This is a message intended for Bob McCall, who was a contributor to this forum back in late 2011. Bob, I hope you are still looking this thread from time to time. Your posts don't include your email address...otherwise I would reach out to you directly. In one of your last posts, you asked if I remembered who your counselors might have been and where you trip might have gone. I can now authoritatively answer those questions. A strange set of circumstances led me to a discussion with Henry Kennedy, who is the grandson of Don Kennedy, the original founder of Camp Kieve. Henry directed me to a link (
https://archive.org/details/kieveannual ... ads&page=1) from which you can access every copy of the camp's "Kieve Annual". I found the copy from 1965, and, on page 6, there is a picture of your South Harris group. In the write up (starting on page 41) of the Canadian trip that year, you will see that you did not take the southern trip on the Kapitachouane River (as I had suggested), but, instead, went north on what is usually called the Macho River trip. The hardest day of portaging was, undoubtedly, the first day. You would have made 3 portages (known as the Bourgmonts) that day. The first was short, but the next two were a mile each. The first of the long ones was half in the bush and half along the railroad tracks, and it and the short one still exist. The second long one has been completely reclaimed by nature. Since the camp's closing in the late 1980's, there has been little to no traffic in that direction. Your trip was led by three counselors from Camp Kapitachouane: Butch Paine was the trip leader, John Soper was the asst. TL, Al Glascow was the Med Counselor, and Peter Wheelock was the JC. After making the Bourgmont portages, you paddled and portaged Bourgmont Creek, ran rapids on the Kekek river, paddled up a series of lakes, eventually reached the Macho River, where you ran a few rapids on it and on the Megiscane River, and then circled back to CK's base camp on Lake Choiseul via Lake Pascagama, Lake Bernier, Susie Dam and Resevoir, Ganas Falls, Whiteshore Lake, and Hudson's Creek. Although earlier Kieve trips got to camp via the CNR, it appears that you were driven all the way up to CK's base camp on Lake Choiseul, which was quite an ordeal, especially back then when the roads were barely passable.
Mark Hinckley