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"TRAINING IN CAMP SHOULD BE LONGER," Ottawa Citizen. June 27, 1913. Page 1. --- Our Soldiers Should Have More Time Thinks Lord Brooke. ---- "You have splendid material here in Canada, much better I should say than we have in Britain, but you are in more need of training, and I think you should have a 16 days' period of military camp instead of but eight."

In these words Lord Brooke, the British territorial officer who was one of those who exchanged with Canadian officers through Col. Sam Hughes' plan for interdiffusion of the military experience of both countries, this morning expressed his view of Canadian militia training as gathered during his command of the 2nd cavalry brigade at Petawawa military camp during the last two weeks.

Lord Brooke, Major Howard Vyse- who acted as his brigade major-and Captain Bell, a Canadian officer, arrived in the city this morning and are registered at the Chateau. Both the British officers were most enthusiastic over the results of the interchange in their own case and highly complimentary to the minister of militia for originating the plan.

MATERIAL IS GOOD. "Your material is good," said Lord Brooke. "Your men are more acute and appear to pay more attention to orders than ours: they display an un- usual amount of zeal. Under the circumstances I should think it a great pity that the period of training is not sixteen days, for the men are Just beginning to learn when they break up camp. Of course they ane pot so well trained as our territorial forces; how could they? We have permanent headquarters in every town, clubs as you might say, and our men have 70 or 80 drills a year before they even go to camp. But then we are an older country and our distances are ever so much smaller.

"What do I think of the dry canteen? Well, we haven't it in England, but for all that 60 per cent of our regular forces are teetotallers. It is wonderful how British people have ceased to drink during the last two decades, and I don't think it's temperance preaching so much as education that is doing it.

"Personally I think it's better to convince a man that it is harmful for him to drink than to prevent him from doing it in camp when unfortunately the bars are open in nearby places. We are doing the former in England because we are making the soldier's life a better one.

"It's a splendid idea of Col. Hughes, this interchange of officers. It is going to do us good, and no doubt it will do your Canadian officers benefit when they go to Britain."

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The Petwawa River (Pt. 1 Petawawa Guarrison)

The 3RCR, a regiment at Petawawa, headquaters

This is the first thread on this blog about my Top Ten places I visited where I write to you, readers, about my experiences, enjoy! As a part of an opportunity I have received this summer from army cadets, I have had the chance to visit the magnificent Petawawa river. The Petawawa river is located in the  northern part of Algonquin park next to the city of Petawawa which is around 2 hours from Ottawa. Throughout this experience, I’ve had the chance to stay at the Petawawa Garrison, bike from the base to the river and canoe the whole length of the river with rapids while camping for 10 days. On this blog, I will cover my stay at the Petawawa garrison.

Rooms in the shacks!

My trip to Petawawa started when me and 35 other cadets and 7 adult staff arrived to stay at the barracks in the city’s military base where we stayed to practice canoeing through rapids. The shacks, as the military personnel call them, were very spacious. They weren’t necessarily cozy, but they were comfortable as they contained 4 huge beds for 4 people per room with 2 windows, 4 wardrobes and 4 bed stands with outlets. Bathrooms were located on the other side of the corridor and were very well kept. My only complaint is that there is not much privacy because the bathroom door was always open and everything was visible from the corridor.

The mess hall at the Petawawa Garrison.

The mess hall at the garrison was just fantastic. The military really knows how to feed their members because it always raises morale to go to the mess hall due to the food being always great. The best meal was supper where they fed meals like lamb chops in a sauce or steaks with cranberries which was something to look forward to at the end of the day. In addition to that, there were always different types of desserts, a salad bar and juice dispensers. As a part of my stay in the Petawawa Garrison, me and the rest of the group biked to the fast moving Petawawa river to practice how to canoe through rapids and how to swim through them if the canoe tipped over. It was fun because I learned interesting different canoestrokes to use through fast moving water and what swim position to adopt if a canoe tips in that water.

This is me swimming in the river!

Stay tuned for the second part of this blog next week when I’m going to cover the trip along the whole Petawawa river.

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Day tripping on the petawawa river - algonquin park

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Made in China

I don’t know about you, but it sure feels like we are living through the start of World War III.  

Now before you scroll past and think my tin foil hat is on too tight this morning, hear me out. It’s not like this doesn’t make sense or anything, if you connect the dots it would appear that the next global conflict will look much different than the previous two.  

Think about it. China has been posturing for years to become the next world superpower, and if you can see through the medias bullshit you can read the overtures that are being made in the Asia region along with the saber rattling in the Middle East, you can see that it didn’t take long for Biden to unravel almost 50 years of progress towards peace.

War is inevitable and necessary to the state, and if you ever read Sun Tzu “Art of War”, a Chinese war treatise from the 6th dynasty you would understand the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. He also said that the outcome of war is pre-decided and gave solid advice on the best way to conduct campaigns to conquer foreign powers.

Now before you get your panties in a bunch, I’m not accusing China of deliberately inducing a world-wide pandemic through the use of a genetically modified pathogen after spending years devaluating the US dollar using printed money (not like we have room to talk, but we also haven’t been on a buying spree like the Chinese have in say, Canada for example.), but if I were President Xi Jinping that’s what I’d do. The best war is one where you risk no resources.

Again, not saying the Chinese are attempting to destabilize the United States, not at all. Just saying if I were going to take over the world that’s how I’d do it, from a far, using disinformation and creating confusion and chaos in the streets of my enemy. Not like it hasn’t been done before.  

See many of you see people like me as conspiracy theorists, people who are to be dismissed because we believe in things others’ think are foolish, things that seem farfetched and impossible to be going on in a frame of present reference. I just see myself as a guy who likes history and reads a lot of books that were written before Google came along and dumbed down our nations. Anyone who has ever read a book on the rise of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1920’s Germany would understand completely. If you were to pick up a couple other books on how Hilter rose to power on the back of that party, you’d understand also how quickly people can be manipulated, and how the media and ideology can quickly create a firestorm of hate that makes it easy for societies to crumble. Read even further on how the German army used deceptive tactics to invade Austria and Poland so quickly they didn’t have a chance to prepare.  

That’s not a conspiracy theory, that’s history and we all know those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  

I guess watering down history is a good thing, right? Taking down statues, changing historical accounts in the name of political correctness, and not encouraging people to critically examine all aspects of history to learn from them helps us become a better society.  

Let me give you the Cole’s notes version of how quickly things can go off the rails when the wrong ideology gains traction in a society where people intend to do evil. Again, not saying our current situation is remotely commensurate with our current situation, but it’s a good example of how quickly things can go from good to evil.

Here we go.

1933 - The Nazi Party takes power in Germany. Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor (or Prime Minister) of Germany. Nazis temporarily suspend civil liberties.

1934 - Hitler combines the positions of chancellor and president to become “Fuhrer” or leader of Germany. Jewish newspapers are no longer allowed to be sold in the streets of Germany.

1935 - The Nazis intensify the persecution of people that do not agree with their political philosophy. Jews are deprived of their citizenship and other basic rights.

1936 – Nazi's boycott Jewish owned businesses. The Olympic Games are held in Germany; Signs barring Jews are removed until the event is over. Jews no longer have the right to vote.

1938 - German troops annexed Austria. On Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass,” Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria and 30,000 Jews are arrested. Jews must carry ID cards (papers!) and Jewish passports are marked with a “J”. Jews no longer had businesses, attend plays, concerts etc. (maybe they were unvaccinated??)  All Jewish children are move to Jewish schools. Jewish businesses are shut down; They must sell businesses and hand over securities and jewels. Jews must hand over drivers licenses and car registrations. Jews must be in certain places at certain times.

1939- Germany takes over Czechoslovakia and invades Poland. World War Two begins as Britain in France declared war on Germany. Hitler orders that Jews must follow curfews; Jews must turn in radios to the police; Jews must wear yellow stars of David.

Now I’ll stop there.  

Those are all non-debatable historical facts, no subjectivity in my interpretation, just the facts m’am. Look how quickly one ideology took hold in a country ripe for change. At the time of the 1930’s German’s were desperate for change as they had just came out of world war 1 and were suffering from paying reparations for their conduct during that conflict and when Hilter came along he lit a fire under the German people by blaming the Jews for the loss of WW1.  

Five years. Five years from the time a tyrant took power until he was able to start killing 6 million people.

Now if you are one of those types that believe “it can’t happen again” look no further to all the other genocides over the past 100 years, up to and including the Uighur crisis currently going on in China where they have over 1 million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps and they are mass sterilizing these people to the point it’s actually consider a genocide, as it’s reducing the Muslim population in the western provinces of China though declining birthrates. If these women don’t submit to forced intra-uterine devices or monthly pregnancy tests, they are put in prisons.  

Put in prision because they needed to take a test, shot, or device and wouldn’t?  

Say it ain’t so Joe, say it ain’t so.

Folks, some people are evil. Rotten to the core. They have no soul and are in the most desperate need of getting laid of any person on the planet. That’s reality. You can choose to stick you head in the sand and pretend the boogeyman doesn’t exist, but in truth the boogey man will always exist because humans are nasty evil creatures capable of the most horrendous conduct, and if you think ignoring them or passing laws to prevent them from doing things are going to stop them, well you are just stupid. Sorry, I can’t soften that up any because I owe it to you to be blunt in these times.

Now if you’ve made it this far I think you would agree that something is amiss these days, there’s too many conspiracy theories of the past few years that are now seeming to be true, yet no one wants to talk about where the end game is. I’m not sure what it is, but I have some theories, most involved China or George Soros, but the data indicates more towards the former versus the latter.

Trudeau loves China, he’s said so on many occasions to the point of gushing over their communist form of government. His father was a Marxist, and his mother loved communists. Literally. **bow chica bow wow**

Hunter Biden and the Big Guy are in bed with the Chinese in a different way that Margret and Fidel. We’ve seen the emails, the testimony, and the allegations. For them, it’s about money. Last week the Big Guy shut down the investigation that Trump started into the Wuhan lab. That’s now created a firestorm that will likely make 9/11 look like a traffic accident. Coincidence? I think not.

We recently had two Chinese scientists with ties to the Chinese People’s Army kicked out of our highest security epidemiology lab here in Canada after CSIS had concerns they were passing information back to the Wuhan lab (a lab so highly classified Canadian scientists have a hard time getting security clearances to access it), and Trudeau drew the ire of senior Canadian military personnel when he bullied them into allowing the Chinese to hold winter war games at CFB Petawawa. Why is Trudeau so moonstruck with China?

Dot, Dot, Dot.

Once again, I hope I’m wrong. I really, really do, but go back and walk that timeline again and ask yourself if you now understand why Netanyahu hit Hamas as hard as he did.

Never again.

Can you blame him Comrades?

Now as you sit here in North America today, especially in Canada, does it not seem eerily similar to what has happened before in history? Keep in mind that Jews were loaded onto boxcars under the premise to take them to safety from the angry German peoples.  

I really do hope my tinfoil hat is too tight and it’s cutting off the circulation to my frontal lobe, I want the Canada back I grew up in, and the America I fell in love with. I just hope this really is just a bad bug that’s part of a cyclical pattern of virology and this isn’t the start of a global war to reorganize the planet power structure and de-populate the globe.

The dots just tell a different story.

Jim Out.

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09/20/19 - Petawawa, ON - BEAUTIFUL MORNING ON THE OTTAWA - At first, we thought our campground was next to the beach on a beautiful lake. Then, this morning, we finally figured out that instead, we were camping on the banks of the impressive Ottawa River which serves as the border between the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The clouds really complete this beautiful morning scene. Hope you like it.

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Map: German Canadians (and US-Americans) by percentage % of the population by area

Total population of German ancestry in Canada: 3,322,405 (2016 Census)

Total population of Canada in 2016: 35,151,728

Regions with significant German ancestry populations:

Ontario, Western and Atlantic Canada, Quebec

Religion: Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Anabaptism (Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite)

In the 2016 census, the largest European ancestry groups in Canada were the British Isles (11,211,850 incl. 6,320,085 English), French (4,680,820), Scottish (4,799,005), Irish (4,627,000), German (3,322,405), and Italian (1,587,965).

German Canadians (Deutsch-Kanadier or Deutschkanadier) are Canadian citizens of German ancestry. The 2016 Canadian census put their number at over 3.3 million. Some immigrants came from what is today Germany, while larger numbers came from German settlements in Eastern Europe and Russia; others from former parts of the German Confederation like the Austrian Empire, some from Switzerland.

Across Canada due to WW1, internment camps opened and 8,579 "enemy aliens" were held there until the end of the war; many were German-speaking immigrants from Austria, Hungary, Germany, and the Ukraine. Only 3,138 were classed as prisoners of war; the rest were civilians.

There was also anti-German sentiment during WW2, when 26 Prisoners of War camps opened and interred those who had been born in Germany, Italy, and Japan, if they were deemed to be "enemy aliens". For Germans, this applied especially to single males who had some association with the Nazi Party of Canada. No compensation was paid to them after the war. In Ontario, the largest internment center was at Camp Petawawa, housing 750 who had been born in Germany. Between 1945 and 1994, 400,000 German-speaking immigrants arrived in Canada. The vast majority have been largely assimilated. Culturally and linguistically there is far less to distinguish Germans from the Anglo-French majority compared to the more visible immigrant groups.

Famous German-Canadians include former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, pop star Justin Bieber, singer-songwriters Feist and k.d. lang, Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, and Joel Thomas Zimmerman of Deadmau5, among others.

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Paddling through Barron Canyon in Algonquin Park

Our family’s cottage is about an hour from the east side of Algonquin Park, which is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, but we haven’t spent much time there over the years because we’ve been so focused on spending time at the cottage. I wanted to correct that this year, so we did a weekend camping trip with friends, which I wrote about recently, but there’s so much else I’ve always wanted to do there, and one of those things is to paddle Barron Canyon — probably one of the most impressive canyons or gorges in all of Ontario, if not Canada. It’s almost three times as high as Niagara Falls, with sheer cliffs of granite plunging 100 metres down to the river below (we took some pictures from the hiking trail on top of the canyon on our last trip into the park, an example of which appears below).

The view from the Barron Canyon hiking trail down to the river below

So when a couple of friends said they were interested in bringing their kayaks up to do the canyon, we jumped at it. They were coming from Almonte, which is about two hours away, so we agreed to meet at the Squirrel Rapids parking lot at noon on Friday morning — Squirrel Rapids is the put in point at the southeastern end of the Barron River, and is located about ten minutes inside the park’s Sand Gate, which is not far from Pembroke (just for reference, the Barron River ultimately flows into the Petawawa River, which in turn flows southeast and joins the Ottawa River).

We got to the Squirrel Rapids parking lot at about 12:30 and unloaded the kayaks. A note if you want to do this and are planning to meet people there: You will lose cellular signal as soon as you pass the Algonquin Portage outfitters office on Barron Canyon road — which is just before the pavement gives way to dirt and gravel — and then you get a little signal at the Sand Lake Gate park office, but it disappears soon afterwards.

Getting ready to head up the river from Squirrel Rapids put in

It was a beautiful late August morning, with just some light clouds and about 26 degrees Celsius, as we set off to paddle up the river (technically we were going against the current, but it was late in the season so the current was not very strong at all). Some people who paddle the Barron Canyon will put in at Squirrel Rapids and then take out at Brigham Chute, or do the opposite and put in at Brigham and take out at Squirrel, but those require having a second vehicle at the opposite end. So we decided to paddle up and back in an afternoon — which as it turns out was a little ambitious 🙂

The first part of the paddle is quite short: Only a kilometre or so of easy paddling through a marsh to get to the portage around Cache Rapids, which is about 420 metres long. I was hoping the trail would be gentle and flat, but that was not the case — it is fairly rocky and filled with roots, and goes up and down quite a bit before you get to the end. There are actually two places you can put in; the official put in is across a short wooden bridge and is wide, with rock steps leading down to the water, but if it is busy (which it often is) you can drop a canoe or kayak in just before the bridge — provided you make sure to turn right fairly quickly, so as not to get sucked into the rapids.

The outflow of Cache Rapids near the portage take out point

After the portage, it’s a good half hour or more of paddling through a somewhat marshy river (filled with dozens of huge deadheads, left over from the river’s past as a popular logging route) before you get to the canyon proper, where you can see the giant cliffs soaring up from the water. It really is quite impressive to see not just the cliffs, with the terraced look that much of the exposed Canadian Shield has, but also the huge rockslides along the way — including some massive rocks that must have been shifted by earthquakes, or some huge force. Most of the rock face is a sort of burnt orange colour, which I found out from Bob McElroy’s excellent blog is a result of Xanthoria lichen (Bob’s blog has tons of information about different day and weekend camping trips in and around Algonquin, and is highly recommended).

  By the time we got to the end of the canyon, we had spent about three hours paddling and portaging, which was quite a bit longer than I expected it to take. The river is only about seven kilometres from end to end, and since paddling six kilometres usually takes me about an hour or so, I figured it might take an hour and a half to paddle, plus about 20 to 30 minutes for the portage. However, I didn’t factor in time spent sightseeing along the way, and the portage also took longer than I expected, because my friend Nathan and I carried two kayaks and then went back and got the other two kayaks. Two of them were quite heavy (about 55 pounds each without gear) and it was fairly slow going over the rocks. On a cooler day it might not have been quite as bad.

Since we had seen most of the canyon already, the return trip was somewhat faster, but we stopped at the portage to have a snack of cheese, carrots and some delicious wild boar sausage that a friend provided. Then it was some more kayak carrying and a kilometre paddle and we were back at the Squirrel Rapids parking lot. It was a fantastic day, but I think we were all pretty beat at the end of it. If and when we do this trip again, I would probably leave a lot earlier in the day and then we could take a more relaxing pace and have some time to visit Brigham Chute as well, which I’ve heard is pretty. But in any case, it was a beautiful paddle and well worth the effort and sore muscles.

  Paddling through Barron Canyon in Algonquin Park was originally published on mathewingram.com/work

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"PETAWAWA IS AN IDEAL CAMP," St. Catharines Standard. June 19, 1912. Page 8. ---- Five Thousand Men of the Canadian Militia Are Now Training There Under the Most Favorable Conditions --- Petawawa, Military Camp, June 17 - Petawawa camp has been one of the busiest spots in Canada during the past few days, and will remain so for three or four weeks more, It is probably the most complete and active camp of any that have been held in the big national maneuvering ground. On the high undulating ground overlooking the Ottawa river, there is pitched a writable city of canvas about four miles long and two and a half miles wide. One British Military camp differs from another very little in anything but magnitude. At the Petawawa camp now there are the neat gun parks with their rows of tents and horses; the cavalry lines with their long stretches of horses and tidy rows of saddles; and bunched up clusters of tents of the infantry, etc., all in'd out with the regularity and order prescribed in the regulations of the Canadian Militia.

But the Petawawa camp is more than a transitory camping ground; Its permanent equipment is very complete. A water service is extended to all lines. The supply comes from the Ottawa River and is forced up to service tanks at intervals tong the grounds. The pumping is done by the Government power house. There are also permanent administrative buildings for the camp commandant and staff and special sidings to accommodate all trains brought to the camp.

For watering horses and washing places for the troops each regiment is equipped in its own lines, even to shower baths, which, it may be said, are used freely.

SPLENDID CAMP. Petawawa is a camp ground of which any, nation might to proud. It is magnificent in extent and the ground admirably adapted to the work. It is very sandy and the heaviest showers of rain are absorbed almost immediately and a few touches of sunshine dry up the ground in a very short time. They are splendid ranges for both rifle and big gun practice. The air of the plains is remarkably clear and healthy and the scenery at the bank of the Ottawa river is full of beauty and natural charm.

About five thousand men are in camp. A feature of this camp is the inaugaration of a complete postal service under the management of the Canadian Postal Corps. These engaged in this work are Lacut. F. D. Sharman of London, Ont.; Ptes. J. J. Fair and H. Kitcheman of Ottawa.

Six collection boxes are placed at different points in the camp. Two collections are made daily and deliveries of mail to each unit. A special cart is provided for this work and H. Kitcheman, formerly a gunner in "D" Special Service battery in Africa, attends to the outdoor duty. The head office also issues postal notes and sells stamps. The service Is well managed and greatly appreciated in the camp.

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The Petawawa River (Pt. 2)

The Morning we left the Petawawa Garrison

Following my stay at the Petawawa Garrison, where I gathered the knowledge for the upcoming expedition trip, me, 35 other cadets and 7 adult staff biked from the military base to Stratton Lake in Algonquin park. It was a long and grueling 40km bike ride that went up and down hills which were full of sand, gravel and beautiful scenery with clearings and impenetrable forests.

The nature around the Petawawa area on the road to Stratton lake

It was nice because it was easier to breathe the fresh air from the forest rather than the dirty and stuffy air from the cities where I came from. It was also gave me a break from my personal worries as biked further into the forest. I was more focused on the moment and what was most important to me. After we made it to Algonquin park, we quickly transitioned to hiking gear and put our bikes away in our rented cube van. 

Map of the Stratton lake area

We hiked for a few hours and we got lost several times as well and, due to us also being late with our timings on our bikes, we got lost during the night. I didn’t know where we were going because we resorted to bushwacking half the time and I was without a personal flashlight, so I had to also somehow figure out where I should step without tripping over rocks or branches. The next day, I realized how lucky I was not to twist our ankles because there were so many dangerous rocks when we hiked the following day. Luckily, after that first night hiking, my group made it to our campsite in one piece. We met up with the other cadets and adults, set up our campsite by the lake, did a debrief about how the day went and then we set off to do our ablutions and go to sleep. This would become a habit for the next 9 days.

View on Stratton lake next to our camping site once we arrived

The hiking cycle was a relaxing experience, yet uneventful. I could easily go into my thoughts while walking around Stratton Lake with my rucksack and think about life in a way I don’t do usually.

Some of my group members hiking

After a few days of the hiking cycle, we put our hiking poles, boots, tents, etc. in a cube van and we hopped once again on our bikes down a hill and we went deeper into the forest. 

After several hours of biking, we made it to Lake Travers where we put our equipment from the rucksacks into a new waterproof boundary bags, then we took our canoes from a truck that arrived for us and we set off with our paddles to our next campsite on the lake where we did the usual routine.

The next morning was miserable.

It was rainy and I woke up in a drenched tent and having a strong desire to keep sleeping so the rain eventually passes, but I had to walk out into the cold outside and pack all my stuff and put it under a waterproof tarp we set up since A : We had timings to meet; and B : It would have probably have not been a good idea to keep sleeping in the wet. It was a mess because the 20 other people we had on that campsite (the others split off to a different site) did the same thing and a lot of kit got mixed up or lost. It was really uncomfortable because it was very cold, so cold in fact that the water that felt cold the day before felt warm when we got into our canoes on that rainy morning.

The moment we docked before we conquered our first rapid

When we got on the water, we canoed out for around 20 minutes and we hit our first rapid and we had to stop to inspect it. It was not a great experience since we had to walk in our wet water shoes looking to see a possible path we could take to cross the rapid. I was shivering all the way until we got back into our canoes to attempt to cross the obstacle.

In the canoe was me in the stern (back) and an officer in the bow (front) and it was anticlimactic because when we tried to cross we got unfortunately stuck not even 10 meters from shore. Our canoe filled up with water and we had to get a few people to get the canoe unstuck from those rocks. The funny thing is that we successfully crossed the moving water right afterwards, so if not those rocks, we would have perfectly conquered the rapid. Overall, it was an enjoyable ride down the river full of adrenaline which made it a little warmer during the cold morning.

One of the adult staff crossing the rapid

For the next following days, we camped at several different campsites, tried to nail our routine on our campsites to the fastest time we could, we crossed several different rapids and smaller swifts and we portaged our way to avoid more dangerous water. One formidable portage was on our third day canoeing which was the “Crooked Chute” portage because it was a long one kilometer walk down and up hill,  with heavy canoes, pressing down on our shoulders, and boundary bags which were unexpectedly even worse as they would seem lighter. After all of that, a rewarding feeling came to me and all my teammates because we have overcome something that we warned as being the hardest part of the trip which meant that we were closer to completing the expedition. 

View on a hill called "Cayote Rock" from one of last camp sites of the trip

During the last day, we debriefed in all of our separate groups we were originally split in at the beginning of the trip. We reminisced about the fun parts and the miserable parts of the trip and one comment from one of my team members stuck to me till this day :

“After this trip, I learned to embrace the suck.”

Following this notice, the team member explained that every bad thing makes the good events feel even better. This reminded me of the time when the sun showed out at noon during a miserable cloudy morning we had which made me so happy. Maybe it was because of the horrible morning we had, but it was the happiest I’ve been when looking at the sun. Then, after the team member stop talking, I had a moment of deep thinking and I realized how much fun I had during these past 10 days and how much I would miss the good moments and the "suck".

My greatest revelation during this trip was to embrace the suck, not only because it makes the good moments worthwhile, but also because there is only so much suck in our life. 

After this debrief, it was another good night's sleep and then we unloaded our kit the next morning once we canoeed back to shore. We returned back to the garrison and from there we parted ways. 

Stay tuned for the next blog about my trip to Iceland! I hope y’all have a wonderful rest of your day.

P. S.

I got to see parts of a pretty cool air show in Toronto while I was on the bus to train station!

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: ALGONQUIN PARK & TEMAGAMI

The canoe tripping program at Camp Ahmek and Camp Wapomeo is what makes TSC such a unique member of the summer camp community. From age 7, we have the option to trip through Algonquin Park and once 12, the park and beyond. Within these regions are unbelievable sights that are experienced by those who truly love the Canadian wilderness.

This week, the spotlight is on Algonquin Park and Temagami! Stay tuned to our blog and Facebook for more regions in the coming weeks. To read more about our canoe tripping program, click here!

Algonquin Park

Canoe Lake – our home away from home.

The Portage Store – whether it is to get dropped off, picked up or just passing through on a trip, this store is a crucial part of the TSC experience.

Barron Canyon – the banks of the canyon are lined by awe-inspiring boulders, some sections measured up to 100m vertically, experienced by our Barron River campers and many 50 Day campers.

Petawawa River – the largest volume river in the park and home to many tough but beautiful portages around stunning rapids. Appropriately named based on thes rapids, Petawawa is the native Algonquin word meaning “noise heard from afar.”

Brent Road to Wendigo Lake – the route that many TSC 50 Day trips take into the park. Whether you are getting a shuttle or you are portaging, it is a very special moment for these trips because it usually signifies the beginning of the last segment of a 50 Day and the route towards home.

Eustache Lake – deepest lake in all of Algonquin Park. “Ahmek District” – a section of the park west of Canoe Lake that campers and staff from TSC helped to maintain.

A total of 2,456 lakes and over 2,000km of canoe routes.

Temagami

Ishpatina Ridge – the highest point in Ontario and the namesake of one our 36 day canoe trips. The name “Ishpatina” comes from an Ojibwe language word, ishpadinaa, which means “high place/ridge.”

Maple Mountain – the second highest point in Ontario, climbed by many of our campers and staff on Temagami trips, Bisco trips and 50 day trips.

Paradise Lagoon – an isolated hidden gem which includes crystal blue water, a small waterfall and very cool cliffs.

Wolf Lake – this lake is surrounded by the world’s largest known contiguous ancient red pine forest and a part of the Chiniguchi Waterway. To learn more about this area, go to http://www.savewolflake.org/.

Sunnywater & Smoothwater Lakes – windex blue lakes perfect for those underwater cabin photoshoots and classic paddle photos.

McConnell Bay – a bay lined by a beautiful beach with spacious campsites. A great place for a rest day!

Florence Lake – considered to be one of the cleanest and picturesque lakes in Temagami and one of the favourites of TSC trippers.

Pine Torch Area – this area is challenging, rewarding, secluded and beautiful.

Lake Temagami – this lake extends almost 50 Km from north to south, is irregularly shaped with small bays and multiple arms. With 1200 + islands, it is a fun lake to navigate through on a sunny summer day.

Shish-Kong – an area with a plethora of old growth pine trees that line incredible hiking trails. Here you will also find a campsite situated across from 100+ ft rock faces.

Home to many incredible provincial parks including Solace, Chiniguchi Waterway, Sturgeon River Waterway, Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater, Obabika and more.

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CSIS & The Popular Struggle for Civil Liberties

How was the Canadian Security Intelligence Service created, and why?

There are two ways to tell this story.

The one we are most familiar with is from the side of the Canadian ruling class, and its state which created CSIS.

In this version, CSIS exists to protect all Canadians.

From exactly what we’re being protected is unclear. These days it seems its “lone wolf terrorists” or even the young men at the center of last year’s homicides in Ottawa and St‑Jean‑sur‑Richelieu.

Never mind that its a great stretch over real evidence to link these cases to actual terrorism.

There is also the story of CSIS from the perspective of the people’s forces.

This is also the history of struggle for protection — protection not by CSIS but protection from CSIS. The Communist Party of Canada figures large in this history of political police in Canada.

Ever since our formation in 1921, the Communist Party has faced continued harassment from police and security forces. The state crafted its modern outline of modern political policing this way.

Our party has always fought hard, united with other democratic forces, to over-come these attacks — and it’s been a victory for all people in Canada.

A Long Story

Despite the official rhetoric, mass suppression of civil rights and democratic freedoms has been a constant political factor from the origins of this country.

The military defeat of the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions; then the Métis resistance struggles which brought into life the North West Mounted Police, predecessor of the RCMP; the legal suppression of indigenous people’s resistance organizations; the War Measures Act; the mass interments of ethnic groups during the First and Second World Wars; relentless police attacks against the labour movement – all these illustrate the reality that from its very beginnings, the Canadian capitalist state has used the police, military, courts and spy agencies against its “enemies” and to contain oppressed national communities within the Canadian state.

The Communist Party was founded in conditions of illegality in 1921 as the War Measures Act was still in effect — several years after WWI ended.

A few years before, the Winnipeg General Strike had been suppressed brutally. Labour had few rights and strikes were regularly broken through force from the boss class.

Although the CPC won legality in 1924, it wasn’t long before another ban pushed our organization underground again.

Tim Buck, our Party’s long-time general secretary, and seven other Party leaders were arrested and imprisoned during the 1930s under the notorious Section 98 of the Criminal Code which outlawed so-called “subversive organizations.”

An attempt was even made to assassinate Buck in Kingston Penitentiary.

In a mass campaign, Buck was released and the party won back its status as an open contributor to Canadian political life.

But the new legal status was short lived.

Internment

When the CPC took the stance of initially opposing Canada’s participation in World War Two — correctly noting that the war began as a kind of phony posturing hoping that Hitler would invade the USSR — the Canadian government was the only Western power to respond by banning the CPC.

RCMP documents of the time show that the police view of the communists was that they were Canada’s biggest security risk — more serious than fascism because, the RCMP said, fascism was still a form of capitalism.

Police officers reading Clarté, Quebec’s French language Communist newspaper after raiding their offices.

Party offices and meeting halls were closed; printing presses and other assets were seized, and our press and publications banned.

In Quebec the earlier Padlock law was implemented with reactionary swagger and used against ethnic communities like left-wing Jewish organizations.

Then, most disturbingly, labour leaders and Communists were interned at Petawawa and Kananaskis, and later blocked from joining the Canadian Armed Forces during the military struggle against Hitler fascism.

The internment had been anticipated by the mass arrest of left-wing Ukranians during World War I, and the so-called relief camps during the Depression where police rounded-up unemployed young men and sent them to work camps. It foreshadowed the mass racist interment of thousands of Japanese-Canadian citizens later on during the war.

These were dark moments in Canadian history. The Japanese internees received an apology and compensation in 1988, the Ukrainians in 2008. The Communist internees have never received either.

But they did win widespread public support which forced their release.

The loudest voice against this attack on civil rights was Dorise Nielsen, the third woman ever elected to parliament in Canada and a communist MP elected on a unity slate.

From World War II to the Cold war

In the meantime, the inevitable happened and Nazi Germany did invade the USSR, changing the content of the war.

While the USSR became ally of Canada, it took more campaigning before the interned labour leaders were released.

The period of the victory over fascism almost seventy years ago was a high point in popular progressive sentiment.

The experience of the Great Depression had made many skeptical of the economic system.

The War years had shown socialism in a positive light, and the human potential of a more planned economy.

The idea that Canada could do just as well in a democratic framework, with worker control, was very popular.

Equally broadly supported was the idea of peace and friendship with the socialist world, and not a third world war.

The then pro-socialist CCF party, predecessor of the NDP, saw its popularity rise.

So did the communists.

During this time, the Communist Party elected to provincial legislatures in Manitoba and Ontario, as well as Federally.

It has been said by some that this toe-hold into parliament was so dangerous it had to be eliminated.

With a unscrupulous defector from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, the RCMP and government concocted evidence of a spy plot implicating a number of leading scientists and Fred Rose — Canada’s first openly elected communist Member of Parliament.

Never mind that the “secrets” had already been published in scientific journals and that such exchange of information was common place between the allies during the war.

Again, scores of people were rounded up under the Defense of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act, held incommunicado for weeks on end, without legal counsel and barred from all contact with the outside world. Meanwhile, the Royal Commission issued a stream of press releases about the “Red menace”. Prisoners were forcefully told to incriminate themselves and others under the penalty of contempt of court.

Public outcry resulted, including the Emergency Committee for Civil Rights (with prominent members like professor C.B. Macpherson, physicist Leopold Infeld, and Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson which asserted that the Commission endangered “the basic rights of Canadians.”

Nevertheless, the Royal Commission began another era when Party and its activists suffered state-organized persecution for decades during what became known as the “Cold War” period.

The Cold War

Monitoring by the RCMP of included labour, women’s organizations like the Consumer Housewives Association, students, immigrant groups, and any other subversives or radicals suspected of being reds. This had already been exposed in the 1920s and 30s and continued in earnest during the Cold War.

These state-sponsored attacks on our Party were part of a broader assault on the trade union movement, as well as on activists in the peace, native and other progressive movements and organizations.

1962: Vandalized Communist Party election office in Thunder Bay, Ontario These actions are not speculation. The wrongful and illegal activities of the RCMP were documented and exposed by the MacDonald Royal Commission in the early 1980s because of public outrage over the RCMP’s activities — like barn burning in Quebec.

One of the most chilling examples of this was revealed not long ago, when the corporate media uncovered the PROFUNC plans.

PROFUNC

These were secret plans — unknown by most of parliament — for the RCMP to round up radicals across the country in the event of a third world war.  The group was primarily made up of people deemed “prominent Communist functionaries” by an RCMP Security Service program known as Profunc.

But the list always included more than just reds.

Although this ‘internment plan’ specifically targeted Communists and their families, it represented a flagrant disregard for the civil and human rights of Canadians as a whole.

As new powers are ascribed to CSIS, these relatively recent revelations should concern all democratic-minded Canadians.

“National Security”

This specific plan to intern Communist leaders in the event of a third world war reflected the long-standing — but patently false — presumption that Canadian Communists were somehow ‘agents of a foreign power’ – ie, the Soviet Union – and therefore constituted a ‘threat to national security.’

Canadians have every reason to be angered and dismayed that successive Canadian governments had contemplated such draconian and illegal measures up until as recently as 1983.

Particularly horrendous was the intention to round up and intern the children of Party activists.

This shows that the deep-seated paranoia and hatred of Communists by the Canadian government knew no bounds.

The Communist Party has repeatedly called upon the Canadian Government to make public all documents relating to this sordid affair, including the actual lists of individuals whose civil and human rights were to be violated in the name of “national security.”

Furthermore, the CPC continues to demand that the Canadian government publicly renounce the decision of prior governments to consider such anti-democratic action, and officially apologize to the CPC and to the families of all those individual Communists who were targeted under this plan.

The civil and human rights of all Canadians are enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Canadians must demand that these fundamental rights must be strictly respected and obeyed, especially by governments and their police and security services.

Targets

Communists were to be locked inside three federal prisons in Ontario and Alberta.

“The present number of persons who would be arrested as subversives in the event of a national emergency are 588 males and 174 females,” says a 1970 memo from the RCMP.

The documents, obtained under the Access to Information Act, show that the war internment plan was first drawn up in the late 1940s but was revived and expanded from 1969 to 1971.

The RCMP had 762 people on their to-be-interned list in 1970, including 13 children under the age of 11 and 23 between the ages of 12 and 16.

Most were from the Toronto area, though no names are included in the released material.

Those under 17 were the children of the target internees, and were referred to disparagingly by the Mounties as “red diaper babies”.

The plan was to round up these so-called subversives quickly and place them in temporary custody while three federal prisons were emptied of their inmates.

“Punishment diet number one”

A prison in Drumheller, Alta., was to be used for the west, and another in Warkworth, Ont., for the rest of the country. Women, however, were to be placed in the Joyceville, Ont., penitentiary, near Kingston.

“Mothers with babies at breast will be accommodated in the Joyceville Institution hospital area and… their children must in the first instance be placed with relatives or with Children’s Aid Societies,” says one 1969 document.

The existing prison population across the country would be thinned out by freeing non-violent inmates with less than a year left in their sentences. By shuffling the remaining prisoners, the three Alberta and Ontario prisons could be vacated within 10 days to become internment camps.

The Mounties had approval to lock up 762 people in 1970 but argued they would likely add more after cabinet invoked its extraordinary powers under the War Measures Act.

“There are approximately another 300, although not approved at present, they would no doubt be approved in time of war.”

Rules for the camps were detailed in an RCMP manual that outlined procedures for everything from mail censorship to punishment.

“Punishment Diet Number One shall consist of water as required and one pound of bread per day,” says an edition of the manual from the 1960s.

“Punishment Diet Number Two shall consist of water as required and, for each day, eight ounces of bread for breakfast… four ounces of oatmeal, eight ounces of potatoes and salt, for dinner and eight ounces of bread for supper.”

A separate arrest document was written up for each potential internee. These C-215 forms were updated regularly, including descriptions, photographs, vehicle data, and other information.

Even “escape routes” from the personal residences of those on the list were noted.

“Mobilization Day” (M-Day) was designated as the day to arrest and transport people on the PROFUNC list to temporary detainment centres across Canada, including Casa Loma in Toronto, a country club in Port Arthur, and Regina Exhibition Park.

From these centres, male detainees would then be transferred to penitentiaries across Canada, while women would be interned at facilities in the Niagara Peninsula or Kelowna. Their children would be sent to relatives or interned with their parents.

Internees who broke prison rules could be held indefinitely, or shot while attempting to escape.

More Than Just Reds

In 2010, the CBC’s Fifth Estate and Radio Canada’s Enquête programme exposed in chilling detail more information about these internment preparations.

They blacklist grew to include some 16,000 “suspected communists” and 50,000 “communist sympathizers” to be observed and potentially interned during a state of emergency such as war against the USSR. The identities were kept in sealed envelopes filed at Mountie detachments across the country.

Some people have expressed shock that prominent non-communists were included in the PROFUNC list, such as Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas, whose ‘crime’ was apparently his association with Communists in the fight to win universal Medicare in Canada.

The point, however, is that any attack on democracy and freedom inevitably expands to target all those who might speak out in opposition.

This was shown during the 1970 October Crisis, when PROFUNC was used to help detain hundreds of so-called Front de libération du Québec suspects, most of whom had no affiliation with the FLQ.

Almost all of these “suspects” were eventually released without charge, but the goal was to terrorize a wide range of progressive activists, just as the Cold War accusations aimed at undermining the militant labour and people’s movements of the 1940s and ‘50s.

The PROFUNC list remained in force during the 1970s; in fact, the Canadian Penitentiary Service received updated PROFUNC lists to make them aware of the number of potential internees.

It was not until the 1980s that Solicitor General Robert Kaplan introduced administrative changes to remove the barriers which Communists and others faced in trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border.

Around the same time the internment plan was abandoned at the order of the justice minister in 1983, the documents show.

The reasons are not specified, though it may have been linked to the creation in 1984 of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service which took over many RCMP Security Service functions.

These changes effectively ended PROFUNC by forcing the RCMP to scrap the list.

Creating CSIS

The wrongful and illegal activities of the RCMP were well documented by the MacDonald Royal Commission back in the early 1980s.

‘Dirty tricks’ included unlawful spying and wiretapping, theft of documents, destruction of property, the use of `agent-provocateurs,’ etc. The revelations about the RCMP’s scandalous role in subverting and attacking a wide range of democratic movements compelled the federal government to turn over authority for domestic espionage to the newly-created CSIS.

When this sinister and illegal spying on the CPC – a registered political party in Canada – was exposed, the RCMP arrogantly responded by demanding that their “property” be returned!

The findings of the MacDonald Commission forced the government to transfer security and intelligence operations from the RCMP to the newly-formed Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS).

However, CSIS has continued to employ surveillance practices and other assorted ‘dirty tricks’ against the CPC and many other lawful organizations and individuals ever since.

But this move did not eliminate the menace to civil rights and democratic freedoms; it merely made CSIS the main perpetrator.

This threat remains very real today, especially given the consistent efforts by the federal government to crush, silence and jail opposition voices, and to create scapegoats to divert public anger from the impact of the capitalist crisis and anti-working class policies.

The so-called “war on terror” is used to justify wide-ranging surveillance and infiltrating of people’s opposition movements, to portray racialized communities as potential “enemies” which must be closely watched by CSIS, and to bar anti-war activists from entering Canada.

The vast expenditure of taxpayers’ dollars on “security” for the Winter Olympics and the G8/G20 Summits was not intended to block non-existent or wildly inflated “security threats,” but rather to intimidate Canadians from expressing public opposition against the policies of the federal and provincial governments.

The mass arrest of over 1,100 protesters during the G20 Summit in Toronto is powerful evidence that plans to suppress dissent remain very much alive at the highest levels of the Canadian state.

Recently we note many more recent attacks on civil liberties and democratic rights via the target of Bill C-51, not least on indigenous activists.

We reiterate our long-standing call for the abolition of the RCMP (which prepared the PROFUNC lists), and for the disbanding of CSIS, which conducts surveillance of present-day critics of government policies.

We urge the entire labour and democratic movement – the main target of the drive to criminalize dissent in Canada – to demand a complete and final end to the policy of drawing up plans for the mass crushing of opposition forces.

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willkommen-in-germany: Map: German Canadians (and US-Americans) by percentage % of the population...

Map: German Canadians (and US-Americans) by percentage % of the population by area

Total population of German ancestry in Canada: 3,322,405 (2016 Census)

Total population of Canada in 2016: 35,151,728

Regions with significant German ancestry populations:

Ontario, Western and Atlantic Canada, Quebec

Religion: Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Anabaptism (Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite)

In the 2016 census, the largest European ancestry groups in Canada were the British Isles (11,211,850 incl. 6,320,085 English), French (4,680,820), Scottish (4,799,005), Irish (4,627,000), German (3,322,405), and Italian (1,587,965).

German Canadians (Deutsch-Kanadier or Deutschkanadier) are Canadian citizens of German ancestry. The 2016 Canadian census put their number at over 3.3 million. Some immigrants came from what is today Germany, while larger numbers came from German settlements in Eastern Europe and Russia; others from former parts of the German Confederation like the Austrian Empire, some from Switzerland.

Across Canada due to WW1, internment camps opened and 8,579 “enemy aliens” were held there until the end of the war; many were German-speaking immigrants from Austria, Hungary, Germany, and the Ukraine. Only 3,138 were classed as prisoners of war; the rest were civilians.

There was also anti-German sentiment during WW2, when 26 Prisoners of War camps opened and interred those who had been born in Germany, Italy, and Japan, if they were deemed to be “enemy aliens”. For Germans, this applied especially to single males who had some association with the Nazi Party of Canada. No compensation was paid to them after the war. In Ontario, the largest internment center was at Camp Petawawa, housing 750 who had been born in Germany. Between 1945 and 1994, 400,000 German-speaking immigrants arrived in Canada. The vast majority have been largely assimilated. Culturally and linguistically there is far less to distinguish Germans from the Anglo-French majority compared to the more visible immigrant groups.

Famous German-Canadians include former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, pop star Justin Bieber, singer-songwriters Feist and k.d. lang, Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, and Joel Thomas Zimmerman of Deadmau5, among others.

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Paddling through Barron Canyon in Algonquin Park

Our family’s cottage is about an hour from the east side of Algonquin Park, which is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, but we haven’t spent much time there over the years because we’ve been so focused on spending time at the cottage. I wanted to correct that this year, so we did a weekend camping trip with friends, which I wrote about recently, but there’s so much else I’ve always wanted to do there, and one of those things is to paddle Barron Canyon — probably one of the most impressive canyons or gorges in all of Ontario, if not Canada. It’s almost three times as high as Niagara Falls, with sheer cliffs of granite plunging 100 metres down to the river below (we took some pictures from the hiking trail on top of the canyon on our last trip into the park, an example of which appears below).

The view from the Barron Canyon hiking trail down to the river below

So when a couple of friends said they were interested in bringing their kayaks up to do the canyon, we jumped at it. They were coming from Almonte, which is about two hours away, so we agreed to meet at the Squirrel Rapids parking lot at noon on Friday morning — Squirrel Rapids is the put in point at the southeastern end of the Barron River, and is located about ten minutes inside the park’s Sand Gate, which is not far from Pembroke (just for reference, the Barron River ultimately flows into the Petawawa River, which in turn flows southeast and joins the Ottawa River).

We got to the Squirrel Rapids parking lot at about 12:30 and unloaded the kayaks. A note if you want to do this and are planning to meet people there: You will lose cellular signal as soon as you pass the Algonquin Portage outfitters office on Barron Canyon road — which is just before the pavement gives way to dirt and gravel — and then you get a little signal at the Sand Lake Gate park office, but it disappears soon afterwards.

Getting ready to head up the river from Squirrel Rapids put in

It was a beautiful late August morning, with just some light clouds and about 26 degrees Celsius, as we set off to paddle up the river (technically we were going against the current, but it was late in the season so the current was not very strong at all). Some people who paddle the Barron Canyon will put in at Squirrel Rapids and then take out at Brigham Chute, or do the opposite and put in at Brigham and take out at Squirrel, but those require having a second vehicle at the opposite end. So we decided to paddle up and back in an afternoon — which as it turns out was a little ambitious 🙂

The first part of the paddle is quite short: Only a kilometre or so of easy paddling through a marsh to get to the portage around Cache Rapids, which is about 420 metres long. I was hoping the trail would be gentle and flat, but that was not the case — it is fairly rocky and filled with roots, and goes up and down quite a bit before you get to the end. There are actually two places you can put in; the official put in is across a short wooden bridge and is wide, with rock steps leading down to the water, but if it is busy (which it often is) you can drop a canoe or kayak in just before the bridge — provided you make sure to turn right fairly quickly, so as not to get sucked into the rapids.

The outflow of Cache Rapids near the portage take out point

After the portage, it’s a good half hour or more of paddling through a somewhat marshy river (filled with dozens of huge deadheads, left over from the river’s past as a popular logging route) before you get to the canyon proper, where you can see the giant cliffs soaring up from the water. It really is quite impressive to see not just the cliffs, with the terraced look that much of the exposed Canadian Shield has, but also the huge rockslides along the way — including some massive rocks that must have been shifted by earthquakes, or some huge force. Most of the rock face is a sort of burnt orange colour, which I found out from Bob McElroy’s excellent blog is a result of Xanthoria lichen (Bob’s blog has tons of information about different day and weekend camping trips in and around Algonquin, and is highly recommended).

  By the time we got to the end of the canyon, we had spent about three hours paddling and portaging, which was quite a bit longer than I expected it to take. The river is only about seven kilometres from end to end, and since paddling six kilometres usually takes me about an hour or so, I figured it might take an hour and a half to paddle, plus about 20 to 30 minutes for the portage. However, I didn’t factor in time spent sightseeing along the way, and the portage also took longer than I expected, because my friend Nathan and I carried two kayaks and then went back and got the other two kayaks. Two of them were quite heavy (about 55 pounds each without gear) and it was fairly slow going over the rocks. On a cooler day it might not have been quite as bad.

Since we had seen most of the canyon already, the return trip was somewhat faster, but we stopped at the portage to have a snack of cheese, carrots and some delicious wild boar sausage that a friend provided. Then it was some more kayak carrying and a kilometre paddle and we were back at the Squirrel Rapids parking lot. It was a fantastic day, but I think we were all pretty beat at the end of it. If and when we do this trip again, I would probably leave a lot earlier in the day and then we could take a more relaxing pace and have some time to visit Brigham Chute as well, which I’ve heard is pretty. But in any case, it was a beautiful paddle and well worth the effort and sore muscles.

  Paddling through Barron Canyon in Algonquin Park was originally published on mathewingram.com/work