Blogs from Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada, North America

This summer Gielyn helped me move to Timmins from Thunder Bay. We did a few things in the short weekend. We visited an Alpaca Farm, and had a tour in Cedar Meadows. Weeks later my brother came up to visit me. This time we went to Moosonee. Thunder Air took us from Timmins to Moosonee. When we were there we started off by taking a boat taxi to the island. We camped and spent the night on the island. The following day we took a tour with Moose River Tours. We fished and caught baby sturgeon, pike and pickerel. We saw a bald eagle and a couple golden eagles. The following day we took a hike and attempted to get to the bay. After that failure we took another hike North to another river. That evening ... read more

Hi Everyone! I'm up near James Bay, a few hundred kilometers south east from Dave in Churchill! My work has taken me to this pretty little place on an island in the middle of the Moose River and just a boat ride away from Moosonee where my plane landed. The Moose River drains into the James Bay. The landscape is the Hudson's Bay Lowlands and muskeg forests. The island itself and the neighbouring islands are prone to erosion because of the sandy, silty ground. Many fossils are found up here, as is the odd diamond. The diamond mine, De Beers, is up the coast near Attawapiskat, a reservation community in the region. Moose Factory was originally a fur-trading post, set up by Charles Bayly of the Hudson's Bay Company, and a fort was built there in ... read more