{"id":32535,"date":"2024-03-17T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32535"},"modified":"2024-03-17T14:31:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:31:38","slug":"the-bear-the-tragically-hip-and-my-possible-gord-downie-sighting-in-algonquin-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32535","title":{"rendered":"The Bear, The Tragically Hip, and my possible Gord Downie sighting in Algonquin Park."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hipmuseum.com\/bear.html\">The Bear<\/a> <\/em>at The Museum After Dark.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-tragically-hip-The-Bear-2024-03-17_13-28-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-tragically-hip-The-Bear-2024-03-17_13-28-23-1024x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32537\" width=\"653\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-tragically-hip-The-Bear-2024-03-17_13-28-23-1024x393.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-tragically-hip-The-Bear-2024-03-17_13-28-23-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-tragically-hip-The-Bear-2024-03-17_13-28-23-768x295.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-tragically-hip-The-Bear-2024-03-17_13-28-23-750x288.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-tragically-hip-The-Bear-2024-03-17_13-28-23-1226x470.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-tragically-hip-The-Bear-2024-03-17_13-28-23-675x259.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-tragically-hip-The-Bear-2024-03-17_13-28-23.jpg 1460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>summary by <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/gemini\/share\/a00e7c9c258f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Gimini<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The speaker recalls a time they went camping in Algonquin Park with their wife Joan. While leaving the park, they saw a canoe heading in the opposite direction and had a fleeting thought that the man in the back might have been Gord Downie, the lead singer of the Tragically Hip. The woman with him was wearing a long white dress. Here&#8217;s a breakdown of the main points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Misfiled song:<\/strong>&nbsp;The speaker was listening to a song that reminded them of Algonquin Park, which is referenced in the lyrics.<\/li><li><strong>Algonquin Park trip:<\/strong>&nbsp;They share a memory from a camping trip in the park, where they explored new routes.<\/li><li><strong>The sighting:<\/strong>&nbsp;On the way out, approximately 50 meters away, they saw a canoe heading into the park. The man in the back had some resemblance to Gord Downie, but the speaker acknowledges it was from a distance.<\/li><li><strong>Uncertain Possibility:<\/strong>&nbsp;The speaker emphasizes that they have no real evidence it was Downie, and it was just a fleeting possibility that crossed their mind.<\/li><li><strong>Missed opportunity:<\/strong>&nbsp;Despite the curiosity, the speaker and their wife were paddling in the opposite direction and decided against approaching the canoe out of respect for privacy.<\/li><li><strong>Understanding:<\/strong>&nbsp;The speaker understands the desire for peace and quiet, especially in a natural setting like Algonquin.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-1536x842.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-2048x1123.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-750x411.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-1226x672.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/algonquin-park-canoe-trips-gord-downie-sighting-Google-Maps-2024-03-17_14-16-27-675x370.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Possible Gord Downie &amp; wife sighting, Farm Lake, Algonquin Park<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-1024x179.jpg\" alt=\"Below here be dragons. Not for human consumption. Turn back, for this way madness lies.\" class=\"wp-image-31352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-1024x179.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-300x52.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-768x134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-1536x268.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-2048x358.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-750x131.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-1226x214.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/below-here-be-dragons-Psalter_World_Map_c.1265_dragons-675x118.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Below here be dragons.  Not for human consumption.  Turn back, for this way madness lies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>original voice-to-text transcription, using Windows11 &#8220;Voice Typing&#8221;, Galaxy ear buds, with music playing realitively loudly on dektop soundbar (moe. &#8211; Jazz Wank &gt; Spine of a Dog &gt; Buster); once again, impressive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check Jack. okay. So as I was listening to this song, the bear. two problems I had. One was it was misdeed in my library and I was able to correct it. which is always cool. And then I was reminded that this has a reference to Algonquin Park, which you can see up in the references there. which leads me to a story that I or a memory that I have about when Jon and I went to the Gulf of Park. I think it was the first trip where we could a little ways up to the path of new trails or the new routes to other island or little corner someday I should plot this all down where it was. on the way out. I recall as we were probably on the last leg just after probably 10 minutes from getting to the to the. place where you turn your communities the I saw perhaps 50 meters. away heading in so they would have been heading into the park where if we were heading out after three nights or so. I saw now that&#8217;s a canoe probably I don&#8217;t think it was a rental. It seemed like it was a nice personally owned canoe in the back was a guy who although 50 years away and wearing you cat like a sun hat or a white brimmed straw hat was a guy that had the facial shape of Gordown and I could almost make out that **** grin that he had that shady grin that he had. in the front was a woman who couldn&#8217;t tell much about her. She&#8217;s wearing an all long white dress I don&#8217;t think she was paddling I seem to think she was sitting back kind of relaxing and enjoying the ride. I have no idea what Gordon Downey&#8217;s wife looks like or another girlfriend at the time and of course I never we were kind of not struggling but it was not like something I was going to do and say hey Joan Let&#8217;s turn over and paddle to those guys and see if it&#8217;s some rock star that I know but because that&#8217;s just something I don&#8217;t like to do and Gordonian and his way for heading in Douglas Park forever. I just get away from the hospital. Buffalo Touring and Kingston model ever to hell they would have maybe I that&#8217;s one of the things I just think I can just leave a person alone even though it would be very interested to pull up the side or Downey and his wife as they were heading into a camping trip. I have a small discussion and a small connection with somebody who turned out to be a very influential. I was very powerful figure in the Canadian. Rock and roll so far. So again I have no idea who was. I sadly. don&#8217;t have a picture. This is free cell phone diamond. I know we probably have to climb up with us, but I obviously had it with the new way to go being in a new. so I have no picture of this. I have no proof of this but I just have a feeling that maybe that was Gordon in this fight. A small opportunity was missed but so would be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>route to getting here this morning: tought about Paul meniotning &#8220;brewers droop&#8221; in the Dire Straits song &#8220;Induistrial Disease&#8221;, which a know well, first purchased on cassette whgen I was in the army (link to army guy store about my &#8220;satchel&#8221; wehre I carried my Sony Walkman, ~10 cassettes, and a few paperbacks, and the hilarity that caused at the Edmointon airport whenb J and i were returning from tree planting and a large lanter battery with twiest red&amp;black wires as we went through security, cause a bit of concern, since this was abour the time of the lockerbie boming?? and this army style satchel looked like a bobm.) &gt; realize I don&#8217;t have the album in my library (Lover Over Gold &gt; get fromthe usdually pitaers &gt; while writingh about that, startedf playing from local library, tragically hip live stuff, heard mention of ALgonquin Park (in The Bear from Musinc @ Work), triuggering this menmory and others.,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Bear at The Museum After Dark. summary by Google Gimini:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1928,573,1927,1926],"class_list":["post-32535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-algonquin-park","tag-camping","tag-canoe","tag-tragically-hip","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32535"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32544,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32535\/revisions\/32544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}