Fair enough

It was on a small farm just south east of North Bay, I can't remember the name of it but I found it on air BnB.

Thankyou! It would be great to go back and visit MF Island one day. The song is "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" by Gordon Lightfoot

Thanks :) we did this in 1 day, as a day trip from Kyoto. We didn't use a booking company, we used our JR rail passes for the trains and the bus we took was a public one we paid for with cash. It was easy planning it with google maps. Have a great trip!

Hi I am from Moose Factory! Yes it's true, back in the 70s, the tourism was amazing! My Granny Agnes Louttit and her cousin Hattie Visitor (two sweet Gookums) were the Bannock ladies in the tiipii just outside around back of the Anglican Parrish Hall in Moose Factory. Those were the glory days of our two amazing communities. I can remember when my Grandpa would call over to Moosonee, to find out how many tourists were coming in on The Polar Bear Express. Many times the numbers were upwards of 800! Then he'd let the Bannock ladies know; they sure enjoyed selling their little delicious loaves to the tourists. I could go on, there's so much more to say!

@@buffylouttit7785 wow!! talk about great memories!! Miss The good ole days😎

Id love to visit there, do you know of any cabins available to rent?

@@georgepetkovic440I believe there’s a nice place up there now called RnR Lodging. I heard it was the former JBEC apartments converted to a log style hotel. Hope that helps 😎

Hello! I am from Moose Factory! Perhaps we're related, my Granny Agnes (Gilpin) Louttit and my Grampa Rev. Redfern Louttit. Granny is from Eastmain (Old Factory) 👋🏼😁

The train trip is fun, you should go!

Awesome! We went in late April.

The best time To come would be june! When the leaves and green all come Out, we also have tour guides for the water here 😊

@@terrijomaybee3758 TJ! Omigosh lol! I am a very good friend of your mom! In fact I call her my sister! Tell her I said hi; and your Granny Marion, my deceased mom's best friend when we lived there in the early 70s. Tell Granny I think of her a lot too ❤️🥰

I love that! Have a great trip :)

When we went up a pow wow was happening. Maybe if you time it right… Also, there were fossils everywhere. I picked up a handful of rocks beside the train and they were full of fossils. If you’re offered a tour in a school bus skip that. So boring. The polar bear habitat in Cochrane was magical. We could watch the bears swim under water through the glass. My son put his hand against the glass and the bear match it on the other side with his mighty paw. Wondrous.

Oh, and the train stopped in the middle of nowhere. A country lady was waiting. She had a sturdy bucket with a rope tied to the handle. She stood on the bucket, climbed into the train, then pulled the bucket up behind her with the rope. All these decades later, I’m going to rig up a similar bucket to climb into my truck.

​@@shariday9849Hello I am from Moose Factory! I was raised there (I am Cree) in the 70s. During that time, those two communities were truly so special! The summer time tourist days from the Polar Bear Express were amazing. On the Moose Factory side, is local kids would gather fossils and sell them to tourists for dimes and sometimes quarters! Lol Did you buy bannock in a tiipii?

There are log cabins you can rent at Pine Lake, where there's also a Dark Sky observation circle. We tried to stay there but they were closed over the holidays. Wood Buffalo national park is one of the largest designated dark sky sites in the world!

Winter tires, about 5 seasons old.

We’re both Canadian, there is one part in the video where I’m doing a very bad fake southern accent though haha

Patrick we saw lots of Pikas and Marmots throughout the hike. Also a porcupine at red deer lakes campground, lots of deer at deception pass and around red deer lakes, as well as mountain goats at the top of deception pass! And a few grouse with their babies. No grizzlies!