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A Paddlers Guide to Quetico Provincial Park

Title: A Paddlers Guide to Quetico Provincial Park
Description:
This 159 page softcover book includes a map with some possible routes and relevant information on these routes.Has some useful general information too. The latest edition is 2001 and some information relevant to park permits may be outdated.
Check with park headquarters to be sure.
Cost: $21.95
 
Lake Names of Quetico Provincial Park

Title: Lake Names of Quetico Provincial Park
Description:
The area's biological heritage and cultural legacy is apparent in the names of Quetico's lakes. Read about the history behind over 100 of them.
Soft cover booklet of 34 pages includes a bibliography.
Cost: $3.00
 
Pages from the Past - Voyageurs and Early Explorers

Title: Pages from the Past - Voyageurs and Early Explorers
Description:
Relive the early history of Quetico Park as recordedin the journals of the voyageurs and explorers. This booklet is complemented by many maps and pictures of the time.
Cost: $6.00 plus tax in Canada and shipping if not purchased in one of our shops.
 
Pictographs of Quetico

Title: Pictographs of Quetico
Description:
While you are canoeing, take time to see the artwork left on rock cliffs by Ojibwa people or their Algonquin speaking ancestors. This booklet describes and gives the exact location of 30 different pictographs, found within the park.
Cost: $1.50 plus tax Shipping cost will apply if mail ordered.
 
Plants of Quetico and the Ontario Shield

Title: Plants of Quetico and the Ontario Shield
Description:
Written by the late Shan walshe, Quetico's former Biologist whose particular interest was botany, this reprint, paid for by Friends of Quetico is a softcover of 152 pages with many photographs and locations of where certain species can be found.This book is a good guide to take with you on your trip if you are curious about plant life.
Cost: $29.95 plus tax and shipping if applicable.
 
Quetico Fishes

Title: Quetico Fishes
Description:
Written by E.J.Crossman and published in 1976 by the royal Ontario Musem and The Quetico Foundation this is a very informative and scientific publication. It includes a list of all species, a list of lake names and the species found in each lake, good black and white illustrations of the different species, some b & w photos, and such things as age-lenght-weight charts for lake sturgeon and lake trout. There is information on "Glacial History and Changes in Pathways for Fishes". A very nformative book.
Cost: $10.95 plus tax and shipping if applicable.
 
Quetico Parks Facinating Facts

Title: Quetico Parks Facinating Facts
Description:
A compendium of intriguing facts and anecdotes on the cultural and natural history of Quetico.
Cost: $4.75 plus applicable tax and shipping if mail-ordered.
 
Quetico Provincial Park - An Illustrated History

Title: Quetico Provincial Park - An Illustrated History
Description:
Written by Shirley F. Peruniak, Quetico Park's Historian, and published by Friends of Quetico Park in 2000, this book includes the natural history and the "people history" of Quetico. There are many b & w and some color photos.
If you are visiting Quetico for the first time and wish to learn about the park, this is a good book to read. If Quetico is one of your favorite places, it is a must have.
Cost: $34.95 plus applicable tax and shipping if mail-ordered.
 
Quetico-Superior Country

Title: Quetico-Superior Country
Description:
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The Birds of Quetico Provincial Park and the Atikokan Area

Title: The Birds of Quetico Provincial Park and the Atikokan Area
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