Here Kate and I will take a couple of days and head north.
I mean north.
Polar Bear Express
All aboard.
Cochrane, ON
Five hours of pretty much mixed slow growth forest.
Black spruce.
Slightly ending up pre-boreal.
End of the line.
Moosonee, ON.
Main Street. Moosonee, ON, CANADA
Not much as in your usual commercial accommodations available.
Here we'll take a top room for the night.
All good as in the real world of Wi-Fi, TV, ...
Hystorical accommodations.
We will see over the next twenty-four hours quite the assortment of canoe parties finishing up anywhere from three to four week journeys.
Here at the confluence of the Moose river.
Many significant rivers dump into the Moose along its way.
The local taxi stand.
We'll take a ten minute ride over to Moose Factory.
Just north by ten Kilometres is James Bay.
We'll ending up talking more about Niagara on our crossing as our skipper lived in St Catharines for a while.
Both Moosonee and Moose Factory seemed a little sad. Not like other northern posts, they both lack in any significant service or commercial institutions.
Ever been to a town that peaked two hundred years ago??
Original Hudson's Bay blanket from the Yonge and King St store downtown Toronto.
Central heating as in coming from central heating factory.
The predominate indigenous tribe is Cree.
One last portage to the train station.
Downtown Moosonee, ON.
The Northern
Your every day value store.
Pretty much your ONLY every day value store.
Other than by air or by sailing down Hudson's Bay, the only connection to the world below.
Busy today with numerous groups rebounding south.
Moosonee, ON.
The train service is one of few left in North America that will stop at random pre-arrange spots to drop off and pick up wayward travelers.
Lots of disheveled faces but I'm sure all with lifelong memories.
Back to Cochrane from the lantern rouge.
The End.
