Gilbert-Rochon-Inc near Angling Lake ON (2053 Result(s))

Moose Creek Reforestation Has Been In The Tree Planting Business Since 1984. It Is A Modest Family Owned And Operated Company That Is Different From Most. In Addition To Running A Successful Reforestation Operation, The Skene Family Has Been Involved In Other Aspects Of Forestry For Over 100 Years. This Initially Began As Logging And Sawmilling But Has Recently Involved Lumber Retail.Over The Years More Than 28 Million Trees Have Been Planted With Currently Over 3 Million Trees Being Planted Annually. There Is Much More To Reforestation Than Planting.

It was an area distant from main trade routes, the closest Hudson Bay posts were located at Island Lake to the west and at Big Trout Lake to the east. This vast expanse of lakes and forests were the hunting grounds of the Little Suckers (referring to a type of fish) and Crane Clans, the ancestors of most of the Sandy Lake and Deer Lake people.In the last decades of the 1800's, the leading man of the Little Suckers was the famous Jake Fiddler, or 'South Wind'. Jake Fiddler was a great medicine man, conjurer and healer of the people. It is known he visited the May-May-quay-shi-wok in the rock cliffs. He cured the whitefish in South Trout of worms and once he brought back the sturgeon to Cobham Falls.