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Here we are in
temagami, ontario.

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[cheering & applauding]

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Northern ontario,
you can say

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When you're north
of north bay.

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This is a place
famous for forests,

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Where the ecosystem
of the great lakes

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Meets that of the boreal.

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Below your feet,
the canadian shield,

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While reaching into the sky
and almost out of sight,

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The old growth pines
both red and white.

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Some of these trees,
so I'm told,

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Are up to
300 years old.

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You can look up and see
their great branches spread,

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Unless of course you got
a canoe on your head.

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[laughing]

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This place boasts thousands
of kilometres of

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Ancient canoe routes,
first used by

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The people of the
temagami first nation.

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Challenging routes that
now draw people here

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From around the world.

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A vast wilderness you can
really lose yourself in,

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Which I did several times.

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In fact, the beauty is so
majestic, so indescribable,

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I found it kind of
hard to describe

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When I had to call someone
to come find me.

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[laughing]

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The trees are huge,
and...

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Like, it's beautiful?

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[laughing]

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When you grow up in a small
town in newfoundland,

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You see that people have
a sense of humour

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About hard times.

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Check, check.

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I turned that into a
career and hit the road.

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[mc] mr. Jonny harris!

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Now I'm on a mission to find
the funny in the places

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You'd least expect it,

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Canada's struggling
small towns.

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Towns that are against the
ropes, but hanging in there...

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Still laughing in the
face of adversity.

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This is temagami,
ontario.

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♪

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♪

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The attraction of old growth
forests was not always for

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Nature-loving
adventurers scrambling

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Over rough
portage paths.

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No, for decades,
it attracted logging.

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And the path back then was,
let's say, clear cut.

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[laughing]

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While it meant a
livelihood for the locals,

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Others became concerned that
these ancient old-growth

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Forests would be wiped out.

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And it came to a
head in the late 80s,

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When protests broke out.

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It wasn't just
environmentalists

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Versus loggers.

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Of course, these forests
and the roads being built

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To log them were on the
traditional territory

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Of the temagami
first nation.

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In fact, they were the
first ones to set up

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A blockade to stop
the logging.

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So, you had
construction workers

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Who were trying to
build the road,

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But they're blocked
by first nations.

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Then you got a gang
of angry lumberjacks.

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Eventually the
police get involved.

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What do you got there?

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Well, you pretty much got the
lineup of the village people.

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[laughing]

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I managed to find a woman
who in a way represented

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All factions of the dispute.

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Temagami first nation
land and resource manager,

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Robin koistinen.

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[cheering & applauding]

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Robin remembers how tense it
was back in the blockade days.

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At the centre of the dispute
was the proposed extension of

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A logging road,
red squirrel road.

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They decided they
wanted to put in

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The red squirrel extension,

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You know, it was just
going to be, yeah,

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For convenience sake,

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For the logging industry,
essentially.

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She said the road proposal
came at a time when the

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Temagami people were
already at their wits end,

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They were already on edge.

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Our people had been here
for thousands of years,

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Trapping and
hunting and fishing.

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At the time, the government,
they were always

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Imposing new rules
and regulations.

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You can no longer trap.

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You had to get a
license from them.

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You can no longer fish.

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They were charging
our people for,

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For doing what they
did their whole lives,

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Like eking out their living
and supporting their families.

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You got to consider somebody
coming onto your land and

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Telling you you need a
license to do something that

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You've always done.

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Like, imagine you're
in the backyard,

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And a ranger type comes
in with a badge and

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A sidearm, and is like,

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"hey, you got a license
for that barbecue?"

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[laughing]

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"and I think you're over
your grams of chicken wings.

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Terry, do a wing count."

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[laughing]

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"I, I'll ask you
once again, sir,

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Do you have a license
for the barbecue?

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And no, your 'license to
grill' apron does not count."

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[laughing]

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I have pictures of
my mother and

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My grandfather
and my cousin.

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They're out
blocking the roads.

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They were all hauled off.

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Yeah, my mom
was arrested.

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But at the same time,
I was working for

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The ministry of
natural resources.

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They were trying
to build the road.

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That's got to be pretty
awkward at the office,

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You know. "okay,
ah, hey guys,

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Great work today,
everybody.

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It's 5 o'clock,
I gotta bail...

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My mom out of jail."

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[laughing]

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At the same time,

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There was environmental
groups on the road.

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They're at cross
-purposes with us, right?

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They're not into the
hunting, fishing,

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Trapping kind of thing.
They want it to be a park.

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And to us, it's not a
wilderness, it's our home.

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The temagami people were not
after conservationism.

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They were after
traditionalism.

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They wanted their
way of life back.

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The way they'd always
had it on their land.

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Some of the parks,
in terms of the

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Legislation that was
available at the time,

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Would be another
imposition on us, right?

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At first, they were
united by a common enemy.

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Right? The environmentalists
showed up,

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They said, "we will
protest with you,

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We will help you
stop this logging.

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We don't care how
long it takes.

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We'll stand with you
day and night."

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And the temagami people
said, "well, thank you.

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Ah, but you should know
the nights get pretty cold.

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So, here are
some warm hats.

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Feel how soft that is,
that's beaver.

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Feel that?"
-[laughing]

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"lovely. That's nice,
isn't it? Huh?"

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Finally in 1990,

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They agreed to
come off the road

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When they signed the
memorandum of understanding.

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In 1990, the first nations
and the ontario government

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Signed the memorandum
of understanding.

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It was a truce, it put an
end to the, the blockades.

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Shortly after that,

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The milne & sons
sawmill closed,

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Essentially ending
100 years of

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Large scale forestry
in this area.

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I would say the blockade
might have been

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The straw that broke the
camel's back in that

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Everybody had to fess up.

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There was an over
-competition for

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The white and red pine here.

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There wasn't going to be
enough raw materials

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For the mill,
which is sad.

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I mean, you know,
because it displaced

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A lot of people in our town.

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You know, our friends and
neighbours worked at the mill.

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It was a huge blow
to the community.

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As many as 150 people
were put out of work,

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Families moved away,
the grocery store closed,

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Restaurants shuttered.

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The school went from an
attendance of about 300

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Down to about 30.

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It was really hard for
the town, really hard.

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It's an age-old debate where
you're trying to compare the

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Value of something
used or harvested

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Versus the value of it if
you just leave it alone.

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You know, I had a similar
thing in university with my

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Roommates when some of them
decided we should take down

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The great wall of beer
empties to return to

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The store for money.

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[laughing]

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I know it's slightly
different in your case.

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You know, the stakes are a
little higher when you're

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Talking about the world's
largest stand of

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Old growth red
and white pines.

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We all know how
ugly things can get

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When you remove
old growth.

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You don't need to watch dr.
Pimple popper to know that.

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[laughing &
applauding]

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♪

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-Hey, roz, how are you?
-Nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you.

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I spoke with a woman
who has spent

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Most of her life in a canoe,

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And never stops trying to
get other people on board.

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She can lead from the stern,
and that deserves a bow...

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Roz kilbridge.

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[cheering & applauding]

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Roz and her partner, francis,
run smoothwater outfitters.

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They are upper canada's
canoe concierge.

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We set people up with as much
or as little as they need.

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So, some people come to us
already kind of

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Owning all their own gear.

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But then other people
need everything,

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Especially if they're
coming from overseas.

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So they get us to do the
canoe rentals,

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The shuttling,
provide all their gear.

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We dehydrate a lot
of our own food,

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So we pack a food
package for them.

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Where in the world are people
coming from to canoe here?

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Most of our overseas people
are coming from England,

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From great britain
somewhere.

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-Yeah.
-Then probably germany.

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They have a fascination
with the wilderness.

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She said they get a lot
of people from

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The uk and from germany.

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So, chances are you're not
bringing your own canoe.

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If you're coming from germany,
she'll rent u-boats.

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[laughing]

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She'll rent you boat-
she'll rent boats to you.

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[laughing]

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♪

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It's hard to travel through
temagami, and I think...

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People underestimate
sometimes how

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Rugged this area is.

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2,4000 kilometres of
historic canoe routes.

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It's not all waterways, some
of that is portage trails.

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You have to pack light
because you're carrying all

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This gear, and a canoe over
difficult, rocky portages.

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We had one group of
americans come up once,

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And they had a lot of beer.

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And francis said,
"you know, I don't think

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You're going to want a
portage all of that.

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I don't think you quite know
what you're getting into."

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And they said, "no,
no, we'll be fine."

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Here she is putting
chili in a dehydrator,

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So you can get rid
of the water weight.

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The boys show up
with a two-four.

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[laughing]

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Bro, you're supposed to
pack light, not coors light.

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[laughing]

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How do you even
begin doing this?

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With canoe techniques,
she showed me

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More than the broad strokes.

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She showed me how to get
the canoe up and over

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The top onto your head.

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First, you grab it
by the gunnels.

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00:10:03,470 --> 00:10:05,036
And kind of flip it
up like this.

252
00:10:05,038 --> 00:10:07,839
Pull it kind of up onto
your thighs like this.

253
00:10:07,974 --> 00:10:10,375
She pulled up the canoe, and
then you, you sort of rock it-

254
00:10:10,444 --> 00:10:13,178
You get some momentum going
with your thighs, and then...

255
00:10:15,415 --> 00:10:17,048
-Whoa.
-You flip it like that.

256
00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:18,916
-Nicely done!
-[laughing]

257
00:10:18,952 --> 00:10:20,885
Then it was my turn to try.

258
00:10:20,887 --> 00:10:23,521
So, I pull it up, I got it
on my thighs, and I'm like,

259
00:10:23,657 --> 00:10:25,556
Trying to rock it.
My technique was-

260
00:10:25,626 --> 00:10:27,091
I don't think I was helping
myself doing-

261
00:10:27,127 --> 00:10:30,061
I probably looked more
awkward than I do right now.

262
00:10:30,097 --> 00:10:32,730
I'm rocking the canoe,
and then...

263
00:10:32,799 --> 00:10:34,799
-[effort grunt]
-nice!

264
00:10:34,801 --> 00:10:37,402
-Hey!
-Amazing!

265
00:10:37,471 --> 00:10:39,737
And really, was there any
doubt I would get it up there?

266
00:10:39,873 --> 00:10:41,473
I mean, if you've
seen my acting,

267
00:10:41,475 --> 00:10:42,807
If you've seen
murdoch mystery,

268
00:10:42,809 --> 00:10:44,942
You know my technique
is not very good,

269
00:10:44,978 --> 00:10:46,877
But when it comes time
to be over the top,

270
00:10:46,913 --> 00:10:48,646
Well, no sweat.

271
00:10:48,649 --> 00:10:52,516
[laughing]
[applauding]

272
00:10:57,157 --> 00:11:00,825
♪

273
00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,961
There's a new, more
sustainable forestry program

274
00:11:03,997 --> 00:11:07,866
Happening in temagami now,
and I met the guy who-

275
00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:11,903
Well, let's call him the
branch manager, jeff barton.

276
00:11:11,972 --> 00:11:16,974
[cheering & applauding]

277
00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:20,512
Daki menan is a forestry
company started by the

278
00:11:20,514 --> 00:11:21,979
Temagami first nation.

279
00:11:22,015 --> 00:11:24,115
They have a mill, they cut
trees, they plant trees.

280
00:11:24,151 --> 00:11:27,685
But most of all, what jeff
is trying to do is

281
00:11:27,688 --> 00:11:31,122
Provide training for youth
from temagami

282
00:11:31,158 --> 00:11:32,723
And the surrounding areas.

283
00:11:32,759 --> 00:11:33,992
There's a sign up the
highway that says,

284
00:11:34,127 --> 00:11:37,595
"forestry supports
180,000 jobs in ontario."

285
00:11:37,664 --> 00:11:40,798
Part of what we're doing is
sharing a small piece of that.

286
00:11:40,834 --> 00:11:43,134
He said oftentimes he'll
train someone up to a point

287
00:11:43,170 --> 00:11:46,137
Where they're so good,
they'll get hired by

288
00:11:46,173 --> 00:11:47,805
A bigger forestry company.

289
00:11:47,841 --> 00:11:49,407
He said it's kind of like
being the coach for

290
00:11:49,542 --> 00:11:50,875
The toronto marlies.

291
00:11:51,010 --> 00:11:52,877
If you do a good job
and you win the cup,

292
00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:54,813
You lose your best guys.
-Right.

293
00:11:54,815 --> 00:11:57,782
The difference though between
forestry and hockey is,

294
00:11:57,917 --> 00:12:00,518
In hockey, the leafs
fall in the spring.

295
00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,120
[laughing]

296
00:12:02,122 --> 00:12:03,588
Jeff was talking to me about

297
00:12:03,657 --> 00:12:05,689
The regeneration
of the forest-

298
00:12:05,726 --> 00:12:08,693
How wide, how thick
a tree will grow

299
00:12:08,695 --> 00:12:11,696
Depends on how
crowded it is.

300
00:12:11,698 --> 00:12:12,864
In order to renew
the forest,

301
00:12:12,999 --> 00:12:14,532
You need to take
away the competition,

302
00:12:14,667 --> 00:12:16,100
Just like you would when
you're weeding the garden.

303
00:12:16,169 --> 00:12:17,735
He said it's not
unlike thinning out

304
00:12:17,804 --> 00:12:19,103
Your vegetable garden.

305
00:12:19,172 --> 00:12:21,639
And he said it to me as if
I had a vegetable garden.

306
00:12:21,708 --> 00:12:23,641
[laughing]

307
00:12:23,643 --> 00:12:26,510
Yeah, I guess each tree is
competing for sunlight and

308
00:12:26,646 --> 00:12:27,779
The nutrients in the soil.

309
00:12:27,914 --> 00:12:29,114
Right, what we're
trying to do is,

310
00:12:29,249 --> 00:12:30,982
Is give those trees the
best chance that

311
00:12:31,051 --> 00:12:33,117
They can to get
to maturity.

312
00:12:33,186 --> 00:12:35,920
You do this with a brush
cutter, a brush saw.

313
00:12:36,055 --> 00:12:37,956
Jeff and one of the other
workers who was there,

314
00:12:38,091 --> 00:12:39,223
Sebastian,

315
00:12:39,292 --> 00:12:41,726
They got me kitted up with
the helmet and the glasses,

316
00:12:41,861 --> 00:12:44,129
The visor, the
harness, the...

317
00:12:44,264 --> 00:12:46,064
The brush saw.

318
00:12:46,199 --> 00:12:47,765
I watched seb do it first.

319
00:12:47,768 --> 00:12:50,034
[chainsaw rumbling
continues]

320
00:12:56,009 --> 00:12:57,708
I started doing it.

321
00:13:01,081 --> 00:13:03,014
It was fun, although,
I almost felt like

322
00:13:03,149 --> 00:13:06,084
An evil version
of bob ross.

323
00:13:06,086 --> 00:13:09,020
"here's a happy little
tree right here.

324
00:13:09,089 --> 00:13:11,689
He's happy, but he's
a little too little,

325
00:13:11,825 --> 00:13:14,024
So he's got to go."

326
00:13:14,060 --> 00:13:16,027
[laughing]

327
00:13:16,096 --> 00:13:17,828
If you want a
sustainable forest,

328
00:13:17,864 --> 00:13:19,497
That's what
you have to do.

329
00:13:19,632 --> 00:13:21,966
You got to get rid of some
of these small, gnarly ones.

330
00:13:22,101 --> 00:13:24,168
I bet jeff is the only guy
who, when people

331
00:13:24,237 --> 00:13:26,103
Are watching the charlie
brown christmas, right?

332
00:13:26,139 --> 00:13:29,039
And everybody feels bad
for that like little,

333
00:13:29,075 --> 00:13:31,042
Gnarly, weak tree,
I bet jeff is like,

334
00:13:31,111 --> 00:13:33,244
"no, no, this is not
how it's done."

335
00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,179
"that is not...
Okay.

336
00:13:35,215 --> 00:13:37,515
Try framing your house with
some lumber from that."

337
00:13:37,650 --> 00:13:39,617
[laughing]

338
00:13:39,653 --> 00:13:44,922
♪

339
00:13:44,991 --> 00:13:47,858
Next, I met a family who are
trying to make sure people

340
00:13:47,894 --> 00:13:51,996
With physical challenges can
enjoy the temagami experience.

341
00:13:52,131 --> 00:13:54,999
Even if you aren't a
peak performance paddler,

342
00:13:55,134 --> 00:13:57,669
You should at least
come get your feet wet.

343
00:13:57,804 --> 00:14:00,437
From andorra
accessible cottages,

344
00:14:00,473 --> 00:14:03,708
I had a chat with candice
and tyson rogerson.

345
00:14:03,843 --> 00:14:08,146
[cheering & applauding]

346
00:14:08,148 --> 00:14:10,014
Candice, so you spent
some time in this area

347
00:14:10,149 --> 00:14:11,216
When you were younger?

348
00:14:11,351 --> 00:14:15,520
Yes, my family had a remote
fly-in cottage up here.

349
00:14:15,655 --> 00:14:16,587
What did you love about it?

350
00:14:16,656 --> 00:14:18,456
Why did you want to
come back at some point?

351
00:14:18,525 --> 00:14:19,624
I don't know,
it's very relaxing,

352
00:14:19,693 --> 00:14:22,427
Like just being here,
it's like, it fills you up.

353
00:14:22,562 --> 00:14:24,529
Candice and her family,
they bought an old

354
00:14:24,664 --> 00:14:26,898
Tourist lodge here, and it's
all about, you know,

355
00:14:27,033 --> 00:14:29,767
Allowing people with
challenges to...

356
00:14:29,803 --> 00:14:31,169
It's all about accessibility.

357
00:14:31,304 --> 00:14:32,870
In fact, things
were so accessible,

358
00:14:32,873 --> 00:14:34,972
Tyson didn't want to
sit and talk to me,

359
00:14:35,008 --> 00:14:36,441
He had a powered wheelchair,
and he just went

360
00:14:36,576 --> 00:14:38,108
Booting around
doing his own thing.

361
00:14:38,144 --> 00:14:40,511
[laughing]

362
00:14:40,513 --> 00:14:43,514
So, tyson has
cerebral palsy and,

363
00:14:43,516 --> 00:14:45,449
A very severe
form of epilepsy.

364
00:14:45,518 --> 00:14:47,919
And we could never,
ever find a place where

365
00:14:48,054 --> 00:14:49,987
We could just come to a
cottage for a week...

366
00:14:50,023 --> 00:14:52,924
And have all of
our needs met.

367
00:14:52,993 --> 00:14:56,460
The goal is to build a
fully accessible resort.

368
00:14:56,529 --> 00:14:58,862
Accessible means
can I

369
00:14:58,899 --> 00:15:01,532
Dress or bathe
or change an

370
00:15:01,534 --> 00:15:05,002
Adult-size person that has
to have that happen

371
00:15:05,038 --> 00:15:08,439
While they're lying down?
Is there a hoyer lift?

372
00:15:08,574 --> 00:15:12,977
Is there extra power by the
bedside to run a pump or

373
00:15:13,112 --> 00:15:15,380
Oxygen or a feeding tube
or something like that?

374
00:15:15,515 --> 00:15:17,481
A cottage is never
going to come

375
00:15:17,550 --> 00:15:18,949
Equipped with
those features.

376
00:15:18,951 --> 00:15:19,883
Right.

377
00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,420
We had almost jokingly
talked about, well,

378
00:15:22,555 --> 00:15:24,688
We should just buy a
resort up here and, and...

379
00:15:24,724 --> 00:15:28,159
Make it accessible and,
we saw this place and,

380
00:15:28,228 --> 00:15:30,962
As we're driving down the
driveway, I just got like,

381
00:15:31,097 --> 00:15:33,131
Whoa, this is the one.

382
00:15:33,266 --> 00:15:37,168
♪

383
00:15:37,237 --> 00:15:39,737
♪

384
00:15:39,739 --> 00:15:42,073
Doing this kind of thing,
if you go a certain route,

385
00:15:42,208 --> 00:15:43,708
It can be very expensive.

386
00:15:43,710 --> 00:15:46,643
You know, the cost
of, of accessibility.

387
00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:48,545
We have a chair in the
house, that's-

388
00:15:48,581 --> 00:15:50,714
It's called a
recovery chair,

389
00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:52,183
And it's just
basically a soft,

390
00:15:52,252 --> 00:15:55,119
Foamy chair that
he can sit in,

391
00:15:55,121 --> 00:15:58,522
And he's perfectly safe
if he's had a seizure.

392
00:15:58,558 --> 00:16:03,661
I was fortunate to
purchase it for $800, used.

393
00:16:03,796 --> 00:16:05,663
A new one would
have been $3000.

394
00:16:05,732 --> 00:16:07,031
So, they're trying to
figure out how to do

395
00:16:07,166 --> 00:16:08,265
Some stuff on their own.

396
00:16:08,335 --> 00:16:10,868
They're trying to take the
"bill" out of accessibility.

397
00:16:10,870 --> 00:16:12,804
[laughing]

398
00:16:12,939 --> 00:16:15,706
They've got like a raised
bed on the beach there.

399
00:16:15,709 --> 00:16:18,575
Older people that want to
relax at the beach and

400
00:16:18,611 --> 00:16:20,611
Lie down, but they maybe
don't want to go all the way

401
00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:23,080
To the ground either
because it's harder to

402
00:16:23,116 --> 00:16:24,281
Get up from the ground.

403
00:16:24,351 --> 00:16:28,552
Or, even changing a toddler
out of a wet bathing suit,

404
00:16:28,588 --> 00:16:31,489
If you're raised up on
something that's not full of

405
00:16:31,558 --> 00:16:34,692
Sand, it just makes life
easier for everybody.

406
00:16:34,827 --> 00:16:37,428
Changing out a wet
bathing suit is hard,

407
00:16:37,464 --> 00:16:39,696
I don't care who you are,
what age or-

408
00:16:39,733 --> 00:16:43,167
I go get in the car at the
beach like I'm going to leave.

409
00:16:43,169 --> 00:16:45,703
But if it's a busy day,
there's people all around,

410
00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:47,104
So I try to do
it real quickly,

411
00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,606
Like whip down my trunks,

412
00:16:48,608 --> 00:16:50,574
And then I hope no
one's walking by,

413
00:16:50,643 --> 00:16:52,844
Then I get my trunk
stuck around my ankles,

414
00:16:52,979 --> 00:16:54,645
And I hope no one is looking,

415
00:16:54,647 --> 00:16:55,846
And then I'm
wrestling with that,

416
00:16:55,882 --> 00:16:58,916
And just as I'm doing that,
my forehead honks the horn

417
00:16:58,985 --> 00:17:00,984
And people are like,
"whoa, is that guy okay?

418
00:17:01,021 --> 00:17:02,053
Let's go check on him."

419
00:17:02,122 --> 00:17:03,287
And then, eventually I
just roll my window down,

420
00:17:03,423 --> 00:17:05,789
And it's like, "oh, the water
was so cold today, right?"

421
00:17:05,825 --> 00:17:08,459
[laughing]

422
00:17:08,495 --> 00:17:10,594
[applauding]

423
00:17:16,036 --> 00:17:17,135
Take care,
we'll see you soon.

424
00:17:17,137 --> 00:17:18,569
-I'll see you Saturday.
-Yeah.

425
00:17:18,704 --> 00:17:21,372
[train bell ringing]

426
00:17:21,507 --> 00:17:24,275
I heard the old train
station had been turned into

427
00:17:24,410 --> 00:17:27,578
An art centre that is
showcasing the talent

428
00:17:27,614 --> 00:17:31,049
And culture that's located
right here in town.

429
00:17:31,184 --> 00:17:33,217
It's called
living temagami.

430
00:17:33,286 --> 00:17:35,420
I was dying to see it.

431
00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:39,690
I had a visit with ashly
legacy and omar de la serna.

432
00:17:39,692 --> 00:17:44,362
[cheering & applauding]

433
00:17:44,364 --> 00:17:45,996
My grandparents had
an island on the lake,

434
00:17:46,066 --> 00:17:47,498
So I used to grow up coming
here in the summer

435
00:17:47,567 --> 00:17:48,966
And in the winter.

436
00:17:49,035 --> 00:17:50,535
I found a guy that
was willing to

437
00:17:50,537 --> 00:17:52,203
Move up here with me.

438
00:17:52,338 --> 00:17:54,572
Omar, he's mexican.

439
00:17:54,641 --> 00:17:57,207
The most amazing thing
omar told me, he said-

440
00:17:57,243 --> 00:18:00,178
Temagami is really similar
to mexico city, right?

441
00:18:00,180 --> 00:18:03,180
"temagami reminds
me of mexico city."

442
00:18:03,249 --> 00:18:06,317
And I was like, the one
with the population of

443
00:18:06,386 --> 00:18:08,519
Twenty something
million people?

444
00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:09,987
And he said, "yeah."

445
00:18:10,056 --> 00:18:12,390
Everyone say hi to everyone.

446
00:18:12,525 --> 00:18:14,191
The people are
really friendly.

447
00:18:14,227 --> 00:18:15,159
So, the vibe is sort of-

448
00:18:15,195 --> 00:18:17,528
The vibe is really
similar to my town.

449
00:18:17,564 --> 00:18:19,330
I've been to mexico.

450
00:18:19,399 --> 00:18:21,198
I don't think I ever would
have made the comparison.

451
00:18:21,267 --> 00:18:24,435
But, who knows, I've never
seen temagami

452
00:18:24,504 --> 00:18:26,670
At cinco de mayo.
So, what do I know?

453
00:18:26,739 --> 00:18:29,006
[laughing]

454
00:18:29,075 --> 00:18:31,542
[applauding]

455
00:18:31,578 --> 00:18:34,411
♪

456
00:18:34,447 --> 00:18:36,981
Omar brings an expertise
in paper mache.

457
00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:38,549
This is very big
in mexican culture,

458
00:18:38,551 --> 00:18:40,684
Particularly for festivities.

459
00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,020
-I used to make pinatas.
-Yeah?

460
00:18:43,022 --> 00:18:43,954
In the school, like,

461
00:18:43,990 --> 00:18:46,290
It was a common thing to
do in December.

462
00:18:46,292 --> 00:18:49,627
This art is made
to be destroyed.

463
00:18:49,696 --> 00:18:52,696
-Tell me about this.
-This is the phoenix.

464
00:18:52,732 --> 00:18:55,766
The idea is that people will
come over the

465
00:18:55,768 --> 00:18:58,202
Next couple of months
and get a feather.

466
00:18:58,204 --> 00:19:00,938
And then you write something
down, something in your,

467
00:19:00,974 --> 00:19:03,440
In your life that you want
to be done with, that, that-

468
00:19:03,476 --> 00:19:06,076
Something negative that
maybe you want to move past,

469
00:19:06,146 --> 00:19:07,478
You want to
put behind you.

470
00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:08,713
And you write that
on the feather,

471
00:19:08,715 --> 00:19:10,281
And then that goes
on the phoenix.

472
00:19:10,416 --> 00:19:12,049
So, the feathers will
actually all go

473
00:19:12,185 --> 00:19:14,051
Onto the bird and
become the bird.

474
00:19:14,053 --> 00:19:15,686
And then, on the
winter solstice,

475
00:19:15,722 --> 00:19:18,656
We're gonna burn the
phoenix with the community.

476
00:19:18,791 --> 00:19:22,059
Everybody gets to start
fresh and burn all their bad.

477
00:19:22,061 --> 00:19:24,094
And they invited me
to be a part of it,

478
00:19:24,164 --> 00:19:25,863
So I had a feather,

479
00:19:25,998 --> 00:19:26,997
And I wasn't sure
what to write down.

480
00:19:27,066 --> 00:19:28,666
I was like- and then I
thought of something that

481
00:19:28,668 --> 00:19:30,868
I actually did get rid of,
but I've never really

482
00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:33,470
Mentally been able to put
in my past for me,

483
00:19:33,506 --> 00:19:35,406
So I wrote down
"belly button ring".

484
00:19:35,541 --> 00:19:37,341
[laughing]

485
00:19:37,476 --> 00:19:39,610
It's sort of ironic that this
thing's gonna go up in flames

486
00:19:39,646 --> 00:19:42,079
Because really, I think
it's the burning is the

487
00:19:42,115 --> 00:19:45,149
Reason I've never been able
to get past it entirely.

488
00:19:45,151 --> 00:19:47,084
[laughing]

489
00:19:47,153 --> 00:19:48,619
♪

490
00:19:48,655 --> 00:19:50,755
[laughing]

491
00:19:50,890 --> 00:19:53,957
"up north," you can say when
you're north of north bay,

492
00:19:53,993 --> 00:19:56,561
And temagami
is by an hour.

493
00:19:56,696 --> 00:19:58,295
Trees reach even higher,

494
00:19:58,364 --> 00:20:00,297
So when you light
that bird on fire,

495
00:20:00,333 --> 00:20:01,899
I wish I could be
watching from that

496
00:20:02,034 --> 00:20:04,035
Awesome fire tower.

497
00:20:04,170 --> 00:20:06,470
If you have challenges
already and want something

498
00:20:06,472 --> 00:20:09,973
More steady than wearing
a canoe like a fedora...

499
00:20:10,009 --> 00:20:11,776
Well, mobility needs are met

500
00:20:11,778 --> 00:20:14,478
Where wheelchair
wheels get wet.

501
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:18,049
Life's a beach for
everyone at andorra.

502
00:20:18,184 --> 00:20:22,019
People made a demand, so
the old pines still stand...

503
00:20:22,055 --> 00:20:26,323
After protests, arrests,
and riffs and tears.

504
00:20:26,325 --> 00:20:30,060
By lake temagami they stand,
and watch over the land,

505
00:20:30,129 --> 00:20:33,631
As they've done
so for 300 years.

506
00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:35,399
Thanks for coming out,
everybody!

507
00:20:35,534 --> 00:20:37,068
You've been great!

508
00:20:37,203 --> 00:20:39,369
[cheering & applauding]

509
00:20:39,405 --> 00:20:40,471
-It was awesome!
-It was wonderful.

510
00:20:40,540 --> 00:20:42,473
It was great!

511
00:20:42,475 --> 00:20:46,544
♪

512
00:20:46,679 --> 00:20:49,247
♪

513
00:20:49,382 --> 00:20:51,415
-I loved it!
-Yeah, yeah, good show.

514
00:20:51,417 --> 00:20:54,952
♪

515
00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:57,421
♪

516
00:20:57,423 --> 00:20:59,156
We're bagging firewood,
we're making lumber,

517
00:20:59,225 --> 00:21:01,092
We're planting trees,
so we might have him

518
00:21:01,227 --> 00:21:03,293
In the yard next time.

519
00:21:03,329 --> 00:21:08,065
♪

520
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,500
You know, jonny,
I think belly button rings

521
00:21:09,635 --> 00:21:10,501
Are gonna come back.

522
00:21:10,570 --> 00:21:12,570
Soon.
[laughing]

523
00:21:12,705 --> 00:21:17,008
♪

524
00:21:17,143 --> 00:21:19,109
Jonny, thank you for

525
00:21:19,178 --> 00:21:21,445
Showcasing temagami
wonderfully.

526
00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:24,081
♪