How to Be Canadian
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 07.09.03 | 12:00 AM ET
When Canadian Cleo Paskal visited India after the 1998 Winter Olympics, the Indian people she met asked her to explain the sport of curling. She struggled. She didn’t know the rules and wound up feeling less Canadian. “When I returned home,” she writes in the National Post, “I resolved to make a pilgrimage of penance to one of the great curling capitals of our great, icy nation: Winnipeg.” Paskal’s story about that pilgrimage appears in the Post and begins a 10-week series in which she seeks out quintessentially Canadian vacations that will bring out her “inner Canuck.”