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 […]
Category: Memoirs
A VERY COLD CASE
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 […]
TINY BARNETT and BUD FOXTON
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. […]
AUTHOR R.D. LAWRENCE
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
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
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 […]
PRIVATE W.W. 11 VINTAGE AIRFORCE
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 […]
FRANK FALLS
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, […]
ROAD RAGE
ROAD RAGE 1926 STYLE by BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights call Access 1-800-893-5777 Some of my fondest memories have arisen from conversation with senior citizens more senior than me. Consider the following. My name is George Robinson. This June I’ll turn 93. I was 12 years of age at the time of this story and […]
MOUSE TAILS by Y.T.
Nipissing to Naiscoot In 1968 I guided a 15 day Camp Pine Crest (CPC) canoe trip from Sturgeon Falls on Lake Nipissing to Naiscoot, near Point au Baril on Georgian Bay. Steve Rumm had returned to camp, presumably on holiday, to be my 2nd sternsman and staff. The camper canoe would provide its own sternsman […]