Lake Nipissing topography

[Storme Van Rassel]

I am looking to do a circumnavigation of Lake Nipissing this summer. Does
anyone know where (online or offline) that I can find an excellent
topographic map of the area all around the lake. Thanks ever. Chin up -
spring is almost here.

[Darryl]

Digital topo maps are available for downloading (free) from GeoGratis.
http://geogratis.ca/geogratis/en/index.html

If you don't know the map "names", you can use the geographical map
browser to narrow in on the area you're interested in.

HTH,
--
Darryl

[Wm Watt]

You can get a hydrographic chart of Lake Nippissing.

The lake is shallow and generates large waves, especially along the
south shore.

My mother's family homesteaded in the area in the 1880's. The extended
family still owns property in the area, are licened guides, and one
owns a south shore resort.

Happy paddling.

[tjreyn...@hotmail.com]

Wm Watt

You sound a lot like my cousin Bill Watt, that you Bill?

Tim Reynolds

[Wm Watt]

I am Tim's cousin. Our mothers' grandfather homesteaded near the
surveyed route of the Candian Pacific Railway south of Lake Nipissing
in the 1880's. But that rascaly old scoundrel Sir John A MacDonald got
relected Prime Minster and rerouted the railway around the noth shore
of Lake Nipissing. The grandfather stayed on and did well farming in
summer and logging in winter until the 1920's when the trees ran out
followed immediately by the big logging camps. The grandfather lost
his winter employment, also the market for the farm produce which had
been sold to the logging camps. The last of the small local sawmills
closed in the 1960's. In the 1950's the province built Restoule
Provincial Park at the end of the road running past the homestead.
It's all tourism now. The homestead is still in family. Tim and I did
our early paddling in the area.