The Journal of Canadian

Wilderness Canoeing

                                                                                                                         MICHAEL PEAKE

A Mason Builder? Legendary Canadian filmmaker Christopher Chapman, 82, sits at his film-editing suite in his house near Uxbridge, Ontario. The creator of the Oscar-winning short A Place to Stand, was also the man who helped launch the career of Bill Mason. In 1957 he cast the little-known Winnipeg paddler to be the lone figure in a film commissioned by the Quetico Foundation to promote the remote and threatened provincial park. The film, simply called Quetico, was the first incarnation of the Bill Mason persona that would become famous to Canadians over the next half century. See Page 4 for more info on the story of Christopher and Bill and an exclusive offer for CHE-MUN readers on how to get hold of a DVD of the elusive film Quetico.

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