Paddling the Boreal Forest: Rediscovering A.P. LowDundurn, 29 նոյ, 2004 թ. - 319 էջ The boreal forest of Quebec/Labrador -- some of the most rugged and isolated land in Canada -- has captivated avid canoeists for generations. In the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, the intrepid A.P. Low of the Geological Survey of Canada spent, in total, more than ten years of his working life surveying the area. Employing Aboriginal canoemen and guides, he travelled by canoe, snowshoe and sailing vessel to map and document much of this vast territory. Challenged by the mystique of this extraordinary Canadian, canoeists Max Finkelstein and James Stone retraced Low's routes -- by their admission, their toughest canoe trip ever! Using archival sources, oral history and personal experience, they tell the story of A.P. Low and, in the process, reveal the environmental issues now facing this much threatened Canadian wilderness. "Once again Max Finkelstein has blessed us with his incredible ability to make history of exploration come alive. Rather than sit behind a desk and try to imagine the 'misadventures' Low would have had, he goes out and duplicates them, and along the way creates a few tales of his own. This is one great read and we should be thankful that people like Max and Jim Stone exist in this world of ours." "From A.P. Low's logs and reports, Max Finkelstein and Jim Stone give vitality to that great geological surveyor. Interspersed are vivid accounts of their own challenging canoe voyages on the same rivers and portages of the boreal forest and rock in the James Bay/Ungava/Labrador country of the Cree, Innu and Inuit. What emerges is an eloquent testimonial for the wilderness canoe trip in the Canadian experience." |
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... Ottawa via an HBC steamer to London , UK , where they would be shipped a second time back across the Atlantic to Ottawa . Then his crew , with four Aboriginal canoemen took 14 days to paddle up the Missinaibi in a large birchbark canoe ...
... Ottawa Library , the museum of the 43rd regiment on Ottawa , and the McCord Museum in Montreal . Not only does much of Canada's history reside in these collections , but the people taking care of them were invariably helpful and ...
... Ottawa . But it is his accomplishments as a map - maker , geologist , explorer and wilderness traveller , documenting and photographing the vast Quebec - Labrador peninsula , that he is almost without peer . Between 1881 and 1899 he ...
... Ottawa to obtain authorization to take over the expedition . This determination required snowshoeing 200 miles or 320 kilometres from Lake Mistassini to Lac Saint - Jean in frigid weather and deep snow with one partner , then sled- ding ...
... Ottawa in 1882 , and was an early member of organized hockey in Ottawa before the founding of the Stanley Cup in 1892. A football player on the McGill team , he also took his football skills to Ottawa , where he was president of the ...