A Canvas of Words takes us on a journey across Canada and around the world. The authors, with their vivid word pictures, bring laughter to our lips and tears to our eyes with their lively descriptions and sharp details of real and imaginary events. Here we find tales of growing up, love, courtship and marriage in rural Ontario in times gone by, personal experiences of survival in war and peace and unique challenges confronted and solved. We hear messages from unexpected sources - a condemned house, Mother Earth, cats, dogs and turtles all voicing opinions, planning and plotting future events....