{"id":377,"date":"2022-07-15T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2022-07-25T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:13:55","slug":"july-12-13-days-1-2-in-north-bay-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefulljonty.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"July 12, 13 (day 42, 43) – Days 1 & 2 in North Bay, ON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

North Bay, aka \u201cThe Gateway to the North,\u201d is known for several things, one being its La Vase River from the mouth of which Samuel de Champlain would have first seen Lake Nipissing – North Bay is built on its north shore – along with voyageurs, on the major fur trade route of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries to Lake Huron and Lake Superior from Montr\u00e9al via the Ottawa and Mattawa rivers, then La Vase River, Lake Nipissing and finally the French River. The city is also known for being the birthplace of the Dionne quintuplets, who were born in 1934 and are the first known quintuplets to have survived infancy. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The mouth of the La Vase river. We can only hope the weather was this nice when Champlain and voyageurs first saw it.
Our campsite is right beside Champlain Park, which borders the La Vase river as it empties into Lake Nipissing, so it was exciting to see the mouth of the river and imagine Champlain and all the voyageurs having the same view all those years ago.  That being said, our excitement was tempered by the fact that Champlain\u2019s and the voyageurs\u2019 explorations ended up having a devastating impact on the indigenous population, never mind the beavers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The Dionne quints have nothing on the Shad (May) flies. Luckily for us, it was very near the end of Shad fly season, and we only saw them in a couple of locations. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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North Bay’s Main Street reminded us of Victoria in off season – uncontaminated by pedestrians, which was too bad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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We visited a couple of art galleries and participated in an interactive “What is your Dream?\u201d installation at the WKP Kennedy gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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