1974 It Was Good Venison In one of the recent magazines that I have read, there was quite an article on archery hunting. Over the years I have met a number of men who like to hunt with a bow and arrow, and it is surprising just how much game is killed in this way. […]
1974 Ontario fur harvest returns Anyone who takes an interest in wild life and reads the various news media that carry articles along those lines has many times read where groups who consider themselves naturalists and are making certain that our wild life is not entirely wiped out, are widely circulating stories that fur bearing […]
1974 THEY HAD A GOOD MEAL Wolf lovers can be a bit happier this week. Last Saturday two or three wolves caught a big deer on Ryan’s Lake and by all that is left had a few good squares. Ryan’s Lake is about three miles east of Kearney (Car-knee) on the road going to Rain […]
1974 WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE? I was in Toronto and as usual I got a copy of the Globe and Mail to scan while eating my breakfast. Again as usual I looked at the column on the inside written by Bruce West for many years. Bruce grew up in Huntsville and had been with the […]
1974 A CHANGE OF HEART? Over the years I have mentioned a magazine printed in Thornhill called Fisherman and Hunter. It is really the mouthpiece of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. Members of that association write most of the articles. That group should be the one that could help ensure fishing and hunting […]
1974 A GOOD BREAKFAST Many times when I have been having breakfast at a restaurant I have noticed that there are a great number of men who eat very little for the first meal of the day. Listening to them talk and discuss their ailments make me wonder what has happened to appetites. Then, so […]
MERCY FLIGHT, CIRCA 1918 July 4, 1973 This can hardly be called a mercy flight, as there were no planes around, but a well managed train and canoe trip no doubt saved two lives. It was 1918. Nominigan Camp on Smoke Lake was full of guests and as most of them were yearly visitors, everyone […]
A TRAPPER’S TRAIL, THANKSGIVING and more A Trapper’s Trail. Through his eyes. Ralph Bice originally penned the following in his column “Along the Trail”. In some manner a lot has changed with the passing years while much, as “they” say, hasn’t changed at all. CHAPTER 1 The Spring of 1973 Seldom now is there […]
I have been involved with the boys’ camping movement for fifteen years beginning as a camper and working my way up the ladder of staff personnel. I have come to focus my philosophy upon the canoe trip. All that is important, not only to the camping movement but to life as well, which rotates about […]
Muskoka, the Kawarthas and other areas such as the Haliburton Highlands are suffering the growing pains of affluence and overpopulated cities. Man is beginning to realize that the natural environment is there for the enjoyment. No longer is it the dedicated hunter or fisherman who braves the weather and insects to reach the interior of […]
