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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