by McGuffins | Jun 2, 2015 | Books
Our annual 2017 Wilderness Paddling Calendar is now available from Firefly Books in both English and French. From their earliest years together, Gary and Joanie McGuffin have spent their lives in the wilderness. Their honeymoon was a two-year, 6,000-mile (9,656 km)...
by McGuffins | Apr 21, 2009 | Books
The year 2009 marks the Centennial anniversary of Quetico Provincial Park, a 4,760 sq.km. (1,800 sq.mi) area west of Lake Superior and north of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area. This magnificent landscape of over 600 lakes in the heart of North America is...
by McGuffins | Apr 21, 2008 | Books
The McGuffins’ Paddle Your Own Canoe set a new standard for how-to-canoe books. In this much-anticipated follow-up, the authors use the same compelling step-by-step model to teach the art of kayaking. Purchase “Paddle Your Own Kayak” in our shop ...
by McGuffins | Apr 15, 2007 | Books
In 240 stunning colour images, adventure photojournalists Gary and Joanie McGuffin guide us on a journey through Ontario’s vast wilderness landscape. Ontario stretches from the Carolinian forests along the shores of Lake Erie to the polar bear’s realm on...
by McGuffins | Apr 21, 2003 | Books
The Great Lakes Heritage Coast is an area that includes 1.46 million hectares of coastline along the north shore of Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, and Cockburn, St. Joseph, and Manitoulin Islands. It has been recognized by the Ontario government as a natural...
by McGuffins | Apr 21, 2002 | Books
Grey Owl, or Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin as he was known to the Ojibway people, was born Archie Belaney in England in 1888. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Canada to follow his boyhood facination for the Canadian wilderness and the aboriginal peoples. Grey Owl’s...
