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A Centennial Project
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Spirit of Canada
By Wayne Boldt
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~Helen Keller
It was 1967 and Canada was turning 100. Our teachers had encouraged us to develop a “Centennial Project” to help mark Canada’s 100th birthday, but I had left that to the kids who had better grades.
Summer came along, and my friend Neil suggested we ride our bicycles eighty miles from Saskatoon to Lake Diefenbaker for the official opening of the Gardiner Dam. He called this adventure a “Centennial Project,” thus turning an irresponsible lark into a noble pursuit. It took a bit of convincing to get parental permission but, after promising to be careful and make a collect call home from every town we went through, the answer was “yes.”
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