Viking Ships on Lake Superior
The speculation and debate continues: Did the Norse (Vikings) travel to the Northern Wilds of mid-continent North America centuries ago, perhaps sailing on Lake Superior?...
Elle Andra-Warner
Minnesota’s Elizabeth Taylor: Victorian Adventurer on the Nipigon River
During the Victorian Era, it was still the norm that non-native women didn’t do northern wilderness travelling on their own for pleasure. But Minnesota’s adventurer-explorer,...
A Local Connection to the Franklin Expedition
In Canada’s High Arctic, on the barren rocky Beechey Island, there are weather-bleached wooden markers on the graves of three British seamen who died...
Ghost Stories: Ghostly Encounters and Strange Hauntings
The standard definition of a ghost – also described as spirit, specter, apparition, presence and the like – is that a person’s spirit exists separately...
Tundra-Trekking and Looking for Polar Bears
Polar bears living free and wild in Ontario? It’s true. During the summer several hundred polar bears travel the coastal areas of the sub-arctic Polar...
Pickerel vs Walleye: Setting the Record Straight
So, what’s all this about the “Canadian pickerel” really being a “walleye?” Are we talking about the same fish having two names? For generations, when...
Nipigon Launches Paddle-to-the-Sea Park
When the international best-selling children’s book Paddle-to-the-Sea was first published in 1941, it is unlikely the book’s Michigan-born author and illustrator Holling C. Holling...
The Ancient Tradition: Labyrinth Walking
North Americans are discovering the ancient practice of labyrinth walking for contemplation, meditation, spiritual renewal, and healing. Labyrinth walking is a walking tradition that...