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  • canoe night 2018
  • Canoe Day
  • Canoe Night 2017
  • canoe day 2016
  • 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
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  • Expedition Champlain 2009
  • Route Maps
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La Vase Portages

David Thompson Brigades Arrive North Bay

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           On Wednesday evening, August 11, 2010, the David Thompson Brigade arrived in North Bay as part of their journey from Thunder Bay to Lachine this summer. Following on the initial group effort from Rocky Mountain House to Thunder Bay in 2008, this summer's paddling is towards completing the cross Canada trip.

Meet Boona

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              At 29 feet long and 325 pounds, "Boona" the canoe was one of the largest canoes through La Vase Portages in the last few years.  While their North Bay visit was officially a rest day, Friends of La Vase took advantage of the day to portage the canoe across La Vase Portages on the Brigades tracing of the trans-Canada Voyageur trade route.

Great Day to Paddle

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                  Forecast was originally for overcast skies but sunshine and humid weather made a tough days portaging even tougher.

Learning La Vase Means Mud

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                    To anyone who has crossed "Sucking Swamp" La Vase in French meant a foul smelling muck. To the Voyageurs who portaged on a regular basis, La Vase  Portages was named after the long muddy sections of swamp that needed to be portaged to get between Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake.

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