0:00:00 Chapter I
0:17:18 Chapter II
0:45:46 Chapter III
0:50:00 Chapter IV
1:09:08 Chapter V
1:21:04 Chapter VI
1:36:49 Chapter VII
1:46:01 Chapter VIII
2:00:45 Chapter IX
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This story was published in 1910.
15 miles = 24 kilometers
Rat Portage is an old name for a city now called Kenora, in western Ontario, right close to the border with Manitoba. In fact, the city was renamed to Kenora in 1905, so it's not been called Rat Portage for a very long time...
Fifty Island Water: the only references I can find to this are to this story, I can't find any real world reference to it. Now it might be that it's such an old name that nobody has used in so long that it never got documented in a way that made it onto the internet. More likely, however, is that it is just made up.
There is a Garden Lake, and it is in Ontario, but far, far east of Rat Portage, not north of it, so clearly not the same place. I suppose there could be some other Garden Lake elsewhere in Ontario, but more than likely, another case of a made up name.
The pictures used are:
Chapter 1: "Almost end of the day - Algonquin provincial park, Ontario, Canada" by Sean X Liu, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).
Chapter 2: The picture used is "Fall colour on Ragged Lake in Algonquin Park" by Mark Totten, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/).
Chapter 3: The picture used is of the Oregon Badlands Wilderness, by the Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).
Chapter 4: public domain image of a snowy forest
Chapter 5: public domain image of a misty forest
Chapter 6: The picture used is "Cox Lake Campfire" by Martin Cathrae, used here under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/). There are many lakes in Canada by the name of Cox Lake, but this one is in Ontario.
Chapter 7: The picture used is "Winter Campfire - Klondike Derby" by George Pankewytch, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
Chapter 8: The picture used is an illustration by Matt Fox for the story published in the June 1944 edition of "Famous Fantastic Mysteries".
Chapter 9: The picture used is "Wendigo" by JakubJagoda, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
To follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10897/pg10897-images.html
