VTT Series: #4 Bull Eye Joe Traditional Cache
VTT Series: #4 Bull Eye Joe
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This series of caches highlight a few of the tall tales of Big Joe Mufferaw and the lumbering days on the Ottawa and Madawaska Rivers. The caches are relatively easy P & Gs along rural roads in Renfrew County. Cell phone reception is not always reliable. Be prepared for some PI around this location. Congratulations to Falcor_gmork on FTF honours! The original cache container has been replaced with a small cameo pill bottle.
Big Joe Mufferaw's Pet Turtle, Bull Eye Joe One fall day, Big Joe's girlfriend started a fire along the shore of Bob's Lake near a large round rock. Alarm, when the rock began moving, quickly changed to laughter when Joe realized the rock was only a mud turtle warmed by the fire. He laughed till the tears rolled down his face and splashed upon the turtle's shell. The tears soaked into the ground and the turtle burrowed back down into the soft mud for his winter's nap. The next spring that turtle was 3 1/2 feet tall and 4 feet wide. Joe named it Bull Eye Joe and trained him to pull square timbers down Mast Road to the Ottawa River. "The Big Joe Mufferaw Tall Tales" are based on the life of Joseph Montferrand (1802-1864), a French Canadian of outstanding strength and athletic prowess. He was well respected as a skilled foreman bringing squared timber rafts and booms down the Ottawa River to Quebec City. Details of his exploits are recorded in Joan Finnigan's book "Giants of the Ottawa Valley". The tall tales in this series are based on the story telling gifts of the shantymen who worked alongside this giant and anglicized his name to "Joe Mufferaw". Arnprior storyteller, Bernie Bedore grew up hearing these tall tales and published many tall tales of Big Joe's adventures such as "Mythical Mufferaw", "Tall Tales of Joe Mufferaw", and "The Shanty". Musician Stompin' Tom Connors has also helped to immortalize these tales in his recording of "Big Joe Mufferaw" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy3knGGzZr8
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