#Chapleau Ontario boating

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“90 JAPANESE NOW ON WAY TO ONTARIO,” Owen Sound Sun Times. February 5, 1942. Page 6. ---- First ‘Nationals” Leave B. C. For Chapleau Lumber Camp ---- AGES 19 TO 62 ---- VANCOUVER, Feb 5 — (CP) — Ninety Japanese nationals left here last night for jobs in an Ontario lumber camp, the first movement of Japanese under regulation ordering them from the defense area of British Columbia west of the Cascade Mountains.

The group was composed of loggers, teamsters, trim sawyers and cooks ranging in age from 19 to 62. They were enroute to Chapleau, a logging and sawmill centre 150 miles north of Sudbury, Ont., to work. Two have wives in Japan and the others are unmarried.

Tuesday night they celebrated their last evening in Vancouver with a Chinese dinner.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officials here said others are expected to follow this first group east as arrangements are made to absorb them in private industry in Eastern Canada. All Japanese national unable to secure private jobs will be moved to Government projects elsewhere, while Canadian citizens of Japanese origin are being urged to join civilian corps If they cannot obtain work with private employers.

Tommy Shoyama, executive secretary of the Japanese-Canadian Citizens’ League— an organisation representing the Nisei or Canadian-born Japanese— said he understood a Government commission might be set up to dispose of Japanese real estate unsold before Japanese owners were forced to move. Such a committee has already been set up to dispose of the Japanese fishing boats.

Shoyama said the attitude of the younger Canadian-born Japanese toward the Government proposal for a voluntary labor corps was one of co-operation but he believed most would rather be drafted Into a Canadian-Japanese wing of the Canadian Army.

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Superior East OPP Update : Search for Missing Boater

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Male Located Deceased WAWA, ON – On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at approximately 5:40 p.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East (Chapleau) Detachment were notified of an overdue boater on Lake Kindogen located in the Township of Kalen. Investigation revealed that a 58 year old male had left a cabin on Kindogen Lake in an aluminum boat at approximately 11:30 p.m. on…

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First Quarter Moon in Chapleau Crown Land by Petri Varsa Via Flickr: A first quarter moon rises over the dusk that is reflected in open water on Crown Land near Chapleau, Ontario, Canada. In the summer of 2000 I went on a fishing trip on some crown (government managed) land near Chapleau, in Northern Ontario. We followed a pair of tracks off of a logging road to get to the boat launch. From there, it was still good boat ride to get to the island where we camped. It was a true Canadian experience. Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2000. Canon FTb Shot on 135 format Kodak Royal Gold 400 ISO film. Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.

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After that glorious morning photographing in the mist along the shore of Rabbit Blanket Lake, we packed up and headed north. Having backpacked, canoe-tripped and car camped with a tent, it has been downright luxurious to be trailer camping. It’s quick to set-up and take down and, with electricity, it’s meant we could download and begin processing photographs each night or during mid-day when the light is harsh. The added bonus is having a coffee maker on a timer!

Between Lake Superior Provincial Park and Pukaskwa National Park are the towns of Wawa and White River – remote by southern Ontario standards – and a bit depressed. In fact, all along the Trans-Canada we saw signs of deterioration. Many gas stations, tourist motels and shops were not just closed, but long-abandoned. After returning home, we noticed a CBC feature on a photographer who had chronicled just this. Kerry and I put it down to the changing taste of tourists: “rustic” is now passé. More and more families want and have the money for more upscale places where they (and, more importantly, their kids) will be entertained at “name-brand” places rather than Mom-and-Pop places. This, combined with people retiring out of the business without anyone to buy them out or hand it down to is also part of the problem. Sad really.

At Wawa, we took the 101 east towards Chapleau to visit a place the geographer in me has always wanted to see: Potholes Provincial Nature Reserve. It’s just a small place with a 300m trail, but it leads to some beautiful, large, but slightly underwhelming potholes and carved rock features. I think the potholes at Rockwood Conservation Area are far more numerous and interesting, but these, carved out of much harder granite, and with interesting water flow features make it worth a stop if you’re ever in the area. Potholes are huge, cauldron-sized and larger, round holes bored into the bedrock when rocks were caught in a vortex of a large sub-glacial or post-glacial river. The swirling rock and grit literally drilled down creating the pothole. Here are three photos from Potholes. Continue reading below.

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So, now were in Puk – Pukaskwa National Park (pronounced Puk-a-saw). It is a gem of a park with the raw beauty of the Canadian Shield and its forests meeting the cold waters of the Lake Superior. It’s great for kayaking and hiking with the rugged, “physically demanding” Coastal Hiking Trail. Kerry and I experienced that 21 years ago when we chartered a boat down to the southern end and hiked the 60km back to Hattie Cove. Being younger and more foolish, in addition to our camping gear, we each had a 35mm system, a 4×5″ camera system and a tripod (not the lightweight carbon tripods of today, that I still can’t afford!). But now, we return with a trailer; age has its privileges, one of them being wisdom!

For me, the goal was to capture the essence of the Lake Superior Coast and its rocky details; the Hattie Cove campground area and trails offer many options to do so. There are three beautiful sand beaches (if only the water temperature was swimmable!), with tons of driftwood, forest edges and great rock features. Each morning and evening we “worked” a different area or trail. Again, the weather was “too nice” most of the time with clear blue skies and not enough wind to create decent waves – good for kayaking, I guess. We had one morning of fog which added another dimension, but really curtailed our shooting to the golden hours with a few snaps along scouting hikes during the day.

I made a number of significant photographs while at Pukaskwa, significant to me, anyway. In this post, I’ve added a couple of photos to give a “sense of place” and some of the “detail” photographs I so enjoy making. At this point, I’m making interchangeable use of the Sony RX-10iii and the Nikon D800E, although most of these, shot during “scouting” hikes, were made with the Sony. In the next post, I’ll follow up with some landscapes. Dawn and dusk were spectacular!

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This is the third in a series of blogs about my recent photo trip to Lake Superior. The first two blogs are I. Chutes PP and II. Lake Superior PP. Thanks for reading!

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Lake Superior III: Potholes and Puk After that glorious morning photographing in the mist along the shore of Rabbit Blanket Lake, we packed up and headed north.

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Lipsett Lake Sunset 2 by Petri Varsa Via Flickr: Sunset over Lipsett Lake on Crown Land near Chapleau, Ontario, Canada. In the summer of 2000 I went on a fishing trip on some crown (government managed) land near Chapleau, in Northern Ontario. We followed a pair of tracks off of a logging road to get to the boat launch. From there, it was still good boat ride to get to the island where we camped. It was a true Canadian experience. Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2000. Canon FTb Shot on 135 format Kodak Royal Gold 400 ISO film. Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.

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Lipsett Lake Sunset by Petri Varsa Via Flickr: Sun set over Lipsett Lake on Crown Land near Chapleau, Ontario, Canada. In the summer of 2000 I went on a fishing trip on some crown (government managed) land near Chapleau, in Northern Ontario. We followed a pair of tracks off of a logging road to get to the boat launch. From there, it was still good boat ride to get to the island where we camped. It was a true Canadian experience. Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2000. Canon FTb Shot on 135 format Kodak Royal Gold 400 ISO film. Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.

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Island Campsite in Chapleau Crown Land 2 by Petri Varsa Via Flickr: A view of our island campsite on Crown Land near Chapleau, Ontario, Canada. In the summer of 2000 I went on a fishing trip on some crown (government managed) land near Chapleau, in Northern Ontario. We followed a pair of tracks off of a logging road to get to the boat launch. From there, it was still good boat ride to get to the island where we camped. It was a true Canadian experience. Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2000. Canon FTb Shot on 135 format Kodak Royal Gold 400 ISO film. Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.

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Island Campsite in Chapleau Crown Land 3 by Petri Varsa Via Flickr: A view of our island campsite on Crown Land near Chapleau, Ontario, Canada. In the summer of 2000 I went on a fishing trip on some crown (government managed) land near Chapleau, in Northern Ontario. We followed a pair of tracks off of a logging road to get to the boat launch. From there, it was still good boat ride to get to the island where we camped. It was a true Canadian experience. Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2000. Canon FTb Shot on 135 format Kodak Royal Gold 400 ISO film. Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.

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Island Campsite in Chapleau Crown Land by Petri Varsa Via Flickr: A view of our island campsite docking point on Crown Land near Chapleau, Ontario, Canada. In the summer of 2000 I went on a fishing trip on some crown (government managed) land near Chapleau, in Northern Ontario. We followed a pair of tracks off of a logging road to get to the boat launch. From there, it was still good boat ride to get to the island where we camped. It was a true Canadian experience. Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2000. Canon FTb Shot on 135 format Kodak Royal Gold 400 ISO film. Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.

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Dusk in Chapleau Crown Land by Petri Varsa Via Flickr: Dusk is reflected in a narrow lane of open water on Crown Land near Chapleau, Ontario, Canada. The shadow of Earth is visible below the pink band of light above the horizon. This is sometimes known as The Belt of Venus. In the summer of 2000 I went on a fishing trip on some crown (government managed) land near Chapleau, in Northern Ontario. We followed a pair of tracks off of a logging road to get to the boat launch. From there, it was still good boat ride to get to the island where we camped. It was a true Canadian experience. Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2000. Canon FTb Shot on 135 format Kodak Royal Gold 400 ISO film. Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.