I’m Indigenous Canadian so I grew up not being surrounded by many complex modern things when I was a kid. I remember hearing stories from my grandfather who was born in the wilderness telling me how he saw his first locomotive in northern Ontario when the first railways were built here. And I remember my dad telling me stories of seeing his first aircraft that were flown up here.

It just made me think … imagine how horrified and terrified one must have been if they had spent a lifetime not seeing any kind of technology, let alone metal objects in their lives and come face to face with a mass of iron armour clad men on a hill marching towards you. It’s no wonder the Romans were successful at the beginning … some poor Joe who lived in the bush all their lives who would have seen all this probably just ran the other way as soon as they realized what it meant.