NIPISSING to NAISCOOT in FIFTEEN DAYS This is only the second year that Pine Crest has employed this route, a route partially touched by those explorers who opened up Canada through exploration. (Lindsay Staples was the first to guide this route and offered some tips.) In part we have become part of T.S. Elliott’s prophecy […]
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 […]
Nelson A. Jeffrey died on Friday January 6, 1984 – just one week shy of his 86th birthday. For most of his life Nels, as his friends called him, lived the life of a hermit in his cabin back in the bush of Faraday Township. Born on the family farm in 1898 Nelson grew up […]
MOORE’S CAMP CELEBRATES 100th ANNIVERSARY (From 2010) During the 2009 deer season I spent an enjoyable evening with Layne Moore and his father Gerald talking about the Moore Hunt Camp which will be celebrating 100 years in 2010. To date some 4 generations of Moores, relatives and friends have hunted deer from their base on […]
