Episode 46: The Great Opeongo Lake - Times Before 1893

Episode 46: The Great Opeongo Lake - Times Before 1893 In this and the next two episodes, I will focus on sharing as much history as I can about Algonquin’s largest body of water, Lake Opeongo. Much of the content comes from a now out-of-print 1998 book by S. Bernard Shaw, called Lake Opeongo:  Untold Stories of Algonquin Park’s Largest Lake. I’m also for the first time, going to try to share as much as I know about the indigenous Lake Opeongo experience.  For this, I depend upon two sources by Chief Kirby Whiteduck of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan including a 2001 Algonquin Park TED TALK and Chapter Two in Mike Walton’s 2009 Algonquin Park: The Human Impact. Other references include: Algonquin Park: A Place Like No Other by Roderick MacKay - 2018 Spirits of the Little Bonnechère by Roderick MacKay 2016 2nd edition Algonquin Story by Audrey Saunders 1946 A History of Canada in 10 Maps by Adam Shoalts 2018 Protected Places: A History of Ontario’s Provincial Park System by Gerald Killan 1993 Names of Algonquin - Technical  Bulletin No,  10  Friends  of  Algonquin Park 1991 It Made the Farmhouse Warm for Winter by Rory MacKay, The Raven, Vol. 63 No.5 Dec 2021 Trading Places, by Rory MacKay, The Raven Vol. 63, No. 4 The Algonquins of Pikwkanagan First Nation https://www.algonquinsofpikwakanagan.com This musical interlude is called Ancient Voices and comes from Dan Gibson’s 2013 Solitudes CD called Shimmer