Category Archives: Anishinaabek World

Canoeing The Ottawa – Day 5: Baskins Beach To Downtown Ottawa

Table of Contents: The Day’s Maps and Basic Data From Baskins Beach to Deschenes Rapids The Deschenes Rapids The Remic Rapids Getting Around Chaudière Falls Dam & Generating Station The Ruisseau de la Brasserie By-Pass Option Our Chaudière Dam/G.S. Portage … Continue reading

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Canoeing The Ottawa River From Fort Coulonge To Ottawa’s Rideau Canal – Introduction, Maps, and More

Last update: Sept.4, 2022. Table of Contents: The Ottawa – A Canadian Heritage River The Ottawa River – a look at the past 2000 years From Kitchi Sipi to Ottawa – Changing Names Over Time The Ottawa River As a … Continue reading

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The Peterborough Petroglyphs: Building Over An Ancient Algonquian Ritual Site

Last revised: October 19, 2022. Table of Contents: The Site Is Discovered/Uncovered Who carved the images into the rock? Who is responsible for the site these days? The most detailed study of the site Three Main Things To Do At … Continue reading

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A Return Visit To Temagami’s Diamond Lake Pictograph Site

Table of Contents: Intro and Map Info W. Phillips and David Boyle   1906 F.G. Speck/Aleck Paul 1913 Harold C. Lowrey in Macleans: 1919 Selwyn Dewdney: 1959 Thor Conway: 1974 Justice J. Steele of the OSC: 1984 Checking Out the … Continue reading

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Selwyn Dewdney, Norval Morrisseau and the Ojibwe Pictograph Tradition

Last Revised: February 29, 2024. Table of Contents: The Morrisseau-Dewdney Connection Dewdney and Pictographs Morrisseau and Painting Morrisseau’s Early Years Morrisseau Faces Opposition And Encouragement Jack Pollock Meets Morrisseau Legends of My People The Great Ojibway (1965) Morrisseau Consumed By … Continue reading

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Anishinaabe Pictograph Sites In Ontario

Last updated: August 10, 2023. Northern Ontario has the most extensive and richest collection of  Indigenous pictograph sites in Canada.  Any of the following locations would provide a great introduction to Anishinaabe rock paintings. Quetico Provincial Park Lake of the … Continue reading

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Anishinaabe Pictograph Sites Of The Canadian Shield

Table of Contents: The Canadian Shield Defined The Algonkian Homeland The Shield As Canoe Country The Shield As Pictograph Country Essential Reading On Algonkian Rock Images Selwyn Dewdney Grace Rajnovich Thor Conway Posts On Specific Areas Algonkian Pictograph Sites of … Continue reading

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