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DDoP - 1 - Tekimak, Ontario: A Primer
The story goes that there once was a town residing on the northern shore of Lake Tekiming, the hamlet of Tekimak.
A story goes that there once was a town residing on the northern shore of Lake Tekkamek, the Hamlet of Tekkamek. Though it was, in certain aspects, not unlike most other towns found in a normal Ontario, there are certain features of Tekkamek that dramatically separated it from the lakes of its nearest neighbors, a hundred kilometers away. Originally having been settled with the notion of building a permanent lumber camp in Milan the area, the generations that followed those first colonists expanded into farming in this entry occupations necessary to support a village, and so it was that, except for the overflow of timber down the Tekkamek River ahead of the yearly freeze, there is very little to indicate to the outside world that the town existed at all. In the summer of 1993, a man by the name of Carl Milton, owner of three blockbuster video rental franchise locations, took a flowplane on a lake hopping fishing expedition with friends. They were the first strangers to enter Tekkamek in over twenty years. The initiative of the area of the area had been largely broken off contact decades earlier. But Carl had brought along his own whiskey, and in a single evening he and his companions had spent in Tekkamek have been hospitable enough. He had not thought much of the moment, but in conveying the tale to his son, Bill, an anthropology student in search of a doctorate thesis, the single thing created something of an obsession in his academic offspring. It was not easy even to find the lake in question, as the local name is not the same as that applied by the government's cookographers, but by the following summer Bill had convinced his father to put up the funding necessary to hire another plane and insert the twenty-something into the lives of those in Tekkamek. He would recount a belief system he described as an oral tradition, made up of a confused mix of the legends the colonists had brought with him, so consorted Christianity, and the misunderstood and reinterpreted tales told to them by the people who already live there when they arrive. So having come recently into possession of the remaining fragments of his original notes, in the next month, these dog days of summer, let us attempt to reconstruct Bill's big pen scrolls, and through them, the forgotten legends of Tekkamek.