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| Date Posted: 01-May-02 |
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Author: Matthew Jackson
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| Published By: Paddler Magazine |
The World's Top Canoe Expeditions - From Voyageurs to modern-day record setters, the definitive list of the world's top canoe trips (to be argued over until time immemorial)
Several centuries ago, in the vast, roadless wilderness of North America, th...
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| Date Posted: 06-May-07 |
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Author: Susan Zimmerman
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| Published By: Home and Away Magazine |
Superior's Other North Shore- Sit back and enjoy the drive along Lake Superior's great northern border.
Exhausted from navigating Minnesota's jam-packed North Shore? Ontario, Superior's other north shore, is the 500-mile pause that refreshes - the rid...
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| Date Posted: 30-Oct-05 |
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Author: Amy Marr
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| Published By: Outside Traveler |
Canadian cookbook authors and chefs Anne Connell and Mary Hunt are at the helm of this three-day Ontario sea-kayaking foray into Lake Huron's Georgian Bay. Start with a night at pine-paneled Killarney Mountain Lodge and load up on home-style Canadi...
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| Date Posted: 25-May-07 |
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Author: Sarah J.M. Tuff
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| Published By: National Geographic Adventure |
There are those who are satisfied with gawking at polar bears from a tundra buggy, and that's fine. But there's another, closer-to-the-ground, relatively safe way to go. Canoe Frontier leads clients in kayaks and on foot into Canada's Polar Bear P...
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| Date Posted: 17-Dec-00 |
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Author: Jacky Runice
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| Published By: Chicago Daily Herald |
You say your last family vacation involved waiting in lines, rubbing extremities with strangers, cramped lodging and lots of billboards along the way? If you found yourself saying, "I need a vacation after that trip," you know the intelligent thing to do ...
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| Date Posted: 23-Jun-02 |
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Author: Susan Catto
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| Published By: The New York Times |
THEORETICALLY, it is possible to travel from one end of Canada to the other by canoe, with the longest detour on land a scant 12 miles. For centuries, the canoe was a major form of transportation for native tribes and European traders. Today, the canoe re...
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| Date Posted: 14-Aug-06 |
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Author: Kate Pocock
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| Published By: The Toronto Sun |
It was a strange request from nine-year-old Will. We were touring Wasaga Beach's Nancy Island Historic Site, dedicated to the ship that was attacked and destroyed during the War of 1812, and he wanted a pen.
The reason? He wanted to copy down the daily...
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| Date Posted: 30-Jun-01 |
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Author: Jim Fox
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| Published By: Kitchener-Waterloo Record |
Paddling up a lazy river is an ideal way to spend a summer afternoon and there's no better place to do it than Ontario.
There's plenty of opportunities as this province has 20 per cent of the world's fresh water and thousands of lakes and rivers.
An...
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| Date Posted: 17-Aug-07 |
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Author: Verna Gates
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| Published By: Reuters |
TEMAGAMI, Canada - An art colony in Canada aims to inspire amateur watercolor painters to improve their skills in a wilderness landscape of waterways, forests and soft northern light.
Summer is the only time when the Smoothwater Outfitters and Ecolodge c...
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| Date Posted: 18-May-07 |
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Author: Robert Crew
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| Published By: The Toronto Star |
FORESTERS FALLS, ONT. - There are 12 of us plus guide Luis Mandrigal in a huge yellow raft and we are paddling clumsily down the Ottawa River.
The first set of rapids, with the ominous name of Black Chute, is rushing towards us. My big sister, Gill Arm...
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| Date Posted: 17-Nov-07 |
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Author: Gemma Quade
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| Published By: The Liverpool Daily Post |
AS we boldly paddled our canoes out into the lakes of Ontario, the instruction was clear: when any form of large wildlife loomed, we should point it out calmly to the rest of the group with an oar, to avoid alarming the beast in question.
For most of o...
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| Date Posted: 06-May-07 |
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Author: Stephen Jermanok
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| Published By: The Boston Globe |
WABAKIMI PROVINCIAL PARK, Ontario - It wasn't until the canoes were strapped to a float plane and we started to rise above the water, that I finally understood the extent of the wilderness here.
Sure, I had heard the hyperbole: that this thumbprint in ...
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| Date Posted: 12-May-07 |
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Author: Jacky Runice
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| Published By: Daily Herald |
Although I think I know a lot, there are some pretty basic things that I still don't know how to do.
I can't dive - I chalk that up to watching a bad diving accident at the local pool when I was a kid.
I can't change a tire and I have an excuse for...
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| Date Posted: 01-May-06 |
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Author: David Shively
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| Published By: Paddler Magazine |
The train is a lifeline. Two passenger carriages and one nearly empty boxcar are the only connection that cottage dwellers in Ontario's Algoma region have to the outside world. On this glorious October day, the six of us who have come here to kayak gather...
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