![]() "Chedoke Creek functions, in Terpstra's multi-layered, meditative prose, as a microcosm of Hamilton's growth from a distinct urban space surrounded by farmland to a typical North American city, sprawling beyond its old borders into nebulous suburbs and ex-burbs that devour the countryside." Interviews "Terpstra writes this and other love songs to Hamilton partly as lament, partly as a challenging rebuke to himself and our race to clean up our environmental act."įinding meaning in a buried creek (James Grainger, The Toronto Star, ) Lament and Hope for Hamilton in Chedoke Creek (James Dekker, Christian Courier, ) Indeed, they serve to shine a brilliant personal light in the dark that elevates the author’s act of 'daylighting' to something much more profound and sacred." But these recollections are never morose. "Although one could read the book as a meditation on how urbanization has buried so much of our natural environment, it reads even stronger when Terpstra links his discoveries to recollections of his own past. Reviewsīook Review: John Terpstra’s Daylighting Chedoke (Stephen Near, Beyond James, ) HIDDEN CREEK FREEDaylighting Chedoke is a meditation on how urbanization and industrialization has literally buried our natural environment and what it would be like to free our creeks and perhaps, while doing so, free our society. He weaves the history of the creek with the lyrical observations of nature and humankind’s connections to nature that he is celebrated for, while also examining the reality of our contaminated waterways. In elegant, seamless prose award-winning author John Terpstra traces Chedoke Creek back to its source, searching through historical archives and city documents, and even walking up the great storm drains that collect the water that spills from the escarpment. Its waters are seen only in a couple of waterfalls as it flows over the edge of the Niagara Escarpment and in a short canal where it runs alongside Highway 403. **Winner of the Kerry Schooley Award – Hamilton Literary Awards**Ĭhedoke Creek is one of six creeks that weave their way through Hamilton, but it is the most hidden, lost to culverts and concrete. ![]()
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