By Bruce Hyer

(written in 1992, to describe the creation of the original small park core in 1983)

One archetype of this century is the white American urban male, with career and house, who throws it all over to move to the wilderness of Alaska or Canada. I don’t know how well I fit the mold, but it may be of interest to some to hear one perspective of how the Boreal forests of northern Ontario match Yankee urban fantasies of the Canadian wilds.

Jan 20, 2021 2:30 PM By: Bill Steer

Back Roads Bill recently interviewed Bruce Hyer. He plans a spring canoe trip with the renowned conservationist; maybe to Cliff Lake, a favourite Wabakimi destination of Back Roads Bill

Bill Steer, Jun 30, 2021

Back Roads Bill Steer is the founder and GM of the Canadian Ecology Centre. He teaches part-time at Nipissing University (Schulich School of Education) and Canadore College. His features can be found across Village Media’s Northern Ontario sites

By T. Edward Nickens

The train was streaking through a sea of green. From the vaulted glass aerie of the dome car, I glimpsed granite outcrops and fog-shrouded ponds whisking by, but mostly, the view was a blur of thick boreal forest extending to the horizon. The Canadian runs from Vancouver to Toronto and, for as little as $11, makes custom stops en route for outdoor enthusiasts-at any little lake, at any remote river. Just tell the engineer when to put on the brakes. In my case, that was going to be at a former Hudson Bay Company outpost at the edge of the best unheralded canoeing destination in North America: central Ontario’s Wabakimi Provincial Park.

By Stephen Jermanok, Globe Correspondent | May 6, 2007

WABAKIMI PROVINCIAL PARK, Ontario — It wasn’t until the canoes were strapped to a float plane and we started to rise above the water, that I finally understood the extent of the wilderness here.

Rob Stimpson is an internationally published, award-winning photographer best known for capturing the wilds of the Canadian outdoors and the polar regions of our planet. He teaches photography part time.

By Donald Langlois

Georgeann, my partner of many wilderness trips, has been working very hard on this canoe trip. We have been faced with portage trails decimated last year by a snow and windstorm. This summer, the many trails that connect almost all the lakes and rivers, are covered with hundreds and thousands of trees, fallen in tangled disarray. Carrying a chainsaw and gasoline, we have been cutting our way from one lake to the next, clearing trails, not for just us, but for others who may follow.

By Rahul Reddy Katangur

May 2021

“The people of the past walked out of the motherly woods and into the world of grave gravel roads,

Running behind the worldly wealth, forgetting the happy and health,

To wake up to the sound of wind and waves, there could not be any gentler call to rise and shine,

The kiss of the warm morning sun and the tunes of the feathered folk, are the true riches to behold,