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Background & History Updated 5/09! Maps and Geography Updated 5/09!
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The Nakina Heritage Waterway now encompasses Twin Lakes, the Drowning, Wababimiga and Squaw rivers, up to the Little Current River Provincial Park. It will also include Cordingley Lake and Twin Lakes as access points to the waterway. This system was developed to provide a recreational, historical, and an eco-tourist destination. You can go to the Community of Nakina web site's Recreation/ Leisure page for more information. |
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| Map of the Vanderbeck Traplines Full Size Map: Small Map: These are different size images made from the map that was printed on the inside cover of the original printing of the book. This map is believed to be (or to be based on) the map that Meader drew during his canoe trip with Jim, as described in the book's Forward. It shows all of the Vanderbecks' camps and traplines described in the book. The names of many of the lakes and rivers mentioned in the book have changed since then. The old and new names are listed further down this page. We have annotated one version of the map with the new names. Hopefully this will be of interest to anyone who would like to visit this area and retrace the Vanderbecks' routes. You may not be able to read all text on the 800 x 600 version, but it is all readable on the full-size version. There is also a version that has been colorized. To view the map in your browser, left-click one of the links above. It will launch in a new window. To return to this page, just close that window. To download the map to your hard drive, right-click the link and select 'Save as.' |
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| Map of 1931 Vanderbeck Canoe Expedition | Hand
Drawn Map (247 K) This is truly a treasure! The link above launches an Adobe Acrobat document containing a scan of an actual hand-drawn map produced by R.S. Sturgis, a member of a canoe trip led by Jim and Lindsay Vanderbeck from August 23 to September 9, 1931. It shows 232-1/8 mile route that includes 16 camps and 41 portages. The route leaves Nakina, traveling the Eskagganega, Little Current, Squaw, Cranberry Rivers, and Cordingley, Poplar, and Grave and Squaw Lakes. It includes stops at Jim's main camp on Squaw Lake, other Vanderbeck line camps, the site of the watch grave and many, many other places. It is 24" wide x 58.95" long, with white hand printing and drawing on a black background. Here's a thumbnail image of the map (shown on its right side):
The map lists the following personnel:
To view the map in your browser, left-click the link above. It will launch in a new window. To return to this page, just close that window. To download the map to your hard drive, right-click the link and select 'Save as.' (If it doesn't display when you click the link, download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.) Many thanks to Bill and Lois Hoff for providing Russ with the original map and to Russ for providing this scan.
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| Google™ Maps View of the Nakina Area Nakina, Ontario and Surrounding Area This link launches a view of the Nakina area on the Google™ Maps site in a separate browser window. The link goes to a hybrid view, which is an aerial photo with map nomenclature overlaid onto it. You can switch between map, aerial photo and hybrid views by using the buttons in the top right corner. Use the slider in the top right corner to zoom in and out. Click anywhere on the view and drag it around to see surrounding areas. How close you can zoom varies depending on the quality of the pictures available. Map nomenclature changes depending on how close you zoom in. The Google Maps site is great!
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| Current Topographic Maps | Fedmaps web site | You can order current topographic maps of the Nakina - Wababimiga Lake area from Federal Maps, Inc. (Fedmaps web site). The table below shows which maps cover the area:
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| Current Names for Lakes and Rivers in the Book Many of the lakes and rivers mentioned in Trap-Lines North and shown on the map Meader drew have been renamed in the years after the book was written. The table below shows the old and new names.
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| Ontario Crown Land Use Map This map of the Nakina, Wababimiga Lake area is provided by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. The current topographic maps listed above are better, but this map shows many of the features of the Vanderbeck trapping territory. The map is in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format so you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. This map must be printed at 36" x 30" in order to maintain scale of 1:100,000. Click the first link to view or download the map from this web site. It will launch in a new window. To return to this page, just close that window. Click the second link to launch the Ontario MNR web site in a new window to view or download the map. | Nakina Atlas map (1.8M) | Crown Land Use Atlas Web Site | |
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| Drowning River Canoe Trip Log Detailed log of a July 2004 canoe trip taken down the Drowning River by Mr. Perry Jameson, in which he describes coming upon the remains of a cabin started, but not finished, by Lindsay Vanderbeck Sr. Thanks, Russ, for sharing this great find with us. Click the link below to open this web page in a new window. |
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page provides maps and other geographical information about the area in
which the Vanderbecks lived and trapped, and in which Trap-Lines
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