DOWN MEMORY LANE No deer camp this year but recently I took a nostalgic day trip to enjoy what we used to call an Indian summer. According to Wikipedia, an Indian summer is a period of unseasonably warm, dry weather that sometimes occurs in autumn in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere during September to […]
THE COVID-19 DEER HUNT Or, the hunt that was not to be. The Corona virus Disease of 2019. Who could have foretold? Apparently many. A recent Times question regarding how the virus would impact hunting generally was that ‘it wouldn’t’. Well, as a member of an old farts’ deer camp I am here to say […]
The year was 1968 and we had put in at Sturgeon Falls in northern Ontario. We were heading out on a 15 day canoe trip that would eventually take us to an inlet on Georgian Bay called Naiscoot, near Point au Baril. I was guiding for Y.M.C.A. Camp Pine Crest. We had planned a variety […]
A VERY COLD CASE SOME BACKGROUND To date I have written over 1000 columns in The Bancroft Times called the Times Traveller. My source is the paper’s archives. Some have credited me with an imagination more vivid than real. I don’t make it up. In 2004 I wrote about a provincial Game Warden that went […]
D. (Bud) Foxton as told to Barney Moorhouse by Warrant Officer (retired) Tiny Barnett A strapping 6’ 5”, 250 pound 17 year old, Tiny Barnett (formally Wallace, James, Allison, Scobie) and George Dixon (Bud) Foxton, both belonged to F-86 Sabre Fighter Squadron 427. Barnett was an Air Weapons Tech, Foxton a Flying Officer. 427, a.k.a. […]
R.D. LAWRENCE by BARNEY MOORHOUSE When I first met R.D. Lawrence in the mid 1980’s he had some 18 books to his credit. Mostly non-fiction out of door wildlife experiences. At the time he had a loyal international following. Like so many artists he was relatively unknown in Canada at that time. Now, there is […]
THE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM A LITTLE HISTORY “Canoa, or canoe,” was adapted from the Arawak language of native Caribbean’s. Originally referring to a boat it evolved to the canoe we know to-day. Birch bark canoes were well suited to inland exploration as the material was at hand plus the craft was relatively light for portaging […]
THE SHEENY MAN A recent column written by Marlene Black (Landowner magazine) in which she talks about rags and the value of a penny triggered the following. During the early 1950’s the ice man, the bread man and the milk man used to deliver their products door to door by horse drawn wagon. Tinkers used […]
RUSSELL AVIATION Ed Russell is an architect and an archeologist but his passion is flight. As a boy he liked to make model aeroplanes. Since he was 15 Russell has been associated with 87 Squadron in Welland where he began as an Air Cadet. In June 2014 Ed turned 78. “Here’s my plaque recognizing 50 […]
LADY EVELYN by BARNEY MOORHOUSE Circa 1969/70 I guided for Camp Kandalore from its base camp on Lady Evelyn Lake in Timagami. Or Temagami. Take your pick. I’ve seen it spelled both ways. Professor Kirk Wipper (U of T) owned the camp that is renowned for having started the Canoe Museum now located in Peterborough, […]
