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BACK ROADS BILL: Creation and homecoming of Sasquatch Sam

BACK ROADS BILL: Creation and homecoming of Sasquatch Sam

This week, Bill takes us through the creation and bringing home of a wooden sculpture that stands over eight feet tall and is a symbol of the untamed wilderness alive in the world
BACK ROADS BILL: Beavers and turtles on the coming winter

BACK ROADS BILL: Beavers and turtles on the coming winter

This week Bill tells us about what winter will be like in northern Ontario from the natural signs
BACKROADS BILL: Budd Car run through Northern Ontario

BACKROADS BILL: Budd Car run through Northern Ontario

This week, Bill does something he has not done before and takes a pleasurable train ride across a part of northeastern Ontario
BACK ROADS BILL: Visiting a unique museum on the back waters

BACK ROADS BILL: Visiting a unique museum on the back waters

This week, Bill tells us of a community story that is about our mining heritage, not on the back roads, but on the water
BACK ROADS BILL: Mitigating a catastrophe at a legacy mine

BACK ROADS BILL: Mitigating a catastrophe at a legacy mine

Bill tells us about a not-so-well-known, long-term environmental solution in the making
BACK ROADS BILL: Roadside labour monument remembers tragedy

BACK ROADS BILL: Roadside labour monument remembers tragedy

This week Bill finally stops at a roadside monument he should have long ago
BACK ROADS BILL: Two stories, one place

BACK ROADS BILL: Two stories, one place

This week Bill journeys to Ontario’s most northern camping park and tries to verify a Sasquatch story
BACK ROADS BILL: Nickels on the railway tracks

BACK ROADS BILL: Nickels on the railway tracks

This week, Bill tells us about runaway nickels on the railway tracks
Back Roads Bill: The haunting legacy of the Temiscaming canoe tragedy

Back Roads Bill: The haunting legacy of the Temiscaming canoe tragedy

On June 11, 1978, a group of 27 adolescent boys set out on a three-week canoe trip bound for Moosonee. Only 15 of them would survive the first day
BACK ROADS BILL: Matachewan: a gold mine of stories

BACK ROADS BILL: Matachewan: a gold mine of stories

Bill takes us to Matachewan for more stories that he can write about