What) Next door to Agawa Indian Crafts, you'll find The Canadian Carver. Here's where we stock the shelves with Canadian-made wood carvings, woodcraft, paintings, lithographs and home décor for your cottage and home. We have hand painted traditional drums and some breath-taking taxidermy.

    Our store is located on Pancake Bay, named many years ago by fur traders who often made their last stop here before a final day of paddling to Sault St. Marie. It was on the shores of this bay that they used the last of their supplies to make a meal of pancakes, knowing that fresher food and a rest were only one more day away. (1)

    Where) It's on the only highway and there are lots of signs.  1-800-656-9676

    Why) This is the store in Pancake Bay that I wanted to stop in at.  When I drove through in 2004, I was very impressed by the quality and selection of their wood carvings and I ended up purchasing two of them as gifts.  I was hoping for a similar experience this time.

This is the store that I was looking forward to exploring.  I managed to find a very similar carving to what I purchased last time but ...

... I didn't like it nearly as much.  On the left you can see the one I bought then and on the right is the one that was in the store now.

To a lesser degree I felt the same way about the statue I bought last time (left) compared to the one the store had this time (right).

There were also new carvings that I got to admire.  This one was very large and way out of my price range but ... 

... this one by Robert Roy was selling for $315 and almost made its way home with me.

Pam would have purchased a carving if it had captured the essence of a horse but this one by G. Gaud didn't quite do it.

This stuffed dog looked perfectly real but although we marveled at it we didn't buy one.
In fact, neither of us bought anything which is something I wouldn't have predicted.

Actually, I will probably end up ordering this small urn if I can think of something suitable to put in it.