As our first step, we realized our years-long fantasy and purchased a property in Charlevoix. For over a decade, we had been exploring Canada in search of an escape from a world on the edge of becoming unhinged. After exploring everywhere from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Breton to Vancouver Island and the Gaspe Peninsula, we bought property in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We had found our source of peace. The ancient mountains crashing down to the tidal flats; the boreal forest with its thick carpets of moss; the frigid fjord teaming with krill, pilot and beluga whales; the fertile farmland nestled in the impact crater of a massive asteroid strike. It is a land of extremes that offset perfectly - self-perpetuating, eternal.