Pilgrimage protagonist Waterton and Canmore

Waterton and Canmore

Emerald Lake Lodge

Alberta’s first hop farm

Winner of a Gourmand World Cookbook Award

the longer they stay at the Santa Cruz Inn

Pilgrimage protagonist Waterton and CanmorePilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Mtis settlement of Lac St. Anne. Known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, Spirit Lake has been renamed for the patron saint of childbirth. It is here that people journey in search of tradition, redemption, and miracles. On this harsh and beautiful land, four interconnected people try to make a life in the colonial Northwest: Mahkess Cardinal, a young Mtis girl pregnant by the Hudson Bay Company manager;