TRAVEL IN ALGONQUIN PARK The first Europeans to travel throughout today’s Algonquin Park were explorers such as Champlain and David Thompson. In their wake came the trappers, lumbermen and settlers, roughly in that order. Indigenous to the Algonquin Region was the lightweight birch bark canoe, a mode of travel vastly superior for exploration than tramping […]
ALGONQUIN R & R Algonquin Provincial Park, “7600 square km of wild rugged beauty” quoth The Raven, Algonquin Park’s official newsletter, found between latitudes 45 degrees 10 minutes – 46 degrees 10 minutes and longitude 77 degrees 30 minutes – 79 degrees 15 minutes, within the Madawaska Highlands of the Laurentian Shield. The Precambrian Shield […]
