To round a bend in a remote lake in northeastern Ontario (Canada) and come upon the Indian tricolour whipping in the fierce north wind atop a mast on a little wooded island is a delicious surprise that defies credibility. Fondly nicknamed Serendip for the happy coincidence of representing the intersection of distant cultures, reaching this idyll entailed a 400-kilometre drive from Toronto, followed by a half-hour boat ride on the expansive Lake Temagami (meaning ‘deep water’).
The Teme-Augama Anishnaabe (Deep Water People), an Indian tribe (now referred to in politically correct terminology as First Nations), claim to have been in occupation of this region covering thousands of square kilometres for 9000 years – until the appearance of the white man.
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