A Blog Series by Elorah
Maybe I should have renamed this blog…it’s only been winter every other day of the week throughout this odd April! Really, that sums up most of the winter here at Lochalsh, which I wanted to share some reflections on as spring arrives.
A Blog Series By Elorah
While my main pals over here in Lochalsh are foxes and fishers, I do get the human occasional visitor. My family travelled north by train to see me the other week for March Break!
A Blog Series by Elorah
Here I am, four months into…winter? I’m not sure if it actually is winter anymore. The weather has been absolutely abnormal this year. Just a few weeks ago, I was seeing -40 overnight. In the past few days, I’ve seen rain, sleet, snow, and everything in between…along with some moose!
Last week, we looked at the early days of tourism in the Algoma region. With all of the trips and sights being advertised, did tourists’ experiences meet the advertisements from the Canadian Pacific Railway? What was it actually like to take one of these train and canoe expeditions?
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For many of us, thinking of the “old days” of northern Ontario tourism evokes images of roaring two-stroke outboards, crackling radiotelephones, and campfires with grandparents and friends who have long passed on. At this point in time, one can rarely hear a camp story from the earlier part of the twentieth century. Many of the lodges and cabins in this region were only built in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the trails and waterways around Lochalsh were travelled by tourists long before then. So what was tourism like over one hundred years ago?
Read More “Lochalsh Local History: Tourism 100 Years Ago (Part 1)”
