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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 30: Wildlife Research Station - Some Cool...

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2022/02/04

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 incredible partner. Not only did he make sure that I was getting all of my explanations right or at least mostly right, but he also was incredibly patient with

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Episode 29: The Wildlife Research Station - The Early...

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2022/01/19

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 Wildlife Research Station that would focus on terrestrial i.e. land-based ecosystems. In this episode, I share the history of the early years of Algonquin

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Episode 28: Don Lloyd,:Algonquin’s Renaissance Man -...

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2022/01/01

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 geography teacher, a receiver of a Bachelors, Masters and PhD in Geography, an author of two important Algonquin books, a board game designer, a children’s

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Episode 27: Algonquin Nature Interpretive Programs...

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2021/12/18

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 possible. Note that the sources for much of this content is my own research compiled for my book Treasuring Algonquin: Settlement Stories from 100 Years of

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Episode 26: Wilderness Adventurers Part III

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2021/12/01

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 the stories I share, come from two of my books Algonquin Voices; Settlement Stories of Canoe Lake Women, that won in 2002 the Alison Prentice Award for

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Episode 25: Interview with Wilderness Adventurer...

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2021/11/19

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. In this episode I’m thrilled to be chatting with the patriarch of one such five-generation family Sandy Lewis. Sandy is the grandson of both Dr

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Episode 24: Early 20thC Wilderness Adventurers Part 1

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2021/10/31

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. The belief then was that visitors wouldn't come unless there was a community of some sort to provide an anchor. Virtually all of these stories come

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Episode 23: Caretaking in the Bush - the...

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2021/10/16

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 eastern boundary of Algonquin Park from 1897 to 1954 on the north shore of Victoria Lake,14 kilometers from anything close to civilization. Not only

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Episode 22: Bring on the Fall Colours

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2021/10/01

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 scientific perspective, then I talk about some interesting factoids about trees and lastly touch on what other things are going on in the fall that make

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Episode 21: More Stories of Algonquin Park Full Time...

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2021/09/19

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 Taylor about his grandfather William McCourt who was the station agent for Rock Lake Station from 1897 until well into the 1940s. The adventures of Billie

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Episode 20: Living Alone in Algonquin - Gertrude...

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2021/08/30

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 died from his injuries received in the trenches during WWI. Her son was immediately shipped overseas to fight in WWII and her brother had decided that a

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Episode 19: Tom Thomson as a Myth and Legend

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2021/08/15

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 three great writers Roy MacGregor, Sherrill Grace, and Gregory Klages. The idea is to try to understand why our imaginations and reinventions of who he

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Episode 18: Artist Tom Thomson‘s Mysterious Death in...

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2021/07/29

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 second of a three-part series on the life, the body, and the legend of Canada’s artistic icon Tom Thomson. In Part 1, I focused mostly on Thomson’s

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Episode 17: Tom Thomson‘s Art and his Introduction...

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2021/07/12

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 temperature that day was 16.4 degrees Celsius and about a centimeter and a half of rain had fallen. As all good outdoorsmen do, Tom likely had checked to make

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Episode 16: A Chat with Sven Miglin from Canoe Lake‘s...

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2021/06/30

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 Sven Miglin, whom with many members of his family, has been the heart and soul behind the Portage Store since 1976. In this episode, Sven shares with me how

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Episode 15: The Origins of Canoe Lake‘s Portage Store...

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2021/06/11

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 centre of Canoe Lake. For those unaware, on a typical weekend during the heat of the summer, hundreds of visitors pass through and admire Canoe Lake from

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Episode 14: Shanty Life Wrap Up and 2008‘s Last...

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2021/05/31

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 to share and a few more shanty songs that needed a hearing. In addition, I realized that another missing link was to share something about the last crib

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Episode 13: The Merry but Risky Lives of Skidders,...

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2021/05/18

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 or floated by the raft to Quebec City. It includes insight into what the life of skidders, teamsters and river drivers were like including a few

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Episode 12: A Chat with Roderick MacKay on Life in a...

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2021/04/30

Episode 12: A Chat with Roderick MacKay on Life in a 19th Century Camboose Shanty This second of three episodes on logging in Algonquin Park shares anecdotes as to what life in the logging camboose shanties of the 19th Century was all about. I decided to go directly to the source and is an interview with Roderick MacKay (known as Rory) a subject matter expert on the camboose shanty both as a historian, archeologist, and as the resident blacksmith at Algonquin Park’s annual Logging Days event at

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Episode 11: Logging in Algonquin Park - The 19th C...

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2021/04/15

Episode 11: Logging in Algonquin Park - The 19th C Experience Controversy over logging in Algonquin Park is almost as old as the Park itself, though truth be known, public attention on the issue didn’t really start until the 1930’s and major antagonism didn’t happen until the late 1960s early 1970s. The funny thing is that when Algonquin Park was created in 1893, the conventional wisdom was that logging would stop when the pine were all gone. In addition, was the view that forest fires destroyed far

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