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ALGONQUIN DEFINING MOMENTS

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 way that

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Episode 50: PT2 - Salamander Research Update with...

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2023/05/19

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 Spotted Salamander. Amphibian research has occurred periodically in Algonquin Park working from the Wildlife Research Station since the mid-1980s and in

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Episode 49: Salamander Research Update with Patrick...

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2023/04/26

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 salamanders could be key ‘canaries in the coal mine’ as it relates to the impacts of climate change on the Algonquin ecosystem. This is the first of two

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Episode 48:Lake Opeongo PT3 (1925-Present)

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2023/02/08

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 musings. 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

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Episode 47: PT2 The Great Opeongo Lake -...

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2023/01/13

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 attempts at leaseholding on the lake until about 1925. Much of the content comes from a now out-of-print 1998 book by S. Bernard Shaw, called Lake Opeongo:

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Episode 46: The Great Opeongo Lake - Times Before 1893

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2022/12/16

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 also for the first time, going to try to share as much as I know about the indigenous Lake Opeongo experience. For this, I depend upon two sources by

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Episode 45: Chat with Dr. John and Mary Theberge -...

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2022/11/11

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 wolves both in Ontario, British Columbia, and the USA’s Yellowstone National Park. John and Mary as you know from episodes 3 & 4 picked up the baton

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Episode 44: Dr. John Benson’s Algonquin Wolf Research...

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2022/10/20

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 taking a look at wolf-coyote hybridization and its impact on Algonquin’s wolf population, on territoriality, which researchers call spatial segregation and

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Episode 43: What Good is a Wolf PT4 - More of John...

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2022/09/29

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 Round Lake area, the Ministry officials, the Theberge’s themselves, and eventually the general public of wolf lovers and protectors. The list of

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Episode 42:What Good is a Wolf PT3 - John and Mary...

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2022/09/07

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 retirement in 2000. His initial interest in wolves involved work on wolf vocalizations (published with WRS’s Dr. Falls in 1967 and on observations about

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Episode 41:Remembering Dan Gibson’s Wings in the...

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2022/08/18

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 length film. Filmed on Canoe Lake during the summer of 1974, Wings in the Wilderness went on to win a Canadian Film Awards Etrog for Best Sound in a

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Episode 40: Remembering Dan Gibson - Nature Film...

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2022/07/28

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 1970s, Dan Gibson was a Taylor Statten Camps Camp Ahmek alumni and a long time resident of Canoe Lake since the mid 1940s. From there, he went on to

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Episode 39: What Good is a Wolf? PT2 More of...

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2022/07/14

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 the history of Algonquin's premier public wolf howls. Musical interlude is a track from Dan Gibson's Solitudes Breaking Through the Mist album and is

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Episode 38: What Good is a Wolf! Pimlott’s Early ...

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2022/07/01

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 from Dan Gibson's Solitudes Algonquin Suite and is called Reunion of the Wolves. It is brought to your with thanks from Digital Funding LLC. This

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Episode 37: Lake Water Rising Part 2: The Gilmour...

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2022/06/11

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 adventure was an engineering marvel but a practical disaster of both time and money. In addition to my own research for many of my books and other podcasts,

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Episode 36: Lake Waters Rising - The Gilmour’s 1894...

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2022/05/20

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 lumbering misadventure, I wanted to give you a sense of what the Oxtongue River-South Tea-Canoe-Joe and Smoke Lakes area looked like in the pre-Gilmour

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Episode 35: Algonquin’s Early Beginnings: The first...

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2022/04/30

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 Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park who was asked to tour ‘the territory’ which he did via canoe during the late fall of 1893. His observations, descriptions

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Episode 34: The Amazing World of the Canada Jay

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2022/04/08

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 our hands. In this episode, I am joined by Dan Strickland, former Algonquin Park Naturalist and Dr. Ryan Norris an ecologist who is an Associate

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Episode 33: More Fish Fun Facts and Harkness...

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2022/03/24

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 and there work. This episodes musical interlude is called Easy Stream from Dan Gibson's Solitudes Breaking the Mist CD. His music can be found on

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Episode 32: Fish-Fish and More Fish: Early Years of...

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2022/03/05

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 that explores the history of fisheries research in Algonquin Park, which began in 1936. YOu'll have an opportunity to meet some of the amazing fisheries

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Episode 31: More Cool Algonquin Wildlife Station...

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2022/02/20

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 Research Fun Facts. This episode’s musical interlude comes from Sara Spring and is another of her piano compositions called Across Long Lakes and can be

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