Parking the Moose: One American’s Epic Quest to Uncover His Incredible Canadian Roots Audiobook (Free)

A quarter-Canadian from Cleveland explores his roots–and melts your face with joy.

There’s an idea most Americans tend to learn mainly because children. The idea that their country may be the ‘best.’ But this by no means stuck with Dave Hill, even though he was created and elevated in Cleveland, Ohio. His grandfather, you see, was from Canada (Clinton, Ontario, to be specific). And every Sunday at dinner he’d remind Dave and other people within earshot that it had been in fact Canada, this marvelous and mysterious land just about Car parking the Moose: One American’s Epic Search to Uncover His Incredible Canadian Root base over the mighty Lake Erie, that was the ‘greatest.’

It was an idea that took hold. While his peers kept busy with soccer, basketball and football, hockey became the just sport for Dave. Whenever bacon was offered at home, he’d be sure to mention his preference for the Canadian range. Furthermore, if a music by Triumph arrived on the radio, he’d be the first to require it to be cranked up as noisy as it would move. And he was more vocal about the huge merits of the Canadian healthcare program than any nine-year-old you’d ever desire to meet. (That last part is a lie, but hopefully it creates the idea that he was so into Canada that it was actually sort of weird.)

In later years he also visited Canada once or twice. But now, influenced by a publisher’s payment of several hundred dollars (Canadian) in cash, he offers travelled from coast to coast, reconnecting along with his heritage in such places as Montreal, Moose Jaw, Regina, Winnipeg, Merrickville and of course Clinton, Ontario, getting together with a variety of Canadians, touching things he most likely shouldn’t and having activities too numerous and rich in detail to be done justice within this blurb.

The result, he promises, is ‘the greatest Canada-based literary thrill ride of your lifetime.’