Saving History by Restoring Artifacts
What does one do with a rusty derelict tugboat—once an important working warping tug hauling log booms on rivers and lakes—sitting in your yard? Thunder...
Elle Andra-Warner
The luxury yacht that replaced the America
Ever wonder what happened to those famous luxurious steam yachts owned by the wealthy in what some call the “Gilded Age” before the First World...
Have you Hugged a Tree Lately?
It was back about 20 years ago while interviewing a pioneer of a remote northern Ontario railway town, that I first heard of someone talking...
The Legacy of Grand Portage’s George Morrison
Born in Chippewa City in 1919, George Morrison went on to become one of America’s most distinguished and renowned abstract expressionist artists with his landscape...
Chief Blackstone and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-20
The world seems somewhat surreal these days. Everything looks normal—home, streets, stores, Lake Superior, lake freighters, cars—yet there’s been a dramatic shift in our day-to-day...
The Omars and Yooperlites of Northern Wilds
During your travels in Northern Wilds, have you come across a distinctive rock with an almost perfectly circular hole in it? Well, chances are you...
Luxury condo living on Thunder Bay’s waterfront
Many of us have heard the phrase “home is where you hang your hat.” And if home is in one of the two buildings of...
Red Snow, Ice Discs and Ice Worms
White snow that turns red, really? A few months ago, while reading the non-fiction book Barrow’s Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers by Fergus Fleming, I came across...
