My brother - and fellow paddler! - Max and I spent a couple of weeks up in the Armstrong Station area this September. We went up for a few reasons: to see the Cliff Lake pictograph sites again, to paddle down a stretch of the Pikitgushi that does not seem to get any traffic at all (i.e. from the Bear Camp down to Windigo Bay). to island hop Lake Nipigon down to Echo Rock.
Something we didn’t know we’d be doing on this trip was looking for a POW camp on Wabinosh Lake! It all started with a comment by an Armstrong local that piqued our curiosity. We looked for - but did not find that POW camp. Further search for an answer when we got home did lead me to learn some new stuff about my country’s history.

The most surprising thing I learned was this - there was no POW camp on Wabinosh Lake - at least, no camp the way I had imagined them to be as we looked for signs of one.
See this post -
WWII POW Camps in the Armstrong Station Area – The Real Story! - if you want to see where our little search for Wabinosh Lake’s POW camp for German soldiers in WWII led us. It ended up being a trip within a trip!
And if you have any stories of your own - or ones you heard from your parents or grandparents - let me know. There is still more to this story!