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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... portage route , which is the longest and worst of those known to the writer anywhere in northeastern Canada . Careful inquiries from a score of Indians met coming inland offered no information concerning this part of the river , which ...
... portage took nine hours ! ) , past abandoned trading posts , Cree camps , and the vast area consumed by the forest fires of 2002. But this account is not simply the story of a good canoe trip through the heart of the boreal forest , but ...
... Lake Nichicun Lake Naococane Long Portage Creek Neoskweskau ( Tide Lake ) Marten R. Rupert R. Natastan R Lake Mistassini Mistissini START N route 2002-900 kms in five weeks route 2003-100 kms in one week hydro dam on river.
... Portage , we collapse , exhausted , at the point where the faint trail disappears ; this time for good . Soaked by yet another drenching rain , with the muskeg sucking at our boots and the blackflies sucking at our blood , we are ...
... portage route around the falls . No wonder McLean missed it - the route involved II portages , covering over seven miles , and more than a dozen lakes , before rejoining the river below the falls via a precipitous two - mile portage ...