A River Runs Through Us All
My family has spent at least 25 summers on Lake Kipawa in Quebec. We started going there in August 1980 just after my sister Angela was born. In a rather poetic touch, when her son Kaelan was born in August 2001, Angela brought him up to Kipawa when he was just a couple of weeks old! There is a precious photo of me holding him and he is staring intently into my eyes. As a result, I have a deep affection for the area and its people. I understand that my father’s great-great-uncle helped to found a settlement on a remote section of the Kipawa system named Hunter’s Point (aka Wolf Lake). It was during our 20th summer that I came across Scott Sorenson’s moving work Kipawa River Chronicles (1999) during a day trip to the small town of Haileybury (located on the Ontario side of Lake Temiscaming) to visit a friend named Dutt that I had roomed with at Queen's. What a splendid yarn it is. Mr Sorenson’s writings remind me of the fireside tales of my youth. His narrative is warm,...