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Temagami’s Lady Evelyn River From Top to Bottom: Day 2 – From Smoothwater Lake To An “It’ll Do” CS On Lady Evelyn’s South Branch
Table of Contents: The Day’s Basic Data and Maps Looking for Mishipeshu’s Cave Paddling By The E. Robert Ross painting The Portage Into Apex Lake The Portage Into Whitemud Lake Down The Lady Evelyn-South Branch From Whitemud An Afternoon of … Continue reading
Temagami’s Lady Evelyn River From Top to Bottom: Day 1 – To The Put-In And Up River To Smoothwater Lake
Table of Contents: Getting To The Put-In Picking Up Our Shuttle Driver At Mowat Landing The Road To the Put-In Day 1- Basic Data – distance, time, portages, weather, etc. The Put-in Off Beauty Lake Road Up The Montreal River’s … Continue reading
Temagami’s Lady Evelyn River From Top To Bottom: Introduction and a Bit of History
Last revised: May 14, 2024. Table of Contents: Temagami – Early 1900s Rail and Road Connections Mining, Logging, and Indigenous Land Claims Temagami as a Canoe Tripping Destination Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Park The Lady Evelyn River Reid and Grand – Canoeing … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Island Temagami, F.G. Speck Temagami map, Hap Wilson The Cabin, Lady Evelyn headwaters, Lady Evelyn River, Lady Evelyn Smoothwater Park, Mattawapika Dam, Report On The Survey and Exploration of Northern Ontario 1900, Robert Bell Lady Evelyn, Temagami HBC posts, Temagami hunting grounds, Temagami versus Algonquin Park, Wendaban Temagami, Who is Lady Evelyn
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Canoeing The French River From Top To Bottom: Days 6 & 7 – To Pickerel Bay and Down Fox Creek to Georgian Bay
Last revised: February 27, 2024. Table of Contents: Day 6 – The Lower French From CS 601 To Pickerel Bay (CS 634) The Long-Gone Lichenographs Little Flat Rapids (aka Second or Derraud Rapids) A Favourite FRPP Campsite – CS634 Day … Continue reading
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Tagged best french river campsite, Fox Creek French River Delta, Fox Creek portages, French River pictographs, Little Flat Rapids French River, Pickerel Bay campsite French River, Second Rapids French River
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Canoeing The French River From Top To Bottom: Day 4 – Down The Five Mile Rapids Section of the Upper French River
Last revised: August 10, 2022. Day 4 – Down The Five Mile Rapids Section of the Upper French River (CS304 to CS503) Table of Contents: Day 4’s Basic Data and Maps CS306 – A Better Tent Spot Downriver The Five … Continue reading
Canoeing The French River From Top To Bottom: Day 3 – From Canoe Pass To Below The Portage Channel Dam
Day 3 – From Canoe Pass to Below Portage Channel Dam Last revised: October 12, 2022. Table of Contents The Day’s Basic Data and maps Looking For Gibraltar Point’s Pictographs The Kennedy Island Pictograph Site The Nick Adams Analysis of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Chaudiere Dam, Cradle Rapids French River, Gibraltar Point French River, Gibraltar Point rock painting pictograph, Kennedy Island Pictographs, Keso Point pictographs, Lake Nipissing Outlet dams, Little Chaudiere Dam, Okikendawt CaHa-06, Portage Channel Dam, Portage Channel Hydro Dam
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From Lake Nipigon’s Echo Rock To Waweig Lake
Last revised on September 5, 2022. Table of Contents: Day 10 Map and Essential Details Looking For the Echo Rock Pictographs The Vertical Majesty of Undercliff Mountain The Graffiti on Echo Rock Heading For Wabinosh Bay Paddling Past The HBC … Continue reading
Down The Pikitigushi River From Cliff Lake To Lake Nipigon – Days 2 & 3
Table of Contents: Day 2 – From Cliff Lake to Ratte Lake Walking The Trail Above Dewdney’s Site #264 Dewdney’s Site #221 Dewdney’s Site #220 Dewdney’s Site #219 Campsites on Cliff Lake Dewdney’s Site # 262 The Portages Into Bad … Continue reading
Down The Pikitigushi From Cliff Lake To Lake Nipigon: Logistics. Maps and Day 1 – Cliff Lake
Last revised on February 26, 2024. Table of Contents: Introduction, Logistics, and Maps Why A Return Visit To Cliff Lake? What We Did For Maps A Toast To (Uncle) Phil Cotton (1940-2018) Getting To The Put-In Day 1 – From … Continue reading
Anishinaabeg Beadwork & Painting Exhibit At The Royal Ontario Museum
I should have gone in June or July! The Royal Ontario Museum hosted an exhibit (June 17 to November 19, 2017) titled Anishinaabeg: Art and Power which recently closed. Sad to say, I forgot all about it until the day before … Continue reading
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