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Volume 16 No. 13
PaB is in full swing! Hope you are enjoying summer! We had a fabulous PaBIA Film Series last Sunday with PaB’s own Mifflin brothers. Check out the two documentaries they directed and produced and presented below!
PaBIA is honoured to offer everyone a special speaker’s program next Tuesday afternoon on “How Reconciliation Can Be Achieved with our Indigenous Communities” – come listen and learn from John Beaucage, a member of Canada’s Order of Canada.
Coming up as well are all kinds of activities – including the Junior Regatta (hope the kids and grandkids are practicing their dives, swim and canoe strokes), sailing and boater coaching!
Table of Contents In this eBlast:
PaBIA
- John Beaucage – How Reconciliation Can Be Achieved with our Indigenous Communities – 7/23
- On-The-Water Boater Coaching with Randy Johnson – Wednesday, July 24 (last one in July)
- PaBIA Sailing 2024 – This Saturday’s 5th & 6th Races, 2 pm Middle Reach
- PaBIA Junior Regatta – 9 am on July 27th
- Two Water Brothers Documentary Videos Presented at PaBIA’s 1st Film Series
- Pointe au Baril Library at the Community Centre
- Check out the June, July, and August Calendars
OHPS
- History Moment – The Dock Watcher
OF INTEREST
- Ojibway Club Art Show – August 8-11
- SFN PowWow – August 17-18
- Join Georgian Bay Biosphere’s Bioblitz on July 19 from 11 am – 3 pm
- Florence Church Rummage Sale and Drop Off
- Yearbook Update – July 15, 2024
- In Memoriam – Nancy Matheson and Jillison Evans Rolland
- Lake Michigan-Huron Water Levels – July 15, 2024
PaBIA
Missing/Broken Markers Contact Info
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Should you find any
misplaced, missing or broken
PaBIA markers, please
email Tom Cavers IMMEDIATELY or
go to PaBIAi’s webpage!
How Reconciliation Can be Achieved with our Indigenous Communities
Tuesday, July 23 @ 4 pm
On-The-Water Boater Coaching – Wednesday July 24 @ 9 am – OC Back Dock
Sign Up in Ojibway Office!
Get/Renew boating skills. The Ojibway Club Office has a signup sheet for anyone interested in gaining skills in maneuvering and docking their boat. So sign up and bring your own boat to the back docks where Randy Johnson will guide and teach you new skills! Be the envy of the Bay!!!
His next available coaching day is next Wednesday, July 24. Please email Randy directly to let him know you would like to participate and include your cell phone so he can contact you should there be inclement weather preventing him from holding the session.
PaBIA Junior Regatta – July 27th
We encourage all those from 4 – 15 years to join in the fun for PaBIA’s Junior Regatta at 9 am on Saturday, July 27th at the Ojibway Front Docks. Please encourage your children and grandchildren and their friends to join in the fun as they participate in the diving, swimming, and canoeing competitions!
PaBIA Sailing – Saturday, July 20 @ 2 p.m.
PaBIA Mike Mosley Regatta is THIS Saturday for sailing races (5th and 6th) are in the Middle Reach. Everyone is encouraged to come and join in. If you’d like more information regarding the sailing, and opportunities to join a crew, contact PaBIA’s Sailing Commodore, Andrew Vanderwal.
Should you wish to get weekly, more detailed information regarding the sailing races & rendezvous following each race, please email Andrew to be added to the list. The full year’s schedule can be found on PaBIA’s website!
Water Brothers Documentaries – PaBIA’s 1st Film Series
Alex and Tyler Mifflin are THE Water Brothers. Growing up on Georgian Bay and summering in PaB over the last 20 years have endeared them to nature and, specifically, the water. As producers and directors, they shared these two films with us in the movie hut last Sunday for the first ever PaBIA Film Series: one about the importance of restoring wetlands; and a second about how plastics are building up in the Great Lakes, the ecosystem, impacting us humans.
Paving Over Paradise
About three-quarters of the wetlands that once existed in southern Ontario are now gone. How do we restore these vital habitats that are also some of our best natural defenses against the effects of climate change?
The Great Plastic Lakes
Over 10 million kilograms of plastic enter the Great Lakes each year. As the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth fills up with plastic, it is also building up in the bodies of wildlife and the 40 million people who rely on the Lakes for drinking water. The Water Brothers go on a search for promising solutions to the massive global challenge of plastic pollution.
OHPS
HISTORY MOMENT
Brought to you by the Ojibway Historical Preservation Society
“To restore, preserve and protect those structures in the Pointe au Baril area designated as historically and architecturally significant“
The Ojibway Dock Watcher
Bert Bruckland is as elemental to the history of the Ojibway as the rock on which it stands.
It was Bert who, in the spring of 1906, sailed the lumber up from Parry Sound that would be used to build the hotel. Hamilton Davis noticed how capable this ex-British navy man was and convinced him to stay and help with the construction. Bert stayed for 50 years.
A jack of all trades, he took charge of boats, baggage, boathouses, repairs, the hardware shop, fishing guides, the ice house, and general maintenance. Bert was also the postmaster and, when required, the island barber.
Bert ran a tight ship, keeping an eagle eye on the dock and the weather. He’d encourage islanders to head for home if the sky began to threaten. He’d scold children for rough-housing. And, if a child fell into the water, it was often Bert who noticed first and fished them out.
Calm under fire, Bert once watched the arriving steamer Soo City as it headed, bow-first, straight into the wharf at a considerable clip. Bert realized what was about to happen and made sure everyone was out of harm’s way. The steamer pushed the dock right up onto the rocks.
Unruffled, Bert told the captain that if he had just kept going, he’d be able to do the bellhops a favour and deliver the trunks to the second floor himself.
Sources: Our Pointe au Baril by Ruth H. McCuaig and At the Ojibway: 100 Summers on Georgian Bay by David MacFarlane, published by Nancy Lang
HISTORY MOMENT written by Celia Milne, Jane Manning-Marshall, Nancy Lang ~ OHPS Board Members
Of Interest
Join Georgian Bay Biosphere’s Bioblitz on July 19 – 11 am – 3 pm
Join GBB this July 19th at 11 am for a picnic lunch (bring your own) and BioBlitz! GBB staff will gather at the Ojibway Club front docks at 11 am and lead a boat train out to an island. After lunch we will explore, looking for as many plants and animals as can be found. Learn about local species, have fun, and ask naturalists your burning ecological questions!
What is a BioBlitz? From the National Environment Treasure, “Bio” means “life” and “blitz” means “a sudden, energetic and concerted effort.” It brings people together to discover local plants and animals and record their findings. Become a community scientist by learning about species, how to identify them, and recording as many species as you can find!
Download iNaturalist before the event to participate in citizen science! Find the setup instructions for iPhone and Android.
Ojibway Club Art Show 2024
The annual Ojibway Club Art Show will take place from August 8-11, 2024, at the Ojibway Club! This year the Art Show will be out-doing itself again, with a number of new fabulous artists and vendors, make sure you reserve the weekend in your calendars. This event is the primary fundraiser event for the Ojibway Club and features a variety of art forms, including paintings, photography, and textiles. Additionally, a marketplace will be open where vendors arrive by boat to sell pottery, jewelry, clothing, and other items on Friday evening and all day Saturday. Friday evening August 9th is the opening night party and is a great way to connect over drinks and shopping, all for a good cause.
We look forward to celebrating the beautiful Georgian Bay-inspired artworks with our Ojibway Club community!
Check out the Instagram page
Important note: This is different than the Pleasure Craft Operator Card (PCOC) which is a proof of competency that is valid for life, once acquired through an accredited boating safety course and test.
Aanii, PaBIA Community, Save the date!
The Shawanaga First Nation’s Powwow is coming on August 17 and 18.
Join PaBIA Directors, volunteers, and members on the 17th (rain date, August 18) for the grand entry or attend on the date of your choice.
Stay tuned for more information to follow in August.
Email Helen Bryce with questions!
Miigwech!!
Pointe au Baril Library @ the Community Centre
Pointe au Baril Library, located in the PAB Community Centre, is open on Monday and Wednesday mornings from 9:30 to 11:30 am. We look forward each summer to cottagers who can register as Patrons (i.e., a borrower with a Township of Archipelago address, cell phone, and email) can sign up to borrow books. Each week in July and August the Library news will feature several selections for readers. This week the highlight is on three authors who have written a series of crime mysteries taking place in England, Brittany and Sicily.
Jean-Luc Bannalec’s “Brittany Mysteries” (9 books, 2013-2024). If you enjoy oysters, salt, art, Celtic legends, seaweed & spas, food and wine, then this series is perfect escapist summer reading. Inspector Dupin and his team solve an array of murders in beautiful Brittany
Andrea Camilleri’s “Inspector Montalbano” series (28 books, 2002-2021) is an acquired taste. The setting is the fictional town of Vigata in Sicily; the main character, Inspector Salvo Montalbano. Food, wine, hot sun and sea are central to the stories along with mystery, mayhem and murder.
Richard Osman’s “Thursday Murder Club” series (4 books, 2020- 2023). Four rather quirky pensioners who reside in a posh English retirement village are determined to solve local murder cases as a means to keep their wits sharp. Simply hilarious!
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
J. Gibson (addition)
In Memoriam
Nancy Matheson, A30-50 ‘Tigh na Bruach’ on Tonches Is., wife of the late Robin Matheson, mother of Lynn Kennedy, Tim Matheson and Wendy Matheson, July 5, 2024.
Jillson Evans Rolland, past PaBIA member, A355 ‘Four Winds’, wife of the late Alec Rolland, mother of Michael Evans (Susan Edwards), Rosalind Heintzman (Andrew), Tony Evans (Lisa Prebianca), July 7, 2024.
Water Levels
Lakes Michigan/Huron Water Levels July 15th, 2024
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