"One Month in Algonquin Park by Canoe - Summer 1933" - The Diary of Ruthven Colquhoun McNairn
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This unique film captures the
This unique film captures the history and adventure of Algonquin Park in it's early years, the summer of 1933, July and August, my great uncle Ruthven Colquhoun McNairn was 18 years old and spent a month in the park with his friend Colin Cam. As a budding writer, Ruthven documented his day to day adventures in a diary, leading almost 100 years later to this film, narrated by Steve Welch.
I never met Ruthven, but always saw his picture on the wall at my grandparents house. Whenever I would ask about him, and I was so curious, his older brother, Robert, my grandfather would stare into the distance - and he wouldn't talk much - which of course made me more curious.
Ruthven was a young writer always practicing his craft. He had had a hard time finishing school in his final year, and 1933 was a pivotal year for him. Earlier in the year, during the great depression, he headed to visit relatives in Denver Colorado, and ended up hitchhiking through North America, into the southern States and into Mexico. (This will be the second Ruthven diary film, coming soon). It was an amazing adventure and rekindled his zest for life. That epic year, 1933, continued on his return as he headed north to spend a month in Algonquin Park that summer.
Full of first hand accounts of what is now Algonquin Park history, the film includes descriptions of people and places such as the bustling Highland Inn on Cache Lake (since demolished), the mysterious Camp Minnising, Taylor Statten camps Wapameo and Ahmek, the "American outfit" Camp Pathfinder, Bartlett Lodge (still open), Kish Kaduk Lodge (now in ruins), Camp Tanamakoon, Daventry. Joe Lake Station, the pavilion at Lake Opeongo, and the many portages we are now so familiar with, when some of them were "new".
Ruthven's life was an amazing one - many years later he would enlist in the army and serve as a Captain of the Algonquin regiment in World War 2, marching through Europe and on to eventual victory. He would make it home from the war, but died shortly after in Hamilton from tuberculosis, which he had caught in Europe, not long before there was a cure.
His time in Algonquin helped give him the skills to be successful, and survive in the march across Europe years later, little did he know that as an eighteen year old boy searching for adventure.
If you appreciate this content, like, comment, share, and subscribe - as an independent film maker, I rely on word of mouth.
This is part one of an Algonquin "Double Header" - two films I am releasing this year about Algonquin. The second film, coming out in June, "Algonquin Park, Seven Days Deep" is from a recent week long trip in the park, a musical journey with spectacular scenes and magical Algonquin moments.
A third feature film comes out later this year as well : "Killarney Winds". It is an epic week long adventure in Killarney ending with a hike up the incredible Silver Peak.
Check out my channel for more films on :
Temagami, The French River, Kawartha Highlands, Algonquin Western Uplands trail, hiking the Avon Trail end to end and "Bruce Trail - The Movie" End to End on the 910 km Bruce Trail.
Plus lots of original music videos.
Thank you
stevewelchontario.com
Thanks to Turtleshell Studio where I recorded the narration. Great guys over there eh!
https://turtleshellstudio.com/
@outoftheshelltv
@aroundtheshell4778
I never met Ruthven, but always saw his picture on the wall at my grandparents house. Whenever I would ask about him, and I was so curious, his older brother, Robert, my grandfather would stare into the distance - and he wouldn't talk much - which of course made me more curious.
Ruthven was a young writer always practicing his craft. He had had a hard time finishing school in his final year, and 1933 was a pivotal year for him. Earlier in the year, during the great depression, he headed to visit relatives in Denver Colorado, and ended up hitchhiking through North America, into the southern States and into Mexico. (This will be the second Ruthven diary film, coming soon). It was an amazing adventure and rekindled his zest for life. That epic year, 1933, continued on his return as he headed north to spend a month in Algonquin Park that summer.
Full of first hand accounts of what is now Algonquin Park history, the film includes descriptions of people and places such as the bustling Highland Inn on Cache Lake (since demolished), the mysterious Camp Minnising, Taylor Statten camps Wapameo and Ahmek, the "American outfit" Camp Pathfinder, Bartlett Lodge (still open), Kish Kaduk Lodge (now in ruins), Camp Tanamakoon, Daventry. Joe Lake Station, the pavilion at Lake Opeongo, and the many portages we are now so familiar with, when some of them were "new".
Ruthven's life was an amazing one - many years later he would enlist in the army and serve as a Captain of the Algonquin regiment in World War 2, marching through Europe and on to eventual victory. He would make it home from the war, but died shortly after in Hamilton from tuberculosis, which he had caught in Europe, not long before there was a cure.
His time in Algonquin helped give him the skills to be successful, and survive in the march across Europe years later, little did he know that as an eighteen year old boy searching for adventure.
If you appreciate this content, like, comment, share, and subscribe - as an independent film maker, I rely on word of mouth.
This is part one of an Algonquin "Double Header" - two films I am releasing this year about Algonquin. The second film, coming out in June, "Algonquin Park, Seven Days Deep" is from a recent week long trip in the park, a musical journey with spectacular scenes and magical Algonquin moments.
A third feature film comes out later this year as well : "Killarney Winds". It is an epic week long adventure in Killarney ending with a hike up the incredible Silver Peak.
Check out my channel for more films on :
Temagami, The French River, Kawartha Highlands, Algonquin Western Uplands trail, hiking the Avon Trail end to end and "Bruce Trail - The Movie" End to End on the 910 km Bruce Trail.
Plus lots of original music videos.
Thank you
stevewelchontario.com
Thanks to Turtleshell Studio where I recorded the narration. Great guys over there eh!
https://turtleshellstudio.com/
@outoftheshelltv
@aroundtheshell4778
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