Watch: Glimpses Of A Canoe Trip

This video from 1936 documents a canoe trip taken by F.R. Crawley and three male friends.

The film includes men at a campfire, paddling the canoe, visiting a lumber camp (shots of men grappling logs, the mess tent, on the river in a boat, the hull of a boat which shattered in rapids). Also, shots of the group camped at 31-mile Lake, waking, washing at the river, swimming, eating, portaging Indian-style. In the evening, the men again set up camp, cook dinner and play poker.

Thanks to Sean Pedersen for stumbling across this piece of Canadian history and sharing it on the Ontario Backcountry Camping Facebook page.