My colleague Dan Bilefsky, who has returned to his native Montreal to join our Canada reporting team, is embarking on an exciting, new project as The Times continues to expand its presence on the ground in Canada. And, as he explains below, he’s looking for your help:

Twenty-eight years ago, I left Montreal to go to university. Eventually, I became a foreign correspondent, a path that took me from hunting war criminals in the Balkans to reporting on human rights abuses in Turkey and even to writing about a high-tech brothel in Antwerp.

Now I am back home to cover Canada along with our other correspondents, Catherine Porter, Ian Austen and Dan Levin. I am especially eager to rediscover my home province of Quebec, to understand its multiple identities and preoccupations.

So I am taking a road trip, driving across Quebec, from March 12-22. And I am appealing to you — readers in Quebec as well as the rest of Canada — to be my guides.

My trip comes as The Times is renewing its focus on Canada, which has become our largest and most engaged international market. Our roots here go deep. The paper has been covering Canada since 1851, its first year of operation. The nation’s birth in 1867 was front-page news.