Clinic Origins...
Humans have always been fascinated with the eerie sound of wolves howling on a still summers night. Evidence of this is in the kilometers of cars that line highway 60 through Algonquin Park during their wolf howling nights. Many of the attendees may even drive hundreds of kilometers to experience this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Beyond the spine tingling sounds of wolves talking, this canine has one of the most complex communication and social structures that is known to mankind.

My fascination with the wolf has far gone beyond my namesake. (Lowell translates to “little wolf” in old French.) During my undergraduate work, I was fortunate enough to make acquaintance with Dr. John Theberge at the University of Waterloo. John, and his wife Mary, had dedicated their lives to studying the magnificent animals that reside in Algonquin Park. Their work has led to protection of the animal along the border of the park as well as consideration generating a new sub-species, since it looks like the genetics of the Algonquin wolf may be a sub-species of the red wolf, not the grey, like originally thought.

After a year and a half of lab work with John, Mary and the rest of the research team, I was hooked on the animal and have ever since maintained my fascination.

When my wife and I decided to relocate to Huntsville and start practices of our own, it was obvious in my mind that my clinic should also be associated with the wolf. Due to the proximity of Huntsville to Algonquin Park, I felt it would be appropriate to give a 1st Nations slant to my name and thus Mahigan. Mahigan translates to wolf in the native Algonquin tongue.

To learn more about the Algonquin wolf, feel free to visit the following links…

www.sbaa.ca/
www.algonquinpark.on.ca/