Ontario’s Lake Superior Shoreline: Wolves, Eagles, Trackless Forests
WAWA, ONTARIO — This town of 2,700 hosted gold miners at the turn of the 20th century, iron ore miners in the decades that followed, and was only reachable by plane until 1962 when the 145-mile segment of Trans Canada Highway 17 opened from Sault Ste. Marie. Even now, well into the 21st century, Wawa feels like an outpost. More than 1,400 residents have departed since the early 1990s. Storefronts are dark. Dust swirls around …