I suggest a thread on longest recovery

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally posted by rob love
Alex
Never even thought of fishing.
There were a few POW camps in the area, and logging camps as well. If you are talking about the camp I think you are talking about, it was on the south east corner of the lake. There are only remains of a large wooden wheel device they used to pull on the lake in the winter to make the winter road. While at this camp about 7 years back, Derk found what looked to be a German airborne boot. Lots of other junk around too.

The carriers were on the North end of the lake. After the big haul of stuff the first year, we went back another year and found lots of smaller treasures scattered about the bush. Things like grenade boxes, antenna mounts, good track.....you know, the kind of stuff one normally finds laying about in the Northern Ont bush.

I heard rumours of 2 more carriers in the bush up there....may be a summer expidition coming up yet.

Rob..
It's been almost 40 years since I was back there..
I had a buddy Stationed at Armstromg and I was stationed at Lowther(Halfway between Hurst and Kapiskasing.)
We used to drive up to Longlac and catch the train into Armstrong and go fishing with him...Some of the trip is now hazy due to self inflicted injuries,but it seemed like the POW camp we were in was about 20K south of Armstrong..I could be wrong but it was still standing and quite complete..
Bush fires and pillagers in the past 40 years have probably changed all that now..but there were some good stuff back there..
Good hunting.