CANADA’S NATIONAL BIRD We may have a number of national animals but as yet no national bird. Researchers such as Dan Strickland, former Algonquin Park naturalist, biologist….have long promoted the Whiskey Jack. Also known as the Grey Jay (Canadian spelling) Strickland was part of a successful campaign that convinced the American Ornithological Society to officially […]
Month: April 2021
MARCH DIGEST 2021
WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE So said Little Red Riding Hood to the big, bad wolf. Wolves are smart. Ask any trapper. If you want to trap a wolf you have to be smarter. Well a five-year summertime of research has taught some American researchers what trappers already know. But it’s nice to have the […]
THE BICE PAPERS – Cemeteries
CEMETERIES by RALPH BICE 1974 At a recent meeting of the Board of Education a group of students who spent part of last summer delving into the early history of East Parry Sound District, gave, with pictures and commentary, some of the things of interest they had discovered. Some of their pictures were even before […]