When he was growing up, Duncan Michano dreamed of one day retracing the route his Anishinaabe ancestors travelled in birch-bark canoes, from the dunes of Lake Superior’s northern shoreline to the community of Longlac – a journey through more than 200km (125 miles) of wilderness
Years spent on the land in northern Ontario kindled a deep desire to also traverse those forests, exposed bedrock and frothy rapids that elders spoke of.