Hi again, My hubby just got up and I asked him where he went canoeing / camping with his "very rich friends" many years ago. It was this Park. http://www.algonquinpark.on.ca/ And, as I said in my other post this morning, the man we met at a yard sale a few weeks ago said he used to be a Ranger at that Park. http://www.algonquinpark.on.ca/ -- You never know who you are going to meet ! :o) Actually, that could be a subject matter: How many had a relative or ancestor who was a "Park Ranger?" Oh, I just took another quick look at that site, and I see it refers to a "Park Warden." I'm not seeing a page which says how large the Park is, but it seems to be very large. This page offers a brief history of it: http://www.algonquinpark.on.ca/geninfo/history.html Pioneer loggers pushing up from the Ottawa Valley reached Algonquin in search of the great White Pine trees whose prime wood was increasingly in demand by an expanding British economy. Living in remote, primitive camps, they felled and squared the giant pine, and when spring came, drove them down swollen rivers to the Ottawa River and the outside world. The story of that colourful era and subsequent logging in the Park is told at one of Algonquin's two museums , the Algonquin Logging Museum, located near the East Gate. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator (My KIDDER ancestors along the Maine / New Brunswick border from 1780's and probably up to 1900 were all loggers or woodsmen, etc.) (Some "loved the water" and went to sea.) (The "very rich family" which hubby knew when he was in his 20's had ties to Boston, MA, NYC, and, because of their money - all across North America. He has not associated with them since he was in his 20's.)