Stories
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| Title | Year | Quarter | Page |
| 100 Campfires | 2011 | 2 | 16 |
| 50th Anniversary: The Fermilab Canoe Race | 2017 | 4 | 13 |
| A Bear Piece | 2000 | 3 | 20 |
| A Cautionary Tail or What Not to Do on Mother's Day | 2017 | 2 | 24 |
| A Not-So-Brief Encounter | 1990 | 3 | 17 |
| A Portager to More Understanding | 2009 | 2 | 22 |
| A Portager's Passion | 1987 | 1 | 10 |
| Absence of Witch | 2017 | 4 | 23 |
| Aligators in the French River | 2011 | 1 | 26 |
| An Idea That Water Has | 1996 | 3 | 19 |
| Animalia | 2018 | 1 | 14 |
| Another Pinned Canoe on the White River | 2003 | 1 | 18 |
| Arctic Terns | 2020 | 1 | 13 |
| Artillery Lake Walk | 2012 | 2 | 1 |
| Back on the Tim River | 1975 | 2 | 20 |
| Backcountry | 1992 | 4 | 21 |
| Backing Out | 1991 | 2 | 32 |
| Barren Lands | 2001 | 4 | 15 |
| Between the Rocks and the River | 2013 | 2 | 14 |
| Beware of Bear Spray | 2012 | 1 | 18 |
| Black Flies | 1995 | 1 | 11 |
| Break-Up 1994 | 2002 | 1 | 11 |
| Canoe Trip Log | 1994 | 4 | 10 |
| Canoeing Along the Edge of Ice | 1997 | 4 | 7 |
| Canoeing North of 40 | 1998 | 2 | 16 |
| Canoeing With Dad | 1996 | 4 | 12 |
| Canoeing with Kate | 2004 | 4 | 17 |
| Canoeing With Our Kid | 1990 | 2 | 22 |
| Canoetrip 1997 | 1999 | 1 | 15 |
| Cezanne's Apples | 1988 | 2 | 5 |
| Change Come to Kitsissuarsuit | 2009 | 2 | 16 |
| Chute au Granite | 2007 | 2 | 17 |
| Corde Du Roi | 2002 | 2 | 26 |
| Crossing the Rubicon | 2014 | 2 | 31 |
| Dancers, Not Electrons | 2003 | 4 | 10 |
| Dating in the Time of Forest Fires | 2015 | 2 | 14 |
| December Morning | 2005 | 4 | 17 |
| Dene Elders Project | 2009 | 1 | 27 |
| Dubawnt Lake Cairn | 2013 | 2 | 19 |
| Early Days in the Nahanni Area | 2022 | 1 | 23 |
| Easter Vignette | 1981 | 2 | 17 |
| Elora Gorge | 2020 | 3 | 20 |
| Embracing the Darkness: Teaching on Victoria Island | 2013 | 1 | 1 |
| Emptying the Bags | 1996 | 1 | 21 |
| Emptying the Bags | 2013 | 3 | 27 |
| Excerpts from Letters th the Grandaughter: Story of Dillon Wallace of the Labrador Wild | 2012 | 4 | 1 |
| Fire | 2003 | 2 | 15 |
| Fort Selkirk on the Yukon | 2015 | 2 | 20 |
| French River, Summer 2006. A Precautionary Tale | 1997 | 1 | 11 |
| Gently | 1990 | 1 | 23 |
| Gleno's Going Again | 1997 | 3 | 22 |
| Going for Wood | 2005 | 3 | 13 |
| Great Island | 1999 | 4 | 19 |
| Green Christmas Miracle | 1997 | 4 | 23 |
| Guide | 1997 | 3 | 9 |
| Harmony | 1983 | 3 | 8 |
| Have Kids, Will Paddle | 2001 | 3 | 17 |
| High Tech Yuppie Paddling | 1988 | 2 | 11 |
| High Water | 2011 | 1 | 27 |
| Highlight of the Summer | 1981 | 3 | 16 |
| Holy Water | 1994 | 4 | 23 |
| Ice | 2000 | 4 | 9 |
| Ice, At Last! | 2003 | 3 | 12 |
| In the Bow | 1999 | 2 | 17 |
| Innu Support and the Myth of Wilderness | 2002 | 1 | 14 |
| Into the Barrens | 2006 | 3 | 15 |
| Is it Safe? | 1997 | 4 | 24 |
| Journal Entries | 1998 | 4 | 7 |
| July 1999, Our Last Canoe Trip | 2002 | 4 | 18 |
| Knowing When It's Time to Quit | 2018 | 3 | 22 |
| Learning to Paddle with Hugh and Jim | 2002 | 4 | 10 |
| Lessons of the Land | 2011 | 1 | 18 |
| Letter to Billy | 1995 | 1 | 19 |
| l'Odeur | 1988 | 1 | 26 |
| Lost Paddle | 2014 | 3 | 27 |
| L'Ours Polaire | 1997 | 1 | 19 |
| Mana | 2017 | 1 | 15 |
| Man's Best Friend | 1984 | 1 | 17 |
| Maps | 2005 | 2 | 27 |
| Melozitna Sandbars | 2004 | 2 | 24 |
| Memories of a Great Summer | 1990 | 1 | 22 |
| Miranda's First Trip | 1998 | 1 | 18 |
| Mushrooms in the North | 2012 | 2 | 13 |
| My Adventures with George | 2016 | 1 | 22 |
| My First Arctic Canoe Trip | 2000 | 4 | 10 |
| My Imaginary Home | 1997 | 1 | 11 |
| My Trip Down Ongopongo | 1981 | 2 | 17 |
| My Trip Down the Chapleau | 2015 | 2 | 9 |
| My Wild Goose Chase | 2005 | 2 | 20 |
| Names on the Wall | 2013 | 1 | 27 |
| Niagara Falls Dried Up! | 2002 | 4 | 15 |
| No, I Don't Smoke or The Wrongest Possible Answer | 2023 | 4 | 19 |
| Northern Style | 2017 | 3 | 13 |
| Off Of the Shield | 1994 | 1 | 7 |
| Old Canoes | 2012 | 2 | 22 |
| On a Snow-Clad Mountain: A Tale of Perseverence | 2013 | 4 | 20 |
| On Norther Waters | 2014 | 2 | 30 |
| On Top of a Boulder: Notes from Tyrrell's Cairn | 2013 | 2 | 16 |
| One Day on the Great Whale River | 1996 | 2 | 26 |
| One Scene from a Canoe Trip | 2000 | 2 | 23 |
| Oxtongue Story | 2011 | 2 | 12 |
| Paddling the Bathurst Sewer | 1994 | 4 | 8 |
| Personal Glimpses: 40 Years Later | 1996 | 4 | 17 |
| Picturing Paddling Kids | 2011 | 1 | 16 |
| Pierre St. Germain's Miracle Canoe | 2013 | 1 | 9 |
| Pitching the Tent | 2014 | 4 | 13 |
| Playing on the Water, Snow and Ice: The Play of Bill Mason | 2018 | 3 | 20 |
| Pogamasing, the Story of a Northern Lake | 2013 | 2 | 25 |
| Pointing at the Forest | 1996 | 3 | 10 |
| Possible Bag | 2012 | 2 | 23 |
| Post-Trip Depression | 1993 | 1 | 26 |
| Prometheus | 2003 | 3 | 13 |
| Rain | 1991 | 1 | 12 |
| Remember by Greg Wrent | 2008 | 4 | 19 |
| Restringing the Reels | 1996 | 4 | 13 |
| Retiring Gleno's Windbreaker | 1989 | 2 | 16 |
| Revisting the Travels and Struggle of Headwaters Koehler | 2008 | 2 | 7 |
| River Takes You Places | 2015 | 4 | 9 |
| Saving Jack | 2013 | 3 | 26 |
| Seal River Eskers | 2001 | 1 | 15 |
| Second Waterfall on the North Knife River | 2004 | 1 | 17 |
| Self Publishing for Paddlers | 2014 | 2 | 28 |
| Serendipity Happens | 2022 | 1 | 22 |
| Sine Qua Non Canoe | 1990 | 3 | 8 |
| Something to Prove | 2011 | 4 | 30 |
| Spam | 2000 | 4 | 21 |
| Spring Vignette | 2001 | 1 | 10 |
| Spring's Coming | 1999 | 1 | 21 |
| Status Quo | 2018 | 3 | 19 |
| Storm | 1999 | 4 | 17 |
| Swallowed by the Falls | 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| The 9 to 5 Slow Death | 1998 | 3 | 25 |
| The Addiction | 1992 | 1 | 8 |
| The All-Day Rain | 1999 | 2 | 26 |
| The All-Night Light | 2004 | 3 | 15 |
| The Arithic Twinge | 2017 | 4 | 23 |
| The Attawapiskat River | 2005 | 1 | 17 |
| The Beginning of the WCA | 2023 | 1 | 11 |
| The Biggest moose in the World | 2012 | 4 | 27 |
| The Bounce Test | 1990 | 3 | 11 |
| The Bow | 1995 | 2 | 7 |
| The Cabin | 2005 | 4 | 31 |
| The Camera | 1990 | 4 | 5 |
| The Campfire Ring | 2017 | 1 | 15 |
| The Campsites of the North | 2018 | 3 | 19 |
| The Canoeing Fears | 1993 | 4 | 11 |
| The Case of the Theft at Portage Lake | 1991 | 3 | 18 |
| The Circle Game | 1989 | 4 | 19 |
| The Close Shave | 2017 | 2 | 26 |
| The Devil's Bathtub | 2003 | 1 | 23 |
| The Duet | 2015 | 3 | 11 |
| The End | 2014 | 1 | 31 |
| The Esker | 1997 | 1 | 17 |
| The Fateful 1955 Dubawnt River Trip | 2013 | 2 | 1 |
| The Fever | 1986 | 2 | 9 |
| The Find | 1999 | 3 | 13 |
| The Fire | 2000 | 1 | 18 |
| The Fishing Regulations | 2002 | 1 | 10 |
| The Hot Springs of the Kanuti | 1998 | 2 | 21 |
| The Island | 2007 | 1 | 22 |
| The John Smith Story | 2002 | 2 | 23 |
| The Last Canoe Trip | 2000 | 3 | 11 |
| The Last Days | 1994 | 4 | 23 |
| The Last Flight | 2003 | 4 | 9 |
| The Last Trip | 2023 | 1 | 15 |
| The Last Wildernss (excerpt) | 2006 | 1 | 28 |
| The Lodge | 2017 | 2 | 26 |
| The Long Portage | 1991 | 4 | 16 |
| The Long Portage | 1995 | 4 | 15 |
| The Mark on the Map | 2003 | 4 | 14 |
| The Memory | 2000 | 2 | 17 |
| The Message | 2001 | 3 | 23 |
| The Mysterious Disappearance of Father Buliard | 2016 | 1 | 18 |
| The Newcomers | 1989 | 2 | 17 |
| The Other Wilderness I Remember | 1978 | 1 | 7 |
| The Outward Sign | 1991 | 3 | 10 |
| The Piece of Granite | 1990 | 2 | 26 |
| The Pike | 2006 | 2 | 24 |
| The Portage Trail | 2002 | 3 | 16 |
| The Price of Admission | 1994 | 3 | 11 |
| The Price of Progress | 1998 | 4 | 17 |
| The Process | 1993 | 4 | 17 |
| The Return | 2016 | 2 | 9 |
| The Road Map | 1992 | 2 | 20 |
| The Road to Damascus | 2012 | 1 | 17 |
| The Road Up | 1998 | 1 | 22 |
| The Secret Place | 1993 | 2 | 27 |
| The Skills | 2015 | 2 | 11 |
| The Smile | 1997 | 2 | 26 |
| The Start | 1994 | 2 | 26 |
| The Storm | 2013 | 4 | 29 |
| The Tale of the Dancing Canoes | 1986 | 2 | 18 |
| The Tree | 2006 | 1 | 14 |
| The Warm-Up | 2002 | 4 | 17 |
| The WCA Sewer Surfers | 1995 | 1 | 20 |
| The White Horses | 2001 | 2 | 23 |
| The Wilderness of Literature | 1987 | 2 | 7 |
| The Wolf | 2007 | 4 | 24 |
| The Zen of the French | 2005 | 2 | 11 |
| There's an Unlucky Moose in this True Story (and Two Lucky People) | 1997 | 4 | 25 |
| This is a Portage? | 2003 | 2 | 14 |
| Thoughts Around a Smoky Fire | 1996 | 2 | 7 |
| Thoughts on the 1955 Dubawnt River Trip and Later 1969 trip | 2013 | 2 | 13 |
| Thoughts on the Wilderness Superhero "Look-At-Me" Adventure Narative | 2020 | 3 | 21 |
| Time | 2004 | 4 | 20 |
| Travelling Home | 1996 | 3 | 9 |
| Treasure Chests | 1998 | 2 | 11 |
| Tripping | 1997 | 3 | 20 |
| Two Rivers, Two Kids | 2003 | 4 | 12 |
| Tying Down the Boats | 1995 | 3 | 17 |
| Vagas Chips: Tale from a Silver Canoe | 2020 | 1 | 20 |
| Virgin to the Tundra | 2004 | 3 | 9 |
| We're Back | 2005 | 3 | 20 |
| What's in a Plate | 2021 | 1 | 18 |
| When Wilderness Trippers Reminisce | 1975 | 3 | 15 |
| Where Have All The Songsters Gone, All Gone Every One | 1990 | 4 | 22 |
| Who's Walking There? | 2014 | 3 | 12 |
| Why Am I Doing This? | 1995 | 3 | 11 |
| Why Do You Go? | 2012 | 4 | 27 |
| Wilder-Blindness (part 1) | 1990 | 2 | 8 |
| Wilder-Blindness (part 2) | 1990 | 3 | 12 |
| Wilder-Blindness (part 3) | 1990 | 4 | 16 |
| Wilderness Discovered | 1994 | 1 | 1 |
| Wilderness Ironies and Contradictions | 1989 | 2 | 8 |
| Winter Warmth | 2003 | 4 | 11 |
| You Don't Belong Here | 2000 | 3 | 15 |
