Posts by Bretton Clark

Most paddlers can attest that, as soon as you push off and feel your weight buoyed by the boat, you leave behind the weight of…

The Trent-Severn Waterway has no shortage of poetically-named communities lining its banks from Scugog to Omemee, Bailieboro to Buckhorn, but my favourite of all is…

I recently came across a clever design that superimposed a public transit network map over the Trent-Severn Waterway. In the same way the TTC subway…

Escape to Another World: One of the uncanniest sensations that canoeing creates in the mind of the paddler is the sense of being so close…

Wolf Island Provincial Park is another unsupervised provincial park on the list of hidden gems along the Trent-Severn Waterway. The park covers 220 hectares between…

From the globe-traversing outriggers of the South Pacific to Amazonian dugouts to the birchbark craft of Turtle Island, the canoe is a fascinating example of…

Made famous by The Tragically Hip’s rhyme with “constellations,” Bobcaygeon rests upon three islands right at the meeting point of Sturgeon and Pigeon Lakes. These…