Paddling Partners
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Carol and Bruce Hodgins began leading canoe trips in 1957 for Camp Wanapitei on Lake Temagami in Northern Ontario, initially to the great rivers of that region and on into Quebec. Their first venture north of 60 found them on the South Nahanni, soon to be followed by the Coppermine River, and by the 1990s their annual tripping took them to the Soper River on Baffin Island. included with their richly descriptive accounts of wilderness travel with groups of people, are kayak adventures in Baja California, Mexico, and the Queen Charlottes, paddling in and near the Everglades and explorations on Heritage rivers in the Maritimes and along the coast of Newfoundland.
Few have personally experienced the breadth of wilderness travel in Canada as have the Hodgins husband-and-wife team. Their fifty years as "paddling partners," a legendary achievement, is a story of shared joys, challenges, triumphs and mishaps, delightfully told and augmented by excerpts from daily logs, historical insights and the tidbits of experience gleaned over the years.
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Bruce Hodgins has lived in Peterborough since 1965, where Bruce was a Professor of History and Canadian Studies at Trent University until his retirement in 1996. Bruce served as Wanapitei's summer Camp Director until 1993.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- List of Maps
- Part One: The Tripping Together Begins, 1957-1969
- 1. Temagami Country and Beyond, 1957-1960
- 2. Down the Grassy-Mattagami-Moose Rivers to James Bay, 1961
- 3. East into Northern Quebec
- West into Northern Ontario, 1962-1968
- 4. Westward to Beauty Lake, Shoofly Lake, Scotia Lake and the Onaping River, 1969
- Part Two: The Adventuresome Seventies, 1970-1979
- 5. Round the World and Across Four Continents, 1970
- 6. The Lower Albany to James Bay, 1971
- 7. The Waswanipi-Broadback-Rupert Rivers, Quebec, 1972
- 8. The Lady Evelyn River and Three Eastern Rivers, 1973
- 9. Down the Upper Sturgeon River, 1974
- 10. The Kipawa and the Dumoine, Quebec, 1975
- 11. On the South Nahanni River, Northwest Territories, 1976
- 12. The Upper Churchill River, Saskatchewan, 1977
- 13. The Spanish River, 1978
- 14. On the Coppermine, Northwest Territories, 1979
- Part Three: From Northern Ontario to the Far North, 1980-1989
- 15. The Lady Evelyn and Makobe Rivers, 1980
- 16. On to the Thelon, 1981
- 17. Down the Temagami and the French Rivers and to Killarney, 1982
- 18. The Bell-Porcupine and Takhini Rivers, Yukon, 1983
- 19. On the Upper Wanapitei River, the Spanish River and on to Killarney, 1984
- 20. The Bazin in Quebec and the Magnetawan in Ontario, 1985
- 21. Rivière Noire, Québec, 1986
- 22. Two Trips on the Lady Evelyn River and on to the Ivanhoe, 1987
- 23. Only Day Paddling, 1988
- 24. The Lady Evelyn River Reunion, 1989
- Part Four: Near and Far: North and South, 1990-1999
- 25. Down the Attawapiskat River to James Bay, 1990
- 26. The South Macmillan-Pelly Rivers Trip in the Yukon, 1991
- 27. On the Clearwater River in Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta, 1992
- 28. To the Soper or Kuujuaq River on Baffin Island, 1993
- 29. On the Fawn-Severn River to Hudson Bay, 1994
- 30. The Nearby Lady Evelyn River, Temagami, and the Mountain River, Northwest Territories, 1995
- 31. The Upper Sturgeon River and Back to the Soper River, Baffin Island, 1996
- 32. From Paddling in the Everglades and in Baja: Back to the Thelon, 1997
- 33. Sea Kayaking in Baja Again and on to Three Maritime Rivers, 1998
- 34. More Sea Kayaking and Back to the Lady Evelyn, 1999
- Part Five: The New Millennium and New Adventures, 2000-2007
- 35. The Haida Gwaii, BC, and the Lady Evelyn, 2000
- 36. Obabika Short Circle Route: Back to the Kuujuaq (Soper) River, Baffin Island, Nunavut, 2001
- 37. Day-Trip Paddling, 2002
- 38. The Bloodvein River in Northern Manitoba, 2003
- 39. Again Only Day-Trip Paddling, 2004-2005
- 40. North Georgian Bay and Philip Edward Island, 2006
- 41. Sea Kayaking on the Bay of Exploits, Newfoundland
- Back on Georgian Bay, 2007
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Books and Articles on Canoeing and Canoe Tripping by Carol and Bruce Hodgins: Including Those Written with Others
- Reference Material
- Index to Lakes, Rivers and Oceans
- Index to People and Places
- About the Authors
