VTT Series: #8 The Frog- Eagle Express Traditional Cache
VTT Series: #8 The Frog- Eagle Express
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This series of caches highlight a few of the tall tales of Big Joe Mufferaw and 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. Please bring your own pen. Congratulations Falcor gmork on being the FTF!
Valley Tall Tales Series: #8 The Frog- Eagle Express Legend has it that Big Joe Mufferaw and his friend Johnny Coulonge organized the first Trans Canada mail service. Barrum the Big Frog was given the first leg of the journey easily swimming from Halifax to Lake Superior and then leaping over to Lake Winnipeg. The western section from Lake Winnipeg to Vancouver Island was covered by Fast Eagle. Both animals were outfitted with mail bag carriers, a watertight silo for Barrum and a kite apparatus with a tail of mail bags for Fast Eagle. Big Joe had this system up and running in a week and it was so successful that so they say, Sir John A. MacDonald asked Big Joe to then oversee the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway! (Perhaps Canada Post should consider using this service today!) 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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