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Index of Stories from the WCA Journal
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Title |
Year |
Quarter |
Page |
100 Campfires |
2011 |
2 |
16 |
50th Anniversary: The Fermilab Canoe Race |
2017 |
4 |
13 |
A Bear Piece |
2000 |
3 |
20 |
A Cautionary Tail or What Not to Do on Mother's Day |
2017 |
2 |
24 |
A Not-So-Brief Encounter |
1990 |
3 |
17 |
A Portager to More Understanding |
2009 |
2 |
22 |
A Portager's Passion |
1987 |
1 |
10 |
Absence of Witch |
2017 |
4 |
23 |
Aligators in the French River |
2011 |
1 |
26 |
An Idea That Water Has |
1996 |
3 |
19 |
Animalia |
2018 |
1 |
14 |
Another Pinned Canoe on the White River |
2003 |
1 |
18 |
Arctic Terns |
2020 |
1 |
13 |
Artillery Lake Walk |
2012 |
2 |
1 |
Back on the Tim River |
1975 |
2 |
20 |
Backcountry |
1992 |
4 |
21 |
Backing Out |
1991 |
2 |
32 |
Barren Lands |
2001 |
4 |
15 |
Between the Rocks and the River |
2013 |
2 |
14 |
Beware of Bear Spray |
2012 |
1 |
18 |
Black Flies |
1995 |
1 |
11 |
Break-Up 1994 |
2002 |
1 |
11 |
Canoe Trip Log |
1994 |
4 |
10 |
Canoeing Along the Edge of Ice |
1997 |
4 |
7 |
Canoeing North of 40 |
1998 |
2 |
16 |
Canoeing With Dad |
1996 |
4 |
12 |
Canoeing with Kate |
2004 |
4 |
17 |
Canoeing With Our Kid |
1990 |
2 |
22 |
Canoetrip 1997 |
1999 |
1 |
15 |
Cezanne's Apples |
1988 |
2 |
5 |
Change Come to Kitsissuarsuit |
2009 |
2 |
16 |
Chute au Granite |
2007 |
2 |
17 |
Corde Du Roi |
2002 |
2 |
26 |
Crossing the Rubicon |
2014 |
2 |
31 |
Dancers, Not Electrons |
2003 |
4 |
10 |
Dating in the Time of Forest Fires |
2015 |
2 |
14 |
December Morning |
2005 |
4 |
17 |
Dene Elders Project |
2009 |
1 |
27 |
Dubawnt Lake Cairn |
2013 |
2 |
19 |
Easter Vignette |
1981 |
2 |
17 |
Embracing the Darkness: Teaching on Victoria Island |
2013 |
1 |
1 |
Emptying the Bags |
1996 |
1 |
21 |
Emptying the Bags |
2013 |
3 |
27 |
Excerpts from Letters th the Grandaughter: Story of Dillon Wallace of the Labrador Wild |
2012 |
4 |
1 |
Fire |
2003 |
2 |
15 |
Fort Selkirk on the Yukon |
2015 |
2 |
20 |
French River, Summer 2006. A Precautionary Tale |
1997 |
1 |
11 |
Gently |
1990 |
1 |
23 |
Gleno's Going Again |
1997 |
3 |
22 |
Going for Wood |
2005 |
3 |
13 |
Great Island |
1999 |
4 |
19 |
Green Christmas Miracle |
1997 |
4 |
23 |
Guide |
1997 |
3 |
9 |
Harmony |
1983 |
3 |
8 |
Have Kids, Will Paddle |
2001 |
3 |
17 |
High Tech Yuppie Paddling |
1988 |
2 |
11 |
High Water |
2011 |
1 |
27 |
Highlight of the Summer |
1981 |
3 |
16 |
Holy Water |
1994 |
4 |
23 |
Ice |
2000 |
4 |
9 |
Ice, At Last! |
2003 |
3 |
12 |
In the Bow |
1999 |
2 |
17 |
Innu Support and the Myth of Wilderness |
2002 |
1 |
14 |
Into the Barrens |
2006 |
3 |
15 |
Is it Safe? |
1997 |
4 |
24 |
Journal Entries |
1998 |
4 |
7 |
July 1999, Our Last Canoe Trip |
2002 |
4 |
18 |
Knowing When It's Time to Quit |
2018 |
3 |
22 |
Learning to Paddle with Hugh and Jim |
2002 |
4 |
10 |
Lessons of the Land |
2011 |
1 |
18 |
Letter to Billy |
1995 |
1 |
19 |
l'Odeur |
1988 |
1 |
26 |
Lost Paddle |
2014 |
3 |
27 |
L'Ours Polaire |
1997 |
1 |
19 |
Mana |
2017 |
1 |
15 |
Man's Best Friend |
1984 |
1 |
17 |
Maps |
2005 |
2 |
27 |
Melozitna Sandbars |
2004 |
2 |
24 |
Memories of a Great Summer |
1990 |
1 |
22 |
Miranda's First Trip |
1998 |
1 |
18 |
Mushrooms in the North |
2012 |
2 |
13 |
My Adventures with George |
2016 |
1 |
22 |
My First Arctic Canoe Trip |
2000 |
4 |
10 |
My Imaginary Home |
1997 |
1 |
11 |
My Trip Down Ongopongo |
1981 |
2 |
17 |
My Trip Down the Chapleau |
2015 |
2 |
9 |
My Wild Goose Chase |
2005 |
2 |
20 |
Names on the Wall |
2013 |
1 |
27 |
Niagara Falls Dried Up! |
2002 |
4 |
15 |
Northern Style |
2017 |
3 |
13 |
Off Of the Shield |
1994 |
1 |
7 |
Old Canoes |
2012 |
2 |
22 |
On a Snow-Clad Mountain: A Tale of Perseverence |
2013 |
4 |
20 |
On Norther Waters |
2014 |
2 |
30 |
On Top of a Boulder: Notes from Tyrrell's Cairn |
2013 |
2 |
16 |
One Day on the Great Whale River |
1996 |
2 |
26 |
One Scene from a Canoe Trip |
2000 |
2 |
23 |
Oxtongue Story |
2011 |
2 |
12 |
Paddling the Bathurst Sewer |
1994 |
4 |
8 |
Personal Glimpses: 40 Years Later |
1996 |
4 |
17 |
Picturing Paddling Kids |
2011 |
1 |
16 |
Pierre St. Germain's Miracle Canoe |
2013 |
1 |
9 |
Pitching the Tent |
2014 |
4 |
13 |
Playing on the Water, Snow and Ice: The Play of Bill Mason |
2018 |
3 |
20 |
Pogamasing, the Story of a Northern Lake |
2013 |
2 |
25 |
Pointing at the Forest |
1996 |
3 |
10 |
Possible Bag |
2012 |
2 |
23 |
Post-Trip Depression |
1993 |
1 |
26 |
Prometheus |
2003 |
3 |
13 |
Rain |
1991 |
1 |
12 |
Remember by Greg Wrent |
2008 |
4 |
19 |
Restringing the Reels |
1996 |
4 |
13 |
Retiring Gleno's Windbreaker |
1989 |
2 |
16 |
Revisting the Travels and Struggle of Headwaters Koehler |
2008 |
2 |
7 |
River Takes You Places |
2015 |
4 |
9 |
Saving Jack |
2013 |
3 |
26 |
Seal River Eskers |
2001 |
1 |
15 |
Second Waterfall on the North Knife River |
2004 |
1 |
17 |
Self Publishing for Paddlers |
2014 |
2 |
28 |
Sine Qua Non Canoe |
1990 |
3 |
8 |
Something to Prove |
2011 |
4 |
30 |
Spam |
2000 |
4 |
21 |
Spring Vignette |
2001 |
1 |
10 |
Spring's Coming |
1999 |
1 |
21 |
Status Quo |
2018 |
3 |
19 |
Storm |
1999 |
4 |
17 |
The 9 to 5 Slow Death |
1998 |
3 |
25 |
The Addiction |
1992 |
1 |
8 |
The All-Day Rain |
1999 |
2 |
26 |
The All-Night Light |
2004 |
3 |
15 |
The Arithic Twinge |
2017 |
4 |
23 |
The Attawapiskat River |
2005 |
1 |
17 |
The Biggest moose in the World |
2012 |
4 |
27 |
The Bounce Test |
1990 |
3 |
11 |
The Bow |
1995 |
2 |
7 |
The Cabin |
2005 |
4 |
31 |
The Camera |
1990 |
4 |
5 |
The Campfire Ring |
2017 |
1 |
15 |
The Campsites of the North |
2018 |
3 |
19 |
The Canoeing Fears |
1993 |
4 |
11 |
The Case of the Theft at Portage Lake |
1991 |
3 |
18 |
The Circle Game |
1989 |
4 |
19 |
The Close Shave |
2017 |
2 |
26 |
The Devil's Bathtub |
2003 |
1 |
23 |
The Duet |
2015 |
3 |
11 |
The End |
2014 |
1 |
31 |
The Esker |
1997 |
1 |
17 |
The Fateful 1955 Dubawnt River Trip |
2013 |
2 |
1 |
The Fever |
1986 |
2 |
9 |
The Find |
1999 |
3 |
13 |
The Fire |
2000 |
1 |
18 |
The Fishing Regulations |
2002 |
1 |
10 |
The Hot Springs of the Kanuti |
1998 |
2 |
21 |
The Island |
2007 |
1 |
22 |
The John Smith Story |
2002 |
2 |
23 |
The Last Canoe Trip |
2000 |
3 |
11 |
The Last Days |
1994 |
4 |
23 |
The Last Flight |
2003 |
4 |
9 |
The Last Wildernss (excerpt) |
2006 |
1 |
28 |
The Lodge |
2017 |
2 |
26 |
The Long Portage |
1991 |
4 |
16 |
The Long Portage |
1995 |
4 |
15 |
The Mark on the Map |
2003 |
4 |
14 |
The Memory |
2000 |
2 |
17 |
The Message |
2001 |
3 |
23 |
The Mysterious Disappearance of Father Buliard |
2016 |
1 |
18 |
The Newcomers |
1989 |
2 |
17 |
The Other Wilderness I Remember |
1978 |
1 |
7 |
The Outward Sign |
1991 |
3 |
10 |
The Piece of Granite |
1990 |
2 |
26 |
The Pike |
2006 |
2 |
24 |
The Portage Trail |
2002 |
3 |
16 |
The Price of Admission |
1994 |
3 |
11 |
The Price of Progress |
1998 |
4 |
17 |
The Process |
1993 |
4 |
17 |
The Return |
2016 |
2 |
9 |
The Road Map |
1992 |
2 |
20 |
The Road to Damascus |
2012 |
1 |
17 |
The Road Up |
1998 |
1 |
22 |
The Secret Place |
1993 |
2 |
27 |
The Skills |
2015 |
2 |
11 |
The Smile |
1997 |
2 |
26 |
The Start |
1994 |
2 |
26 |
The Storm |
2013 |
4 |
29 |
The Tale of the Dancing Canoes |
1986 |
2 |
18 |
The Tree |
2006 |
1 |
14 |
The Warm-Up |
2002 |
4 |
17 |
The WCA Sewer Surfers |
1995 |
1 |
20 |
The White Horses |
2001 |
2 |
23 |
The Wilderness of Literature |
1987 |
2 |
7 |
The Wolf |
2007 |
4 |
24 |
The Zen of the French |
2005 |
2 |
11 |
There's an Unlucky Moose in this True Story (and Two Lucky People) |
1997 |
4 |
25 |
This is a Portage? |
2003 |
2 |
14 |
Thoughts Around a Smoky Fire |
1996 |
2 |
7 |
Thoughts on the 1955 Dubawnt River Trip and Later 1969 trip |
2013 |
2 |
13 |
Time |
2004 |
4 |
20 |
Travelling Home |
1996 |
3 |
9 |
Treasure Chests |
1998 |
2 |
11 |
Tripping |
1997 |
3 |
20 |
Two Rivers, Two Kids |
2003 |
4 |
12 |
Tying Down the Boats |
1995 |
3 |
17 |
Vagas Chips: Tale from a Silver Canoe |
2020 |
1 |
20 |
Virgin to the Tundra |
2004 |
3 |
9 |
We're Back |
2005 |
3 |
20 |
When Wilderness Trippers Reminisce |
1975 |
3 |
15 |
Where Have All The Songsters Gone, All Gone Every One |
1990 |
4 |
22 |
Who's Walking There? |
2014 |
3 |
12 |
Why Am I Doing This? |
1995 |
3 |
11 |
Why Do You Go? |
2012 |
4 |
27 |
Wilder-Blindness (part 1) |
1990 |
2 |
8 |
Wilder-Blindness (part 2) |
1990 |
3 |
12 |
Wilder-Blindness (part 3) |
1990 |
4 |
16 |
Wilderness Discovered |
1994 |
1 |
1 |
Wilderness Ironies and Contradictions |
1989 |
2 |
8 |
Winter Warmth |
2003 |
4 |
11 |
You Don't Belong Here |
2000 |
3 |
15 |
Elora Gorge |
2020 |
3 |
20 |
Thoughts on the Wilderness Superhero "Look-At-Me" Adventure Narative |
2020 |
3 |
21 |
What's in a Plate |
2021 |
1 |
18 |
Serendipity Happens |
2022 |
1 |
22 |
Early Days in the Nahanni Area |
2022 |
1 |
23 |