Detailed historical and archival research provides deep insight into the creek's past and present
Personal narrative of author John Terpstra offers an engaging and emotional perspective
Visits culverts, concrete, and urban landscapes to highlight the creek's hidden existence
Engaging prose makes environmental and historical themes accessible to readers
advocacy for creek daylighting encourages readers to reconsider their relationship with nature
Summarized by Shop
Chedoke Creek is one of six creeks that weave their way through Hamilton, but it is the most hidden, lost to culverts and concrete. 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.
In elegant, seamless prose award-winning author