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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... Later that day , while trying to enter Richmond Gulf , ( also known as Lac Guillaume Delisle ) , a vast brackish estuary linked to Hudson Bay by the narrow Hazard Inlet , they nearly met with disaster . " We started in with as much sail ...
... later , on October 18 , in the midst of the winter's first blizzard , Wallace collapsed . Elson continued on alone . Upon reaching Grand Lake , Elson built a raft of driftwood and eventually reached a trapper's cabin . A rescue party ...
... later , lying on top of a worn red bedspread in a roadside motel in Lebel - sur - Quevillon , a small town in Quebec on Highway 113 on the way to James Bay country . Jim , and our friend Don Haines , who is driving up with us in his car ...
... later career , it is likely that Albert Peter was in the upper - school scientific division . Nothing is known of his school days and any school records pertaining to him were lost when the school burnt down in the 1890s . Albert Peter ...
... later in his life - or in cultural clubs . There is no way around it - Albert Peter Low was a " jock . " We wonder what his friends called him . Was it Albert or Peter or some variation ? In the McGill hockey team photo , he is ...