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:
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:
That was gold.
Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.
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.
