In memory of John Scarlett, I am sure all the avid canoers on this site will be in awe re two trips that John's brother Mark told me one time on an AA gathering on Crotch Lake. These two trips happened in the early 1960s when John was 21 and Mark was 18.
(1) John and Mark left their car in Arnprior, Ontario and canoed the Madawaska River all the way to Algonquin Park where they took the Petawawa River to the Ottawa River and back to Arnprior.
(2) John was a teacher back when he was 21 and he and his brother Mark became guides and took some of John's students on canoe trips through Algonquin Park. On one of their trips, they took 10 students and themselves from Narrowbag Lake to Cedar Lake via the Petawawa River by canoes, rather than taking the long portage trail.
I thought these two canoe stories might interest the avid canoers on this site.
Bo
