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I was looking for the school SurvivalinthebushInc, to see if they were still in operation, when I came across this old gem from the NFB; survival in the bush 1950s style:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/survival_in_the_bush/

Gallowshumour wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 3:35 am I was looking for the school SurvivalinthebushInc, to see if they were still in operation, when I came across this old gem from the NFB; survival in the bush 1950s style:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/survival_in_the_bush/

That was gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhSxzBPAYXA

I worked up in James bay for about seven years and they used the conventional Teepee frame for the summer and a wider / larger but flat roofed one for the winter.

Thin black spruce frame covered in plastic with some spruce boughts and a wood stove in the middle. They would use for a few months and move along to another location. I used to buy the caribou mittens they would make and then sell to some of my crew, dummy me never kept a pair for myself.

I still have a hand made canoe paddle I found half stuck in a dried up swamp creek bed. Slight curve to the handle, with the blade slightly cupped and a ridge in the cup. My father was taught how to fly fish by an Indian guide and he told me they had similar paddle but with a slight groove in the arm so they could dip the paddle in, lift it and water would trickle down the handle to their mouth while hardly missing a beat.

Hard to believe unless one watched it occur but I also remember seeing an old film at a hunting and fishing show in Montréal of this guide standing in a canoe and single handed, pulling a black bear out of the water close to shore and lifting into the canoe! Canoe hardly rocked

You grow up doing this stuff and it’s amazing on what you can do and how easy it looks

and a few pic. summer and winter camp and the slightly curved canoe paddle found one evening

The best part is, the school I was looking or is still in operation: https://www.survivalinthebushinc.com/
I think they're in or near Wiarton, Ontario.