Algonquin Park Blog

Baby Arrives amid Zen of Winter

Less than two hours ago, Emily, our eldest daughter gave birth to a baby boy, Aiden Eugene Lucier. Mother, baby, sister and grandma Martha haven’t arrived home to the lodge as yet, but they are busy spreading the word.
Uncle Tim and grampa Todd are waiting for the foursome to arrive some time early this [...]

Dress up your Desktop with Nature Shots

I’ve placed some downloadable desktop pictures from the Edge so you can add some Algonquin Park Nature to your day!
Click here to see some seasonal images.
Busy days as we host our first Zen of Winter gathering at the Edge this weekend. We’re looking forward to sharing a little yoga, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, [...]

Algonquin Wireless

For the first time, I’m sitting in
Points North
enjoying a little wireless web computing.
Five years ago, I’d have never believed I’d be able to sit here
unconnected to anything and beam a message to another building that
sends my message through a satellite dish, up and down to earth and
makes my thoughts available to the world.
Wow!
It’s raining at [...]

We are the champions

My brother Rodd came to town for a visit this weekend and joined a few local friends for the annual South River Men’s Bonspeil. Well, guess what? We were victorious!!
After four years of playing in this fun spiel with a variety of family members making the annual trek, this year we won [...]

Interactivity and Back up

We’re excitedly looking forward to a new back up power source arriving at Northern Edge Algonquin today. We often have power challenges in the winter with the shorter days, and our back up generator has been having some challenges…. so we’ve got a propane generator arriving to help keep our batteries humming along and [...]