Does anyone know of a place to live in canadas wilderness?

Question

one of my dreams is to live off the land out in the wilderness. i would make my own shelter, hunt food, and gather plants. i would like to find a place in a forest with lots of trees and wildlife. so far the only place i can think of is somwhere in canada. If anyone knows of a good place i could go please reply.

can you just go out in the wilderness and live or do you have to own the land

Answer 1

Well Jordan, been there done that, and raised my kids on our homestead. We had a 2 story log cabin I built out of Lodgepole pine logs. And we had 20 acres of land that we turned into a productive homestead. It’s a lot of hard work and requires many different skills. You have to be good at; carpentry, gardening, basic mechanics, animal husbandry, a bit of a electrician, forestry, land management, small business management, understanding of firearms, understand and be able to repair all sorts of equipment, food preservation, butchering meat, how to slaughter animals, etc etc

That may seem intimidating but there even more that goes with it. All can be learned but it takes time and determination. I have seen many families try only to give up in exasperation. I knew one family that had every thing going right and then suddenly had their tress cut down and removed because they didn’t have the timber rights to the property the bought. Even mineral rights are important issues.

Here are some links with lots of good information.


http://www.backwoodshome.com/
http://www.motherearthnews.com/

You might consider Alaska for your homestead. Every Alaskan is allowed 10,000 board feet of timber free, for personal use.
Every Alaskan receives around $1,600 a year free from the permanent fund dividend. So a family of four gets around $6,400 a year.
If you are low income your hunting, fishing, trapping license is just $5 bucks.
Subsistence licenses for halibut, salmon, crabs, shrimp and even hunting are all free for rural residents. This means you can catch hundreds of pounds of fish for free, you can even gill net salmon.
With the long days of sunlight gardens here flourish.
Firearm laws here are not anywhere as restrictive as Canada. If you’re over 21 you can pack a firearm on you legally almost any where.
There is no state income tax, no state sales tax, and for some senior citizens no property tax.
Alaska has some of the best correspondence education programs in the nation, so your kids can study right on the homestead.
There are state run health programs for kids that pay all or most of their dental and medical bills.
Many pay the way for their homestead here by using a small portable saw mill to cut lumber to sell.

I wish you the best. I will never forget the joy of raising my family in the wilderness; it makes this old guy smile often.

Answer 2

If you want to truely "live off the land", there is enough Crown land in northern Ontario, Canada that you could just disappear into the wilderness and no one would ever hear from you again. If you can do without electricity, you could just clear a place beside a small source of water like a creek somewhere, make yourself a log cabin and no one would ever find you. There are literally millions of acres of untouched land stretching all across Northern Canada.

Answer 3

manitoba south east or north west could'nt get any better. bring a parka it gets varry cold, and we dont live in igloo's

Answer 4

well my mate ET lived in the scrub in Port Renfrew on vancouver island as an overstayer for years, salmon,moose,happy baccy,that must be an outta the way place.

Answer 5

saskachawon

Answer 6

Before you try to experience your dream why don't you quiz some of the canadians who flee south every fall to arizona or nevada and don't return to canada until june?