A wide range of ideas which make up home from reading the group’s blogs:

Family

Acceptance

Comfort

A place for growth

Friendship

Familiarity

Tradition

Bonding

The Natural Landscape

Throughout reading the blogs, it became apparent that home had many different meanings, depending on who was describing it. Home is not a fixed concept, and one of the most interesting things I found about my classmate’s stories were the ideas of what home was not. It was not, necessarily, a fixed geographical location. It was not something which can be identified and applied universally to all people – Home, it seems, is something which is created both by individuals and by groups of people – these groups can be families, friends, cultures, etc…
Canada, in particular, offers a unique understanding of home, because for many it is a place of refuge or escape. In this way, home can be defined relatively to somewhere else.
Yet I think it is important to remember that while Canada does offer refuge for people who are escaping hardship or suffering, this refuge is located on a land which once belonged to another people, and the history of its ownership is complicated and contradictory to many of our shared values.