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Volume 17 No. 16
Greetings!
What a fabulous run of weather we have had, starting about mid July. But the weather is beginning to change – but the sparking August waters have shown their diamonds in the Bay. Do you see them around 4 pm when the sun is shining brightly?
Please be sure to send your photos, stories and Reflection Sharings before your thoughts turn back to the city and the fall activities.
For bear sightings, if you are unable to get through to MNR’s Bear Wise telephone Hotline, please email Brandon Hellyer directly to report a bear break-in or bear sightings and put into the subject line: BearWise Hotline. Please use this email ONLY for reporting island number/incident.
And if you are one of the fortunate ones who can stay on through September/October, please join in the fun camaraderie that tennis/pickleball brings – check out the fun below!
This eBlast bids adieu to this summer’s weekly editions as the season draws to a close. Over the fall and winter, PaBIA will publish quarterly eBlasts to keep you informed. It’s been a wonderful summer!
Table of Contents In this eBlast:
PaBIA
- Reminder to attach Off Season Patrol Tags
- Calling for PaB Summer photos 2025
- Sharings for 2026 Yearbook
- PaBIA‘s Saturday Bell Buoy Sailing Race: August 30
- PaBIA’s On-the-Water Boater Coaching – TODAY
- Literally on the Bay – Kanata Classics
OF INTEREST
- Post Season Racquet Sports for EVERYONE on the Ojibway courts.
- Granite Cup Tennis Tournament – September 20
- Highway 69 Rehabilitation Project
- Lake Michigan-Huron Water Levels – August 22, 2025
PaBIA
Reminder to Post Patrolman Off Season Tags on Cottage – Primary Members
For all Primary Members, please be sure to put up your Off Season Tag(s) on the outside of the building(s) you wish to have checked by Bruce Tiffin, our Off Season Patrolman, over the fall, winter, and spring. One tag is provided through your membership and was inside your 2025 Yearbook along with extra tags if you had paid for them.
If you have questions, please contact Elise Findlay, Secretary-Treasurer, directly.
Photographs and Short Stories
Sharings for 2026 Yearbook
Please send in your high res photos with titles or one page stories of the ’25 summer, to Hilde. The hope is to fill the book with memories as space is available. Perhaps it is a picture or short story to tell about your summer that you feel is worth sharing.
NEW FOR 2026 – Perhaps one of your photos is a place on or view from your island or item in your cottage that represents what resonates with your spirit and uplifts your soul. If so, please take and send us that PaB picture along with a short description (100 words) describing how that particular photo ‘speaks’ to you. Is it a special location or hobby, an old wooden haul, your grandchild’s creation or something else? We’d love to share your heartfelt submissions in the 2026 PABIA/Ojibway Club yearbook.
Please send the picture and up to 100 words describing what brings you back year after year to Hilde Clark.
PaBIA Sailing Race – Bud Body Bell Buoy Race
Date: August 30
Time: 2 pm
Venue: Bell Buoy Race Course
Want to be added to the sailing email list or for further information, please email Jamie Isbester by either clicking on his name or text/phone him by finding the information on page 292 of the 2025 Yearbook.
PaBIA’s On-the-Water Boater Coaching –
Final Class for 2025 TODAY
Randy Johnson will again lead this coaching class – so sign up in the Ojibway Club office for the final Wednesday class. Bring your boat to the back Ojibway Docks. If you have questions, please email him before next Wednesday. It’s never to late to learn/brush up on your boating skills.
Literally on the Bay
Welcome to the Pointe au Baril Library summer e-blasts.
The Library, located in the Community Centre on South Shore Road, is open from 9:30-11:30 am Mondays and Wednesdays, holidays excepted. Recent best sellers have been added to the collection in time for summer reading. We are very much looking forward to the many conversations that a Library generates.
Pointe au Baril Library at the Community Centre, South Shore Road
Summer hours: Monday and Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Kanata Classics
McClelland & Stewart present six Canadian classics in this series as a timeless collection of books curated to lead the conversation on our country’s culture, history, and identity. Each one is a treasure.
Island is a collection of stories that captures the soul of the east coast and proves Alistair MacLeod is a master of the craft. A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of the sea. A father provokes his young son to violence when he reluctantly sells the family horse. A passionate girl who grows up on a nearly deserted island turns into an ever-wistful woman when her one true love is felled by a logging accident. A dying young man listens to his grandmother play the old Gaelic songs on her ancient violin as they both fend off the inevitable.
NISHGA by Jordan Abel was awarded the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize at the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. This book is a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada’s residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence.
This summer in Pointe au Baril both real and fictional bears have captured our imaginations and our vigilance. The book, Bear, was the winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction in 1976. Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario. Lou’s imagination is soon overtaken by the island’s past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. What she discovers will change her life forever.
Halfbreed by Maria Campbell is an unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a Métis woman in Canada with its depiction of the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan, her father the grandson of a Scottish businessman and Métis woman–a niece of Gabriel Dumont whose family fought alongside Riel and Dumont in the 1885 Rebellion; her mother the daughter of a Cree woman and French-American man.
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese is an unforgettable journey of a father and son, set in dramatic landscape of the BC Interior. Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He’s sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they’ve shared haunt and trouble Frank, but he answers the call, a son’s duty to a father. What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldon’s end.
Kim Thuy’s RU means lullaby in Vietnamese; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow–of tears, blood, money. This is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.
young woman and, and so we passed each other in the dark.
Of Interest
Post-Season Racquets Activity –
Open to the Entire Community – EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Daily Racquet Sports
September 2- October 13, 10 am drop in
Post Season Granite Cup Tennis Tournament
Saturday, September 20th
9:30 warm up, 10:00 am start
Rain date Sunday, September 21st
Pre-Register by Thursday, September 18th
Contact Beth Green to register
Highway Rehabilitation Project on Highway 69
Shwe Miikaan-Miller Partnership
705-647-4331 (o) 704024 Rockley Road 705-647-3611 (f) New Liskeard, ON
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MTO Contract 2025-5014 HWY 69 Notification to Affected Agencies
Dear Stakeholders,
Shwe Miikaan-Miller 2020 (Partnership between Miller Paving and Shwe Miikaan First Nations) will be conducting a large-scale highway rehabilitation project on highway 69 as part of the MTO 2025-5014 contract.
This contract spans from 1.4 km North of Highway 559 Interchange, Northerly to 4.6 km North of Highway 7182 (Shebeshekong) for 20.0 km. The structure rehabilitation of the Shawanaga River Bridge (Site No. 44X-0065/B0) will also be part of this project.
This project will be fully operational starting on September 2nd, 2025, once it has commenced there will be heightened construction activity in the area and lane closures on this stretch of highway will be present. This project contains both day work and night work depending on the operation so please also be aware that these closures could be present at any time of the day. Traffic Control Persons will be instructed to manage traffic to facilitate emergency vehicles passing through the work zone at all times.
Work on this project in 2025 is slated to be completed by the end of November 2025, operations will pick back up in the spring of 2026 and completed by the fall of 2026
Yearbook Update
With each eBlast, we will provide you a list of names of those members who have provided updated contact information. The details of all the changes since the 2023 yearbook came out in early May are provided in THIS printable format for you to print out and insert into your own Yearbook! Changes as of June 23 are below.
For reporting Markers’ problems
contact Tom Cavers by cell (pg. 267 in yearbook) or email
For contacting Secretary-Treasurer and Asst. Sec. Treas.
Nancy Rogers and Elise Findlay: contact.pabia@gmail-com)
Water Levels
Lakes Michigan/Huron Water Levels August 22, 2025.
To better read the charts, please click on the chart for the Daily or Six Month Forecast Water level chart and the corresponding websites
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Emergency
• PaB Nursing Station
• Canadian Coast Guard
Search and Rescue
800-267-7270
• PaBIA Emergency info