VTT Series: #5 Bucky the Big Beaver Traditional Cache
VTT Series: #5 Bucky the Big Beaver
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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. The original cache container has gone missing and been replaced with a small cammoed pill bottle, about eye level.
Valley Tall Tales Series: #5 Bucky the Big Beaver Spring floods often rearranged the landscape in the Ottawa Valley. One spring they caused a beaver dam to burst near Big Joe's logging camp. Barrum the Big Frog noticed a young beaver struggling in the fast moving water and jumped in to the rescue. Fast Eagle (another of Big Joe's friends) swooped down and scooped up the little beaver and took it to Big Joe. Now the story goes, the beaver received a blood transfusion from Big Joe and began to grow until he reached the size of a whale. Not surprisingly, Joe named him Bucky for his big bite! 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?
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