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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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Back Roads Bill: Bridges to depression-era construction

Back Roads Bill: Bridges to depression-era construction

This week Bill takes a look at some heritage bridges that take us way back
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Back Roads Bill shows us another piece from a 65-year-old puzzle

Back Roads Bill shows us another piece from a 65-year-old puzzle

This week Bill updates a story about a mid-air crash over Northern Ontario at the height of the cold war
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Back Roads Bill takes us to the oldest graves in Ontario

Back Roads Bill takes us to the oldest graves in Ontario

This week we wander among the silent markers of people long gone in Northern Ontario with Back Roads Bill
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Back Roads Bill talks rocks - cracks, alvars, clints an grikes

Back Roads Bill talks rocks - cracks, alvars, clints an grikes

This week Bill takes us on a deep dive into some interesting cracks in Earth’s crust and explains things like karstification and dolostone
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Back Roads Bill on the history and significance of Nipigon River Bridge

Back Roads Bill on the history and significance of Nipigon River Bridge

This week Bill teases out a future adventure with some history on a connecting link in Canadian transportation and what we learned when it was suddenly broken
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Tracing the tangled roots of a Northern Ontario canoe

Tracing the tangled roots of a Northern Ontario canoe

This week Back Roads Bill traces back a canoe heritage name that is making a comeback
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Back Roads Bill on the cutting edge of chainsaw development

Back Roads Bill on the cutting edge of chainsaw development

This week, Back Roads Bill takes us through some of the histories of chainsaws which are an integral part of life on the back roads
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Preparing for school trips with Back Roads Bill

Preparing for school trips with Back Roads Bill

This week Bill looks at school trip preparedness and how we should get better prepared for the back roads
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Back Roads Bill suggests some overnighters

Back Roads Bill suggests some overnighters

In part three Bill takes us to locations you will need to plan for
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