Tag: Madawaska

2. Edson Chamberlin

VICTORIA LAKE

Barney

Camp Madawaska is a former Salvation Army camp in Nipissing District Ontario, Canada, near the entrance to Algonquin Provincial Park. It was named after the Madawaska River as the Opeongo River, one of its tributaries, flows through the camp. The main lake on the property was Victoria. Two islands are in the lake, known by […]

HENRY TAYLOR PART 13

Barney

To the Bush In 1923 I finished the ploughing and left the farm to accompany my older brother Jim Taylor to the Murray and Omaneque lumber camp at Cross Lake. At Madawaska we met the camp clerk John Conway of Barry’s Bay. He offered us a ride into the camp. Well we had been sitting […]