The goal was simply to get home. Except, there was nothing simple about it.

Part of our Colour the Trails series

With a passion for learning and a love for teaching, the Indigenous northerner talks about her experience guiding canoe trips and paddling through lands that her family has known for generations

I recently had the opportunity to interview Michelle Swallow, author of the Mackenzie River Paddling Guide. A fortuitous meeting at the Yellowknife airport this past…