At an Ottawa dinner party in 1951 a group of three Canadians and three foreign diplomats planned a canoe trip on the Gatineau River. It was the first of many trips by a group dubbed by the Ottawa press the Voyageurs, whose most enthusiastic member was Eric Morse. Morse loved canoeing. This memoir is a celebration of his ruling passion and the friends who shared it with him.
As a boy Morse had found his hunger for wilderness satisfied on Canada`s rivers and lakes. As an adult he chose Ottawa to settle in because of its nearness to good canoeing country. There he encountered the congenial souls who would share many of his holidays over the next fifty years.
In his lifetime, Eric Morse saw more of Canada`s wilderness than most people have dreamt of. He loved the Arctic best. Recalling his expeditions in later life to the far north, he writes vividly of the Thelon, the Kazan, and the paradisiacal Taltson. In tribute to a man who knew well and loved the waters of the north, a river in the Barrens has been officially named after him.
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- CaOOCEL
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- 917.1/046
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0802026109 9781442664777
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- F1016
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- M67 1987eb
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Acknowledgements 16
- Introduction 18
- PART ONE: HISTORIC ROUTES 20
- Beginnings 22
- Quetico 32
- Historic Rivers with the Voyageurs 36
- The Churchill 36
- On and off the Hayes 44
- Between the Churchill and the Mackenzie 50
- Coursing Big Lakes 61
- Between Whiles 82
- PART TWO: THE BARREN LANDS AND THE SUB-ARCTIC 96
- Crossing the Barren Lands 98
- Through the sub-Arctic Forest 124
- Blocked on the Kazan 146
- Encounters on the Taltson 164
- Across the Mountains 180
- Envoi 200
- Index 202
- A 202
- B 202
- C 203
- D 203
- E 203
- F 203
- G 204
- H 204
- I 204
- J 205
- K 205
- L 205
- M 205
- N 206
- O 206
- P 206
- Q 206
- R 206
- S 207
- T 207
- U 208
- V 208
- W 208
- Y 208
- Maps 210