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In the summer of 1967 Janice MacDonald and her mother Joyce jumped into their Plymouth Barracuda and drove across Canada to celebrate Canada's 100th birthday and Expo in Montreal. Fifty years later she recreates this road trip with her husband to experience the same magic that defined her childhood. Janice MacDonald's Confederation Drive looks at how Expo was Canada's coming out party to the rest of the world and how we are seen by the global community fifty years later. It's a love letter to her beloved mother. It's lobster dinners and Anne of Green Gables and Saskatchewan rest stops and Manitoba detours. As Canada's 150th birthday is right around the corner there is no more Canadian thing to do than curl up with this book and reflect on where we've been as a country and, more importantly, where we're going.