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Back Roads Bill: What's up with all those 'height of land' signs in the North?

There's more to it than you might think, as Back Roads Bill explains in this week's column

Jul 8, 2020 3:01 PM Read more >

A Cold War crash over Northern Ontario and the search for a missing pilot

In his latest column, Back Roads Bill Steer brings us along on his quest to find out what happened to United States Air Force Pilot Lt. Gaylord Treu, whose remains were never recovered

Jul 2, 2020 2:30 PM Read more >

Here's what you need to know about Ontario's majestic white pine

Also, Back Roads Bill has put together a map of some of the region's largest stands and he'd like your help expanding it

Jun 24, 2020 2:30 PM Read more >

Here's why Northern Ontario rocks are being studied for future moon missions

In Back Roads Bill's latest column, he takes a trip to Foleyet to see the Shawmere Anorthosite

Jun 18, 2020 2:00 PM Read more >

Here's how one family used locally-sourced ochre to make a keepsake of their baby

In Back Roads Bill's latest column, he chronicles his own intervention in a family's quest to get their hands (and feet) on the natural paint used by Indigenous people of the region

Jun 10, 2020 2:30 PM Read more >

Have you heard the story of the three crosses of Mattawa?

In this inaugural edition of Back Roads Bill Steer's new northern Ontario travel column, he examines four different versions of the story of the crosses' origin

Jun 3, 2020 2:30 PM Read more >