Who's read it? I find myself picking this book up when life gets stressful or If my mind just needs a break. I highly recommend if you haven't read this book you pick a copy up.

Read it for the first time in 1974. Have read it 30 times since. Visited Nakina and the family homestead twice as well as the winter cabin site on Wababimiga Lake twice. Memories that I will always cherish.

Chris

I have an old hard cover version.

My grandpa had a hard covered version. I'm not sure where it ended up. Hodagtrapper how did you end up on that trip? I have always wondered about taking a trip there it is at the top of my list to spend some time up in that country.

Can't remember if I have or haven't. Not sure what that says.

After reading the book and learning a lot about trapping from its' pages, I always promised myself I would make the trip north from Wisconsin to see the area of Nakina. Ontario and perhaps what was left of the homestead and winter cabin(s) described and pictured in the book. Hard to describe in a paragraph what I found but the trips were amazing and perhaps I will adventure back there again someday. Felt like kindred spirits were with me on the first trip!

Chris

So did people there point you in the right direction to find the cabins? I believe I would have the same feeling you had if I got the chance to make that trek.

No. Took a lot of detective work and map reading, including the one that was in my book, to figure things out. There is now a logging road that cuts right through the "High Hill Portage". Just south of that there is a logging road that takes you right to the western edge of Wababimiga Lake. From there, I canoed 10 miles to the eastern end of the lake where I found the winter cabin site. The cabin was burned down in the early 1970's when a moose hunting party was lost. Cabin was in total disrepair at that time so they started it on fire as a float plane was over the lake looking for and ultimately finding them. The winter cabin built by Big Lindsay is still standing and used on the western end of the lake. Emil Cote ended up owning that cabin and Northland Outfitters on Cordingley Lake up until his death. His gravesite is at the foot of the graves of Big Lindsay and his wife. Emil married her after Big Lindsay's death. Cemetary is on the road between Nakina and Cordingley Lake.

Chris

Cool, seen this book a few times during my book searches and after reading your posts had to order it.

Just read the book this past spring, very good story, couldn't hardly put it down.

Nice history Chris, I see you really enjoyed the book.

My dad would read that book every year at deer camp to us when we were in bed, that copy sat on top of a set of metal shelves in the cabin my entire life, the year after his death we had one of the snowiest winters I can remember and the unfinished side of the cabin collapsed from the weight of snow on the roof, when we went up that spring someone had taken the oil stoves and any other items that weren’t locked down including that book

While I replaced I easily enough I would love to find his copy

Read the book in the sixties and many times since. Plan on reading it many more times. Visited Nakina and the family homestead about 10 years ago. Great trip that I planned on doing since I first read the book. I have to hardcover copies.

I'm going to just have to commit and go. Is it country that a mule can get around in or would it be better in a canoe? I have a nice mule and it would be cool to take him on that journey.

Careful you might get too close to Boco's registered line .

Report back when you finish it. It won't take you long to finish it I promise. When you start you can't put it down like mentioned above by ky.

KY.

Maybe he'll let me hitch the mule up and take a pow wow.

I trapped 100 miles east of Nakina for a few years doing nuisance beaver work around Calstock(just west of Hearst).The old rail line from Calstock to Nakina was abandoned by CNR quite a few years back.
The terrain west of Hearst starts to get a bit higher and dryer than here. .