THE CAMBOOSE SHANTY in ALGONQUIN PARK: WINTER HOME OF THE EARLY PINE LOGGERS
Algonquin Provincial Park is in the logging country of the Ottawa Valley; there was logging there long before it was set aside as a park and forest reserve back in 1893. Much of the colonial history of the 19th Century of the entire Ottawa Valley, including the area that became Algonquin Park, was closely tied to the cutting of Red Pine and White Pine. The men of the early pine logging, who worked in the woods, needed shelter in the form of the camboose shanty. There are overgrown and barely visible camboose shanty remains scattered throughout the Park, very difficult to find.
CLIENT: The Friends of Algonquin Park
AUTHOR: Roderick MacKay
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