03rd September 2007
The drive from Cochrane to Wawa is 280 miles or 450 KM taking a little under 6 hours the way we drive. Only one bear was sited and it was near Chapleau. We had lunch at the hotel there. Today is the observance of the Canada Day Holiday, which was yesterda...
02nd September 2007
We boarded Polar Princess this morning and have traveled from Moosonee to James Bay and are now returning to visit Moose Factory Island before we return to Moosonee. Our tour of the Island is beginning.
Arriving at the dock on the island we walked a sh...
02nd September 2007
The hospital is on the island causing transportation difficulties during the warmer season. Rachel*, our guide, told us when her mother was pregnant with her older sister during break up a helicopter was also in service. With no lighting for the helicopte...
02nd September 2007
Today is Canada Day. The 140th birthday of Canada is today and Canada treats it like the Fourth of July in the United States., as well they should.
Breakfast was to be available at 6:30. We were down there with the rest of the guests at 7. Because the...
29th August 2007
This continues the description of our train ride from Cochrane, Ontario to Moosonee, Ontario. The Polar Bear Express runs during the summer months with a train connecting the two cities during the remainder of the year. Ontario Northern Rail Road is the o...
28th August 2007
Anxious! Excited! Which? Both! I am a child again!
At 5:45 I called the front desk to cancel my 6 am wake up call. The restaurant did not open until 6:30 so we made sure we were ready. Entering the restaurant my wife and I were the only ones there. Wow...
28th August 2007
Initially I was disappointed. After paying $42 CA, no bears were to be seen. There were several people in the viewing area. The Habitat has two areas separating the one male from the two females. Each of the areas is quite large, big enough for a medium s...
13th August 2007
This is the eighth in a series of fifteen articles about our journey into North Central Ontario. We arrived in Cochrane, Ontario, yesterday and will visit the Polar Bear Habitat today. Our excitement was building about ridding the Polar Bear Express as we...
03rd August 2007
Anxiously we left the hotel about 9:45 wishing and praying that we might see a moose on the road to Timmons. One waitress at the hotel restaurant told us she had seen moose on the road side but later in the day. Out of town we turned on the road toward Ti...
02nd August 2007
"Platform # 3" was next and it was a little more substantial. It also had a mound of wood chips at the entrance to the path and a worn walkway around it. We choose the walkway around. Only about 50 feet off the road this stand warned of an electric fence ...
02nd August 2007
After dinner we again headed for the Chapleau Game Preserve. I turned on the side road where our first bear was sited this morning. I did not expect to see any, knowing that they do travel around. No bear was seen.
We returned to the main road. Slowin...
01st August 2007
We left the hotel around 9 AM, equipped only with a map of the Preserve and directions from the hotel clerk heading toward the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve. A sign signaling the entrance to the Preserve was not seen. Seeing a picnic stop we turned into it...
30th July 2007
One of the things I have had trouble with while driving in Ontario was the distance to a city was given in kilometers. At that same stop we asked other visitors about how to compare the kilometers with miles. Learning that a mile is 1.6KM or on KM is 0.62...
25th July 2007
Sault Ste. Marie to Wawa
second in a series.
We left Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan at 1130 AM Eastern one morning after eating lunch so we wouldn’t be looking for a place to east in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Crossing the International Bridge we could...
24th July 2007
This is the first of a fifteen part series on a trip from the United States into the province of Ontario, Canada. Not being fond of large cities, my wife and I opted for the small towns of eastern Ontario. We entered Ontario, Canada, in Sault Ste. Marie. ...
