For all his amazing 'incident's' Kevin Callan swears that this one was his first near-arrest and really he wasn't doing anything wrong.  It was his grass after all....

"'Get that canoe off the pavement,' the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer bellowed from the window of his patrol car.  Panic set in.  The camera crew about to film my triumphant portage across the grassy lawn of Ottawa's Parliament Hill froze mid-step.  We had no filming permit.  We didn't even ask permission prior to shooting."

Read the full Fool on the Hill article in the Spring 2011 issue of Canoeroots.  You can also check out almost 10 years of Canoeroots Magazine in our Digital Archives!