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  • Canoe Night 2017
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  • Lt Governor's Ontario Trust Award
  • Corporate Friends of La Vase
  • Be a Member !
  • Canoe Day 2015
  • Aecon Plan New Exploratory Blasting
  • Major John Elliott Woolford 1821
  • Middle Portage
  • Coopers Lake
  • Lower Portage
  • Spring on La Vase Portages
  • summer on la vase portages
  • Winter Trails
  • fundraising dinner at Best Western 21 march, 2013
  • Not Typical of Northern Hospitality
  • PACT crosses La Vase Portages 01 Sept. '13
  • TranscanEAUda Enroute Inuvik 2011
  • Thompson Brigades 2010
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La Vase Portages

Expedition Champlain 2009

The Voyageurs have landed.

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After tracking their progress from Penetanguishene is was a pleasure to welcome the Expedition Champlain when they arrived (actually a day early) in North Bay on a cold and rainy Monday, August 2.

Retracing Champlain's 1615 Route from Huronia to Montreal

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Michael Arvisais and his brigade of Voyageurs left Penetanguishine on Monday, July 20, and padled Georgian Bay, the french River and Lake Nipissing for 15 days to reach La Vase Portages.

Pictured above, left to right, Michel Arvisais, Jon Taylor, Kaylee Drapor, Annie Remillard, Dominic Lanthier Dubuc and Michael Beaupre.

Nipissing MP Anthony Rota and North Bay Mayor Fedeli bring welcome.

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MP Rota and Mayor Fedeli shared greetings with the arriving voyageurs. The mix of cultures represented by almost 400 years of living together brought together Ojibway First Nation peoples, local French descendants of the early traders, Metis and European immigration - a strength that continues to build our community today.

Nipissing First Nation shares the ceremony.

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Nipissing First Nation Councillor Perry McLeod welcomed the voyageurs with a smudge ceremony of sage grass and a traditional blessing of the canoe. Laura Liberty sharing her beautiful voice and drumming  left many guests with a sense of what European first contact with the area may have sounded like and felt like. Thank you to Perry and Laura for helping with the ceremony.

So where are they right now?

You can follow there progress by clicking on the daily links below.

Thursda, August 6   7:30 p.m.  
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=46.3135,-78.7129&ll=46.3135,-78.7129&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1


Wednesday, August 5    3:30 p.m.   http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=46.3066,-79.0608&ll=46.3066,-79.0608&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1


Monday, August 3    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=46.1732,-79.6415&ll=46.1732,-79.6415&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

Saturday, August 1     3:30 p.m.  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=46.1435,-79.9936&ll=46.1435

Thursday, July 30    6:30 p.m.  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=46.0521,-80.2213&ll=46.0521,-80.2213&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1
Wednesday, July 29     4:30 p.m.    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=46.0344,-80.4664&ll=46.0344,-80.4664&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

Tuesday, Juy 28   3:30 p.m.    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.9966,-80.5715&ll=45.9966,-80.5715&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

Monday, July 27   5:30 p.m. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=46.0106,-80.812&ll=46.0106,-80.812&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

Monday, July 28,   1:00 p.m.http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.9428,-80.9&ll=45.9428,-80.9&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

Sunday, 26 July   4:30 p.m.  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.9194,-80.8233&ll=45.9194,-80.8233&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

Friday, July 24      6:30 p.m.  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.6965,-80.6296&ll=45.6965,-80.6296&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

Friday, July 24,   10:30 a.m.     http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.5416,-80.4534&ll=45.5416,-80.4534&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

Thursday, July 23   http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.5206,-80.3933&ll=45.5206

Wednesday, July 22  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.2519,-80.2002&ll=45.2519

Tuesday, July 21    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.1414,-80.0891&ll=45.1414

Monday, 20 July  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=44.9001,-79.8546&ll=44.9001,-79.8546&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

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