Here are some interesting canoe Canada links that I've posted elsewhere in BWCA.com that I thought might be appropriate for the Quetico forum. Does anyone else have any other links they would recommend?

http://paddlingcanada.com/main.php

http://www.paddlingcanada.com/kanawa/issues/summer03.php

Here's an interesting article on pictographs

Reference: KANAWA, Summer 2003 Issue

Enduring Rock Classics, Story and photos by Bob Henderson

http://www.paddlingcanada.com/kanawa/issues/summer03.php

"Questions of timing are more difficult: the rock art found throughout the Canadian Shield is difficult to date. Thor Conway, writing on the Agawa pictographs near Lake Superior, suggests most of the visible images are 500 years old or less. It is believed some images were drawn as late as the arrival of the horse and gun well into the 1700s. At Agawa, for example, a horse figure travels over four circles. In Quetico, a figure has a rifle.

There remains mystery as well surrounding why rock paintings exist at all. Anthropologists have gleaned some solid interpretations from early fur trade records and from today’s native informants. Most believe the rock paintings were spiritual."

Reference: KANAWA, Summer 2003 Issue, Enduring Rock Classics, Story and photos by Bob Henderson

Here's an interesting article on a trip on the Back River.

http://www.canoe.ca/che-mun/100back.html

"Our loaded 18-foot Chestnut lurched over it and plunged into the back curler below, rolling as she filled. When that ridiculous stern-line knot caught in the ledge, the canvas and wood canoe was levered under as if the Back was eager to claim its due. I came up spluttering to grab a floating pack. Tracy, astride the camera box, shouted encouragement, but I was quickly becoming hypothermic. My hands were almost numb, making it a struggle to control the pack. Legs were shutting down as well, so kicking to break out of the current was impossible. My brain flashed instructions to limbs which were summarily ignored. I looked down to see stones slipping by ten feet underneath. A passing thought was, "That's where I'll be lying before much longer." Reference: JOHN LENTZ, takes Che-Mun readers back to that northern summer of '62.

They also have some great links for Sig Olson's adventures:

See reference: http://www.canoe.ca/che-mun/voyageurs.html

Meet The Voyageurs

By MICHAEL PEAKE
Che-Mun Editor
The history of Canadian wilderness canoeing has a cast of thousands. To many, Bill Mason rightfully stands as the embodiment of everything about canoeing. But before Bill was on the scene there was a group of gentlemen paddlers who were dubbed by the press "The Voyageurs" after the early fur traders. They began their canoeing exploits without much fanfare but by the time they were done they had influenced, directly or indirectly, a whole generation of paddlers. One of their most famous members was Sigurd Olson, the American writer and conservationist.

http://www.canoe.ca/AllAboutCanoes/home.html