Marker trees maybe used by indians to find their way through the forest. They don't point in a particular compass direction, but rather may indicate the way to an encampment or shelter. These are in central Missouri US , but apparently are evident in Canada as gleaned from the following:
"Those who went ahead
of us in the forest
bent the early trees
so that they grew to signals;
the trail was not among the trees but
the trees
and there are some who have dreams
of birds flying in the shapes
of letters; the sky's
codes;
and dream also
the significance of numbers (count
petals of certain flowers)"
Excerped from "Paths and Thingscape" by Margaret Atwood (a Canadian author)
