Pages 1 to 3:
Introduction and History
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4 to 6: Maps
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7 to 11: North West River and Grand Lake
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12: Naskaupi River
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13 to 14: Red Wine River
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15: Red Wine Valley
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16 to 18: Highlands
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19: Hubbard Monument
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24: Visitors to monument.
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26 to 28: Evacuation from monument
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29 to 31:
Innu Portage
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32 to 33:
Useful information for canoeists and hikers
© 2001 NAV Canada
Yellow dots above: Route North West River to Little Lake to Grand Lake up Naskaupi River
Green dots above: Route up Red Wine River
Red dots above: Overland route to Hubbard Monument
Blue dots above: Innu Portage
Starting from
in front of the former Hudson’s Bay post in North West River, you cross
Little Lake and then go through the passage to Grand Lake. If the
water is high, you will have to line your canoe along the edge of the left-hand
side of the passage against the current flowing out of Grand Lake.
Next, you have to choose whether to travel down the left-hand side or right-hand
side of Grand Lake. Huge waves can come up on Grand Lake and it is
easy to become wave-bound. There is often a prevailing wind blowing
from the southwest. In these conditions, the left-hand side can be
calm, while there will be large waves breaking on the right-hand side.
This can suddenly change, however, if a storm system comes in from the
northeast, resulting in massive waves breaking on the left-hand side of
the lake. (Go
to Page 9)