May 6, 2010:

This summer, we'll be doing some canoe trips, within a couple of hours drive from Ottawa. This playing, er, working, will
involve taking photos for this (and other) web pages on Bytown or Bust. We'll trace some of the canoe routes used by the
raftsmen during the timber trade and those used by the Voyageurs during the fur trade.

Sidney, shown below in the centre, is keen to go on some of the trips.

    

  



Map of Murphy's Point Provincial Park - Life is good on Loon Lake and Hogg Bay - no motorboats.
Map Source: Web Site of the Friends of Murphy's Point.

Dow's Lake to Long Island - an easy trip along the Rideau River, except for the portages around 
Hartwell's Locks, Hog's Back and Black Rapids. Right in the centre of Ottawa!

Ompah Area, many lakes including Mosque, Palmerston, Crotch (Cross) and Canonto. 

Taylor Kennedy's Madawaska River System page (Algonquin Park to the Ottawa River at Arnprior).

Fitzroy Harbour and Morris Island (Changing Topography on the Ottawa River, over time, due to Rapids and Dams).


May 11, 2010:
The canoe portage route used by the Voyageurs was located on the north side of the Chaudiere Falls.
The excerpt, below left, is from Freshwater Saga: Memoirs of a Lifetime of Wilderness Canoeing in Canada,
by Eric W. Morse, page 69. See also our Latchford page.

The photo and text, below right, is from Exploring Ottawa, by Harold Kalman and John Roaf, page 193.

      


July 31, 2010:
Photo Source: Birchbark Canoe, by David Gidmark, page 138



Keywords: Charlie Smith, River Desert Algonquin, Maniwaki, David Makakons, Rapid Lake Algonquin

See also our page for Native Canadian History in the Ottawa area

  



October 17, 2010:

Photo Source: Al Lewis, www.bytown.net
Canoe Launch, Mississippi River at Ferguson's Falls
An important fur trade and lumber industry route.
(There is a good parking lot here)


Photo Source: Al Lewis, www.bytown.net 



December 17, 2010:

Source: Ottawa Citizen, December 15, 2010, page A6
Keywords: Birch Bark Canoe, John Enys, Canadian Canoe Museum at Peterborough, Ontario, Canada



December 18, 2010:

Source: Hunting and Fishing in Canada: A Turn-of-the-Century Treasury, page 45



  


September 8, 2011:

The Bytownmobile at the Canoe Launch at Fitzroy Provincial Park, September 8, 2011

    


 November 6, 2011:
The canoe on top of the 1928 McLaughlin Buick is the grandfather to the green canoe pictured above!
Photo Source: Destination Algonquin Park: Tracks to Cache Lake and the Highland Inn, by Donald J. Beauprie,
General Store Publishing House, 2011, ISBN 978-1-926962-11-5