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More on Leonard Pelletier

The photo graced the cover of National Geographic in 1966. Here is a story found on the North Maine Woods Website about the gentleman in the photo. It includes a remarkable poling record!!

"Almost all travel upriver in the early days was in a poled canoe or bateau. A story is told of a game warden Leonard Pelletier leaving Big Black one morning with a broke-down outboard motor. He was headed upriver to Nine-Mile. He called ahead by radio to tell his wife of his situation. By nightfall, Mr. Pelletier had made it to Nine-Mile by poling his canoe. That is almost 31 miles and stands as an unwritten record today!"
 
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