Meet the group that wants you to ‘read your way across Canada’

You like books written by Canadian authors, right? 

And you like walking the trails of Canada’s great outdoors, right? 

If you answered yes to both those questions, keep reading, because this story is for you. 

A non-profit group has figured out how to combine these two things that we like doing, in a way that’s informative and fun at the same time. 

The group is called Project Bookmark Canada, and the idea is to put plaques commemorating important Canadian books around the country, in places relevant to the stories being told. The group says many countries offer different kinds of tributes to writers. But no one else has created a permanent series of site-specific markers for stories that may be fiction but are based on real places. 

“We want to link local communities to nationwide conversations,” says Hughena Matheson, president of the organization. The idea is to […] This is an excerpt. Read the full article at TVO.org.