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Seeing the forest through the smoke with Back Roads Bill

Seeing the forest through the smoke with Back Roads Bill

Bill looks at the effects of the wildfire smoke on trees and plants
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Back Roads Bill: Putt-putting with vintage railway motorcars

Back Roads Bill: Putt-putting with vintage railway motorcars

This week Bill has a contemporary, but unique look at back the north’s rich railway heritage
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Back Roads Bill: Red Lake, gold country and other gems

Back Roads Bill: Red Lake, gold country and other gems

This week Bill, as a tourist, takes us to Red Lake – like other Northern Ontario communities it has its share of gems
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Back Roads Bill: Exploring a 48-year-old mystery

Back Roads Bill: Exploring a 48-year-old mystery

This week Bill takes us to the Edmund Fitzgerald from two vantage points
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Back Roads Bill: How Lady Evelyn got her puzzling dunes

Back Roads Bill: How Lady Evelyn got her puzzling dunes

Bill takes us up close to and back over the formation of the unusual eskers and dunes of Lady Evelyn Lake in the Temiskaming Shores area north of North Bay
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Back Roads Bill: Where to see the ultimate wetland, swamp, fen, bog or marsh

Back Roads Bill: Where to see the ultimate wetland, swamp, fen, bog or marsh

This week Bill tells us about what is, for many reasons, one of the best interpretative trails in Northern Ontario
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Back Roads Bill: What gives Windex lakes their colour?

Back Roads Bill: What gives Windex lakes their colour?

This week Bill tells us why those lakes have those green-blue colours and where you can find some of them
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BACK ROADS BILL: Before the last spike, there was a first

BACK ROADS BILL: Before the last spike, there was a first

This week Bill uncovers a bit of history that may become front and centre as a tourism attraction
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BACK ROADS BILL: How a dream lives on in a heart-shaped rock

BACK ROADS BILL: How a dream lives on in a heart-shaped rock

This week, Bill takes us to visit a less well known monument to Terry Fox
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BACK ROADS BILL: French Canadian artist and author connections

BACK ROADS BILL: French Canadian artist and author connections

This story can be one of this summer’s Northern Ontario destination visits
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