ROUTE | brynleyanderik

The Path of the Paddle route is a roughly 1400km trail through Ontario's northwestern waterway section of the Trans Canada Trail. We will start in Thunderbay, on Lake Superior, and paddle for ten weeks to Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba. Historically, water routes were the original trails across Canada. The routes we will paddle were used in early trade and barter between Nations, for hunting, and for fishing. There are over 200 pictograph sites along the trail, as well as dolmen stones and waymarkers, tooling sites and pottery shards.

This route will take us ten weeks to complete as we paddle along six connected trails containing 120 portages. The whole waterway route will be fully built and operational by 2017, however you can still paddle the trails now understanding that some portions are still a work in progress. Our route from White Otter to Kenora explored a new stretch of trail for Path of the Paddle that is not depicted in this map.

Animikki Trail: Fort William Historical Park to Lake Superior to Pigeon River to La Verendrye Provincial Park

Omimi Trail: La Verendrye Provincial Park to Northern Light Lake to Quetico Provincial Park

Quetico Trail: Quetico Provincial Park to Atikokan

Maukinak Trail: Atikokan to Turtle River-White Otter Lake Provincial Park to Rainy Lake to Fort Frances

Migizi Trail: Fort Frances to Rainy River to Lake of the Woods to Kenora

Anishanabe Trail: Kenora to Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba