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Author : Ken Buck
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1894765605
Memorial Book for Elaine Williams Dec 2005.
Author : Bill Mason
Publisher : Key Porter
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Canoes and canoeing
ISBN : 0919493386
Author : James Raffan
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Canoeists
ISBN : 0006386555
When Bill Mason set off alone into the wilderness in his red canoe, many people went with him, if only in their imaginations. Now, James Raffan leads us into the heart of the vast landscape that was Bill Mason's own brilliant imagination, on a biographical journey that is entertaining, enriching and inspiring.Bill Mason was a filmmaker who gave us classics such as Cry of the Wild and Paddle to the Sea; he was author of the canoeist's bible, Path of the Paddle; he was the consummate outdoorsman. But few Canadians know that his gentleness and rugged self-sufficiency masked a life of great physical struggles. James Raffan reveals the private, sometimes anguished, man behind the legend.
Author : Bill Mason
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 1550461419
Known primarily for his work as a filmmaker, author and canoeist, Bill Mason spent a lifetime sketching and painting the rivers, lakes, waterfalls, marshlands, cliffs, and campsites they loved. They appear here in all weather, in all seasons. This retrospective collection is a fitting tribute to one of Canada's most beloved artists and naturalists.
Author : Bill Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canoe camping
ISBN : 1552635791
A sequel to the phenomenally successful Path of the Paddle, Bill Mason, one of Canada's most respected canoeists, conservationists and artists, offers his insight, experiences and expertise in this new edition of a classic. Included in this edition is an extensive, updated resource list on all aspects of canoeing in North America. (February 2004)
Author : James Raffan
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Canoeists
ISBN : 0002553953
A man for all seasons -- the life of the legendary canoeist, filmmaker and painter Bill Mason danced with his beloved Prospector canoe the night his son Paul was married. The next day he canoed whitewater on the Petite Nation River north of Ottawa with wedding guests. On the following Tuesday, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and died four months later, at age 59. Today, seven years later, the legend of Bill Mason continues to wind its way through the hearts and minds of canoeists, wilderness lovers, and all those touched by his remarkable spirit. In this moving and insightful biography, James Raffan reveals both the public and private lives of Bill Mason. His expertise as a canoeist was unparalleled; his instructional guides, Path of the Paddle and Song of the Paddle, became bestselling bibles for outdoor enthusiasts; his films, including Paddle to the Sea and Cry of the Wild, which, when it opened in New York City, made five million dollars in its first week, were showcases for his creativity; his landscape paintings glow with the spiritual love of the outdoors. Yet behind the success was a person who struggled with physical disability and serious illness all his life. James Raffan's intimate knowledge of Bill Mason as a friend and fellow paddler, a man who could not contain his passion for canoeing and the outdoors, makes Fire in the Bones a marvelous read. Raffan tells of wild canoe trips, of film shoots full of fireworks between a cantan-kerous Mason and his crew, and of the "oldest grey-haired teenager in the land" who regularly paddled with other ardent canoeists, including neighbor Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Entertaining and inspirational, Fire in the Bones is animportant new biography that places Bill Mason within a uniquely Canadian artistic and wilderness tradition.
Author : Roy MacGregor
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307361424
One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes. From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country is Roy MacGregor's celebration of the essential and enduring love affair Canadians have with our first and still favourite means of getting around. Famous paddlers have been so enchanted with the canoe that one swore God made Canada as the perfect country in which to paddle it. Drawing on MacGregor's own decades spent whenever possible with a paddle in his hand, this is a story of high adventure on white water and the sweetest peace in nature's quietest corners, from the author best able (and most eager) to tell it.
Author : Hap Wilson
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039119512
Everything is going as normal in the post-coronavirus world, until it suddenly isn't. Skye Rider leaves Yellowknife carrying data that will form the biggest expose of her journalistic career; she doesn't realize just how important that data is, or what it means to humanity. On the same plane is HAARP technician, Willis Roxton, who's part of the very conspiracy Skye's trying to uncover. When a solar anomaly sends their plane plummeting into the northern Canadian boreal forest, Skye, Willis and Suki, a young Cree boy, face certain death. OUT OF ABADDON follows the three, plus myriad other characters through the days and months following global-wide infrastructure collapse, and into the dystopia their world quickly becomes. Will they survive, and what will remain of society as we know it?
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674546
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Author : Hap Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1770859071
The Trans Canada Trail (www.thegreattrail.ca) was designed to run uninterrupted more than 20,000 kilometers from the Pacific to the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean. Hap Wilson -- a modern-day explorer and mapmaker -- was the man chosen to find a water route through the wilderness from Thunder Bay on Lake Superior to Manitoba's eastern border. First Nations peoples had traveled this mosaic of lakes and rivers 7,000 years ago. Coureurs des bois and voyageurs had used it to carry furs and trading goods. Wilson set off to carve a trail for modern users. He mapped it, measured it, marked it and in the process, experienced the best and worst of Canada's wilderness. He survived bear confrontations, being struck by lightning, grueling days slashing open old portage routes, a knee replacement, violent storms, gale force winds, isolation, biting insects, tick infestations and bitter cold. Organizers christened this section of the Trans Canada Trail the Path of the Paddle in honor of canoeing icon Bill Mason and Canada's First Nations. In this exciting account, Hap Wilson divides his 1,200 km journey into 12 routes with varying degrees of difficulty. Diary excerpts, hand-drawn maps, GPS coordinates, and photographs provide up to date information, expert guidance and anecdotal color. He describes the pictographs, old encampment stone circles that he finds along the way, more evidence of early travel, survival, myth, legend and mystery.
Author : Hap Wilson,Stephanie Aykroyd
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028526692
Adventurers Hap Wilson and Stephanie Aykroyd spent four years traversing 4,000 rugged kilometers of historic fur-trade routes and Ojibwa water routes, on foot and by canoe, in the creation of this astonishing photographic journal. Captured here are scenes of high adventure, world-class pictograph sites along the Bloodvein-Berens River corridors, all stripe of indigenous flora and fauna, life among Manitoba First Nations people in six locations, and representations from each of Manitoba's distinct bioregions. Presented from the perspective of wilderness preservation and ecotourism, Wilderness Manitoba: Land Where the Spirit Lives has the support of the Government of Manitoba, the First Nations People of Manitoba, scientific and anthropological societies, and regional tourism operators.
Author : Hap Wilson
Publisher : Erin Mills, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canoes and canoeing
ISBN : 1550464345
The best canoe, kayak and hiking routes in the wild Temagami region of Ontario. Temagami is one of the northern hemisphere's most desirable and pristine wilderness areas. Each year thousands of Americans and Europeans visit this 4,000 square mile wilderness area in Central Ontario in search of rugged solitude and truly authentic backwoods adventure. This comprehensive guidebook clearly details 25 of the best canoeing, kayaking and hiking routes and contains notes on the region's history, geography, archaeology, flora and fauna, as well as important outfitting, camping and safety tips. Trips include: Temagami to Lake Wanapitei Loop Florence Lake Loop Marten River to Wicksteed Loop Lake Temagami Circle Loop Red Cedar to Jumping Cariboo Lake Loop Diamond, Wakimika and Obabika Lake Loop Anima Nipissing and Jackpine Lake Loop Rabbit and Twin Lakes Loop Turner Lake Loop Matabitchuan River Route Nasmith and Obabika River Route Lady Evelyn, Makobe River, Montreal River Loop Anima Nipissing -- Montreal River Loop Maple Mountain Loop Sugar Lake, Muskego River Links Gowganda to Elk Lake Route Sydney Creek Route Smoothwater Lake to Gowganda Route Smoothwater Lake, Lady Evelyn River Loop Makobe Lake and Trethewey Lake Links Smoothwater Lake to Sturgeon River Route
Author : James West Davidson,John Rugge
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982-12-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : WISC:89031101827
A combination of detailed instruction and text (based on actual adventures) of all the techniques of canoe camping and wilderness cruising. You learn how to "find a river," navigate, cope with accidents and much more. With 65 drawings and 11 maps.
Author : Lizzy Mason
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781616959883
The Art of Losing is a compelling debut that explores issues of addiction, sisterhood, and loss. On one terrible night, 17-year-old Harley Langston’s life changes forever. At a party she discovers her boyfriend, Mike, hooking up with her younger sister, Audrey. Furious, she abandons them both. When Mike drunkenly attempts to drive Audrey home, he crashes and Audrey ends up in a coma. Now Harley is left with guilt, grief, pain and the undeniable truth that her now ex-boyfriend has a drinking problem. So it’s a surprise that she finds herself reconnecting with Raf, a neighbor and childhood friend who’s recently out of rehab and still wrestling with his own demons. At first Harley doesn’t want to get too close to him. But as her sister slowly recovers, Harley begins to see a path forward with Raf’s help that she never would have believed possible—one guided by honesty, forgiveness, and redemption.
Author : Bill Mason,Paul Mason
Publisher : Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books ; [Toronto] : Key Porter Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Canoes and canoeing
ISBN : PSU:000043633111
Excerpted from the Introduction The land Canoeing in North America has expanded in recent years to include practically every part of the map. In the United States people of all ages are taking to the rivers in ever-increasing numbers. Rivers that once were considered too dangerous are now canoed regularly as whitewater skills grow. In each state -- southern, prairie, mountain, or coastal -- canoeing has become a means of journeying into wilderness areas and providing the adventure that people are seeking. In Canada, you can put a canoe into the water at any major city and paddle to the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Arctic, or the Gulf of Mexico. The land is laced with a complex network of waterways; some are large, some are small, but most are navigable by canoe. When you look at the face of Canada and study the geography carefully, you come away with the feeling that God could have designed the canoe first and then set about to conceive a land in which it could flourish. The waterways are navigable because the canoe can be portaged easily around the difficult stretches of water. Even the portages over the height of land between watersheds are no longer than those around most rapids and falls. In one place the waters flowing to the Atlantic and the waters flowing to the Arctic are separated by no more than a beaver dam. It was the canoe that made it possible for the Indian to move around before and for several hundred years after the arrival of the white man. As the white man took over their land, the native people would regret the generosity with which they shared their amazing mode of travel. The more I study the birchbark canoe and what it can do, the greater is my admiration for these people who were here long before we arrived. The birchbark canoe is made entirely from materials found in the forest: birch bark, cedar, spruce roots, ash, and pine gum. When it is damaged, it can be repaired easily from the materials at hand. When it has served its purpose, it returns to the land, part of a never-ending cycle. Once you understand this cycle of growth, manufacture, use, and return to the land you begin to understand why our modern culture is in such trouble. The noncycle of growth, manufacture, use, and garbage is a dead end. This is not to discredit the marvelous things that modern technology brings us; but we need to be more aware of where we are headed and from whence we came. An appreciation of the canoe and acquisition of the necessary skills to utilize it as a way to journey back to what''s left of the natural world is a great way to begin this voyage of discovery. The shrinking land There was a time when traveling a distance of 5,000 miles (8000 km) in North America would have been regarded as a very long way. Before the railroad. covering that kind of distance meant extreme hardships any way you chose to make the trip. Improving methods of transportation has been a high priority of human beings as far back into recorded history as you care to go. With each improvement the world has grown smaller. Today you can cover 5,000 miles in about eight hours. All you have to do is go to the airport (which is usually the hardest part), buy a ticket, and select a seat in the smoking or nonsmoking section of the aircraft. About the greatest discomfort you might expect to endure is to end up in the smoking section if you are a nonsmoker or vice versa. When the choice of travel was limited to horse, canoe. wagon, ox cart, or on foot, this 5,000 miles could have taken a couple of years. Today, the earth is indeed getting very small. However, trying to convince the world of business and commerce that there are places on this earth where distances should remain undiminished is not an easy task. Such an idea is very difficult to defend in monetary terms. Perhaps the best way to make a case for primitive methods of travel is in the form of a parable. Let''s say you are hiking and come upon a beautiful, pristine lake nestled among high hills. You estimate to be a bout ten miles (16 Km) long and with great anticipation look forward to several days of a difficult but exciting journey of discovery around the shoreline. Before long a canoeist comes along and invites you to come aboard to make the journey easier. You gladly accept because the going is tough. Now you can get a better perspective on the shoreline and yet the pace is slow enough so that you do not miss anything. You are aware, however, that in accepting the ride the lake has diminished somewhat in size. You estimate that while hiking would have taken you at least four days, you will now be able to do it in an easy two. After a couple of miles, a motorboat comes along side and you a re offered a ride around the shoreline. The canoeist accepts, and while you are less than enthusiastic, you don''t have much choice. As the 100 horsepower (74 600 W) engine roars into action, you slowly become aware that the lake is beginning to feel very small. As the trees and cliffs race by, you realize that what you had hoped to discover in four days is now going to be revealed in a couple of hours. The miles are eaten away as you speed through each bay and inlet and race by most of the islands. When the journey is over and you are dropped off at the point where you first came upon the lake, the mystery is gone. You''ve seen it all; yet you''ve seen nothing. The motorboat driver meant well, but he has only succeeded in diminishing the size of the lake. You set up camp and watch the lengthening shadows. As you look far down the lake, you wish that you did not already Know what lay around that point. You regret that your first view into the hidden bay will not be the reward of a difficult hike tomorrow. For many people, the case I have just attempted to make would seem pointless. To them scenery is scenery, any way you get to see it. To others, it makes a lot of sense. It''s all a matter of perspective. What encourages me to write about the concept of keeping things undiminished by means of primitive travel is the fact that people do change their minds. I enjoy writing for the already converted, but the possibility that other people might awaken to this subtle concept of keeping what''s left of the natural world big is why I write this book. There is no shortage of road builders and people who make their living by shrinking distance. They will succeed too well if there are not enough of us around to present a case for the preservation of the natural environment. Some of it is a I ready overcrowded to the detriment of the plants, animals and native people who lived there long before we arrived. They all have a right to exist because all, like us, were created. In our modern, man-made world we tend to forget this. A journey by canoe a long ancient waterways is a good way to rediscover our lost relationship with the natural world and the Creator who put it all together so long ago. The path of the paddle can be a means of getting things back into their original perspective.
