Bear Safety
Dealing with Bears

Bear Spray
Dealing with Bear spray. USGS cautions proper use of pepper spray to avoid Bear attacks

Canadian Canoe Routes
Excellent canoeing discussion board and packed with information to help you plan your next trip

Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association
Publishers of Kanawa. Promoting safety, education, environmental awareness and heritage

Eran and Jenn Andrechek's Ontario canoe trip reports

Have you seen this person?

Luther Standing Bear Chief of the Oglala, Lakota (1905-1939)
"The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from Nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon lead to a lack of respect for humans too."


Natural Resources Canada FTP site for downloading Canada topo maps
FTP: ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canmatrix/
HTTP: http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canmatrix/
The 50,000:1 maps are in the 50k_300dpi directory. Then you'll need to know the number of the map you want so that you can download the correct TIFF zip file


Ottertooth.com
Everything you need to know about Temagami

Paddler magazine
Articles, events

Paddling.net
Mostly U.S. articles, message boards, directories

Panoramio from Google,
This site is tied to Google Earth. It offers easily navigable, large scale maps that contain photos shot along many of your favourite canoe routes.

The Atlas of Canada
Free topographical maps showing data from the 1:250 000 and 1:50 000 National Topographic Databases.

The Canadian Canoe Museum

The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association, Ltd.

Toporama – Topographic Maps

Verlen Kruger
A revealing and inspirational interview with the late Verlen Kruger who paddled over 100,000 miles. That's about 161,000 km!

Virtual Algonquin
A canoe tripper's guide to Algonquin Park.