ABSTRACT
This geopoetic experiment puts the author in a canoe with Anna Brownell Jameson, whose nineteenth-century travelogue, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, continues to inform the geographical imagination of the North Channel in Northern Ontario, Canada. This chapter positions visual/textual experimentation within geographically attenuated writing as a form of geopoetics. This method facilitates an intervention in and disruption of historical texts, specifically Jameson’s travel narrative. This chapter presents a series of geopoetic “paddle strokes” that aim to poke holes in the colonial canoe.
