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In the
early spring of 2002, our die-hard canoeing group of Wayne
Morrison, John Nikita, Norm Rail, and Norm Hooper organized a
weeklong canoe trip to the Temagami region, a two-hour drive
north of North Bay, Ontario. A few weeks prior to our departure
date, John and his wife tripped this region and returned with
the disheartening news of constant seaplane traffic throughout
the day, cottage generators blaring during the evenings,
insufficient campsites and an overload of power watercraft of
all sorts on the lakes – certainly not the environment any true
canoeist seeking solitude would want to endure.
We immediately registered another trip plan
that would have us returning to an area we were familiar with
from past excursions, Kiosk, in the northern sector of Algonquin
Park. We would begin our journey from the campgrounds and trip
through seventeen waterways – the Little Mink, Whitebirch,
Clearwater, Club, Mouse, Mink Creek, Big Thunder, Erables,
Maple, Ratrap, Dalinda, Boggy, N. Sylvia, Three Miles, and
Manitou. We would return through the Amable du Fond River and
cross Kioskkokwi Lake (kiosk coke wee - meaning, "the lake of
the gulls"). This plan would enable us to complete the last
segment of our 1999 trip to this area as well as meet our goal
of traversing new territory.
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