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Non-Motorized Use Only, Except Snowmobiling where Permitted with Permit Trail Name A Journey through Rama Mnjikaning History LEGEND The trail starts in the south at the historic ama 7 Ramara Trail Scale: 1:30 700 Mara-R Rd. Location fish weirs that were built by the Mnjikaning ary First Nation people. “Mnjikaning” is an 500 250 0 500 m Bound Township of Ojibway word meaning “the place of the # Point of Interest Highway Ramara fish fence.” The trail follows the abandoned Vista County Road Trail Locator CN rail line through pastoral countryside, crossing the Rama Road/Monck Road P Parking Secondary Road Atherley intersection, along Monck Road to the Trail 44 Hill IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Railroad Nearest Town sign and extending to Mara-Rama Boundary Road. Total distance is just over 5 Km. Lake Picnic Spot Main Trail TRAIL DETAILS Couchiching means “outlet” or “little lake at Wetland Other Trail Start of Ramara Trail at the the end of a big lake” in Ojibway. Washroom Mun. Boundary Main Trail Narrows Fish Weirs 5.0 Km. POINTS OF INTEREST Difficulty # Road 1. Fish Weir: At Narrows. Consisting of closely spaced stakes driven 4 5 Easy into the bottom, perhaps with interlaced material, and extending Monck Surface almost completely across the narrows, the weir directed fish to small 6 Crushed Stone openings where they were captured with nets Lake 5 Terrain 2. Swing Bridge: The soon to be removed disused swing bridge at

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Suitability thriving rail network. The bridge was open and closed by hand with a o crank. The bridge operator rowed by skiff out to the bridge to crank it. 4 R Walking, Stroller, Couchiching N Snowshoeing, 3. Samuel de Champlain: During the fall of 1615, the French explorer, in the company of a Huron raiding party, passed near the Skiing, Biking, small narrows separating Lake Couchiching and . Snowmobiling 4. CN Rail Line: closed on September 21, 1996 – handled

Parking National’s daily freight trains between Toronto and North Bay, and a N Gravenhurst

O Adjacent to VIA’s Canadian on its run between Toronto and . m T T a A 11 Crother’s Marina 5. Rama Road: Trail follows along west side of Rama Road, then R W Midland B A A S by the Narrows crosses Rama Road at traffic light. Follow trail on north side of Monck Y A 400 G Orillia Road until abandoned rail line. Rd. 12 A Washrooms C SIMCOE Conc. Collingwood 6. Monck Road: named to honour Charles Stanley Monck, Governor- h L A K E None a COUNTY n

in-Chief of the Canadian province from 1861. The road extended 160 n S I M C O E Refreshments e kilometres east to the Hastings Road at Bancroft where it joined other l Orillia & Atherley roads to Ottawa. Map 7. Trail Extension: Trail currently ends at Mara/Rama Boundary Road. NTS 31 D/11 Bradford 44 400 Newmarket Trails in Area 1 Trail Location Ganaraska Trail, 2 Highway 12 from Orillia to Atherle Orillia Millennium y Road P Atherley, park across the Trail, Lake C Narrows Bridge adjacent to Atherley o u the marina. Or, turn north Country Oro- r 3 t la 12 onto Rama Rd. (Cty. Rd. 44) Medonte Railtrail, n d until Mara-Rama Boundary Uhthoff Trail S Lake Simcoe t . Road and turn east to the trail. c CREDITS: Huronia Trails and Greenways 2010 With Permission from Township of Ramara KennKart Digital Mapping c 2010 Trails - Ready to Explore! www.simcoecountytrails.net