A northern home for our camp notes.

Made in the North, for time in the woods

Ontario Grouse Hunting is part of Due North Marketing's outdoor and tourism website network. The site brings together Ontario bird guides, regional trip planning, camp information and useful reading for the hours before a hunt. It is built around a simple idea: help people get to know the birds, ask better questions and find a good place to stay. We cover all Ontario, with more detail for Northern Ontario and the camp country that gives this website its character.

TJ, Monique and Due North Marketing

Due North Marketing is based in Sturgeon Falls, in West Nipissing. TJ Quesnel and Monique are the people behind the business, which has been serving website clients since 1996. Its work includes websites, hosting, search visibility and advertising for small businesses, lodges and tourism operators. Ontario Grouse Hunting carries that local approach into an outdoor guide: plain wording, useful links and a northern camp feel.

This website keeps much of the wording from the original Ontario Grouse Hunting site, with light edits and new page placement. New guides add bird biology, regional coverage, trip preparation and camp-journal reading. Real camp photographs and credited bird photographs sit alongside the grouse drawings. The aim is a site that feels at home with boots by the door and a map on the table, while giving visitors enough detail to make their next step useful.

The guides and the camp journal

The species pages explain the birds and link to identification references. The regional pages help you choose a base and think through travel and access questions. They are not lists of promised hunting spots. The camp journal adds longer reading about autumn trips, food, habitat, nesting and chick care. A printable packing list helps turn the reading into a trip folder you can take along.

Biology and food-handling pages name their sources. Hunting rules remain the responsibility of the provincial and federal authorities. Check their current pages for your species, destination and dates. A useful guide points you towards those answers without pretending that one set of dates or one general road description suits every Ontario trip.

Ontario Lodges and our featured camps

OntarioLodges.com is our main lodge directory and the next stop for visitors looking for grouse hunting outfitters and camp stays. Search by town or region, read the lodge details and contact an operator directly about current trips. Green Wilderness Lodge, Northern Walleye Lodge and Bay Wolf Camp have promotional placements on this site. Ask each camp about availability, services, access advice and its current policies before booking.

Get in touch

For a website question, a correction or an advertising enquiry, contact Due North Marketing. Include the page name and the detail you want us to check. For a lodge booking, speak with the lodge itself so dates, prices and arrangements come directly from the operator.

Who is responsible for these guides

TJ Quesnel is the publisher responsible for Ontario Grouse Hunting through Due North Marketing in Sturgeon Falls. The hunting photograph on this page shows TJ and Monique; we keep it as a real camp connection rather than adding an invented trip story. The older Ontario Grouse Hunting wording remains where it fits the page's subject.

The guides use original scientific papers, Canadian bird accounts, current government tables and named regional forest maps. Source notes sit near factual sections so readers can follow a number or biological claim to its reference. The 1947 book by Gardiner Bump, Robert W. Darrow, Frank C. Edminster and Walter F. Crissey reports mainly New York work. We label its observations as historical and use current sources for Ontario dates and rules.

Sources: Bump and colleagues: New York grouse study, 1947 ↗ · Ontario forest-bird habitat guide, pp. 100–101 ↗

We distinguish species-account ranges from Ontario measurements and a survey index from a full bird count. Practical trip suggestions are our planning advice; they are not measured findings. Camp placements are promotional, and current packages come from the operators. Send corrections with the page name and, if possible, the original source. That makes the next check useful.