Re: [Paddlewise] Lake Winnipeg

From: Craig Bowers <craig_at_bowers.net>
Date: 10 Feb 2003 11:04:56 -0800
> No personal experience - just the day before have seen the film on TV on
> crossing the Lake Winnipeg to Norway House (in a norway boat, rowing and
> sailing).  Wow... nice scenery, but mosquitoes were a disaster.  These guys
> tried to reproduce 1840 conditions - Norway boat, pemmican food, no bug
> repellents, no mesh tents etc.  Don't remember name of the film, though. It
> will be continued soon (pains of portaging  from Norway house farther north
> :-)...Sorry for this bla-bla :-)


Sounds like you're referring to History Television Canada's "Quest for
the Bay".  It's a series of historical recreations along those lines. 
The first was Homesteading in Manitoba, then the one you saw, and the
current one "Klondie - Quest for the gold".

You can see the page for "Quest for the Bay" here:
http://www.historytelevision.ca/quest/

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