[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally posted by rob love
Maybe not as far but a heck of a lot tougher: Back in the 90s I left from MooseJaw Sask and picked up Gordon Falk in Steinbach. From there we headed to Armstrong Ontario, north of Thunder Bay. Once we were near Armstrong, we headed down a old washed out road for a a couple kilometers. Once camp was set up,we had to go about 1 mile on the first lake, another mile through a shallow river, and then a couple more miles accross a big lake. Then we hauled the oxy acetylene torches up a 250 foot hill, along with a water pump in case of fire. There were 5 Bren carrier hulls up there, and we had gone to recover what we could find. And after the drive, the boat ride, and the hike up the hill with the oxy and acetylene bottles, I discovered we hadn't brought a stryker. A bit of salvaged wire from a carrier, and the battery from the boat solved that.

Anyway, we spent the next three days cutting, the next day dragging stuff to the shore, and the last day going back and forth with the boat. And every night we were just exhausted.
By the third day we were starting to wish we never saw another carrier in our lifetimes, but once everything got home, we had some real treasure.

Sitting in the cab of a truck is the easy way. Dragging the stuff through the bush by hand is the man's way.

Rob..
I have been in that area and there is an old prisonor of war camp down south of Armstrong..When I was there back in '69 the prisoner's paintings were still on the walls and it looked like they just walked out in '45..and left everything..I don't remember any carriers there but very well could be lots of stuff there because of the POW camp...You had your work cut out for you...the fishing was fabulous...
Hope you had some time to do some fishing..at least with a CIL wobbler or two...