June 11, 2022

Episode 37: Lake Water Rising Part 2: The Gilmour Tramway

41 minutes

In this second of two episodes on the Gilmour great misadventure, I focus on Gilmour’s great tramway adventure. where the company tried to haul and float logs from the Algonquin Park Highlands to Trenton. On a completely different river system and uphill for a fair amount of it, the adventure was an engineering marvel but a practical disaster of both time and money.

In addition to my own research for many of my books and other podcasts, most of the content comes from a few key sources including:

When Giants Fall – The Gilmour Quest for Algonquin Pine by GARY LONG & RANDY WHITEMAN

Algonquin Park’s Mowat Little Town of Big Dreams by Mary I. Garland

Raven Article: Our Eyes are Dim, We cannot See August, 2003 Remaking the Tea-Smoke-Canoe Lake Landscape 14,2003 Vole 44 No 9

Norm Quinn’s 2002 Algonquin Wildlife Lessons in Survival

The musical interlude in this episode is the Wakami Walers version of the Log Drivers Waltz from their 1993 Waltz With the Woods Album. Don’t forget to check out other versions on YouTube, which a great fun to watch. Don’t forget to lend your support to the Wildlife Research Station as they embark on another busy season of research activities.

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