Let's all celebrate this wonderful country of ours!



Aaron Weber
aka "Trainman"
Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one. -Tom Thomson

From one of the contributors to a piece in today's New York Times, where a collection of Canadian ex pats share their thoughts on what they miss about Canada:

"I miss the snow. Yes, I know the United States gets snow, but to my Canadian eye, American snow is like American health care: sporadic, unreliable and distributed unevenly among the population. In my hometown, Exeter, in the heart of Ontario's snow belt, punishing squalls were a fact of life from November through mid-April. One time, 39 inches fell on the town in three days and school wasnt even canceled. And it wasnt just the quantity of snow it's the speed with which it arrived.

"When I was a child, it wasn't unusual for my 15-minute walk home from school to begin under clear skies and end in a blizzard. I remember once, when I was 8 years old, stumbling into my house, my hair covered in powder and my eyelashes frozen together, and screaming, Why do we live here?! My mother took my face in her warm hands and said, Because its where people love you.

"At the time, that struck me as the lamest statement ever uttered by a human being. But today, as I sit under the California sun, it only strikes me as halfway lame, and maybe even less than that."

TIM LONG, a writer for The Simpsons

Happy Canada Day!



Mark S.

http://www.ABRweb.ca .. Algonquin Backcountry Recreationalists - Caring for Algonquin's Backcountry

100 years of Canadian aviation!

Happy Canada Day

Some neat facts about the Canadian Flag:

-It has 11 points
-the white area is an exact square
-the red bars on the side, when put together, have the same area as the white square
-It was inaugurated in 1965 (well before my time )

Aaron Weber
aka "Trainman"
Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one. -Tom Thomson

Happy Canada Day!!

free beer for the next 15 minutes.

Hi all

We are truly blessed to live in Canada

This morning I spent an hour paddling out from my Epoch Old Town Pack Canoe
solo trip . It was a better than I could have imagined and my buddy
( 4 legged buddy named DD / Houdini )




gave it a thumbs up as well.. (except for the wicked micro burst yesterday on the
trip in! )



For now just a glipse of Oh Canada decked out canoe at finish



and then at start




P.S. Hope to get a trip log written in the coming week


P.P.S. Saw MadMusher's offer, but it was a tad too late but if I had had my
Blackberry... I might of timely known and taken advantage of droping in within
the specified time.

Thankfully I turned my Blackberry in to the queen last Weds
and I must say I don't miss it!!! ( even if it means missing a free beer)

Raton Laveur
aka


*Rac n*