Linda Brown guided Delphi Study Club members on a virtual canoe trip from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay at the club’s November meeting in the home of Vivian Pemberton.Using a large atlas, Brown traced the journey as recorded in Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic by Natalie Warren. Inspired by news journalist Eric Sevareid’s book about his canoe trip in 1930 upon graduating from high school, Warren and Ann Raiho decided to retrace his route. They were the first women to make the trip by canoe, traveling 2000 miles in 85 days.The two recent college graduates, experienced canoers, raised $5000 toward the trip, $2000 of which went to hire a float plane to pick them up at their destination. The remainder of the money was donated to a canoe camp. Sponsors donated their canoe, gear and food, and the girls added a shotgun in case of polar bears. Refusing to postpone the trip because of flooding rivers, they embarked June 3, 2011, challenged by summer heat, polluted water and debris in the river. Among their adventures were frightening off a bear with a foghorn, losing their recorder in a lake,Among their adventures were frightening off a bear with a foghorn, losing their recorder in a lake, spending a night crouched by their canoe because their planned campsite was snake infested, acquiring a stray dog in a parking lot to help protect them in polar bear country, running into rocks which caused a crack in the canoe, and meeting many interesting and helpful people along the way. They were interviewed by reporters, one of whom paid for their room at an inn in return for an interview.On their last segment, they paddled hard 15 hours a day and ate in the canoe to reach York Factory, Manitoba, in record time. Unfortunately, the skeptical restaurant owner who had said he would send them a keg of beer if they actually finished their trip reneged on his promise.Delphi Study Club will next meet January 11, 2022.