The glacial ice sheet that once
covered Canada has been
melting for 20,000 years.
Canada now expanse so grand,
Plains and peaks and rocky land.
Lakes and rivers, streams and bogs,
Forest land produces logs.
Grain and minerals, oil and gas,
By pipe and rail sold en-mass.
Foundation economic base,
Ways of life in any case.
Long ago ‘t was buried all,
Summer, winter, spring and fall.
Ice sheet thick and grinding ground,
Bedrock polished, boulders round.
Under ice, no living thing,
It then began to melt one spring.
Cyclic melting then was on,
Glacial ice sheet not yet gone.
Melting theories now are built,
Loading human mind with guilt.
Albert Reeve
Gibsons
