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inspector13	03/31/2014 07:53AM   Here is a good article on Benny Ambrose I know about.
Mocha	03/26/2014 07:40PM   woman of the gunflint video
Jeemon	05/16/2014 09:58PM   Bob Cary He is best known for living and writing in the Northwoods. His residence for many years was Ely, Minnesota. However, Bob Cary cut his teeth on the outdoors, and writing, locally.
Jeemon	05/23/2014 09:45AM   Bill Bryson has produced a number of nice videos covering canoe routes in the BW.
Jeemon	03/24/2014 05:50PM   Francis Lee Jaques Born: September 28, 1887, Geneseo, Illinois Died: July 24, 1969
Jeemon	05/19/2014 01:39PM   A short video about Joe Seliga canoes, from Ely, MN.
Kevlar	03/30/2014 09:30PM   I know I've read a pretty good, detailed account of Benny Ambrose,but I don't remember where. Maybe BWJournal? Here are three other titles, none about people who lived there, but all traveled through or worked there. A Wonderful Country, the Quetico-Superior Stories of Bill Magie edited by David Olesen. His first trips were 1909 - 1920. Portage into the Past, by canoe along the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters by J. Arnold Bolz Trip done in 1957 Canoe Country by husband and wife Florence and Francis Lee Jacque. Printed in 1938
Jeemon	03/23/2014 09:56PM   Ernest Oberholtzer: Unknown Q-C hero
Jeemon	03/24/2014 01:11PM   David Thompson In 1797, Thompson was sent south by his employers to survey part of the Canada-U.S. boundary along the water routes from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods to satisfy unresolved questions of territory arising from the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States. By 1798 Thompson had completed a survey of 6,750 km (4,190 mi) from Grand Portage, through Lake Winnipeg, to the headwaters of the Assiniboine and Mississippi Rivers, as well as two sides of Lake Superior.
Jeemon	03/24/2014 01:54PM   The Voyageurs This group of eight men were: Sigurd Olson, Eric Morse, Omond Solandt, Elliot Rodger, Tony Lovink, Blair Fraser, Denis Coolican. Tyler Thompson Their eleven major trips 1951 Gatineau 1952 Quetico 1953 Quetico 1954 Grand Portage to Fort Frances 1955 Churchill River, Sask. 1956 Nelson/Hayes (Norway House to Cross Lake), Man. 1957 Southend to Stony Rapids - Fond du Lac River, Sask. 1958 Ile-a-la-Crosse to Waterways - Methye Portage, Sask 1959 Camsell & Great Bear Rivers, NWT 1961 Pukatawagan to Thompson, Man 1964 Hayes River, Man Pic from 1953 Quetico trip
Jeemon	03/24/2014 07:49AM   Sybil & Marvin Swanson, Swanson's Lodge, Hungry Jack Lake, 1940
Jeemon	03/24/2014 09:58AM   Dorothy Molter, the Root Beer Lady
jcavenagh	05/13/2016 03:36PM   Wow! This is some great stuff. Just this thread has given me more to read than I can possibly get to in the next few years.
Jeemon	03/24/2014 10:04AM   MIRON L. HEINSELMAN An Inventory of His Papers Relating to the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness at the Minnesota Historical Society Manuscripts Collection
Jeemon	04/15/2014 10:09AM   Quetico Park People - some interesting stories about: Breaking Barriers: Tom Hainey Swims Across Quetico Park Shirley Peruniak: Quetico Park Naturalist Bob & Leone Hayes: A Quetico Romance Robinsons of Souris River Canoes Joe and Vera Meany: 26 Years in Quetico Quetico’s First Explorers Return of the XY Company Chuck Farnum: Bushwhacker Extraordinaire Bill Muir: Boundary Waters Botanist Return to the Powell Homestead on Saganagons Lake
Jeemon	03/23/2014 10:25PM   Selke Committee May 23, 1964
Jeemon	03/24/2014 07:46AM   Janet Hanson & Justine Kerfoot, Gunflint Lake, Gunflint Northwoods Outfitters, late 1940's
Jeemon	03/24/2014 07:48AM   Boostrom Family, Clearwater Lake, Clearwater Lodge, 1947
Jeemon	03/24/2014 09:33AM   Judith Ann (Heart Warrior) Chosa Portrait Video Description: Heart Warrior Chosa's home in the Boundary Waters is four hours by canoe from the nearest town. She's a member of the Ojibwe tribe and is a single mother. In her third-party bid for governor in 1990, she received more than 20,000 votes. Original Broadcast: 05/23/1991 Length: 26 minutes, 19 seconds.
Jeemon	03/23/2014 09:54PM   Sigurd F. Olson, 1889-1982 A Conversation With Sigurd F. Olson by Jim dale Huot-Vickery BWJ Spring 2006 Almanac: Remembering Sigurd Olson
Jeemon	03/24/2014 07:47AM   Billy Needham & Doc Keesey, Hungry Jack Lake, Gateway Lodge, 1960
Jeemon	03/26/2014 07:09PM   Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye LA VERENDRYE held the sole trading license for the country beyond Lake Supe- rior until 1747, when he fell from favor with the French authorities.