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Kevin Callan (aka The Happy Camper) is the author of 17 books; his last being Top 60 Canoe Routes of Ontario. He is an award-winning filmmaker and a keynote speaker at outdoor events across North America. Kevin is also a regular guest on several television morning shows and CBC Radio. He has won several writing awards, writes a column for Paddling Magazine and Explore Magazine. Check out his web site at www.kevincallan.comand YouTube channel KCHappyCamper.
Kevin has a new book out – Once Around Algonquin: An Epic Journey. This one is on his “Meanest Link” canoe trip in Algonquin with his buddy Andy. He’ll be showing why this was one insane trip, but also giving reasons why this is one of the best parks that Ontario has to offer! |
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Kate Barrett: 50 Day Dream
Kate is a wilderness canoe tripper from Camp Wapomeo who has completed over 350 days of canoe trip, of which she guided over 200 days. This past summer, she led a 50 day canoe trip for the second time. The trip started at Lake Superior and ended in Algonquin Park. She is currently completing her Masters at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, with her research focus being; Outdoor Education. She is an enthusiastic member of the Taylor Statten Camp community and has an ambition to share her passion for the outdoors with a new generation of children through the lens of education. |
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Doug Gordon lives in Sebringville, Ontario with his paddling and life partner Nicola. Canoeing adventures have taken him, Nicola and his children Jenna and Andrew throughout Ontario, though there is a special place in his heart for the wilderness around Lake Superior. His 35 years of tripping experiences include spending 8 summers as a backcountry guide with teens, embarking on several lengthy solo trips and completing a 21-day walking traverse of the Pennine Way in the United Kingdom.
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For the last decade Doug has found his spirit drawn to become more connected with the Anishinaabe people and their homelands. He has completed 2 multi-day fasts with an Anishinaabeg community at Agawa Rock on Lake Superior and plans to join the fasting community there each spring and to travel the Anishinaabe water paths each fall for as long as he is able. His presentation focuses on personal experiences with Anishinaabeg ways, pictographs and sacred sites. It will offer glimpses of sites in Temagami, the Missinaibi headwaters, Quetico Provincial Park and on Lake Superior.
The presentation has been reviewed by Doug's friend and brother, Rodney Ellie, an Anishinaabe elder whose ancestral lands are at Gargantua and Agawa Bay on Lake Superior. It is their desire that you leave the symposium with a better understanding of the ways of his people and their perspective on the sacred land from which they came.
The presentation has been reviewed by Doug's friend and brother, Rodney Ellie, an Anishinaabe elder whose ancestral lands are at Gargantua and Agawa Bay on Lake Superior. It is their desire that you leave the symposium with a better understanding of the ways of his people and their perspective on the sacred land from which they came.
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Jeremy Shute: Speed To Sea - Paddling from Guelph to the Atlantic Ocean
Jeremy and his family are paddling re-furbished cedar canvas canoes downstream from Guelph as far as they can make it. Jeremy will talk about the waterways they are taking, some of the history, ecology and geography of the route and will share stories and photos of the journey. He is doing the trip in sections, paddling from Guelph to Niagara falls in 2017 and from the Niagara River to Rochester NY in 2018. Jeremy is a local cartographer, geographer, musician, film maker and a partner in the environmental consulting firm Shared Value Solutions. He works with Indigenous communities across Ontario and other provinces in land use planning and natural resource management. His presentation will show how big adventures can start in your own backyard. |
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Marian Sonntag:
Killarney – Paddling the La Cloche Marian is a long-time backcountry canoeist who, with her family, has tripped extensively throughout the park since she first learned of Killarney with the help of Kevin Callan’s guide books. After that first tentative trip the lure of the white quartzite ridges has kept drawing her back, making Killarney part of her family's paddling repertoire in an effort to explore the La Cloche range by canoe. Discover routes that offer both solitude, and stunning vistas that captured the attention of the group of seven.... as well as some ambitious portages with names like ‘The Pig’ and ‘The Notch’ . See why Killarney is referred to as the ‘Gem’ of Ontario Parks.” |
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PJ Justason: The Wawagigamau River
Through the headwaters of three rivers, days of walking canoes through alders, cutting portages, paddling five different rivers, interactions with the Memegwesi and eventually a train ride back from James Bay.
Have you heard of the Wawagigamau River? How about by its English name, the Yesterday River?
I hadn’t (and neither have most people), until late winter 2017 when I asked to join a group of 5 middle-aged men on a whitewater wilderness canoe trip down this unknown , obscure, remote Northern Ontario river in early spring. The last known canoe trip on the Wawagigamau River was in 1987 by a group from Michigan that had completed the route twice called the Gunnel Grabbers. Armed with long johns, drysuits, toques, a chainsaw, some 30 year old knowledge from the Gunnel Grabbers, some great research, a touch of scouting the previous fall…off we went!
PJ is an avid canoeist, with his passions held tight in the Temagami region, including a long time involvement with the Friends of Temagami. He is now President of this non-profit organization.
Through the headwaters of three rivers, days of walking canoes through alders, cutting portages, paddling five different rivers, interactions with the Memegwesi and eventually a train ride back from James Bay.
Have you heard of the Wawagigamau River? How about by its English name, the Yesterday River?
I hadn’t (and neither have most people), until late winter 2017 when I asked to join a group of 5 middle-aged men on a whitewater wilderness canoe trip down this unknown , obscure, remote Northern Ontario river in early spring. The last known canoe trip on the Wawagigamau River was in 1987 by a group from Michigan that had completed the route twice called the Gunnel Grabbers. Armed with long johns, drysuits, toques, a chainsaw, some 30 year old knowledge from the Gunnel Grabbers, some great research, a touch of scouting the previous fall…off we went!
PJ is an avid canoeist, with his passions held tight in the Temagami region, including a long time involvement with the Friends of Temagami. He is now President of this non-profit organization.
Schedule
(Order of speakers is tentative)
(Order of speakers is tentative)
9:00 am - Doors Open : Claim a seat and browse Sponsors Displays
(Please Note: No coffee or Food in the Theatre or Theatre Foyer)
10:00 am - 11:45am : Morning Speakers
PJ Justason
Kate Barrett
Jeremy Shute
11:45 - 1:00 pm : Lunch Break
1:00 pm - 3:00pm : Afternoon Speakers
Doug Gordon
Marian Sonntag
Kevin Callan
3:00 pm - 3:45 : Browse Sponsor Displays
