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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... coast to a " very large lake , called Eskimo Seal Lake , " about 100 miles inland . Even these alternatives were subject to change as many dogs had died at the post the previous winter.38 By mid - February , plans for Young had indeed ...
... Coast River to store supplies for their return trip , and resumed up the main branch . Low refers to this branch as the Abchigamich River ( now called the Great Whale River ) which flows out of a large lake of the same name ( now called ...
... coast . Instead , he headed south along the coast to Cape Jones ( now called Pointe Louis XIV ) , which marks the east- ern entrance to James Bay . From there he proceeded to the HBC post of Fort George on the Big River , reaching it by ...
... coast of Hudson Bay . He recognized that the central ores were " useless , owing to the lack of railway or other communication , " but that the ore in the Nastapoka Islands lay beside deep water and could be loaded onto a ship . As ...
... coast of James Bay . The trip is about 1000 kilometres in length , with some 87 portages . Although this route is rarely travelled in its entirety by canoe today , the country it passes through is by no means forgotten or abandoned ...