Comments on: Day 11: Thunder Bay to Kenora http://blog.petaflop.de/2007/07/10/day-11-thunderbay-to-kenora/ Official and private posts by Creative Director and Light Artist Peter Schildwächter. News, Olds and Bla. A lot of street photography. Fri, 01 Jun 2018 20:54:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: J. Knights http://blog.petaflop.de/2007/07/10/day-11-thunderbay-to-kenora/#comment-34797 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:28:16 +0000 http://blog.petaflop.de/2007/07/10/day-11-thunderbay-to-kenora/#comment-34797 Thanks for showing the pics along the trans canada. I lived in Kenora for many years and miss it greatly. I agree that the inukshuk is an inuit landmark. These however started showing up along the Trans-canada in northern Ontario if I recall around the late 90’s. I remember starting to see them around 1998/99. Mostly left by travellers stopping by a rock outcrop and leaving one behind. A kind of tourist graffitti.

I’ve had the priviledge of travelling the arctic and seeing true inukshuks in places like Repulse Bay. Most inukshuks in the arctic do not take the form of a person but are more commonly a pile of rocks left by the Inuit, to mark their way on a baron landscape where there are very few natural landmarks.

The Native groups around Kenora, Sioux Lookout and Thunder Bay are Ojibwe, and Oji-Cree. It is a shme to group natives all with one brush since each group is very different and unique.

Thanks for the pics though.

]]> By: Crystal http://blog.petaflop.de/2007/07/10/day-11-thunderbay-to-kenora/#comment-23586 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:30:06 +0000 http://blog.petaflop.de/2007/07/10/day-11-thunderbay-to-kenora/#comment-23586 Hi,
I happened on your blog by accident and, as I am from Manitoba and have done a lot of cross-Canada driving, I found it quite interesting. I just wanted to give you more information on the Inuk-shuks on the side of the highway. Although traditionally built by the Inuit people, most, if not all, of those you see on the highways are built by people/tourists driving by on the highway, as the Inuit people’s lands are much farther north of the Trans-Canada highway.

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