• The Frost Centre and Haliburton Highlands Water Trails     • The Poker Lakes
• Big East Lake     • The South River     • The Black River     • The Barron River
• The Oxtongue River     • The North Muskoka River     • The South Muskoka River
• The Amable Du Fond River     • The Dumoine River     • The Ottawa River     • The Gull River
• The Hollow River     • The Bonnechere River     • The Madawaska River
• The Opeongo River     • The Petawawa Research Forest     • Grant's Creek     • Bissett Creek

I created this map because I felt that something was lacking from similar maps. From my own personal canoe trips I found error after error in all of the three pre-exisiting sets of maps; the Friends of Algonquin map, the Chrismar maps and the Backroad mapbook maps. I would submit corrections but get no response, hence creating my drive to design an alternative.

Obviously any map of this size will almost inevitably have errors, so how is it that I believe I can help in this regard? Alongside the fact that I gather data from all sources possible (I've read every triplog I could find, looked at satellite photos, books, etc,) I actively seek out corrections from people who have visted places I haven't. There is all sorts of information that could be used to improve a map locked up in these resouces, but unfortunately this information is usually ignored.

Another key value I see in my map is that it is distributed under a Creative Commons license and that the master file is freely available online. What does this mean? In short is means you can share the map freely (With attribution) and you can modify it for your own needs (Read the license for full details.) In the end this gets the map into more hands, gets more sets of eyes looking out for errors and results in a more accurate map for us all!)

Remember, the final product will always be a work in progress, however, I'm always looking for suggestions, corrections, and potentitial improvements. Together we can create an interesting, useful and accurate map.