New Book: Echo Maker By James Raffan

Canadian author and explorer James Raffan has published a brand new book that will appeal to both fans of maps and the Temagami area. Echo Maker: Craig Macdonald and the Lives that Produced One of Canada's Most Significant Historical Maps…

James Raffan’s biography of Craig Macdonald and how the Historical Map of Temagami came to be is a remarkable tale. In the mid-1960s, Macdonald began interviewing and travelling with Indigenous trappers and travellers. He became familiar with Anishinaabemowin and built a lasting bond with the traditional knowledge holders. Returning year after year to map the land, Macdonald painstakingly plotted traditional placenames, original shorelines, elevations, and traditional summer and winter travel routes — including the documentation of more than twelve hundred canoe portages and winter snowshoe trails. His map is unique in the Canadian cartographic canon, and its genesis is a story that has never been told, until now.

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