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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 10: Back Country Canoe Tripping Part II

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2021/03/27

Episode 10: Back Country Canoe Tripping Part II As noted in Episode 9 backcountry canoe tripping has been an integral part of the Algonquin Park, Ontario Canada experience since well before the Park’s beginnings in 1893. This follow-on episode focuses on what the landscape was like that our three canoe trip parties paddled through including majestic waterways, beaver dam filled rivers, and muddy swamps; how they overcame the pains of portaging, cooked over an open fire, and dealt with the bugs as

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Episode 9: Turn of the Century Backcountry Canoe...

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2021/03/11

Episode 9: Turn of the Century Backcountry Canoe Tripping Experiences - Part 1 So backcountry canoe tripping is one of those past times that you either love or you absolutely hate or, as the mother of a childhood friend said, you do it so that you can talk about it afterwards. Have you ever wondered though, what it must have been like venturing into the ‘wilderness’ or the bush as it was called back in the day? The truth is that backcountry canoe tripping has been an integral part of the Algonquin

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Episode 8: The Grand Trunk‘s Long Lost Algonquin...

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2021/02/16

Episode 8: The Grand Trunk's Long Lost Algonquin Railway Hotels In the late 1800s, outdoor recreation in Ontario was just starting to become a ‘thing.’ Folks who lived in cities were anxious to escape their urban and industrial woes and reconnect with the wilderness. In 1905 the Grand Trunk Railway had just acquired J. R. Booth’s Canada Atlantic Railway, which in turn had merged with his Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway that ran through the southern end of Algonquin Park a few years

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Episode 7: A late 19th Century Bear Hunt

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2021/01/30

Episode 7: A late 19th Century Bear Hunt Just outside the park boundary on the east side, on Victoria Lake, is a large hunting lodge owned for over 50 years by a former Governor of Vermont, Edward Curtis Smith and his family. Whilst researching the history of the lodge and its connection to the town of Madawaska, (to be published Feb 2021) I came across a short story about a family bear hunting expedition. Though the author, Nancy Bailey, is not known, it seems that many of the protagonists were

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Episode 6: Algonquin Park Poaching Stories

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2021/01/06

Episode 6: Algonquin Park Poaching Stories As shared in Episode 5, one of the downsides to the creation of Algonquin Park in 1893 was the fact that a significant number of folks in the local communities around Algonquin Park were now considered outlaws because they were running trap lines in what was now a protected area. They went overnight from being fine outstanding citizens trapping to supplement farming and logging livelihoods to unenlightened, disreputable and heartless bandits. This second

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Episode 5: A History of Poaching and Trapping in...

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2020/12/13

Episode 5: A History of Poaching and Trapping in Early Algonquin Park One of the downsides to the creation of Algonquin Park in 1893 was the fact that a significant number of folks in the local communities around Algonquin Park were now considered outlaws because they were running trap lines in what was now a protected area. They went overnight from being fine outstanding citizens trapping to supplement their farming and logging livelihoods to unenlightened, disreputable and heartless bandits. This

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Episode 4: The Brent Run Challenge

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2020/11/23

Episode 4: The Brent Run Challenge Though perhaps hard to believe by some, since the 1930s there has been a hidden challenge by locals primarily from Camp Ahmek and the Portage Store staffs on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park to see if it’s possible to complete the entire 160-kilometer trip in less than 24 hours. The trip includes just about every possible terrain that it’s possible to experience in Algonquin Park including large and small lakes, winding creeks, bogs, rapids and portages long and

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Episode 3: A Walking History Tour of Rock Lake...

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2020/11/02

Episode 3: A Walking History Tour of Rock Lake Station in Algonquin Park This episode takes the visitor on a walking tour of what was once a bustling community of railwaymen, loggers, tourists and leaseholders and their families at Rock Lake in Algonquin Park. Today Rock Lake Campground is one of the largest campgrounds in Algonquin Park and unless one realizes that the road through it was once the railway bed, you'd never know that for almost 40 years a different Rock Lake existed. The tour takes

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Episode 2: A Paddler‘s Guide to the Lost History of...

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2020/09/05

Episode 2: A Paddler's Guide to the Lost History of Canoe Lake's Algonquin Park Located about 14 km in from the West Gate and unbeknown to most, Canoe Lake has a deep and colourful history well beyond the Tom Thomson Memorial Cairn and Totem Pole and the Canoe Lake Cemetery, where according to some, the spirit of Tom Thomson once rested for a while. This podcast shares the highlights of about a dozen landmarks around the lake. For those who are checking it out in a canoe, you’ll have to use your

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Episode 1: Life on Algonquin Park‘s Canoe Lake in the...

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2020/08/31

Episode 1: Life on Algonquin Park's Canoe Lake in the Pandemic Year 1918 It was 1918, the first year of the Spanish Flu pandemic and a year after the artist Tom Thomson had died under mysterious circumstances on Algonquin Park's Canoe Lake. This episode focuses on what life was like at Canoe Lake at the time including challenges getting there, the landscape, community economics, insight into the lives of some of the key residents and a peek at healthcare challenges of the times.

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