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We have never stopped harvesting fish. We tend to favour
pickerel, whitefish, trout, and perch. Many members love to
fish in summer, winter, early fall, and late spring. We avoid this
activity when the ice is forming or breaking up because it is
unsafe. We have a special lodge that we recently fixed up for
families to use when they wish to harvest fish.

WORDS TO KNOW Another traditional food is corn soup, which is made using
a type of canned or frozen corn called hominy. When our
hominy: dried corn with the
hulls removed grandmothers were young, they prepared the corn by boiling
scone (scawn): a type of baked it with hardwood ashes and rinsing it off. Instead of preparing
or fried bread the corn, we purchase it from ethnic supermarkets or from
ethnic sections of supermarkets. Most of us do our weekly
grocery shopping on the mainland, in the towns of Midland or
Penetanguishine, or in the cities of Barrie and Orillia. There is also
a store on the island that offers a variety of foods.

Here are some of our other favourite foods:
• scone dogs (which are like hotdogs, but wrapped in scone
and fried)

• barbecued steak and corn-on-the-cob, which we like to eat
in the summer
• a traditional meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, and
cranberries, which many of us eat at Thanksgiving
and Christmas

As in many other communities, parents on Christian Island are
forever reminding our children that it’s not a good thing to eat
too much junk food!

Everyone enjoys a good meal of fish! Scone dogs

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