Thursday October 23, 2025
Bunny Miller Theatre
Temagami, ON
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
James Raffan’s Echo Maker is a biography of Craig Macdonald, who in the mid-1960s, began interviewing and travelling with Indigenous trappers and travellers. Over the span of 30 years, Macdonald painstakingly and meticulously created a historical map of Temagami, plotting traditional placenames, original shorelines, elevations, and traditional summer and winter travel routes, including the documentation of more that 1200 canoe portages and winter snowshoe trails of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai. For the first time ever, details of this incredible map are reproduced in this 336-page book.
James Raffin is one of Canada’s most authoritative voices on canoes and wilderness travel. He is the author of several bestselling books including Fire in the Bones; Bark, Skin and Cedar; Wildwaters: and Circling the Midnight Sun.
Craig Macdonald is an ethno-
geographer, Cree-Ojibwa place-name linguist and trails expert who spent
three decades doing research in the
area to create a historical
map of Temagami.
He interviewed over 200 Anishinaabe elders and travelled over 1,000 miles in the back country exploring the
Nastawgan Trails and methods
of travel on them.
