In this episode of the North Country History with Rob Burg podcast I am previewing my 2026 Podcast Tour in Ontario Canada. This tour, from September 10 to September 26 will hist several topics of forest history: the Great Lakes fur trade, the French-Indigenous people relations, the lumber industry, and liesure and recreation in the Northwoods.
After a two day stop at the Straits of Mackinac here in Michigan, I will enter into Canada at Sault Ste. Marie and make a circutious route around Lake Huron, with a detour inland to Algonquin Provincial Park, the Ottawa River Valley, and back west towards Lake Huron, returning to Michigan via Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan.
Stops and Highlights of the Tour include:
- September 10: Colonial Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City, Michigan, and the Museum of Ojibwa Culture, St. Ignace, Michigan.
- September 11: Mackinac Island, Michigan.
- September 12: Canadian Bushplane Heritage Center, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Fort St. Joseph National Historic Site (if time allows).
- September 13: Exploring Elliot Lake area lumber camps with historian Dan Kachur and others. Elliot Lake, Ontario.
- September 14: Lumber History of the North Channel at the Timber Village Museum, Blind River, Ontario, and at other locations in the vicinity.
- September 15: The French River fur trade canoe route and other areas. French River, Ontario.
- September 16-17: Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Midland, Ontario.
- September 17-19: Algonquin Provincial Park.
- September 19: Glamping at Wilderness Tours Rafting Resort, Ottawa River, Ontario.
- September 20: Whitewater rafting trip on the Ottawa River. Wilderness Tours, Ottawa River.
- September 21: Ottawa Valley Lumber History, Arnprior, Ontario.
- September 22: Canada Canoe Museum, Peterborough, Ontario. Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.
- September 23: Lake Simcoe area, Ontario.
- September 24: Stratford Festival, William Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Stratford, Ontario
- September 25: Pinery Provincial Park and Lambton Heritage Museum, Grand Bend, Ontario.
- September 26: Return to Michigan. Side tour of the Thumb (if time allows).
To follow along on the tour, visit my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RobBurgEnviroHistorian
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