BIG TROUT LAKE by Ralph Bice From February 1975 The first time I can remember talking about Big Trout Lake was perhaps 20 years ago when the late Dr. Harkness was Chief of the Wildlife Branch. An argument developed about where ‘north’ in Ontario was. Some believe that when they get to Muskoka or […]
CONTROLLED HUNTING? By Ralph Bice From Wednesday, February 16, 1977 Anyone who reads outdoor magazines or even the local weekly papers must know that many hunters are very much worried about the very poor deer hunting that there has been the last few years. Then there is the increasing demands of the antihunting groups to […]
FROM THE BICE PAPERS – Beaver and Why They Die (1976) Scrapper is gone. He died suddenly, and the autopsy showed that he had had a heart attack. So few will know just who Scrapper was. Scrapper was a beaver, not just an ordinary beaver, but THE beaver. This little animal was found three years […]
A LIFE OF SUSTAINABILITY “There’s a lot of talk these days, mostly from fairly high paid civil servants and politicians about sustainable development,” former editor Gary Ball wrote in the Angler & Hunter magazine in 1990. “For Ralph Bice sustainable development is a way of life.” As best I can translate it, sustainable development really […]
TOM THOMSON by Ralph Bice Guest Columnist Part 3 Ralph penned this article when he was 77 years of age. Many times I have heard people state that Tom Thomson was a member of the Group of Seven, and be very insistent about it. His end was in 1917, and that group was not formed […]
TOM THOMSON by Ralph Bice Guest Columnist Part 2 Ralph penned this article when he was 77 years of age. Roy Dixon was the undertaker who prepared Thomson’s body for burial. He stated that there was not a mark of physical violence on the body. He was assisted by Mark Robinson the Ranger then stationed […]
TOM THOMSON by Ralph Bice Guest Columnist Part 1 Ralph penned this article when he was 77 years of age. I never talked to Tom Thomson. I did see this now well remembered artist on a couple of occasions before his tragic end, but I did not realize until afterwards that it had been he […]
SOMETHING FROM AWAY BACK by Ralph Bice (originally from Ralph’s ‘Along the Trail’ column in the Almaguin News of Nov. 3, 1976) This old story came to light recently while doing a bit of desk clearing. It is taken from a page of the Detroit News, dated May 15th, 1966. The writer is Bill Brennan, […]
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 […]
NOT A GOOD PLACE TO HIDE WHISKEY by Ralph Bice December 5, 1973 This little episode happened many years ago. In fact it was many years ago, nearly sixty, that it was told to me, or rather to a gathering where I happened to be. The men who took part are long gone, though the […]
