MY FIRST and LAST RACE by B.M. February 1987 “Aaaar, rruuff, urrr, aauurru….” 33 dog teams yelping, howling, dare I say crying, begging to go; sounding like they were being choked to death. BUT – these were happy sounds albeit somewhat frustrated for they had come to race, not stand and wait. The veterans had […]
KANAWA CANOES ON THE MOVE 1985 by B.M. The world’s “largest, most comprehensive collection of canoes” is preparing to move, according to Michael Ketemer, Kanawa Canoe Museum’s manager, researcher, guide, custodian …Varying from birch bark to fiberglass, from the early 20th century to 1985, this collection of canoes from around the world is outgrowing its […]
A HUNT CAMP STORY Tight tongues loosen with time. Consider the latest item to come via the moccasin telegraph. These hunters frequent Crown land in Cashel Township. Mostly they are railroad workers. Like so many it wasn’t about THE HUNT but the experience that appealed to them. The relaxed change of pace kept them coming […]
NON-FICTION From January 27, 1990 NORTH OF BELLEVILLE Unknowingly an acquaintance established a record last summer when he and a friend were fishing for lake trout in August trying out a new depth finder. Trolling a favourite run they noticed three nice sized blips on the screen. Dennis was predicting a strike when his rod […]
FISHING IN ALGONQUIN PARK In 1892, one year before the birth of Algonquin Park, the Province of Ontario initiated a creel limit that would continue until 1971 when fishing licences for men were discontinued because the government maintained that it was too costly to administer. Women had been exempted from purchasing a fishing licence in […]
HUNTING IN ALGONQUIN PARK Hunting pre-dates the birth of Algonquin National Park although wild game may not have been as abundant as it is to-day. The explorer David Thompson complained of a lack of wildlife in what we now regard as Algonquin Provincial Park. In 1893 when Peter Thompson assumed command he immediately recommended that […]
EARLY LIFE IN ALGONQUIN PARK by B.M. Trapping, hunting and fishing played an important historic role in the evolution of Algonquin Provincial Park as we know it to-day. Like a path from the past these passions have woven a common thread through the forests of time. It was the trapper who valued the raw wilderness […]
THE LONG DRIVE by Ralph Bice Wednesday, September 4, 1974 In most all of the stories about Algonquin Park mention is made of the famous and unusual log drive when the Gilmore (Gilmour – Ed.) Lumber Company drove pine logs all the way from their limits in said Park to their sawmill at Trenton. The […]
GOSSIP and COMMENTS by Ralph Bice1974 On the front page of the Toronto Star was a news item concerning the death of a trapper who left money to the extent of $180,000.00, to a school near the area where he had been born. It does seem odd that a man who had trapped ever since […]
TORONTO WINS THE STANLEY CUP 2024-03-11 One day Satan is inspecting Hell and he comes across a farmer working happily at his assigned tasks. Satan is surprised because the farmer doesn’t seem to be at all bothered by the intense heat. He asks the farmer why he isn’t miserable like the rest of the residents […]
