Deep Time in World Building

In Memory of Anthony Buchner

Sturgeon Falls lies between Numaru and Nutimik Lakes along the Winnipeg River.  Unless one is familiar with Whiteshell Park and the river that marks its north boundary, the notion of a river might conjure images of your standard waterway, sleepily winding its way through the landscape, with treed banks.  But the Winnipeg River is more a collection of interlinked lakes cutting through boreal forest and precambrian shield.  Something about it is undeniably primal.

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