In the summer of 1900, after returning from Florida, Moore packed up his fly rods and the camera he had recently purchase in Tallahassee, and headed for the Nipigon River in Ontario. Besides photography, Ridgway had a passion for trout fishing and Forest and Stream magazine had recently declared the Nipigon River to be the finest trout stream in the world. It was a river fished by the wealthy as well as heads of state and at this time was the only river in Canada that required not only a fishing license, but the use of native guides. He traveled by train from New York City to Nipigon, Ontario, crossing into Canada at Cape Vincent, New York, on the St Lawrence River, just below Lake Ontario. The first three photos in this gallery were taken there. The Fullers Bay that he refers to in photo #335 is actually Fuller Bay. He spent very little time in Cape Vincent, though he did return the following summer. But during this first trip it was the fabled trout of the Nipigon that interested him. Many of the remarkable sights that Ridgway photographed along the Nipigon are no longer visible due to the construction of a number of dams in the last 100 years. The beautiful Virgin Falls are now under a foot of water from a low rise dam, while Pine Portage lies beneath more than 100 feet of water.