1974 THEY HAD A GOOD MEAL Wolf lovers can be a bit happier this week. Last Saturday two or three wolves caught a big deer on Ryan’s Lake and by all that is left had a few good squares. Ryan’s Lake is about three miles east of Kearney (Car-knee) on the road going to Rain […]
1974 WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE? I was in Toronto and as usual I got a copy of the Globe and Mail to scan while eating my breakfast. Again as usual I looked at the column on the inside written by Bruce West for many years. Bruce grew up in Huntsville and had been with the […]
1974 A CHANGE OF HEART? Over the years I have mentioned a magazine printed in Thornhill called Fisherman and Hunter. It is really the mouthpiece of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. Members of that association write most of the articles. That group should be the one that could help ensure fishing and hunting […]
1974 A GOOD BREAKFAST Many times when I have been having breakfast at a restaurant I have noticed that there are a great number of men who eat very little for the first meal of the day. Listening to them talk and discuss their ailments make me wonder what has happened to appetites. Then, so […]
MERCY FLIGHT, CIRCA 1918 July 4, 1973 This can hardly be called a mercy flight, as there were no planes around, but a well managed train and canoe trip no doubt saved two lives. It was 1918. Nominigan Camp on Smoke Lake was full of guests and as most of them were yearly visitors, everyone […]
A TRAPPER’S TRAIL, THANKSGIVING and more A Trapper’s Trail. Through his eyes. Ralph Bice originally penned the following in his column “Along the Trail”. In some manner a lot has changed with the passing years while much, as “they” say, hasn’t changed at all. CHAPTER 1 The Spring of 1973 Seldom now is there […]
Ralph Bice was a legendary trapper, lay minister, Mayor, teacher (trapping), columnist. Along the Trail in Algonquin Park has delighted thousands of readers across Canada and the United States from the time of its first publication in the summer of 1980. This is the fourth reprint of the classic work by the late legendary outdoorsman, […]
FROM THE BICE PAPERS – Just Gripes (from 1976) If anyone who starts to read this does not like gripes or fault finding, better read something else. At this time of the year, with the weather so nice and summer just ahead a person should not be finding fault. Least of all me. But there […]
