territory in which present-day Shubenacadie is located and the origin of its name is the Mi'kmaw word Sipekne'katik, which "place abounding in groundnuts or "place where the wapato grows. We thought we might run into Shubenacadie Sam, but he usually doesn't show his face until February 2nd. If we were to take the quickest Canadian route home we would travel another 980 kilometers next week. Who wants to take the long way home????? As we head into our final week of our journey around Canada we will leave you with this inspirational quote from Harry S. Truman