When it got too hot, family of nine set out for James Bay in 24-foot freighter canoe • • Columnmist Xavier Kataquapit is reminded of chasing the cool breeze of the Attawapiskat rivers with his cousins as a child, when he rides his BMW in the summer heat today. FILE/POSTMEDIA Hot summer days have finally arrived and we are all enjoying the warm weather. These hot days remind me of growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast in the 1980s.