Interesting fact - it was common for pioneers to lose children in the vast forests on Ontario

I found this fact fascinating - something we don't think about these days:

"During the 18th and 19th centuries, getting lost was one of the most common causes of death among the children of European settlers in the North American wilderness. "Scarcely a summer passes over the colonists in Canada without losses of children from the families of settlers occurring in the vast forests of the backwoods," the Canadian writer Susanna Moodie noted in 1852."

from https://www.wired.com/story/why-humans-totally-freak-out-when-they-get-lost/?utm_medium=10today.media.20200518.436.2&utm_source=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=10-for-today---4.0-styling