For over 20 years I've been collecting stories, photographs, interviews, out of print books and researching various aspects of the human history of Algonquin Park in Ontario Canada. In other words, capturing voices from the past. In the fall of 2020, I launched my podcast 'Algonquin Defining Moments' to both complement my published books but also to continue my mission of sharing stories, recollections, traditions, landmarks and other fun Algonquin Park human heritage curiosities. In this wa ...
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Episode 62: Lumber Kings of the Ottawa Valley - John Egan
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Episode 62: Ontario Lumber Kings - John Egan Up until recently, I’d always thought that anyone who cared about Algonquin Park human history was already familiar with J. R. Booth and so never put any energy into building an episode around his life experiences. However, last summer I stumbled upon a 2018 biography by Michael McBane on John Egan.. In …
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Episode 61: Earth Caretaker Way - Being of Service
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Episode 61: The Earth Caretaker Way - Being of Service This episode is the last of a six-episode series on the Earth Caretaker Way Tim Corcoran, Julie Boettler from Headwaters School in Mt. Shasta California and focus on one of the most important aspects of The Earth Caretaker Way, which is to contemplate how to be of service in ways both big and s…
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Episode 60: Earth Caretaker Way Philosophy & Spirituality:
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Episode 60: Earth Caretaker Way Philosophy & Spirituality: In this episode, Tim, Julie, and I focus on various aspects of Earth Caretaker Way earth philosophy and spirituality including: Acknowledging the mystery of nature, and greeting with gratitude sacred moments and peak experiences Recognizing the important role of power animals as helpers and…
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Episode 59: Building Confidence by Mastering Wilderness Living Skills
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Episode 59: Building Confidence by Mastering Wilderness Living Skills This episode is the fourth of what is now seven episodes on the Earth Caretaker Way a newly released book by Tim Corcoran and Julie Boettler from Headwaters School in Mt. Shasta California. In this episode In this episode Julie Tim and I delve deeply into Part 2 of The Earthcaret…
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Episode 58: Earth CareTaker Way - Nature Awareness (Cont'd)
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Episode 58 Earth Caretaker Way Part 3: Nature Awareness - Building Connections and Relationships This episode is the third of what are now seven episodes on the Earth Caretaker Way a newly released book by Tim Corcoran and Julie Boettler from Headwaters School in Mt. Shasta California. In this episode, I continue my discussion and storytelling with…
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Episode 57: Nature Awareness - The Earth Caretaker Way
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This episode is the second of what is now seven episodes on the Earth Caretaker Way a newly released book by friends Tim Corcoran and Julie Boettler from Headwaters School in Mt. Shasta California. In this episode I’m going to introduce you to Julie, one of the key land Earth Caretakers at Headwaters. Over the next six episodes, she and I with Tim’…
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Episode 56: The Earth Caretaker Way Origin Story with Tim Corcoran
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Episode 56: The Earth Caretaker Way Origin Story with Tim Corcoran In this episode and the four-part follow on, I’m going to take my podcast in what I hope you will experience as an innovative new direction. Nearly 20 years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Tim Corcoran, leader, and owner of the Headwaters Outdoor School near Mount Shasta in Califo…
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Episode 55 - Part III: Digging Up the Past
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This is the third of three episodes on archeological activities that have taken place in Algonquin Park since the late 1930s. The focus in Part III is to share insights into the archeological work that has been done in the Park since the 1990s. Most of the investigations have been initiated by private archeologists with permission from the then Par…
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Episode 54: Part II - Digging Up The Past
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This is the second of three episodes on archeological activities that have taken place in Algonquin Park since the late 1930s. The focus of Part II is to provide some insight into the archeological work that was done from 1939 to the late 1990s, mostly by private archeologists with permission from the then Park Authorities. This musical interlude i…
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Episode 53: Digging in Algonquin Park Part 1 - Indigenous Origins
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Episode 53: Digging in Algonquin Park Part 1 - Indigenous Origins This is the first of three episodes on archeological activities that have taken place in Algonquin Park since the late 1930s. The focus of the Part 1 is to provide some insight into the archeological and anthropological origins of Algonquin Park's first visitors. This musical interlu…
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Episode 52: Tom Thomson Remembered: Anniversary Special
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Episode 52: Tom Thomson Remembered: Anniversary Special Given that it is the anniversary this week of Tom Thomson’s disappearance and ultimate death 106 years ago, I thought it would fun to take Algonquin Defining Moments in a slightly different direction. Published two years ago by Deryck N. Robertson from Paddler Press in Peterborough, Ontario, C…
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Episode 51: Habitat Impacts due to Climate Change
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Episode 51: Habitat Impacts due to Climate Change In this episode, I’m focusing on sharing some of the latest research and thinking on how climate change may impact the habitats of Algonquin. Specific focus is on the work on both climate projections overall and the expected impacts to fish habitats. Musical interlude is a composition by Sara Spring…
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Episode 50: PT2 - Salamander Research Update with Patrick Moldowan
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Episode 50: PT2 - Salamander Research Update with Patrick Moldowan. This is the second of two episodes where I sat down with Patrick Moldowan from the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Board Chair of the Wildlife Research Station to share his recent research insights into the world of the Spo…
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Episode 49: Salamander Research Update with Patrick Moldowan
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Based out of the Wildlife Research Station, amphibian research has occurred periodically in Algonquin Park since the mid-1980s. In 2008, Glenn Tattersall from Brock University initiated a continuous study of the salamander population. Still very active today, this research has generated an extensive body of knowledge, which may be showing us that s…
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Episode 48:Lake Opeongo PT3 (1925-Present)
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Episode 48:Lake Opeongo PT3 (Leaseholding 1925-Present) In this last of 3 Lake Opeongo episodes, my focus is now on leaseholding activities on Lake Opeongo beginning about 1925 including a detailed history of Opeongo Lodge, the life and times of John Bates (Opeongo's only private leaseholder), Lake Opeongo tragedies and few of my own Lake Opeongo m…
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Episode 47: PT2 The Great Opeongo Lake - Colonization 1850-1925
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Episode 47: PT2 The Great Opeongo Lake - Colonization 1850-1925 In this episode, I’m going to focus on recounting the history of the early Lake Opeongo colonization efforts that began in the early 1850s with the building of the Ottawa Opeongo Colonization Road. Then I’ll share some stories about the Dennison Family’s farming efforts and early attem…
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Episode 46: The Great Opeongo Lake - Times Before 1893
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Episode 46: The Great Opeongo Lake - Times Before 1893 In this and the next two episodes, I will focus on sharing as much history as I can about Algonquin’s largest body of water, Lake Opeongo. Much of the content comes from a now out-of-print 1998 book by S. Bernard Shaw, called Lake Opeongo: Untold Stories of Algonquin Park’s Largest Lake. I’m al…
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Episode 45: Chat with Dr. John and Mary Theberge - Part VI - What Good is a Wolf?
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Episode 45: Chat with Dr. John and Mary Theberge - What Good is a Wolf? Part VI In this, the final episode of my six-part series on wolf research in Algonquin Park, I have the pleasure of chatting with long-time wolf researchers Dr. John and Mary Theberge. Today we talk about their sense of where things are at these days regarding the plight of wol…
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Episode 44: Dr. John Benson’s Algonquin Wolf Research 2007-2011 (What Good is a Wolf Part V)
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Episode 44: Dr. John Benson's Algonquin Wolf Research 2007-2011 (What Good is a Wolf Part V) In this episode, (Part V of a six-part series on wolf research in Algonquin Park), I chat with Dr. John Benson, who picked up the Algonquin Park wolf research baton in 2007, as part of his PhD studies at Trent University. Much of John’s work focused on taki…
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Episode 43: What Good is a Wolf PT4 - More of John and Mary Theberge’s Great Leap Research
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Episode 43: What Good is a Wolf PT4 - More of John and Mary Theberge's Great Leap Research This episode continues by sharing the 1987-1999 work of Dr. John Theberge and his wife Mary Theberge. In this episode, I’m going to focus on the uncovering of the annual deer migration and the collective freak-out that this caused amongst the people of the Ro…
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Episode 42:What Good is a Wolf PT3 - John and Mary Theberge’s Great Leap
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Episode 42:What Good is a Wolf PT3 - John and Mary Theberge's Great Leap This episode focuses on the 1987-1999 groundbreaking work of Dr. John Theberge and Mary Theberge. A student of Douglas Pimlott in the 1960s, John Theberge was a professor and researcher in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, from 1972 until his retire…
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Episode 41:Remembering Dan Gibson’s Wings in the Wildeness
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Episode 41:Remembering Dan Gibson's Wings in the Wildeness In the mid 1970s Dan Gibson award winning wildlife film maker, sound recording artist, inventor of the Dan Gibson Sound Parabola recoding device, founder of Dan Gibson’s Solitudes music label, Juno award winner and a recipient of the Order of Canada decided to venture into doing a feature l…
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Episode 40: Remembering Dan Gibson - Nature Film Maker Extraordinaire
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Episode 40: Remembering Dan Gibson - Nature Film Maker Extraordinaire In this episode Holly Gibson Stewart, one of my long-time Canoe Lake friends, joins me in sharing stories of her father, Dan Gibson, and her perspectives about his extraordinary film and music career. One of the key founding members of Pimlott’s Algonquin Wildlands League in the …
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Episode 39: What Good is a Wolf? PT2 More of Pimlott’s Myth Busting
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Episode 39: What Good is a Wolf? PT2 More of Pimlott's Myth Busting In this episode, I share more o Douglas Pimlott and his researcher's ground-breaking and myth busting research on the wolves of Algonquin Park. Topics of interest include details as to how wolves move, what they eat, how they establish territory and of course wolf vocalization and …
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Episode 38: What Good is a Wolf! Pimlott’s Early Myth Busting
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Episode 38: What Good is a Wolf! Pimlott's Early Myth Busting This episode is the first of a series on the Algonquin Park wolf research that began with Douglas Pimlott's early work from 1958-1962. Prior to that time, Algonquin Park wolves had mostly been seen as vermin out to destroy all other Park wildlife. This episode's musical interlude comes f…
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Episode 37: Lake Water Rising Part 2: The Gilmour Tramway
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Episode 37: Lake Water Rising Part 2: The Gilmour Tramway In this second of two episodes on the Gilmour great misadventure, I focus on Gilmour’s great tramway adventure. where the company tried to haul and float logs from the Algonquin Park Highlands to Trenton. On a completely different river system and uphill for a fair amount of it, the adventur…
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Episode 36: Lake Waters Rising - The Gilmour’s 1894 Lumbering Misadventure Part 1
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Episode 36: As I noted in the last episode one of the really interesting aspects of Chief Ranger Peter Thomson’s first Algonquin Park report, was the almost nonchalant way he described the fact that the newly constructed dam at Tea Lake was expected to raise the water level by nearly four feet. In this first of two episodes on the Gilmour's great l…
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Episode 35: Algonquin’s Early Beginnings: The first Official Canoe Trips Summer-Fall 1893
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Episode 35: Algonquin’s Early Beginnings: The first Official Canoe Trips Summer-Fall 1893 In 1893 the Algonquin National Park Act was passed and soon after Peter Thomson was appointed Chief Ranger. In this episode I share his first report of his activities in the summer of 1893. As well is another provided by Mr. James Wilson Superintendent of Quee…
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Episode 34: The Amazing World of the Canada Jay
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Episode 34: The Amazing World of the Canada Jay Ever since I was a child, I’ve been enamoured by what my family used to call Whiskey Jacks - now called Canada Jays. I and my brothers would sit on our front deck holding our hands out whilst these little gray darlings would come and, with a little coaxing, take pieces of bread and other goodies from …
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Episode 33: More Fish Fun Facts and Harkness Fisheries Lab Research Gems
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Episode 33: More Fish Fun Facts and Harkness Fisheries Lab Research Gems In this episode I'll continue my journey through the world of fisheries research in Algonquin and hope to bring to life some of the really interesting and fun fish facts that I've been able to ascertain. Also of course, introduce you to a few more of the Fisheries researchers …
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Episode 32: Fish-Fish and More Fish: Early Years of the Harkness Fisheries Lab
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Episode 32: Fish-Fish and More Fish: Early Years of the Harkness Fisheries Lab Not being that into angling, except when my twins were young and fishing off of our Canoe Lake dock a regular pass time, it's been seriously enlightening to learn all about the Harkness Laboratory for Fisheries Research on Lake Opeongo. This is the first of two episodes …
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Episode 31: More Cool Algonquin Wildlife Station Research
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Episode 31: More Cool Algonquin Wildlife Station Research This concludes a 3-part series on the history and research that is going on at the Wildlife Research Station. My focus in this episode is more recent work on moose, salamanders, Canada Jays, hemlock tree regeneration, sapsuckers and beaver as well as another wonderful collection of Wildlife …
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Episode 30: Wildlife Research Station - Some Cool Research Projects
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Episode 30: The Wildlife Research Station In this episode I’m going to focus on a number of really interesting research projects that have been going on – some for many, many decades and along with more stories of the researchers and their experiences. A Big shout-out to Patrick Moldowan, the Station's Communications Director who has been an incred…
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Episode 29: The Wildlife Research Station - The Early Years
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Episode 29: The Wildlife Research Station - The Early Years Park Superintendent Frank MacDougall was the force behind much of the early efforts to increase public awareness of the importance of ecology and to do so on a scientific basis. After the success of the Harkness Laboratory for Fisheries, in 1944, he pushed for the establishment of a Wildli…
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Episode 28: Don Lloyd,:Algonquin’s Renaissance Man - An Interview with grandson Mathew Thivierge
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Episode 28: Don Lloyd, Algonquin's Renaissance Man - an Interview with grandson Mathew Thivierge Don Lloyd, who died in 2013, is I think the closest that Algonquin Park has come, to creating a true Algonquin Park Renaissance man. Don wasn’t just an Algonquin Park wildlife and landscape illustrator, he also turns out to have been also been a geograp…
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Episode 27: Algonquin Nature Interpretive Programs Rediscovered
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Nature interpretation activities have been part of the Algonquin Park experience for a long time. In this episode, I’ll take you down memory lane and share with you the origins of what used to be called the Algonquin Park Interpretive Program, now called the Discovery Program, and introduce you to some of the incredible people who made it all possi…
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Episode 26: Wilderness Adventurers Part III
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Episode 26: Wilderness Adventurers Part III In this episode, I’ll be continuing my recollections of some of the wilderness adventurers who settled on leaseholds in Algonquin Park in the early 20th Century. Here I'll be introducing you to a few more interesting characters who became the heart and soul for the leasehold community. Virtually all of th…
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Episode 25: Interview with Wilderness Adventurer Sandy Lewis
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Episode 25: Interview with Wilderness Adventurer Sandy Lewis In the last episode I shared some of the origin stories of a few Algonquin Wilderness Adventurers whose ancestors, some as many as five generations back, were invited by the Ontario Government to lease small plots of land on a specific set of Algonquin Park lakes and build summer cabins. …
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Episode 24: Early 20thC Wilderness Adventurers Part 1
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Episode 24: Early 20thC Wilderness Adventurers Part 1: In this episode I bring to share with you some of the stories of another part of the Algonquin Park community - those whose ancestors – some, as many as five generations back, were invited by the Ontario Government to lease small plots of land on a specific set of lakes and build summer cabins.…
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Episode 23: Caretaking in the Bush - the Hamilton-Haskin Family Experience
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Episode 23: Caretaking in the Bush - the Hamilton-Haskin Family Experience In this final episode on the lives of full time Algonquin Park residents, I wanted to share with you stories that I’ve collected from the Hamilton-Haskin family from Madawaska. The family’s original matriarch and patriarch, Wilmot and Victoria Hamilton lived just outside the…
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Episode 22: Bring on the Fall Colours
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Episode 22: Bring on the Fall Colours In this episode I've shifted my focus a bit and have decided to concentrate on the most spectacular of Algonquin Defining Moments, ‘The Fall Colours', which are taking place as they do every year around this time. First I’ll share some interesting facts about what the fall colour process is all about from a sci…
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Episode 21: More Stories of Algonquin Park Full Time Residents
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Episode 21: More Stories of Algonquin Park Full Time Residents In this episode I continue my sharing of stories that I have collected about the lives of Algonquin Park full time residents. First are stories about the The Dufonds and Dennison’s who farmed in the area before it became a provincial park. Then are some amusing anecdotes from Robert Tay…
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Episode 20: Living Alone in Algonquin - Gertrude Baskerville‘s Experience
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Episode 20: Living Alone in Algonquin - Gertrude Baskerville‘s Experience In the spring of 1941, Gertrude Baskerville set out from the Kitchener area with her ailing husband Ted and 16-year old son Ed to join her brother Charles and his family in establishing a new life on the shores of South Tea Lake in Algonquin. Within a year her husband had die…
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Episode 19: Tom Thomson as a Myth and Legend
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Episode 19: Tom Thomson as a Myth and Legend This is the last of a three-part series on the life, the body, and the legend of Canada’s artist icon Tom Thomson. In this episode, I will focus on the mythology that that evolved around Thomson from the 1940s to today. Then, I’ll try to address the legend by assembling the thoughts on the subject by thr…
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Episode 18: Artist Tom Thomson‘s Mysterious Death in Algonquin Park
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Episode 18: Artist Tom Thomson's Mysterious Death in Algonquin Park On Tuesday, July 16th a little over 104 years ago, after almost a week of fruitless searches, the body of Tom Thomson was found on Canoe Lake just east offshore from Little Wapomeo Island. Over the next few days, chaos and confusion seemed to have reined on Canoe Lake. This is the …
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Episode 17: Tom Thomson‘s Art and his Introduction to Algonquin Park
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Episode 17: Tom Thomson's Art and his Introduction to Algonquin Park On Sunday July 8th a little over 104 years ago, Tom Thomson was wearing 'khaki trousers, white canvas shoes, a lumberman’s grey woolen shirt and no hat' as he headed off south down Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park. According to the Algonquin Park weather station, the average temperatu…
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Episode 16: A Chat with Sven Miglin from Canoe Lake‘s Portage Store in Algonquin Park
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Episode 16: A Chat with Sven Miglin from Canoe Lake's Portage Store in Algonquin Park The Portage Store has always had a special place in my heart. This is because for many years my family had a lease on Canoe Lake, and as a kid, it was often the local hangout for ice cream and people watching. I’m delighted that in this episode to be joined by Sve…
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Episode 15: The Origins of Canoe Lake‘s Portage Store (1935-1975)
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Episode 15: The Origins of Canoe Lake's Portage Store (1935-1975) In this episode with the help of an old memoir from my Canoe Lake neighbour, Isabel Cowie who with 3 friends once ran it in the 1950s, I’m going to share all that I have researched and can remember about the origins of the Portage Store from 1935 to 1975 and its role as the social ce…
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Episode 14: Shanty Life Wrap Up and 2008‘s Last Squared-Timber Crib Run
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Episode 14: Shanty Life Wrap Up and 2008's Last Squared-Timber Crib Run I had originally thought that three episodes would cover just about all there was to say about the history of logging in Algonquin Park. But when going back over my notes, I realized that I wasn’t quite done. There were a few more amusing shanty life stories that I still wanted…
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Episode 13: The Merry but Risky Lives of Skidders, Teamsters and River Drivers
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Episode 13: The Merry but Risky Lives of Skidders, Teamsters and River Drivers This third of three episodes on the history of logging in Algonquin Park and the Ottawa Valley shares details as to how the cut logs and square-timber were hauled out of the bush, driven down the rivers that led to the Otttawa River and eventually conveyed to saw mills o…
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