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Nominigan and Other Smoke Lake Jewels

Gaye I. Clemson

Copyright © 2012 Gaye I. Clemson

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2012-04-03

Dedication

In 1996, I started a journey into the human history of Algonquin Park, which included avidly collecting oral history stories in an attempt to understand more about my fellow leaseholders on Canoe Lake. Little did I know that my ventures around the lake with my twin boys, Kristopher and Taylor, in our vintage cedar-strip canoe, would take me from our small cabin to so many corners of Algonquin Park’s human history. What started out as a single summer adventure, took on a life of its own as I spent the next decade visiting residents from across the Park. I learned about their families, their settlement motivations, and lots of wonderful stories about the weather, animals, boats, canoe trips, artistic endeavours, interesting characters, family traditions and weekend adventures. As my collection of stories grew, I realized that the insight that I was gaining might also be of interest to a wider audience. Hence this is my seventh book in a series of Algonquin human history narratives.

Acknowledgements

For this narrative, a very special acknowledgement must go to the late Mary Northway who’s work over 40 years ago in researching the origins of Nominigan and willingness to share her family’s experiences on Smoke lake is here republished with much of it in its original form. Other special thanks must go to Sue Ebbs Hayhurst, without whose help I never would have found Mary; to Mary Sessions Cline who gladly shared family photos and insight into her experiences at Minnesing Lodge and Scott and Bryan Hunt whose lovely photographs of Smoke Lake can be found at www.smokelake.com. As always I am deeply grateful for the deep and ongoing support from Rory MacKay, fellow leaseholder, historian, archeologist and author and Ron Tozer, former park naturalist and archivist whose help in finding the right photos from the Algonquin Park Visitor Centre’s vast collection is deeply appreciated.